- Steven Knapp
Steven Knapp has been a professor provost at Johns Hopkins University since 1996 and dean of the School of Arts and Sciences from 1994 to 1996.. He was named the 16th president of The George Washington University on December 5, 2006 succeeding Stephen Joel Trachtenberg. He will become president of the university on August 1, 2007. Knapp is a 1973 graduate of Yale University. He did his graduate work at Cornell University, …
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (born March 28, 1928, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. Known for his hawkish foreign policy at a time when the Democratic Party was increasingly dovish, he is a foreign policy realist and considered by some to be the Democrats' response to Republican realist Henry Kissinger.
- Daniel Nathans
Daniel Nathans (October 30, 1928 - November 16, 1999) was an American microbiologist. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the last of nine children born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. During the Great Depression his father lost his small business and was unemployed for a long period of time. Nathans went to public schools and then to the University of Delaware, where he studied chemistry, philosophy, and literature.
- Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama is Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. A prolific writer, his most well-known book is The End of History and the Last Man (1992), in which he argued that the progression of human history as a struggle between ideologies is largely at an end, with the world settling on liberal democracy after the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
- William Osler
Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet (July 12, 1849 - December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician. He has been called one of the greatest icons of modern medicine and the Father of Modern Medicine (which is what he himself considered Avicenna to be).
- Robert Alexander Mundell
Professor Mundell has lectured widely in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia. He has been an adviser to a number of international agencies and organizations including the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank, the Government of Canada, several governments in Latin America and Europe, the Federal Reserve Board and the US Treasury.
- Elias Zerhouni
Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. (b. 12 April 1951) is the 15th and current director of the National Institutes of Health, appointed by George W. Bush in May 2002. His accomplishments at the NIH have included the establishment of a research program into the problem of widespread obesity, and supporting the reduction of healthcare disparities. In April 2006, he told a Congressional subcommittee, …
- Anne O. Krueger
Anne Olive Krueger is an economist and was the former World Bank Chief Economist from 1982 to 1986. She was the first Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, serving since September 1, 2001. She was director of the Fund on a temporary basis between March 4, 2004 (resignation of Horst Köhler), and June 7, 2004 (starting date for Rodrigo de Rato).
- James Franck
James Franck (August 26, 1882 - May 21, 1964), born in Hamburg, was a German-born physicist and Nobel laureate.
- David H. Hubel
David Hunter Hubel (born February 27, 1926) was co-recipient with Torsten Wiesel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was shared with Roger W. Sperry for his independent research on the cerebral hemispheres.
- Christian Herter
Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895 - December 30, 1966) was an American politician and statesman; Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1956, and Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961.
- Josef Joffe
Josef Joffe (born March 15, 1944) is editor and publisher of "Die Zeit", a weekly German newspaper, the Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institution, a fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and adjunct professor of political science at Stanford University, and an associate of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. Joffe was born in Lithuania and grew up in West Berlin, …
- Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. (September 15 1918 -May 9 2007). Born in Guyencourt, Delaware, Chandler was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School, wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. Professor Chandler graduated from Harvard College in 1940. After wartime service in navy he returned to Harvard to get his Ph.D. in History.
- Joseph Sweetman Ames
Joseph Sweetman Ames (1864-1943) was a physics professor at Johns Hopkins University, provost of the university from 1926 until 1929, and university president from 1929 until 1935. He was born at Manchester, Vermont. He is best remembered as one of the founding members of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, the predecessor of NASA) and its longtime chairman (1919-1939). NASA Ames Research Center is named after him.
- Peter Agre
Peter Agre (born January 30, 1949) is an American medical doctor and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (which he shared with Roderick MacKinnon) for his discovery of aquaporins. Born in Northfield, Minnesota, he received his B.A. from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota and his M.D. in 1974 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Ira Remsen
Ira Remsen was a chemist who, along with Constantin Fahlberg discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin. He was the second president of Johns Hopkins University. Remsen was born in New York City and earned an MD from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1867 to please his parents. He then travelled to Germany to study chemistry - his true passion. He earned a PhD from University Göttingen. In 1875, after researching pure chemistry at University of Tübingen, …
- Jan Kregel
Jan A. Kregel (born 19 April 1944) is an eminent Post-Keynesian economist. Kregel currently serves as Chief of the Policy Analysis and Development Branch of the Financing for Development Office of UNDESA, the United Nation's Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Until 2004, he was High Level Expert in International Finance and Macroeconomics in the New York Liaison Office of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), …
- Avi Rubin
Aviel (Avi) David Rubin is Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, Technical Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins, Director of ACCURATE, and an expert in systems and networking security. In 2002, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the USENIX Association for a two-year term. Rubin is famous for bringing to light vulnerabilities in Diebold Election Systems's Accuvote electronic voting machines.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862 - December 7, 1947) was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. The co-winner with Jane Addams of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, Butler was president of Columbia University from 1902 to 1945, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1925 to 1945, and received the 8 Republican Party electoral votes for Vice President of the United States in the 1912 presidential race, after that party's VP nominee, …
- Paul Nitze
Paul Henry Nitze (January 16 1907 - October 19 2004) was a high-ranking United States government official who helped shape Cold War defense policy over the course of numerous presidential administrations.
- Howard Atwood Kelly
Howard Atwood Kelly (Feb, 20 1858 - Jan, 12 1943) was a distinguished American gynecologist, born at Camden, N. J., and educated at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated B.A. in 1877 and M.D. in 1882, and where he was associate professor of obstetrics in 1888-89. While in Philadelphia he founded Kensington Hospital.
- Ellen Silbergeld
Ellen Kovner Silbergeld is a leading expert in the field of environmental health. After graduating from Vassar College summa cum laude in 1967, she earned a Ph. D. in engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1972. A professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, she formerly was on the faculty at the University of Maryland and before that worked as a scientist for Environmental Defense.
- Alfred Blalock
Alfred Blalock (April 5, 1899 - September 15, 1964) was a 20th century American innovator in the field of medical science most noted for his research on the medical condition of shock and the development of the Blalock-Taussig Shunt, surgical relief of the cyanosis from Tetralogy of Fallot--known commonly as the blue baby syndrome--with his assistant Vivien Thomas and pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig.
- Oscar Zariski
Oscar Zariski (born Ascher Zaritsky 24 April 1899 in Kobrin, Poland (today Belarus), died 4 July 1986 (Brookline, Massachusetts) was a Belarusian-American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.
- 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").
- C. Vann Woodward
Comer Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908 - December 17, 1999) was a pre-eminent American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations. He was considered, along with Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., to be one of the most influential historians of the postwar era, 1940s-1970s, both among scholars and the general public. He was long an advocate of Beardianism, stressing the influence of unseen economic motivations in politics.
- J. B. Schneewind
Jerome B. Schneewind (born 1930) is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.
- James Joseph Sylvester
James Joseph Sylvester was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory and combinatorics. He played a leadership role in American mathematics in the later half of the 19th century as a professor at the Johns Hopkins University and as founder of the American Journal of Mathematics. At his death, he was professor at Oxford.
- Michael Williams
Michael Williams (born 6 July 1947) is currently the Kreiger-Eisenhower Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and chair of the department. Williams is a noted epistemologist, and has significant interest in philosophy of language, Wittgenstein, and the history of modern philosophy. He is particularly well known for his work on philosophical skepticism. In his books (1992) and (2001), Williams performs what he calls a "theoretical diagnosis" of skepticism, …
- Malcolm Moos
Malcolm Moos (1916, Saint Paul, Minnesota - 1982) was an American political scientist. He received his bachelor and masters degrees in political science from the University of Minnesota. He went on to receive his doctorate, also in political science, from the University of California, Los Angeles. After receiving his Ph.D. Moos taught for several years at Johns Hopkins University and was employed by the Baltimore Evening Sun as an associate editor.
- Eliot A. Cohen
Eliot A. Cohen is a professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. Cohen is the Director of the Strategic Studies department at SAIS and has specialized in strategic studies, the Middle East, Persian Gulf, Iraq, arms control, and NATO. He is a member of the Project for the New American Century and was called "the most influential neoconservative in academe" by energy economist Ahmad Faruqui.
- Michael Fried
Michael Fried (born 1939, New York City) is an influential Modernist art critic and art historian. He studied at Princeton University and Harvard University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford University. He is currently the J.R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and Art History at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
- Herbert Baxter Adams
Herbert Baxter Adams was an American educator and historian. Adams was born in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. He received his early training in the Amherst, Massachusetts public schools and Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated from Amherst College in 1872, and received the degree of Ph.D. at Heidelberg, Germany, in 1876. He was a fellow in history at Johns Hopkins University from 1876 to 1878, associate from 1878 to 1883, and was appointed associate professor in 1883.
- 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.
- 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).
- Luis Ernesto Derbez
Luis Ernesto Derbez Bautista is a Mexican politician. Upon assuming power in December 2000, President Vicente Fox chose him to serve as his Secretary of Economy. In January 2003, following the resignation of Jorge Castañeda, Derbez took over as Secretary of Foreign Affairs, a position that he held until President Vicente Fox's term ended on December 1, 2006.
- Fouad Ajami
Fouad A. Ajami, a Lebanese-born American neoconservative university professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues. In recent years, Ajami has been an outspoken supporter of the Iraq War, the nobility of which he believes there "can be no doubt". This view has drawn some criticism from others in academia.
- Sidney Lanier
Sidney Lanier was an American musician and poet.
- Ben Carson
Benjamin Solomon Carson (born September 18, 1951 in Detroit, Michigan) is a noted American neurosurgeon. He became the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital when he was 33 years old.
- John Astin
John Allen Astin (born March 30, 1930) is an Oscar nominated American actor who has appeared in numerous films and television shows, but is best known for the role of Gomez Addams on "The Addams Family" television series and similarly eccentric comedic characters.