started the first psychology lab in America at Johns Hopkins and was the first president of the
American Psychological Association. ,
Pragmatist philosopher and mathematician, served as lecturer in logic at Johns Hopkins from 1879 to 1884 •
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 •
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 •
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 •
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 •
René Girard – French-American philosopher and literary critic; professor at Johns Hopkins 1968–1976; developer of
mimetic theory and the
scapegoat mechanism; organizer of the 1966 structuralism conference that introduced French theory to American academia •
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 •
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 •
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 •
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 •
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 •
John McLaughlin- former Deputy Director and Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. •
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 and 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, proved 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 •
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 •
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 •
Henry Slonimsky – philosopher •
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 •
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) •
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==