List of Johns Hopkins University People - Notable Faculty

Notable Faculty

• Herbert Baxter Adams – historian, coined phrase "political science"
• Peter Agre – chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
• Fouad Ajami – Professor of Middle Eastern studies at SAIS and Director of the Council on Foreign Relations
• William Foxwell Albright – authenticator of the Dead Sea Scrolls, linguist, expert on ceramics
• Ethan Allen Andrews – biologist
• Christian B. Anfinsen – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1972
• John Astin – television actor (The Addams Family), lecturer in the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars department
• James Mark Baldwin – philosopher
• John W. Baldwin – medievalist, member of the French Academy
• John Barth – novelist
• Charles L. Bennett – astrophysicist, Principal Investigator of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
• Peter Bergen – CNN terrorism analyst and author of Holy War, Inc.
• Richard Bett – philosopher, former Executive Director of APA
• Alfred Blalock – Lasker Prize winning surgeon.
• Vivien Thomas – Co-developer of the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt, along with Alfred Blalock and Helen Taussig.
• Max Broedel – medical illustrator & founder of the first US medical illustration graduate program.
• Harold Brown – Secretary of Defense, 1977–1981
• Zbigniew Brzezinski – National Security Advisor, 1977–1981
• Nicholas Murray Butler – Nobel Peace Prize, 1931
• David P. Calleo – Director of European Studies, author of Rethinking Europe's Future
• Benjamin Carson – pediatric neurosurgeon, author Gifted Hands
• Arthur Cayley – Mathematician
• William G. Cochran – statistician
• Donald Geman – statistician
• J.M. Coetzee – Nobel Prize in Literature, 2003
• Eliot A. Cohen – Director of Strategic Studies at SAIS, Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Defense
• William E. Connolly – influential political theorist
• Thomas M. Cooley – appointed 1877, Michigan Supreme Court Justice, 1864–1885, namesake of Thomas M. Cooley Law School, also a Dean of University of Michigan Law School
• W. Max Corden – trade economist, developed Dutch disease model.
• Richard Threlkeld Cox – physicist, Cox's theorem
• Tyler Cymet – physician
• Veena Das – Renowned feminist anthropologist
• Steven R. David – international relations
• Flavio Delbono – economist, mayor of Bologna
• Jacques Derrida – philosopher
• Daniel Deudney – international relations
• Stephen Dixon – most prolific American short story writer
• Acheson J. Duncan – statistician, winner of the Shewhart Medal
• Paul H. Emmett – chemical engineer, Manhattan Project
• George L. Engel – psychiatrist, best known for the formulation of the biopsychosocial model
• Jessica Einhorn – Dean of SAIS, managing director of the World Bank
• Joseph Erlanger – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944
• Andrew Fire – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2006
• Henry Jones Ford – political scientist and journalist
• P. M. Forni – co-founder and current director of the Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins.
• James Franck – Nobel Prize in Physics, 1925
• John K. Frost – cytopathologist, founder and director of the Division of Cytopathology at Hopkins
• Francis Fukuyama – political economist, author The End of History
• Ashraf Ghani – Finance minister of Afghanistan, 2002–2004
• Riccardo Giacconi – Nobel Prize in Physics, 2002, National Medal of Science, 2003
• Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve – classical scholar
• Maria Goeppert-Mayer – Nobel Prize in Physics, 1963
• Michael Griffin – former NASA Administrator (2005–2009)
• Stanislav Grof – psychologist
• G. Stanley Hall – pioneer in the field of psychology, founding president of Clark University
• William Stewart Halsted – founding head of the Department of Surgery
• Steve H. Hanke – economist, United States Presidential advisor, Cato Institute senior fellow
• Haldan Keffer Hartline – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967
• David Harvey (until 2001) – geographer
• Christian A. Herter, Jr. – former U.S. Secretary of State and Governor of Massachusetts
• John L. Holland – psychologist who developed the RIASEC career model
• Hans-Hermann Hoppe – economist
• David H. Hubel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1971
• Nathan Jacobson – Mathematician
• Kay Redfield Jamison – Professor of Psychiatry
• Frederick Jelinek – pioneer in automatic speech recognition and natural language processing
• Majid Khadduri – Professor of Islamic Law and Middle East specialist
• Kenneth H. Keller – President of the University of Minnesota system
• Howard Atwood Kelly – Founding head of the Department of Gynecology
• Hugh Kenner – 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 winner
• Anne O. Krueger – Managing Director of the IMF and World Bank Chief Economist
• Simon Kuznets – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1971
• Sidney Lanier
• Albert L. Lehninger – author of a long-time standard biochemistry textbook
• Paul Linebarger – author known as Cordwainer Smith
• Alfred J. Lotka – mathematician and statistician
• Alice McDermott – novelist, National Book Award, 1998
• Victor A. McKusick – medical geneticist, author of Mendelian Inheritance in Man
• Merton H. Miller – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990
• George Richards Minot – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934
• William Montgomery – philosopher
• Jack Morava – Mathematician
• Frank Morley – Mathematician
• Harmon Northrop Morse – chemist, Avogadro Medal 1916
• Robert H. Mundell – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999
• Azar Nafisi – Muslim feminist and author
• Daniel Nathans – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
• Simon Newcomb – astronomer and mathematician
• Paul H. Nitze – diplomat, principal author NSC-68, co-founder of SAIS
• Lars Onsager – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1968
• Sir William Osler – founding head of the Department of Medicine
• Sidney Painter – medievalist
• Robert G. Parr – theoretical chemist
• Henry Paulson – former U.S. Treasury Secretary (2006–2009)
• Ronald Paulson – English specialist
• Charles Sanders Peirce – logician
• J.G.A. Pocock – Harry C. Black Professor of History Emeritus
• Ayn Rand – author The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged; visiting lecturer - 1961
• Ira Remsen – chemist, discoverer of saccharin
• Riordan Roett – political scientist and Latin America specialist
• Henry Augustus Rowland – physicist
• Avi Rubin – Head of ACCURATE to solve problem of secure electronic voting
• Vyacheslav Shokurov – Mathematician
• Robert Skidelsky – economist, biographer of John Maynard Keynes
• R. Jeffrey Smith – Pulitzer Prize winner
• Hamilton O. Smith – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
• Solomon H. Snyder – National Medal of Science, 2003
• Sir Richard Stone – Nobel Prize in Economics, 1984
• Raman Sundrum – Physicist
• James Joseph Sylvester – mathematician
• Paul Smolensky – cognitive scientist; authored Optimality Theory
• Pedro Salinas – Spanish poet
• Mark Strand – 1990–1991 US Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Clifford Truesdell – Mathematician, natural philosopher and historian of mathematics.
• Harold Clayton Urey – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1934
• Vincent du Vigneaud – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1955
• John Walker – concert organist (Peabody faculty)
• David B. Weishampel – paleontologist, author of The Dinosauria 2004
• William H. Welch – founding head of the Department of Pathology
• James Edward Maceo West – National Medal of Technology, 2006
• George Hoyt Whipple – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934
• Chester Wickwire – Chaplain emeritus and humanist
• Torsten Wiesel – Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1981
• Michael Williams – philosopher
• Paul Wolfowitz – President, World Bank, former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, former Dean of SAIS
• Barry Wood – microbiologist and physician
• Robert W. Wood – experimental physicist
• Elias Zerhouni – Director of the National Institutes of Health
• Frederick Jelinek – Computer scientist