List of Johns Hopkins University people
Notable alumni
- Lacrosse - Johns Hopkins has produced numerous professional lacrosse players
- Neil Vranis - professional soccer player for Crystal Palace Baltimore. Signed February 2009.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Alexander H. Johnson - Associate Chief US Department of Weights and Measures
- Alexander E. Kuehl - CEO NYC Emergency Medical Service, President National Academies of Emergency Dispatch, Editor "Prehospital Systems and Medical Oversight"
- 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
- [Mary Kate MacInnis-Future brillant attorney *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
- Marcia Miller - former Vice-Chair and Commissioner, U.S. International Trade Commission
- 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.
- Eric Noji - Senior policy advisor, health and national security, CDC
- Antonia Novello - United States Surgeon General (1990 - 1993)
- Walter Orlinsky - former Baltimore City Council President
- Sihasak Phuangketkeow - Spokesperson for Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- George L. P. Radcliffe - U.S. Senator from Maryland (1935 - 1947)
- William A. Reinsch - President, National Foreign Trade Council; former Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration
- 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
- Umberto Vattani - Italy's Ambassador to the European Union
- 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
- Suzanne Conklin Akbari - medievalist and writer
- 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
- John Charles Fields - Mathematician, established Fields Medal
- Jessica Einhorn - Dean of SAIS, managing director of the World Bank
- Luther P. Eisenhart - Mathematician, Theoretical Physicist
- Patricia Fleming - Ph.D.;Former chief of HIV/AIDS reporting and analysis for CDC
- Solomon W. Golomb - mathematician, invented the Golomb coding and Golomb ruler
- Duane Graveline - Astronaut
- Michael Griffin - Administrator, NASA
- Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg
- Lloyd Jacobs - (M.D. '69) President, University of Toledo
- Kenneth H. Keller - current Director of the SAIS Bologna Center, former President of the University of Minnesota system
- Jeong Hun Kim - President, Bell Labs
- Alexander E. Kuehl- MD, MPH; Emergency Physician-in-Chief, The New York Hospital
- 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
- Frederick Jackson Turner - historian
- Erich Varnes - Physicist, member of the D0 team, co-discoverer of the top quark.
- 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
- 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
- Davey Johnson – major league baseball player and manager
- Michele Kelemen – national correspondent National Public Radio
- 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
- Michael Kun – attorney, author
- David Lipsky – contributing editor Rolling Stone, author of Absolutely American
- Daniel Menaker – executive editor-in-chief, Random House
- Megan Morrone - TechTV personality
- Walter Murch – Oscar-winning sound and film editor
- Ben Neihart – author of Hey, Joe and Burning Girl
- P. J. O'Rourke – political satirist and journalist
- Arlene Raven - author and art critic, professor
- James Rosen-Fox News Channel Washington correspondent
- Raymond Daniel Burke - Lawyer, Author, MD general Assembly Candidate, Writer for the Baltimore Sun
- Brad Rutter* - All-time Jeopardy! champion
- Patricia Sabga – London chief correspondent NBC News
- Robert H. Scott - lacrosse coach and author
- Laurence Shanet - award-winning commercial, film and theater director
- Howard "Chip" Silverman - author, lacrosse coach
- Lisa Simeone - NPR broadcaster
- 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
- Allen Wastler – managing editor CNN/Money.com
- Basil White – standup comedian
- James Stewart, famous Hollywood actor and Brigadeer General of USAF, was also a graduate( Archicteture ) of Princeton University, Class of 1932.
Business
- Michael Bloomberg - (B.S. 1964) founder of Bloomberg L.P., Mayor of New York City
- Seamus Brown - Portfolio manager of J.P. Morgan Real Return Fund
- Michael Coderre - Cosmonaut
- Allan Huston - former PepsiCo Chairman and CEO
- 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
- Federico Minoli - CEO of Ducati Motor Holding
- Samuel J. Palmisano - IBM Chairman and CEO
- Matthew Polk - founder of Polk Audio
- David Schneiderman - owner, publisher The Village Voice
- Kozo Shimano - engineer, President of Shimano American Corporation
- Robert S. Singer - president, chief operating officer Abercrombie and Fitch
- Russ Smith - owner, publisher The New York Press
- Christopher Sullivan - President, CEO Sullco Industries
- David Sifry - Founder, CEO - Technorati
Notable faculty
- Herbert Baxter Adams - historian, coined phrase "political science"
- Harmon Northrop Morse - chemist, Avogadro Medal 1916
- 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
- Eckart Forster - philosopher
- 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
- Jack P. Greene - Professor of History Emeritus
- Michael Griffin - Administrator, NASA
- 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
- Christian Herter - former U.S. Secretary of State and Governor of Massachusetts
- Haldan Keffer Hartline - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967
- David Harvey (until 2001) - world's leading geographer.
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe - economist
- John L. Holland - psychologist who developed the RIASEC career model
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Ronald Paulson - English specialist
- Charles 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
- Pamela Reynolds- Anthropologist
- 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
- David B. Weishampel - paleontologist, author of The Dinosauria 2004
- 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
- Robert W. Wood - experimental physicist
- Elias Zerhouni - Director of the NIH
- Ben Carson - Neurosurgeon
Fictional associations
- Dr. Henry Armitage (Protagonist in several works by H. P. Lovecraft)
- Timothy Mcgee (NCIS (TV Series))
- Ellie Bartlet (The West Wing)
- Dr. Preston Burke (Grey's Anatomy)
- Mike Burton (Ed)
- Detective Alex Cross
- Detective (Freddy Deluca]]
- Clark Savage, Jr.
- Eric Foreman (House)
- Dr. James Harvey (Casper)
- Dr. Julius Hibbert (The Simpsons)
- Dr. Gregory House (House)
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs)
- Will (Reunion)
- Dr. Cathy Ryan (wife of Jack Ryan in Tom Clancy's novels.)
- Dr. Stanley Goodspeed (|The Rock, played by Nicolas Cage), an FBI chemical weapons specialist educated at Columbia (B.A.) and Johns Hopkins (M.A. and Ph.D.) with limited field experience, is placed on the mission as his expertise is needed to disarm the VX missiles.
*Attended, but did not take degree.