List of Johns Hopkins University people

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

Notable alumni

Nobel laureates

• Peter Agre – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2003
• Richard Axel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2004
• J.M. Coetzee – Nobel Prize in Literature, 2003
• 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
• Riccardo Giacconi – Nobel Prize in Physics, 2002
• Paul Greengard – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2000
• Carol W. Greider – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2009
• Haldan Keffer Hartline – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967
• Merton H. Miller – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990
• Thomas Hunt Morgan – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1933
• Robert H. Mundell – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999
• Daniel Nathans – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
• Adam Riess – Nobel Prize in Physics, 2011
• 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

Academia, science, medicine and technology

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

Michael Griffin, former Administrator of NASA

• William Foxwell Albright – authenticator of the Dead Sea Scrolls, linguist, expert on ceramics
• Hattie Alexander – pediatrician and microbiologist
• Jack Andraka - cancer researcher; as a high school student, developed new test for detecting pancreatic cancer early
• John August Anderson – astronomer
• Richard T. Antoun – Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Binghamton University
• Florence Bascom – geologist
• Richard E. Bellman - American applied mathematician; inventor of dynamic programming
• Harold H. Bender – professor of philology at Princeton University
• Vinod Bhakuni, biophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar and N-BIOS laureate
• Frederick S. Billig – scramjet and hypersonics pioneer
• David S. Bredt – neuroscientist, professor and research leader in pharmaceutical companies
• Hilde Bruch – Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, expert on eating disorders
• Schuyler V. Cammann (Ph.D. 1949) – anthropologist
• Henry E. Chambers (Ph.D.) – Louisiana historian
• Dipankar Chatterji - Indian molecular biologist and Padma Shri recipient
• Harold F. Cherniss – noted historian of ancient philosophy
• William Chomsky - scholar of Hebrew and Judaic studies, father of Noam Chomsky
• Denton Cooley – cardiovascular surgeon
• Segun Toyin Dawodu – former Associate Professor in the Department of Pain Medicine at Albany Medical College and currently Attending Interventional Physiatrist at WellSpan Health; physician, entrepreneur, journalist, attorney
• John Dewey – philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
• William H. Dobelle – biomedical researcher
• Wendell E. Dunn – educator and principal of Forest Park High School
• G. Roger Edwards – archaeologist
• Jessica 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 physicist
• Joel Elkes - psychopharmaceutical researcher
• Adam 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
• Linda P. Fried - geriatrician and epidemiologist, dean of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health
• William K. George – fluid dynamicist
• George Otto Gey - scientist, propagated the HeLa cell line, inventor of the roller drum
• Solomon W. Golomb – mathematician, invented the Golomb coding and Golomb ruler
• Harry Clinton Gossard - geometer, discoverer of the Gossard perspector of a triangle
• Duane Graveline – astronaut
• Michael Griffin – administrator, NASA
• Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg
• Grover Hutchins - pathologist
• Ray 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
• 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 – geologist
• Steven Knapp – President of George Washington University
• Christine Ladd-Franklin – scientist and logician
• Steven Lehrer – medical researcher and writer
• Ruey-Shiung Lin (Dr.P.H., 1977) – Taiwanese public health and epigenetics scientist; Professor emeritus at National Taiwan University
• Thomas H. Maren MD - inventor of the drug Trusopt
• Howard Markel - pediatrician and historian of medicine
• John Mauchly – co-inventor of the ENIAC Computer
• Michael Merzenich – Professor emeritus neuroscientist, brain researcher, CEO Scientific Learning, Posit Science^[1]
• Bessie Moses – gynecologist and obstetrician
• Mike Muuss – author of Ping
• George Nemhauser - American operations researcher, the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Institute Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the 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
• Charles Lane Poor – astronomer
• Kanury Venkata Subba Rao, immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (1997) laureate
• Nicholas P. Restifo - tumor immunology and immunotherapy
• Thomas Milton Rivers - virologist, United States Navy Admiral
• Arye Rosen - electrical engineer
• Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt
• Saurabh Saha - cancer researcher
• Clifford V. Smith, Jr. – fourth chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
• Aage B. Sørensen – sociologist
• Ibrahim B. Syed – radiologist
• Michael E. Thomas - professor of industrial engineering, former acting president of the Georgia Institute of Technology
• Frederick Jackson Turner – historian
• Robert Ulanowicz—Theoretical ecologist
• Thorstein Veblen – economist, author, The Theory of the Leisure Class
• George W. Ward – third principal of Maryland State Normal School (now Towson University)
• John B. Watson – psychologist
• Reid Wiseman - American and NASA Astronaut as part of Expedition 40.
• Morris A. Wessel – pediatrician, pioneer of hospice care, discoverer of colic
• Henry 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"
• Abel Wolman – inventor of modern water treatment techniques
• Frank H. Wu – Chancellor and Dean of UC Hastings College of the Law; law professor; author
• John H. Yardley - pathologist

Athletics

• Louis Clarke – Olympic track champion
• Andy Enfield - University of Southern California men's basketball head coach
• Henry Homer Gessler – Major League Baseball player, 1903–1911
• Kyle Harrison – three-time All-American lacrosse player at JHU and Major League Lacrosse player
• Davey Johnson – Major League Baseball player and manager
• Andrea Leand (MBA) - professional tennis player
• Dave Pietramala – Johns Hopkins lacrosse coach
• Paul Rabil – All-American lacrosse player and MLL Most Valuable Player
• William C. Schmeisser – "Father Bill", National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee
• Robert H. Scott – Johns Hopkins lacrosse coach, athletic director, author
• Bill Stromberg – Johns Hopkins football 1978–81, College Football Hall of Fame, inducted 2004, Middle Atlantic Conference Hall of Fame, inducted 2011
• John Thomas – Led lacrosse team to a 34–6 record during his time at JHU
• John Tucker – head coach of Washington Bayhawks professional lacrosse team
• Neil Vranis – USL 2 professional soccer player
• Don Zimmerman – UMBC lacrosse coach

Business

Michael Bloomberg, NYC Mayor

• Sanju Bansal (M.S. 1990) - co-founder of MicroStrategy
• Scott M. Black - founder, Delphi Management
• Michael Bloomberg (B.S. 1964) - founder of Bloomberg L.P., Mayor of New York City
• 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
• John Hewson - Chairman of General Security Australia Insurance Brokers Pty Ltd
• David M. Hoffman - CEO of Internews Network
• Terry Keenan (B.A., A&S 1983) - business columnist for the New York Post, anchor for CNN
• Jeong H. Kim - President of Bell Labs
• Rahmi Koç – Chairman of Koç Holding, Turkey's largest and oldest conglomerate
• Robert Lawrence Kuhn - corporate strategist, investment banker, adviser to Chinese leaders
• Christopher Hoiles Lee - Founder of AIG Highstar Capital; Chairman of Ports America
• Barry Lowenkron (MS '77) - Vice President, Global Security & Sustainability, MacArthur Foundation
• Edmund C. Lynch (B.A. 1907) - co-founder, Merrill Lynch
• Peter Magowan – owner of the San Francisco Giants and CEO of Safeway
• John C. Malone – (MA. 1964; PhD. 1967) Chairman of Liberty Media, and CEO of Discovery Holding Company
• Robert D. Manning – financial expert in consumer credit, author of Credit Card Nation
• Dave McClure - Founder of 500 Startups
• Gail J. McGovern (B.A. 1974) - President and CEO of the American Red Cross^[2]
• Bill Miller – Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Legg Mason Capital Management
• Gordon Earle Moore - co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation; the author of Moore's Law
• Edward L. Morse - Global Head of Commodities Research at Citigroup, Co-Founder of PFC Energy
• Samuel J. Palmisano – IBM, Chairman and former president and CEO
• Karen Peetz (MS ’81) - President, BNY Mellon^[3]
• Leslie Sanchez - founder and CEO of Impacto Group LLC
• David Sifry – founder, CEO of Technorati
• Russ Smith – owner, New York Press
• Gary Wang - founder, CEO, 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

Kweisi Mfume

• Dr. Chen Chien-jen – Vice President of Taiwan (2016-); former Minister of Health, VP and Academician of national academic institute (Academia Sinica)
• Mahamat Ali Adoum – Foreign Affairs minister, ambassador from Chad
• Spiro T. Agnew – Vice President of the United States, former Governor of Maryland
• Madeleine Albright – Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton
• Peter F. Allgeier – Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
• Niels Annen - member of the Bundestag, the German national parliament
• Newton D. Baker – mayor of Cleveland (1912–1915), and US Secretary of War (1916–1921)
• Bandar bin Sultan – Saudi Arabia's former Ambassador to the United States
• Arthur F. Bentley – political scientist and philosopher
• Michael Bloomberg – founder of Bloomberg L.P., Mayor of New York City
• Paul Bomani – Tanzanian politician and ambassador
• Rudy Boschwitz – Republican Senator from Minnesota
• Daniel B. Brewster – Democratic Senator from Maryland (1963–1969)
• Charles Hillman Brough – Democratic Governor of Arkansas (1917–1921)
• R. Nicholas Burns – U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and Greece
• Ron Capps – author, former Foreign Service Officer, and founder and director of the Veterans Writing Project
• Aneesh Chopra – President Obama's Chief Technology Officer of the United States
• Benjamin R. Civiletti - Attorney General of the United States under President Jimmy Carter
• William F. Clinger, Jr. – Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979–97
• Poya Chang – former minister of health of Taiwan
• Rafael Hernández Colón – Governor of Puerto Rico
• Anne E. Derse – American Ambassador to Lithuania, former Ambassador to Azerbaijan
• Lawrence Di Rita – Pentagon spokesperson
• 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)
• William J. Frank – member of Maryland House of Delegates
• Frank Gaffney - founder and President of the Center for Security Policy
• Jennifer Galt, current 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
• Timothy F. Geithner – President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Treasury Secretary of the United States
• April Glaspie – diplomat, first woman to be appointed an American ambassador to an Arab country
• Dr. Nancy S. Grasmick – Maryland State Superintendent of Schools
• Wang Guangya – China's Ambassador to the United Nations
• Geir H. Haarde – former Prime Minister of Iceland
• John J. Hamre – President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
• Andrew P. Harris, United States Representative from Maryland
• Alger Hiss – State Department official, lawyer and Soviet spy
• Hans Hoogervorst – the Netherlands' Minister of Public Health, Minister of Finance
• Constance Horner - official in the Reagan and first Bush administrations; formerly with the Johns Hopkins Center for the Study of American Government
• James Howard Holmes – former U.S. ambassador to Latvia, now State Department special adviser
• David Jacobson – former United States Ambassador to Canada
• Sam Katz - politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Mohammad Zubair Khan – former Commerce Minister of Pakistan
• 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 1978
• 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 Navy
• Sir David Manning – British Ambassador to Israel, foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair, British Ambassador to the United States
• Scott McCallum - 43rd Governor of Wisconsin
• Gail J. McGovern - President and CEO of the American Red Cross
• John E. McLaughlin – Director of Central Intelligence
• Bernard Membe - Tanzanian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
• Kweisi Mfume – former President of the NAACP, former Congressman from Maryland
• John S. Morgan – former Maryland Delegate
• Eva Moskowitz - founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Success Charter Network and Harlem Success Academy
• Donald F. Munson – Maryland State Senator
• Irvin B. Nathan - Attorney General of the District of Columbia, General Counsel of the United States House of Representatives
• Antonia Novello – United States Surgeon General (1990–1993)
• Nurul Izzah Anwar – Malaysian member of Parliament and daughter of Anwar Ibrahim
• Bruce J. Oreck - U.S. Ambassador to Finland
• John E. Osborn – Commissioner, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
• Neilesh Patel - humanitarian, National Jefferson Award Recipient
• George L. P. Radcliffe – U.S. Senator from Maryland (1935–1947)
• Peter Rheinstein – FDA official
• Leslie Sanchez – political pundit and commentator
• Christopher B. Shank – Maryland House of Delegates (1999–present)
• Frederic N. Smalkin – Chief United States District Judge for Maryland (2001–2003)
• Christopher Soghoian - Washington, DC based privacy researcher and activist
• George 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)
• Takuya Tasso – governor of Iwate Prefecture in Japan
• Ali Akbar Velayati – former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran
• Amos Griswold Warner – social worker, first head of charity for the District of Columbia
• Woodrow Wilson – President of the United States
• 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 House of Delegates

Literature, arts and media

Rachel Carson, environmentalist

• Arthur Talmage Abernethy – journalist, theologian, minister, first North Carolina Poet Laureate
• Keith Ablow – Fox News contributor
• Dan Ahdoot – standup comedian
• Jeff Altman – 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
• Jeffrey Blitz – writer / director, notably of the 2007 film Rocket Science
• Wolf Blitzer – CNN news anchor
• Paul Harris Boardman – film producer and screenwriter
• Denis Boyles – writer, journalist
• Matt Briggs – novelist
• Rachel Carson – environmentalist, author of Silent Spring
• Angelin Chang – Grammy Award-winning classical pianist
• 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
• Michael Dumanis – poet and editor
• Mildred Dunnock – film and stage actress
• David Hildebrand – Maryland musicologist and colonial period music performer
• Murray Kempton – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• Quint Kessenich – ESPN sportscaster, lacrosse All-American
• Porochista Khakpour – novelist
• Rjyan Kidwell – musician
• Kevin Kilner – actor
• Alen Pol Kobryn – poet
• Alan Lakein - author of books on personal time management, including How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life
• Sidney Lanier – musician and poet
• David Lipsky – contributing editor, Rolling Stone; author of Absolutely American
• Megan Morrone – TechTV personality
• Wes Moore - American author, social entrepreneur, producer, political analyst and Author of two New York Times Bestsellers.
• Walter Murch – Oscar-winning sound and film editor
• Loriann H. Oberlin - writer/author
• Sidney Offit - writer/author
• P. J. O'Rourke – political satirist and journalist
• Arlene Raven – author and art critic, professor
• James Rosen – Fox News Channel Washington correspondent
• Deborah Rudacille – writer
• Brad Rutter – all-time Jeopardy! champion
• Gil Scott-Heron – political musician, poet and author (Masters Course)
• Laurence Shanet – award-winning commercial, film and theater director
• Howard "Chip" Silverman – author, lacrosse coach
• Gertrude Stein – feminist, author
• Susan Stewart – poet and literary critic
• Bill Todman – game show producer

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
• 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, expert on ceramics
• 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
• 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
• Alfred Blalock – Lasker Prize–winning surgeon
• Eric Brill - computer scientist
• Max Broedel – medical illustrator and founder of the first US medical illustration graduate program
• 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^[4]
• 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
• Flavio Delbono – economist, mayor of Bologna
• Jacques Derrida – philosopher
• Daniel Deudney – international relations
• Stephen Dixon – most prolific American 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, filmscore composer, and music technology entrepreneur
• Vincent du Vigneaud – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1955
• Acheson J. Duncan – statistician, winner of the Shewhart Medal
• Ward Edwards - American 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
• 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 Herman - founding father of the field of transportation science
• Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve – classical scholar
• 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
• 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
• Ralph H. Hruban - pathologist
• David H. Hubel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1971
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Paul H. Nitze – diplomat, principal author NSC-68, co-founder of SAIS
• Lars Onsager – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1968
• Sir William Osler – founding head of the Department of Medicine
• Sidney Painter – medievalist
• Robert G. Parr – theoretical chemist
• Henry Paulson – former U.S. Treasury Secretary (2006–2009)
• Ronald Paulson – English specialist
• Charles Sanders Peirce – logician
• J.G.A. Pocock – Harry C. Black Professor of History Emeritus
• Ayn Rand – author, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged; visiting lecturer - 1961
• 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
• 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
• 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 (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
• 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 – a 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
• Dr. Hannibal Lecter – psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs, based on the novel by Thomas Harris
• Dr. John Prentice - the doctor played by Sidney Poitier in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner^[5]

References