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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
Woodrow Wilson, Nobel Prize-winning U.S. President
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
Wendell E. Dunn, Jr. , chemical engineer, metallurgist
Michael Griffin, former
Administrator of NASA
Etheldreda Nakmuli-Mpungu, Ugandan epidemiologist and psychiatrist
William Foxwell Albright – authenticator of the
Dead Sea Scrolls ,
linguist , expert on
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
Vinod Bhakuni – biophysicist,
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar and
N-BIOS laureate
Frederick S. Billig –
scramjet and
hypersonics pioneer
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
Chi-Chao Chan –
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
Segun Toyin Dawodu – former associate professor in the Department of
Pain Medicine at
Albany Medical College ; Attending Interventional
Physiatrist at
WellSpan Health ; physician, entrepreneur, journalist, 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
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.
Emanuel Feldman – rabbi emeritus of
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
Bruce Lerman – cardiologist; Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at
Weill Cornell Medicine and the
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Lin Ruey-shiung (
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 candidate in 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
Thomas H. Maren MD – inventor of the drug
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
George Nemhauser –
operations researcher ; A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Institute Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the
Georgia Institute of Technology ; former president of the
Operations Research Society of America
Michael J. Neufeld – historian, curator of the
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
Fernando Picó (Ph.D. 1970) – historian,
Jesuit priest, expert on the
history of Puerto Rico
[4]
Charles Lane Poor – astronomer
Richard S. Potember – inventor and engineer
Kanury Venkata Subba Rao – immunologist,
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
Ozer Schild (1930–2006) – Danish-born Israeli academic, President of the
University of Haifa and President of the
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
Erika Moore Taylor –
biomedical engineer ,
assistant professor at
University of Florida ,
Mentor
[5]
Michael E. Thomas – professor of
industrial engineering , former acting president of the
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
Morris A. Wessel – pediatrician, pioneer of hospice care, discoverer of
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
Bang Wong – creative director of the
Broad Institute at
MIT and
Harvard University
Frank H. Wu – Chancellor and Dean of
UC Hastings College 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
Business
Michael Bloomberg , former Mayor of
New York City
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
Amy Compton-Phillips (M.D., 1985) – former President of Clinical Care for
Providence St. Joseph Health
David S. Cordish (B.A. 1960, M.L.A 1965) – real estate developer, Chairman and CEO of the
Cordish Company
Paul L. Cordish – attorney and businessman, former member of the
Maryland House of Delegates and founder of the Cordish Law Firm, serving as the legal arm of the
Cordish Company
Ina Drew – former Chief Investment Officer of
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
Christopher Hoiles Lee – founder of
AIG Highstar Capital; Chairman of Ports America
Barry Lowenkron (M.S. '77) – Vice President of Global Security & Sustainability,
MacArthur Foundation
Edmund C. Lynch (B.A. 1907) – co-founder of
Merrill Lynch
Patrick Maggitti , PhD (MBA 2002) – first provost of
Villanova University , former dean of the
Villanova School of Business
Peter Magowan – owner of the
San Francisco Giants and CEO of
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
Dave McClure – founder of
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 Mason Capital 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
Maryland Governor Wes Moore
Michael Bloomberg
Kweisi Mfume
Ron Capps – author, former
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]
Miguel Castilla –
Peruvian economist and politician, former Minister of Economy and Finance, and former ambassador of
Peru to the
United States
Chang Po-ya (1974) – current president of the
Control Yuan , former chair of the
Central Election Commission (Taiwan) (2010–2014),
Minister of the Interior (Taiwan) (2000–2002), and
Minister of Health (Taiwan) (1990–1997)
Chen Chien-jen (ScD, 1982) – current
Vice President of the Republic of China (2016–2020), former
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
Makan Delrahim –
Assistant Attorney General for the
Antitrust Division of the
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
Jennifer Galt – current
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]
Timothy F. Geithner – President and CEO of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York ,
Treasury Secretary of the United States
April Glaspie – diplomat, first woman to be appointed an American ambassador to an Arab country
Maciej Golubiewski (born 1976) – Consul General at the
Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City
Nancy 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
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 )
David Jacobson – former
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
Mohammad Zubair Khan – former
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
Tomi Kōra – Councillor in the
Japanese House of Councillors
Haris Lalakos – Ambassador of
Greece to the
United States , former Ambassador of
Greece to the
Republic of Macedonia
[17]
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
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
David Manning –
British Ambassador to Israel , foreign policy adviser to
Tony Blair ,
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
Bernard Membe –
Tanzanian
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
Eva Moskowitz – founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Success Charter Network and
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
Irvin B. Nathan – Attorney General of the
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
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
Neilesh Patel – humanitarian, National Jefferson Award Recipient
Mary Ann Peters – senior U.S. diplomat, former U.S. Ambassador to
Bangladesh , former
provost of the
United States Naval War College , and CEO of the
Carter Center
Juan Carlos Pinzón – Ambassador of
Colombia to the
United States ; former Colombian
Minister of Defence
Nicholas Platt – former U.S.
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 .
Kevin B. Quinn –
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
Leslie Sanchez –
political pundit and commentator
Arturo Sarukhán – former ambassador of
Mexico to the
United States
Christopher B. Shank – Maryland House of Delegates (1999–present)
David B. Shear – former
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)
Bandar bin Sultan –
Saudi Arabia 's former
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
Lauren Underwood –
U.S. Representative for
Illinois's 14th congressional district
Ali Akbar Velayati – former Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Iran
Seema Verma – Administrator of the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services , serving in the
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
Wolf Blitzer , journalist, news anchor for
CNN
Rachel Carson , biologist and environmentalist
Hallie Jackson , journalist, Senior Washington correspondent for
NBC News
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)
Robert Goolrick (B.A. 1970) – author
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
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, 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
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
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
[26]
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
[27]
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 – 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 Institute senior 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
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
[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
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
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 & 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
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)
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
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