List of Johns Hopkins University people

This is a list of people affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University, an American university located in Baltimore, Maryland.

See also: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Notable alumni

Athletics

• Jon Blank - 4 time All American swimmer 1978-1981, US Masters Swimming National and World record holder
• Louis Clarke (1901–77) – 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 – 3 time All American lacrosse player at JHU and Major League Lacrosse player
• Bill Milne - 4 time All American swimmer 1971-1974, Middle Atlantic Conference Hall of Fame, inducted 2012
• Davey Johnson – major league baseball player and manager
• Dave Pietramala – Johns Hopkins lacrosse coach
• Paul Rabil – All American lacrosse player and MLL Most Valuable Player
• William C. Schmeisser – "Father Bill", National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee
• Robert H. Scott – Johns Hopkins lacrosse coach, athletic director, author
• Bill Stromberg – Johns Hopkins football 1978–81, College Football Hall of Fame, inducted 2004, Middle Atlantic Conference Hall of Fame, inducted 2011
• John Thomas (lacrosse) – Led lacrosse team to a 34–6 record during his time at JHU
• John Tucker – head coach of Washington Bayhawks professional lacrosse team
• Neil Vranis – USL 2 professional soccer player
• Don Zimmerman – UMBC lacrosse coach

Nobel laureates

Main article: List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Johns Hopkins University

Woodrow Wilson, Nobel Prize-winning U.S. President

• Peter Agre – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2003
• Richard Axel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2004
• J.M. Coetzee – Nobel Prize in Literature, 2003
• 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

Government, public service and public policy

Kweisi Mfume

• Spiro T. Agnew – Vice President of the United States, former Governor of Maryland
• Madeleine Albright* – Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton
• Mahamat Ali Adoum – Foreign Affairs minister, ambassador from Chad
• Bernard Membe - Tanzanian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
• Peter F. Allgeier – Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
• Newton D. Baker – mayor of Cleveland (1912–1915), and US Secretary of War (1916–1921)
• Arthur F. Bentley – political scientist and philosopher
• Michael Bloomberg – founder of Bloomberg L.P., Mayor of New York City
• Paul Bomani – Tanzanian politician and ambassador
• Rudy Boschwitz – Republican Senator from Minnesota
• Daniel B. Brewster – Democratic Senator from Maryland (1963–1969)
• Charles Hillman Brough – Democratic Governor of Arkansas (1917–1921)
• R. Nicholas Burns – U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and Greece
• Aneesh Chopra – President Obama's Chief Technology Officer of the United States
• William F. Clinger, Jr. – Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979–97
• Rafael Hernández Colón – Governor of Puerto Rico
• Poya Chang – Former minister of health of Taiwan
• Jien Ren Chen – Former minister of health of Taiwan
• Lawrence Di Rita – Pentagon spokesperson
• Sheila Dixon – former president of Baltimore City council, Mayor of Baltimore (2007–2010)
• Anne E. Derse – American Ambassador to Lithuania, former Ambassador to Azerbaijan
• James B. Eldridge – member of the Mass. House of Representatives (2002–present)
• William J. Frank – member of Maryland House of Delegates
• Frank Gaffney, Founder and President of the Center for Security Policy
• Jeffrey Garten – Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade and Dean of the Yale School of Management
• Ibrahim Gambari – Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Timothy F. Geithner – President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Treasury Secretary of the United States
• April Glaspie – American diplomat, first woman to be appointed an American ambassador to an Arab country
• Dr. Nancy S. Grasmick – Maryland State Superintendent of Schools
• Wang Guangya – China's 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
• Alger Hiss – State Department official, lawyer and Soviet spy
• Hans Hoogervorst – the Netherlands' Minister of Public Health, Minister of Finance
• Sheng Mao Hou – Former minister of health of Taiwan
• Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein – Jordan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations
• David Jacobson – American Ambassador to Canada
• James Howard Holmes – former U.S. ambassador to Latvia, now State Department special adviser
• Sam Katz - politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Mohammad Zubair Khan – former Commerce Minister of Pakistan
• Frank Lavin – U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore
• Samuel W. Lewis – former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and U.S. Ambassador at the Camp David Accord talks in 1978
• 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 - the 75th United States Secretary of the Navy.
• Sir David Manning – British Ambassador to Israel, foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair, British Ambassador to the United States
• Scott McCallum - the 43rd Governor of Wisconsin
• Gail J. McGovern - President and CEO of the American Red Cross
• John E. McLaughlin – Director of Central Intelligence
• Kweisi Mfume – Former President of the NAACP, former Congressman from Maryland
• John S. Morgan – former Maryland Delegate
• Eva Moskowitz - Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Success Charter Network and Harlem Success Academy
• Donald F. Munson – Maryland State Senator
• Nurul Izzah Anwar – Malaysian Member of Parliament and daughter of Anwar Ibrahim
• Antonia Novello – 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
• George L. P. Radcliffe – U.S. Senator from Maryland (1935–1947)
• Peter Rheinstein – FDA Official
• Leslie Sanchez – political pundit and commentator
• Christopher B. Shank – Maryland House of Delegates (1999–present)
• 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)
• Takuya Tasso – governor of Iwate Prefecture in Japan.
• Bandar bin Sultan – Saudi Arabia's former Ambassador to the United States
• Ali Akbar Velayati – former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran
• Woodrow Wilson – President of the United States
• Amos Griswold Warner – social worker, first head of charity for the District of Columbia
• Zhu Min - Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
• Elias Zerhouni - Director of the National Institutes of Health
• Craig Zucker – member of the Maryland House of Delegates

Academia, science, medicine and technology

Wendell E. Dunn, Jr.., chemical engineer, metallurgist

Michael Griffin, former Administrator of NASA

• William Foxwell Albright – Authenticator of the Dead Sea Scrolls, linguist, expert on ceramics
• Hattie Alexander – pediatrician and microbiologist
• John August Anderson – Astronomer
• Richard T. Antoun – Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Binghamton University
• Florence Bascom – geologist
• Frederick S. Billig – Scramjet and hypersonics pioneer
• Hilde Bruch – Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, expert on eating disorders
• Schuyler V. Cammann (Ph.D. 1949) – anthropologist
• Denton Cooley – cardiovascular surgeon
• Henry E. Chambers (Ph.D.) – Louisiana historian
• Segun Toyin Dawodu – Associate Professor in the Department of Pain Medicine at Albany Medical College; a physician and an attorney
• John Dewey – philosopher, psychologist, and 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
• Luther P. Eisenhart – Mathematician, Theoretical Physicist
• Adam Falk – President-elect of Williams College
• James M. Farr – President of the University of Florida
• Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Feldman – rabbi emeritus of Congregation Beth Jacob of Atlanta
• John Charles Fields – Mathematician, established Fields Medal
• Linda P. Fried - Geriatrician and Epidemiologist, dean of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health
• William K. George – fluid dynamicist
• Solomon W. Golomb – mathematician, invented the Golomb coding and Golomb ruler
• Harry Clinton Gossard, geometer, discoverer of the Gossard perspector of a triangle.
• Duane Graveline – Astronaut
• Michael Griffin – Administrator, NASA
• Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg
• James H. Hyslop (1854–1920) – professor of ethics and logic at Columbia University, and a psychical researcher; secretary-treasurer of the American Society for Psychical Research
• Kenneth H. Keller – current 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
• Steven Knapp – President of George Washington University
• Christine Ladd-Franklin – U.S. scientist and logician
• Steven Lehrer – medical researcher and writer
• Ruey-Shiung Lin (Dr.P.H., 1977) – Taiwanese public health and epigenetics scientist; Professor emeritus at National Taiwan University
• Thomas H. Maren – MD, inventor of the drug Trusopt
• John Mauchly – Co-inventor of the ENIAC Computer
• Michael Merzenich – Professor emeritus neuroscientist, brain researcher, CEO Scientific Learning, Posit Science
• Bessie Moses – gynecologist and obstetrician
• Mike Muuss – author of Ping
• Frank Oppenheimer – Physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project
• Charles Lane Poor – Astronomer
• Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt
• Clifford V. Smith, Jr. – the 4th chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
• Ibrahim B. Syed – radiologist
• Aage B. Sørensen – sociologist
• Frederick Jackson Turner – historian
• Thorstein Veblen – economist, author The Theory of the Leisure Class
• George W. Ward – Third principal of Maryland State Normal School (now Towson University)
• John B. Watson – psychologist
• Morris A. Wessel – pediatrician, pioneer of hospice care, and discoverer of colic
• Henry 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"
• Abel Wolman – inventor of modern water treatment techniques
• Frank H. Wu – Chancellor & Dean of UC Hastings College of the Law, law professor, and author

Literature, arts and media

Rachel Carson, environmentalist

• Arthur Talmage Abernethy – journalist, theologian, minister, first North Carolina Poet Laureate
• Dan Ahdoot – standup comedian
• Jeff Altman – standup comedian
• Tori Amos – singer (Peabody Conservatory)
• John Astin – actor, Gomez Addams on The Addams Family
• Russell Baker – author, Pulitzer Prize winner, host of Masterpiece Theatre
• Andy Barth – Baltimore TV reporter for 35 years, retired to run for Congress
• John Barth – novelist
• Jeffrey Blitz – writer / director, notably of the 2007 film Rocket Science
• Wolf Blitzer – CNN news anchor
• Paul Harris Boardman – film producer and screenwriter
• Denis Boyles – writer, journalist
• Matt Briggs – novelist
• Rachel Carson – environmentalist, author of Silent Spring
• Angelin Chang – Grammy-award winning classical pianist
• Iris Chang – author, Rape of Nanking
• C. J. Cherryh – author
• J.D. Considine – music critic
• Richard Ben Cramer – journalist, author of What It Takes, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Wes Craven – film director, producer
• Caleb Deschanel – cinematographer
• Michael Dumanis – poet and editor
• Mildred Dunnock – renowned film and stage actress
• David Hildebrand – Maryland musicologist and colonial period music performer
• Murray Kempton – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• Quint Kessenich – ESPN sportscaster, lacrosse All-American
• Porochista Khakpour – novelist
• Rjyan Kidwell – musician
• Kevin Kilner – actor
• Alen Pol Kobryn – poet
• Alan Lakein - author on personal time management, including How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life
• Sidney Lanier – American musician and poet.
• David Lipsky – contributing editor Rolling Stone, author of Absolutely American
• Megan Morrone – TechTV personality
• Walter Murch – Oscar-winning sound and film editor
• Loriann H. Oberlin - writer/author
• P. J. O'Rourke – political satirist and journalist
• Arlene Raven – author and art critic, professor
• 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 – award-winning commercial, film and theater director
• Howard "Chip" Silverman – author, lacrosse coach
• Gertrude Stein – feminist, author
• Susan Stewart – American poet and literary critic
• Bill Todman – game show producer
• Keith Ablow – Fox News contributor

Business

Michael Bloomberg, NYC Mayor

• Scott M. Black - Founder, Delphi Management
• Michael Bloomberg – (B.S. 1964) founder of Bloomberg L.P., Mayor of New York City
• Pamela P. Flaherty - President and CEO of Citigroup Foundation and Chair of the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees
• Peter Flaherty - Managing Director of Arcon Partners, LLC, Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company, Inc.
• John Hewson - Chairman of General Security Australia Insurance Brokers Pty Ltd
• David M. Hoffman, CEO of Internews Network
• Allan Huston - (Engr, 1966) Former President and CEO of Pizza Hut
• Terry Keenan - (B.A., A&S 1983) Economic/business columnist for the New York Post, anchor for CNN
• Rahmi Koç – Chairman of Koç Holding, Turkey's largest and oldest conglomerate
• Robert Lawrence Kuhn, international corporate strategist, investment banker, public intellectual, and long-time adviser to Chinese leaders
• Christopher Hoiles Lee - Founder and Managing Partner of AIG Highstar Capital
• Edmund C. Lynch – (B.A. 1907) one of the founders of Merrill Lynch investment firm
• John C. Malone – (MA. in Industrial Management 1964; PhD. 1967) telecom magnate, former CEO of Tele-Communications Inc., Chairman of Liberty Media, and CEO of Discovery Holding Company
• Peter Magowan* – Owner of the San Francisco Giants and CEO of Safeway
• Robert D. Manning – financial expert in consumer credit, author of Credit Card Nation
• Dave McClure - Founder of 500 Startups
• Bill Miller – Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Legg Mason Capital Management
• Federico Minoli - Former CEO of Ducati Motor Holding
• Edward L. Morse - Global Head of Commodities Research at Citigroup, Co-Founder of PFC Energy
• Samuel J. Palmisano – IBM, Chairman and former president and CEO
• Matthew Polk - Founder of Polk Audio
• Cavan Redmond (Carey 1987) - CEO of WebMD
• Leslie Sanchez - Founder and CEO of Impacto Group LLC
• David Schneiderman - (A&S 1969) Former CEO of Village Voice Media
• Kozo Shimano - (Engr 1984) President of Shimano
• David Sifry – Founder, CEO – Technorati
• Robert S. Singer - (A&S 1972) Former President and COO of Abercrombie & Fitch, Former CEO of Barilla Group
• Russ Smith – owner, publisher, The New York Press
• Gary Wang - Founder, CEO, Tudou (simplified Chinese: 土豆网; traditional Chinese: 土豆網; pinyin: Tǔdòu Wǎng; literally "Potato Net")
• Zhu Min - Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, former group executive vice president of Bank of China, former Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China

Notable faculty

Hall started the first psychology lab in America at Hopkins and was the first president of the American Psychological Association.

Charles Sanders Peirce, philosopher and mathematician, inventor of Semiotics.

Thomas McIntyre Cooley, jurist, 25th Justice and Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, a Dean of the University of Michigan Law School, and honored namesake of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School.

• 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, expert on ceramics
• 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
• 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
• Alfred Blalock – Lasker Prize winning surgeon.
• Vivien Thomas – Co-developer of the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt, along with Alfred Blalock and Helen Taussig.
• Eric Brill - Computer Scientist
• Max Broedel – medical illustrator & founder of the first US medical illustration graduate program.
• 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 – pediatric neurosurgeon, author 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 - eighth President of Carnegie Mellon University (1997 – 2013), former faculty member in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering and Assistant and Associate Dean of Engineering and Vice Provost for Research at Johns Hopkins University from 1973 to 1992
• William E. Connolly – influential political theorist
• Thomas M. Cooley – appointed 1877, Michigan Supreme Court Justice, 1864–1885, namesake of Thomas M. Cooley Law School, also a Dean of University of Michigan Law School[1]
• W. Max Corden – trade economist, developed Dutch disease model.
• Richard Threlkeld Cox – physicist, Cox's theorem
• Tyler Cymet – physician
• Veena Das – Renowned feminist anthropologist
• Steven R. David – international relations
• Flavio Delbono – economist, mayor of Bologna
• Jacques Derrida – philosopher
• Daniel Deudney – international relations
• Stephen Dixon – most prolific American short story writer
• Acheson J. Duncan – statistician, winner of the Shewhart Medal
• Paul H. Emmett – chemical engineer, Manhattan Project
• George L. Engel – psychiatrist, best known for the formulation of the biopsychosocial model
• Jessica Einhorn – Dean of SAIS, managing director of the World Bank
• Joseph Erlanger – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944
• Andrew Fire – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2006
• Henry Jones Ford – political scientist and journalist
• P. M. Forni – co-founder and current director of the Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins.
• 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 – Finance minister of Afghanistan, 2002–2004
• Riccardo Giacconi – Nobel Prize in Physics, 2002, National Medal of Science, 2003
• Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve – classical scholar
• Maria Goeppert-Mayer – Nobel Prize in Physics, 1963
• Michael Griffin – former NASA Administrator (2005–2009)
• Stanislav Grof – psychologist
• 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 Institute senior fellow
• Haldan Keffer Hartline – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967
• David Harvey (until 2001) – geographer
• Christian A. Herter, Jr. – former U.S. Secretary of State and Governor of Massachusetts
• John L. Holland – psychologist who developed the RIASEC career model
• Hans-Hermann Hoppe – economist
• David H. Hubel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1971
• Nathan Jacobson – Mathematician
• Kay Redfield Jamison – Professor of Psychiatry
• Frederick Jelinek – pioneer in automatic speech recognition and natural language processing
• Majid Khadduri – Professor of Islamic Law and Middle East specialist
• 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
• Kunihiko Kodaira – Mathematician, Fields Medal winner
• Anne O. Krueger – Managing Director of the IMF and World Bank Chief Economist
• Simon Kuznets – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1971
• Sidney Lanier
• Albert L. Lehninger – author of a long-time standard biochemistry textbook
• Paul Linebarger – author known as Cordwainer Smith
• Alfred J. Lotka – mathematician and statistician
• Marty Makary – physician
• Alice McDermott – novelist, National Book Award, 1998
• Victor A. McKusick – medical geneticist, author of Mendelian Inheritance in Man
• Merton H. Miller – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990
• George Richards Minot – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934
• William Montgomery – philosopher
• Jack Morava – Mathematician
• Frank Morley – Mathematician
• Harmon Northrop Morse – chemist, Avogadro Medal 1916
• Robert H. Mundell – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999
• Azar Nafisi – Muslim feminist and author
• Daniel Nathans – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
• Simon Newcomb – astronomer and mathematician
• Paul H. Nitze – diplomat, principal author NSC-68, co-founder of SAIS
• Lars Onsager – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1968
• Sir William Osler – founding head of the Department of Medicine
• Sidney Painter – medievalist
• Robert G. Parr – theoretical chemist
• Henry Paulson – former U.S. Treasury Secretary (2006–2009)
• Ronald Paulson – English specialist
• Charles Sanders Peirce – logician
• J.G.A. Pocock – Harry C. Black Professor of History Emeritus
• Ayn Rand – author The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged; visiting lecturer - 1961
• Ira Remsen – chemist, discoverer of saccharin
• Riordan Roett – political scientist and Latin America specialist
• Henry Augustus Rowland – physicist
• Avi Rubin – Head of ACCURATE to solve problem of secure electronic voting
• Vyacheslav Shokurov – Mathematician
• Robert Skidelsky – economist, biographer of John Maynard Keynes
• R. Jeffrey Smith – Pulitzer Prize winner
• Hamilton O. Smith – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
• Solomon H. Snyder – National Medal of Science, 2003
• Sir Richard Stone – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1984
• Raman Sundrum – Physicist
• James Joseph Sylvester – mathematician
• Paul Smolensky – cognitive scientist; authored Optimality Theory
• Pedro Salinas – Spanish poet
• Mark Strand – 1990–1991 US Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Clifford Truesdell – Mathematician, natural philosopher and historian of mathematics.
• Harold Clayton Urey – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1934
• Vincent du Vigneaud – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1955
• John Walker – concert organist (Peabody faculty)
• David B. Weishampel – paleontologist, author of The Dinosauria 2004
• William H. Welch – founding head of the Department of Pathology
• James Edward Maceo 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
• 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
• Elias Zerhouni – Director of the National Institutes of Health

Fictional alumni

• Gregory House – main character of the television series House