Notable alumni

• Peter Agre - chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
• Richard Axel - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2004
• Joseph Erlanger - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944
• Robert Fogel - economist, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1993
• Herbert Spencer Gasser - Nobel Prize in Physiology, 1944
• Paul Greengard - biophysicist, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2000
• Haldan Keffer Hartline - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967
• Merton H. Miller - economist, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990
• Thomas Hunt Morgan - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1933
• Martin Rodbell - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1994
• Francis Peyton Rous - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1966
• Hamilton O. Smith - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
• George Hoyt Whipple - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934
• Jody Williams - Nobel Peace Prize, 1997
• Woodrow Wilson - President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize, 1919

• Spiro T. Agnew - Vice President of the United States
• Madeleine Albright - Secretary of State under Bill Clinton
• Rudy Boschwitz - Republican Senator from Minnesota
• R. Nicholas Burns - United States' Permanent Representative to NATO
• Rafael Hernández Colón - Governor of Puerto Rico
• Timothy F. Geithner - President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Prince Zeid Raad al Hussein - Jordan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations
• Sir David Manning - Britain's Ambassador to the United States
• Kweisi Mfume - President of the NAACP
• Antonia Novello - United States Surgeon General 1990-1993
• Prince Bandar bin Sultan - Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the United States
• Umberto Vattani, Italy's Ambassador to the European Union
• Guangya Wang, China's Ambassador to the United Nations
• Woodrow Wilson - President of the United States

• Duane Graveline - Astronaut
• Kenneth H. Keller - former President, University of Minnesota
• Mike Muuss - author of ping
• Sir William Osler - physician
• Charles Lane Poor (Ph.D.) - Astronomer
• Frederick Jackson Turner - historian
• Thorstein Veblen - economist, author The Theory of the Leisure Class
• John B. Watson - psychologist

• John Astin - actor, Gomez Addams on The Addams Family
• Russell Baker - author, Pulitzer Prize winner, host Masterpiece Theatre
• John Barth - novelist
• Wolf Blitzer - CNN anchor
• Rachel Carson - environmentalist, author Silent Spring
• Iris Chang - author Rape of Nanking
• J.D. Considine - music critic
• Richard Ben Cramer - journalist, author What It Takes, Pulitzer Prize winner
• Wes Craven - film director, producer
• Mildred Dunnock - renowned film and stage actress
• Michele Kelemen - national correspondent National Public Radio
• David Lipsky - contributing editor Rolling Stone, author Absolutely American
• Daniel Menaker - executive editor-in-chief, Random House
• Ben Neihart - author Hey, Joe, Burning Girl
• Pat O'Brien - co-anchor, sports commentator/analyst Entertainment Tonight
• P. J. O'Rourke - political satirist and journalist
• Patricia Sabga - London chief correspondent NBC News
• Gertrude Stein - feminist, author
• Allen Wastler - managing editor CNN/Money.com

• Michael Bloomberg - founder of Bloomberg L.P., Mayor of New York City
• Allan Huston - former PepsiCo Chairman and CEO
• Samuel J. Palmisano - IBM Chairman and CEO
• Matthew Polk - founder of Polk Audio
• David Schneiderman - owner, publisher The Village Voice
• Kozo Shimano - engineer, President of Shimano American Corporation
• Robert S. Singer - president, chief operating officer Abercrombie and Fitch
• Russ Smith - owner, publisher The New York Press

• Alger Hiss - lawyer and accused spy

Notable faculty

• Herbert Baxter Adams - historian, coined phrase "political science"
• Peter Agre - chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
• Christian B. Anfinsen - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1972
• John Astin - famed television actor (The Addams Family), lecturer in the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars department
• James Mark Baldwin - philosopher
• John Barth - novelist
• Zbigniew Brzezinski - National Security Advisor, 1977-1981
• Nicholas Murray Butler - Nobel Peace Prize, 1931
• Benjamin Carson - pediatric neurosurgeon, author Gifted Hands
• William G. Cochran - statistician
• J.M. Coetzee - Nobel Prize in Literature, 2003
• Richard Threlkeld Cox - physicist, Cox's theorem
• Jacques Derrida - philosopher
• Joseph Erlanger - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944
• Henry Jones Ford - political scientist and journalist
• James Franck - Nobel Prize in Physics, 1925
• Francis Fukuyama - political economist, author The End of History
• Riccardo Giacconi - Nobel Prize in Physics, 2002
• Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve - classical scholar
• Maria Goeppert-Mayer - Nobel Prize in Physics, 1963
• G. Stanley Hall - pioneer in the field of psychology, founding president of Clark University
• Steve H. Hanke - economist, Presidential advisor, Cato Institute senior fellow
• Haldan Keffer Hartline - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967
• Hans-Hermann Hoppe - economist
• David H. Hubel - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1971
• Simon Kuznets - Noble Prize in Economics, 1971
• Albert L. Lehninger - author of a long-time standard biochemistry textbook
• Alfred J. Lotka - mathematician and statistician
• Alice McDermott - novelist, National Book Award, 1998
• Victor A. McKusick - author of Mendelian Inheritance in Man
• Merton H. Miller - Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990
• George Richards Minot - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934
• Robert H. Mundell - Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999
• 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
• Robert G. Parr - theoretical chemist
• Ronald Paulson - English specialist
• Charles Peirce - logician
• Ayn Rand - author The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged
• Ira Remsen - chemist, discoverer of saccharin
• Henry Augustus Rowland - physicist
• Hamilton O. Smith - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
• Sir Richard Stone - Nobel Prize in Economics, 1984
• James Joseph Sylvester - mathematician
• Paul Smolensky - cognitive scientist - authored Optimality Theory
• Harold Clayton Urey - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1934
• Vincent du Vigneaud - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1955
• George Hoyt Whipple - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934
• Torsten Wiesel - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1981
• Paul Wolfowitz - Deputy Secretary of Defense, former Dean of SAIS
• Robert W. Wood - experimental physicist

Fictional associations

• Stanley Goodspeed (The Rock)
• Julius Hibbert (The Simpsons)
• Father Damien Karras (The Exorcist)