Hopkins

American  

[hop-kinz] / ˈhɒp kɪnz /

noun

1. Anthony, born 1937, English actor, born in Wales.

2. Sir Frederick Gowland 1861–1947, English physician and biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1929.

3. Gerard Manley 1844–89, English poet.

4. Harry Lloyd, 1890–1946, U.S. government administrator and social worker.

5. Johns, 1795–1873, U.S. financier and philanthropist.

6. Mark, 1802–87, U.S. clergyman and educator.

7. a city in SE Minnesota.

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Hopkins British  

/ ˈhɒpkɪnz /

noun

1. Sir Anthony. born 1937, Welsh actor: his films include Bounty (1984), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Shadowlands (1994), Nixon (1995), and Hannibal (2001)

2. Sir Frederick Gowland (ˈɡaʊlənd). 1861–1947, British biochemist, who pioneered research into what came to be called vitamins: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1929)

3. Gerard Manley. 1844–89, British poet and Jesuit priest, who experimented with sprung rhythm in his highly original poetry

4. Harry L ( loyd ). 1890–1946, US administrator. During World War II he was a personal aide to President Roosevelt and administered the lend-lease programme

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Joe Hopkins, who manages 75,000 acres of pine owned by his family and others in southeast Georgia, still has a market for his pulpwood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

I asked Allison Pugh, a professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, about this generational role-reversal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

He was off to New York or almost — Dudamel did quietly fit in a conversation at the Grammy Museum on Tuesday with Anthony Hopkins about the actor’s new dreamy album, “Life Is a Dream.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Princeton and Johns Hopkins run digital humanities research centers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Another repressor, from a virus, was isolated by Mark Ptashne and Nancy Hopkins in 1966.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee