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
Nobel laureates Woodrow Wilson , 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was awarded a Ph.D in government and history from Johns Hopkins in 1886. Peter Agre – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2003Christian B. Anfinsen – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1972Richard Axel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2004Joseph Erlanger – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944Andrew Fire – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2006Robert Fogel – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1993James Franck – Nobel Prize in Physics, 1925Herbert Spencer Gasser – Nobel Prize in Physiology, 1944Riccardo Giacconi – Nobel Prize in Physics, 2002Maria Goeppert-Mayer – Nobel Prize in Physics, 1963Paul Greengard – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2000Carol W. Greider – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2009Haldan Keffer Hartline – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967David H. Hubel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1981William G. Kaelin Jr. – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2019Simon Kuznets – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1971Merton H. Miller – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990Thomas Hunt Morgan – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1933Daniel Nathans – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978Adam Riess – Nobel Prize in Physics, 2011Martin Rodbell – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1994Francis Peyton Rous – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1966Gregg L. Semenza – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2019Hamilton O. Smith – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978Vincent du Vigneaud – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1955George Hoyt Whipple – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934Torsten Wiesel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1981Jody Williams – Nobel Peace Prize, 1997Woodrow Wilson – President of the United States , Nobel Peace Prize, 1919Thomas Hunt Morgan , who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for his discovery that chromosomes carrying genetic material were the basis for heredity, earned his Ph.D. in Zoology from Johns Hopkins in 1890
Academia, science, medicine and technology Frederick Jackson Turner , noted historian of the American West best known for his influential "frontier thesis ," earned his Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins in 1890William Foxwell Albright – authenticator of the Dead Sea Scrolls , linguist , expert on ceramics Hattie Alexander – pediatrician and microbiologistJohn August Anderson – astronomerJack Andraka – cancer researcher; as a high school student, developed new test for detecting pancreatic cancer earlyLynne M. Angerer – developmental biologistRichard T. Antoun – Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Binghamton University John W. Ayers (Ph.D. 2011) – behavioral epidemiologistBetsy Bang – biologistFred Bang – developed the Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) test for bacterial endotoxinsFlorence Bascom – geologistRichard 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 laureateFrederick S. Billig – scramjet and hypersonics pioneerLewis E. Braverman (Ph.D. 1955) – chief of endocrinology at Boston UniversityDavid S. Bredt – neuroscientist, professor and research leader in pharmaceutical companiesRachel Brem - diagnostic radiologist, technologies for diagnosis of breast cancer[2] 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 – architectHilde Bruch – Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, expert on eating disordersHoward 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 PeruKim Butler – historian and authorSchuyler V. Cammann (Ph.D. 1949) – anthropologist Lisa A. Carey – distinguished professor in Breast Cancer ResearchDavid Celentano – epidemiologistChi-Chao Chan – ophthalmologist Samuel Charache , hematologist, discovered the first treatment for sickle cell diseaseDipankar Chatterji – Indian molecular biologist and Padma Shri recipientHarold F. Cherniss – noted historian of ancient philosophyWilliam Chomsky – scholar of Hebrew and Judaic studies, father of Noam Chomsky Denton Cooley – cardiovascular surgeonMary Croughan – epidemiologist and academic administratorJohn Dewey – philosopher , psychologist , and educational reformer William H. Dobelle – biomedical researcherWendell E. Dunn – educator and principal of Forest Park High School G. Roger Edwards – archaeologistJessica 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 physicistJoel Elkes – psychopharmaceutical researcherAdam 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 ParisWilliam K. George – fluid dynamicistGeorge Otto Gey – scientist, propagated the HeLa cell line, inventor of the roller drumSherita Hill Golden – Hugh P. McCormick Family Professor of Endocrinology and MetabolismSolomon 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 triangleLinda Grant DePauw – modern historian, retired university teacher, non-fiction author, journal editorDuane Graveline – astronautMichael Griffin – NASA administratorAdolf Guttmacher – rabbiRigoberto Hernandez – chemist and diversity advocateFrank Irving Herriott – PhD (1893)Arthur Hertzberg – rabbiL. Emmett Holt Jr. – pediatricianJason Huang – neurosurgeonRu-Chih Chow Huang – biochemist[3] Elmer Huerta – physician and health communicatorGrover Hutchins – pathologistRay 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 – geologistDavid W. Kennedy , emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania Steven Knapp – President of George Washington University Susan Kolb – medical doctor and authorChristine Ladd-Franklin – scientist and logicianHey-Kyoung Lee – neuroscience professorSteven Lehrer – medical researcher and writerBruce 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 2012Gerald E. Loeb – neurophysiologist, biomedical engineer, academicWillis Maddrey – internist and hepatologistPatrick 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 medicineJohn Mauchly – co-inventor of the ENIAC ComputerMichael Merzenich – professor emeritus neuroscientist , brain researcher, CEO Scientific Learning, Posit Science[4] Tanya Moore – biostatistician and STEM activistBessie Moses – gynecologist and obstetricianYūjirō Motora – psychologistMike Muuss – author of PingEtheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu – psychiatrist and epidemiologistGeorge 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 deanNita Patel – research scientist who led the development of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine Orra Almira Phelps (MD 1927) – Navy physician, botanist, naturalist, mountaineer, and writerFernando Picó (Ph.D. 1970) – historian, Jesuit priest, expert on the history of Puerto Rico [5] Charles Lane Poor – astronomerRichard S. Potember – inventor and engineerKanury Venkata Subba Rao – immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (1997) laureateAnn Reid – science education advocateNicholas P. Restifo – tumor immunology and immunotherapyJustin B. Ries (Ph.D. 2005) – geoscientist and inventor known for discoveries in the field of global oceanic changeThomas Milton Rivers – virologist, United States Navy Admiral Arye Rosen – electrical engineerJonathan Rosenblatt – rabbiSaurabh Saha – cancer researcherOzer 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 allergistMark Shelhamer – Professor of Otolaryngology, head and neck surgeryWilliam M. Sinton – astronomer at Harvard University Louise L. Sloan – ophthalmologist and vision scientistClifford V. Smith, Jr. – fourth chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Aage B. Sørensen – sociologistGabrielle M. Spiegel – historian of the Middle Ages; former President of the American Historical AssociationFlora E. Strout – teacher, social reformerLaura Sumner – numismatistHarry L. Swinney – physicist, Director of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Texas at Austin Ibrahim B. Syed – radiologistMorris Tanenbaum – physical chemist, developed the first working silicon transistor on January 26, 1954Erika Moore Taylor – biomedical engineer , assistant professor at University of Florida , Mentor [6] Michael E. Thomas – professor of industrial engineering , former acting president of the Georgia Institute of Technology Amytis Towfighi – Associate Professor of NeurologyFrederick Jackson Turner – historianRobert Ulanowicz – theoretical ecologistThorstein 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 – psychologistGabriel 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 programAbel Wolman – inventor of modern water treatment techniquesBang 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; authorJohn H. Yardley – pathologistFrederick Yeh – biologist and animal welfare activistRose 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 ManagementMichael 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 entrepreneurJohn Hewson – Chairman of General Security Australia Insurance Brokers Pty LtdDavid M. Hoffman – CEO of Internews NetworkTerry Keenan (B.A., A&S 1983) – business columnist for the New York Post , anchor for CNNShahal M. Khan – owner of Plaza Hotel and venture capitalistJeong H. Kim – President of Bell Labs Rahmi Koç – Chairman of Koç Holding , Turkey 's largest and oldest conglomerateRobert Lawrence Kuhn – corporate strategist, investment banker, adviser to Chinese leadersSol Kumin (B.A. 1999) – founder of Folger Hill Asset Management; philanthropist; winning thoroughbred racehorse ownerChristopher Hoiles Lee – founder of AIG Highstar Capital; Chairman of Ports AmericaBarry 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 traderDave McClure – founder of 500 Startups Gail J. McGovern (B.A. 1974) – President and CEO of the American Red Cross [9] Bill Miller – Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Legg Mason Capital ManagementGordon 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 EnergySamuel J. Palmisano – IBM Chairman, former president and CEOKaren Peetz (M.S. ’81) – President of BNY Mellon [10] Jeff Raider – founder of Harry's and Warby Parker Leslie Sanchez – founder and CEO of Impacto Group LLCCharles Scharf – CEO of Wells FargoDavid 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 graduated from Johns Hopkins in 2001 with a B.A. in international relations and economics. U.S. Congressmen Kweisi Mfume received an M.A. from Johns Hopkins in 1984. He has served as U.S. representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district since 2020, a position that he had previously held between 1987 and 1996. Ron Capps – author, former Foreign Service Officer , and founder and director of the Veterans Writing ProjectAnne Casper – U.S. Ambassador to Burundi and former Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda [12] 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 CarterWilliam F. Clinger, Jr. – Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979–97Rafael 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 [13] 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 spokespersonBenjamin 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 SyriaWilliam J. Frank – member of Maryland House of Delegates Frank Gaffney – founder and President of the Center for Security Policy Jennifer Galt – former 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 [14] Timothy F. Geithner – President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York , Treasury Secretary of the United StatesApril Glaspie – diplomat, first woman to be appointed an American ambassador to an Arab countryMaciej Golubiewski (born 1976) – Consul General at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City Nancy Grasmick – Maryland State Superintendent of SchoolsWang Guangya – China 's Ambassador to the United Nations Geir H. Haarde – former Prime Minister of IcelandJohn J. Hamre – President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies , former U.S. Deputy Secretary of DefenseAndy 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[15] John E. Herbst – former U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan and, later, to Ukraine Alger Hiss – State Department official, lawyer and Soviet spyHans Hoogervorst – the Netherlands ' Minister of Public Health, Minister of FinanceJames Howard Holmes – former U.S. Ambassador to Latvia , now State Department special adviserConstance Horner – official in the Reagan and first Bush administrations; formerly with the Johns Hopkins Center for the Study of American GovernmentNitobe 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 2017Sam Katz – politician from Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaMohammad Zubair Khan – former Commerce Minister of Pakistan Sahibzada Khan – Pakistan's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom ; former Chief of Protocol of Pakistan [16] Chang-beom Kim – former Ambassador of South Korea to the European Union and Belgium [17] 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 physicianTomi 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 [18] 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 1978David C. Litt – former U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates [19] 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 NavySir David Manning – British Ambassador to Israel , foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair , British Ambassador to the United States Scott McCallum – 43rd Governor of WisconsinGail J. McGovern – President and CEO of the American Red Cross David G. McIntosh Jr. (1877–1940) – Maryland state delegate and state senator[20] Elizabeth Davenport McKune – former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar [21] 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 DelegateSara Virginia Ecker Watts Morrison – former First Lady of North CarolinaEva Moskowitz – founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Success Charter Network and Harlem Success Academy Donald F. Munson – Maryland State SenatorCameron 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 DiplomacyNeilesh Patel – humanitarian, National Jefferson Award RecipientMary 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 officialJauhar Saleem – Ambassador of Pakistan to Germany Leslie Sanchez – political pundit and commentatorArturo 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[22] Frederic N. Smalkin – Chief United States District Judge for Maryland (2001–2003)Christopher Soghoian – Washington, DC based privacy researcher and activistGeorge 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) 2012–2016Takuya 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 IranSeema 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 NATOAmos Griswold Warner – social worker, first head of charity for the District of ColumbiaWoodrow Wilson – President of the United States Xiang Lanxin – Chinese liberal intellectual and professor (MA, PhD 1990)[23] 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 CNNRachel Carson , biologist and environmentalistHallie Jackson , journalist, Senior Washington correspondent for NBC News Arthur Talmage Abernethy – journalist, theologian, minister and first North Carolina Poet Laureate Keith Ablow – Fox News contributorChimamanda Ngozi Adichie – author and winner of MacArthur AwardDan Ahdoot – standup comedianJeff Altman – standup comedianTori Amos – singer (Peabody Conservatory)Chris Arnade – former Wall Street trader turned documentarian and commentatorJohn Astin – actor, Gomez Addams on The Addams Family Adaeze Atuegwu – author and writerHarriet Baber – professor of philosophy and writer for The Guardian Russell Baker – author, New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize winnerAndy Barth – newscasterJohn Barth – novelistZach Baylin – screenwriterDevika Bhise — actorJennifer Bishop — Baltimore-based photojournalist[24] Jeffrey Blitz – screenwriterWolf Blitzer (M.A. 1972) – CNN news anchor[25] Paul Harris Boardman – film producer and screenwriterDenis Boyles – writer and journalistMatt Briggs – novelistRachel Carson – marine biologist and conservationistAngelin Chang – Grammy Award-winning classical pianistIris Chang – author and journalistEva Chen – fashion magazine editor and journalistC. J. Cherryh – authorJ.D. Considine – music criticRichard Ben Cramer – journalist, Pulitzer Prize winnerWes Craven – film director and producerAnn Cummins – novelist and short story writerRichard Harding Davis – journalist who covered the Spanish–American War and World War I (attended 1885–86)Caleb Deschanel – cinematographerThomas Dixon, Jr. — novelistMichael Dumanis – poet and editorMildred Dunnock – film and stage actressPiero 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) – authorElin Hilderbrand – authorHallie Jackson (B.A. 2006) – anchor and Chief White House Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBCJae Jin – singer, songwriter, musician and SAG-AFTRA actorMillard Kaufman – screenwriter and novelistMurray Kempton – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalistQuint Kessenich – ESPN sportscaster, lacrosse All-AmericanPorochista Khakpour – novelistRjyan Kidwell – musicianKevin Kilner – actorRichard E. Kim – author (MA in Writing Seminars)Alen Pol Kobryn – poetAlan Lakein – authorSidney Lanier – musician and poetDavid Lipsky – authorLarry Meistrich – film producerSanjay Mishra – musician and guitaristWes Moore – Maryland governor, author, social entrepreneur, producer and political analystMegan Morrone – TechTV personalityWalter Murch – multiple Oscar-winning sound and film editorSidney Offit – author and writerP. J. O'Rourke – political satirist and journalistNiharica Raizada – actressJulia Randall – poet (MA in Writing Seminars)Arlene Raven – author and art critic; professorMatthew Robbins – screenwriter of The Sugarland Express and MacArthur Scott Rogowsky – comedianJames Rosen – Fox News Channel Washington correspondentDeborah Rudacille – writerBrad Rutter – all-time Jeopardy! championGil Scott-Heron – political musician, poet and author (Masters Course)Laurence Shanet – film and theater directorKarl Shapiro – U.S. Poet Laureate (1946), Pulitzer Prize winner (attended but did not graduate)Howard "Chip" Silverman – author and lacrosse coachRuss Smith – founder of Baltimore City Paper , Washington City Paper , and New York Press Gertrude Stein – authorLorin Stein – critic, editor and former editor in chief of The Paris Review Susan Stewart – poet and literary criticMichael Ernest Sweet – Canadian writer and photographerBill Todman – game show producerJuliette Wells – author, editor and Jane Austen scholarEleanor Wilner – poet
Notable faculty G. Stanley Hall started the first psychology lab in America at Johns Hopkins and was the first president of the American Psychological Association .Charles Sanders Peirce , Pragmatist philosopher and mathematician, served as lecturer in logic at Johns Hopkins from 1879 to 1884Herbert Baxter Adams – historian, coined phrase "political science"Peter Agre – chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003Fouad 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 expertEthan Allen Andrews – biologistChristian B. Anfinsen – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1972John Astin – television actor (The Addams Family ), lecturer in the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars departmentJames Mark Baldwin – philosopherJohn W. Baldwin – medievalist, member of the French AcademyFlorence E. Bamberger – professor of education, director of the College for TeachersJohn Barth – novelistCharles 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 APAKarin J. Blakemore – medical geneticistAlfred Blalock – Lasker Prize–winning surgeonCarlos Blanco Aguinaga – Hispanist; founder of UCSD's literature department[26] 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 programAmanda M. Brown – immunologist, professor of neurology and neuroscienceHarold Brown – Secretary of Defense, 1977–1981Zbigniew Brzezinski – National Security Advisor, 1977–1981Nicholas Murray Butler – Nobel Peace Prize, 1931David 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 – mathematicianWilliam G. Cochran – statisticianJ.M. Coetzee – Nobel Prize in Literature, 2003Eliot A. Cohen – Director of Strategic Studies at SAIS, Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of DefenseJared Cohon – President of Carnegie Mellon University, former Assistant and Associate Dean of Engineering at Johns HopkinsWilliam E. Connolly – influential political theoristThomas 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 [27] W. Max Corden – trade economist, developed Dutch disease modelRobert J. Cotter – chemist and mass spectrometristRichard Threlkeld Cox – physicist, Cox's theorem Thomas Craig – mathematicianTyler Cymet – physicianMaqbool Dada – professor of operations managementTinglong Dai – professor of operations management and business analyticsVeena Das – feminist anthropologistSteven R. David – international relationsGeorge Delahunty – physiologist, endocrinologist, and Lilian Welsh Professor of Biology at Goucher CollegeFlavio Delbono – economist, mayor of Bologna Samuel Denmeade – Professor of Oncology, Urology and Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at the School of Medicine [28] Jacques Derrida – philosopherDaniel Deudney – international relationsStephen Dixon – prolific short story writerDavid 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 UniversityThomas Dolby – musician, film score composer, and music technology entrepreneurVincent du Vigneaud – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1955Acheson 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, 1944Andrew Ewald – cell biologist known for work in metastatic breast cancer researchAndrew Fire – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2006Henry Jones Ford – political scientist and journalistRobert Stephen Ford – retired diplomat; former U.S. Ambassador to Algeria and SyriaP. M. Forni – literary scholar and co-founder of the Johns Hopkins Civility ProjectJames Franck – Nobel Prize in Physics, 1925John K. Frost – cytopathologist, founder and director of the Division of Cytopathology at HopkinsFrancis Fukuyama – political economist, author The End of History Donald Geman – statisticianAshraf Ghani – former President of AfghanistanRiccardo Giacconi – Nobel Prize in Physics, 2002; National Medal of Science , 2003Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve – classical scholarBenjamin Ginsberg – Libertarian political scientist and professorMaria Goeppert-Mayer – Nobel Prize in Physics, 1963Michael Griffin – former NASA Administrator (2005–2009)Stanislav Grof – psychologistDeborah 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 SurgerySteve H. Hanke – economist, United States Presidential advisor, Cato Institute senior fellowHusain Haqqani – author, former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States [29] Haldan Keffer Hartline – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967David Harvey (until 2001) – geographerRobert Heptinstall – renal pathologist, chair of the Hopkins pathology departmentRobert Herman – astronomer and physicistChristian 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 – economistRoger Horn – co-developed the Bateman-Horn conjecture and wrote the standard-issue Matrix Analysis textbook with Charles Royal Johnson Ralph H. Hruban – pathologistDavid H. Hubel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1971Kathy Hudson – microbiologist specializing in science policy , founder of the Genetics and Public Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University[30] Touqir Hussain – former Ambassador of Pakistan to Brazil, Spain, and Japan, former Diplomatic Adviser to the Prime Minister of Pakistan[31] Rufus Isaacs – game theorist, winner of Frederick W. Lanchester PrizeNathan Jacobson – mathematicianKay Redfield Jamison – Professor of PsychiatryFrederick 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 GynecologyHugh Kenner – Andrew Mellon professor of humanities 1973–1990, literary critic, expert on Ezra Pound and James Joyce, and popular writer on computingMajid Khadduri – Professor of Islamic Law and Middle East specialistKunihiko Kodaira – mathematician, Fields Medal winnerAnne O. Krueger – Managing Director of the IMF and World Bank Chief Economist Simon Kuznets – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1971Barbara Landau – cognitive scientist, leading authority on Williams syndrome Maria Teresa Landi – epidemiologist and oncologistSidney Lanier Albert L. Lehninger – author of a long-time standard biochemistry textbookRobert C. Lieberman – political scientistPaul Linebarger – author known as Cordwainer SmithMarisa 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 statisticianArthur Oncken Lovejoy – philosopher, founder of the Journal of the History of Ideas Marty Makary – physicianNina Marković – physicist and professorElmer McCollum – professor and biochemist, co-discovered vitamins A, B, and DAlice McDermott – novelist, National Book Award, 1998Victor A. McKusick – medical geneticist, author of Mendelian Inheritance in Man Andrew Mertha – political scientistMerton H. Miller – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990George Richards Minot – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934Jack Morava – mathematicianFrank Morley – mathematicianHarmon Northrop Morse – chemist, Avogadro Medal 1916Robert H. Mundell – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999Azar Nafisi – Muslim feminist and authorDaniel Nathans – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978Simon Newcomb – astronomer and mathematicianJohn Niparko – surgeon and scientist specializing in cochlear implants Paul H. Nitze – diplomat, principal author NSC 68 , co-founder of SAISSanta J. Ono – 15th President & Vice-Chancellor, University of British Columbia; 28th President, University of Cincinnati; immunologistLars Onsager – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1968Sir William Osler – founding head of the Department of Medicine Sidney Painter – medievalistEdwards A. Park — Chief of Pediatrics in the Harriet Lane Home, proofed the cause of ricketsRobert G. Parr – theoretical chemistHenry Paulson – former U.S. Treasury Secretary (2006–2009)Ronald Paulson – English specialistCharles Sanders Peirce – logicianPhillip Phan – Alonzo and Virginia Decker Professor of Strategy and EntrepreneurshipJ.G.A. Pocock – Harry C. Black Professor of History EmeritusJohn Pollini – art historianMatthew Porterfield – film director and professor of filmAyn Rand – author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged ; visiting lecturer in 1961Mark M. Ravitch – surgeonStuart C. Ray – physicianIra Remsen – chemist, discoverer of saccharin Francisco Rico Manrique – visiting professor of Spanish, 1966–1967es:Elias L. Rivers, Spanish literature, 1964–1978 Riordan Roett – political scientist and Latin America specialistRichard S. Ross – cardiologist; former dean of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Henry Augustus Rowland – physicistAvi Rubin – head of the ACCURATE organization, established to solve the problem of secure electronic votingPedro Salinas – Spanish poet, Turnbull ProfessorMavis 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[32] Karl Shapiro – professor of poetry, former U.S. Poet LaureateVyacheslav Shokurov – mathematicianCharles S. Singleton – scholar of medieval Italian literatureRobert Skidelsky – economist, biographer of John Maynard Keynes Hamilton O. Smith – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978R. Jeffrey Smith – Pulitzer Prize winnerPaul Smolensky – cognitive scientist; authored Optimality Theory Solomon H. Snyder – National Medal of Science , 2003Gabrielle M. Spiegel – historian of the Middle Ages; former President of the American Historical AssociationLeo Spitzer – romance philologist, literary scholarJulian 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 winnerRaman Sundrum – physicistKathleen M. Sutcliffe – Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Business and MedicineJames Joseph Sylvester – mathematicianShirin 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 CouncilCaroline Bedell Thomas – cardiologist, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine third female full professorVivien Thomas – co-developer of the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt , along with Alfred Blalock and Helen TaussigClifford Truesdell – mathematician, natural philosopher, historian of mathematicsHarold Clayton Urey – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1934Henry N. Wagner – pioneer in nuclear medicine Kameshwar C. Wali – physicist, member of Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars from 1980John Walker – concert organist (Peabody Conservatory)Bruce W. Wardropper – scholar of Spanish drama David B. Weishampel – paleontologist, author of The Dinosauria 2004William H. Welch – founding head of the Department of PathologyJames West – National Medal of Technology, 2006George Hoyt Whipple – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934Chester Wickwire – Chaplain emeritus and humanistTorsten Wiesel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1981Michael Williams – philosopherDenis Wirtz – Vice Provost for Research and Theophilus Halley Smoot Professor of Engineering SciencePaul Wolfowitz – President, World Bank , former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, former Dean of SAISBarry Wood – microbiologist and physicianRobert W. Wood – experimental physicistOscar Zariski – Russian-born American mathematicianElias Zerhouni – Director of the National Institutes of Health
Fictional alumni
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