List of Johns Hopkins University people
Appearance
Notable alumni
- Davey Johnson – major league baseball player and manager
- Dave Pietramala - Johns Hopkins lacrosse coach
- William C. Schmeisser - "Father Bill", National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee
- John Tucker - head coach of Washington Bayhawks professional lacrosse team
- Neil Vranis - USL 2 professional soccer player
- Don Zimmerman - UMBC lacrosse coach
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- Peter Agre - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
- Richard Axel - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2004
- Joseph Erlanger - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944
- Robert Fogel - Nobel Prize in Economics, 1993
- Herbert Spencer Gasser - Nobel Prize in Physiology, 1944
- 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
- Daniel Nathans- Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
- 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
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- Spiro T. Agnew - Vice President of the United States
- Madeleine Albright* - Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton
- Mahamat Ali Adoum - Foreign Affairs minister, ambassador from Chad
- 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)
- 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 nominee for Chief Technology Officer of the United States
- 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
- Anne E. Derse - American Ambassador to Lithuania, former Ambassador to Azerbaijan
- James B. Eldridge - member of the Mass. House of Representatives (served 2002 - present)
- William J. Frank - member of Maryland House of Delegates
- 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 - Prime Minister of Iceland
- John J. Hamre - President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 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
- Dr. 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
- Sir David Manning - British Ambassador to Israel (1995 – 1998), foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair (2001 - 2003), British Ambassador to the United States (2003 - 2007)
- John E. McLaughlin - Director of Central Intelligence
- Kweisi Mfume - Former President of the NAACP
- John S. Morgan - former Maryland Delegate
- Donald F. Munson - Maryland State Senator
- Nurul Izzah Anwar - Malaysian Member of Parliament and daughter of former Deputy Prime Minister and current Leader of Parliamentary Opposition of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim
- Antonia Novello - United States Surgeon General (1990 - 1993)
- George L. P. Radcliffe - U.S. Senator from Maryland (1935 - 1947)
- 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)
- 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-present)
- 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
Academia, science, and technology
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- William Foxwell Albright - Authenticator of the Dead Sea Scrolls, linguist, expert on ceramics
- Hattie Alexander, pediatrician and microbiologist
- John August Anderson - Astronomer
- Denton Cooley - world renowned cardiovascular surgeon
- John Dewey - philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
- William H. Dobelle- Biomedical researcher
- Adam Falk - President-elect of Williams College
- James M. Farr - President of the University of Florida
- John Charles Fields - Mathematician, established Fields Medal
- Jessica Einhorn - Dean of SAIS, managing director of the World Bank
- Luther P. Eisenhart - Mathematician, Theoretical Physicist
- Solomon W. Golomb - mathematician, invented the Golomb coding and Golomb ruler
- Duane Graveline - Astronaut
- Michael Griffin - Administrator, NASA
- Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg
- Kenneth H. Keller - current Director of the SAIS Bologna Center, former President of the University of Minnesota system
- Steven Knapp - President of George Washington University
- Thomas H. Maren - MD, inventor of the drug Trusopt
- John Mauchly - Co-inventor of the ENIAC Computer
- Michael Merzenich -Professor emeritus neuroscientist -Brain plasticity research, Basic and clinical sciences of hearing pioneer- CEO Scientific Learning, Posit Science[1]
- Mike Muuss - author of Ping
- Frank Oppenheimer - Physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project
- Charles Lane Poor - Astronomer
- Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt
- Ibrahim B. Syed - Radiologist
- 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)
- Henry West - Fourth principal of Maryland State Normal School (now Towson University)
- John B. Watson - psychologist
- 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
Literature, arts, and media
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- Sidney Lanier
- 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
- 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
- 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
- David Lipsky – contributing editor Rolling Stone, author of Absolutely American
- Megan Morrone - TechTV personality
- Walter Murch – Oscar-winning sound and film editor
- P. J. O'Rourke – political satirist and journalist
- Arlene Raven - author and art critic, professor
- James Rosen - Fox News Channel Washington correspondent
- 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
- Mark Strand - 1990-1991 US Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Bill Todman - game show producer
- Basil White – standup comedian
Business
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- Michael Bloomberg - (B.S. 1964) founder of Bloomberg L.P., Mayor of New York City
- Rahmi Koç - Chairman of Koç Holding, Turkey's largest and oldest conglomerate
- Edmund C. Lynch - (B.A. 1907) one of the founders of Merrill Lynch investment firm
- John C. Malone - (MA. 1964/PhD. 1967) telecom magnate, former CEO of Tele-Communications Inc.
- Michael Marcus - Legendary commodities trader
- Peter Magowan* - Owner of the San Francisco Giants and CEO of Safeway
- Bill Miller - Chairman and CEO of Legg Mason Capital Management
- Samuel J. Palmisano - IBM Chairman and CEO
- Russ Smith - owner, publisher The New York Press
- Christopher Sullivan - President, CEO Sullco Industries
- David Sifry - Founder, CEO - Technorati
Notable faculty
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- Herbert Baxter Adams - historian, coined phrase "political science"
- Peter Agre - chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
- Fouad Ajami - Professor of Middle Eastern studies 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 - famed 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Jacques Derrida - philosopher
- Daniel Deudney - international relations
- Stephen Dixon - most prolific American short story writer
- 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
- Matt Eversmann - Army Ranger, protagonist of Black Hawk Down
- Andrew Fire - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2006
- Henry Jones Ford - political scientist and journalist
- James Franck - Nobel Prize in Physics, 1925
- Francis Fukuyama - political economist, author The End of History
- Henry Homer Gessler - Pro-Baseball player, 1903-1911; received doctorate.
- 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
- 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 Herter - 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
- 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
- Alice McDermott - novelist, National Book Award, 1998
- Victor A. McKusick - 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
- 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 - physician
- 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
- 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
- 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
- James Edward Maceo West - National Medal of Technology, 2006
- George Hoyt Whipple - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934
- Chester Wickwire - Chaplain emeritus andhumanist
- 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 NIH