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: 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

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 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 Julie Brahmer professor and thoracic oncologist 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