List of Johns Hopkins University people

Notable alumni

[Nobel laureates]

Academia, science, medicine and technology

Athletics

Business

Government, public service, and public policy

Literature, arts and media

Notable faculty

• Herbert Baxter Adams – historian, coined phrase "political science"
• Peter Agre – chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
• 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, 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Veena Das – feminist anthropologist
• Steven R. David – international relations
• George Delahunty – Physiologist, endocrinologist, and Lilian Welsh Professor of Biology at Goucher College
• Flavio Delbono – economist, mayor of Bologna
• Samuel Denmeade – Professor of Oncology, Urology and Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at the School of Medicine
• Jacques Derrida – philosopher
• Daniel Deudney – international relations
• Stephen Dixon – prolific short story writer
• David A. Dodge – former Governor, Bank of Canada; Co-Chairman, the Global Market Monitoring Group of Institute of International Finance; Chairman, C.D. Howe Institute; Chairman, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; former Associate Professor of Canadian Studies and International Economics at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University
• Thomas Dolby – musician, film score composer, and music technology entrepreneur
• Vincent du Vigneaud – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1955
• Acheson J. Duncan – statistician, winner of the Shewhart Medal
• Ward Edwards – psychologist, prominent for work on decision theory and on the formulation and revision of beliefs.
• Jessica Einhorn – former dean of SAIS, managing director of the World Bank
• Paul H. Emmett – chemical engineer, Manhattan Project
• George L. Engel – psychiatrist, best known for the formulation of the biopsychosocial model
• Joseph Erlanger – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944
• Andrew 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 – co-founder and current director of the Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins
• 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
• 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 – geographer
• Robert Herman – founding father of the field of transportation science
• 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
• Touqir Hussain – former Ambassador of Pakistan to Brazil, Spain, and Japan, former Diplomatic Adviser to the Prime Minister of Pakistan
• 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
• 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
• Karl Shapiro – professor of poetry, former U.S. Poet Laureate
• Vyacheslav Shokurov – mathematician
• 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
• 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
• 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
• :es:Carlos Blanco Aguinaga|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
• 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. 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 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
• Dr. Zoe Hart - big city surgical resident turned rural Alabama general practitioner played by Rachel Bilson in Hart of Dixie