List of Johns Hopkins University people

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: <blockquote> 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. </blockquote>

Notable alumni

Nobel laureates

Academia, science, medicine and technology

Athletics

Business

Government, public service, and public policy

Literature, arts and media

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
• – Hispanist; founder of UCSD's literature department
• Robert Branner – professor of art history (1969–1971)
• Eric Brill – computer scientist
• Max Broedel – medical illustrator and founder of the first US medical illustration graduate 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
• W. Max Corden – trade economist, developed Dutch disease model
• 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
• Samuel Denmeade – professor of Oncology, Urology and Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at the School of Medicine
• Jacques Derrida – philosopher
• Daniel Deudney – international relations
• Stephen Dixon – prolific short story writer
• David A. Dodge – former Governor, Bank of Canada; co-chairman, the Global Market Monitoring Group of Institute of International Finance; chairman, 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 – former president of Afghanistan
• Riccardo Giacconi – Nobel Prize in Physics, 2002; National Medal of Science, 2003
• René Girard – French-American philosopher and literary critic; professor at Johns Hopkins 1968–1976; developer of mimetic theory and the scapegoat mechanism; organizer of the 1966 structuralism conference that introduced French theory to American academia
• 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&ndash;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 Institute senior fellow
• 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
• 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
• Roger Horn – co-developed the 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
• Rufus Isaacs – game theorist, winner of Frederick W. Lanchester Prize
• Nathan Jacobson – mathematician
• Kay Redfield Jamison – professor of Psychiatry
• Frederick Jelinek – pioneer in automatic speech recognition and natural language processing
• Ellis L. Johnson – professor emeritus and the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at 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
• Anne O. Krueger – managing director of the IMF and 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
• Victor A. McKusick – medical geneticist, author of Mendelian Inheritance in Man
• John McLaughlin- former Deputy Director and Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
• 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
• Azar Nafisi – Muslim feminist and author
• Daniel Nathans – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
• Simon Newcomb – astronomer and mathematician
• John Niparko – surgeon and scientist specializing in cochlear implants
• Paul H. Nitze – diplomat, principal author NSC 68, co-founder of SAIS
• Santa J. Ono – 15th president and 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, proved the cause of rickets
• Robert G. Parr – theoretical chemist
• Henry Paulson – former U.S. treasury secretary (2006&ndash;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
• 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
• 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
• Henry Slonimsky – philosopher
• Hamilton O. Smith – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
• R. Jeffrey Smith – Pulitzer Prize winner
• Paul Smolensky – cognitive scientist; authored 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
• Mark Strand – 1990–1991 US Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner
• 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
• Vivien Thomas – co-developer of the 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)
• 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

• Dr. Ellie Bartlet – daughter of President Josiah Bartlet in the television series 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)
• 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
• 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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