This is a **list of people affiliated with Johns Hopkins University**THEFARTSTATIONOFALLTIMEINAMERICAEVERONTHISSPECIFICUNIVERSE-OHCRAPILOSTMYTOOTHBRUSHAAAAAAAA an American university located in Baltimore, Maryland. The Johns Hopkins Alumni Association defines eligibility for membership as follows: The Johns Hopkins Alumni Association defines Johns Hopkins alumni as those individuals who have received a formal degree from Johns Hopkins, including Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate degrees. Certificate holders, CTY alumni, post-baccalaureate attendees, and Peabody Prep alumni are not considered alumni of the university by the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association.

Notable alumni

Nobel laureates

• Peter Agre – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2003 • Christian B. Anfinsen – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1972 • Richard Axel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2004 • Joseph Erlanger – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944 • Andrew Fire – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2006 • Robert Fogel – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1993 • James Franck – Nobel Prize in Physics, 1925 • Herbert Spencer Gasser – Nobel Prize in Physiology, 1944 • Riccardo Giacconi – Nobel Prize in Physics, 2002 • Maria Goeppert-Mayer – Nobel Prize in Physics, 1963 • Paul Greengard – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2000 • Carol W. Greider – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2009 • Haldan Keffer Hartline – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967 • David H. Hubel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1981 • William G. Kaelin Jr. – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2019 • Simon Kuznets – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1971 • Merton H. Miller – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990 • Thomas Hunt Morgan – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1933 • Daniel Nathans – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978 • Adam Riess – Nobel Prize in Physics, 2011 • Martin Rodbell – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1994 • Francis Peyton Rous – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1966 • Gregg L. Semenza – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2019 • Hamilton O. Smith – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978 • Vincent du Vigneaud – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1955 • George Hoyt Whipple – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934 • Torsten Wiesel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1981 • Jody Williams – Nobel Peace Prize, 1997 • Woodrow Wilson – President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize, 1919

Academia, science, medicine and technology

• William Foxwell Albright – authenticator of the Dead Sea Scrolls, linguist, expert on ceramics • Hattie Alexander – pediatrician and microbiologist • John August Anderson – astronomer • Jack Andraka – cancer researcher; as a high school student, developed new test for detecting pancreatic cancer early • Lynne M. Angerer – developmental biologist • Richard T. Antoun – Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Binghamton University • John W. Ayers (Ph.D. 2011) – behavioral epidemiologist • Betsy Bang – biologist • Fred Bang – developed the Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) test for bacterial endotoxins • Florence Bascom – geologist • Richard E. Bellman – applied mathematician; inventor of dynamic programming • Harold H. Bender – professor of philology at Princeton University • Michael T. Benson – president of Coastal Carolina University • Vinod Bhakuni – biophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar and N-BIOS laureate • Frederick S. Billig – scramjet and hypersonics pioneer • Lewis E. Braverman (Ph.D. 1955) – chief of endocrinology at Boston University • David S. Bredt – neuroscientist, professor and research leader in pharmaceutical companies • Rachel Brem - diagnostic radiologist, technologies for diagnosis of breast cancer • Jay Clark Brown – Professor Emeritus in the Department of microbiology, immunology, and cancer biology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine • J. Prentiss Browne – architect • Hilde Bruch – Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, expert on eating disorders • Howard Bruenn (M.D. 1929) – personal physician of President Franklin D. Roosevelt • Ernesto Bustamante (Ph.D. 1978, School of Medicine) – biochemist, molecular biologist, former Chief of the National Institute of Health of Peru • Kim Butler – historian and author • Schuyler V. Cammann (Ph.D. 1949) – anthropologist • Lisa A. Carey – distinguished professor in Breast Cancer Research • David Celentano – epidemiologist • Chi-Chao Chan – ophthalmologist • Samuel Charache, hematologist, discovered the first treatment for sickle cell disease • Dipankar Chatterji – Indian molecular biologist and Padma Shri recipient • Harold F. Cherniss – noted historian of ancient philosophy • William Chomsky – scholar of Hebrew and Judaic studies, father of Noam Chomsky • Denton Cooley – cardiovascular surgeon • Mary Croughan – epidemiologist and academic administrator • John Dewey – philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer • William H. Dobelle – biomedical researcher • Wendell E. Dunn – educator and principal of Forest Park High School • G. Roger Edwards – archaeologist • Jessica Einhorn – Dean of SAIS, managing director of the World Bank • Daniel Eisenberg (B.A.) – Distinguished Research Professor of Spanish at Florida State University • Luther P. Eisenhart – mathematician, theoretical physicist • Joel Elkes – psychopharmaceutical researcher • Adam Falk – President of Williams College • James M. Farr – President of the University of Florida • Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Feldman – rabbi emeritus of Congregation Beth Jacob of Atlanta • John Charles Fields – mathematician, established Fields Medal • Karen Fleming – biophysicist known for membrane protein thermodynamics • Abraham Flexner – educator, reformer of medical and higher education in the United States and Canada, author of the Flexner Report, founder of the Institute for Advanced Study • Linda P. Fried – geriatrician and epidemiologist, dean of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health • Hall Gardner –- Professor of International Politics at the American University of Paris • William K. George – fluid dynamicist • George Otto Gey – scientist, propagated the HeLa cell line, inventor of the roller drum • Sherita Hill Golden – Hugh P. McCormick Family Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism • Solomon W. Golomb – mathematician, invented the Golomb coding and Golomb ruler • George Gorse (B.A. 1971) – Viola Horton Professor of Art History, Pomona College • Harry Clinton Gossard – geometer, discoverer of the Gossard perspector of a triangle • Linda Grant DePauw – modern historian, retired university teacher, non-fiction author, journal editor • Duane Graveline – astronaut • Michael Griffin – NASA administrator • Adolf Guttmacher – rabbi • Abner McGehee Harvey – head of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1946–1973 • Rigoberto Hernandez – chemist and diversity advocate • Frank Irving Herriott – PhD (1893) • Arthur Hertzberg – rabbi • L. Emmett Holt Jr. – pediatrician • Jason Huang – neurosurgeon • Ru-Chih Chow Huang – biochemist • Elmer Huerta – physician and health communicator • Grover Hutchins – pathologist • Ray Hyman – Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon, author, magician and a noted critic of parapsychology • James H. Hyslop (1854–1920) – professor of ethics and logic at Columbia University; psychical researcher; secretary-treasurer of the American Society for Psychical Research • Jose Itzigsohn – professor of sociology at Brown University • Kimberly S. Johnson (MD, 1997) – professor of medicine at Duke University • Kate Breckenridge Karpeles (1887–1941) (MD 1914) – U. S. Army doctor during World War I • Kenneth H. Keller – Director of the SAIS Bologna Center, former President of the University of Minnesota system • Cornelius M. Kerwin – President of American University • Charles Rollin Keyes – geologist • David W. Kennedy, emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania • Steven Knapp – President of George Washington University • Susan Kolb – medical doctor and author • Christine Ladd-Franklin – scientist and logician • Hey-Kyoung Lee – neuroscience professor • Steven Lehrer – medical researcher and writer • Bruce Lerman – cardiologist; Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Presbyterian Hospital • Lin Ruey-shiung (Dr.P.H., 1977) – Taiwanese physician and professor of public health; professor emeritus and former dean (1993–1996) of the College of Public Health, National Taiwan University; minor vice presidential candidate in 2012 • Gerald E. Loeb – neurophysiologist, biomedical engineer, academic • Willis Maddrey – internist and hepatologist • Patrick Maggitti – first provost of Villanova University and former dean of the Villanova School of Business • Thomas H. Maren MD – inventor of the drug Trusopt • Howard Markel – pediatrician and historian of medicine • John Mauchly – co-inventor of the ENIAC Computer • Michael Merzenich – professor emeritus neuroscientist, brain researcher, CEO Scientific Learning, Posit Science • Tanya Moore – biostatistician and STEM activist • Bessie Moses – gynecologist and obstetrician • Yūjirō Motora – psychologist • Mike Muuss – author of Ping • Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu – psychiatrist and epidemiologist • George Nemhauser – operations researcher; A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Institute Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology; former president of the Operations Research Society of America • Michael J. Neufeld – historian, curator of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum • Frank Oppenheimer – physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project • Andre Francis Palmer – chemical engineer and associate dean • Nita Patel – research scientist who led the development of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine • Orra Almira Phelps (MD 1927) – Navy physician, botanist, naturalist, mountaineer, and writer • Fernando Picó (Ph.D. 1970) – historian, Jesuit priest, expert on the history of Puerto Rico • Charles Lane Poor – astronomer • Richard S. Potember – inventor and engineer • Kanury Venkata Subba Rao – immunologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (1997) laureate • Ann Reid – science education advocate • Nicholas P. Restifo – tumor immunology and immunotherapy • Justin B. Ries (Ph.D. 2005) – geoscientist and inventor known for discoveries in the field of global oceanic change • Thomas Milton Rivers – virologist, United States Navy Admiral • Arye Rosen – electrical engineer • Jonathan Rosenblatt – rabbi • Saurabh Saha – cancer researcher • Ozer Schild (1930–2006) – Danish-born Israeli academic, President of the University of Haifa and President of the College of Judea and Samaria ("Ariel College") • Eitan Schwarz + psychiatrist • Gail G. Shapiro – pediatric allergist • Mark Shelhamer – Professor of Otolaryngology, head and neck surgery • William M. Sinton – astronomer at Harvard University • Louise L. Sloan – ophthalmologist and vision scientist • Clifford V. Smith, Jr. – fourth chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee • Aage B. Sørensen – sociologist • Gabrielle M. Spiegel – historian of the Middle Ages; former President of the American Historical Association • Flora E. Strout – teacher, social reformer • Laura Sumner – numismatist • Harry L. Swinney – physicist, Director of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Texas at Austin • Ibrahim B. Syed – radiologist • Morris Tanenbaum – physical chemist, developed the first working silicon transistor on January 26, 1954 • Erika Moore Taylor – biomedical engineer, assistant professor at University of Florida, Mentor • Michael E. Thomas – professor of industrial engineering, former acting president of the Georgia Institute of Technology • Amytis Towfighi – Associate Professor of Neurology • Frederick Jackson Turner – historian • Robert Ulanowicz – theoretical ecologist • Thorstein Veblen – economist, author, The Theory of the Leisure Class • Selwyn M. Vickers - President and CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center • Heather Wakelee – professor of oncology at Stanford University Medical Center, Merit Award recipient from the American Society of Clinical Oncology • George W. Ward – third principal of Maryland State Normal School (now Towson University) • John B. Watson – psychologist • Gabriel P. Weisberg (M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1967) – Professor of Art History Emeritus, University of Minnesota • Morris A. Wessel – pediatrician, pioneer of hospice care, discoverer of colic • Henry S. West – fourth principal of Maryland State Normal School (now Towson University) • John Archibald Wheeler – physicist, graduate advisor to Richard Feynman and Kip Thorne, coined the term "black hole" • Reid Wiseman – NASA astronaut as part of Expedition 40 • Maria Torrence Wishart – Canadian medical illustrator and the founder of the University of Toronto's Art as Applied to Medicine program • Abel Wolman – inventor of modern water treatment techniques • Bang Wong – creative director of the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard University • Frank H. Wu – Chancellor and Dean of UC Hastings College of the Law; law professor; author • John H. Yardley – pathologist • Frederick Yeh – biologist and animal welfare activist • Rose Zetzer – first woman admitted to the Maryland State Bar Association

Athletics

• Louis Clarke – Olympic track champion • Andy Enfield – Southern Methodist University men's basketball head coach • Henry Homer Gessler – Major League Baseball player, 1903–1911 • Kyle Harrison – three-time All-American lacrosse player at JHU and Major League Lacrosse player • Davey Johnson – Major League Baseball player and manager • Marc Kligman – sports agent and criminal lawyer • Andrea Leand (MBA) – professional tennis player • Alex Mullen – three-time world memory champion (2015–17) • Dave Pietramala – University of North Carolina Men's Lacrosse defensive coordinator, former Johns Hopkins lacrosse coach • Paul Rabil – All-American lacrosse player and MLL Most Valuable Player; co-founder of the Premier Lacrosse League. • William C. Schmeisser – "Father Bill", National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee • Robert H. Scott – Johns Hopkins lacrosse coach, athletic director, author • John Thomas – Led lacrosse team to a 34–6 record during his time at JHU • John Tucker – head coach of Washington Bayhawks professional lacrosse team • Wes Unseld Jr. – Washington Wizards head basketball coach • Joanna Zeiger (born 1970) -–Olympic and world champion triathlete, and author • Don Zimmerman – UMBC lacrosse coach

Business

• Sanju Bansal (M.S. 1990) – co-founder of MicroStrategy • Scott M. Black – founder of Delphi Management • Michael Bloomberg (B.S. 1964) – founder of Bloomberg L.P., Mayor of New York City • Amy Compton-Phillips (M.D., 1985) – former President of Clinical Care for Providence St. Joseph Health • David S. Cordish (B.A. 1960, M.L.A 1965) – real estate developer, Chairman and CEO of the Cordish Company • Paul L. Cordish – attorney and businessman, former member of the Maryland House of Delegates and founder of the Cordish Law Firm, serving as the legal arm of the Cordish Company • Ina Drew – former Chief Investment Officer of J.P. Morgan • Henry Gantt – eponymous designer of the Gantt chart • Jeff Greene – real estate entrepreneur • John Hewson – Chairman of General Security Australia Insurance Brokers Pty Ltd • David M. Hoffman – CEO of Internews Network • Terry Keenan (B.A., A&S 1983) – business columnist for the New York Post, anchor for CNN • Shahal M. Khan – owner of Plaza Hotel and venture capitalist • Jeong H. Kim – President of Bell Labs • Rahmi Koç – Chairman of Koç Holding, Turkey's largest and oldest conglomerate • Robert Lawrence Kuhn – corporate strategist, investment banker, adviser to Chinese leaders • Sol Kumin (B.A. 1999) – founder of Folger Hill Asset Management; philanthropist; winning thoroughbred racehorse owner • Christopher Hoiles Lee – founder of AIG Highstar Capital; Chairman of Ports America • Barry Lowenkron (M.S. '77) – Vice President of Global Security & Sustainability, MacArthur Foundation • Edmund C. Lynch (B.A. 1907) – co-founder of Merrill Lynch • Patrick Maggitti, PhD (MBA 2002) – first provost of Villanova University, former dean of the Villanova School of Business • Peter Magowan – owner of the San Francisco Giants and CEO of Safeway • John C. Malone (M.A. 1964; PhD. 1967) – Chairman of Liberty Media; CEO of Discovery Holding Company; largest private land owner in the United States. • Robert D. Manning – financial expert in consumer credit, author of Credit Card Nation • Michael Marcus – commodities trader • Dave McClure – founder of 500 Startups • Gail J. McGovern (B.A. 1974) – President and CEO of the American Red Cross • Bill Miller – Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Legg Mason Capital Management • Gordon Moore – co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel; the author of Moore's law • Edward L. Morse – Global Head of Commodities Research at Citigroup; co-founder of PFC Energy • Samuel J. Palmisano – IBM Chairman, former president and CEO • Karen Peetz (M.S. ’81) – President of BNY Mellon • Jeff Raider – founder of Harry's and Warby Parker • Leslie Sanchez – founder and CEO of Impacto Group LLC • Charles Scharf – CEO of Wells Fargo • David Sifry – founder and CEO of Technorati • Bill Stromberg – CEO of T. Rowe Price and only Johns Hopkins player in the College Football Hall of Fame (inducted 2004) • Gary Wang – founder and CEO of Tudou • Zhu Min – Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund; former officer of the Bank of China and the People's Bank of China

Government, public service, and public policy

• Mahamat Ali Adoum – Foreign Affairs minister, ambassador from Chad • Spiro T. Agnew – Vice President of the United States, former Governor of Maryland • Madeleine Albright – Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton • Peter F. Allgeier – Deputy U.S. Trade Representative • Niels Annen – member of the Bundestag, the German national parliament • Dr. John Duke Anthony – founding President and CEO of the National Council on US-Arab Relations, member of the US State Department's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy's Subcommittee on Sanctions • Nurul Izzah Anwar – Malaysian member of Parliament and daughter of Anwar Ibrahim • Cresencio S. Arcos Jr. – former U.S. Ambassador to Honduras and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs • Newton D. Baker – mayor of Cleveland (1912–1915), and US Secretary of War (1916–1921) • Arthur F. Bentley – political scientist and philosopher • Richard Bernal – former ambassador of Jamaica to the United States and former Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the Organization of American States • Michael Bloomberg – founder of Bloomberg L.P., Mayor of New York City • Paul Bomani – Tanzanian politician and ambassador • Rudy Boschwitz – Republican Senator from Minnesota (1978–1991) • Martin G. Brennan – former U.S. Ambassador to Uganda and Zambia • Daniel B. Brewster – Democratic Senator from Maryland (1963–1969) • Charles Hillman Brough – Democratic Governor of Arkansas (1917–1921) • R. Nicholas Burns – U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and Greece • Ron Capps – author, former Foreign Service Officer, and founder and director of the Veterans Writing Project • Anne Casper – U.S. Ambassador to Burundi and former Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda • Miguel Castilla – Peruvian economist and politician, former Minister of Economy and Finance, and former ambassador of Peru to the United States • Chang Po-ya (1974) – current president of the Control Yuan, former chair of the Central Election Commission (Taiwan) (2010–2014), Minister of the Interior (Taiwan) (2000–2002), and Minister of Health (Taiwan) (1990–1997) • Chen Chien-jen (ScD, 1982) – current Vice President of the Republic of China (2016–2020), former Minister of the National Science Council (2006–2008), and Minister of Health (2003–2005) • Su Chi (S'75) – former secretary-general of the National Security Council (Taiwan) (2008–2010), legislator (2005–2008), and minister of Mainland Affairs Council (1999–2000) • Rust Macpherson Deming – former U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia, former U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission Japan, and recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun • Aneesh Chopra – President Obama's Chief Technology Officer of the United States • Benjamin R. Civiletti – Attorney General of the United States under President Jimmy Carter • William F. Clinger, Jr. – Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979–97 • Rafael Hernández Colón – Governor of Puerto Rico • Henry A. Crumpton – Ambassador-at-large, former chief of the CIA's National Resources Division, and author of The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service • Jean de Ruyt – former ambassador of Belgium to the United Nations and the European Union; former ambassador to Italy and Albania • Makan Delrahim – Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice • Anne E. Derse – American Ambassador to Lithuania, former Ambassador to Azerbaijan • Lawrence Di Rita – Pentagon spokesperson • Benjamin Diokno – Secretary of the Department of Finance • Sheila Dixon – former president of Baltimore City council, Mayor of Baltimore (2007–2010) • James B. Eldridge – member of the Mass. House of Representatives (2002–present) • Robert Stephen Ford – retired diplomat; former U.S. Ambassador to Algeria and Syria • William J. Frank – member of Maryland House of Delegates • Frank Gaffney – founder and President of the Center for Security Policy • Jennifer Galt – former United States Ambassador to Mongolia • Ibrahim Gambari – Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations • Jeffrey Garten – Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade and Dean of the Yale School of Management • Harold W. Geisel – former U.S. Ambassador to Mauritius and former Acting Inspector General of the Department of State • Timothy F. Geithner – President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Treasury Secretary of the United States • April Glaspie – diplomat, first woman to be appointed an American ambassador to an Arab country • Maciej Golubiewski (born 1976) – Consul General at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City • Nancy Grasmick – Maryland State Superintendent of Schools • Wang Guangya – China's Ambassador to the United Nations • Geir H. Haarde – former Prime Minister of Iceland • John J. Hamre – President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense • Andy Harris – member of the United States House of Representatives, Maryland's 1st congressional district • Richard Hecklinger – former U.S. Ambassador to Thailand and former Deputy Secretary General of the OECD • John E. Herbst – former U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan and, later, to Ukraine • Alger Hiss – State Department official, lawyer and Soviet spy • Hans Hoogervorst – the Netherlands' Minister of Public Health, Minister of Finance • James Howard Holmes – former U.S. Ambassador to Latvia, now State Department special adviser • Constance Horner – official in the Reagan and first Bush administrations; formerly with the Johns Hopkins Center for the Study of American Government • Nitobe Inazō – director of the International Bureaux Section of the League of Nations, in charge of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (later became UNESCO) • David Jacobson – former United States Ambassador to Canada • Tracey Ann Jacobson – former United States Ambassador to Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kosovo; acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs in 2017 • Sam Katz – politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Mohammad Zubair Khan – former Commerce Minister of Pakistan • Sahibzada Khan – Pakistan's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom; former Chief of Protocol of Pakistan • Chang-beom Kim – former Ambassador of South Korea to the European Union and Belgium • Herman Knippenberg – Dutch diplomat turned detective who took down notorious serial killer of tourists in Asia, Charles Sobhraj, portrayed in the 2021 BBC and Netflix TV series The Serpent • Daniel Koch – Swiss physician • Tomi Kōra – Councillor in the Japanese House of Councillors • Haris Lalakos – Ambassador of Greece to the United States, former Ambassador of Greece to the Republic of Macedonia • Frank Lavin – U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore • Samuel W. Lewis – former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and U.S. Ambassador at the Camp David Accord talks in 1978 • David C. Litt – former U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates • Dennis P. Lockhart – President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta • Barry Lowenkron – Vice President of the Program on Global Security & Sustainability at the MacArthur Foundation • Raymond Mabus – 75th United States Secretary of the Navy • Sir David Manning – British Ambassador to Israel, foreign policy adviser to Tony Blair, British Ambassador to the United States • Scott McCallum – 43rd Governor of Wisconsin • Gail J. McGovern – President and CEO of the American Red Cross • David G. McIntosh Jr. (1877–1940) – Maryland state delegate and state senator • Elizabeth Davenport McKune – former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar • John E. McLaughlin – Director of Central Intelligence • Bernard Membe – Tanzanian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation • Kweisi Mfume – Congressman from Maryland, former President of the NAACP • Wes Moore – Governor of Maryland • John S. Morgan – former Maryland Delegate • Sara Virginia Ecker Watts Morrison – former First Lady of North Carolina • Eva Moskowitz – founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Success Charter Network and Harlem Success Academy • Donald F. Munson – Maryland State Senator • Cameron Munter – CEO and President of the EastWest Institute, and former U.S. Ambassador to Serbia and, later, Pakistan • Irvin B. Nathan – Attorney General of the District of Columbia, General Counsel of the United States House of Representatives • Richard Norland – former U.S. Ambassador to Georgia; nominated by President Trump to be U.S. Ambassador to Libya • Antonia Novello – United States Surgeon General (1990–1993) • Bruce J. Oreck – U.S. Ambassador to Finland • John E. Osborn – Commissioner, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy • Neilesh Patel – humanitarian, National Jefferson Award Recipient • Mary Ann Peters – senior U.S. diplomat, former U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh, former provost of the United States Naval War College, and CEO of the Carter Center • Juan Carlos Pinzón – Ambassador of Colombia to the United States; former Colombian Minister of Defence • Nicholas Platt – former U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Pakistan, Philippines, Zambia, high level diplomat in Canada, China, Hong Kong, and Japan, and former president of the Asia Society in New York City. • Kevin B. Quinn – Chief Executive Officer and Administrator of the Maryland Transit Administration • George L. P. Radcliffe – U.S. Senator from Maryland (1935–1947) • Sara Rodriguez – Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin • Peter Rheinstein – FDA official • Jauhar Saleem – Ambassador of Pakistan to Germany • Leslie Sanchez – political pundit and commentator • Arturo Sarukhán – former ambassador of Mexico to the United States • Christopher B. Shank – Maryland House of Delegates (1999–present) • David B. Shear – former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs and former U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam • Rob Silberstein – U.S. Consul General to Karachi, Pakistan • Frederic N. Smalkin – Chief United States District Judge for Maryland (2001–2003) • Christopher Soghoian – Washington, DC based privacy researcher and activist • George O. Squier – Chief Signal Officer of the United States Army during World War I • Michael S. Steele – Lieutenant Governor of Maryland (2003–2007), head of the RNC (2009–2011) • Bandar bin Sultan – Saudi Arabia's former Ambassador to the United States • Jeffrey W. Talley – LTG. retired, 32nd Chief of Army Reserve (CAR) and 7th Commanding General, United States Army Reserve Command (USARC) 2012–2016 • Takuya Tasso – governor of Iwate Prefecture in Japan • Lauren Underwood – U.S. Representative for Illinois's 14th congressional district • Ali Akbar Velayati – former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran • Seema Verma – Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, serving in the first Trump Administration • Kurt Volker – U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO • Amos Griswold Warner – social worker, first head of charity for the District of Columbia • Woodrow Wilson – President of the United States • Xiang Lanxin – Chinese liberal intellectual and professor (MA, PhD 1990) • Abdul Zahir – Prime Minister of Afghanistan • Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein – Jordan's permanent representative to the United Nations • Elias Zerhouni – Director of the National Institutes of Health • Zhu Min – Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund • Craig Zucker – member of the Maryland Senate

Literature, arts and media

• Arthur Talmage Abernethy – journalist, theologian, minister and first North Carolina Poet Laureate • Keith Ablow – Fox News contributor • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – author and winner of MacArthur Award • Dan Ahdoot – standup comedian • Jeff Altman – standup comedian • Tori Amos – singer (Peabody Conservatory) • Chris Arnade – former Wall Street trader turned documentarian and commentator • John Astin – actor, Gomez Addams on The Addams Family • Adaeze Atuegwu – author and writer • Harriet Baber – professor of philosophy and writer for The Guardian • Russell Baker – author, New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner • Andy Barth – newscaster • John Barth – novelist • Zach Baylin – screenwriter • Devika Bhise — actor • Jennifer Bishop — Baltimore-based photojournalist • Jeffrey Blitz – screenwriter • Wolf Blitzer (M.A. 1972) – CNN news anchor • Paul Harris Boardman – film producer and screenwriter • Elinor Widmont Bodian – medical illustrator and abstract artist • Denis Boyles – writer and journalist • Matt Briggs – novelist • Rachel Carson – marine biologist and conservationist • Angelin Chang – Grammy Award-winning classical pianist • Iris Chang – author and journalist • Eva Chen – fashion magazine editor and journalist • C. J. Cherryh – author • J.D. Considine – music critic • Richard Ben Cramer – journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner • Wes Craven – film director and producer • Ann Cummins – novelist and short story writer • Richard Harding Davis – journalist who covered the Spanish–American War and World War I (attended 1885–86) • Caleb Deschanel – cinematographer • Thomas Dixon, Jr. — novelist • Michael Dumanis – poet and editor • Mildred Dunnock – film and stage actress • Piero Formica – Italian writer and academic • Douglas Southall Freeman – historian and winner (twice) of the Pulitzer Prize for History • James Allen Gahres – conductor (music) (Peabody Conservatory) • Brian David Gilbert – Journalist, comedian, actor, musician, YouTuber • Robert Goolrick (B.A. 1970) – author • Elin Hilderbrand – author • Hallie Jackson (B.A. 2006) – anchor and Chief White House Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC • Jae Jin – singer, songwriter, musician and SAG-AFTRA actor • Millard Kaufman – screenwriter and novelist • Murray Kempton – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist • Quint Kessenich – ESPN sportscaster, lacrosse All-American • Porochista Khakpour – novelist • Rjyan Kidwell – musician • Kevin Kilner – actor • Richard E. Kim – author (MA in Writing Seminars) • Alen Pol Kobryn – poet • Alan Lakein – author • Sidney Lanier – musician and poet • David Lipsky – author • Larry Meistrich – film producer • Sanjay Mishra – musician and guitarist • Wes Moore – Maryland governor, author, social entrepreneur, producer and political analyst • Megan Morrone – TechTV personality • Walter Murch – multiple Oscar-winning sound and film editor • Sidney Offit – author and writer • P. J. O'Rourke – political satirist and journalist • Niharica Raizada – actress • Julia Randall – poet (MA in Writing Seminars) • Arlene Raven – author and art critic; professor • Matthew Robbins – screenwriter of The Sugarland Express and MacArthur • Scott Rogowsky – comedian • James Rosen – Fox News Channel Washington correspondent • Deborah Rudacille – writer • Brad Rutter – all-time Jeopardy! champion • Gil Scott-Heron – political musician, poet and author (Masters Course) • Laurence Shanet – film and theater director • Karl Shapiro – U.S. Poet Laureate (1946), Pulitzer Prize winner (attended but did not graduate) • Howard "Chip" Silverman – author and lacrosse coach • Russ Smith – founder of Baltimore City Paper, Washington City Paper, and New York Press • Gertrude Stein – author • Lorin Stein – critic, editor and former editor in chief of The Paris Review • Susan Stewart – poet and literary critic • Michael Ernest Sweet – Canadian writer and photographer • Bill Todman – game show producer • Juliette Wells – author, editor and Jane Austen scholar • Eleanor Wilner – poet

Notable faculty

Fictional alumni