Johns Hopkins (May 19, 1795 - December 24, 1873) was a wealthy entrepreneur and philanthropist of nineteenth century Baltimore, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, such as the Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Johns Hopkins, whose nickname was "Johnsie", was the second of eleven children in his Quaker family, … Wikipedia
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It was an altogether fitting tribute to a quiet, spare and simple, yet tremendously influential, man: Johns Hopkins. www.jhu.edu/~gazette/1999/jan0499/04hopkin.html