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Notable Hopkins Graduates

	Peter Agre M.D., SOM 1974 Shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2003			William Foxwell Albright PhD, A&S 1916 Authenticator of the Dead Sea Scrolls; renowned scholar in Semitics and Near Eastern Studies
	Virginia Apgar MPH, SPH '59 Developed Apgar score used to assess health of newborns			Dominick Argento PT.C. PEAB '50 and '51, B.M. PEAB '51, M.M. PEAB '54 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
	John Astin BA, A&S 1952 Actor (movie, television, and stage); best-known for his role as Gomez in The Addams Family			Russell Baker BA, A&S 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times; host of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre
	John Barth BA, A&S 1951 MA, A&S 1952 Novelist; professor			Manuel Barrueco B.M., PEAB '75 Grammy Award-winning guitarist
	Jeffrey Blitz B.A., A&S '90 , M.A. '91 Writer/director of "Spellbound" and "Rocket Science"			Wolf Blitzer MA, SAIS 1972 Journalist; CNN anchor
	Michael Bloomberg BS, ENG 1964 108th mayor of the city of New York; founder of Bloomberg L.P., Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Radio			Carter Brey B.M., PEAB '76 Principal cellist, New York Philharmonic; soloist
	Leroy Burney MPH, SPH '32 U.S. Surgeon General 1956-61; first federal official to publicly identify cigarette smoke as a cause of lung cancer			R. Nicholas Burns M.A., SAIS 1980 Under secretary of state for political affairs; previously ambassador to NATO, ambassador to Greece and, during the Clinton administration, State Department press spokesman.
	Rachel Carson MA, A&S 1932 Biologist; ecologist; author			Iris Chang MA, A&S '71 M.A., SAIS 1980 Author
	Po Ya Chang MPH, SPH '74 Taiwan public official and minister of health			George Comstock Dr.P.H., SPH '65 Pioneer of tuberculosis control and treatment
	Denton A. Cooley MD, SOM 1944 World-renowned cardiac surgeon; performed first successful human heart transplant in the U.S. and the first implantation of a total artificial heart in a human			Wes Craven MA, A&S 1964 Horror film director; best-known for Nightmare on Elm Street and the Scream trilogy
	John Dewey PhD, A&S 1884 American philosopher, social critic and educator			Richard Ben Cramer BA, A&S 1971 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
	Robert W. Fogel PhD, A&S '63 Nobel Prize in Economics 1993			Caleb Deschanel B.A., A&S '66 Five-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer
	Michael Griffin B.S. physics, A&S 1971; M.S. applied physics, ENG 1983 PhD, A&S '63 NASA administrator beginning in April 2005			Sheila Dixon Former Baltimore mayor
	Michael Hersch B.M., PEAB '95, M.M., PEAB '97 Composer, first prize in American Composers Awards (1996)			Louise Erdrich MA, A&S '70 Author
	Terry Keenan B.A., A&S '83 Business correspondent for Fox News Channel			Nancy Grasmick Ed.D., EDUC '80 First woman state superintendent of schools in Maryland
	Murray Kempton> BA, A&S 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning New York journalist			D.A. Henderson MPH, , SPH '60 Led WHO effort that eradicated smallpox
	Alexander Langmuir MPH, , SPH '40 Founded U.S. Epidemic Intelligence Service			Sheng-Mou Hou MPH, , SPH '98 Taiwan minister of health
	James McPherson PhD, A&S 1963 Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author			Michele Kelemen M.A. SAIS 1993 Diplomacy correspondent for National Public Radio
	Merton Miller PhD, A&S 1952 U.S. economist; winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics (1990)			Jeong H. Kim BS, ENG '82; MS, ENG '89 President of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
	Caryle Murphy MA, SAIS 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for international reporting for The Washington Post			Victor A. McKusick MD, SOM 1946 Medical geneticist; author of Mendelian Inheritance in Man, the definitive source of information on human genes and genetic disorders
	Antonia Novello MA, SPH 1982 Physician and former surgeon general under President George H. W. Bush (1990-1993)			Kweisi Mfume MLA, SCS (now A&S) 1984 MD, SOM 1946 Former President, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
	Samuel J. Palmisano BA, A&S 1973 Chairman of the board and chief executive officer, IBM Corp.			Walter Murch B.A., A&S '65 Two-time Oscar-winning film editor and sound mixer
	Seth Riggs T.C., PEAB '54 Vocal coach to pop and movie stars and opera singers			Tommy Newsom B.M., PEAB '52 Composer, arranger, performer, winner of two Emmys and assistant conductor of the "Tonight Show" band
	Kathleen Schalch MA, SAIS '88 NPR business reporter			P.J. O'Rourke M.A. Writing Seminars, A&S 1970 Journalist, political satirist and author
	Hamilton O. Smith MD '56 Nobel Prize in Medicine 1978			Awadagin Pratt Performer's Certificate, PEAB 1989 Graduate Performance Diploma, PEAB 1992 Pianist; winner of the Naumburg International Piano Competition, 1992
	Frederick Jackson Turner Ph.D. history, A&S 1890 Influential historian, best known for the Frontier Thesis			Martin Rodbell BA, , A&S '49 Nobel Prize in Medicine 1994
	Joanne Silberner BA, A&S '77 NPR health policy correspondent			Alfred Sommer MHS, SPH '73 Discovered link between vitamin A deficiency and child mortality, establishing vitamin A as a cost-effective means of reducing child deaths in the developing world
	John A. Wheeler B.S., WSE '31 PhD, A&S '33 Physicist who helped develop nuclear fission, studied general relativity and coined the term "black hole."			Andre Watts Artist Diploma, PEAB 1972 World-renowned concert pianist
	Woodrow Wilson PhD, A&S 1886 28th President of the United States (1913-1921); winner of Nobel Prize in Peace (1919)			Jody Williams MA, SAIS 1984 Founding coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL); winner of Nobel Peace Prize (1997)
	Abel Wolman A&S 1913, ENG 1915 World-renowned water treatment expert; invented modern water treatment techniques

Key to Abbreviations
A&S = Krieger School of Arts & Sciences
BUS = Carey Business School
EDUC = School of Education
ENG = Whiting School of Engineering
PEAB = Peabody Institute
SAIS = Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
SCS = School of Continuing Studies
SOM = School of Medicine
SPH = Bloomberg School of Public Health

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