List of Johns Hopkins University people
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This is a list of people affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, an American university located in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Johns Hopkins Alumni Association defines eligibility for membership as follows:[1]
The Johns Hopkins Alumni Association defines Johns Hopkins alumni as those individuals who have received a formal degree from Johns Hopkins, including Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate degrees.
Certificate holders, CTY alumni, post-baccalaureate attendees, and Peabody Prep alumni are not considered alumni of the university by the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association.
Notable alumni
Nobel laureates
- Henry David Abraham – Nobel Peace Prize (co-recipient), 1985
- Peter Agre – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2003
- Richard Axel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2004
- Joseph Erlanger – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944
- Andrew Fire – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2006
- Robert Fogel – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1993
- Herbert Spencer Gasser – Nobel Prize in Physiology, 1944
- Riccardo Giacconi – Nobel Prize in Physics, 2002
- Paul Greengard – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2000
- Carol W. Greider – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2009
- Haldan Keffer Hartline – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967
- Merton H. Miller– Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990
- Thomas Hunt Morgan – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1933
- Robert H. Mundell– Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999
- Daniel Nathans – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
- Adam Riess – Nobel Prize in Physics, 2011
- Martin Rodbell – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1994
- Francis Peyton Rous – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1966
- Hamilton O. Smith – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
- George Hoyt Whipple– Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934
- Jody Williams – Nobel Peace Prize, 1997
- Woodrow Wilson – President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize, 1919
Academia, science, medicine and technology
- ceramics
- Hattie Alexander – pediatrician and microbiologist
- John August Anderson – astronomer
- Jack Andraka – cancer researcher; as a high school student, developed new test for detecting pancreatic cancer early
- Lynne M. Angerer – developmental biologist
- Richard T. Antoun – Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Binghamton University
- John W. Ayers (Ph.D. 2011) – behavioral epidemiologist
- Betsy Bang – biologist
- Fred Bang – developed the Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) test for bacterial endotoxins
- Florence Bascom – geologist
- Richard E. Bellman – applied mathematician; inventor of dynamic programming
- Harold H. Bender – professor of philology at Princeton University
- Michael T. Benson – president of Coastal Carolina University
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar and N-BIOSlaureate
- hypersonicspioneer
- Lewis E. Braverman (Ph.D. 1955) – chief of endocrinology at Boston University
- David S. Bredt – neuroscientist, professor and research leader in pharmaceutical companies
- Jay Clark Brown – Professor Emeritus in the Department of microbiology, immunology, and cancer biology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine
- J. Prentiss Browne – architect
- Hilde Bruch – Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, expert on eating disorders
- Howard Bruenn (M.D. 1929) – personal physician of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Ernesto Bustamante (Ph.D. 1978, School of Medicine) – biochemist, molecular biologist, former Chief of the National Institute of Health of Peru
- Kim Butler – historian and author
- Schuyler V. Cammann (Ph.D. 1949) – anthropologist
- Lisa A. Carey – distinguished professor in Breast Cancer Research
- David Celentano – epidemiologist
- ophthalmologist
- Samuel Charache, hematologist, discovered the first treatment for sickle cell disease
- Dipankar Chatterji – Indian molecular biologist and Padma Shri recipient
- Harold F. Cherniss – noted historian of ancient philosophy
- William Chomsky – scholar of Hebrew and Judaic studies, father of Noam Chomsky
- Denton Cooley – cardiovascular surgeon
- Mary Croughan – epidemiologist and academic administrator
- Physiatrist at WellSpan Health; physician, entrepreneur, journalist, attorney
- educational reformer
- William H. Dobelle – biomedical researcher
- Wendell E. Dunn – educator and principal of Forest Park High School
- G. Roger Edwards – archaeologist
- Jessica Einhorn – Dean of SAIS, managing director of the World Bank
- Daniel Eisenberg (B.A.) – Distinguished Research Professor of Spanish at Florida State University
- Luther P. Eisenhart – mathematician, theoretical physicist
- Joel Elkes – psychopharmaceutical researcher
- Adam Falk – President of Williams College
- James M. Farr – President of the University of Florida
- Rabbi Dr. Congregation Beth Jacob of Atlanta
- John Charles Fields – mathematician, established Fields Medal
- Karen Fleming – biophysicist known for membrane protein thermodynamics
- Abraham Flexner – educator, reformer of medical and higher education in the United States and Canada, author of the Flexner Report, founder of the Institute for Advanced Study
- Linda P. Fried – geriatrician and epidemiologist, dean of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health
- Hall Gardner –- Professor of International Politics at the American University of Paris
- William K. George – fluid dynamicist
- George Otto Gey – scientist, propagated the HeLa cell line, inventor of the roller drum
- Sherita Hill Golden – Hugh P. McCormick Family Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism
- Solomon W. Golomb – mathematician, invented the Golomb coding and Golomb ruler
- George Gorse (B.A. 1971) – Viola Horton Professor of Art History, Pomona College
- Harry Clinton Gossard – geometer, discoverer of the Gossard perspector of a triangle
- Linda Grant DePauw – modern historian, retired university teacher, non-fiction author, journal editor
- Duane Graveline – astronaut
- Michael Griffin – NASA administrator
- Rigoberto Hernandez – chemist and diversity advocate
- Frank Irving Herriott– PhD (1893)
- Arthur Hertzberg – rabbi
- L. Emmett Holt Jr. – pediatrician
- Jason Huang – neurosurgeon
- Ru-Chih Chow Huang – biochemist[2]
- Elmer Huerta– physician and health communicator
- Grover Hutchins – pathologist
- Ray Hyman – Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon, author, magician and a noted critic of parapsychology
- James H. Hyslop (1854–1920) – professor of ethics and logic at Columbia University; psychical researcher; secretary-treasurer of the American Society for Psychical Research
- Jose Itzigsohn – professor of sociology at Brown University
- Kimberly S. Johnson (MD, 1997) – professor of medicine at Duke University
- Kate Breckenridge Karpeles (1887–1941) (MD 1914) – U. S. Army doctor during World War I
- Kenneth H. Keller – Director of the SAIS Bologna Center, former President of the University of Minnesota system
- Cornelius M. Kerwin – President of American University
- Charles Rollin Keyes – geologist
- David W. Kennedy, emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania
- Steven Knapp – President of George Washington University
- Susan Kolb – medical doctor and author
- Christine Ladd-Franklin – scientist and logician
- Hey-Kyoung Lee – neuroscience professor
- Steven Lehrer – medical researcher and writer
- New York Presbyterian Hospital
- Dr.P.H., 1977) – Taiwanese physician and professor of public health; professor emeritus and former dean (1993–1996) of the College of Public Health, National Taiwan University; minor vice presidential candidatein 2012
- Gerald E. Loeb – neurophysiologist, biomedical engineer, academic
- Willis Maddrey – internist and hepatologist
- Patrick Maggitti – first provost of Villanova University and former dean of the Villanova School of Business
- Trusopt
- Howard Markel – pediatrician and historian of medicine
- John Mauchly – co-inventor of the ENIAC Computer
- Michael Merzenich – professor emeritus neuroscientist, brain researcher, CEO Scientific Learning, Posit Science[3]
- Tanya Moore – biostatistician and STEM activist
- Bessie Moses – gynecologist and obstetrician
- Yūjirō Motora – psychologist
- Mike Muuss – author of Ping
- Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu – psychiatrist and epidemiologist
- Georgia Institute of Technology; former president of the Operations Research Society of America
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
- Frank Oppenheimer – physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project
- Andre Francis Palmer – chemical engineer and associate dean
- Nita Patel – research scientist who led the development of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine
- Orra Almira Phelps (MD 1927) – Navy physician, botanist, naturalist, mountaineer, and writer
- Jesuit priest, expert on the history of Puerto Rico[4]
- Charles Lane Poor – astronomer
- Richard S. Potember – inventor and engineer
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar(1997) laureate
- Ann Reid – science education advocate
- Nicholas P. Restifo – tumor immunology and immunotherapy
- Justin B. Ries (Ph.D. 2005) – geoscientist and inventor known for discoveries in the field of global oceanic change
- Thomas Milton Rivers – virologist, United States Navy Admiral
- Arye Rosen – electrical engineer
- Jonathan Rosenblatt – rabbi
- Saurabh Saha – cancer researcher
- College of Judea and Samaria("Ariel College")
- Gail G. Shapiro – pediatric allergist
- Mark Shelhamer – Professor of Otolaryngology, head and neck surgery
- William M. Sinton – astronomer at Harvard University
- Louise L. Sloan – ophthalmologist and vision scientist
- Clifford V. Smith, Jr. – fourth chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
- Aage B. Sørensen – sociologist
- Gabrielle M. Spiegel – historian of the Middle Ages; former President of the American Historical Association
- Flora E. Strout – teacher, social reformer
- Laura Sumner – numismatist
- Harry L. Swinney – physicist, Director of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Texas at Austin
- Ibrahim B. Syed – radiologist
- Morris Tanenbaum – physical chemist, developed the first working silicon transistor on January 26, 1954
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Amytis Towfighi – Associate Professor of Neurology
- Frederick Jackson Turner – historian
- Robert Ulanowicz – theoretical ecologist
- Thorstein Veblen – economist, author, The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Heather Wakelee – professor of oncology at Stanford University Medical Center, Merit Award recipient from the American Society of Clinical Oncology
- George W. Ward – third principal of Maryland State Normal School (now Towson University)
- John B. Watson – psychologist
- Gabriel P. Weisberg (M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1967) – Professor of Art History Emeritus, University of Minnesota
- colic
- Henry S. West– fourth principal of Maryland State Normal School (now Towson University)
- John Archibald Wheeler – physicist, graduate advisor to Richard Feynman and Kip Thorne, coined the term "black hole"
- Reid Wiseman – NASA astronaut as part of Expedition 40
- Maria Torrence Wishart – Canadian medical illustrator and the founder of the University of Toronto's Art as Applied to Medicine program
- Abel Wolman – inventor of modern water treatment techniques
- MIT and Harvard University
- UC HastingsCollege of the Law; law professor; author
- John H. Yardley – pathologist
- Frederick Yeh – biologist and animal welfare activist
- Rose Zetzer – first woman admitted to the Maryland State Bar Association
Athletics
- Louis Clarke – Olympic track champion
- Andy Enfield – University of Southern California men's basketball head coach
- Henry Homer Gessler – Major League Baseball player, 1903–1911
- Kyle Harrison – three-time All-American lacrosse player at JHU and Major League Lacrosse player
- Davey Johnson – Major League Baseball player and manager[6]
- Marc Kligman – sports agent and criminal lawyer
- Andrea Leand (MBA) – professional tennis player
- Alex Mullen – three-time world memory champion (2015–17)
- Dave Pietramala – Johns Hopkins lacrosse coach
- Paul Rabil – All-American lacrosse player and MLL Most Valuable Player; co-founder of the Premier Lacrosse League
- National Lacrosse Hall of Fameinductee
- Robert H. Scott – Johns Hopkins lacrosse coach, athletic director, author
- John Thomas – Led lacrosse team to a 34–6 record during his time at JHU
- Washington Bayhawksprofessional lacrosse team
- Wes Unseld Jr. – Washington Wizards head basketball coach[7]
- Joanna Zeiger (born 1970) -–Olympic and world champion triathlete, and author
- Don Zimmerman – UMBC lacrosse coach
Business
- Sanju Bansal (M.S. 1990) – co-founder of MicroStrategy
- Scott M. Black – founder of Delphi Management
- Michael Bloomberg (B.S. 1964) – founder of Bloomberg L.P., Mayor of New York City
- Providence St. Joseph Health
- Cordish Company
- Cordish Company
- J.P. Morgan
- Henry Gantt – eponymous designer of the Gantt chart
- Jeff Greene – real estate entrepreneur
- John Hewson – Chairman of General Security Australia Insurance Brokers Pty Ltd
- David M. Hoffman – CEO of Internews Network
- Terry Keenan (B.A., A&S 1983) – business columnist for the New York Post, anchor for CNN
- Shahal M. Khan – owner of Plaza Hotel and venture capitalist
- Jeong H. Kim – President of Bell Labs
- Rahmi Koç – Chairman of Koç Holding, Turkey's largest and oldest conglomerate
- Robert Lawrence Kuhn – corporate strategist, investment banker, adviser to Chinese leaders
- Sol Kumin (B.A. 1999) – founder of Folger Hill Asset Management; philanthropist; winning thoroughbred racehorse owner
- AIGHighstar Capital; Chairman of Ports America
- Barry Lowenkron (M.S. '77) – Vice President of Global Security & Sustainability, MacArthur Foundation
- Merrill Lynch
- Patrick Maggitti, PhD (MBA 2002) – first provost of Villanova University, former dean of the Villanova School of Business
- Safeway
- John C. Malone (M.A. 1964; PhD. 1967) – Chairman of Liberty Media; CEO of Discovery Holding Company; largest private land owner in the United States.
- Robert D. Manning – financial expert in consumer credit, author of Credit Card Nation
- Michael Marcus – commodities trader
- 500 Startups
- Gail J. McGovern (B.A. 1974) – President and CEO of the American Red Cross[8]
- Bill Miller – Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Legg MasonCapital Management
- Gordon Moore – co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel; the author of Moore's law
- Edward L. Morse – Global Head of Commodities Research at Citigroup; co-founder of PFC Energy
- Samuel J. Palmisano – IBM Chairman, former president and CEO
- Karen Peetz (M.S. ’81) – President of BNY Mellon[9]
- Jeff Raider – founder of Harry's and Warby Parker
- Leslie Sanchez – founder and CEO of Impacto Group LLC
- Charles Scharf – CEO of Wells Fargo
- David Sifry – founder and CEO of Technorati
- Bill Stromberg – CEO of T. Rowe Price and only Johns Hopkins player in the College Football Hall of Fame (inducted 2004)
- Gary Wang – founder and CEO of Tudou (simplified Chinese: 土豆网; traditional Chinese: 土豆網; pinyin: Tǔdòu Wǎng)
- Zhu Min – Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund; former officer of the Bank of China and the People's Bank of China
Government, public service, and public policy
- Mahamat Ali Adoum – Foreign Affairs minister, ambassador from Chad
- Spiro T. Agnew – Vice President of the United States, former Governor of Maryland
- Madeleine Albright – Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton
- U.S. Trade Representative
- Niels Annen – member of the Bundestag, the German national parliament
- Dr. John Duke Anthony – founding President and CEO of the US State Department's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy's Subcommittee on Sanctions
- Nurul Izzah Anwar – Malaysian member of Parliament and daughter of Anwar Ibrahim
- Cresencio S. Arcos Jr. – former U.S. Ambassador to Honduras and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
- mayor of Cleveland (1912–1915), and US Secretary of War(1916–1921)
- Arthur F. Bentley – political scientist and philosopher
- Richard Bernal – former ambassador of Jamaica to the United States and former Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the Organization of American States
- Michael Bloomberg – founder of Bloomberg L.P., Mayor of New York City
- Paul Bomani – Tanzanian politician and ambassador
- Rudy Boschwitz – Republican Senator from Minnesota (1978–1991)
- Martin G. Brennan – former U.S. Ambassador to Uganda and Zambia[10]
- Daniel B. Brewster– Democratic Senator from Maryland (1963–1969)
- Charles Hillman Brough – Democratic Governor of Arkansas (1917–1921)
- NATO and Greece
- Foreign Service Officer, and founder and director of the Veterans Writing Project
- Anne Casper – U.S. Ambassador to Burundi and former Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda[11]
- Peruvian economist and politician, former Minister of Economy and Finance, and former ambassador of Peru to the United States
- Minister of Health (Taiwan)(1990–1997)
- Minister of the National Science Council (2006–2008), and Minister of Health(2003–2005)
- Su Chi (S'75) – former secretary-general of the National Security Council (Taiwan) (2008–2010), legislator (2005–2008), and minister of Mainland Affairs Council (1999–2000)
- Rust Macpherson Deming – former U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia, former U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission Japan, and recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun
- Aneesh Chopra – President Obama's Chief Technology Officer of the United States
- Benjamin R. Civiletti– Attorney General of the United States under President Jimmy Carter
- William F. Clinger, Jr.– Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979–97
- Rafael Hernández Colón – Governor of Puerto Rico
- Henry A. Crumpton – Ambassador-at-large, former chief of the CIA's National Resources Division, and author of The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service[12]
- Jean de Ruyt – former ambassador of Belgium to the United Nations and the European Union; former ambassador to Italy and Albania
- U.S. Department of Justice
- Anne E. Derse – American Ambassador to Lithuania, former Ambassador to Azerbaijan
- Lawrence Di Rita – Pentagon spokesperson
- Benjamin Diokno – Secretary of the Department of Finance
- Sheila Dixon – former president of Baltimore City council, Mayor of Baltimore (2007–2010)
- James B. Eldridge – member of the Mass. House of Representatives(2002–present)
- Robert Stephen Ford – retired diplomat; former U.S. Ambassador to Algeria and Syria
- William J. Frank – member of Maryland House of Delegates
- Frank Gaffney – founder and President of the Center for Security Policy
- United States Ambassador to Mongolia
- Ibrahim Gambari – Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Jeffrey Garten – Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade and Dean of the Yale School of Management
- Harold W. Geisel – former U.S. Ambassador to Mauritius and former Acting Inspector General of the Department of State[13]
- Treasury Secretaryof the United States
- April Glaspie – diplomat, first woman to be appointed an American ambassador to an Arab country
- Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City
- Nancy Grasmick – Maryland State Superintendent of Schools
- Ambassador to the United Nations
- Geir H. Haarde– former Prime Minister of Iceland
- John J. Hamre – President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Andy Harris – member of the United States House of Representatives, Maryland's 1st congressional district
- Richard Hecklinger – former U.S. Ambassador to Thailand and former Deputy Secretary General of the OECD[14]
- John E. Herbst – former U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan and, later, to Ukraine
- Alger Hiss – State Department official, lawyer and Soviet spy
- Hans Hoogervorst – the Netherlands' Minister of Public Health, Minister of Finance
- James Howard Holmes – former U.S. Ambassador to Latvia, now State Department special adviser
- Constance Horner – official in the Reagan and first Bush administrations; formerly with the Johns Hopkins Center for the Study of American Government
- Nitobe Inazō – director of the International Bureaux Section of the League of Nations, in charge of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (later became UNESCO)
- United States Ambassador to Canada
- Tracey Ann Jacobson – former United States Ambassador to Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kosovo; acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs in 2017
- Sam Katz – politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Commerce Minister of Pakistan
- Sahibzada Khan – Pakistan's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom; former Chief of Protocol of Pakistan[15]
- Chang-beom Kim – former Ambassador of South Korea to the European Union and Belgium[16]
- Herman Knippenberg – Dutch diplomat turned detective who took down notorious serial killer of tourists in Asia, Charles Sobhraj, portrayed in the 2021 BBC and Netflix TV series The Serpent
- Daniel Koch– Swiss physician
- Japanese House of Councillors
- Haris Lalakos – Ambassador of Republic of Macedonia[17]
- Frank Lavin – U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore
- Camp David Accordtalks in 1978
- David C. Litt – former U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates[18]
- Dennis P. Lockhart – President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
- Barry Lowenkron – Vice President of the Program on Global Security & Sustainability at the MacArthur Foundation
- Raymond Mabus– 75th United States Secretary of the Navy
- Sir British Ambassador to the United States
- Scott McCallum – 43rd Governor of Wisconsin
- Gail J. McGovern – President and CEO of the American Red Cross
- David G. McIntosh Jr. (1877–1940) – Maryland state delegate and state senator[19]
- Elizabeth Davenport McKune – former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar[20]
- John E. McLaughlin – Director of Central Intelligence
- Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
- Kweisi Mfume – Congressman from Maryland, former President of the NAACP
- Wes Moore – Governor of Maryland
- John S. Morgan – former Maryland Delegate
- Sara Virginia Ecker Watts Morrison – former First Lady of North Carolina
- Harlem Success Academy
- Donald F. Munson – Maryland State Senator
- Cameron Munter – CEO and President of the EastWest Institute, and former U.S. Ambassador to Serbia and, later, Pakistan
- District of Columbia, General Counsel of the United States House of Representatives
- Richard Norland – former U.S. Ambassador to Georgia; nominated by President Trump to be U.S. Ambassador to Libya
- United States Surgeon General(1990–1993)
- Bruce J. Oreck – U.S. Ambassador to Finland
- John E. Osborn – Commissioner, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
- Neilesh Patel – humanitarian, National Jefferson Award Recipient
- United States Naval War College, and CEO of the Carter Center
- Minister of Defence
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Pakistan, Philippines, Zambia, high level diplomat in Canada, China, Hong Kong, and Japan, and former president of the Asia Society in New York City.
- Chief Executive Officer and Administrator of the Maryland Transit Administration
- George L. P. Radcliffe – U.S. Senator from Maryland (1935–1947)
- Peter Rheinstein – FDA official
- Jauhar Saleem – Ambassador of Pakistan to Germany
- political punditand commentator
- Arturo Sarukhán – former ambassador of Mexico to the United States
- Christopher B. Shank – Maryland House of Delegates (1999–present)
- Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs and former U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam
- Rob Silberstein – U.S. Consul General to Karachi, Pakistan[21]
- Frederic N. Smalkin – Chief United States District Judge for Maryland (2001–2003)
- Christopher Soghoian – Washington, DC based privacy researcher and activist
- George O. Squier – Chief Signal Officer of the United States Army during World War I
- Michael S. Steele– Lieutenant Governor of Maryland (2003–2007), head of the RNC (2009–2011)
- Ambassador to the United States
- Jeffrey W. Talley – LTG. retired, 32nd Chief of Army Reserve (CAR) and 7th Commanding General, United States Army Reserve Command (USARC) 2012–2016
- Takuya Tasso – governor of Iwate Prefecture in Japan
- U.S. Representative for Illinois's 14th congressional district
- Ali Akbar Velayati – former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran
- Trump Administration
- Kurt Volker – U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO
- Amos Griswold Warner – social worker, first head of charity for the District of Columbia
- Woodrow Wilson – President of the United States
- Xiang Lanxin – Chinese liberal intellectual and professor (MA, PhD 1990)[22]
- Abdul Zahir – Prime Minister of Afghanistan
- Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein – Jordan's permanent representative to the United Nations
- Elias Zerhouni – Director of the National Institutes of Health
- Zhu Min – Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
- Craig Zucker – member of the Maryland Senate
Literature, arts and media
- Arthur Talmage Abernethy – journalist, theologian, minister and first North Carolina Poet Laureate
- Keith Ablow – Fox News contributor
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – author and winner of MacArthur Award
- Dan Ahdoot – standup comedian
- Jeff Altman – standup comedian
- Tori Amos – singer (Peabody Conservatory)
- Chris Arnade – former Wall Street trader turned documentarian and commentator
- John Astin – actor, Gomez Addams on The Addams Family
- Adaeze Atuegwu – author and writer
- Harriet Baber – professor of philosophy and writer for The Guardian
- Russell Baker – author, New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner
- Andy Barth – newscaster
- John Barth – novelist
- Zach Baylin – screenwriter
- Devika Bhise — actor
- Jennifer Bishop — Baltimore-based photojournalist[23]
- Jeffrey Blitz – screenwriter
- Wolf Blitzer (M.A. 1972) – CNN news anchor[24]
- Paul Harris Boardman – film producer and screenwriter
- Denis Boyles – writer and journalist
- Matt Briggs – novelist
- Rachel Carson – marine biologist and conservationist
- Angelin Chang – Grammy Award-winning classical pianist
- Iris Chang – author and journalist
- Eva Chen – fashion magazine editor and journalist
- C. J. Cherryh – author
- J.D. Considine– music critic
- Richard Ben Cramer – journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Wes Craven – film director and producer
- Ann Cummins – novelist and short story writer
- Richard Harding Davis – journalist who covered the Spanish–American War and World War I (attended 1885–86)
- Caleb Deschanel – cinematographer
- Thomas Dixon, Jr.— novelist
- Michael Dumanis – poet and editor
- Mildred Dunnock – film and stage actress
- Piero Formica – Italian writer and academic
- Douglas Southall Freeman – historian and winner (twice) of the Pulitzer Prize for History
- James Allen Gahres – conductor (music) (Peabody Conservatory)
- Elin Hilderbrand – author
- Hallie Jackson (B.A. 2006) – anchor and Chief White House Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC
- Jae Jin – singer, songwriter, musician and SAG-AFTRA actor
- Millard Kaufman – screenwriter and novelist
- Murray Kempton – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Quint Kessenich – ESPN sportscaster, lacrosse All-American
- Porochista Khakpour – novelist
- Rjyan Kidwell– musician
- Kevin Kilner – actor
- Richard E. Kim – author (MA in Writing Seminars)
- Alen Pol Kobryn – poet
- Alan Lakein – author
- Sidney Lanier – musician and poet
- David Lipsky – author
- Larry Meistrich – film producer
- Sanjay Mishra – musician and guitarist
- Wes Moore – Maryland governor, author, social entrepreneur, producer and political analyst
- Megan Morrone – TechTV personality
- Walter Murch – multiple Oscar-winning sound and film editor
- Sidney Offit – author and writer
- P. J. O'Rourke – political satirist and journalist
- Niharica Raizada – actress
- Julia Randall – poet (MA in Writing Seminars)
- Arlene Raven – author and art critic; professor
- Matthew Robbins – screenwriter of The Sugarland Express and MacArthur
- Scott Rogowsky – comedian
- James Rosen – Fox News Channel Washington correspondent
- Deborah Rudacille – writer
- Brad Rutter – all-time Jeopardy! champion
- Gil Scott-Heron – political musician, poet and author (Masters Course)
- Laurence Shanet – film and theater director
- Karl Shapiro – U.S. Poet Laureate (1946), Pulitzer Prize winner (attended but did not graduate)
- Howard "Chip" Silverman– author and lacrosse coach
- Russ Smith – founder of Baltimore City Paper, Washington City Paper, and New York Press
- Gertrude Stein – author
- Lorin Stein – critic, editor and former editor in chief of The Paris Review
- Susan Stewart – poet and literary critic
- Michael Ernest Sweet – Canadian writer and photographer
- Bill Todman – game show producer
- Juliette Wells – author, editor and Jane Austen scholar
- Eleanor Wilner – poet
Notable faculty
- Herbert Baxter Adams – historian, coined phrase "political science"
- Peter Agre – chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
- Fouad Ajami – Professor of Middle Eastern studies at SAIS and Director of the Council on Foreign Relations
- William Foxwell Albright – authenticator of the Dead Sea Scrolls, linguist, ceramics expert
- Ethan Allen Andrews – biologist
- Christian B. Anfinsen – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1972
- John Astin – television actor (The Addams Family), lecturer in the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars department
- James Mark Baldwin – philosopher
- John W. Baldwin – medievalist, member of the French Academy
- Florence E. Bamberger – professor of education, director of the College for Teachers
- John Barth – novelist
- Charles L. Bennett – astrophysicist, Principal Investigator of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
- Peter Bergen – CNN terrorism analyst and author of Holy War, Inc.
- Richard Bett – philosopher, former Executive Director of APA
- Karin J. Blakemore – medical geneticist
- Alfred Blalock – Lasker Prize–winning surgeon
- Carlos Blanco Aguinaga – Hispanist; founder of UCSD's literature department[25]
- Robert Branner – professor of art history (1969–1971)
- Eric Brill – computer scientist
- medical illustrator and founder of the first US medical illustrationgraduate program
- Amanda M. Brown – immunologist, professor of neurology and neuroscience
- Harold Brown – Secretary of Defense, 1977–1981
- Zbigniew Brzezinski – National Security Advisor, 1977–1981
- Nicholas Murray Butler – Nobel Peace Prize, 1931
- David P. Calleo – Director of European Studies, author of Rethinking Europe's Future
- Benjamin Carson – former Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, author of Gifted Hands
- Arthur Cayley – mathematician
- William G. Cochran– statistician
- J.M. Coetzee– Nobel Prize in Literature, 2003
- Eliot A. Cohen – Director of Strategic Studies at SAIS, Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Defense
- Jared Cohon – President of Carnegie Mellon University, former Assistant and Associate Dean of Engineering at Johns Hopkins
- William E. Connolly – influential political theorist
- Thomas M. Cooley Law School, also a Dean of University of Michigan Law School[26]
- W. Max Corden – trade economist, developed Dutch diseasemodel
- Robert J. Cotter – chemist and mass spectrometrist
- Richard Threlkeld Cox – physicist, Cox's theorem
- Thomas Craig – mathematician
- Tyler Cymet – physician
- Maqbool Dada – professor of operations management
- Tinglong Dai – professor of operations management and business analytics
- Veena Das – feminist anthropologist
- Steven R. David – international relations
- George Delahunty – physiologist, endocrinologist, and Lilian Welsh Professor of Biology at Goucher College
- Flavio Delbono – economist, mayor of Bologna
- School of Medicine[27]
- Jacques Derrida – philosopher
- Daniel Deudney – international relations
- Stephen Dixon – prolific short story writer
- C.D. Howe Institute; Chairman, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; former Associate Professor of Canadian Studies and International Economics at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University
- Thomas Dolby – musician, film score composer, and music technology entrepreneur
- Vincent du Vigneaud – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1955
- Acheson J. Duncan – statistician, winner of the Shewhart Medal
- Ward Edwards – psychologist, prominent for work on decision theory and on the formulation and revision of beliefs.
- Jessica Einhorn – former dean of SAIS, managing director of the World Bank
- Paul H. Emmett – chemical engineer, Manhattan Project
- George L. Engel – psychiatrist, best known for the formulation of the biopsychosocial model
- Joseph Erlanger – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944
- Andrew Ewald – cell biologist known for work in metastatic breast cancer research
- Andrew Fire – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2006
- Henry Jones Ford – political scientist and journalist
- Robert Stephen Ford – retired diplomat; former U.S. Ambassador to Algeria and Syria
- P. M. Forni – literary scholar and co-founder of the Johns Hopkins Civility Project
- James Franck – Nobel Prize in Physics, 1925
- John K. Frost – cytopathologist, founder and director of the Division of Cytopathology at Hopkins
- Francis Fukuyama – political economist, author The End of History
- Donald Geman – statistician
- Ashraf Ghani – President of Afghanistan, 2014–present
- Riccardo Giacconi – Nobel Prize in Physics, 2002; National Medal of Science, 2003
- Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve – classical scholar
- Benjamin Ginsberg – Libertarian political scientist and professor
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer– Nobel Prize in Physics, 1963
- Michael Griffin – former NASA Administrator (2005–2009)
- Stanislav Grof – psychologist
- Deborah Gross – professor of nursing at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
- G. Stanley Hall – pioneer in the field of psychology; founding president of Clark University
- William Stewart Halsted – founding head of the Department of Surgery
- Steve H. Hanke – economist, United States Presidential advisor, Cato Institutesenior fellow
- Husain Haqqani – author, former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States[28]
- Haldan Keffer Hartline – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967
- David Harvey(until 2001) – geographer
- Robert Heptinstall – renal pathologist, chair of the Hopkins pathology department
- Robert Herman – astronomer and physicist
- U.S. Secretary of State and Governor of Massachusetts
- John L. Holland – psychologist who developed the RIASEC career model
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe – economist
- Bateman-Horn conjecture and wrote the standard-issue Matrix Analysis textbook with Charles Royal Johnson
- Ralph H. Hruban – pathologist
- David H. Hubel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1971
- Kathy Hudson – microbiologist specializing in science policy, founder of the Genetics and Public Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University[29]
- Touqir Hussain – former Ambassador of Pakistan to Brazil, Spain, and Japan, former Diplomatic Adviser to the Prime Minister of Pakistan[30]
- Rufus Isaacs – game theorist, winner of Frederick W. Lanchester Prize
- Nathan Jacobson – mathematician
- Kay Redfield Jamison – Professor of Psychiatry
- automatic speech recognition and natural language processing
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Kenneth H. Keller – President of the University of Minnesota system
- Howard Atwood Kelly – founding head of the Department of Gynecology
- Hugh Kenner – Andrew Mellon professor of humanities 1973–1990, literary critic, expert on Ezra Pound and James Joyce, and popular writer on computing
- Majid Khadduri – Professor of Islamic Law and Middle East specialist
- Kunihiko Kodaira – mathematician, Fields Medal winner
- World Bank Chief Economist
- Simon Kuznets – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1971
- Barbara Landau – cognitive scientist, leading authority on Williams syndrome
- Maria Teresa Landi – epidemiologist and oncologist
- Sidney Lanier
- Albert L. Lehninger – author of a long-time standard biochemistry textbook
- Robert C. Lieberman – political scientist
- Paul Linebarger – author known as Cordwainer Smith
- Marisa Lino – former U.S. Ambassador to Albania and former director of the Bologna Center of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
- Alfred J. Lotka – mathematician and statistician
- Arthur Oncken Lovejoy – philosopher, founder of the Journal of the History of Ideas
- Marty Makary – physician
- Nina Marković – physicist and professor
- Elmer McCollum – professor and biochemist, co-discovered vitamins A, B, and D
- Alice McDermott – novelist, National Book Award, 1998
- Mendelian Inheritance in Man
- Andrew Mertha – political scientist
- Merton H. Miller– Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990
- George Richards Minot– Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934
- Jack Morava – mathematician
- Frank Morley – mathematician
- Harmon Northrop Morse – chemist, Avogadro Medal 1916
- Robert H. Mundell– Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999
- Muslim feministand author
- Daniel Nathans – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
- Simon Newcomb – astronomer and mathematician
- John Niparko – surgeon and scientist specializing in cochlear implants
- Santa J. Ono– 15th President & Vice-Chancellor, University of British Columbia; 28th President, University of Cincinnati; immunologist
- Lars Onsager – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1968
- Sir William Osler – founding head of the Department of Medicine
- Sidney Painter – medievalist
- Edwards A. Park — Chief of Pediatrics in the Harriet Lane Home, proofed the cause of rickets
- Robert G. Parr– theoretical chemist
- Henry Paulson – former U.S. Treasury Secretary (2006–2009)
- Ronald Paulson – English specialist
- Charles Sanders Peirce – logician
- Phillip Phan – Alonzo and Virginia Decker Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
- J.G.A. Pocock– Harry C. Black Professor of History Emeritus
- John Pollini – art historian
- Matthew Porterfield – film director and professor of film
- Ayn Rand – author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged; visiting lecturer in 1961
- Mark M. Ravitch – surgeon
- Stuart C. Ray – physician
- Ira Remsen – chemist, discoverer of saccharin
- Francisco Rico Manrique – visiting professor of Spanish, 1966–1967
- es:Elias L. Rivers, Spanish literature, 1964–1978
- Riordan Roett – political scientist and Latin America specialist
- Richard S. Ross – cardiologist; former dean of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- Henry Augustus Rowland – physicist
- Avi Rubin – head of the ACCURATE organization, established to solve the problem of secure electronic voting
- Pedro Salinas – Spanish poet, Turnbull Professor
- Mavis Sanders – faculty and researcher at Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk, director of Urban Education program, assistant director of the National Network of Partnership Schools[31]
- Karl Shapiro – professor of poetry, former U.S. Poet Laureate
- Vyacheslav Shokurov – mathematician
- Charles S. Singleton – scholar of medieval Italian literature
- Robert Skidelsky – economist, biographer of John Maynard Keynes
- Hamilton O. Smith – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
- R. Jeffrey Smith – Pulitzer Prize winner
- Optimality Theory
- Solomon H. Snyder – National Medal of Science, 2003
- Gabrielle M. Spiegel – historian of the Middle Ages; former President of the American Historical Association
- Leo Spitzer – romance philologist, literary scholar
- Julian Stanley – Professor of Psychology; founder of the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth
- Sir Richard Stone – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1984
- US Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prizewinner
- Raman Sundrum – physicist
- Kathleen M. Sutcliffe – Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Business and Medicine
- James Joseph Sylvester – mathematician
- Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli – political scientist; first U.S. Ambassador for Women's Empowerment; former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State on United Nations Reform; former Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights and International Operations at the White House National Security Council
- Caroline Bedell Thomas – cardiologist, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine third female full professor
- Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt, along with Alfred Blalock and Helen Taussig
- Clifford Truesdell – mathematician, natural philosopher, historian of mathematics
- Harold Clayton Urey– Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1934
- Henry N. Wagner – pioneer in nuclear medicine
- Kameshwar C. Wali – physicist, member of Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars from 1980
- John Walker – concert organist (Peabody Conservatory)
- Bruce W. Wardropper – scholar of Spanish drama
- David B. Weishampel – paleontologist, author of The Dinosauria 2004
- William H. Welch – founding head of the Department of Pathology
- James West – National Medal of Technology, 2006
- George Hoyt Whipple– Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934
- Chester Wickwire – Chaplain emeritus and humanist
- Torsten Wiesel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1981
- Michael Williams – philosopher
- Denis Wirtz – Vice Provost for Research and Theophilus Halley Smoot Professor of Engineering Science
- Paul Wolfowitz – President, World Bank, former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, former Dean of SAIS
- Barry Wood– microbiologist and physician
- Robert W. Wood – experimental physicist
- Oscar Zariski – Russian-born American mathematician
- Elias Zerhouni – Director of the National Institutes of Health
Fictional alumni
- The West Wing
- Dr. Preston Burke – cardiothoracic surgeon on the television series Grey's Anatomy
- Dr. Perry Cox – main character of the television series Scrubs
- Dr. Seth Griffin –- resident played by Bruce Greenwood on the show St. Elsewhere
- Dr. Zoe Hart – big city surgical resident turned rural Alabama general practitioner played by Rachel Bilson in Hart of Dixie
- Dr. James Harvey – paranormal therapist portrayed by Bill Pullman in Casper
- Dr. Julius Hibbert – family doctor on The Simpsons
- Dr. Gregory House – main character of the television series House
- Dr. Tom Koracick – neurosurgeon on the television series Grey's Anatomy
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter – psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs, based on the novel by Thomas Harris
- Dr. Steven Newsome – doctor played by Edward Herrmann in M*A*S*H episode "Heal Thyself" (Season 8, Episode 17)[32]
- Lena – professor and biologist portrayed by Natalie Portman in Annihilation, based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer
- Dr. John Prentice – doctor played by Sidney Poitier in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner[33]
- Dr. Arizona Robbins – pediatric surgeon on the television series Grey's Anatomy
- Dr. Amelia Shepherd – neurosurgeon on television series Grey's Anatomy
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