Notable Alumni of Johns Hopkins University [Sorted List]

1. Adam Riess

1969-. (aged 57)

astronomer physicist astrophysicist researcher professor

Adam Guy Riess is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for providing evidence that the...

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2. Kurt Braunohler

1976-. (aged 50)

comedian screenwriter

Kurt Braunohler is an American comedian and co-host of the podcast Bananas on Exactly Right Podcast Network. He was previously the host of IFC's comedy game show Bunk and has appeared on Comedy Central, This American Life, and Radiolab. Braunohler is a frequent collaborator with Kristen Schaal, with whom he created the web series Penelope Princess of Pets.

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3. Adam Boulton

1959-. (aged 67)

journalist television presenter

Thomas Adam Babington Boulton is a British journalist and broadcaster. He is a regular presenter on Times Radio. He was formerly the political editor of TV-am, an ITV early-morning broadcasting franchise holder.

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4. Wes Unseld Jr

1975-. (aged 51)

basketball coach

Westley Sissel Unseld Jr. is an American professional basketball coach who is an assistant coach for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is the son of Basketball Hall of Fame player, coach, and executive Wes Unseld.

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5. Antonia Coello-Novello

1944-. (aged 82)

politician physician

Antonia Coello Novello is a Puerto Rican physician and public health administrator. She was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as 14th Surgeon General of the United States from 1990 to 1993. Novello was the first woman and first Hispanic person to serve as Surgeon General. Novello also served as Commissioner of Health for...

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6. David Lipsky

1965-. (aged 61)

novelist

David Lipsky is an American author. His works have been New York Times bestsellers, New York Times Notable Books, Time, Amazon, The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR Best Books of the Year, and have been included in The Best American Magazine Writing and The Best American Short Stories collections.

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7. April Glaspie

1942-. (aged 84)

diplomat politician

April Catherine Glaspie is an American former diplomat and senior member of the Foreign Service, best known for her role in the events leading up to the Gulf War.

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8. Céline Gounder

1977-. (aged 49)

infectious disease physician filmmaker internist medical journalist epidemiologist

Céline R. Gounder is an American physician and medical journalist who specializes in infectious diseases and global health. She was a member of the COVID-19 Advisory Board transition team of then-incoming U.S. president Joe Biden. In 2022, she joined the Kaiser Family Foundation as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at Kaiser Health News.

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9. Robert Fogel

1926-2013 (aged 87)

university teacher writer historian economic historian economist

Robert William Fogel was an American economic historian and winner (with Douglass North) of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. As of his death, he was the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and director of the Center for Population Economics (CPE) at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He is best known...

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10. Richard Koo

1954-. (aged 72)

principal investigator economist

Richard C. Koo is a Taiwanese economist specializing in balance sheet recessions. He is the chief economist at the Nomura Research Institute.

11. Cordwainer Smith

1913-1966 (aged 53)

novelist science fiction writer soldier military officer diplomat

Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, known by his pen-name Cordwainer Smith, was an American author of science fiction. He was an officer in the US Army, a noted scholar of East Asia, and an expert in psychological warfare. He was one of science fiction's more influential authors despite his relatively limited output and his early death at the age of 53.

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12. Harry Frankfurt

1929-2023 (aged 94)

university teacher philosopher writer

Harry Gordon Frankfurt was an American philosopher. He was a professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught from 1990 until 2002. Frankfurt also taught at Yale University, Rockefeller University, and Ohio State University.

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13. Sidney Lanier

1842-1881 (aged 39)

poet flautist writer prose writer hymnwriter

Sidney Clopton Lanier was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis), taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer. As a poet he sometimes used...

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14. Devika Bhise

film actor actor television actor

Devika Bhise is an American actress, best known for her performance in The Man Who Knew Infinity, and for her role as Antoinette Benneteau in The Rookie: Feds.

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15. James Rosen

1968-. (aged 58)

biographer correspondent journalist

James Samuel Rosen is an American journalist, television correspondent, and author, who is a former Washington, D.C. correspondent for the Fox News Channel.

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16. Takuya Tasso

1964-. (aged 62)

politician

Takuya Tasso is a Japanese politician and the current governor of Iwate Prefecture. He is a native of Morioka and graduate of the University of Tokyo.

17. Anne-Marie Imafidon

1990-. (aged 36)

computer scientist mathematician engineer

Anne-Marie Osawemwenze Ore-Ofe Imafidon is a British-Nigerian social entrepreneur and computer scientist. She founded and became CEO of Stemettes in 2013, a social enterprise promoting women in STEM careers. In June 2022, she was announced as the 2022–2023 President of the British Science Association. She has worked for companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Deutsche Bank. She has spoken at many...

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18. John Mauchly

1907-1980 (aged 73)

computer scientist statistician inventor physicist

John William Mauchly was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States.

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19. Michael G. Vickers

1953-. (aged 73)

soldier

Michael George Vickers is an American defense official who served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (USD-I). As USD-I, Vickers, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2010, was the Defense Department's top civilian military intelligence official. Before becoming USD-I, Vickers served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict.

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20. Alan Friedman

1956-. (aged 70)

journalist screenwriter

Alan Friedman is an American journalist, author, documentary writer and producer, TV anchor and former media and public relations executive.

21. Frederick Jackson Turner

1861-1932 (aged 71)

historian writer

Frederick Jackson Turner was an American historian during the early 20th century, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until 1910, and then Harvard University. He was known primarily for his frontier thesis. He trained many PhDs who went on to become well-known historians. He promoted interdisciplinary and quantitative methods, often with an emphasis on the Midwestern United States.

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22. Andy Harris

1957-. (aged 69)

physician military officer politician

Andrew Peter Harris is an American politician and physician serving as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 1st congressional district since 2011. The district includes the entire Eastern Shore, as well as several eastern exurbs of Baltimore County. He is the only Republican member of Maryland's congressional delegation.

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23. Andy Enfield

1969-. (aged 57)

basketball coach

Andrew William Enfield is an American basketball coach who is the head men's basketball coach at Southern Methodist University. He came to national prominence as head coach at Florida Gulf Coast when it made an unexpected run to the Sweet 16 round of the 2013 NCAA tournament as a No. 15 seed.

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24. A. O. Scott

1966-. (aged 60)

journalist film critic

Anthony Oliver Scott is an American journalist and cultural critic, known for his film and literary criticism. After starting his career at The New York Review of Books, Variety, and Slate, he began writing film reviews for The New York Times in 2000, and became the paper's chief film critic in 2004, a title he shared with Manohla Dargis. In...

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25. Leo Kanner

1894-1981 (aged 87)

physician psychiatrist child psychiatrist scientist

Leo Kanner was an Austrian-American psychiatrist, physician, and social activist best known for his work related to infantile autism. Before working at the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Kanner practiced as a physician in Germany and South Dakota. In 1943, Kanner published his landmark paper Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact, describing 11 children who displayed "a...

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26. Walter Murch

1943-. (aged 83)

screenwriter writer director film editor sound designer

Walter Scott Murch is an American film editor, director, writer and sound designer. His work includes THX 1138, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather I, II, and III, American Graffiti, The Conversation, Ghost and The English Patient, with three Academy Award wins (from nine nominations: six for picture editing and three for sound mixing).

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27. John Barth

1930-2024 (aged 94)

university teacher novelist writer

John Simmons Barth was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly regarded and influential works were published in the 1960s, and include The Sot-Weed Factor, a whimsical retelling of Maryland's colonial history; Giles Goat-Boy, a satirical fantasy in which a university is a microcosm of the Cold War world; and Lost in the...

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28. James G. Rickards

1951-. (aged 75)

lawyer economist

James G. Rickards is an American lawyer, investment banker, media commentator, and author on matters of finance and precious metals. He is the author of Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis (2011) and six other books. He currently lives in Connecticut.

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29. Lauren Underwood

1986-. (aged 40)

politician nurse

Lauren Ashley Underwood is an American politician and registered nurse who is a U.S. representative from Illinois's 14th congressional district as a member of the Democratic Party. Her district, once represented by former House speaker Dennis Hastert, includes the outer western suburbs of Chicago, including DeKalb, Joliet, Oswego, Ottawa, and Yorkville.

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30. Edward Luttwak

1942-. (aged 84)

historian economist geopolitical analyst writer

Edward Nicolae Luttwak is an American author known for his works on grand strategy, military strategy, geoeconomics, military history, and international relations. He is best known for being the author of Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook. His book Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, also published in Chinese, Russian and ten other languages, is widely used at war colleges...

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31. Nurul Izzah Anwar

1980-. (aged 46)

politician

Nurul Izzah binti Anwar is a Malaysian politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Permatang Pauh from 2018 to 2022. A member of the People's Justice Party and the eldest daughter of the 10th prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim, she also represented Lembah Pantai in the Parliament of Malaysia from 2008 to 2018.

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32. Dipu Moni

1965-. (aged 61)

diplomat physician politician

Dipu Moni is a Bangladeshi politician and former minister of social welfare. She was a member of parliament for the Chandpur-3 constituency. She was minister of education in the fourth Hasina ministry and minister of foreign affairs in the second Hasina ministry. She was appointed as the first female foreign minister of Bangladesh on 6 January 2009, serving until 2013....

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33. P. J. O'Rourke

1947-2022 (aged 75)

satirist writer journalist

Patrick Jake O'Rourke was an American author, journalist, and political satirist who wrote twenty-two books on subjects as diverse as politics, cars, etiquette, and economics. His books Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance both reached No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list.

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34. Candy Carson

1953-. (aged 73)

writer

Lacena Carson is an American author and educator. She is married to former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, with whom she co-founded the Carson Scholars Fund in 1994. Alongside her husband, she is the co-author of four books. During his 2016 run for President of the United States, Carson was active on the campaign...

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35. Iris Chang

1968-2004 (aged 36)

writer human rights defender journalist political activist

Iris Shun-Ru Chang was an American journalist, historian, and political activist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanjing Massacre, The Rape of Nanking, and in 2003, The Chinese in America: A Narrative History. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking...

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36. Wilder Penfield

1891-1976 (aged 85)

university teacher surgeon neurologist neurosurgeon neuroscientist

Wilder Graves Penfield OM CC CMG FRS was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon. He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain such as the cortical homunculus. His scientific contributions on neural stimulation expand across a variety of topics including hallucinations, illusions, dissociation and déjà vu. Penfield devoted much of his thinking to mental...

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37. Alger Hiss

1904-1996 (aged 92)

jurist lawyer diplomat politician

Alger Hiss was an American government official who, in 1948, was accused of spying for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. The statute of limitations had expired for espionage, but he was convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. Before the trial, Hiss was involved in the establishment of the United Nations, both as a U.S. State...

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38. Morgan Ortagus

1982-. (aged 44)

civil servant

Morgan Deann Ortagus is an American diplomat, intelligence analyst, political advisor, naval officer, and former television commentator serving as a senior policy adviser at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served as deputy special presidential envoy to the Middle East in 2025 and spokesperson for the United States Department of State...

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39. John Archibald Wheeler

1911-2008 (aged 97)

university teacher physicist theoretical physicist non-fiction writer nuclear physicist

John Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist. He was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr to explain the basic principles of nuclear fission. Together with Gregory Breit, Wheeler explored positron-electron pair production from the collision of two photons, now known as the Breit–Wheeler...

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40. Akshay Oberoi

1985-. (aged 41)

actor television actor

Akshay Oberoi is an American actor of Indian descent, who works in Hindi films. After making his acting debut as a child in the 2002 comedy-drama American Chai, Oberoi played his first leading role in Rajshri Productions film Isi Life Mein...! (2010). Oberoi has received critical acclaim for his work.

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41. Thomas Hunt Morgan

1866-1945 (aged 79)

biologist evolutionary biologist physiologist university teacher zoologist

Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity.

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42. Michael Steele

1958-. (aged 68)

columnist lawyer politician

Michael Stephen Steele is an American politician, attorney, and political commentator who served as the seventh lieutenant governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007 and as chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) from 2009 until 2011; he was the first African-American to hold either office.

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43. Hallie Jackson

1984-. (aged 42)

journalist

Hallie Marie Jackson is an American reporter and network anchor. She is the senior Washington correspondent for NBC News, an anchor for NBC News Now, and the anchor of the Sunday edition of NBC Nightly News. She is also a substitute anchor for Today, Saturday Today, Sunday Today with Willie Geist, and NBC Nightly News. She worked in Salisbury, Maryland;...

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44. Bandar bin Sultan

1949-. (aged 77)

diplomat military personnel politician

Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud is a member of the Saudi royal family, military officer, and retired diplomat who served as Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005. He is the grandson of Saudi King Abdulaziz.

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45. Wes Moore

1978-. (aged 48)

writer business executive television producer investment banker soldier

Westley Watende Omari Moore is an American politician, businessman, author, and former U.S. Army officer, serving as the 63rd governor of Maryland since 2023.

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46. Frank Oppenheimer

1912-1985 (aged 73)

physicist teacher husbandry worker nuclear physicist

Frank Friedman Oppenheimer was an American particle physicist, cattle rancher, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

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47. Caleb Deschanel

1944-. (aged 82)

film director cinematographer director television director

Joseph Caleb Deschanel is an American cinematographer and director of film and television. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography six times. He is also a member of the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress, representing the American Society of Cinematographers.

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48. Wes Craven

1939-2015 (aged 76)

film editor television producer television director producer camera operator

Wesley Earl Craven was an American filmmaker. Amongst his prolific filmography, Craven worked primarily in the horror genre, particularly slasher films, where he mixed horror cliches with humor. Craven has been recognized as one of the masters of the horror genre.

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49. Gertrude Stein

1874-1946 (aged 72)

author collector writer playwright autobiographer

Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso,...

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50. Seema Verma

1970-. (aged 56)

Seema Verma is an American healthcare executive who is currently a general manager and executive vice president at Oracle Corporation. She was administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the first Donald Trump administration from 2017 to 2021. During her tenure, she supported policies aimed at repealing elements of the Affordable Care Act and implementing changes to...

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51. Spiro Agnew

1918-1996 (aged 78)

lawyer politician

Spiro Theodore Agnew was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973 under President Richard Nixon. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 3rd Executive of Baltimore County from 1962 to 1966 and the 55th Governor of Maryland from 1967 to 1969. He is the second of two vice...

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52. Amy McGrath

1975-. (aged 51)

fighter pilot association football player politician

Amy Melinda McGrath is an American former Marine fighter pilot and political candidate from Kentucky. McGrath was the first woman to fly a combat mission for the Marine Corps and the first woman to pilot the F/A-18 in a combat mission. She was inspired to be a fighter pilot after studying World War II aviation in middle school and taking...

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53. Sheila Dixon

1953-. (aged 73)

politician

Sheila Ann Dixon is an American politician who served as the 49th mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, after mayor Martin O'Malley was sworn in as governor on January 17, 2007. Dixon, then president of the Baltimore City Council, served out the remaining year of her term and won the mayoral election in November 2007. Dixon was the first African-American woman to...

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54. Kweisi Mfume

1948-. (aged 78)

university teacher program director politician

Kweisi Mfume is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district, first serving from 1987 to 1996 and again since 2020. A member of the Democratic Party, Mfume first left his seat to become the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a position he held from 1996...

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55. Mildred Dunnock

1901-1991 (aged 90)

film actor television actor stage actor

Mildred Dorothy Dunnock was an American stage and screen actress. She was nominated twice for an Academy Award for her works in Death of a Salesman (1951) and Baby Doll (1956).

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56. Michael Bloomberg

1942-. (aged 84)

trader politician bank manager actor aircraft pilot

Michael Rubens Bloomberg is an American businessman and politician. He is the majority owner and co-founder of Bloomberg L.P., and was its CEO from 1981 to 2001, and again from 2014 to 2023. He served as the 109th mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013. He was a lifelong Democrat until 2001, when he switched to the Republican...

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57. R. Nicholas Burns

1956-. (aged 70)

diplomat politician university teacher

Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and international relations scholar. He served as the United States ambassador to China from 2022 to 2025. He is now Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

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58. Thorstein Veblen

1857-1929 (aged 72)

economist philosopher writer social scientist professor

Thorstein Bunde Veblen was an American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism.

59. James M. McPherson

1936-. (aged 90)

historian writer university teacher

James Munro McPherson is an American historian specializing in the American Civil War. He is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. McPherson was the president of the American Historical Association in 2003.

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60. Ray Mabus

1948-. (aged 78)

military officer politician diplomat businessperson actor

Raymond Edwin Mabus Jr. is an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Navy from 2009 to 2017. Mabus previously served as the State Auditor of Mississippi from 1984 to 1988, as the 60th governor of Mississippi from 1988 to 1992, and as the United States ambassador...

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61. Rochelle P. Walensky

1969-. (aged 57)

civil servant academic physician-scientist women physician

Rochelle Paula Walensky is an American physician-scientist who served as the 19th director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2021 to 2023 and served as the administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in her capacity as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2021 to 2023. On...

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62. Louise Erdrich

1954-. (aged 72)

novelist short story writer writer children's writer poet

Karen Louise Erdrich is an American author of novels, short stories, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota, a federally recognized Ojibwe people.

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63. Madeleine Albright

1937-2022 (aged 85)

writer diplomat autobiographer foreign minister minister

Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright was a Czech-born American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman to hold the position.

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64. Eric J. Topol

1954-. (aged 72)

geneticist cardiologist

Eric Jeffrey Topol is an American cardiologist, scientist, and author. He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a professor of Molecular Medicine and Executive Vice-President at Scripps Research Institute, and a senior consultant at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California.

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65. Henrietta Szold

1860-1945 (aged 85)

teacher writer

Henrietta Szold was an American-born Jewish Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. In 1942, she co-founded Ihud, a political party in Mandatory Palestine dedicated to a binational solution.

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66. C. J. Cherryh

1942-. (aged 84)

translator science fiction writer novelist writer

Carolyn Janice Cherry, better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has written more than 80 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award–winning novels Downbelow Station (1981) and Cyteen (1988), both set in her Alliance–Union universe, and her Foreigner series. She is known for worldbuilding, depicting fictional realms with great...

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67. Katherine McNamara

1995-. (aged 31)

film actor model songwriter television actor actor

Katherine Grace McNamara is an American actress and singer. She portrayed Clary Fray on the 2016–2019 supernatural drama series Shadowhunters, receiving a Teen Choice Award and a People's Choice Award for her work. In 2022, she starred in the western action series Walker: Independence as Abby Walker, which earned her a Critics Choice Super Award for Best Actress in an...

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68. Angela Kane

1948-. (aged 78)

diplomat politician

Angela Kane is a German diplomat and was formerly the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and Under-Secretary-General for Management in the United Nations.

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69. Jerry Spinelli

1950-. (aged 76)

children's writer novelist writer

Jerry Spinelli is an American writer of children's novels that feature adolescence and early adulthood. His novels include Maniac Magee, Stargirl, and Wringer.

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70. Rachel Carson

1907-1964 (aged 57)

zoologist conservationist marine biologist author writer

Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose sea trilogy (1941–1955) and book Silent Spring (1962) are credited with advancing marine conservation and the global environmental movement.

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71. Gil Scott-Heron

1949-2011 (aged 62)

costume designer performing artist theatrical director recording artist rapper

Gilbert Scott-Heron was an American jazz poet, singer, musician and author, known for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His collaborative efforts with musician Brian Jackson fused jazz, blues and soul with lyrics relative to social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles. He referred to himself as...

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72. John Astin

1930-. (aged 96)

stage actor film director actor university teacher voice actor

John Allen Astin is an American actor and director who has appeared in numerous stage, television and film roles, primarily in character roles. He is widely known for his role as patriarch Gomez Addams in The Addams Family (1964–1966), reprising the role in the television film Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977) and the animated series The Addams Family...

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73. Curtis Yarvin

1973-. (aged 53)

computer scientist blogger political theorist

Curtis Guy Yarvin, also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American far-right political blogger and software developer. He is known, along with accelerationist philosopher Nick Land, for founding the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement (NRx), which originated in the late 2000s. By the early 2020s, Yarvin and his ideas...

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74. Davey Johnson

1943-2025 (aged 82)

baseball manager baseball player basketball player

David Allen Johnson was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played as a second baseman from 1965 through 1978, most notably in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the Baltimore Orioles dynasty which won four American League pennants and two World Series championships between 1966 and 1971. Johnson played in MLB from 1965 to 1975, then...

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75. Denton Cooley

1920-2016 (aged 96)

university teacher surgeon basketball player cardiac surgeon physician

Denton Arthur Cooley was an American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Cooley was also the founder and surgeon in-chief of The Texas Heart Institute, chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at clinical partner Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, consultant in Cardiovascular Surgery at Texas Children's Hospital and a clinical professor of Surgery at McGovern...

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76. John Dewey

1859-1952 (aged 93)

sociologist psychologist trade unionist pedagogue professor

John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.

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77. Jody Williams

1950-. (aged 76)

peace activist human rights defender university teacher

Jody Williams is an American political activist known for her work in banning anti-personnel landmines, her defense of human rights (especially those of women), and her efforts to promote new understandings of security in today's world. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work toward the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.

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78. Ana Montes

1957-. (aged 69)

intelligence analyst

Ana Belén Montes is an American former senior analyst at the United States Defense Intelligence Agency who spied on behalf of the Cuban government for 17 years.

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79. Woodrow Wilson

1856-1924 (aged 68)

statesperson lawyer political scientist university teacher writer

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. He was the only Democrat to serve as president during the Progressive Era, when Republicans dominated the presidency and legislative branches. As president, Wilson made significant economic reforms and led the United States through World War I. He was the leading architect of the...

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80. Eugene H. Peterson

1932-2018 (aged 86)

university teacher theologian Bible translator translator author

Eugene Hoiland Peterson was an American Presbyterian minister, scholar, theologian, author, and poet. He wrote more than 30 books, including the Gold Medallion Book Award–winner The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (NavPress, 2002), an idiomatic paraphrasing commentary and translation of the Bible into modern American English using a dynamic equivalence translation approach.

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81. Chen Chien-jen

1951-. (aged 75)

university teacher epidemiologist politician

Chen Chien-jen OS KSG KHS is a Taiwanese epidemiologist, geneticist, and politician who served as Vice President of the Republic of China from 2016 to 2020 and Premier of the Republic of China from 2023 to 2024.

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82. Chung Mong-joon

1951-. (aged 75)

archer businessperson politician association football player

Chung Mong-joon is a South Korean businessman and politician. He is the sixth son of Chung Ju-yung, founder of Hyundai, the second-largest South Korean chaebol before its breakup in 2003. He remains the controlling shareholder of a Hyundai offshoot, Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, parent of the world's largest shipbuilding company. He is also the chairman of the board of the...

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83. Akihisa Nagashima

1962-. (aged 64)

secretary politician

Akihisa Nagashima is a member of the House of Representatives of Japan as well as a visiting professor at Chuo University's Graduate School of Public Studies. He served as the Parliamentary Vice Minister of Defense in the Kan Cabinet.

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84. Ali Akbar Velayati

1945-. (aged 81)

politician physician

Ali Akbar Velayati is an Iranian principlist politician and physician. He is currently a member of the Expediency Discernment Council. Velayati is a distinguished professor at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, senior adviser to the Supreme Leader in international affairs and head of the board of founders and the board of trustees of the Islamic Azad University.

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85. Aviv Kochavi

1964-. (aged 62)

military personnel military officer

Aviv Kohavi is an Israeli former general who served as the 22nd Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces from 15 January 2019 to 16 January 2023. Before becoming Lieutenant General (Rav-Aluf), he was commander of the Gaza Division, commander of the Northern Command, commander of the Paratroopers Brigade and Military Intelligence Directorate.

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86. Wolf Blitzer

1948-. (aged 78)

television presenter program host journalist

Wolf Isaac Blitzer is an American journalist, television news anchor, and author who has been a CNN reporter since 1990, and who currently serves as one of the principal anchors at the network. He has been a host of The Situation Room, now formally known as The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown, since 2005. Since March 2025,...

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87. Yigong Shi

1967-. (aged 59)

politician university teacher biophysicist biologist biochemist

Shi Yigong is a Chinese biophysicist who serves as founding and the current president of Westlake University since April 2018. He previously served as vice president of Tsinghua University from 2015 to 2018 and dean of Tsinghua University School of Life Sciences from 2009 to 2016.

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88. Timothy Geithner

1961-. (aged 65)

banker economist politician

Timothy Franz Geithner is an American former central banker who served as the 75th United States secretary of the treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. He was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2009, following service in the Clinton administration. Since March 2014, he has served as president and chairman...

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89. Cui Tiankai

1952-. (aged 74)

diplomat politician

Cui Tiankai is a Chinese diplomat and was the longest-serving Chinese Ambassador to the United States, a role he filled from April 2013 to June 2021.

90. Jeremy Bowen

1960-. (aged 66)

journalist

Jeremy Francis John Bowen is a British journalist and television presenter.

91. Trita Parsi

1974-. (aged 52)

writer political scientist

Trita Parsi is an Iranian-born Swedish writer, analyst, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is also the founder and former president of the National Iranian American Council, which lobbies for stances on behalf of, and aligned with, Islamic Republic of Iran.

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92. Gert-Jan Segers

1969-. (aged 57)

writer journalist columnist politician

Gert Jan Maarten "Gert-Jan" Segers is a Dutch politician who was Leader of the Christian Union between 2015 and 2023. He has been a member of the House of Representatives between 2012 and 2023 and was parliamentary leader between 2015 and 2023.

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93. G. Stanley Hall

1844-1924 (aged 80)

writer philosopher psychologist university teacher

Granville Stanley Hall was an American psychologist and educator who earned the first doctorate in psychology awarded in the United States of America at Harvard University in the nineteenth century. His interests focused on human life span development and evolutionary theory. Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association and the first president of Clark University. A 2002...

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94. Julien Aubert

1978-. (aged 48)

politician cadres de la fonction publique Grands corps de l'Etat

Julien Aubert is a French politician and civil servant who represented the 5th constituency of the Vaucluse department in the National Assembly from 2012 to 2022. A member of The Republicans (LR) and its predecessor parties, he ran for the party's leadership in the 2019 election, in which he placed second behind Christian Jacob. In 2017, Aubert launched his own...

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95. Hans Selye

1907-1982 (aged 75)

university teacher endocrinologist psychologist physiologist physician

János Hugo Bruno "Hans" Selye CC was a Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist who conducted important scientific work on the hypothetical non-specific response of an organism to stressors. Although he did not recognize all of the many aspects of glucocorticoids, Selye was aware of their role in the stress response.

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96. Henry Gantt

1861-1919 (aged 58)

mechanical engineer inventor manager industrial engineer

Henry Laurence Gantt was an American mechanical engineer and management consultant who is best known for his work in the development of scientific management. He created the Gantt chart in the 1910s.

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97. Otto F. Kernberg

1928-. (aged 98)

university teacher psychoanalyst psychiatrist

Otto Friedmann Kernberg is an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, known for developing transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP). He is recognized internationally for his contributions to the psychoanalytic theories on borderline personality organization and narcissistic pathology.

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98. Virginia Apgar

1909-1974 (aged 65)

anesthesiologist pediatrician university teacher

Virginia Apgar was an American physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist and medical researcher, best known as the inventor of the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth in order to combat infant mortality. In 1952, she developed the 10-point Apgar score to assist physicians and nurses in assessing the status of newborns. Given...

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99. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1977-. (aged 49)

poet non-fiction writer novelist short story writer journalist

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer, whose works include fiction, nonfiction, and lectures. She is widely recognised as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature.

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100. Elias Zerhouni

1951-. (aged 75)

physician radiologist

Elias Zerhouni is an Algerian-born American radiologist and biomedical engineer who has held leadership roles in academia, government, and the pharmaceutical industry.

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