List of Johns Hopkins University people explained
See also: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Whiting School of Engineering, Carey Business School and Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.
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
See main article: List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation.
Literature, arts and media
Notable faculty
- 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[2]
- 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[3]
- 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[4]
- 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 – former President of Afghanistan
- 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[5]
- 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[6]
- Touqir Hussain – former Ambassador of Pakistan to Brazil, Spain, and Japan, former Diplomatic Adviser to the Prime Minister of Pakistan[7]
- 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
- 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
- , 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[8]
- 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
- 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
Fictional alumni
Notes and References
- Web site: Microsoft Office 365 Account Information for Johns Hopkins Alumni . Johns Hopkins University . 17 October 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230325082347/https://alumni.jhu.edu/alumniemail/injhed . 25 March 2023 . dead.
- Web site: Professor Carlos Blanco-Aguinaga 1926–2013 . University of California at San Diego . 4 November 2023.
- Web site: The History of University Education in Maryland by Bernard Christian Steiner - Full Text Free Book.
- Web site: Prostate cancer testosterone . jhu.edu . November 16, 2017.
- Web site: Curriculum Vitae Husain Haqqani. December 9, 2022.
- Web site: 2016-12-19 . Statement Regarding the Departure of Dr. Kathy L. Hudson . 2022-06-17 . National Institutes of Health (NIH) . EN.
- Web site: Touqir Hussain .
- Web site: Dr. Mavis G. Sanders. University of Maryland.
- Web site: Steven J. Newsome (Character) . www.imdb.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120611024846/http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0013315 . 2012-06-11.
- Web site: John Prentice (Character) . www.imdb.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120611024846/http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0013315 . 2012-06-11.