Johns Hopkins University in Popular Culture

Instances and mentions of Johns Hopkins University in popular culture.

In non-fiction

• The HBO film Something the Lord Made (2004), based on the true story of Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas (an unusual team for the time), depicts their work as pioneers of cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

• Johns Hopkins University hospital is the focus of 'Hopkins', an ABC News' six-part series which takes an intimate look at the men and women who call The johns Hopkins Hospital their home. Began June 26, 2008.

In fiction

• In the Tom Clancy novels, Jack Ryan's wife, Cathy Ryan, is a doctor at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute. In real life, Clancy created the Tom Clancy Professorship at Wilmer on April 8, 2005.
• In the Babylon 5 universe, JHU was where the gene for human telepathy was discovered.
• Dr. Hanibal Lecter from the Lecter Trilogy by Thomas Harris attends the Johns Hopkins University after leaving Europe for America.
• In the 1990 novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, Dr. Lewis Dodgson of Biosyn Corporation is said to have been expelled from Johns Hopkins as a graduate student for planning human gene therapy without permission from the Food and [...] Administration.
• Dr. Gregory House, portrayed by British actor Hugh Laurie, is also said to have been expelled from Hopkins for cheating.
• In the 1934 novel Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main character, psychiatrist Richard Diver, is a graduate of Johns Hopkins Medical School. Fitzgerald writes of the young Diver as a "tornado who hurried through the old red buildings of Hopkins . . . unstayed by the irony of the gigantic Christ in the entrance hall." (1st ed. p. 156).

In film

• The Nicole Kidman film The Invasion (2007) was partly filmed in a laboratory in Mudd Hall on the Homewood campus.
• The film The Curve (1998) was filmed at the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University.
• In Sleepless in Seattle, a relative of Annie Reed is a professor in Johns Hopkins.
• The HBO film Something the Lord Made (2004) was filmed both on the Homewood campus and medical campus. However, the hospital depicted in the movie was actually the outside of Gilman Hall and Levering Hall located on the Homewood campus.
• In the Will Ferrell comedy Step Brothers (2008), Ferrell's character learns that his new stepfather attended Johns Hopkins. Perhaps in an attempt to disparage the man, Ferrell then claims to know "Johnny Hopkins" personally, stating: "[I] smoked pot with Johnny Hopkins."
• In the movie The Prince and Me (2007), the character Paige Morgan is accepted into the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
• In the movie The Rock (1995), Dr. Stanley Goodspeed receives his M.A. and Ph. D from Johns Hopkins.
• In the science fiction movie The Island (2005), the retinal scans of Lincoln Six Echo are sent to Johns Hopkins for analysis.
• In the movie Outbreak (1995), Major Salt, the character played by Cuba Gooding Jr., received his master's degree from the Johns Hopkins University.
• In the movie Getting In (1994), a college graduate ends up sixth on the waiting list for the Johns Hopkins Medical School and attempts to "dissuade" six people in front from attending.
• In the movie Casper, a 1995 film, Dr. Harvey is shown to be an alumnus of the Johns Hopkins University.
• In the movie Species II (1998), Senator Ross offers to take his son Patrick to Johns Hopkins after the latter was infected with alien DNA.

On television

• In the television series The Simpsons, Dr. Julius Hibbert is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
• In the television series Scrubs, Dr. Perry Cox is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
• In the television series House, the character Dr. Eric Foreman is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Gregory House attended Johns Hopkins for undergraduate and medical school, but was thrown out of the medical school for cheating.
• In the television series Grey's Anatomy, the character Dr. Preston Burke is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and was first in his class. Dr. Erica Hahn, the cardiac surgeon who performed Denny Duquette's heart transplant, graduated from Hopkins, ranking second only to Dr. Burke.
• In the television series The Twilight Zone (Season 1 Episode 12), the character Andrew L. Gaddis graduates from the Johns Hopkins University, claiming to have done so "without any real difficulty".
• In the television series NCIS, Special Agent Timothy McGee graduated from MIT and has a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins, revealed in the Episode 'Sub Rosa'.
• In the television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, during the Great American Medicine Show episode, Dr. Eli says he graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1848, even though the university was not founded until 1876.
• In the television series Judging Amy, the character Kyle McCarty had attended Johns Hopkins medical school before being expelled.
• In the television series South Park episode "Britney's New Look", Butters, mistaken for a talking squirrel, is taken to Johns Hopkins for evaluation.
• In the television series Gilmore Girls, Paris Geller applies to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Doctor that takes care of Logan Huntzberger is a Johns Hopkins Graduate.
• In the season two finale of Nip/Tuck (2003), Christian Troy and Sean McNamara visit Johns Hopkins to find out more AbOUT Ava Moore.
• In the American television show Commander in Chief, President Allen asks about the results of a recent "John" Hopkins study in episode 18.
• In an episode of the science-fiction television series Stargate Atlantis, the character Dr. Beckett comments on an applicant to the Atlantis mission as being much more qualified in medicine than he. The applicant was from "John" Hopkins.
• On the HBO drama The Wire, Baltimore Police Major Howard Colvin looks into a retirement job as deputy director of campus security for JHU.
• In the television series The Game (U.S. TV series), character Melanie Barnett attended Johns Hopkins in Baltimore before moving to San Diego with her boyfriend Derwin, a pro football player.