Rhodes Scholarships, the oldest international fellowships, have been awarded by the Rhodes Scholarship Trust since the death of Cecil Rhodes in 1902. Penn student Ellis T. Robins was among the first group of Americans named as scholars in 1904. The Rhodes Scholarship provides for two years of study at the University of Oxford, England. Students are selected on the basis of a combination of intellectual excellence and personal character offering promise of outstanding service to the world.
This list of Penn undergraduates who have received Rhodes Scholarships was originally compiled by Claire Cowen, Associate Director of International Fellowships at Penn’s Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF), with confirmation from the American Rhodes Scholarship Trust in Washington, D.C.
| 2022 | Raveen Kariyawasam (Sri Lanka) Nicholas Thomas-Lewis |
| 2020 | Stephen Damianos Nurul Ezzaty Binti Hasbullah (Malaysia) |
| 2019 | Anea Moore Adamseged Abebe (Ethiopia) |
| 2018 | Christopher D’Urso Adnan Zikri Jaafar (Malaysia) |
| 2016 | Jennifer Hebert Adebisi (Debi) Ogunrinde (Canada) |
| 2015 | Rutendo Chigora (Zimbabwe) |
| 2010 | Sarah-Jane Littleford (Zimbabwe) |
| 2009 | Abigail Seldin |
| 2008 | Joyce Meng |
| 2006 | Brett Shaheen |
| 2005 | David Ferreira |
| 2001 | Lipika Goyal |
| 1991 | Theresa Simmonds |
| 1986 | Joseph Torsella |
| 1984 | Stephanie Dangel |
| 1969 | Patrick M. Norton |
| 1963 | John Edgar Wideman |
| 1939 | Frederic Ballard |
| 1934 | Walter Chudson [Chudnowsky] |
| 1926 | William Ezra Lingelbach, Jr. |
| Milton Charles Nahm | |
| 1923 | Raymond Harvey Jack |
| 1920 | John Valentine Lovitt |
| 1919 | John Murdock Clarke |
| 1914 | Morrison Comegys Boyd |
| 1908 | Richard Schellens |
| 1904 | Thomas Ellis Robins |