- Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924), was the twenty-eighth President of the United States. A devout Presbyterian and leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as president of Princeton University then became the reform governor of New Jersey in 1910. With Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dividing the Republican vote, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912.
- Antonia Novello
Vice Admiral Antonia Coello Novello M.D. (born Antonia Coello, August 23, 1944 in Fajardo, Puerto Rico), served as the United States Surgeon General from 1990 to 1993. Novello received her B.S. degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras in 1965 and her M.D. degree from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine at San Juan in 1970.
- Kweisi Mfume
Mr. Mfume became President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on February 20, 1996, after being unanimously elected to the position by the NAACP's Board of Directors. Previously he held a seat in the United States Congress where he represented Maryland's 7th Congressional District for ten years.
- Wolf Blitzer
Wolf Blitzer (born March 22, 1948 in Buffalo, New York) is an American journalist and author. He has been a "CNN" reporter since 1990. Blitzer is currently the host of the newscast "The Situation Room" and the Sunday talk show "Late Edition". Blitzer previously hosted "Wolf Blitzer Reports", which was replaced by "The Situation Room".
- Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., currently serving as the Mayor of New York City. He was a general partner at Salomon Brothers before founding the financial software service company in 1981. Although a lifelong Democrat, he ran on the Republican ballot and was elected mayor in 2001, and was reelected to a second term in 2005.
- John Dewey
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Patrick Jake O'Rourke (born November 14, 1947 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American political satirist, journalist, and writer. He was educated at Miami University and Johns Hopkins University. He confesses that during his student days he was a left-leaning hippie, but that in the 1970s his political views underwent a complete "volte-face". He emerged as a political observer and humorist with definite libertarian, sometimes conservative, …
- Rachel Carson
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 - April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist and nature writer whose landmark book, "Silent Spring", is often credited with having launched the global environmental movement. "Silent Spring" had an immense effect in the United States, where it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- Pat O'Brien
Pat O'Brien (born February 14, 1948 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota) is an American sports commentator and television show host, frequently referred to as "The P.O.B.". He currently hosts the "Entertainment Tonight" spin-off, "The Insider". Prior to that, O'Brien spent 7 years as co-anchor of "Access Hollywood". Pat O'Brien is perhaps best known for his almost 20 year association with CBS Sports, which O'Brien joined in 1981.
- Robert Fogel
Robert William Fogel (born July 1, 1926) is an American economic historian and scientist, and winner (with Douglass North) of the 1993 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He is best known as a leading advocate of cliometrics, a name for the use of quantitative methods in history. Fogel was born in New York City, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, where he attended the prestigious Stuyvesant High School.
- Edward Luttwak
Edward Nicolae Luttwak (born 1942) is an American economist and historian known for his many publications on military strategy and international relations. Luttwak was born into a Jewish family in Arad, Romania, raised in Italy and England. He later attended the London School of Economics and Johns Hopkins University, where he received a doctorate. His first academic post was at the University of Bath.
- Spiro Agnew
Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 - September 17, 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States serving under President Richard M. Nixon, and the fifty-fifth Governor of Maryland. He is most famous for his resignation in 1973 after he was charged with the crime of tax evasion.
- Richard Axel
Richard Axel, M.D. (born July 2, 1946, New York City) is an American scientist whose work on the olfactory system won him and Linda B. Buck, a former post-doctoral scientist in his research group, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004. In their landmark paper published in 1991, Buck and Axel cloned olfactory receptors, showing that they belong to the family of G protein coupled receptors.
- John Barth
John Simmons Barth (born May 27, 1930) is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work. John Barth was born in Cambridge, Maryland, and briefly studied "Elementary Theory and Advanced Orchestration" at Juilliard before attending Johns Hopkins University, receiving a B.A. in 1951 and an M.A. in 1952 (for which he wrote a thesis novel, "The Shirt of Nessus").
- Paul Antony
Paul Antony (1962-), MD, MPH is the Chief Medical Officer for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) serving as PhRMA’s principal advocate on all health care and medical policy issues. Dr. Antony is a board-certified specialist in aerospace medicine. He received his doctor of medicine and master of public health degrees from the George Washington University School of Medicine and now serves on its faculty in the department of Microbiology, Immunology, …
- Jody Williams
Jody Williams (born October 9, 1950 in Putney, Vermont) is an American teacher and aid worker who received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the campaign she led, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). Williams first trained as a teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL), receiving a BA from the University of Vermont in 1972 and a Master's degree in teaching Spanish and ESL from the School for International Training (also in Vermont) in 1974.
- Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946) was an American writer and is considered to have acted as a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. She spent most of her life in France.
- Walter Murch
Walter Scott Murch (born July 12, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning film editor/sound mixer. He went to The Collegiate School, a private preparatory school in Manhattan, from 1949 to 1961. He then attended Johns Hopkins University from 1961 to 1965, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in Liberal Arts. While at Hopkins, he met future director/screenwriter Matthew Robbins and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, with whom he staged a number of happenings.
- Bandar bin Sultan
Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud (born March 2, 1949) is a highly influential Saudi politician and was Saudi ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005. He was appointed Secretary-General of the National Security Council by King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz on October 16, 2005.
- James M. McPherson
James M. McPherson is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the Pulitzer Prize for "Battle Cry of Freedom", his most famous book. He was the president of the American Historical Association in 2003, and is a member of the editorial board of "Encyclopædia Britannica". Born in Valley City, North Dakota, he graduated from St. Peter High School, …
- John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. One of the later collaborators of Albert Einstein, he tried to achieve Einstein's vision of a unified field theory. He is also known as the coiner of the popular name of the well known space phenomenon, the black hole.
- Iris Chang
Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was an American historian and journalist. She was best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, "The Rape of Nanking". She committed suicide on November 9, 2004, after a depressive episode resulting from a nervous breakdown.
- Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan (September 25, 1866 - December 4, 1945) was an American geneticist and embryologist. Morgan received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1891 and researched embryology during his tenure at Bryn Mawr. Following the rediscovery of Mendelian inheritance in 1900, Morgan's research moved to the study of mutation in the fruit fly "Drosophila melanogaster".
- Frederick Jackson Turner
Frederick Jackson Turner was, with Charles A. Beard, the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He is best known for "The Significance of the Frontier in American History". Born in Portage, Wisconsin, Turner graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1884, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Phi Fraternity. He gained his Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University in 1890 with a thesis on the Wisconsin fur trade.
- Ibrahim Gambari
Dr. Ibrahim Agboola Gambari B.A., M.A., Ph.D, D.Hum.Litt., CFR (born on November 24, 1944 in Ilorin, Nigeria) is a Nigerian scholar and diplomat. He is current Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (USG) for Department of Political Affairs ("DPA"). He was appointed on June 10 2005 and assumed the post on July 1 of that year.
- Ali Akbar Velayati
Dr. Ali Akbar Velayati is an Iranian politician and a pediatrician, currently an Advisor in International Affairs to the Supreme Leader. He was the Foreign Minister of Iran for about 16 years (December 15, 1981 - August 20, 1997), making him the longest-serving Foreign Minister in Iranian history. Velayati served for two terms under Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi from 1981 to 1988 and then two more terms under President Hashemi Rafsanjani from 1988 to 1997.
- Thomas Donnelly
Thomas Donnelly is a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI). Donnelly is a writer, an analyst of military affairs and defense, national security and foreign policy and the author of AEI's "National Security Outlook". He has been a Director at the Lockheed Martin Corporation on strategic communications and initiatives since 2002.
- Russ Smith
Russ Smith (b. 1955 in Huntington, New York) is a newspaper publisher and columnist best known for founding the "Baltimore City Paper", "Washington City Paper" and "New York Press". After selling the Baltimore and Washington "City Paper"s for $4 million, Smith founded "New York Press" in 1989. Like his previous papers, the press was an alternative weekly. It became a caustic rival with the well-established "Village Voice".
- Jeremy Bowen
Jeremy Francis John Bowen (born 6 February 1960, in Cardiff) is a British journalist and television presenter. His secondary education was at Cardiff High School, followed by University College London (BA, History) and the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC, he joined the BBC in 1984 and has been a war correspondent for much of his career, reporting from more than 70 different countries, …
- Hamilton O. Smith
Dr. Hamilton Othanel Smith (born August 23, 1931) is an American microbiologist. Smith was born on August 23, 1931, and graduated from University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but in 1950 transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his B.A. in Mathematics in 1952. He received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1956.
- Wes Craven
Wesley Earl Craven (born August 2, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American film director and writer best known as the creator of many horror films, including the famed "Nightmare on Elm Street" series featuring the redoubtable Freddy Krueger character.
- Caleb Deschanel
Caleb Deschanel (born September 21, 1944) is an American cinematographer. Joseph Caleb Deschanel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a French father and an American mother, who raised him in her Quaker religion. He went to Severn School for high school. He attended Johns Hopkins University from 1962 to 1966, where he met Walter Murch, with whom he staged "happenings" including a memorable one where Murch simply sat down and ate an apple for an audience.
- Clifton Reginald Wharton Jr.
Clifton Reginald Wharton, Jr. (born September 13 1926) is an American economist and corporate executive appointed United States Deputy Secretary of State during the Clinton Administration. Born in Boston, his father Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr. was a noted ambassador. After graduating from Boston Latin School, the younger Wharton entered Harvard College at 16.
- Alfred Sommer
Alfred (Al) Sommer is an American academic at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was born in 1942 in New York City and graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York in 1963. Sommer has an MD from Harvard Medical School (1967) and an MHS from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (1973). He is professor of Epidemiology and International Health, as well as Ophthalmology (at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine).
- Henry Gantt
Henry Laurence Gantt, A.B., M.E. (1861-23 November 1919) was a mechanical engineer and management consultant who is most famous for developing the Gantt chart in the 1910s. These Gantt charts were employed on major infrastructure projects including the Hoover Dam and Interstate highway system and still are an important tool in project management.
- Dorothy Hansine Andersen
Dorothy Hansine Andersen (May 15, 1901 - 1963) was the American who was "the first person to identify cystic fibrosis and the first American physician to describe the disease". She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1922, and her M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1926. She taught at the University of Rochester prior to joining the faculty of Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, working at Babies Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, …
- Merton Miller
Merton Howard Miller (May 16, 1923 - June 3, 2000) won the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz and William Sharpe. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He worked during World War II as an economist in the division of tax research of the Treasury Department, and received a Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, 1952.
- Jessica Einhorn
Jessica P. Einhorn currently serves as Dean of Washington's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University. Einhorn succeeded Paul Wolfowitz, who resigned in 2001 to become the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense. Einhorn is also a member of the Board of Directors of Time Warner, Inc., a former director of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former managing director at the World Bank.
- Abraham Flexner
Abraham Flexner (November 13 1866, Louisville, Kentucky - September 21 1959) was an American educator. His Flexner Report, published in 1910, reformed medical education in the United States. He also helped found the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
- Martin Rodbell
Martin Rodbell (December 1, 1925 - December 7, 1998) was an American biochemist and molecular endocrinologist who is best known for his discovery of G-proteins. He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alfred G. Gilman for "their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells."