List of Johns Hopkins University people
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[edit] Notable alumni
[edit] Nobel laureates
Woodrow Wilson, Nobel Prize-winning U.S. President
- Peter Agre - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 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
- Paul Greengard - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2000
- Haldan Keffer Hartline - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967
- Merton H. Miller - Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990
- Thomas Hunt Morgan - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1933
- 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
[edit] Government, public service, and public policy
- Spiro T. Agnew - Vice President of the United States
- Madeleine Albright* - Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton
- Peter F. Allgeier - Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
- Michael Bloomberg - founder of Bloomberg L.P., Mayor of New York City
- Rudy Boschwitz - Republican Senator from Minnesota
- Daniel B. Brewster, Democratic Senator from Maryland, 1963 - 1969
- R. Nicholas Burns - U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and Greece
- Rafael Hernández Colón - Governor of Puerto Rico
- Poya Chang - Former minister of health of Taiwan
- Lawrence Di Rita - Pentagon spokesperson
- James B. Eldridge - member of the Mass. House of Representatives (served 2002 - present)
- Dr. Nancy S. Grasmick - Maryland State Superintendent of Schools
- Ibrahim Gambari - Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Timothy F. Geithner - President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Wang Guangya - China's Ambassador to the United Nations
- John J. Hamre - President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Alger Hiss - State Department official, lawyer and Soviet spy
- Zeid Raad al Hussein - Jordan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- Franklin Lavin - U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore
- Alexander H. Johnson - Associate Chief US Department of Weights and Measures
- Samuel W. Lewis - former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and U.S. Ambassador at the Camp David Accord talks in 1978
- Sir David Manning - Britain's Ambassador to the United States
- Kweisi Mfume - Former President of the NAACP
- Marcia Miller - former Vice-Chair and Commissioner, U.S. International Trade Commission
- Eric Noji - Senior policy advisor, health and national security, CDC
- Antonia Novello - United States Surgeon General 1990-1993
- Sihasak Phuangketkeow - Spokesperson for Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- George L. P. Radcliffe - U.S. Senator from Maryland, 1935-1947
- William A. Reinsch - President, National Foreign Trade Council; former Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration
- Christopher B. Shank, Maryland House of Delegates, 1999-present.
- Michael S. Steele - Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, 2003-2007.
- Bandar bin Sultan - Saudi Arabia's former Ambassador to the United States
- Umberto Vattani - Italy's Ambassador to the European Union
- Ali Akbar Velayati - former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran
- Woodrow Wilson - President of the United States
- Amos Griswold Warner - social worker, first head of charity for the District of Columbia
[edit] Academia, science, and technology
- Suzanne Conklin Akbari - medievalist and writer
- William Foxwell Albright - Authenticator of the Dead Sea Scrolls, linguist, expert on ceramics
- Hattie Alexander, pediatrician and microbiologist
- John August Anderson - Astronomer
- John Dewey - philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
- Jessica Einhorn - current Dean of SAIS, member of the Board of Directors of Time Warner, former director of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former managing director of the World Bank
- Patricia Fleming - Ph.D.;Former chief of HIV/AIDS reporting and analysis for CDC
- Solomon W. Golomb - mathematician, invented the Golomb coding and Golomb ruler
- Duane Graveline - Astronaut
- Michael Griffin - Administrator, NASA
- Kenneth H. Keller - current Director of the SAIS Bologna Center, former President of the University of Minnesota system
- Jeong Hun Kim - President, Bell Labs
- John Mauchly - Co-inventor of the ENIAC Computer
- Mike Muuss - author of ping
- Frank Oppenheimer - Physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project
- Charles Lane Poor - Astronomer
- William J. Simmons - Founder of second Ku Klux Klan
- Clifford Truesdell - Mathematician, natural philosopher and historian of mathematics.
- Frederick Jackson Turner - historian
- Thorstein Veblen - economist, author The Theory of the Leisure Class
- George W. Ward - Third principal of Maryland State Normal School (now Towson University)
- Henry West - Fourth principal of Maryland State Normal School (now Towson University)
- John B. Watson - psychologist
- John Archibald Wheeler - physicist, graduate advisor to Richard Feynman and Kip Thorne, coined the term "black hole"
- Abel Wolman - inventor of modern water treatment techniques
- Ben Carson - Neurosurgeon
[edit] Literature, arts, and media
- Dan Ahdoot - standup comedian
- Tori Amos* – singer (Peabody Conservatory)
- John Astin – actor, Gomez Addams on The Addams Family
- Russell Baker – author, Pulitzer Prize winner, host of Masterpiece Theatre
- Andy Barth - Baltimore TV reporter for 35 years, retired to run for Congress
- John Barth – novelist
- Wolf Blitzer – CNN news anchor
- Denis Boyles - writer, journalist
- Rachel Carson – environmentalist, author of Silent Spring
- Iris Chang – author, Rape of Nanking
- C. J. Cherryh – author
- J.D. Considine – music critic
- Richard Ben Cramer – journalist, author of What It Takes, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Wes Craven – film director, producer
- Caleb Deschanel – cinematographer
- Mildred Dunnock – renowned film and stage actress
- Dave Johnson (or Davey) – major league baseball player and manager
- Michele Kelemen – national correspondent National Public Radio
- Murray Kempton – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
- Rjyan Kidwell* - musician
- Kevin Kilner - actor
- Michael Kun – attorney, author
- David Lipsky – contributing editor Rolling Stone, author of Absolutely American
- Daniel Menaker – executive editor-in-chief, Random House
- Megan Morrone - TechTV personality
- Walter Murch – Oscar-winning sound and film editor
- Ben Neihart – author of Hey, Joe and Burning Girl
- P. J. O'Rourke – political satirist and journalist
- Arlene Raven - author and art critic, professor
- Brad Rutter - All-time Jeopardy! champion
- Patricia Sabga – London chief correspondent NBC News
- Gertrude Stein – feminist, author
- Susan Stewart - American poet and literary critic
- Allen Wastler – managing editor CNN/Money.com
- Basil White – standup comedian
[edit] Business
- Michael Bloomberg - founder of Bloomberg L.P., Mayor of New York City
- Seamus Brown - Portfolio manager of J.P. Morgan Real Return Fund
- Michael Coderre - Cosmonaut
- Allan Huston - former PepsiCo Chairman and CEO
- Rahmi Koç - Chairman of Koç Holding, Turkey's largest and oldest conglomerate
- Michael Marcus - Legendary commodities trader
- Samuel J. Palmisano - IBM Chairman and CEO
- Matthew Polk - founder of Polk Audio
- David Schneiderman - owner, publisher The Village Voice
- Kozo Shimano - engineer, President of Shimano American Corporation
- Robert S. Singer - president, chief operating officer Abercrombie and Fitch
- Russ Smith - owner, publisher The New York Press
- Christopher Sullivan - President, CEO Sullco Industries
- David Sifry - Founder, CEO - Technorati
[edit] Notable faculty
- Herbert Baxter Adams - historian, coined phrase "political science"
- Peter Agre - chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
- William Foxwell Albright - authenticator of the Dead Sea Scrolls, linguist, expert on ceramics
- Ethan Allen Andrews, biologist
- Christian B. Anfinsen - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1972
- John Astin - famed 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
- John Barth - novelist
- Charles L. Bennett - astrophysicist, Principal Investigator of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
- Richard Bett - philosopher, former Executive Director of APA
- Alfred Blalock - Lasker Prize winning surgeon.
- Max Broedel - medical illustrator & founder of the first US medical illustration graduate program.
- Zbigniew Brzezinski - National Security Advisor, 1977-1981
- Nicholas Murray Butler - Nobel Peace Prize, 1931
- Benjamin Carson - pediatric neurosurgeon, author Gifted Hands
- 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
- Richard Threlkeld Cox - physicist, Cox's theorem
- Tyler Cymet - physician
- Jacques Derrida - philosopher
- Stephen Dixon - most prolific American short story writer
- Paul H. Emmett - chemical engineer, Manhattan Project
- Joseph Erlanger - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944
- Henry Jones Ford - political scientist and journalist
- Eckart Forster - philosopher
- James Franck - Nobel Prize in Physics, 1925
- Francis Fukuyama - political economist, author The End of History
- Riccardo Giacconi - Nobel Prize in Physics, 2002, National Medal of Science, 2003
- Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve - classical scholar
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer - Nobel Prize in Physics, 1963
- Michael Griffin - Administrator, NASA
- Stanislav Grof - psychologist
- G. Stanley Hall - pioneer in the field of psychology, founding president of Clark University
- Steve H. Hanke - economist, United States Presidential advisor, Cato Institute senior fellow
- Haldan Keffer Hartline - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967
- David Harvey (until 2001) - world's leading geographer.
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe - economist
- John L. Holland - psychologist who developed the RIASEC career model
- David H. Hubel - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1971
- Frederick Jelinek - pioneer in automatic speech recognition and natural language processing
- Simon Kuznets - Nobel Prize in Economics, 1971
- Albert L. Lehninger - author of a long-time standard biochemistry textbook
- Alfred J. Lotka - mathematician and statistician
- Alice McDermott - novelist, National Book Award, 1998
- Victor A. McKusick - author of Mendelian Inheritance in Man
- Merton H. Miller - Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990
- George Richards Minot - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934
- William Montgomery - philosopher
- Robert H. Mundell - Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999
- Daniel Nathans - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
- Simon Newcomb - astronomer and mathematician
- Paul H. Nitze - diplomat, principal author NSC-68, co-founder of SAIS
- Lars Onsager - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1968
- Sir William Osler - physician
- Sidney Painter - medievalist
- Robert G. Parr - theoretical chemist
- Ronald Paulson - English specialist
- Charles Peirce - logician
- Ayn Rand - author The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged; visiting lecturer - 1961
- Ira Remsen - chemist, discoverer of saccharin
- Riordan Roett - political scientist and Latin America specialist
- Henry Augustus Rowland - physicist
- Avi Rubin - Head of ACCURATE to solve problem of secure electronic voting
- Hamilton O. Smith - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
- Solomon H. Snyder - National Medal of Science, 2003
- Sir Richard Stone - Nobel Prize in Economics, 1984
- Raman Sundrum-Physicist
- James Joseph Sylvester - mathematician
- Paul Smolensky - cognitive scientist - authored Optimality Theory
- Harold Clayton Urey - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1934
- Vincent du Vigneaud - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1955
- David B. Weishampel - paleontologist, author of The Dinosauria 2004
- George Hoyt Whipple - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934
- 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
- Robert W. Wood - experimental physicist
- Elias Zerhouni - Director of the NIH
- Henry Homer Gessler - Pro-Baseball player, 1903-1911; got doctorate.
[edit] Fictional associations
- Dr. Henry Armitage (Protagonist in several works by H.P. Lovecraft)
- Ellie Bartlet (The West Wing)
- Dr. Preston Burke (Grey's Anatomy)
- Mike Burton (Ed)
- Detective Alex Cross
- Clark Savage, Jr.
- Eric Foreman (House)
- Stanley Goodspeed (The Rock)
- Dr. James Harvey (Casper)
- Dr. Julius Hibbert (The Simpsons)
- Dr. Gregory House (House)
- Father Damien Karras (The Exorcist)
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs)
- Will (Reunion)
- Dr. Cathy Ryan (wife of Jack Ryan in Tom Clancy's novels.)
*Attended, but did not take degree.
