Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins (May 19, 1795 – December 24, 1873) was an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist of 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland. His bequests founded numerous institutions bearing his name, most notably Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Johns Hopkins University (including its academic divisions such as Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies). A biography entitled Johns Hopkins: A Silhouette written by his cousin, Helen Hopkins Thom, was published in 1929 by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johns Hopkins has received more than 1,022,934 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Johns Hopkins is the 50th most popular businessperson (up from 147th in 2019), the 530th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,828th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Businessperson.