Athletics

Sport

A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...

 

• Louis Clarke
  Louis Clarke
  Louis Alfred "Pinky" Clarke was an American athlete, winner of a gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1924 Summer Olympics.Clarke was Jewish, and was born in Statesville, North Carolina...
  
   (1901–77) - Olympic track champion
• Kyle Harrison
  Kyle Harrison
  Kyle Harrison is a lacrosse player from Baltimore, Maryland born to Wanda and Miles Harrison,M.D.. He matriculated to the Friends School of Baltimore, and later played in college at Johns Hopkins. While playing for the Blue Jays, he led the team to the 2005 NCAA Division I National Championship.His...
  
   - 3 time All American lacrosse player at JHU and major league lacrosse player
• Davey Johnson
  Davey Johnson
  David Allen "Davey" Johnson is an American Major League Baseball player and current manager of the Washington Nationals. He was the starting second baseman for the Baltimore Orioles when they won four American League pennants and two World Series championships between 1965 and 1972...
  
   – major league baseball player and manager
• Dave Pietramala
  Dave Pietramala
  Dave Pietramala is the current Head Coach for the Johns Hopkins University Men's Lacrosse team. He was widely regarded as one of the greatest defensemen in lacrosse history, and is a member of the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame. He is the only person to win an NCAA national championship as both a...
  
   - Johns Hopkins lacrosse coach
• William C. Schmeisser - "Father Bill", National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee
• Robert H. Scott
  Robert H. Scott
  Bob Scott was a Hall of Fame lacrosse coach for the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays men's lacrosse team, serving from 1955 until 1974. He compiled a career record of 158 wins and 55 losses to go along with seven National Championships. He won the F...
  
   - Johns Hopkins lacrosse coach, athletic director, author
• Bill Stromberg
  Bill Stromberg
  William "Bill" Stromberg is a former American football player. He attended Loyola Blakefield for high school. He is considered as one of the best wide receivers in NCAA Division III history as the holder of six national and 13 school records...
  
   - Johns Hopkins football 1978-81, College Football Hall of Fame
  College Football Hall of Fame
  The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football. Located in South Bend, Indiana, it is connected to a convention center and situated in the city's renovated downtown district, two miles south of the University of Notre Dame campus. It is slated to move...
  
  , inducted 2004
• John Tucker
  John Tucker (lacrosse)
  John Tucker is a retired American professional lacrosse player and the former head coach of the Philadelphia Wings of the National Lacrosse League.-Playing career:...
  
   - head coach of Washington Bayhawks professional lacrosse team
• Neil Vranis
  Neil Vranis
  Neil Menelaos Vranis is a Canadian-born American soccer player currently playing for Crystal Palace Baltimore in the USSF Division 2 Professional League.-Youth and college:...
  
   - USL 2 professional soccer player
• Don Zimmerman
  Don Zimmerman
  Donald "Don" Zimmerman is an American lacrosse coach. He is currently serving as the head coach for the UMBC Retrievers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, a position he has held since 1994. Between 1984 and 1987, Zimmerman coached Johns Hopkins to three national championships...
  
   - UMBC lacrosse
  UMBC Retrievers men's lacrosse
  The UMBC Retrievers men's lacrosse team represents the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I men's college lacrosse competition. The Retrievers play their home games at UMBC Stadium, located in Baltimore, Maryland with a capacity of 4,500...
  
   coach
• John Thomas (lacrosse)
  John Thomas (lacrosse)
  John "Jack" Thomas was an All-American lacrosse player at Johns Hopkins University from 1972 to 1974.-Lacrosse career:Thomas led the Blue Jays to a national title in 1974. He is ranked fourth all-time in Hopkin's scoring with 224 career points...
  
   - Led lacrosse team to a 34-6 record during his time at JHU

Nobel laureates 

• Adam Riess
  Adam Riess
  Adam Guy Riess is an American astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute and is widely known for his research in using supernovae as Cosmological Probes. Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Physics, 2011
• J.M. Coetzee - Nobel Prize in Literature, 2003
• Robert H. Mundell - Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999
• Robert Edwards
  Robert Edwards
  Robert Edwards may refer to:In sport:* Robert Edwards , American Football player for the New England Patriots and Toronto Argonauts...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2010
• Riccardo Giacconi
  Riccardo Giacconi
  Riccardo Giacconi is an Italian/American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He is currently a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.- Biography :...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Physics, 2002
• Andrew Fire
  Andrew Fire
  Andrew Zachary Fire is an American biologist and professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mello, for the discovery of RNA interference...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2006
• Peter Agre
  Peter Agre
  Peter Agre is an American medical doctor, professor, and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of aquaporins. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2003
• Richard Axel
  Richard Axel
  Richard Axel is an American neuroscientist 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....
  
   - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2004
• Joseph Erlanger
  Joseph Erlanger
  Joseph Erlanger was an American physiologist.Erlanger was born on January 5, 1874, at San Francisco, California. He completed his B.S. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and completed his M.D. in 1899 from the Johns Hopkins University...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944
• Robert Fogel
  Robert Fogel
  Robert William Fogel is an American economic historian and scientist, and winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is now the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and director of the Center for Population Economics at the...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Economics, 1993
• Herbert Spencer Gasser - Nobel Prize in Physiology, 1944
• Paul Greengard
  Paul Greengard
  Paul Greengard is an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the molecular and cellular function of neurons. In 2000, Greengard, Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2000
• Carol W. Greider
  Carol W. Greider
  Carolyn Widney "Carol" Greider is an American molecular biologist. She is Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University. She discovered the enzyme telomerase in 1984, when she was a graduate student of Elizabeth Blackburn at the University of...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2009
• Haldan Keffer Hartline
  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  Haldan Keffer Hartline was an American physiologist who was a co-winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision.Hartline began his study of retinal electrophysiology as a National Research Council Fellow at Johns...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967
• Merton H. Miller - Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990
• Thomas Hunt Morgan
  Thomas Hunt Morgan
  Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries relating the role the chromosome plays in heredity.Morgan received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in zoology...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1933
• Daniel Nathans
  Daniel Nathans
  Daniel Nathans 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...
  
  - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
• Martin Rodbell
  Martin Rodbell
  Martin Rodbell 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...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1994
• Francis Peyton Rous
  Francis Peyton Rous
  Peyton Rous born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1879 and received his B.A. and M.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He was involved in the discovery of the role of viruses in the transmission of certain types of cancer...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1966
• Hamilton O. Smith
  Hamilton O. Smith
  Hamilton Othanel Smith is an American microbiologist and Nobel laureate.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,...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
• George Hoyt Whipple - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934
• Jody Williams
  Jody Williams
  Jody Williams is an American teacher and aid worker who received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the campaign she worked for, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines...
  
   - Nobel Peace Prize, 1997
• Woodrow Wilson
  Woodrow Wilson
  Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...
  
   - President of the United States
  President of the United States
  The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
  
  , Nobel Peace Prize, 1919

Government, public service, and public policy

• Spiro T. Agnew - Vice President of the United States
  Vice President of the United States
  The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people, through the Electoral College, to a four-year term...
  
  , former Governor of Maryland
  Governor of Maryland
  The Governor of Maryland heads the executive branch of the government of Maryland, and he is the commander-in-chief of the state's National Guard units. The Governor is the highest-ranking official in the state, and he has a broad range of appointive powers in both the State and local governments,...
  
  
• Madeleine Albright
  Madeleine Albright
  Madeleine Korbelová Albright is the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State. She was appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was unanimously confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote of 99–0...
  
  * - Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton
  Bill Clinton
  William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
  
  
• Mahamat Ali Adoum
  Mahamat Ali Adoum
  Mahamat Ali Adoum is a politician and ambassador from Chad. He is currently Chad's Permanent Representative to the United Nations....
  
   - Foreign Affairs minister, ambassador from Chad
  Chad
  Chad , officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west...
  
  
• Peter F. Allgeier - Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
• Newton D. Baker
  Newton D. Baker
  Newton Diehl Baker, Jr. was an American politician who belonged to the Democratic Party. He served as the 37th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1912 to 1915 and as U.S. Secretary of War from 1916 to 1921.-Early years:...
  
   - mayor of Cleveland
  Cleveland, Ohio
  Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...
  
   (1912 - 1915), and US Secretary of War
  United States Secretary of War
  The Secretary of War was a member of the United States President's Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's administration. A similar position, called either "Secretary at War" or "Secretary of War," was appointed to serve the Congress of the Confederation under the Articles of Confederation...
  
   (1916 - 1921)
• Arthur F. Bentley
  Arthur F. Bentley
  Arthur Fisher Bentley was an American political scientist and philosopher who worked in the fields of epistemology, logic and linguistics and who contributed to the development of a behavioral methodology of political science.-Biography:He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1892 and his Ph.D...
  
   - political scientist and philosopher
• Michael Bloomberg
  Michael Bloomberg
  Michael Rubens Bloomberg is the current Mayor of New York City. With a net worth of $19.5 billion in 2011, he is also the 12th-richest person in the United States...
  
   - founder of Bloomberg L.P.
  Bloomberg L.P.
  Bloomberg L.P. is an American privately held financial software, media, and data company. Bloomberg makes up one third of the $16 billion global financial data market with estimated revenue of $6.9 billion. Bloomberg L.P...
  
  , Mayor of New York City
  Mayor of New York City
  The Mayor of the City of New York is head of the executive branch of New York City's government. The mayor's office administers all city services, public property, police and fire protection, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within New York City.The budget overseen by the...
  
  
• Paul Bomani
  Paul Bomani
  Paul Bomani was a Tanzanian politician and ambassador to the United States and Mexico.-Biography:Bomani was born in Musoma, Tanzania in 1925 into a family of Adventist preachers...
  
   - Tanzanian politician and ambassador
• Rudy Boschwitz
  Rudy Boschwitz
  Rudolph Ely "Rudy" Boschwitz is a former Independent-Republican United States Senator from Minnesota. He served in the Senate from December 1978 to January 1991, in the 96th, 97th, 98th, 99th, 100th, and 101st congresses. He was then defeated by Paul Wellstone.-Life and career:Boschwitz was born...
  
   - Republican Senator from Minnesota
• Daniel B. Brewster, Democratic Senator from Maryland (1963 - 1969)
• R. Nicholas Burns
  R. Nicholas Burns
  R. Nicholas Burns is a retired American diplomat. He is currently Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a member of the Board of Directors of the school's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs...
  
   - U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and Greece
  Greece
  Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
  
  
• Aneesh Chopra
  Aneesh Chopra
  Aneesh Paul Chopra is the first Federal Chief Technology Officer of the United States .Chopra previously served as Virginia’s fourth Secretary of Technology. Prior to his government service, Chopra was Managing Director for the Advisory Board Company, a health care think tank for hospitals and...
  
   - President Obama's Chief Technology Officer of the United States
  Chief Technology Officer of the United States
  The Chief Technology Officer of the United States , formally known as the Assistant to the President, Associate Director for the Office of Science and Technology Policy is a position created within the Office of Science and Technology Policy by President Barack Obama...
  
  
• William F. Clinger, Jr.
  William F. Clinger, Jr.
  William Floyd "Bill" Clinger, Jr. is a former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Clinger was born in Warren, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools there and graduated from The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania in 1947. He received a B.A. from The...
  
   - Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979-97
• Rafael Hernández Colón
  Rafael Hernández Colón
  Rafael Hernández Colón is a Puerto Rican politician who served as the fourth Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for three non-consecutive terms, from 1973 to 1977 and from 1985 to 1993. An experienced politician, Hernández holds the record for being the youngest Governor of Puerto Rico,...
  
   - Governor of Puerto Rico
  Puerto Rico
  Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
  
  
• Poya Chang
  Chang Po-ya
  Chang Po-ya is the Chairwoman and founder of the Non-Partisan Solidarity Union, a political party in Taiwan.Born in Chiayi City to Hsü Shih-hsien , a politician-doctor, Chang is a medical doctor educated in Kaohsiung Medical College , the Institute of Public Health, National Taiwan University ,...
  
   - Former minister of health of Taiwan
  Taiwan
  Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
  
  
• Jien Ren Chen - Former minister of health of Taiwan
  Taiwan
  Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
  
  
• Lawrence Di Rita
  Lawrence Di Rita
  Lawrence Di Rita was a close aide to United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and is currently a spokesmen for Bank of America Corp....
  
   - Pentagon spokesperson
• Sheila Dixon
  Sheila Dixon
  Sheila Ann Dixon served as the forty-eighth Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland. When former Mayor Martin O'Malley was sworn in as Governor on January 17, 2007, Dixon, a Democrat, became mayor and served out the remaining year of O'Malley's term. In November 2007, she was elected mayor...
  
  - former president of Baltimore City council, Mayor of Baltimore (2007-2010)
• Anne E. Derse
  Anne E. Derse
  Anne Elizabeth Derse is the current US Ambassador to Lithuania since September 28, 2009.-Education and personal life:...
  
   - American
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   Ambassador to Lithuania
  Lithuania
  Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
  
  , former Ambassador to Azerbaijan
  Azerbaijan
  Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...
  
  
• James B. Eldridge - member of the Mass. House of Representatives
  Massachusetts House of Representatives
  The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. Representatives serve two-year terms...
  
   (served 2002 - present)
• William J. Frank
  William J. Frank
  William J. Frank , is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, District 42.-Background:William Frank is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing District 42, which covers a part of Baltimore County. Prior to 2002, District 42 was represented by Democrats James W. Campbell,...
  
   - member of Maryland House of Delegates
  Maryland House of Delegates
  The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland, and is composed of 141 Delegates elected from 47 districts. The House chamber is located in the state capitol building on State Circle in Annapolis...
  
  
• Jeffrey Garten
  Jeffrey Garten
  Jeffrey Elliot Garten was the Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade under the Clinton administration and former Dean of the Yale School of Management...
  
   - Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade and Dean of the Yale School of Management
  Yale School of Management
  The Yale School of Management is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The School offers Master of Business Administration and Ph.D. degree programs. As of January 2011, 454 students were enrolled in its MBA...
  
  
• Ibrahim Gambari
  Ibrahim Gambari
  Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, CFR is a Nigerian scholar and diplomat. He was Minister for External Affairs between 1984 and 1985...
  
   - Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
  
• Timothy F. Geithner
  Timothy F. Geithner
  Timothy Franz Geithner is an American economist, central banker, and civil servant. He is the 75th and current United States Secretary of the Treasury, serving under President Barack Obama...
  
   - President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is one of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks of the United States. It is located at 33 Liberty Street, New York, NY. It is responsible for the Second District of the Federal Reserve System, which encompasses New York state, the 12 northern counties of New Jersey,...
  
  , Treasury Secretary of the United States
• April Glaspie
  April Glaspie
  April Catherine Glaspie is a former American diplomat, best known for her role in the events leading up to the Persian Gulf War of 1991.-Early life and career:...
  
   - American diplomat , first woman to be appointed an American ambassador to an Arab country
• Dr. Nancy S. Grasmick
  Nancy Grasmick
  Dr. Nancy S. Grasmick was the Maryland State Superintendent of schools, until June 30, 2011.-Education:She received her doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University, her master's degree from Gallaudet University, and her bachelor's degree from Towson University.-Career:Grasmick began as a teacher of...
  
   - Maryland State Superintendent of Schools
• Wang Guangya
  Wang Guangya
  Wang Guangya , born March 1950 in Jiangsu Province People's Republic of China, is a Chinese diplomat who is currently Director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. A career diplomat, Wang was previously Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs...
  
   - China
  China
  Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
  
  's Ambassador to the United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
  
• Geir H. Haarde - Former Prime Minister of Iceland
• John J. Hamre
  John Hamre
  John J. Hamre is a specialist in international studies, a former Washington bureaucrat and the current president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a position he has held with that think tank since April 2000.-Education:Hamre is the son of Melvin Sanders and Ruth Lucile...
  
   - President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies
  Center for Strategic and International Studies
  The Center for Strategic and International Studies is a bipartisan Washington, D.C., foreign policy think tank. The center was founded in 1962 by Admiral Arleigh Burke and Ambassador David Manker Abshire, originally as part of Georgetown University...
  
   (CSIS), former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
• Alger Hiss
  Alger Hiss
  Alger Hiss was an American lawyer, government official, author, and lecturer. He was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department and U.N. official...
  
   - State Department official, lawyer and Soviet spy
• Hans Hoogervorst
  Hans Hoogervorst
  Hans Hoogervorst is a Dutch political and business figure. He is chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board.-Career:...
  
   - the Netherlands
  Netherlands
  The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
  
  ' Minister of Public Health, Minister of Finance
• Sheng Mao Hou - Former minister of health of Taiwan
  Taiwan
  Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
  
  
• Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein - Jordan
  Jordan
  Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...
  
  's Permanent Representative to the United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
  
• David Jacobson
  David Jacobson
  David Jacobson is an American screenwriter and film director from Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California. His film Down in the Valley was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Feature films:* ...
  
   - American
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   Ambassador
  Ambassador
  An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....
  
   to Canada
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
  
• James Howard Holmes
  James Howard Holmes
  James Howard Holmes was born April 1, 1943, the second son of the Rev. Robert Usher and Bertha Jeannette Cook Holmes. He is a 1965 graduate of Colgate University, as well as, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and the National War College...
  
  , former U.S. ambassador to Latvia
  Latvia
  Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
  
  , now State Department special adviser
• Dr. Mohammad Zubair Khan
  Mohammad Zubair Khan
  Dr. Mohammad Zubair Khan has a doctorate in political economy from Johns Hopkins University. After working briefly for the World Bank, he worked at the International Monetary Fund from 1981 to 1992, assigned to a wide range of countries, including industrial countries in northern Europe and Turkey,...
  
  , former Commerce Minister of Pakistan
  Commerce Minister of Pakistan
  The Commerce Minister of Pakistan heads the Ministry of Commerce. He serves in the cabinet of the Prime Minister. The Minister is required to be a member of Parliament...
  
  
• Frank Lavin
  Frank Lavin
  Frank Lavin is a native of Canton, Ohio. As Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Lavin headed the International Trade Administration for the United States Department of Commerce from 2005 until 2007....
  
   - U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore
  Singapore
  Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
  
  
• Samuel W. Lewis
  Samuel W. Lewis
  Samuel Winfield Lewis is a retired American diplomat. During his lengthy career with the United States Department of State he served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs , U.S. ambassador to Israel and Director of Policy Planning...
  
   - former U.S. Ambassador to Israel
  Israel
  The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
   and U.S. Ambassador at the Camp David Accord talks in 1978
• Dennis P. Lockhart
  Dennis P. Lockhart
  Dennis P. Lockhart is President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He assumed office on March 1, 2007.From 2003 to 2007, Lockhart served on the faculty of the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. He also was an...
  
   - President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
  Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
  The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is responsible for the sixth district, which covers the states of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, 74 counties in the eastern two-thirds of...
  
  
• Barry Lowenkron
  Barry Lowenkron
  Barry Lowenkron is an American specialist in foreign relations. He is Vice President of the Program on Global Security & Sustainability at the MacArthur Foundation....
  
   Vice President of the Program on Global Security & Sustainability at the MacArthur Foundation
  MacArthur Foundation
  The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the United States. Based in Chicago but supporting non-profit organizations that work in 60 countries, MacArthur has awarded more than US$4 billion since its inception in 1978...
  
  
• Sir David Manning
  David Manning
  Sir David Geoffrey Manning, GCMG, CVO is a former British diplomat, who was the British Ambassador to the United States from 2003 to 2007. He authored the so-called "Manning Memo" summarising the details of a January 2003 meeting between American president George W. Bush and British prime minister...
  
   - British Ambassador to Israel (1995 – 1998), foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair
  Tony Blair
  Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
  
   (2001 - 2003), British Ambassador to the United States (2003 - 2007)
• John E. McLaughlin
  John E. McLaughlin
  John Edward McLaughlin is the former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and former Acting Director of Central Intelligence. McLaughlin is an accomplished magician and lectured on magic at the 2006 International Brotherhood of Magicians Annual Convention in Miami, Florida...
  
   - Director of Central Intelligence
  Director of Central Intelligence
  The Office of United States Director of Central Intelligence was the head of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, the principal intelligence advisor to the President and the National Security Council, and the coordinator of intelligence activities among and between the various United...
  
  
• Kweisi Mfume
  Kweisi Mfume
  Kweisi Mfume is the former President/CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , as well as a five-term Democratic Congressman from Maryland's 7th congressional district, serving in the 100th through 104th Congress...
  
   - Former President of the NAACP, former Congressman from Maryland
• John S. Morgan
  John S. Morgan
  John S. Morgan was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing District 13B, which covered portions of Prince George's County & Howard County Maryland. Along with fellow Republican Martin G. Madden, he helped unseat incumbent Democrat William C. Bevan from office. In 1998, he was...
  
   - former Maryland Delegate
• Donald F. Munson
  Donald F. Munson
  Donald F. Munson is a former Maryland State Senator who represented District 2 . He was defeated in both a primary and general election in 2010 by Delegate Christopher B. Shank.-Background:...
  
   - Maryland State Senator
• Nurul Izzah Anwar
  Nurul Izzah Anwar
  Nurul Izzah binti Anwar is a Malaysian politician from Parti Keadilan Rakyat , and is the current Member of Parliament for Lembah Pantai. She is the daughter of Anwar Ibrahim, a former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister and the current de facto opposition leader and of the PKR...
  
   - Malaysian Member of Parliament
  Parliament of Malaysia
  The Parliament of Malaysia is the national legislature of Malaysia, based on the Westminster system. The bicameral parliament consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The King as the Head of State is the third component of Parliament....
  
   and daughter of former Deputy Prime Minister and current Leader of Parliamentary Opposition of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim
  Anwar Ibrahim
  Anwar bin Ibrahim is a Malaysian politician who served as Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister from 1993 to 1998. Early in his career, Anwar was a close ally of Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad but subsequently emerged as the most prominent critic of Mahathir's government.In 1999, he was sentenced...
  
  
• Antonia Novello
  Antonia Novello
  Antonia Coello Novello, M.D., is a Puerto Rican physician and public health administrator. She was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as fourteenth Surgeon General of the United States from 1990 to 1993...
  
   - United States Surgeon General (1990 - 1993)
• John E. Osborn
  John E. Osborn
  John E. Osborn is an American lawyer, health care industry executive, and former diplomat who has served in the United States Department of State and as a member of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.-Family:Osborn is a distant relative of founding father and colonial...
  
   - Commissioner, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
• George L. P. Radcliffe
  George L. P. Radcliffe
  George Lovic Pierce Radcliffe was a Democratic member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1935-1947.Radcliffe was born on a farm at Lloyds, near Cambridge, Maryland...
  
   - U.S. Senator from Maryland (1935 - 1947)
• Peter Rheinstein
  Peter Rheinstein
  Peter Howard Rheinstein is an American physician, lawyer, author, and administrator . He was an official of the Food and Drug Administration 1974-1999.-Education:...
  
   - FDA Official
• Leslie Sanchez
  Leslie Sanchez
  Leslie Sanchez is a prominent American author, political pundit affiliated with the Republican Party, and founder/CEO of Impacto Group LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based market research and consulting firm.-Early life:...
  
   - political pundit and commentator
• Christopher B. Shank
  Christopher B. Shank
  Christopher Shank was first elected to District 2B of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1999, which represents Washington County, defeating incumbent Bruce Poole. He has been the House Minority Whip since 2007.-Education:...
  
  , Maryland House of Delegates (1999 - present)
• Frederic N. Smalkin
  Frederic N. Smalkin
  The Honorable Frederic N. Smalkin is a Retired Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland and is currently an Instructor at the University of Baltimore School of Law. He was awarded the James A...
  
   - Chief United States District Judge for Maryland (2001 - 2003)
• George O. Squier
  George O. Squier
  Major General George Owen Squier was born in Dryden, Michigan, United States. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1887 and received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1893....
  
   - Chief Signal Officer of the United States Army
  United States Army
  The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
  
   during World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
  
• Michael S. Steele
  Michael S. Steele
  Michael Stephen Steele is an American politician who served as the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee from January 2009 until January 2011. From 2003 to 2007, he was the seventh Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, the first African American elected to statewide...
  
   - Lieutenant Governor of Maryland (2003 - 2007), head of the RNC (2009-present)
• Takuya Tasso
  Takuya Tasso
  is the governor of Iwate Prefecture. A native of Morioka, Iwate and graduate of the University of Tokyo. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1988, receiving a master's degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University in the United States while with the ministry...
  
  , governor of Iwate Prefecture
  Iwate Prefecture
  is the second largest prefecture of Japan after Hokkaido. It is located in the Tōhoku region of Honshū island and contains the island's easternmost point. The capital is Morioka. Iwate has the lowest population density of any prefecture outside Hokkaido...
  
   in Japan
  Japan
  Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
  
  .
• Bandar bin Sultan
  Bandar bin Sultan
  Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud is a prince of the Saudi royal family and was Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005. He was appointed Secretary-General of the National Security Council by King Abdullah on 16 October 2005...
  
   - Saudi Arabia
  Saudi Arabia
  The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
  
  's former Ambassador to the United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
  
• Ali Akbar Velayati
  Ali Akbar Velayati
  Ali Akbar Velayati is an Iranian politician, academic and diplomat. He was the Foreign Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1997...
  
   - former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran
  Iran
  Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
  
  
• Woodrow Wilson
  Woodrow Wilson
  Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...
  
   - President of the United States
  President of the United States
  The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
  
  
• Amos Griswold Warner
  Amos Griswold Warner
  Amos Griswold Warner, was an influential American social worker. While a graduate student of economics at Johns Hopkins University, he became a general agent of the Charity Society of Baltimore in 1887....
  
   - social worker, first head of charity for the District of Columbia
• Craig Zucker
  Craig Zucker
  Craig Zucker is an American politician from Maryland's 14th District, which includes parts or all of Silver Spring, Calverton, Colesville, Cloverly, Fairland, Burtonsville, Spencerville, Olney, Brookeville, Ashton, Sandy Spring, Brinklow, Laytonsville, Sunshine, Goshen, Montgomery Village and...
  
   - member of the Maryland House of Delegates
  Maryland House of Delegates
  The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland, and is composed of 141 Delegates elected from 47 districts. The House chamber is located in the state capitol building on State Circle in Annapolis...
  
  

Academia, science, medicine and technology

• William Foxwell Albright - Authenticator of the Dead Sea Scrolls
  Dead Sea scrolls
  The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts from the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical documents found between 1947 and 1956 on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, from which they derive their name...
  
  , linguist
  Linguistics
  Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
  
  , expert on ceramics
  Ceramics (art)
  In art history, ceramics and ceramic art mean art objects such as figures, tiles, and tableware made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery. Some ceramic products are regarded as fine art, while others are regarded as decorative, industrial or applied art objects, or as...
  
  
• Hattie Alexander
  Hattie Alexander
  Hattie Elizabeth Alexander was an American pediatrician and microbiologist...
  
  , pediatrician and microbiologist
• John August Anderson
  John August Anderson
  John August Anderson was an American astronomer. He was born in Rollag, a small community in Clay County, Minnesota to the south of Hawley....
  
   - Astronomer
• Richard T. Antoun
  Richard T. Antoun
  Professor Richard "Dick" T. Antoun was an American anthropologist who specialized in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. He was a Professor Emeritus at Binghamton University....
  
   - Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Binghamton University
  Binghamton University
  Binghamton University, also formally called State University of New York at Binghamton, , is a public research university in the State of New York. The University is one of the four university centers in the State University of New York system...
  
  ; stabbed to death 2009
• Florence Bascom
  Florence Bascom
  Florence Bascom was the first woman hired by the United States Geological Survey. She was of Huguenot and Basque ancestry....
  
   - geologist
• Frederick S. Billig
  Frederick S. Billig
  Frederick Stucky Billig was a pioneer in the development of scramjet propulsion.Billig’s primary research was in the area of high-speed, air-breathing propulsion for advanced flight vehicles including pioneering work in external burning and supersonic combustion. He was responsible for highspeed...
  
   - Scramjet
  Scramjet
  A scramjet is a variant of a ramjet airbreathing jet engine in which combustion takes place in supersonic airflow...
  
   and hypersonics pioneer
• Hilde Bruch
  Hilde Bruch
  Hilde Bruch was a German-born American psychoanalyst, known foremost for her work on eating disorders and obesity.Bruch emigrated to the United States in 1934...
  
   - Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, expert on eating disorders
• Schuyler V. Cammann
  Schuyler V. Cammann
  Schuyler Van Rensselaer Cammann was an anthropologist best known for work in Asia.-Early life:...
  
   (Ph.D. 1949), anthropologist
  Anthropology
  Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...
  
  
• Denton Cooley
  Denton Cooley
  Denton Arthur Cooley is an American heart surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Cooley is also founder and surgeon in-chief of the Texas Heart Institute, chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at St...
  
   - world renowned cardiovascular surgeon
• Henry E. Chambers
  Henry E. Chambers
  Henry Edward Chambers, Sr. , was an educator and historian from New Orleans, Louisiana, known principally for his 1925 work, History of Louisiana: State and People, a principal source for much on the 19th and early 20th centuries.-Background:Chambers was born to Captain Joseph Chambers and the...
  
   - (Ph.D.), Louisiana historian
• John Dewey
  John Dewey
  John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology...
  
   - philosopher, psychologist
  Psychologist
  Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...
  
  , and educational reformer
• William H. Dobelle
  William H. Dobelle
  William H. Dobelle was a biomedical researcher who developed experimental technologies that restored limited sight to blind patients. In addition, Dobelle is known for the major impact that he and his company have had on the breathing pacemaker and the medical community as a whole. He was...
  
  - Biomedical researcher
• Wendell E. Dunn
  Wendell E. Dunn
  Wendell Earl Dunn, Sr. was a noted educator, longtime principal of Forest Park High School in Baltimore , and President of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.-Early Years in South Dakota:Wendell Dunn was the son of Moncena and Lois Woodward Dunn...
  
   - educator and principal of Forest Park High School
  Forest Park High School (Maryland)
  Forest Park Senior High School is a four year, public high school in Baltimore, Maryland. Forest Park was established in 1924 as the Forest Park Junior-Senior High School. In 1932, the Forest Park Junior High School was moved and renamed the Garrison Junior High School.-Notable alumni: *Billy...
  
  
• Adam Falk
  Adam Falk
  Adam Falk is the 17th president of Williams College. He is a theoretical physicist by training and previously served as the James B. Knapp Dean at the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.-External links:*...
  
   - President-elect of Williams College
• James M. Farr - President of the University of Florida
  University of Florida
  The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
  
  
• Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Feldman
  Emanuel Feldman
  Emanuel Feldman is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rabbi emeritus of Congregation Beth Jacob of Atlanta, Georgia. During his nearly 40 years as a congregational rabbi, he nurtured the growth of the Orthodox community in Atlanta from a community small enough to support two small synagogues to a...
  
  , rabbi emeritus of Congregation Beth Jacob of Atlanta
• John Charles Fields
  John Charles Fields
  John Charles Fields, FRS, FRSC was a Canadian mathematician and the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics...
  
   - Mathematician, established Fields Medal
  Fields Medal
  The Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...
  
  
• Jessica Einhorn
  Jessica Einhorn
  Jessica P. Einhorn currently serves as Dean of Washington's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. Einhorn succeeded Paul Wolfowitz, who resigned in 2001 to become the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense...
  
   - Dean of SAIS
  SAIS
  SAIS can refer to:* Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, part of The Johns Hopkins University.* Sharjah American International School* Southern Association of Independent Schools...
  
  , managing director of the World Bank
  World Bank
  The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
  
  
• Luther P. Eisenhart
  Luther P. Eisenhart
  Luther Pfahler Eisenhart was an American mathematician, best known today for his contributions to semi-Riemannian geometry.-Life:...
  
   - Mathematician, Theoretical Physicist
• William K. George
  William K. George
  William Kenneth George is an American fluid dynamicist and Professor of turbulence at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He is also the director of the Turbulence Research Laboratory at Chalmers...
  
   - fluid dynamicist
• Solomon W. Golomb
  Solomon W. Golomb
  Solomon Wolf Golomb is an American mathematician and engineer and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California, best known to the general public and fans of mathematical games as the inventor of polyominoes, the inspiration for the computer game Tetris...
  
   - mathematician, invented the Golomb coding
  Golomb coding
  Golomb coding is a lossless data compression method using a family of data compression codes invented by Solomon W. Golomb in the 1960s. Alphabets following a geometric distribution will have a Golomb code as an optimal prefix code, making Golomb coding highly suitable for situations in which the...
  
   and Golomb ruler
  Golomb ruler
  In mathematics, a Golomb ruler is a set of marks at integer positions along an imaginary ruler such that no two pairs of marks are the same distance apart. The number of marks on the ruler is its order, and the largest distance between two of its marks is its length...
  
  
• Duane Graveline
  Duane Graveline
  Duane Edgar Graveline is an American physician and former NASA astronaut. He was one of the six scientists selected in 1965, in NASA's fourth group of astronauts, for the Apollo program. He is most famous for being immersed in water for seven days as part of his zero gravity deconditioning...
  
   - Astronaut
• Michael Griffin
  Michael D. Griffin
  Michael Douglas Griffin is an American physicist and aerospace engineer. From April 13, 2005 to January 20, 2009 he served as Administrator of NASA, the space agency of the United States...
  
   - Administrator, NASA
  NASA
  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
  
  
• Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg
  Arthur Hertzberg
  Arthur Hertzberg was a Conservative rabbi and prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kenneth H. Keller
  Kenneth H. Keller
  Kenneth Harrison Keller serves as Director of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies' Bologna Center in Bologna, Italy....
  
   - current Director of the SAIS Bologna Center, former President of the University of Minnesota system
  University of Minnesota system
  The University of Minnesota is a large university with several campuses spread throughout the U.S. state of Minnesota. There are five primary campuses in the Twin Cities, Duluth, Crookston, Morris, and Rochester. A campus was open in Waseca for a time. The university also operates several...
  
  
• Cornelius M. Kerwin
  Cornelius M. Kerwin
  Cornelius M. "Neil" Kerwin is an American educator in public administration and president of American University.A 1971 undergraduate alumnus of American University, Kerwin continued his education with a Master of Arts degree in political science from the University of Rhode Island in 1973...
  
   - President of American University
  American University
  American University is a private, Methodist, liberal arts, and research university in Washington, D.C. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on December 5, 1892 as "The American University", which was approved by President Benjamin Harrison on February 24, 1893...
  
  
• Charles Rollin Keyes
  Charles Rollin Keyes
  For the Iowa archaeologist, see Charles Reuben Keyes.Charles Rollin Keyes was a U.S. geologist and in 1918 was a U.S. Senate candidate in Iowa. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he graduated from Iowa State University in 1887. He worked for the United States Geological Survey. He earned a Ph.D. from Johns...
  
   - geologist
• Steven Knapp
  Steven Knapp
  Steven Knapp is the current president of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., having assumed office in August, 2007. He is the 16th president of the university, succeeding Stephen Joel Trachtenberg. Previously, he was the provost and dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the...
  
   - President of George Washington University
  George Washington University
  The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...
  
  
• Christine Ladd-Franklin
  Christine Ladd-Franklin
  Christine Ladd-Franklin was the first American woman psychologist, logician, and mathematician.-Early Life and Early Education:...
  
   - U.S. scientist and logician
• Steven Lehrer
  Steven Lehrer
  Steven Lehrer is a physician and writer, known for medical research and for his English translation of Else Ury.-Early years and education:Lehrer was born in Los Angeles...
  
   - medical researcher and writer
• Thomas H. Maren
  Thomas H. Maren
  Thomas H. Maren was a professor of medicine at the University of Florida. He was the founding father for the University of Florida College of Medicine, and he invented Trusopt to help people with glaucoma.-Life and death:...
  
   - MD, inventor of the drug Trusopt
• John Mauchly
  John Mauchly
  John William Mauchly was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.Together they started the first computer company,...
  
   - Co-inventor of the ENIAC Computer
• Michael Merzenich
  Michael Merzenich
  Michael M. Merzenich is a professor emeritus neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco. His contributions to the field are numerous. He took the sensory cortex maps developed by his predecessors like Archie Tunturi, Clinton Woolsey, Vernon Mountcastle, Wade Marshall, and Philip...
  
   -Professor emeritus neuroscientist
  Neuroscientist
  A neuroscientist is an individual who studies the scientific field of neuroscience or any of its related sub-fields...
  
  , brain researcher, CEO Scientific Learning, Posit Science
• Bessie Moses
  Bessie Moses
  Bessie Louise Moses, M.D. was a U.S. gynecologist and obstetrician who advocated birth control practices for women.Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Moses began her public career after graduating from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1922...
  
   - gynecologist and obstetrician
• Mike Muuss
  Mike Muuss
  Michael John Muuss was the author of the freeware network tool Ping.A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Muuss was a senior scientist specializing in geometric solid modeling, ray-tracing, MIMD architectures and digital computer networks at the United States Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen...
  
   - author of Ping
  Ping
  Ping is a computer network administration utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol network and to measure the round-trip time for messages sent from the originating host to a destination computer...
  
  
• Frank Oppenheimer
  Frank Oppenheimer
  Frank Friedman Oppenheimer was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, was a target of McCarthyism, and was later the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco. He was the younger brother of J...
  
   - Physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project
  Manhattan Project
  The Manhattan Project was a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army...
  
  
• Charles Lane Poor
  Charles Lane Poor
  Charles Lane Poor was an opponent of Einstein's theory of relativity.-Biography:He was born on January 18, 1866 in Hackensack, New Jersey to Edward Erie Poor. He graduated from the City College of New York and received a Ph.D. in 1892 from Johns Hopkins University...
  
   - Astronomer
• Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt
  Jonathan Rosenblatt
  Jonathan Rosenblatt is an American Rabbi.Rabbi Dr. Rosenblatt was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the great-grandson of Yossele Rosenblatt. Rabbi Dr. Rosenblatt earned the BA and an MA from the Johns Hopkins University in Comparative Literature. He has a PhD from Columbia University in the...
  
  
• Clifford V. Smith, Jr.
  Clifford V. Smith, Jr.
  Clifford V. Smith, Jr. is the 4th chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the first African American four-year college chancellor in the University of Wisconsin System....
  
   - the 4th chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
• Ibrahim B. Syed
  Ibrahim B. Syed
  Ibrahim Bijli Syed is an American Muslim and Radiologist. Dr. Syed is an educator and currently he is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky - Education :...
  
   - Radiologist
• Frederick Jackson Turner
  Frederick Jackson Turner
  Frederick Jackson Turner was an American historian in the early 20th century. He is best known for his essay "The Significance of the Frontier in American History", whose ideas are referred to as the Frontier Thesis. He is also known for his theories of geographical sectionalism...
  
   - historian
• Thorstein Veblen
  Thorstein Veblen
  Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen was an American economist and sociologist, and a leader of the so-called institutional economics movement...
  
   - economist, author The Theory of the Leisure Class
  The Theory of the Leisure Class
  The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions is a book, first published in 1899, by the Norwegian-American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago....
  
  
• George W. Ward
  George W. Ward
  George Washington Ward was the third principal of Maryland State Normal School .Ward was a product of Maryland education, unlike his predecessors, and was attending a one room school in Daisy, Maryland. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Masters from Western Maryland College and his Ph. D. from...
  
   - Third principal of Maryland State Normal School (now Towson University
  Towson University
  Towson University, often referred to as TU or simply Towson for short, is a public university located in Towson in Baltimore County, Maryland, U.S...
  
  )
• John B. Watson
  John B. Watson
  John Broadus Watson was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. Watson promoted a change in psychology through his address Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it which was given at Columbia University in 1913...
  
   - psychologist
• Morris A. Wessel
  Morris A. Wessel
  Morris Arthur Wessel practiced pediatrics in New Haven, Conn., from 1951 to 1993. He was a clinical professor of pediatrics at Yale Medical School...
  
   - pediatrician, pioneer of hospice care, and discoverer of colic
  Baby colic
  Colic is a condition in which an otherwise healthy baby cries or displays symptoms of distress frequently and for extended periods, without any discernible reason...
  
  
• Henry West
  Henry West
  Henry Skinner West was the fifth principal of Maryland State Normal School .West was Maryland educated and graduated from Baltimore City College. He earned both his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins University. West possessed had an impressive academic background, teaching at all levels...
  
   - Fourth principal of Maryland State Normal School (now Towson University
  Towson University
  Towson University, often referred to as TU or simply Towson for short, is a public university located in Towson in Baltimore County, Maryland, U.S...
  
  )
• John Archibald Wheeler
  John Archibald Wheeler
  John Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist who was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr in explaining the basic principles behind nuclear fission...
  
   - physicist, graduate advisor to Richard Feynman
  Richard Feynman
  Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics...
  
   and Kip Thorne
  Kip Thorne
  Kip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for having trained a generation of scientists...
  
  , coined the term "black hole
  Black hole
  A black hole is a region of spacetime from which nothing, not even light, can escape. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will deform spacetime to form a black hole. Around a black hole there is a mathematically defined surface called an event horizon that...
  
  "
• Abel Wolman
  Abel Wolman
  Abel Wolman was an American inventor, scientist, professor and pioneer of modern sanitary engineering. His work in supplying clean water spanned eight decades.-Background:...
  
   - inventor of modern water treatment techniques
• Frank H. Wu
  Frank H. Wu
  Frank H. Wu is a law professor, author, and public intellectual. He has been chancellor and dean of University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, California, a position he assumed in July 2010...
  
   - Chancellor & Dean of UC Hastings College of the Law, law professor, and author

Literature, arts, and media

• Sidney Lanier
  Sidney Lanier
  Sidney Lanier was an American musician and poet.-Biography:Sidney Lanier was born February 3, 1842, in Macon, Georgia, to parents Robert Sampson Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson; he was mostly of English ancestry. His distant French Huguenot ancestors immigrated to England in the 16th century...
  
  
• Dan Ahdoot
  Dan Ahdoot
  Dan Ahdoot is a stand-up comedian who primarily performs in New York City. He is well-known for being a contestant in NBC's reality TV show Last Comic Standing and for performing on Comedy Central's Premium Blend.-Early life:...
  
   - standup comedian
• Jeff Altman
  Jeff Altman
  Jeff Altman is an American stand-up comedian who has appeared as a guest on Late Show with David Letterman 40 times, most recently on October 7, 2011. He has also had numerous acting roles in movies and television such as Dr...
  
   - standup comedian
• Tori Amos
  Tori Amos
  Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
  
   – singer (Peabody Conservatory)
• John Astin
  John Astin
  John Allen Astin is an American actor who has appeared in numerous films and television shows, and is best known for the role of Gomez Addams on The Addams Family, and other similarly eccentric comedic characters.-Early years:...
  
   – actor, Gomez Addams on The Addams Family
  The Addams Family (TV series)
  The Addams Family is an American television series based on the characters in Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons. The 30-minute series was shot in black-and-white and aired for two seasons in 64 installments on ABC from September 18, 1964, to April 8, 1966...
  
  
• Russell Baker
  Russell Baker
  Russell Wayne Baker is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his autobiography, Growing Up.-His career:...
  
   – author, Pulitzer Prize
  Pulitzer Prize
  The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
  
   winner, host of Masterpiece Theatre
  Masterpiece Theatre
  Masterpiece is a drama anthology television series produced by WGBH Boston. It premiered on Public Broadcasting Service on January 10, 1971, making it America's longest-running weekly prime time drama series. The series has presented numerous acclaimed British productions...
  
  
• Andy Barth
  Andy Barth
  Andy Barth is a former newscaster for WMAR-TV in Baltimore, Maryland.Barth was born into a political family in Washington, D.C. His father was an editorialist for the Washington Post. He attended law school after graduating from Johns Hopkins University in 1968. He soon worked as a reporter for...
  
   - Baltimore TV reporter for 35 years, retired to run for Congress
• John Barth
  John Barth
  John Simmons Barth is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work.-Life:...
  
   – novelist
• Jeffrey Blitz
  Jeffrey Blitz
  Jeffrey Blitz is an American film director, producer and screenwriter from Ridgewood, New Jersey. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his 2002 documentary, Spellbound and he won the Dramatic Directing Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for his 2007 film, Rocket Science.Blitz won the 2009...
  
   - writer / director, notably of the 2007 film Rocket Science
  Rocket Science (film)
  Rocket Science is a 2007 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jeffrey Blitz, and starring Reece Thompson, Anna Kendrick, Nicholas D'Agosto, Vincent Piazza, and Aaron Yoo...
  
  
• Wolf Blitzer
  Wolf Blitzer
  Wolf Isaac Blitzer is an American journalist who has been a CNN reporter since 1990. Blitzer is currently the host of the newscast The Situation Room and was the host of the Sunday talk show Late Edition until it was discontinued on January 11, 2009...
  
   – CNN
  CNN
  Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
  
   news anchor
• Paul Harris Boardman
  Paul Harris Boardman
  Paul Harris Boardman is an American film producer and screenwriter, best known as the co-writer and producer of The Exorcism of Emily Rose . He also co-wrote the screenplays for Hellraiser: Inferno and Urban Legends: Final Cut , and worked on production rewrites of Dracula 2000, The Messengers,...
  
   - film producer and screenwriter
• Denis Boyles
  Denis Boyles
  Denis Boyles is a writer, editor, former university lecturer and the author/editor of several books of poetry, travel/history, criticism, practical advice and essays, including Design Poetics , The Modern Man's Guide to Life , African Lives , Man Eaters Motel , A Man's Life: The Complete...
  
   - writer, journalist
• Matt Briggs
  Matt Briggs
  Matt Briggs is an American novelist, and short story writer.-Biography:Matt Briggs was born in Seattle, Washington, which he still calls home. He grew up in the Snoqualmie Valley raised by working-class, counter-culture parents who cultivated and sold cannabis . Briggs has written two books set in...
  
   - novelist
• Rachel Carson
  Rachel Carson
  Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement....
  
   – environmentalist, author of Silent Spring
  Silent Spring
  Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on 27 September 1962. The book is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement....
  
  
• Angelin Chang
  Angelin Chang
  Angelin Chang is a Grammy® Award-winning classical pianist and professor of music at Cleveland State University. She heads the university's keyboard studies program and coordinates the university's chamber music program...
  
   – Grammy-award winning classical pianist
• Iris Chang
  Iris Chang
  Iris Shun-Ru Chang was an American historian and journalist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. She committed suicide on November 9, 2004...
  
   – author, Rape of Nanking
• C. J. Cherryh
  C. J. Cherryh
  Carolyn Janice Cherry , better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is a United States science fiction and fantasy author...
  
   – author
• J.D. Considine – music critic
• Richard Ben Cramer
  Richard Ben Cramer
  Richard Ben Cramer is an American journalist and writer.-Biography:Cramer was raised in Rochester, New York and attended Johns Hopkins University earning a bachelor's degree in the Liberal Arts. He later went on to earn a masters degree in journalism at Columbia University...
  
   – journalist, author of What It Takes
  What It Takes
  What It Takes is a documentary that follows four elite Ironman triathletes through a year of training and preparation in advance of the 2005 Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii....
  
  , Pulitzer Prize
  Pulitzer Prize
  The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
  
   winner
• Wes Craven
  Wes Craven
  Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven is an American actor, film director, writer, producer, perhaps best known as the director of many horror films, particularly slasher films, including the famed A Nightmare on Elm Street and Wes Craven's New Nightmare, featuring the iconic Freddy Krueger character, the...
  
   – film director, producer
• Caleb Deschanel
  Caleb Deschanel
  Joseph Caleb Deschanel, A.S.C. is an American film cinematographer and film/television director.-Early life: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...
  
   – cinematographer
• Michael Dumanis
  Michael Dumanis
  Michael Dumanis is an American poet, professor, and editor of poetry.-Works:Dumanis’s first collection of poetry, My Soviet Union , won the 2006 Juniper Prize for Poetry. Other works have appeared in literary journals, including Denver Quarterly, H.O.W...
  
   - poet and editor
• Mildred Dunnock
  Mildred Dunnock
  Mildred Dunnock was an American theater, film and television actress.- Early life :Born in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from Western Senior High School, Dunnock was a school teacher who did not start acting until she was in her early thirties...
  
   – renowned film and stage actress
• David Hildebrand - Maryland musicologist and colonial period music performer
• Murray Kempton
  Murray Kempton
  James Murray Kempton was an influential, Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist.-Biography:Kempton was born in Baltimore on December 16, 1917. His mother was Sally Ambler and his father was James Branson Kempton, a stock broker...
  
   – Pulitzer Prize-winning
  Pulitzer Prize
  The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
  
   journalist
• Quint Kessenich
  Quint Kessenich
  Quint Elroy Kessenich is an American sportscaster for ESPN and ABC television covering lacrosse, basketball, football, wrestling, and horse racing. He is a former All-American lacrosse goalkeeper. He attended the Johns Hopkins University from 1987 to 1990, where he was a two-time winner of the...
  
   - ESPN sportscaster, lacrosse All-American
• Porochista Khakpour
  Porochista Khakpour
  Porochista Khakpour is an Iranian American novelist.Born in Tehran, Iran, Khakpour was raised in South Pasadena, California, later attending Sarah Lawrence College in New York for her BA. She received her MA from Johns Hopkins University . Khakpour was an arts and entertainment journalist early in...
  
   - novelist
• Rjyan Kidwell - musician
• Kevin Kilner
  Kevin Kilner
  Kevin Kilner is an American television and film actor.Kilner was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Dorothea, a kindergarten teacher, and Edward Kilner, who worked in advertising sales and insurance. He made his first television appearance on an episode of The Cosby Show in 1989...
  
   - actor
• Alen Pol Kobryn
  Alen Pol Kobryn
  Alen Pol Kobryn, is an American poet, novelist, and voice actor.Kobryn was educated at Johns Hopkins and New York University, and studied with John Ashbery at the City University of New York....
  
   – poet
• David Lipsky
  David Lipsky
  David Lipsky is an American author. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1983 and Brown University in 1987, and holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University. Lipsky is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone Magazine. He received a National Magazine Award for writing about...
  
   – contributing editor Rolling Stone, author of Absolutely American
  Absolutely American
  -Summary:The book recounts four years in the lives of students at the United States Military Academy.-Plot:The book's genesis was a piece Lipsky wrote for Rolling Stone—the longest article published in that magazine since Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The book follows cadets...
  
  
• Megan Morrone
  Megan Morrone
  Megan Morrone is an American writer and former television personality. She is best known for her role on the technology-related television show The Screen Savers on TechTV – a cable and satellite channel which has since been taken over by G4...
  
   - TechTV
  TechTV
  TechTV was a 24-hour cable and satellite channel based in San Francisco featuring news and shows about computers, technology, and the Internet. In 2004, it merged with the G4 gaming channel which ultimately dissolved TechTV programming...
  
   personality
• Walter Murch
  Walter Murch
  Walter Scott Murch is an American film editor and sound designer.-Early life:Murch was born in New York City, New York, the son of Katharine and Canadian-born Walter Tandy Murch , a painter. He went to The Collegiate School, a private preparatory school in Manhattan, from 1949 to 1961...
  
   – Oscar-winning sound and film editor
• P. J. O'Rourke
  P. J. O'Rourke
  Patrick Jake "P. J." O'Rourke is an American political satirist, journalist, writer, and author. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on...
  
   – political satirist and journalist
• Arlene Raven
  Arlene Raven
  Arlene Raven was a feminist art historian, author, critic, educator, and curator...
  
   - author and art critic, professor
• James Rosen
  James Rosen
  James Rosen was a United States federal judge.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Rosen received an LL.B. from Newark Law School in 1930. He was in private practice in Union City, New Jersey from 1931 to 1959...
  
   - Fox News Channel Washington correspondent
• Brad Rutter
  Brad Rutter
  Bradford Gates "Brad" Rutter is the biggest all-time money winner on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy! and the second biggest all-time money winner on a game show....
  
  * - All-time Jeopardy!
  Jeopardy!
  Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...
  
   champion
• Gil Scott-Heron
  Gil Scott-Heron
  Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s...
  
   - Political Musician, Poet and Author (Masters Course)
• Laurence Shanet - award-winning commercial, film and theater director
• Howard "Chip" Silverman - author, lacrosse coach
• Gertrude Stein
  Gertrude Stein
  Gertrude Stein was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France.-Early life:...
  
   – feminist, author
• Susan Stewart - American poet and literary critic
• Bill Todman
  Bill Todman
  William S. "Bill" Todman was an American television producer born in New York City. He produced many of television's longest running shows with business partner Mark Goodson.-Early life:...
  
   - game show producer

Business

• Michael Bloomberg
  Michael Bloomberg
  Michael Rubens Bloomberg is the current Mayor of New York City. With a net worth of $19.5 billion in 2011, he is also the 12th-richest person in the United States...
  
   - (B.S. 1964) founder of Bloomberg L.P.
  Bloomberg L.P.
  Bloomberg L.P. is an American privately held financial software, media, and data company. Bloomberg makes up one third of the $16 billion global financial data market with estimated revenue of $6.9 billion. Bloomberg L.P...
  
  , Mayor of New York City
  Mayor of New York City
  The Mayor of the City of New York is head of the executive branch of New York City's government. The mayor's office administers all city services, public property, police and fire protection, most public agencies, and enforces all city and state laws within New York City.The budget overseen by the...
  
  
• Rahmi Koç
  Rahmi Koç
  Rahmi Mustafa Koç is a Turkish businessmanBorn in Ankara as the only son of one of Turkey's wealthiest man Vehbi Koç, he attended high school at Robert College in Istanbul after his primary education in Ankara. Rahmi Koç then studied at the Johns Hopkins University in the U.S. and received his B.A...
  
   - Chairman of Koç Holding, Turkey
  Turkey
  Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
  
  's largest and oldest conglomerate
• Edmund C. Lynch
  Edmund C. Lynch
  Edmund Calvert Lynch and his friend, Charles E. Merrill, formed Merrill Lynch on October 15, 1915.-Early years:Edmund Lynch was born on May 19, 1885 in Baltimore, Maryland to Richard Lynch and Jennie Vernon Smith Lynch...
  
   - (B.A. 1907) one of the founders of Merrill Lynch
  Merrill Lynch
  Merrill Lynch is the wealth management division of Bank of America. With over 15,000 financial advisors and $2.2 trillion in client assets it is the world's largest brokerage. Formerly known as Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., prior to 2009 the firm was publicly owned and traded on the New York...
  
   investment firm
• John C. Malone
  John C. Malone
  John C. Malone is an American businessman and philanthropist. He served as chief executive officer of cable and media giant, Tele-Communications Inc. , for twenty-four years from 1973–1996. Malone is now chairman of Liberty Media  and CEO of Discovery Holding Company. He was the interim CEO...
  
   - (MA. 1964/PhD. 1967) telecom magnate, former CEO of Tele-Communications Inc.
  Tele-Communications Inc.
  Tele-Communications, Inc. or TCI was a cable television provider in the United States, for much of its history controlled by Bob Magness and John Malone....
  
  
• Peter Magowan
  Peter Magowan
  Peter A. Magowan is the former managing general partner of the San Francisco Giants Major League Baseball franchise.-Early life and career:...
  
  * - Owner of the San Francisco Giants
  San Francisco Giants
  The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....
  
   and CEO of Safeway
  Safeway Inc.
  Safeway Inc. , a Fortune 500 company, is North America's second largest supermarket chain after The Kroger Co., with, as of December 2010, 1,694 stores located throughout the western and central United States and western Canada. It also operates some stores in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Eastern...
  
  
• Bill Miller
  Bill Miller (finance)
  Bill Miller is Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Legg Mason Capital Management, a subsidiary of Legg Mason, Inc. He is currently the portfolio manager of the Legg Mason Capital Management Value Trust and the Legg Mason Capital Management Opportunity Trust mutual funds...
  
   - Chairman and CEO of Legg Mason Capital Management
• Samuel J. Palmisano
  Samuel J. Palmisano
  Samuel J. Palmisano was president and chief executive officer of IBM, which as of 2009 was the largest IT company in the world and 45th largest company overall. He was elected chairman in October 2002, effective January 1, 2003, and has served as CEO since March 2002. Before he became CEO,...
  
   - IBM
  IBM
  International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
  
   Chairman and CEO
• Russ Smith - owner, publisher The New York Press
  New York Press
  New York Press was a free alternative weekly in New York City, that was published from 1988 to 2011. During its lifetime, it was the main competitor to the Village Voice...
  
  
• Christopher Sullivan
  Christopher Sullivan
  Christopher Sullivan may refer to:*Christopher D. Sullivan, United States Representative from New York from 1917 to 1941*Christopher Sullivan , United States soccer player in the 1990s...
  
   - President, CEO Sullco Industries
• David Sifry - Founder, CEO - Technorati
• Robert D. Manning
  Robert D. Manning
  Robert D. Manning is an American financial expert in consumer credit and financial services. Up until 2008, Manning was a professor of finance at Rochester Institute of Technology's E...
  
   - financial expert in consumer credit, author of Credit Card Nation

Notable faculty

• Herbert Baxter Adams
  Herbert Baxter Adams
  Herbert Baxter Adams was an American educator and historian.Adams was born to Nathaniel Dickinson Adams and Harriet Adams in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. On his mother's side, he was a descendant of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in...
  
   - historian, coined phrase "political science
  Political science
  Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
  
  "
• Peter Agre
  Peter Agre
  Peter Agre is an American medical doctor, professor, and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of aquaporins. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane...
  
   - chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
• Fouad Ajami
  Fouad Ajami
  Fouad A. Ajami , is a MacArthur Fellowship winning, Lebanese-born American university professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues. He is currently a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution....
  
   - Professor of Middle Eastern studies at SAIS and Director of the Council on Foreign Relations
  Council on Foreign Relations
  The Council on Foreign Relations is an American nonprofit nonpartisan membership organization, publisher, and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs...
  
  
• William Foxwell Albright - authenticator of the Dead Sea Scrolls
  Dead Sea scrolls
  The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts from the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical documents found between 1947 and 1956 on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, from which they derive their name...
  
  , linguist
  Linguistics
  Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
  
  , expert on ceramics
  Ceramics (art)
  In art history, ceramics and ceramic art mean art objects such as figures, tiles, and tableware made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery. Some ceramic products are regarded as fine art, while others are regarded as decorative, industrial or applied art objects, or as...
  
  
• Ethan Allen Andrews
  Ethan Allen Andrews (biologist)
  Ethan Allen Andrews was an American biologist. He received the degree of Ph.B. from Yale in 1881 and of Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1887...
  
  , biologist
• Christian B. Anfinsen
  Christian B. Anfinsen
  Christian Boehmer Anfinsen, Jr. was an American biochemist. He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stanford Moore and William Howard Stein for work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1972
• John Astin
  John Astin
  John Allen Astin is an American actor who has appeared in numerous films and television shows, and is best known for the role of Gomez Addams on The Addams Family, and other similarly eccentric comedic characters.-Early years:...
  
   - famed television actor (The Addams Family
  The Addams Family (TV series)
  The Addams Family is an American television series based on the characters in Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons. The 30-minute series was shot in black-and-white and aired for two seasons in 64 installments on ABC from September 18, 1964, to April 8, 1966...
  
  ), lecturer in the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars department
• James Mark Baldwin
  James Mark Baldwin
  James Mark Baldwin was an American philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervision of Scottish philosopher James McCosh and who was one of the founders of the Department of Psychology at the university...
  
   - philosopher
• John W. Baldwin
  John W. Baldwin
  John Wesley Baldwin is an American historian. He is Charles Homer Haskins professor of history emeritus at the Johns Hopkins University. Born in Chicago, he received his Hopkins Ph.D. in 1956 and joined the faculty in 1961. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in...
  
   - medievalist, member of the French Academy
• John Barth
  John Barth
  John Simmons Barth is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work.-Life:...
  
   - novelist
• Charles L. Bennett
  Charles L. Bennett
  Charles L. Bennett is an American observational astrophysicist and the Alumni Centennial Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. He is the Principal Investigator of NASA's highly successful Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe...
  
   - astrophysicist, Principal Investigator of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
  Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
  The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe — also known as the Microwave Anisotropy Probe , and Explorer 80 — is a spacecraft which measures differences in the temperature of the Big Bang's remnant radiant heat — the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation — across the full sky. Headed by Professor...
  
   (WMAP)
• Peter Bergen
  Peter Bergen
  Peter Bergen is a print and television journalist, author, and CNN's national security analyst. Bergen produced the first television interview with Osama Bin Laden in 1997. The interview, which aired on CNN, marked the first time that bin Laden declared war against the United States to a Western...
  
   - CNN
  CNN
  Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
  
   terrorism
  Terrorism
  Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...
  
   analyst and author of Holy War, Inc.
• Richard Bett
  Richard Bett
  Richard Arnot Home Bett holds a joint appointment in Philosophy and Classics at the Johns Hopkins University.He received his BA from Oxford University and his PhD from UC Berkeley. He spent 1994-5 as a Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C...
  
   - philosopher, former Executive Director of APA
  American Philosophical Association
  The American Philosophical Association is the main professional organization for philosophers in the United States. Founded in 1900, its mission is to promote the exchange of ideas among philosophers, to encourage creative and scholarly activity in philosophy, to facilitate the professional work...
  
  
• Alfred Blalock
  Alfred Blalock
  Alfred Blalock was a 20th-century American surgeon 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 Vivien Thomas and pediatric...
  
   - Lasker Prize winning surgeon.
• Vivien Thomas
  Vivien Thomas
  Vivien Theodore Thomas was an African-American surgical technician who developed the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s...
  
   - Co-developer of the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt, along with Alfred Blalock and Helen Taussig.
• Max Broedel - medical illustrator
  Medical illustrator
  A medical illustrator is a professional artist who interprets and creates visual material to help record and disseminate medical, biological and related knowledge. Medical illustrators not only produce such material but can also function as consultants and administrators within the field of...
  
   & founder of the first US medical illustration graduate program.
• Harold Brown
  Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense)
  Harold Brown , American scientist, was U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1977 to 1981 in the cabinet of President Jimmy Carter. He had previously served in the Lyndon Johnson administration as Director of Defense Research and Engineering and Secretary of the Air Force.While Secretary of Defense, he...
  
   - Secretary of Defense, 1977-1981
• Zbigniew Brzezinski
  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski 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....
  
   - National Security Advisor, 1977-1981
• Nicholas Murray Butler - Nobel Peace Prize, 1931
• David P. Calleo
  David P. Calleo
  David P. Calleo is an American intellectual and political economist, based at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where he holds the title of University Professor....
  
   - Director of European Studies, author of Rethinking Europe's Future
• Benjamin Carson - pediatric neurosurgeon, author Gifted Hands
• Arthur Cayley
  Arthur Cayley
  Arthur Cayley F.R.S. was a British mathematician. He helped found the modern British school of pure mathematics....
  
   - Mathematician
• William G. Cochran - statistician
• J.M. Coetzee - Nobel Prize in Literature, 2003
• Eliot A. Cohen
  Eliot A. Cohen
  Eliot A. Cohen is the Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. Cohen is the Director of the Strategic Studies Program at SAIS and has specialized in the Middle East, Persian Gulf, Iraq, arms...
  
   - Director of Strategic Studies at SAIS, Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Defense
• William E. Connolly
  William E. Connolly
  William E. Connolly is a political theorist known for his work on democracy and pluralism. He is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His 1974 work The Terms of Political Discourse won the 1999 Benjamin Lippincott Award.-Biography:Connolly was raised in...
  
  - influential political theorist
• Thomas M. Cooley
  Thomas M. Cooley
  Thomas McIntyre Cooley, LL.D., was the 25th Justice and a Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, between 1864 and 1885. Born in Attica, New York, he was father to Charles Cooley, a distinguished American sociologist...
  
   - appointed 1877, Michigan Supreme Court
  Michigan Supreme Court
  The Michigan Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is known as Michigan's "court of last resort" and consists of seven justices who are elected to eight-year terms. Candidates are nominated by political parties and are elected on a nonpartisan ballot...
  
   Justice, 1864-1885, namesake of Thomas M. Cooley Law School
  Thomas M. Cooley Law School
  Thomas M. Cooley Law School is an American Bar Association accredited law school in the United States. Located in Michigan, its main campus is in Lansing, and its satellite campuses are in Ann Arbor, Auburn Hills, and Grand Rapids. Cooley plans on opening another satellite campus in Tampa Bay,...
  
  , also a Dean of University of Michigan Law School
  University of Michigan Law School
  The University of Michigan Law School is the law school of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Founded in 1859, the school has an enrollment of about 1,200 students, most of whom are seeking Juris Doctor or Master of Laws degrees, although the school also offers a Doctor of Juridical...
  
  http://www.fullbooks.com/The-History-Of-University-Education-In.html
• W. Max Corden
  W. Max Corden
  Warner Max Corden is an Australian economist. He is mostly known for his work on the theory of trade protection, including the development of the dutch disease model of international trade. He has also been active in the fields of international monetary systems, macroeconomic policies of...
  
   - trade economist, developed Dutch disease
  Dutch disease
  In economics, the Dutch disease is a concept that purportedly explains the apparent relationship between the increase in exploitation of natural resources and a decline in the manufacturing sector...
  
   model.
• Richard Threlkeld Cox
  Richard Threlkeld Cox
  Richard Threlkeld Cox was a professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University, known for Cox's theorem relating to the foundations of probability....
  
   - physicist, Cox's theorem
  Cox's theorem
  Cox's theorem, named after the physicist Richard Threlkeld Cox, is a derivation of the laws of probability theory from a certain set of postulates. This derivation justifies the so-called "logical" interpretation of probability. As the laws of probability derived by Cox's theorem are applicable to...
  
  
• Tyler Cymet
  Tyler Cymet
  Tyler C. Cymet, D.O. is a physician in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended medical school at Nova Southeastern University, served as an intern at Chicago Osteopathic Medical Center, and performed a Primary Care Internal Medicine residency at Yale University and did additional training at Sinai...
  
   - physician
• Veena Das
  Veena Das
  Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. She also serves on the Executive Board of the Institute of Socio-Economic Research on Development and Democracy in India. She studied at the Indraprastha College for Women and Delhi School of Economics at...
  
  - Renowned feminist anthropologist
• Steven R. David
  Steven R. David
  Steven R. David is Professor of International Relations and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education at Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in international politics and security issues.-Education and positions:...
  
   - international relations
• Flavio Delbono
  Flavio Delbono
  Flavio Delbono is an Italian politician and economist. He served as the mayor of Bologna from 25 June 2009 until 28 January 2010, when he was forced to resign as he was being investigated for crimes such as embezzlement, fraud and aggravated abuse of office following allegations made by his former...
  
   - economist, mayor of Bologna
  Bologna
  Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
  
  
• Jacques Derrida
  Jacques Derrida
  Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...
  
   - philosopher
• Daniel Deudney
  Daniel Deudney
  Daniel Deudney is an American political scientist and Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His published work is mainly in the fields of international relations and political theory, with an emphasis on geopolitics and republicanism.-Education:Deudney graduated from...
  
   - international relations
• Stephen Dixon - most prolific American short story writer
• Acheson J. Duncan
  Acheson J. Duncan
  Acheson Johnston Duncan was a 20th century statistician and an acknowledged authority in the field of quality control....
  
   - statistician, winner of the Shewhart Medal
  Shewhart Medal
  The Shewhart Medal, named in honour of Walter A. Shewhart, is awarded annually by the American Society for Quality for ...outstanding technical leadership in the field of modern quality control, especially through the development to its theory, principles, and techniques. The first medal was...
  
  
• Paul H. Emmett
  Paul H. Emmett
  -Biography:He was born in Portland, Oregon. After completing his baccalaureate at Oregon Agricultural College , Emmett went on to the California Institute of Technology, where he earned his Ph.D. He was also a classmate and close friend of Linus Pauling at both institutions...
  
   - chemical engineer, Manhattan Project
  Manhattan Project
  The Manhattan Project was a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army...
  
  
• George L. Engel - psychiatrist, best known for the formulation of the biopsychosocial model
  Biopsychosocial model
  The biopsychosocial model is a general model or approach that posits that biological, psychological , and social factors, all play a significant role in human functioning in the context of disease or illness...
  
  
• Jessica Einhorn
  Jessica Einhorn
  Jessica P. Einhorn currently serves as Dean of Washington's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. Einhorn succeeded Paul Wolfowitz, who resigned in 2001 to become the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense...
  
   - Dean of SAIS, managing director of the World Bank
  World Bank
  The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
  
  
• Joseph Erlanger
  Joseph Erlanger
  Joseph Erlanger was an American physiologist.Erlanger was born on January 5, 1874, at San Francisco, California. He completed his B.S. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and completed his M.D. in 1899 from the Johns Hopkins University...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944
• Andrew Fire
  Andrew Fire
  Andrew Zachary Fire is an American biologist and professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mello, for the discovery of RNA interference...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2006
• Henry Jones Ford
  Henry Jones Ford
  Henry Jones Ford was a political scientist, journalist, university professor, and government official.-Biography:Ford worked as a managing editor and editorial writer from 1872 to 1905, at six different newspapers in three cities .Later returning to Baltimore , Ford taught at Johns Hopkins...
  
   - political scientist and journalist
• James Franck
  James Franck
  James Franck was a German Jewish physicist and Nobel laureate.-Biography:Franck was born to Jacob Franck and Rebecca Nachum Drucker. Franck completed his Ph.D...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Physics, 1925
• Francis Fukuyama
  Francis Fukuyama
  Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama is an American political scientist, political economist, and author. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford. Before that he served as a professor and director of the International Development program at the School of...
  
   - political economist, author The End of History
  The End of History and the Last Man
  The End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book by Francis Fukuyama, expanding on his 1989 essay "The End of History?", published in the international affairs journal The National Interest...
  
  
• Henry Homer Gessler
  Doc Gessler
  Henry Homer "Doc" Gessler was a Major League Baseball player born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania who began his eight season career, at the age of 22, with the Detroit Tigers in . He played mainly as a right fielder in a career that totaled 880 games played, 2969 at bats, 831 hits, 363 RBIs and 14...
  
   - Pro-Baseball player, 1903-1911; received doctorate.
• Ashraf Ghani
  Ashraf Ghani
  Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai is a prominent politician in Afghanistan and the former chancellor of Kabul University. He is also the chairman of the Institute for State Effectiveness, an organization set up in 2005 to promote the ability of states to serve their citizens. Before returning to...
  
   - Finance minister of Afghanistan, 2002-2004
• Riccardo Giacconi
  Riccardo Giacconi
  Riccardo Giacconi is an Italian/American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He is currently a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.- Biography :...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Physics, 2002, National Medal of Science
  National Medal of Science
  The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and...
  
  , 2003
• Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
  Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
  Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve , was an American classical scholar.-Biography:He was born in Charleston, South Carolina to Emma Louisa Lanneau and Benjamin Gildersleeve...
  
   - classical scholar
• Maria Goeppert-Mayer - Nobel Prize in Physics, 1963
• Michael Griffin
  Michael D. Griffin
  Michael Douglas Griffin is an American physicist and aerospace engineer. From April 13, 2005 to January 20, 2009 he served as Administrator of NASA, the space agency of the United States...
  
   - former NASA
  NASA
  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
  
   Administrator (2005–2009)
• Stanislav Grof
  Stanislav Grof
  Stanislav Grof is a psychiatrist, one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a pioneering researcher into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of analyzing, healing, and obtaining growth and insight into the human psyche...
  
   - psychologist
• G. Stanley Hall
  G. Stanley Hall
  Granville Stanley Hall was a pioneering American psychologist and educator. His interests focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory...
  
   - pioneer in the field of psychology
  Psychology
  Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
  
  , founding president of Clark University
  Clark University
  Clark University is a private research university and liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts.Founded in 1887, it is the oldest educational institution founded as an all-graduate university. Clark now also educates undergraduates...
  
  
• Steve H. Hanke - economist, United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   Presidential advisor, Cato Institute
  Cato Institute
  The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane, who remains president and CEO, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries, Inc., the largest privately held...
  
   senior fellow
• Haldan Keffer Hartline
  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  Haldan Keffer Hartline was an American physiologist who was a co-winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision.Hartline began his study of retinal electrophysiology as a National Research Council Fellow at Johns...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967
• David Harvey
  David Harvey (geographer)
  David Harvey is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York . A leading social theorist of international standing, he received his PhD in Geography from University of Cambridge in 1961. Widely influential, he is among the top 20 most cited...
  
   (until 2001) - geographer
• Christian Herter
  Christian Herter
  Christian Archibald Herter was an American politician and statesman; 59th governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957, and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961.-Early life:...
  
   - former U.S. Secretary of State and Governor of Massachusetts
  Governor of Massachusetts
  The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the executive magistrate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States. The current governor is Democrat Deval Patrick.-Constitutional role:...
  
  
• John L. Holland
  John L. Holland
  John Luther Holland was an American psychologist who created the career development model known as the Holland Occupational Themes. It is often referred to as the Holland Codes....
  
   - psychologist who developed the RIASEC career model
• Hans-Hermann Hoppe
  Hans-Hermann Hoppe
  Hans-Hermann Hoppe is an Austrian School economist of the anarcho-capitalist tradition, and a Professor Emeritus of economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.-Academic career:...
  
   - economist
• David H. Hubel
  David H. Hubel
  David Hunter Hubel is the John Franklin Enders Professor of Neurobiology, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School. He 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...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1971
• Nathan Jacobson
  Nathan Jacobson
  Nathan Jacobson was an American mathematician....
  
   - Mathematician
• Kay Redfield Jamison
  Kay Redfield Jamison
  Kay Redfield Jamison is an American clinical psychologist and writer whose work has centered on bipolar disorder which she has suffered from since her early adulthood...
  
   - Professor of Psychiatry
• Frederick Jelinek
  Frederick Jelinek
  Frederick Jelinek was a Czech American researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing...
  
   - pioneer in automatic speech recognition and natural language processing
  Natural language processing
  Natural language processing is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages; it began as a branch of artificial intelligence....
  
  
• Majid Khadduri
  Majid Khadduri
  Majid Khadduri was an Iraqi–born founder of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Middle East Studies program. Internationally, he was recognized as a leading authority on a wide variety of Islamic subjects, modern history and the politics of the Middle East...
  
   - Professor of Islamic Law and Middle East specialist
• Kenneth H. Keller
  Kenneth H. Keller
  Kenneth Harrison Keller serves as Director of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies' Bologna Center in Bologna, Italy....
  
   - President of the University of Minnesota system
  University of Minnesota system
  The University of Minnesota is a large university with several campuses spread throughout the U.S. state of Minnesota. There are five primary campuses in the Twin Cities, Duluth, Crookston, Morris, and Rochester. A campus was open in Waseca for a time. The university also operates several...
  
  
• Hugh Kenner
  Hugh Kenner
  William Hugh Kenner , was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor.Kenner was born in Peterborough, Ontario on January 7, 1923; his father taught classics...
  
   - Andrew Mellon professor of humanities 1973-1990, literary critic, expert on Ezra Pound and James Joyce, and popular writer on computing
• Kunihiko Kodaira - Mathematician, Fields Medal
  Fields Medal
  The Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...
  
   winner
• Anne O. Krueger - Managing Director of the IMF
  International Monetary Fund
  The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...
  
   and World Bank Chief Economist
  World Bank Chief Economist
  The World Bank Chief Economist provides intellectual leadership and direction to the Bank’s overall development strategy and economic research agenda, at global, regional and country levels...
  
  
• Simon Kuznets
  Simon Kuznets
  Simon Smith Kuznets was a Russian American economist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who won the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Economics, 1971
• Sidney Lanier
  Sidney Lanier
  Sidney Lanier was an American musician and poet.-Biography:Sidney Lanier was born February 3, 1842, in Macon, Georgia, to parents Robert Sampson Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson; he was mostly of English ancestry. His distant French Huguenot ancestors immigrated to England in the 16th century...
  
  
• Albert L. Lehninger
  Albert L. Lehninger
  Albert Lester Lehninger was an American biochemist in the field of bioenergetics. He made fundamental contributions to the current understanding of metabolism at a molecular level. In 1948, he discovered, with Eugene P...
  
   - author of a long-time standard biochemistry textbook
• Paul Linebarger
  Cordwainer Smith
  Cordwainer Smith – pronounced CORDwainer – was the pseudonym used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger for his science fiction works. Linebarger was a noted East Asia scholar and expert in psychological warfare...
  
   - author known as Cordwainer Smith
• Alfred J. Lotka
  Alfred J. Lotka
  Alfred James Lotka was a US mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician, famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics. An American biophysicist best known for his proposal of the predator-prey model, developed simultaneously but independently of Vito Volterra...
  
   - mathematician and statistician
• Alice McDermott
  Alice McDermott
  Alice McDermott is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities. Born in Brooklyn, New York, McDermott attended St...
  
   - novelist, National Book Award, 1998
• Victor A. McKusick
  Victor A. McKusick
  Victor Almon McKusick , internist and medical geneticist, was University Professor of Medical Genetics and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA...
  
   - author of Mendelian Inheritance in Man
  Mendelian Inheritance in Man
  Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man is a database that catalogues all the known diseases with a genetic component, and—when possible—links them to the relevant genes in the human genome and provides references for further research and tools for genomic analysis of a catalogued gene. OMIM is one...
  
  
• Merton H. Miller - Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990
• George Richards Minot - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934
• William Montgomery
  William Montgomery
  William Montgomery may refer to:*William Montgomery , , American judge, U.S. Congressman for Pennsylvania*William Montgomery , , American physician, U.S. Congressman for North Carolina...
  
   - philosopher
• Jack Morava
  Jack Morava
  Jack Johnson Morava is an American topologist.Of Czech and Appalachian descent, he was raised in Mercedes, Texas ; an early interest in topology was strongly encouraged by his parents...
  
   - Mathematician
• Frank Morley
  Frank Morley
  Frank Morley was a leading mathematician, known mostly for his teaching and research in the fields of algebra and geometry...
  
   - Mathematician
• Harmon Northrop Morse
  Harmon Northrop Morse
  Harmon Northrop Morse was an American chemist. Today he is known as the first to have synthesized paracetamol, but this substance only became widely used as a drug decades after Morse's death. In the first half of the 20th century he was best known for his study of osmotic pressure, for which he...
  
   - chemist, Avogadro Medal 1916
• Robert H. Mundell - Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999
• Azar Nafisi
  Azar Nafisi
  Azar Nafisi, born ca. 1947, is an Iranian academic and bestselling writer who has resided in the United States since 1997 when she emigrated from Iran. Her field is English language literature....
  
   - Muslim feminist and author
• Daniel Nathans
  Daniel Nathans
  Daniel Nathans 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...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
• Simon Newcomb
  Simon Newcomb
  Simon Newcomb was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics and statistics and authoring a science fiction novel.-Early life:Simon Newcomb was born in the town of...
  
   - astronomer and mathematician
• Paul H. Nitze - diplomat, principal author NSC-68
  NSC-68
  National Security Council Report 68 was a 58-page formerly-classified report issued by the United States National Security Council on April 14, 1950, during the presidency of Harry S. Truman. Written during the formative stage of the Cold War, it was top secret until the 1970s when it was made...
  
  , co-founder of SAIS
  SAIS
  SAIS can refer to:* Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, part of The Johns Hopkins University.* Sharjah American International School* Southern Association of Independent Schools...
  
  
• Lars Onsager
  Lars Onsager
  Lars Onsager was a Norwegian-born American physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University....
  
   - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1968
• Sir William Osler
  William Osler
  Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet was a physician. He was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at Johns Hopkins Hospital as the first Professor of Medicine and founder of the Medical Service there. Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet (July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a physician. He was...
  
   - physician
• Sidney Painter
  Sidney Painter
  Sidney Painter was a twentieth-century American medievalist at Johns Hopkins University.Painter was born in New York City; after the Taft School he attended Yale University . He wrote many influential books...
  
   - medievalist
• Robert G. Parr - theoretical chemist
• Henry Paulson
  Henry Paulson
  Henry Merritt "Hank" Paulson, Jr. is an American banker who served as the 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury. He previously served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs.-Early life and family:...
  
  - former U.S. Treasury Secretary (2006–2009)
• Ronald Paulson
  Ronald Paulson
  Ronald Paulson , is an American professor of English, a specialist in English 18th-century art and culture, and English artist William Hogarth.-Education:...
  
   - English specialist
• Charles Sanders Peirce - logician
• J.G.A. Pocock
  J.G.A. Pocock
  John Greville Agard Pocock , as a writer known as J. G. A. Pocock, is a historian noted for his trenchant studies of republicanism in the early modern period , for his treatment of Edward Gibbon and his contemporaries as historians of Enlightenment, and, in historical method, for his contributions...
  
   - Harry C. Black Professor of History Emeritus
• Ayn Rand
  Ayn Rand
  Ayn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism....
  
   - author The Fountainhead
  The Fountainhead
  The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand. It was Rand's first major literary success and brought her fame and financial success. More than 6.5 million copies of the book have been sold worldwide....
  
  , Atlas Shrugged
  Atlas Shrugged
  Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in the United States. Rand's fourth and last novel, it was also her longest, and the one she considered to be her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing...
  
  ; visiting lecturer - 1961
• Ira Remsen
  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.-Biography:...
  
   - chemist, discoverer of saccharin
  Saccharin
  Saccharin is an artificial sweetener. The basic substance, benzoic sulfilimine, has effectively no food energy and is much sweeter than sucrose, but has a bitter or metallic aftertaste, especially at high concentrations...
  
  
• Riordan Roett
  Riordan Roett
  Riordan Roett, is an American political scientist specializing in Latin America. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in Political Science and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
  
   - political scientist and Latin America
  Latin America
  Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
  
   specialist
• Henry Augustus Rowland
  Henry Augustus Rowland
  Henry Augustus Rowland was a U.S. physicist. Between 1899 and 1901 he served as the first president of the American Physical Society...
  
   - physicist
• Avi Rubin
  Avi Rubin
  Aviel David Rubin a graduate of the University of Michigan and Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, Technical Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins, Director of ACCURATE, President and co-founder of and an expert in systems and networking security...
  
   - Head of ACCURATE
  ACCURATE
  ACCURATE was established in 2005 by a group of computer scientists, psychologists and policy experts to address problems with electronic voting...
  
   to solve problem of secure electronic voting
• Vyacheslav Shokurov
  Vyacheslav Shokurov
  Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Shokurov, born on 18 May 1950, is aRussian mathematician best known for his research inalgebraic geometry. The proof of the Noether–Enriques–Petri theorem,the Cone theorem, the existence of a line on smooth Fano varieties...
  
   - Mathematician
• Robert Skidelsky - economist, biographer of John Maynard Keynes
  John Maynard Keynes
  John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, CB FBA , was a British economist whose ideas have profoundly affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, as well as the economic policies of governments...
  
  
• R. Jeffrey Smith
  R. Jeffrey Smith
  R. Jeffrey Smith is a reporter at the Washington Post and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2006.Smith was a senior writer from 1977 to 1986 for Science magazine and he won two Science in Society Journalism Awards during that period. Afterward, his career has developed...
  
   - Pulitzer Prize
  Pulitzer Prize
  The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
  
   winner
• Hamilton O. Smith
  Hamilton O. Smith
  Hamilton Othanel Smith is an American microbiologist and Nobel laureate.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,...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
• Solomon H. Snyder
  Solomon H. Snyder
  Solomon H. Snyder is an American neuroscientist.Snyder attended Georgetown University 1955-1958 and received his MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1962. After medical internship at the Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco, he served as a research associate 1963-1965 at the NIH,...
  
   - National Medal of Science
  National Medal of Science
  The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and...
  
  , 2003
• Sir Richard Stone
  Richard Stone
  Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone was an eminent British economist who in 1984 received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for developing an accounting model that could be used to track economic activities on a national and, later, an international scale...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Economics, 1984
• Raman Sundrum
  Raman Sundrum
  Raman Sundrum is a theoretical particle physicist. He is an Indian American of South Asian origin. His most famous contribution to the field is a class of models called the Randall-Sundrum models, first published in 1999 with Lisa Randall....
  
  -Physicist
• James Joseph Sylvester
  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...
  
   - mathematician
• Paul Smolensky
  Paul Smolensky
  Paul Smolensky is a professor of Cognitive Science at the Johns Hopkins University.Along with Alan Prince he developed Optimality Theory, a representational model of linguistics...
  
   - cognitive scientist - authored Optimality Theory
  Optimality theory
  Optimality theory is a linguistic model proposing that the observed forms of language arise from the interaction between conflicting constraints. OT models grammars as systems that provide mappings from inputs to outputs; typically, the inputs are conceived of as underlying representations, and...
  
  
• Pedro Salinas
  Pedro Salinas
  Pedro Salinas y Serrano was a Spanish poet and member of the Generation of '27. He was also a scholar and critic of Spanish literature, teaching at universities in Spain, England, and the United States....
  
   - Spanish poet
• Mark Strand
  Mark Strand
  Mark Strand is an American poet, essayist, and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. Since 2005, he has been a professor of English at Columbia University.- Biography :...
  
   - 1990-1991 US Poet Laureate
  Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
  The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate—serves as the nation's official poet. During his or her term, the Poet Laureate seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of...
  
  , Pulitzer Prize
  Pulitzer Prize
  The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
  
   winner
• Clifford Truesdell
  Clifford Truesdell
  Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III was an American mathematician, natural philosopher, historian of science, and polemicist.-Life:...
  
   - Mathematician, natural philosopher and historian of mathematics.
• Harold Clayton Urey - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1934
• Vincent du Vigneaud
  Vincent du Vigneaud
  Vincent du Vigneaud was an American biochemist. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955 for the isolation, structural identification, and total synthesis of the cyclic peptide, oxytocin.-Biography:...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1955
• John Walker
  John Walker (organist)
  John C. Walker , more familiarly known as John Walker, is an American concert organist, choirmaster, and CD recording artist. Walker has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Asia, and Europe...
  
   - concert organist (Peabody faculty)
• David B. Weishampel - paleontologist, author of The Dinosauria 2004
• James Edward Maceo West
  James Edward Maceo West
  James Edward Maceo West is an American inventor and acoustician. Along with Gerhard Sessler, West developed the foil electret microphone in 1962...
  
   - National Medal of Technology, 2006
• George Hoyt Whipple - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934
• Chester Wickwire
  Chester Wickwire
  Chester "Chet" L. Wickwire was chaplain emeritus of the Johns Hopkins University. He was a prominent fighter for civil rights and an international peace activist...
  
   - Chaplain emeritus andhumanist
• Torsten Wiesel
  Torsten Wiesel
  Torsten Nils Wiesel was a Swedish co-recipient with David H. Hubel 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...
  
   - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1981
• Michael Williams
  Michael Williams (philosopher)
  Michael Williams 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 the philosophy of language, Wittgenstein, and the history of modern philosophy. He is...
  
   - philosopher
• Paul Wolfowitz
  Paul Wolfowitz
  Paul Dundes Wolfowitz is a former United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, President of the World Bank, and former dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University...
  
   - President, World Bank
  World Bank
  The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
  
  , former United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   Deputy Secretary of Defense, former Dean of SAIS
  Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
  The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies , a division of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's leading and most prestigious graduate schools devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and...
  
  
• Barry Wood
  Barry Wood (football)
  William Barry Wood, Jr. , was an American football player and medical educator. Wood played quarterback for Harvard during the 1929-1931 seasons and was one of the most prominent football players of his time...
  
   - microbiologist and physician
• Robert W. Wood
  Robert W. Wood
  Robert Williams Wood was an American physicist and inventor. He is often cited as being a pivotal contributor to the field of optics and is best known for giving birth to the so-called "black-light effect"...
  
   - experimental physicist
• Elias Zerhouni
  Elias Zerhouni
  Elias A. Zerhouni is an Algerian born American radiologist and medical researcher. He was the 15th director of the National Institutes of Health, appointed by George W. Bush in May 2002. He served for 6 years, stepping down in October, 2008.-Background:A resident of Pasadena, Maryland, Zerhouni...
  
   - Director of the NIH