| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Henry Carter Adams |
Economist |
31-Dec-1851 |
11-Aug-1921 |
Public Debts |
| Spiro T. Agnew |
Politician |
9-Nov-1918 |
17-Sep-1996 |
US Vice President, 1969-73 |
| Peter Agre |
Biologist |
30-Jan-1949 |
|
Water channels of cell membranes |
| James E. Akins |
Diplomat |
15-Oct-1926 |
15-Jul-2010 |
US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1973-75 |
| William Foxwell Albright |
Archaeologist |
24-May-1891 |
19-Sep-1971 |
Biblical archaeologist at Johns Hopkins |
| Jeff Altman |
Comic |
13-Aug-1951 |
|
Pink Lady and Jeff |
| Charles McLean Andrews |
Historian |
22-Feb-1863 |
9-Sep-1943 |
The Colonial Period of American History |
| Virginia Apgar |
Doctor |
7-Jun-1909 |
7-Aug-1974 |
Anesthesiologist, Apgar Score |
| Michael R. Arietti |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Rwanda |
| John Astin |
Actor |
30-Mar-1930 |
|
Gomez on The Addams Family |
| Mackenzie Astin |
Actor |
12-May-1973 |
|
The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human |
| Richard Axel |
Scientist |
2-Jul-1946 |
|
Odorant receptors and olfactory organization |
| Lenox D. Baker, Jr. |
Doctor |
c. 1942 |
|
Mid-Atlantic Cardiothoracic Surgeons |
| Newton D. Baker |
Politician |
3-Dec-1871 |
25-Dec-1937 |
US Secretary of War, 1916-21 |
| Russell Baker |
Author |
14-Aug-1925 |
|
Growing Up |
| Aristotle Balogh |
Business |
c. 1964 |
|
CTO of Yahoo! |
| John Barth |
Novelist |
27-May-1930 |
|
Lost in the Funhouse |
| Frederick Barthelme |
Novelist |
10-Oct-1943 |
|
Moon Deluxe |
| William Bateson |
Biologist |
8-Aug-1861 |
8-Feb-1926 |
Founder of genetics |
| Richard O. Berndt |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Partner, Gallagher Evelius & Jones |
| Marion C. Blakey |
Government |
26-Mar-1948 |
|
FAA Administrator, 2002-07 |
| Alfred Blalock |
Doctor |
5-Apr-1899 |
15-Sep-1964 |
"Blue baby" operation |
| Robert J. Blendon |
Educator |
c. 1943 |
|
Professor, JFK School of Government |
| Wolf Blitzer |
Journalist |
22-Mar-1948 |
|
The Situation Room |
| Michael Bloomberg |
Politician |
14-Feb-1942 |
|
Mayor of New York City, 2002-13 |
| Patrick Bond |
Scholar |
17-Nov-1961 |
|
Elite Transition |
| Rudy Boschwitz |
Business |
7-Nov-1930 |
|
US Senator from Minnesota, 1978-91 |
| Gregory Breit |
Physicist |
14-Jul-1899 |
11-Sep-1981 |
Proton-proton dispersion |
| Daniel Brewster |
Politician |
23-Nov-1923 |
19-Aug-2007 |
US Senator from Maryland, 1963-69 |
| Stuart W. Bruchey |
Historian |
6-Aug-1917 |
20-Dec-2010 |
Enterprise: The Dynamic Economy of a Free People |
| Walter Dean Burnham |
Scholar |
15-Jun-1930 |
|
Democracy in the Making |
| R. Nicholas Burns |
Government |
28-Jan-1956 |
|
Under Secy of State for Political Affairs, 2005-08 |
| John Marshall Butler |
Politician |
21-Jul-1897 |
14-Mar-1978 |
US Senator from Maryland, 1951-63 |
| Patricia M. Byrne |
Diplomat |
1-Jun-1925 |
23-Nov-2007 |
US Ambassador to Burma, 1979-83 |
| Benjamin S. Carson |
Doctor |
18-Sep-1951 |
|
Pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins |
| Rachel Carson |
Scientist |
27-May-1907 |
14-Apr-1964 |
Mother of the environmental movement |
| James McKeen Cattell |
Psychologist |
24-May-1860 |
20-Jan-1944 |
Academic freedom |
| Jack L. Chalker |
Author |
17-Dec-1944 |
11-Feb-2005 |
SF author, wrote Well World series |
| Iris Chang |
Author |
28-Mar-1968 |
9-Nov-2004 |
The Rape of Nanking |
| C. J. Cherryh |
Author |
1-Sep-1942 |
|
Cyteen and Downbelow Station |
| Mary C. Choksi |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
Strategic Investment Group |
| Benjamin R. Civiletti |
Attorney |
17-Jul-1935 |
|
US Attorney General, 1979-81 |
| John D. Clark |
Economist |
26-Sep-1884 |
6-Nov-1961 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-53 |
| William F. Clinger, Jr. |
Politician |
4-Apr-1929 |
|
Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979-97 |
| Denton Cooley |
Doctor |
22-Aug-1920 |
|
Pioneering heart surgeon |
| Molly J. Coye |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Founder, Health Technology Center |
| Richard Ben Cramer |
Author |
12-Jun-1950 |
7-Jan-2013 |
What It Takes: The Way to the White House |
| Wes Craven |
Film Director |
2-Aug-1939 |
30-Aug-2015 |
Freddy Krueger's father |
| Richard Harding Davis |
Author |
18-Apr-1864 |
11-Apr-1916 |
Yellow-era journalist |
| John Dewey |
Educator |
20-Oct-1859 |
1-Jun-1952 |
Pragmatist philosopher, education reformer |
| Sheila Dixon |
Politician |
27-Dec-1953 |
|
Baltimore Mayor, resigned in disgrace |
| Thomas Dixon |
Author |
11-Jan-1864 |
3-Apr-1946 |
The Clansman |
| Alphonse Dochez |
Doctor |
21-Apr-1882 |
30-Jun-1964 |
Scarlet fever, pneumonia, common cold |
| Timothy Donnelly |
Poet |
3-Jun-1969 |
|
Twenty-Seven Props |
| Louise Erdrich |
Novelist |
7-Jun-1954 |
|
Love Medicine |
| Joseph Erlanger |
Scientist |
5-Jan-1874 |
5-Dec-1965 |
Nerve conduction |
| George H. Fallon |
Politician |
24-Jul-1902 |
21-Mar-1980 |
Congressman from Maryland, 1945-71 |
| David Hackett Fischer |
Historian |
2-Dec-1935 |
|
Albion's Seed |
| Abraham Flexner |
Educator |
13-Nov-1866 |
21-Sep-1959 |
The American College |
| Robert W. Fogel |
Economist |
1-Jul-1926 |
11-Jun-2013 |
Cliometrics |
| Robert S. Ford |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Algeria |
| Henry Gantt |
Engineer |
20-May-1861 |
23-Nov-1919 |
Management as a science |
| Jeffrey E. Garten |
Educator |
29-Oct-1946 |
|
Dean of Yale Management, 1995-2005 |
| Herbert S. Gasser |
Scientist |
5-Jul-1888 |
11-May-1963 |
Nerve conduction |
| Reuel Marc Gerecht |
Government |
? |
|
PNAC Middle East Initiative |
| April Glaspie |
Diplomat |
26-Apr-1942 |
|
US Ambassador to Iraq, 1989-90 |
| Maria Goeppert-Mayer |
Physicist |
28-Jun-1906 |
20-Feb-1972 |
Shell nuclear model |
| Eric F. Goldman |
Historian |
17-Jun-1916 |
19-Feb-1989 |
The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson |
| Melvin A. Goodman |
Government |
1938 |
|
National Insecurity |
| Paul Greengard |
Scientist |
11-Dec-1925 |
|
Signal transduction in the nervous system |
| Michael D. Griffin |
Government |
1-Nov-1949 |
|
NASA Administrator |
| Gabriel Guerra-Mondragon |
Diplomat |
4-Sep-1942 |
|
US Ambassador to Chile, 1994-98 |
| Geir Haarde |
Head of State |
8-Apr-1951 |
|
Prime Minister of Iceland, 2006-09 |
| Edwin Hall |
Physicist |
7-Nov-1855 |
20-Nov-1938 |
Discovered the Hall Effect |
| John Lamberton Harper |
Historian |
2-Oct-1950 |
|
American Visions of Europe |
| Andy Harris |
Politician |
25-Jun-1957 |
|
Congressman, Maryland 1st |
| Ross Granville Harrison |
Zoologist |
13-Jan-1870 |
30-Sep-1959 |
Embryology and tissue culture techniques |
| Haldan K. Hartline |
Scientist |
22-Dec-1903 |
17-Mar-1983 |
Physiology of the retina |
| Daniel R. Headrick |
Historian |
2-Aug-1941 |
|
When Information Came of Age |
| Stephen Hess |
Author |
20-Apr-1933 |
|
International News and Foreign Correspondents |
| Alger Hiss |
Government |
11-Nov-1904 |
15-Nov-1996 |
Accused spy for the Soviet Union |
| Richard H. Hochman |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Regent Capital Management |
| Christopher Van Hollen |
Diplomat |
23-Sep-1922 |
30-Jan-2012 |
US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, 1972-76 |
| Michael F. Holt |
Historian |
8-Jul-1940 |
|
The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party |
| W. Stull Holt |
Historian |
2-Oct-1896 |
12-Oct-1981 |
Treaties Defeated by the Senate |
| Leroy Hood |
Biologist |
10-Oct-1938 |
|
Systems biology and Human Genome Project |
| Karen N. Horn |
Business |
c. 1944 |
|
CEO of Bank One, 1987-96 |
| David H. Hubel |
Scientist |
27-Feb-1926 |
22-Sep-2013 |
Neurophysiology of vision |
| Herbert E. Ives |
Physicist |
21-Jul-1882 |
13-Nov-1953 |
Facsimile machine |
| Tracey Jacobson |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Tajikistan |
| J. Franklin Jameson |
Historian |
19-Sep-1859 |
28-Sep-1937 |
Dictionary of United States History |
| William L. Jews |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of CareFirst |
| Josef Joffe |
Editor |
15-Mar-1944 |
|
Editor of Die Zeit |
| Howard W. Jones, Jr. |
Doctor |
30-Dec-1910 |
31-Jul-2015 |
Pioneer of in vitro fertilization |
| Kevin T. Kabat |
Business |
c. 1956 |
|
CEO of Fifth Third Bancorp |
| James E. Keeler |
Astronomer |
10-Sep-1857 |
12-Aug-1900 |
Composition of Saturn's rings |
| Cornelius M. Kerwin |
Educator |
1949 |
|
President, American University |
| Kevin Kilner |
Actor |
3-May-1958 |
|
Earth: Final Conflict |
| Jeong H. Kim |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
President of Bell Laboratories |
| Les Kinsolving |
Journalist |
18-Dec-1927 |
|
WorldNetDaily |
| Roger Kirk |
Diplomat |
2-Nov-1930 |
|
US Ambassador to Romania, 1985 |
| Jeane Kirkpatrick |
Government |
19-Nov-1926 |
7-Dec-2006 |
Reagan's UN Ambassador |
| Melvyn N. Klein |
Attorney |
c. 1941 |
|
GKH Partners LP |
| Peter Kolchin |
Historian |
3-Jun-1943 |
|
American Slavery, 1619-1877 |
| Robert E. Kramek |
Military |
15-Dec-1939 |
|
US Coast Guard Commandant, 1994-98 |
| Robert H. Krieble |
Philanthropist |
1916 |
8-May-1997 |
Loctite Corporation |
| Frank Lavin |
Diplomat |
26-Oct-1957 |
|
US Ambassador to Singapore, 2001-05 |
| Jim Leach |
Politician |
15-Oct-1942 |
|
Congressman from Iowa, 1977-2007 |
| Samuel W. Lewis |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1930 |
10-Mar-2014 |
US Ambassador to Israel, 1977-85 |
| Dennis P. Lockhart |
Business |
1-Feb-1947 |
|
President and CEO, Atlanta Fed |
| Bernard Lown |
Doctor |
7-Jun-1921 |
|
Inventor of defibrillator, peace activist |
| Edward N. Luttwak |
Author |
4-Nov-1942 |
|
Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace |
| Edmund C. Lynch |
Business |
19-May-1885 |
12-May-1938 |
The Lynch of Merrill-Lynch |
| Ray Mabus |
Politician |
11-Oct-1948 |
|
US Secretary of the Navy |
| Angus Maddison |
Economist |
6-Dec-1926 |
24-Apr-2010 |
Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD |
| Peter A. Magowan |
Business |
5-Apr-1942 |
|
President, San Francisco Giants |
| John C. Malone |
Business |
7-Mar-1941 |
|
Cable TV billionaire, Liberty Media |
| John William Mauchly |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1907 |
8-Jan-1980 |
ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers |
| Scott McCallum |
Politician |
2-May-1950 |
|
Governor of Wisconsin, 2001-03 |
| John McCardell |
Educator |
17-Jun-1949 |
|
Vice Chancellor, University of the South |
| Gail J. McGovern |
Business |
1952 |
|
Professor of Marketing, HBS |
| Theodore R. McKeldin |
Politician |
20-Nov-1900 |
10-Aug-1974 |
Governor of Maryland, 1951-59 |
| Victor A. McKusick |
Scientist |
21-Oct-1921 |
22-Jul-2008 |
Father of medical genetics |
| John E. McLaughlin |
Government |
15-Jun-1942 |
|
Deputy Director CIA, 2000-04 |
| James M. McPherson |
Historian |
11-Oct-1936 |
|
Battle Cry of Freedom |
| Kelly Miller |
Sociologist |
23-Jul-1863 |
29-Dec-1939 |
Out of the House of Bondage |
| Merton H. Miller |
Economist |
16-May-1923 |
3-Jun-2000 |
Modigliani-Miller theorem |
| Steven J. Milloy |
Activist |
? |
|
JunkScience.com |
| Raymond D. Mindlin |
Engineer |
17-Sep-1906 |
22-Nov-1987 |
Mindlin's problem |
| Thomas H. Morgan |
Scientist |
25-Sep-1866 |
4-Dec-1945 |
Fruit fly chromosomes and heredity |
| S. Brent Morris |
Scholar |
1950 |
|
Masonic scholar, NSA cryptologist |
| Cameron Munter |
Diplomat |
1954 |
|
US Ambassador to Serbia |
| Mike Muuss |
Computer Programmer |
16-Oct-1958 |
20-Nov-2000 |
Ping |
| Paul Nitze |
Diplomat |
16-Jan-1907 |
19-Oct-2004 |
US cold warrior |
| Antonia C. Novello |
Doctor |
23-Aug-1944 |
|
US Surgeon General, 1990-93 |
| Pat O'Brien |
Journalist |
14-Feb-1948 |
|
The Insider |
| P. J. O'Rourke |
Author |
14-Nov-1947 |
|
Political satirist |
| Morris W. Offit |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
Founder of OFFITBANK |
| Peter S. Onuf |
Historian |
6-Oct-1946 |
|
Jefferson's Empire |
| Frank Oppenheimer |
Physicist |
14-Aug-1912 |
3-Feb-1985 |
Founder of the Exploratorium |
| Ronald D. Palmer |
Diplomat |
22-May-1932 |
|
US Ambassador to Mauritius, 1986-89 |
| Sam Palmisano |
Business |
29-Jul-1951 |
|
CEO of IBM |
| Philip B. Perlman |
Attorney |
5-Mar-1890 |
31-Jul-1960 |
US Solicitor General, 1947-52 |
| Percy A. Pierre |
Educator |
3-Jan-1939 |
|
President, Prairie View A&M University, 1983-89 |
| Jane G. Pisano |
Administrator |
c. 1945 |
|
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles |
| Howard H. Quint |
Historian |
3-Jan-1917 |
23-Jun-1981 |
The Forging of American Socialism |
| Marcus Ranum |
Computer Programmer |
5-Nov-1962 |
|
Tenable Network Security |
| Robert E. Rector |
Activist |
? |
|
Heritage Foundation |
| Walter Reed |
Scientist |
13-Sep-1851 |
22-Nov-1902 |
Proved mosquitos spread Yellow Fever |
| Charles P. Ries |
Diplomat |
? |
|
US Ambassador to Greece, 2005-07 |
| Adam G. Riess |
Astronomer |
1969 |
|
Accelerating expansion of the universe |
| Royal Rife |
Doctor |
16-May-1888 |
11-Aug-1971 |
Beam Ray Machine destroys cancer |
| Barbara K. Rimer |
Doctor |
c. 1949 |
|
Dean, UNC School of Public Health |
| Martin Rodbell |
Scientist |
1-Dec-1925 |
7-Dec-1998 |
G-protein cell signal transmission |
| Peyton Rous |
Scientist |
5-Oct-1879 |
16-Feb-1970 |
Blood banks and carcinogenic viruses |
| Josiah Royce |
Philosopher |
20-Nov-1855 |
14-Sep-1916 |
The Religious Aspect of Philosophy |
| Stephen J. Ryan |
Doctor |
20-Mar-1940 |
29-Apr-2013 |
Dean, Keck School of Medicine, 1991-2004 |
| Frank Savage |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
VP at Equitable Life, 1987-96 |
| Gil Scott-Heron |
Poet |
1-Apr-1949 |
27-May-2011 |
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised |
| James M. Shannon |
Politician |
4-Apr-1952 |
|
Congressman from Massachusetts, 1979-85 |
| Karl Shapiro |
Poet |
10-Nov-1913 |
14-May-2000 |
Person, Place and Thing |
| Sally Shelton-Colby |
Diplomat |
1944 |
|
US Ambassador to Barbados, 1979-81 |
| Charles W. Shivery |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Chairman of Northeast Utilities |
| David Sifry |
Business |
c. 1969 |
|
Technorati |
| Cordwainer Smith |
Author |
11-Jul-1913 |
6-Aug-1966 |
The Rediscovery of Man |
| Hamilton O. Smith |
Scientist |
23-Aug-1931 |
|
Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage) |
| Theobald Smith |
Scientist |
31-Jul-1859 |
10-Dec-1934 |
Infectious and parasitic diseases |
| Alfred Sommer |
Doctor |
1942 |
|
SPH Dean at Johns Hopkins, 1990-2005 |
| Helmut Sonnenfeldt |
Government |
c. 1938 |
|
Former NSC staffer |
| Michael S. Steele |
Politician |
19-Oct-1958 |
|
RNC Chairman, 2009-11 |
| Gertrude Stein |
Author |
3-Feb-1874 |
27-Jul-1946 |
Avant-garde writer, salon |
| Helen B. Taussig |
Doctor |
24-May-1898 |
20-May-1986 |
Mother of pediatric cardiology |
| Bill Todman |
Film/TV Producer |
31-Jul-1916 |
29-Jul-1976 |
Goodson-Todman Productions |
| Frederick Jackson Turner |
Historian |
14-Nov-1861 |
14-Mar-1932 |
Frontier Thesis |
| Merle Tuve |
Physicist |
27-Jun-1901 |
20-May-1982 |
Proximity fuse |
| James Van Allen |
Astronomer |
7-Sep-1914 |
9-Aug-2006 |
Discovered the Van Allen Belt |
| Thorstein Veblen |
Economist |
30-Jul-1857 |
3-Aug-1929 |
The Theory of the Leisure Class |
| Vincent du Vigneaud |
Chemist |
18-May-1901 |
11-Dec-1978 |
Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin |
| Peter Jon de Vos |
Diplomat |
24-Dec-1938 |
9-Jun-2008 |
US Ambassador to Costa Rica, 1994-97 |
| George Wackenhut |
Business |
1919 |
31-Dec-2004 |
Founder of Wackenhut |
| James W. Wagner |
Educator |
c. 1953 |
|
President, Emory University |
| Michael Warner |
Scholar |
c. 1958 |
|
Fear of a Queer Planet |
| Timothy T. Weglicki |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
ABS Capital Partners |
| Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. |
Business |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
CEO of TIAA-CREF, 1987-92 |
| John Archibald Wheeler |
Physicist |
9-Jul-1911 |
13-Apr-2008 |
The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission |
| George H. Whipple |
Scientist |
28-Aug-1878 |
2-Feb-1976 |
Bile, hemoglobin, and the liver |
| Michael D. White |
Business |
c. 1952 |
|
CEO of DirecTV |
| Torsten N. Wiesel |
Scientist |
3-Jun-1924 |
|
Neurophysiology of vision |
| Jody Williams |
Activist |
9-Oct-1950 |
|
Anti-landmine activist |
| E. Ashley Wills |
Diplomat |
1949 |
|
US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, 2000-03 |
| Edmund Beecher Wilson |
Biologist |
19-Oct-1856 |
3-Mar-1939 |
X and Y chromosomes |
| Woodrow Wilson |
Head of State |
28-Dec-1856 |
3-Feb-1924 |
28th US President, 1913-21 |
| Robert W. Wood |
Physicist |
2-May-1868 |
11-Aug-1955 |
Physical Optics |
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Cleveland Abbe |
Physicist |
3-Dec-1838 |
28-Oct-1916 |
America's first weatherman |
| Henry Carter Adams |
Economist |
31-Dec-1851 |
11-Aug-1921 |
Public Debts |
| Herbert Baxter Adams |
Historian |
16-Apr-1850 |
30-Jul-1901 |
Coined term political science |
| Peter Agre |
Biologist |
30-Jan-1949 |
|
Water channels of cell membranes |
| William Foxwell Albright |
Archaeologist |
24-May-1891 |
19-Sep-1971 |
Biblical archaeologist at Johns Hopkins |
| Charles McLean Andrews |
Historian |
22-Feb-1863 |
9-Sep-1943 |
The Colonial Period of American History |
| Christian Anfinsen |
Chemist |
26-Mar-1916 |
14-May-1995 |
Protein structure and folding |
| Virginia Apgar |
Doctor |
7-Jun-1909 |
7-Aug-1974 |
Anesthesiologist, Apgar Score |
| Andrew J. Bacevich |
Historian |
5-Jul-1947 |
|
American Empire |
| Robert T. Bakker |
Paleontologist |
1945 |
|
The Dinosaur Heresies |
| Alfred Blalock |
Doctor |
5-Apr-1899 |
15-Sep-1964 |
"Blue baby" operation |
| Mark Blyth |
Political Scientist |
29-Sep-1967 |
|
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea |
| William R. Brody |
Educator |
4-Jan-1944 |
|
President, Salk Institute |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski |
Government |
28-Mar-1928 |
|
National Security Advisor, 1977-81 |
| Charles S. Campbell |
Historian |
11-May-1911 |
17-Aug-2006 |
Anglo-American Understanding |
| Rachel Carson |
Scientist |
27-May-1907 |
14-Apr-1964 |
Mother of the environmental movement |
| Alfred Chandler |
Historian |
15-Sep-1918 |
9-May-2007 |
Business historian |
| John Bates Clark |
Economist |
26-Jan-1847 |
21-Mar-1938 |
Philosophy of Wealth |
| Herman Cohen |
Diplomat |
10-Feb-1932 |
|
US Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia 1977-80 |
| Jared L. Cohon |
Educator |
c. 1947 |
|
President, Carnegie Mellon University |
| James S. Coleman |
Sociologist |
12-May-1926 |
25-Mar-1995 |
Foundations of Social Theory |
| Philip D. Curtin |
Historian |
22-May-1922 |
4-Jun-2009 |
The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census |
| Drew Daniel |
Electronic Musician |
1971 |
|
Half of Matmos |
| Richard T. Ely |
Economist |
13-Apr-1854 |
4-Oct-1943 |
Introduction to Political Economy |
| Joseph Erlanger |
Scientist |
5-Jan-1874 |
5-Dec-1965 |
Nerve conduction |
| Andrew Z. Fire |
Scientist |
27-Apr-1959 |
|
RNA interference |
| Stanley Fish |
Scholar |
19-Apr-1938 |
|
Deconstructionist literary critic |
| Robert W. Fogel |
Economist |
1-Jul-1926 |
11-Jun-2013 |
Cliometrics |
| James Franck |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1882 |
21-May-1964 |
Franck-Hertz experiment |
| Tenney Frank |
Economist |
19-May-1876 |
3-Apr-1939 |
An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome |
| William W. Freehling |
Historian |
26-Dec-1935 |
|
Prelude to Civil War |
| Francis Fukuyama |
Author |
27-Oct-1952 |
|
The End of History and the Last Man |
| Robert Gallucci |
Diplomat |
11-Feb-1946 |
|
President, MacArthur Foundation |
| Riccardo Giacconi |
Astronomer |
6-Oct-1931 |
|
Discovered cosmic X-ray sources |
| Eric F. Goldman |
Historian |
17-Jun-1916 |
19-Feb-1989 |
The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson |
| Melvin A. Goodman |
Government |
1938 |
|
National Insecurity |
| Jack P. Greene |
Historian |
12-Aug-1931 |
|
The Intellectual Construction of America |
| Carol W. Greider |
Scientist |
15-Apr-1961 |
|
Co-Discoverer of telomerase |
| William Stewart Halsted |
Doctor |
23-Sep-1852 |
7-Sep-1922 |
Pioneer of sterile surgical technique |
| John Lamberton Harper |
Historian |
2-Oct-1950 |
|
American Visions of Europe |
| Ross Granville Harrison |
Zoologist |
13-Jan-1870 |
30-Sep-1959 |
Embryology and tissue culture techniques |
| Haldan K. Hartline |
Scientist |
22-Dec-1903 |
17-Mar-1983 |
Physiology of the retina |
| Bernadine P. Healy |
Doctor |
4-Aug-1944 |
6-Aug-2011 |
President, American Red Cross, 1999-2001 |
| W. Stull Holt |
Historian |
2-Oct-1896 |
12-Oct-1981 |
Treaties Defeated by the Senate |
| David H. Hubel |
Scientist |
27-Feb-1926 |
22-Sep-2013 |
Neurophysiology of vision |
| Robert P. Hunter |
Activist |
23-Aug-1940 |
|
Mackinac Center for Public Policy |
| Martin Indyk |
Diplomat |
c. 1951 |
|
US Ambassador to Israel, 1995-97, 2000-01 |
| J. Franklin Jameson |
Historian |
19-Sep-1859 |
28-Sep-1937 |
Dictionary of United States History |
| Michael M. E. Johns |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
Chancellor, Emory University |
| Hugh Kenner |
Critic |
7-Jan-1923 |
24-Nov-2003 |
The Poetry of Ezra Pound |
| Majid Khadduri |
Scholar |
1908 |
25-Jan-2007 |
Middle East scholar |
| Simon Kuznets |
Economist |
30-Apr-1901 |
8-Jul-1985 |
National Income and Its Composition |
| Sidney Lanier |
Poet |
3-Feb-1842 |
7-Sep-1881 |
Important Southern lyrical poet |
| Owen Lattimore |
Author |
29-Jul-1900 |
31-May-1989 |
Scholar of Mongolia |
| Robert Z. Lawrence |
Economist |
c. 1948 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1999-2001 |
| Melvyn Levitsky |
Diplomat |
19-Mar-1938 |
|
US Ambassador to Brazil, 1994-98 |
| John V. Lombardi |
Educator |
1942 |
|
President, Louisiana State University |
| Clarence D. Long |
Politician |
11-Dec-1908 |
18-Sep-1994 |
Congressman from Maryland, 1963-85 |
| Arthur O. Lovejoy |
Historian |
10-Oct-1873 |
30-Dec-1962 |
The Great Chain of Being |
| Katharine C. Lyall |
Business |
26-Apr-1941 |
|
President of the UW System, 1992-2004 |
| John William Mauchly |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1907 |
8-Jan-1980 |
ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers |
| William D. McElroy |
Biologist |
22-Jan-1917 |
17-Feb-1999 |
Bioluminescence |
| Victor A. McKusick |
Scientist |
21-Oct-1921 |
22-Jul-2008 |
Father of medical genetics |
| Adolf Meyer |
Psychiatrist |
13-Sep-1866 |
17-Mar-1950 |
Commonsense Psychiatry |
| J. Hillis Miller |
Critic |
5-Mar-1928 |
|
Deconstructionist literary critic |
| George R. Minot |
Doctor |
2-Dec-1885 |
25-Feb-1950 |
Liver therapy for pernicious anemia |
| S. Brent Morris |
Scholar |
1950 |
|
Masonic scholar, NSA cryptologist |
| Daniel Nathans |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1928 |
16-Nov-1999 |
Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage) |
| Simon Newcomb |
Astronomer |
12-Mar-1835 |
11-Jul-1909 |
Nautical Almanac |
| Paul V. Niemeyer |
Judge |
5-Apr-1941 |
|
4th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Antonia C. Novello |
Doctor |
23-Aug-1944 |
|
US Surgeon General, 1990-93 |
| Phyllis E. Oakley |
Government |
1934 |
|
Assistant Secy. of State for Intelligence, 1997-99 |
| Don Oberdorfer |
Journalist |
28-May-1931 |
23-Jul-2015 |
The Washington Post |
| Herbert S. Okun |
Diplomat |
27-Nov-1930 |
8-Nov-2011 |
US Ambassador to the UN, 1985-89 |
| Lars Onsager |
Chemist |
27-Nov-1903 |
5-Oct-1976 |
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics |
| Robert Endicott Osgood |
Historian |
14-Aug-1921 |
28-Dec-1986 |
Limited War |
| William Osler |
Doctor |
12-Jul-1849 |
29-Dec-1919 |
Father of psychosomatic medicine |
| Richard B. Parker |
Diplomat |
3-Jul-1923 |
7-Jan-2011 |
US Ambassador to Morocco, 1978-79 |
| Raymond Pearl |
Biologist |
3-Jun-1879 |
17-Nov-1940 |
Biogerontology |
| Charles Sanders Peirce |
Philosopher |
10-Sep-1839 |
19-Apr-1914 |
Founder of Pragmatism |
| Gilbert Plass |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1922 |
1-Mar-2004 |
Climate change scientist |
| J. G. A. Pocock |
Historian |
7-Mar-1924 |
|
The Machiavellian Moment |
| William C. Richardson |
Educator |
c. 1940 |
|
President of Johns Hopkins, 1990-95 |
| Adam G. Riess |
Astronomer |
1969 |
|
Accelerating expansion of the universe |
| Henry Augustus Rowland |
Physicist |
27-Nov-1848 |
16-Apr-1901 |
Studied optics, magnetism, etc. |
| Aviel Rubin |
Computer Programmer |
8-Nov-1967 |
|
Computer security expert at Johns Hopkins |
| Allan R. Sandage |
Astronomer |
18-Jun-1926 |
13-Nov-2010 |
Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars |
| Karl Shapiro |
Poet |
10-Nov-1913 |
14-May-2000 |
Person, Place and Thing |
| Cordwainer Smith |
Author |
11-Jul-1913 |
6-Aug-1966 |
The Rediscovery of Man |
| Hamilton O. Smith |
Scientist |
23-Aug-1931 |
|
Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage) |
| Alfred Sommer |
Doctor |
1942 |
|
SPH Dean at Johns Hopkins, 1990-2005 |
| James Joseph Sylvester |
Mathematician |
3-Sep-1814 |
15-Mar-1897 |
Studied finite analysis |
| Helen B. Taussig |
Doctor |
24-May-1898 |
20-May-1986 |
Mother of pediatric cardiology |
| Chuck Todd |
Journalist |
8-Apr-1972 |
|
Host of NBC's Meet the Press |
| Robert W. Tucker |
Author |
c. 1925 |
|
The Inequality of Nations |
| Merle Tuve |
Physicist |
27-Jun-1901 |
20-May-1982 |
Proximity fuse |
| Harold C. Urey |
Chemist |
29-Apr-1893 |
5-Jan-1981 |
Discovered Deuterium |
| James W. Wagner |
Educator |
c. 1953 |
|
President, Emory University |
| John Watson |
Psychologist |
9-Jan-1878 |
25-Sep-1958 |
Founder of Behaviorism |
| William H. Welch |
Scientist |
8-Apr-1850 |
30-Apr-1934 |
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
| George H. Whipple |
Scientist |
28-Aug-1878 |
2-Feb-1976 |
Bile, hemoglobin, and the liver |
| Edmund White |
Author |
13-Jan-1940 |
|
The Joy of Gay Sex |
| Garry Wills |
Historian |
22-May-1934 |
|
Lincoln at Gettysburg |
| Paul Wolfowitz |
Government |
22-Dec-1943 |
|
President of the World Bank, 2005-07 |
| Robert W. Wood |
Physicist |
2-May-1868 |
11-Aug-1955 |
Physical Optics |
| C. Vann Woodward |
Historian |
13-Nov-1908 |
17-Dec-1999 |
The Strange Career of Jim Crow |
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Leonard Abramson |
Business |
1932 |
|
Founder, US Healthcare |
| Nolan D. Archibald |
Business |
1942 |
|
CEO of Black & Decker |
| C. Michael Armstrong |
Business |
18-Oct-1938 |
|
CEO of Comcast, 2002-04 |
| Norman Augustine |
Business |
27-Jul-1935 |
|
CEO of Martin Marietta, 1987-97 |
| Lenox D. Baker, Jr. |
Doctor |
c. 1942 |
|
Mid-Atlantic Cardiothoracic Surgeons |
| Roscoe Bartlett |
Politician |
3-Jun-1926 |
|
Congressman, Maryland 6th |
| Alfred R. Berkeley III |
Business |
1944 |
|
President of NASDAQ, 1996-2003 |
| Michael Bloomberg |
Politician |
14-Feb-1942 |
|
Mayor of New York City, 2002-13 |
| William R. Brody |
Educator |
4-Jan-1944 |
|
President, Salk Institute |
| Benjamin S. Carson |
Doctor |
18-Sep-1951 |
|
Pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins |
| Ken Duberstein |
Government |
21-Apr-1944 |
|
Reagan's Chief of Staff, 1988-89 |
| Walter S. Gifford |
Business |
10-Jan-1885 |
7-May-1966 |
President of AT&T, 1925-48 |
| Ed Gillespie |
Politician |
1-Aug-1962 |
|
RNC Chairman, 2003-05 |
| Lincoln Gordon |
Diplomat |
10-Sep-1913 |
19-Dec-2009 |
US Ambassador to Brazil, 1961-66 |
| Benjamin H. Griswold IV |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Alex. Brown & Sons |
| Johns Hopkins |
Philanthropist |
19-May-1795 |
24-Dec-1873 |
Johns Hopkins University and Hospital |
| Michael M. E. Johns |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
Chancellor, Emory University |
| Kristina M. Johnson |
Educator |
c. 1958 |
|
Provost of Johns Hopkins University |
| Edward J. Kelly III |
Business |
c. 1953 |
|
CEO of Mercantile Bankshares, 2001-07 |
| Jeong H. Kim |
Business |
c. 1961 |
|
President of Bell Laboratories |
| Steven Knapp |
Educator |
c. 1951 |
|
President, George Washington University |
| Robert H. Krieble |
Philanthropist |
1916 |
8-May-1997 |
Loctite Corporation |
| Sol Linowitz |
Business |
17-Dec-1913 |
18-Mar-2005 |
Negotiated return of the Panama Canal |
| John V. Lombardi |
Educator |
1942 |
|
President, Louisiana State University |
| James R. Long |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
Former Nortel executive |
| Edward J. Ludwig |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
CEO of Becton Dickinson |
| Katharine C. Lyall |
Business |
26-Apr-1941 |
|
President of the UW System, 1992-2004 |
| William McChesney Martin |
Economist |
17-Dec-1906 |
29-Jul-1998 |
Federal Reserve Chairman, 1951-70 |
| Raymond A. Mason |
Business |
c. 1937 |
|
CEO of Legg Mason, 1981-2008 |
| Gail J. McGovern |
Business |
1952 |
|
Professor of Marketing, HBS |
| Victor A. McKusick |
Scientist |
21-Oct-1921 |
22-Jul-2008 |
Father of medical genetics |
| Philip Merrill |
Publisher |
28-Apr-1934 |
10-Jun-2006 |
Capital Gazette Communications |
| Diana G. Motz |
Judge |
15-Jul-1943 |
|
4th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Steven Muller |
Educator |
22-Nov-1927 |
19-Jan-2013 |
President of Johns Hopkins, 1972-90 |
| Daniel Nathans |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1928 |
16-Nov-1999 |
Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage) |
| Glen D. Nelson |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
Vice Chairman of Medtronic, 1988-2002 |
| Morris W. Offit |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
Founder of OFFITBANK |
| Robert Endicott Osgood |
Historian |
14-Aug-1921 |
28-Dec-1986 |
Limited War |
| William C. Richardson |
Educator |
c. 1940 |
|
President of Johns Hopkins, 1990-95 |
| Sharon Percy Rockefeller |
Business |
10-Dec-1944 |
|
CEO of WETA Public Broadcasting |
| Aviel Rubin |
Computer Programmer |
8-Nov-1967 |
|
Computer security expert at Johns Hopkins |
| Frank Savage |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
VP at Equitable Life, 1987-96 |
| Donald J. Shepard |
Business |
1946 |
|
Chairman of Aegon NV |
| John Snow |
Government |
2-Aug-1939 |
|
US Secretary of the Treasury, 2003-06 |
| Alfred Sommer |
Doctor |
1942 |
|
SPH Dean at Johns Hopkins, 1990-2005 |
| Helmut Sonnenfeldt |
Government |
c. 1938 |
|
Former NSC staffer |
| Michael S. Steele |
Politician |
19-Oct-1958 |
|
RNC Chairman, 2009-11 |
| Samuel O. Thier |
Doctor |
23-Jun-1937 |
|
CEO of Massachusetts General, 1996-2002 |
| George Wackenhut |
Business |
1919 |
31-Dec-2004 |
Founder of Wackenhut |
| James W. Wagner |
Educator |
c. 1953 |
|
President, Emory University |
| William H. Welch |
Scientist |
8-Apr-1850 |
30-Apr-1934 |
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
