List of Johns Hopkins University people

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

Notable alumni[]

Nobel laureates[]

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

Academia, science, medicine and technology[]

Dr Etheldreda Nakmuli-Mpungu, Ugandan epidemiologist and psychiatrist

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

Michael Griffin, former Administrator of NASA

Athletics[]

Business[]

Michael Bloomberg, former Mayor of New York City

Government, public service, and public policy[]

Kweisi Mfume

Literature, arts and media[]

Rachel Carson, environmentalist

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
• Oscar Zariski – Russian-born American mathematician
• 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
• Gabrielle M. Spiegel – historian of the Middle Ages; former President of the American Historical Association
• 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
• Husain Haqqani – author, former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States^[22]
• Alfred Blalock – Lasker Prize–winning surgeon
• 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
• 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
• 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^[23]
• 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^[24]
• 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 Fire – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2006
• 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
• Henry Jones Ford – political scientist and journalist
• 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
• Robert Stephen Ford – retired diplomat; former U.S. Ambassador to Algeria and Syria
• 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
• 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 – founding father of the field of
• Christian A. Herter, Jr. – former U.S. Secretary of State and Governor of Massachusetts
• John L. Holland – psychologist who developed the RIASEC career model
• Roger Horn – co-developed the Bateman-Horn conjecture and wrote the standard-issue Matrix Analysis textbook with Charles Royal Johnson
• Hans-Hermann Hoppe – economist
• Ralph H. Hruban – pathologist
• David H. Hubel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1971
• – former Ambassador of Pakistan to Brazil, Spain, and Japan, former Diplomatic Adviser to the Prime Minister of Pakistan^[25]
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 – HIV researcher
• 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^[26]
• 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
• 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
• 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 – Hispanist, Spanish refugee, scholar of Spanish drama
• David B. Weishampel – paleontologist, author of The Dinosauria 2004
• William H. Welch – founding head of the Department of Pathology
• James Edward Maceo West – National Medal of Technology, 2006
• George Hoyt Whipple – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934
• Chester Wickwire – Chaplain emeritus and humanist
• Torsten Wiesel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1981
• Michael Williams – philosopher
• 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
• 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. Tom Koracick – neurosurgeon on the television series Grey's Anatomy
• Dr. Arizona Robbins - pediatric surgeon on the television series Grey's Anatomy
• Dr. Amelia Shepherd - neurosurgeon on television series Grey's Anatomy
• Dr. Perry Cox – main character of the television series Scrubs
• Dr. Julius Hibbert – family doctor on The Simpsons
• Dr. Gregory House – main character of the television series House
• Lena – professor and biologist portrayed by Natalie Portman in Annihilation, based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer
• Dr. Hannibal Lecter – psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs, based on the novel by Thomas Harris
• Dr. John Prentice – doctor played by Sidney Poitier in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner^[27]
• Dr. Zoe Hart – big city surgical resident turned rural Alabama general practitioner played by Rachel Bilson in Hart of Dixie

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