Wes Unseld Jr., assistant coach for the NBA's Chicago Bulls and former Washington Wizards head coach, played college basketball at Hopkins.
=== Nobel laureates ===
As of March 2025, there have been 34 Nobel Laureates affiliated with Johns Hopkins as students, faculty, or researchers. Woodrow Wilson, who received his PhD from Johns Hopkins in 1886, was the university's first affiliated laureate, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919.
Eighteen Johns Hopkins affiliates have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Four Nobel Prizes were shared by Johns Hopkins laureates: George Minot and George Whipple won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Spencer Gasser won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Four Johns Hopkins affiliates have won Nobel Prizes in Physics: James Franck in …