We are proud to count visionary CEOs and scientists; famous conservationists and authors; winners of Oscars, Grammys, Emmys, and Pulitzer Prizes; and a past U.S. president among those with Johns Hopkins degrees.
Our graduates include:
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, novelist
- Virginia Apgar, developer of Apgar score for newborns
- John Astin, actor
- Russell Baker, Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist for The New York Times and former host of PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre
- Manuel Barrueco, Grammy Award–winning guitarist
- John Barth, novelist
- Jeffrey Blitz, writer/director of Spellbound, Rocket Science, and Lucky
- Wolf Blitzer, journalist
- Michael R. Bloomberg, former New York City mayor; founder of Bloomberg L.P., Bloomberg News, and Bloomberg Radio
- Carter Brey, principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic
- Rachel Carson, biologist, ecologist, and author of Silent Spring
- Richard Ben Cramer, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
- Wes Craven, film director
- Caleb Deschanel, cinematographer
- John Dewey, American philosopher, social critic, and educator
- Louise Erdrich, writer
- Hallie Jackson, Chief White House correspondent for NBC News
- John C. Malone, chairman and majority owner of Liberty Media, Liberty Global, and Qurate Retail Group; former CEO of Tele-Communications, Inc.
- Victor A. McKusick, medical geneticist; author of Mendelian Inheritance in Man, the definitive source of information on human genes and genetic disorders
- James McPherson, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and author
- Kweisi Mfume, former president of NAACP and current U.S. representative for Maryland’s 7th congressional district
- Wes Moore, Governor of Maryland, author and social entrepreneur
- Walter Murch, Oscar-winning film editor and sound mixer
- Caryle Murphy, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, longtime international reporter for The Washington Post
- Tommy Newsom, Emmy winner who was assistant conductor of the Tonight Show band
- PJ O’Rourke, journalist, author
- Sam Palmisano, former CEO of IBM
- Awadagin Pratt, pianist; winner of the Naumburg International Piano Competition, 1992
- Joanne Silberner, Freelance writer and 18-year veteran of NPR’s science desk
- Lauren Underwood, Congresswoman representing Illinois’s 14th District
- John A. Wheeler, physicist
- Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. president
- Abel Wolman, water treatment expert
Recent alumni news
Alumni profile
Published
Summer 2024
Art historian Leslie King Hammond, A&S ’73 (MA), ’75 (PhD), reflects on her life spent championing Black and women artists—and a 1988 exhibit that jolted the art world
/ Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Published
Summer 2024
Retiring in June, American Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern, A&S ’74, reflects on a career of service
/ Johns Hopkins Magazine
Published
Summer 2024
Trailblazing geologist Florence Bascom’s stony path to becoming the first woman to receive her PhD from Johns Hopkins
/ Johns Hopkins Magazine
