The following are some notable people from the American state of
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
, listed by their field of endeavor. This list may not include Federal officials and members of the
United States Congress
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who live in Maryland but are not actual natives.
Politicians, jurists, and statesmen
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Spiro T. Agnew
Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973. He is the second vice president to resign the position, the other being John ...
, former Governor of Maryland and Vice President of the United States
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John R. Bolton
John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948) is an American attorney, diplomat, Republican consultant, and political commentator. He served as the 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006, and as the 26th United Stat ...
, 25th
United States Ambassador to the United Nations
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Charles Joseph Bonaparte
Charles Joseph Bonaparte (; June 9, 1851June 28, 1921) was an American lawyer and political activist for progressive and liberal causes. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, he served in the cabinet of the 26th U.S. president, Theodore Roosevelt ...
, former Attorney General of the United States; founder of the FBI; grand-nephew of French emperor Napoleon I
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Anthony Brown, United States Congressman, former
Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
The lieutenant governor of Maryland is the second highest-ranking official in the executive branch of the Government of Maryland, state government of Maryland in the United States. The officeholder is elected on the same ticket as the governor of ...
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Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Charles Carroll (September 19, 1737 – November 14, 1832), known as Charles Carroll of Carrollton or Charles Carroll III, was an Irish-American politician, planter, and signatory of the Declaration of Independence. He was the only Catholic sign ...
, lawyer, politician, and signer of the Declaration of Independence
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John Lee Carroll
John Lee Carroll (September 30, 1830 – February 27, 1911), a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 37th Governor of Maryland from 1876 to 1880.
Early life
Carroll was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Col. Charles Carr ...
, 37th Governor of Maryland
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Samuel Chase
Samuel Chase (April 17, 1741 – June 19, 1811) was a Founding Father of the United States, a signatory to the Continental Association and United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland, and an Associate Justice of th ...
,
United States Supreme Court
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Justice
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Frank J. Christensen
Frank J. Christensen (born April 17, 1961) is an American labor leader who is the general president of the International Union of Elevator Constructors. He was the longest-serving business manager of Elevator Constructors Local 2 in its history. ...
, labor leader
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Joan Claybrook
Joan Buckler Claybrook (born June 12, 1937) is an American lawyer and lobbyist who was president of Public Citizen from 1982 to 2009.Snyder, Jim (December, 2008)Claybrook steps down at Public Citizen group. '' The Hill'' She also served in the C ...
, President of
Public Citizen
Public Citizen is a non-profit, progressive consumer rights advocacy group and think tank based in Washington, D.C., United States, with a branch in Austin, Texas.
Lobbying efforts
Public Citizen advocates before all three branches of the Unit ...
; head of the
NHTSA
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in the
Carter administration
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J. Joseph Curran Jr., state Attorney General and former Lieutenant Governor
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 1817 or 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became ...
, abolitionist
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Doug Duncan
Douglas Michael Duncan (born October 25, 1955) is a former American politician from Maryland who served as Rockville City Councilman, Rockville Mayor, Montgomery County Executive, and candidate for Governor of Maryland. He is a member of the De ...
, county executive
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Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.
Robert Leroy Ehrlich Jr. (born November 25, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 60th Governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007. A Republican, Ehrlich represented Maryland's 2nd Congressional district in the U.S. House o ...
, former
governor of Maryland
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and member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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Christopher Emery
Christopher Beauregard Emery (born August 1, 1957) is an American author and former government official. He was a White House Usher during the Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Clinton administrations. Emery later served as the chief informati ...
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Assistant White House Chief Usher
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John Hanson
John Hanson ( – November 15, 1783) was an American Founding Father, merchant, and politician from Maryland during the Revolutionary Era. In 1779, Hanson was elected as a delegate to the Continental Congress after serving in a variety o ...
, ninth president of the Continental Congress; first elected under the Articles of Confederation
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Ellen Lipton Hollander
Ellen Frances Lipton Hollander (born May 24, 1949) is a Senior status, Senior United States federal judge, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.
Early life and education
Born Ellen Frances ...
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United States district judge
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of the
United States District Court for the District of Maryland
The United States District Court for the District of Maryland (in case citations, D. Md.) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Maryland. Appeals from the District of Maryland are taken to the United States Court of ...
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Steny Hoyer
Steny Hamilton Hoyer (born June 14, 1939) is an American politician and attorney serving as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for since 1981 and as House majority leader, House Majority Leader since 2019. A Democrat ...
, current and former House Majority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives
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Sarah T. Hughes
Sarah Tilghman Hughes (August 2, 1896 – April 23, 1985) was an American lawyer and federal judge who served on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. She is best known as the judge who swore in Lyndon B. Johnson as ...
, federal judge who administered the presidential oath of office to
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He had previously served as the 37th vice ...
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Brett Kavanaugh
Brett Michael Kavanaugh ( ; born February 12, 1965) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on July 9, 2018, and has served since Oc ...
, Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States
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Philip Barton Key
Philip Barton Key (April 12, 1757 – July 28, 1815), was an American Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War and later was a United States Circuit Judge and Chief United States Circuit Judge of the United States circuit court for the Fo ...
, U.S. representative and U.S. district judge
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Allan H. Kittleman, former
Maryland State Senator and county executive for
Howard County, Maryland
Howard County is located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2010 census, the population was 287,085. As of the 2020 census its population rose to 328,200. Its county seat is Ellicott City. Howard County is included in the Baltimore-Colu ...
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Ernest Lyon
Ernest A. Lyon (October 22, 1860 – July 17, 1938) was an African-American minister, educator and diplomat.
Early life and education
Lyon was born on October 22, 1860, in on the coast of Belize, British Honduras to Emmanuel Lyon and Ann ...
, former
United States Ambassador to Liberia
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and founder of
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Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-A ...
, first African-American Supreme Court Justice in the history of the United States
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Kweisi Mfume
Kweisi Mfume ( ; born Frizzell Gerald Gray; October 24, 1948) 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 Pa ...
, Congressman and former
NAACP
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leader
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J. William Middendorf
John William Middendorf II (born September 22, 1924) is a former Republican United States diplomat and Secretary of the Navy.
Education and military service
John William Middendorf II received a Bachelor of Naval Science (BNS) degree from Col ...
, United States diplomat, Secretary of the Navy
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Charles E. Miller
Charles E. Miller (1902–1979) was an American politician and businessman in Howard County, Maryland
Early life
Charles Miller started as a Magistrate in Ellicott City, Maryland. Miller was a County Commissioner from 1938-1949. Miller s ...
, politician, businessman, and philanthropist
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David Nolan David Nolan may refer to:
* David Nolan (politician) (1943–2010), co-founder of the United States Libertarian Party
* David Nolan (American author)
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Biography
Nolan was b ...
, activist and politician
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John A. Olszewski Jr.
John Anthony Olszewski Jr. ( ; born September 10, 1982) is an American politician and the current Baltimore County Executive. He previously served two terms in the Maryland House of Delegates representing District 6.
Early life and education
Ols ...
, Baltimore County Executive and former Maryland State Delegate
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Katie O'Malley
Catherine Curran O'Malley (born August 18, 1962) is an American jurist who served as Baltimore City District Court judge. She is the wife of Martin O'Malley, a former governor of Maryland and mayor of Baltimore, as well as a 2016 presidential c ...
, State District Judge and wife of Martin O'Malley
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Martin J. O'Malley
Martin Joseph O'Malley (born January 18, 1963) is an American lawyer and former politician who served as the 61st Governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was Mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007.
O'Malley ...
, former
governor of Maryland
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and
2016 candidate for President of the United States
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William Paca
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, signer of the
Declaration of Independence
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Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Patricia Pelosi (; ; born March 26, 1940) is an American politician who has served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2019 and previously from 2007 to 2011. She has represented in the United States House of ...
, current and former
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
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Edgar Allan Poe
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, Maryland attorney general (1911–1915)
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John P. Poe Sr., Attorney General of Maryland (1891–1895)
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Neilson Poe
Judge Neilson Poe (August 11, 1809 - January 4, 1884) was an American judge for the City of Baltimore's orphan's court, (now referred to as a probate court). He was initially appointed to the court by Maryland Governor John Lee Carroll in 1878 an ...
, Judge for Baltimore City and grandfather of
Poe brothers
The Poe brothers were six American football players who played football at Princeton University from 1882 until 1901. They were sons of John P. Poe Sr., an 1854 Princeton graduate and the Attorney General of Maryland from 1891 until 1895. They wer ...
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Kevin B. Quinn
Kevin B. Quinn (born ) is the chief executive officer of TransLink. Prior to his current role, he served as CEO and administrator of the Maryland Transit Administration from 2017 to 2021.
Education
Quinn graduated from Goucher College with ...
,
Chief Executive Officer
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and Administrator of the
Maryland Transit Administration
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William Donald Schaefer
William Donald Schaefer (November 2, 1921 – April 18, 2011) was an American politician who served in public office for 50 years at both the state and local level in Maryland. As a Democrat, he was the 45th mayor of Baltimore from December 1 ...
, former Governor
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Sargent Shriver
Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. (November 9, 1915 – January 18, 2011) was an American diplomat, politician, and activist. As the husband of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, he was part of the Kennedy family. Shriver was the driving force behind the creation ...
, politician, former vice presidential candidate
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Michael S. Steele
Michael Stephen Steele (born October 19, 1958) is an American political commentator, attorney, and Republican Party politician. Steele served as the seventh lieutenant governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007; he was the first African-American ...
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Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
The lieutenant governor of Maryland is the second highest-ranking official in the executive branch of the Government of Maryland, state government of Maryland in the United States. The officeholder is elected on the same ticket as the governor of ...
(2003–2007)
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Roger Taney
Roger Brooke Taney (; March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the fifth chief justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864. Although an opponent of slavery, believing it to be an evil practice, Taney belie ...
, Chief Justice of the United States
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Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend (born July 4, 1951) is an American attorney who was the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. She ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Maryland in 2002. She was the first female lieutenant g ...
, (
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) former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland and oldest daughter of
Robert F. Kennedy
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Jeffrey Zients
Jeffrey Dunston Zients (born November 12, 1966) is an American business executive and government official who served as Counselor to the President and the White House COVID-19 Response Team, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator from Janu ...
, Director of the
National Economic Council under President
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the U ...
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Dawn Zimmer
Dawn Zimmer (born April 16, 1968) is an American politician who served as the 38th mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey. As president of the Hoboken City Council, she became acting mayor after incumbent Peter Cammarano's resignation on July 31, 2009 fol ...
, mayor of
Hoboken, New Jersey
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Architects
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Otto Eugene Adams
Otto Eugene Adams (Sr.) (November 1, 1889 – January 31, 1968), the architect, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 1, 1889, to a family with Baltimore and German ancestry.
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George Archer
George William Archer (October 1, 1939 – September 25, 2005) was an American professional golfer who won 13 events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship, the Masters in 1969.
Early years
Born in San Francisco, California, Arch ...
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Richard Snowden Andrews
Richard Snowden Andrews (October 29, 1830 – January 5, 1903) was an American architect and a Confederate artillery commander and diplomat during the American Civil War.
Early life
As recorded on the 1850 U.S. Census, Andrews was born in the ...
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Ephraim Francis Baldwin
Ephraim Francis Baldwin (October 4, 1837 – January 20, 1916) was an American architect, best known for his work for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and for the Roman Catholic Church.
Personal life
Although born in Troy, New York, Baldwin liv ...
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Henry F. Brauns
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William Buckland
William Buckland Doctor of Divinity, DD, Royal Society, FRS (12 March 1784 – 14 August 1856) was an English theologian who became Dean of Westminster. He was also a geologist and paleontology, palaeontologist.
Buckland wrote the first full ...
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Wright Butler
Wright Butler was a prominent architect in Cumberland, Maryland, United States.
Born as the son of a furniture manufacturer, Butler studied architecture at the Maryland Institute of Baltimore for three years beginning in 1888. At the Institute, ...
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Charles L. Carson
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Albert Cassell
Albert Irvin Cassell (1895–1969) was a prominent mid-twentieth-century African-American architect in Washington, D.C., whose work shaped many academic communities in the United States. He designed buildings for Howard University in Washington D ...
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Charles E. Cassell
Charles Emmett Cassell (April 26, 1838 – August 29, 1916) was a Baltimore, Maryland-based architect.
Biography
He was born in Portsmouth, Virginia and trained as a naval architect. He received a degree in engineering from the University of Vi ...
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Thomas Dixon
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George A. Frederick
George Aloysius Frederick (December 16, 1842 – August 17, 1924) was a German-American architect with a practice in Baltimore, Maryland, where his most prominent commission was the Baltimore City Hall (1867–1875), awarded him when he was ...
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Jackson C. Gott
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Nathaniel Henry Hutton
Major Nathaniel Henry Hutton (Washington, D.C. November 18, 1833–Baltimore, Maryland, May 8, 1907) was an American architect and civil engineer. He worked as a surveyor in the American West in the 1850s before participating in the Union Army de ...
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William Rich Hutton
William Rich Hutton (March 21, 1826 – December 11, 1901) was a surveyor and artist who became an architect and civil engineer in Maryland and New York in the latter half of the 19th century. His sketches of the pueblo of Los Angeles and diary ...
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Edmund George Lind
Edmund George Lind (June 18, 1829 – 1909) was an English-born American architect, active in Baltimore, Atlanta, and the American south.
Biography
Lind was born in Islington, now a part of London, England; his father, Alexander Lind, was an en ...
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J. Crawford Neilson
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John Rudolph Niernsee
John Rudolph Niernsee (May 27, 1814 – June 7, 1885) was an American architect. He served as the head architect for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B. & O.). Rudolph also largely contributed to the design and construction of the South Carolin ...
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Edward L. Palmer Jr.
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Theodore Wells Pietsch, architect of
Stieff Silver Company Factory (Baltimore)
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Bruce Price
Bruce Price (December 12, 1845 – May 29, 1903) was an American architect and an innovator in the Shingle Style. The stark geometry and compact massing of his cottages in Tuxedo Park, New York, influenced Modernist architects, including F ...
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Howard Van Doren Shaw
Howard Van Doren Shaw AIA (May 7, 1869 – May 7, 1926) was an architect in Chicago, Illinois. Shaw was a leader in the American Craftsman movement, best exemplified in his 1900 remodel of Second Presbyterian Church in Chicago. He designed ...
(died in Baltimore)
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Gideon Shryock
Gideon Shryock (November 15, 1802 – June 19, 1880) was Kentucky's first professional architect in the Greek Revival Style. His name has frequently been misspelled as Gideon Shyrock.
Biography
Shryock was born in Lexington, Kentucky on Novembe ...
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Mathias Shryock (born in Frederick, Maryland)
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Joseph Evans Sperry
Joseph Evans Sperry (1854–1930) was an American architect, noted for designing buildings in Baltimore. He was born in Georgetown, South Carolina and later relocated to Baltimore, Maryland, where he partnered with James Bosley Noel Wyatt to fo ...
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Philip E. Thomas
Philip Evan Thomas (November 11, 1776 – September 1, 1861) was the first president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) from 1827 to 1836. He has been referred to as "The Father of American Railways". The Thomas Viaduct bridge in Relay, Mar ...
, first president of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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John Appleton Wilson
John Appleton Wilson (October 7, 1851, in Baltimore, Maryland – April 17, 1927, in Baltimore) was an American architect.
Personal life
Wilson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the oldest son of Rev. Franklin Wilson, a well-known Baptist ...
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James Bosley Noel Wyatt
James Bosley Noel Wyatt (1847–1926) was an American architect and co-founder of the Wyatt & Nolting architectural partnership.
Education
Wyatt attended Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. ...
Scientists and inventors
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Beatrice Aitchison, mathematician,
statistician
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It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, and statisticians may wor ...
, topologist, and
transportation economist
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Hattie Alexander
Hattie Elizabeth Alexander (April 5, 1901 – June 24, 1968) was an American pediatrician and microbiologist. She earned her M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1930 and continued her research and medical career at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital ...
,
pediatrician
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and
microbiologist
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, developed first effective remedies for ''
Haemophilus influenzae
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''
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Shirley Montag Almon
Shirley Montag Almon (February 6, 1935 – September 29, 1975) was an American economist noted for the Almon Lag.
Early life and education
Almon was born on February 6, 1935, in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, the oldest of seven children of Harold ...
, economist noted for the
Almon lag model
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Richard R. Arnold
Richard Robert "Ricky" Arnold II (born November 26, 1963, in Cheverly, Maryland) is an American educator and a NASA astronaut. He flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-119, which launched March 15, 2009, and delivered the final set of solar arra ...
, NASA astronaut, high school biology teacher
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Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731October 19, 1806) was an African-American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer and almanac author. He was a landowner who also worked as a surveyor and farmer.
Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a fre ...
, surveyor, astronomer, mathematician and almanac author
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Brady Barr
Brady Robert Barr (born 4 January 1963) is a herpetologist and host of Nat Geo WILD's ''Dangerous Encounters with Brady Barr''. He began employment with National Geographic in 1997. Barr has also been the host for two other series, ''Reptile Wi ...
, herpetologist
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Ruth Bleier,
neurophysiologist and feminist scholar
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Sergey Brin
Sergey Mikhailovich Brin (russian: link=no, Сергей Михайлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) is an American business magnate, computer scientist, and internet entrepreneur, who co-founded Google with Larry Page. Brin was the ...
, co-founder of
Google
Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...
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John H. Brodie, physicist
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Ben Carson
Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American retired neurosurgeon and politician who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021. A pioneer in the field of neurosurgery, he ...
, former neurosurgeon, politician, and
2016
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presidential candidate
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Rachel Carson
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose influential book ''Silent Spring'' (1962) and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental m ...
, environmentalist
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Teresa Cohen
Teresa Cohen (February 14, 1892 – August 10, 1992) was an American mathematician. Biography on p.128-130 of thSupplementary MaterialaAMS/ref>
Early life and education
She was born in Baltimore, Maryland to Rebecca Sinsheimer and Benjamin Cohe ...
, mathematician
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Robert Curbeam
Robert Lee Curbeam Jr. (born March 5, 1962) is a former NASA astronaut and captain in the United States Navy. He currently holds the record for the most spacewalks during a single spaceflight, accomplished during the STS-116 mission, when Curbeam ...
,
astronaut
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, engineer, and US naval officer
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George Dantzig
George Bernard Dantzig (; November 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematical scientist who made contributions to industrial engineering, operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics.
Dantzig is known for his dev ...
, mathematical scientist
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George Delahunty
George B. Delahunty (born May 5, 1952) is an American physiologist and endocrinologist. He was a long-time professor at Goucher College, working there from 1979 to 2018. Delahunty was the Lilian Welsh Professor of Biology and a co-founder of the ...
, physiologist, endocrinologist, and professor at
Goucher College
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Olive Dennis
Olive Wetzel Dennis (November 20, 1885 – November 5, 1957) was an engineer whose design innovations changed the nature of railway travel. Born in Thurlow, Pennsylvania, she grew up in Baltimore.
Career
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from ...
, railroad engineer and first female member of the
American Railway Engineering Association
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Wendell E. Dunn Jr., chemical engineer, metallurgist, and inventor
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Roger L. Easton
Roger Lee Easton, Sr. (April 30, 1921 – May 8, 2014) was an American physicist and state representative who was the principal inventor and designer of the Global Positioning System, along with Ivan A. Getting and Bradford Parkinson.
Career
I ...
, principal inventor of
GPS
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a Radionavigation-satellite service, satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of t ...
*
Charles Fefferman
Charles Louis Fefferman (born April 18, 1949) is an American mathematician at Princeton University, where he is currently the Herbert E. Jones, Jr. '43 University Professor of Mathematics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1978 for his contrib ...
, mathematician
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Henry Gantt
Henry Laurence Gantt (; May 20, 1861 – November 23, 1919) 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.
Gantt ...
, mechanical engineer
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Solomon Golomb
Solomon (; , ),, ; ar, سُلَيْمَان, ', , ; el, Σολομών, ; la, Salomon also called Jedidiah ( Hebrew: , Modern: , Tiberian: ''Yăḏīḏăyāh'', "beloved of Yah"), was a monarch of ancient Israel and the son and succe ...
, mathematician who invented
pentominoes
Derived from the Greek word for ' 5', and "domino", a pentomino (or 5-omino) is a polyomino of order 5, that is, a polygon in the plane made of 5 equal-sized squares connected edge-to-edge. When rotations and reflections are not considered to ...
*
Michael Griffin,
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
administrator
*
Harold E. Harrison and Helen C. Harrison, husband-and-wife research team in pediatrics
*
Ethel Browne Harvey
Ethel (Nicholson) Browne Harvey (December 14, 1885 in Baltimore, Maryland – September 2, 1965 in Falmouth, Massachusetts) was an American embryologist, known for her critical findings about cell division, using the embryology of sea urchins, and ...
, embryologist
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Arlo Hemphill
Arlo Hanlin Hemphill (born October 7, 1971) is an American wilderness advocate. His educational background is in marine biology. Hemphill is a Fellow National of the Explorers Club and has been listed in ''Nature'' (Myers ''et al.'' 2000) as one ...
, explorer/ocean conservationist
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Georgeanna Seegar Jones
Georgeanna Seegar Jones (July 6, 1912 – March 26, 2005) was an American reproductive endocrinologist who with her husband, Howard W. Jones, pioneered in vitro fertilization in the United States.
Early life
She was born July 6, 1912, in Balti ...
, reproductive endocrinologist
*
Howard W. Jones, gynecological surgeon
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Thomas David Jones
Thomas David Jones (born January 22, 1955) is a former United States astronaut. He was selected to the astronaut corps in 1990 and completed four Space Shuttle flights before retiring in 2001. He flew on STS-59 and STS-68 in 1994, STS-80 in 1996, ...
, NASA astronaut, US Air Force pilot
*
Kate Breckenridge Karpeles, first woman to be appointed a contract surgeon by the
United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, cla ...
*
Nick Katz
Nicholas Michael Katz (born December 7, 1943) is an American mathematician, working in arithmetic geometry, particularly on ''p''-adic methods, monodromy and moduli problems, and number theory. He is currently a professor of Mathematics at P ...
, mathematician
*
Mark Mattson
Mark may refer to:
Currency
* Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
* East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic
* Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927
* Fi ...
, neuroscientist
*
John Mauchly
John William Mauchly (August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980) 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 co ...
, physicist who, with
J. Presper Eckert
John Adam Presper Eckert Jr. (April 9, 1919 – June 3, 1995) was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly, he designed the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC), presented the first course in co ...
, invented the first general-purpose electronic
computer
A computer is a machine that can be programmed to Execution (computing), carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation) automatically. Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as C ...
*
Edmund McIlhenny
Edmund McIlhenny (; 1815 – 25 November 1890) was an American businessman and manufacturer who founded McIlhenny Company, which was the first to mass produce Tabasco sauce. While company legend attributes the invention of the sauce to McIlhenny, ...
, inventor of
Tabasco brand pepper sauce
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Florence Marie Mears
Florence Marie Mears (May 18, 1896 – December 3, 1995) was a professor of Mathematics at The George Washington University.
Background and education
Mears was born in Baltimore, Maryland and attended Baltimore public schools. She received her ...
, mathematician
*
Bessie Moses
Bessie Louise Moses (1893-1965) was a U.S. gynecologist and obstetrician who advocated birth control practices for women.
Life Early life
Born in Baltimore, Maryland to a prominent German-Jewish family, Moses graduated from Goucher College in 19 ...
, gynecologist, obstetrician and Director of the Baltimore Bureau for Contraceptive Advice
*
Ayub K. Ommaya
Ayub Khan Ommaya MD, ScD (hc), FRCS, FACS (1930 - 2008) was a Pakistani American neurosurgeon and the inventor of the Ommaya reservoir. The reservoir is used to provide chemotherapy directly to the tumor site for brain tumors. Ommaya was also a ...
, neurosurgeon
*
Helen Dodson Prince
Helen Dodson Prince (December 31, 1905 – February 4, 2002) was an American astronomer who pioneered work in solar flares at the University of Michigan.
Early life and education
Helen Prince (née Dodson) was born in Baltimore, Maryland on Dece ...
, astronomer
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Mila Rechcigl
Miloslav Rechcigl, Jr., or Mila Rechcigl, is a trained biochemist, nutritionist and cancer researcher, writer, editor, historian, bibliographer and genealogist. He was one of the founders and past President for many years of the Czechoslovak Soci ...
, biochemist
*
Robert Empie Rogers
Robert Empie Rogers (March 29, 1813 – September 6, 1884) was a United States chemist.
Biography
Rogers was born in Baltimore, Maryland on March 29, 1813. The youngest of four brothers, he was educated first under the care of his father, and t ...
, chemist
*
Arthur William Savage
Arthur William Savage (May 19, 1857 – September 22, 1938), was a businessman, inventor, and explorer. He is most famous for inventing the Savage Model 99 lever-action rifle, which remained in production for over 100 years, and founding Savage A ...
, inventor of the
Savage Model 99
The Savage Model 99, Model 1899, and their predecessor the model 1895 are a series of hammerless lever action rifles created by the Savage Arms Company in Utica, New York. The Model 99 family featured a unique rotary magazine, and later added some ...
*
Paul Reed Smith
Paul Reed Smith (born February 18, 1956) is an American luthier and the founder and owner of PRS Guitars, a high-end guitar maker.
Early life
Smith graduated from Bowie High School in 1974. He also attended St. Mary's College of Maryland where ...
, luthier
*
Elsie Shutt
Elsie Shutt (born 1928) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur who founded Computations Incorporated (CompInc) in 1957 when she was not permitted to work part-time at home after she became pregnant. Shutt was notably one of the first ...
, computer programmer and founder of software company
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Terry W. Virts
Terry W. Virts (born December 1, 1967) is a retired NASA astronaut, International Space Station Commander and colonel in the United States Air Force.
Background and education
Virts was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but considers Columbia, Mary ...
,
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
astronaut, US Air Force pilot
*
Douglas C. Wallace
Douglas Cecil Wallace (born November 6, 1946) is a geneticist and evolutionary biology, evolutionary biologist at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. He pioneered the use of human mitochondr ...
, geneticist, evolutionary biologist
*
John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler (July 9, 1911April 13, 2008) 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 in e ...
, theoretical physicist
*
Gregory R. Wiseman
Gregory Reid Wiseman (born November 11, 1975) is an American astronaut, engineer, and naval aviator. He served as Chief of the Astronaut Office until November 14, 2022.
Wiseman was selected in June 2009 as a member of the NASA Astronaut Group 2 ...
, NASA
astronaut
An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'star', and (), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft. Although generally r ...
, US Navy aviator
*
Edward Witten
Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American mathematical and theoretical physicist. He is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Witten is a researcher in string theory, q ...
, physicist, mathematician
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Jean Worthley
Jean Reese Worthley (February 23, 1925 – April 9, 2017) was an American naturalist. She hosted Maryland Public Broadcasting's children's television series '' Hodgepodge Lodge'' and co-hosted '' On Nature's Trail''. She also wrote ''The Complet ...
, naturalist and TV host of ''
Hodgepodge Lodge'' and ''
On Nature's Trail
''On Nature's Trail'' was a television show produced by the Maryland Public Television, Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting in 1978. The show featured Elmer and Jean Worthley observing and discussing plants growing at different locations in B ...
''
*
Jill Zimmerman
Jill Loraine Zimmerman (born 23 March 1959) is an American computer scientist and the James M. Beall Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Goucher College. Since 2006, she has been the head of the Goucher Robotics Lab.
Early life an ...
, computer scientist and professor at
Goucher College
Goucher College ( ') is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland. It was chartered in 1885 by a conference in Baltimore led by namesake John F. Goucher and local leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church.https://archive.org/details/h ...
Authors, journalists
![Tom_Clancy_at_Burns_Library_cropped](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Tom_Clancy_at_Burns_Library_cropped.jpg)
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Devin Allen
Devin Allen is an American photographer, photojournalist, and activist based in Baltimore, Maryland. He gained national attention after the Freddie Gray protests in 2015, when his documentary photograph entitled "Baltimore Uprising" was publishe ...
, photojournalist and photographer
*
John Barth
John Simmons Barth (; born May 27, 1930) is an American writer who is 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 ...
, author
*
Carl Bernstein
Carl Milton Bernstein ( ; born February 14, 1944) is an American investigative journalist and author. While a young reporter for ''The Washington Post'' in 1972, Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward, and the two did much of the original new ...
, journalist and author
*
Hanne Blank
Hanne Blank, also known as Hanne Blank Boyd, is an American historian, writer, and editor. Her written works include ''Virgin: The Untouched History'', ''Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality'', and ''The Unapologetic Fat G ...
, author
*
Ann Brashares
Ann Brashares (born July 30, 1967) is an American young adult novelist. She is best known as the author of ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'' series.
Life and career
Brashares was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and grew up in Chevy Chase, ...
, author
*
Pat Brown
Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown (April 21, 1905 – February 16, 1996) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 32nd governor of California from 1959 to 1967. His first elected office was as district attorney for San Francisco, and he w ...
, author, criminal profiler
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Emma Alice Browne, poet
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Mindie Burgoyne
Mindie Burgoyne is an American writer and businessperson. She works for the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development and has written several books about the history and folklore of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She is the founde ...
, author and businessperson
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Erin Burnett
Erin Isabelle Burnett (born July 2, 1976) is an American news anchor, currently the anchor of ''Erin Burnett OutFront'' on CNN. She previously worked for CNBC as co-anchor of ''Squawk on the Street'' and the host of ''Street Signs''. Burnett has ...
, journalist and
CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the M ...
anchor
An anchor is a device, normally made of metal , used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ''ancora'', which itself comes from the Greek ἄγ ...
*
James M. Cain
James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction.
His novels ''The Postman Always Rings Twice ...
, journalist and author
*
Kiran Chetry
Kiran Carrie Chetry ( ne, किरण क्षेत्री, born August 26, 1974) is a former American television broadcast journalist who, until 2011, was a cable news anchor for CNN's '' American Morning''. From 2001 to 2007 she reported ...
, journalist
*
Connie Chung
Constance Yu-Hwa Chung (born August 20, 1946) is an American journalist. She has been an anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von Bülow ...
, television journalist
*
Tom Clancy
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist. He is best known for his technically detailed espionage and military science, military-science storylines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of ...
, author
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Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Lif ...
, poet
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates ( ; born September 30, 1975) is an American author and journalist. He gained a wide readership during his time as national correspondent at ''The Atlantic'', where he wrote about cultural, social, and political issues, parti ...
, writer, journalist
*
Annie McCarer Darlington
Annie McCarer Darlington (, Biles; after marriage, Mrs. F. J. Darlington; pen name, Gertrude St. Orme; July 20, 1836 – January 24, 1907) was an American poet. She was a frequest contributor to Cecil County, Maryland periodicals. Darlington di ...
, poet
*
Mark Davis Mark Davis may refer to:
Entertainers
*Mark Davis (talk show host), American radio talk show host
* Mark Jonathan Davis (born 1965), American actor/singer and creator of Richard Cheese
*Mark Davis, American bassist and founding member for the band ...
, columnist, radio talk show host
*
Minnie S. Davis, author, mental scientist
*
Frank Deford
Benjamin Franklin Deford III (December 16, 1938 – May 28, 2017) was an American sportswriter and novelist. From 1980 until his death in 2017, he was a regular sports commentator on NPR's ''Morning Edition'' radio program.
Deford wrote fo ...
, journalist and author
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Matt Drudge
Matthew Nathan Drudge (born October 27, 1966) is an American journalist and the creator/editor of the Drudge Report, an American news aggregator. Drudge is also an author and a former radio and television show host.
Early life and education
Drud ...
, journalist, radio talk show host
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Alex Epstein, author, energy theorist
*
Nellie Blessing Eyster, journalist, writer, reformer
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Roland Flint
Roland Henry Flint (February 27, 1934 - January 2, 2001) was an American poet and professor of English at Georgetown University.
Life
Born in Park River, North Dakota, he attended the University of North Dakota before joining the United States Ma ...
, poet
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Courtney Friel
Courtney Friel (born April 22, 1980) is an anchor and reporter on television in the U.S. She currently works for KTLA in Los Angeles, California. She previously covered entertainment for Fox owned-and-operated station KTTV in Los Angeles as wel ...
, entertainment reporter for
Fox News
The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owne ...
*
Marianne Githens
Marianne Githens (November 10, 1936 – February 27, 2018) was an American political scientist, feminist, and author. She was an Elizabeth Conolly Todd Distinguished Professor and the co-founder of the Women's Study Program at Goucher College. In ...
, political scientist, feminist, author, and professor
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Jesse Glass, poet, folklorist
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Meredith Goldstein
Meredith Goldstein is an advice columnist and entertainment reporter for ''The Boston Globe'' . Her love advice columnbr>"Love Letters"appears daily on Boston.com and in the ''Globe’s'' print edition every Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, and in the S ...
, advice columnist and reporter
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Sara Haardt
Sara Powell Haardt (March 1, 1898 – May 31, 1935) was an American author and professor of English literature. Though she died at the age of 37 of meningitis, she produced a considerable body of work including newspaper reviews, articles, essay ...
, author and professor
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Mary Downing Hahn
Mary Downing Hahn (born December 9, 1937) is an American writer of young adult novels and a former school librarian. She is known for books such as ''Stepping On The Cracks'' and ''Wait Till Helen Comes''. She published her first book in 1979 and ...
, author
*
Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade ('' ...
, author
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James Alexander Henshall
James Alexander Henshall (February 29, 1836 – April 4, 1925) was an author on fishing. He was known as the "apostle of the black bass". His book ''Bass, Pike, Perch and other Game Fishes of America'' (1903) is part of the American Sportsman's Li ...
, author
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Karen Hesse
Karen S. Hesse (born August 29, 1952) is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings. She won the Newbery Medal for ''Out of the Dust'' (1997).
Early years and education
Karen Hess ...
, author
*
Nancy Hubbard
Nancy Anne Hubbard (born January 9, 1963) is an American author, public relations consultant. She is the dean of the College of Business at University of Lynchburg. Hubbard was previously the director of the Goucher College Center for Education, ...
, author and business professor
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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on Hoodoo (spirituality), hoodoo. The most ...
, author
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Mary E. Ireland, writer, translator, poet
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Nina Kasniunas, political scientist, author, and professor
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Sophie Kerr
Sophie Kerr (August 23, 1880 – February 6, 1965) was a prolific writer of the early 20th century whose stories about smart, ambitious women mirrored her own evolution from small-town girl to successful career woman. At a time when few women were ...
, author
*
Michael Kimball
Michael Kimball (born February 1, 1967) is a novelist from the United States.
Life and career
Michael Kimball was born February 1, 1967, in Lansing, Michigan. He studied at List of Michigan State University people, Michigan State University and ...
, author
*
Cliff Kincaid
Clifford P. Kincaid Jr., known as Cliff Kincaid (born May 16, 1954), is an author and conservative political activist. He is the director of the Center for Investigative Journalism of Accuracy in Media, an organization which believes much of the ...
, investigative journalist
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Gayle King
Gayle King (born December 28, 1954) is an American television personality, author and broadcast journalist for CBS News, co-hosting its flagship morning program, ''CBS Mornings'', and before that its predecessor ''CBS This Morning''. She is al ...
, editor
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Mel Kiper Jr.
Mel Kiper Jr. (; born July 25, 1960) is an analyst covering American football for ESPN. He has appeared on ESPN's annual NFL draft coverage since 1984, providing in-depth information on the nation's potential draft picks.
Career
Kiper said th ...
, ESPN football analyst
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Munro Leaf
Wilbur Monroe Leaf ( Munro Leaf) (December 4, 1905 – December 21, 1976) was an American writer of children's literature who wrote and illustrated nearly 40 books during his 40-year career. He is best known for ''The Story of Ferdinand'' (1936), ...
, children's author
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Rick Leventhal
Richard Gary Leventhal (born January 24, 1960) is an American reporter. He was a senior correspondent for Fox News Channel from June 1997 to June 2021. Before joining Fox, he spent 10 years in local news, reporting and anchoring in markets inclu ...
, correspondent for
Fox News
The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owne ...
*
Walter Lord
John Walter Lord Jr. (October 8, 1917 – May 19, 2002) was an American author, lawyer, copywriter and popular historian best known for his 1955 account of the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'', '' A Night to Remember''.
Biography Early life
Lo ...
, author
*
H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, ...
, journalist and social critic
*
Emily J. Miller
Emily Miller is an American political communications strategist, journalist and author. She has worked as the senior political correspondent at One America News Network, and before that as chief investigative reporter for WTTG, the local Fox Broa ...
, senior editor of ''
Washington Times
''The Washington Times'' is an American conservative daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., that covers general interest topics with a particular emphasis on national politics. Its broadsheet daily edition is distributed throughout ...
'' opinion pages
*
Frank Miller
Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American comic book writer, penciller and inker, novelist, screenwriter, film director, and producer known for his comic book stories and graphic novels such as his run on Daredevil (Marvel Comics ser ...
, writer and artist
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Ogden Nash
Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by ''The New York Times'' the country's best ...
, humorous poet
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Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks (born May 10, 1963) is an American playwright, screenwriter, musician and novelist. Her 2001 play ''Topdog/Underdog'' won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2002; Parks was the first African-American woman to receive the award for d ...
, playwright and screenwriter
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wide ...
, poet, writer, and literary critic
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Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "th ...
, poet and feminist
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Hester Dorsey Richardson, writer
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Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts (born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950) is an American author of more than 225 romance novels. She writes as J. D. Robb for the ''in Death'' series and has also written under the pseudonyms Jill March and for publication ...
, author
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Thomas Roberts, news anchor for
MSNBC
MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and political ...
*
John Thomas Scharf
John Thomas Scharf (May 1, 1843 – February 28, 1898) was an American historian, author, journalist, antiquarian, politician, lawyer and Confederate States of America soldier and sailor. He is best known for his published historical works. ...
, author, historian, lawyer, politician, and Confederate soldier and sailor
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Karl Shapiro
Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 – May 14, 2000) was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945 for his collection ''V-Letter and Other Poems''. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to th ...
, poet
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Laura Amy Schlitz
Laura Amy Schlitz is an American author of children's literature. She is a librarian and storyteller at the Park School of Baltimore in Brooklandville, Maryland.
She received the 2008 Newbery Medal for her children's book entitled ''Good Masters ...
, children's literature author
*
Upton Sinclair
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in seve ...
, author
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Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon (born July 7, 1951) is an American journalist, media critic, activist, and former U.S. congressional candidate. Solomon is a longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR). In 1997 he founde ...
, journalist, media critic
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Bud Sparhawk, science fiction author
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John Steadman
John Steadman (February 14, 1927 – January 1, 2001) was an American sportswriter for ''The Baltimore Sun''. His career spanned seven decades and he attended and reported on every Super Bowl from its inception until his death.
Background
Stead ...
, sportswriter
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Flora E. Strout, teacher, social reformer, non-fiction writer, lyricist
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Mary Spear Tiernan, writer
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Florence Trai, educator, writer
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Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-four novels, including ''Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant'' (1982), ''The Accidental Tourist'' (1985), and '' Breathin ...
, author
*
Sanford J. Ungar
Sanford J. "Sandy" Ungar (born 1945) is an American journalist, author, and the inaugural director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University. He was the tenth president of Goucher College and the 24th director of Voice of America.
Ear ...
, journalist and
Goucher College
Goucher College ( ') is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland. It was chartered in 1885 by a conference in Baltimore led by namesake John F. Goucher and local leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church.https://archive.org/details/h ...
president e''meritus''
*
Leon Uris
Leon Marcus Uris (August 3, 1924 – June 21, 2003) was an American author of historical fiction who wrote many bestselling books including '' Exodus'' (published in 1958) and ''Trinity'' (published in 1976).
Life and career
Uris was born in Ba ...
, author
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Scott Van Pelt
Scott Van Pelt (born ) is an American sportscaster and sports talk show host. He co-anchored the 11 p.m. edition of ''SportsCenter'' on ESPN, served as the co-host of ''SVP & Russillo'' alongside Ryen Russillo on ESPN Radio, and hosts various g ...
, ESPN anchor and radio host
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Amelia B. Coppuck Welby, poet
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Fredricka Whitfield
Fredricka Whitfield (born May 31, 1965) is an American journalist and news anchor. She anchors the weekend edition of ''CNN Newsroom'' from CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, and she is also a fill-in and substitute anchor for CNN's At This Hou ...
, CNN reporter and anchor
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Emma Howard Wight
Emma Howard Wight (August 25, 1863 – June 24, 1935) was an American author and newspaper correspondent. After leaving school, she wrote occasionally for amusement. Her friend, Bertha von Hillern, induced Wight to start publishing her work. Arti ...
, writer, newspaper correspondent
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Michael Wilbon
Michael Wilbon (; born ) is an American commentator for ESPN and former sportswriter and columnist for ''The Washington Post''. He is an analyst for ESPN and has co-hosted ''Pardon the Interruption'' on ESPN since 2001.
Early life and education ...
, ESPN personality (''
Pardon the Interruption
''Pardon the Interruption'' (abbreviated ''PTI'') is an American sports talk television show that airs weekdays on various ESPN TV channels. It is hosted by Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, who discuss, and frequently argue over, the top storie ...
'') and ''
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...
'' sports columnist
*
Ella B. Ensor Wilson
Ella B. Ensor Wilson (, Ensor; also known as, Mrs. Augustus Wilson; 1838 – September 11, 1913) was an American social reformer and writer of the long nineteenth century associated with the women's suffrage and temperance movements. She was a stro ...
social reformer, non-fiction writer
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Ibbie McColm Wilson, poet
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James Wolcott
James Wolcott (born December 10, 1952) is an American journalist, known for his critique of contemporary media. Wolcott is the cultural critic for '' Vanity Fair'' and contributes to ''The New Yorker''. He had his own blog on ''Vanity Fair'' ma ...
, journalist, social critic
Musicians
![Zappa_16011977_01_300](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Zappa_16011977_01_300.jpg)
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Bernard Addison
Bernard Sylvester Addison (April 15, 1905 – December 18, 1990) was an American jazz guitarist.
Career
Addison was born in Annapolis, Maryland. At an early age, he learned mandolin and violin.
Career
After moving to Washington, D.C. in ...
, jazz guitarist
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Scott Ambush
Scott Antel Ambush is an American musician, best known as the bass player of jazz fusion band Spyro Gyra.
Biography
He was born April 28, 1960 in Frederick, Maryland to Webster and Jeanette Lofton Ambush. He attended Urbana Elementary School in ...
, jazz bassist
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Tori Amos
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full ...
, singer-songwriter
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BT, born Brian Transeau, electronic musician
*Jack Barakat, lead guitarist of the rock band
All Time Low
All Time Low is an American rock band from Towson, Maryland, formed in 2003. Consisting of lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist Alex Gaskarth, lead guitarist Jack Barakat, bassist/backing vocalist Zack Merrick, and drummer Rian Dawson, the band too ...
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Niki Barr
Niki Barr is an American musician from Denton, Maryland. Starting in 2013, she is the lead singer for The Last Year, a Baltimore, Maryland-based alternative band.
Career
Early years
Niki began writing, performing, and recording at age 15 ...
, singer-songwriter
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Keter Betts
William Thomas "Keter" Betts (July 22, 1928 – August 6, 2005) was an American jazz double bassist.
Early life and education
Born in Port Chester, New York, he was nicknamed "Keter", a short form of the word mosquito. He graduated from Port C ...
, jazz bassist
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Eubie Blake
James Hubert "Eubie" Blake (February 7, 1887 – February 12, 1983) was an American pianist and composer of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, he and his long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote ''Shuffle Along'', one of the first Bro ...
, ragtime, jazz and pop composer, lyricist
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Bossman, rapper
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Toni Braxton
Toni Michele Braxton (born October 7, 1967) is an American Contemporary R&B, R&B singer, songwriter, actress and television personality. She has sold over 70 million records worldwide and is one of the best-selling female artists in history. ...
, singer
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Mark Bryan
Mark William Bryan (born May 6, 1967) is an American musician. He is a founding member, songwriter, and the lead guitarist for the band Hootie & the Blowfish. In 1986, Bryan and his friend Darius Rucker formed a duo called The Wolf Brothers whi ...
, guitarist for the rock band
Hootie & the Blowfish
Hootie & the Blowfish are an American soft rock band that were formed in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1986. The band's lineup for most of its existence has been the quartet of Darius Rucker, Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, and Jim Sonefeld. The band w ...
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Randy Blythe
Randy is a given name, popular in the United States and Canada. It is primarily a masculine name. It was originally derived from the names Randall, Randolf, Randolph, as well as Bertrand and Andrew, and may be a short form (hypocorism) of them ...
, vocalist for heavy metal band
Lamb of God
Lamb of God ( el, Ἀμνὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ, Amnòs toû Theoû; la, Agnus Dei, ) is a title for Jesus that appears in the Gospel of John. It appears at John 1:29, where John the Baptist sees Jesus and exclaims, "Behold the Lamb of God wh ...
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David Byrne
David Byrne (; born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, writer, music theorist, visual artist and filmmaker. He was a founding member and the principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of ...
, singer/guitarist of rock band
Talking Heads
Talking Heads were an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991.[Talkin ...](_blank)
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Bill Callahan, singer/songwriter formerly known as
Smog
Smog, or smoke fog, is a type of intense air pollution. The word "smog" was coined in the early 20th century, and is a portmanteau of the words ''smoke'' and '' fog'' to refer to smoky fog due to its opacity, and odor. The word was then inte ...
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Cab Calloway
Cabell Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, conductor and dancer. He was associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he was a regular performer and became a popular vocalist ...
, jazz singer and bandleader
*Eva Cassidy, singer-songwriter
*Cex (musician), Cex, electronic musician
*JC Chasez, singer, songwriter and producer; former member of pop group N'Sync
*John Christ, former guitarist of the hard rock band Danzig (band), Danzig
*Cordae, rapper
*Rian Dawson, drummer for the band
All Time Low
All Time Low is an American rock band from Towson, Maryland, formed in 2003. Consisting of lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist Alex Gaskarth, lead guitarist Jack Barakat, bassist/backing vocalist Zack Merrick, and drummer Rian Dawson, the band too ...
*Dan Deacon, electronic musician
*Deakin (musician), Deakin (Joshua Dibb), co-founder of Animal Collective
*Adam Duritz, singer of rock band Counting Crows
*Cass Elliot, singer of pop band The Mamas & the Papas
*Sam Endicott, singer of rock band The Bravery
*Entrance (musician), Entrance, born Guy Blakeslee, singer/songwriter
*John Fahey (musician), John Fahey, folk/blues guitarist
*Brent Faiyaz, singer, record producer
*Mark Fax, composer
*Dean Felber, bass guitarist for the rock band
Hootie & the Blowfish
Hootie & the Blowfish are an American soft rock band that were formed in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1986. The band's lineup for most of its existence has been the quartet of Darius Rucker, Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, and Jim Sonefeld. The band w ...
*Gallant (singer), Gallant, singer-songwriter
*Alex Gaskarth, lead singer and guitarist for the rock band
All Time Low
All Time Low is an American rock band from Towson, Maryland, formed in 2003. Consisting of lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist Alex Gaskarth, lead guitarist Jack Barakat, bassist/backing vocalist Zack Merrick, and drummer Rian Dawson, the band too ...
*Johnny Gill, singer
*Danny Gatton, guitarist
*Geologist (musician), Geologist (Brian Weltz), co-founding member of Animal Collective
*Ginuwine, R&B singer
*Philip Glass, composer
*Robert Gordon (musician), Robert Gordon, rockabilly singer
*Tamyra Gray, singer/actress
*Hilary Hahn, concert violinist, two-time Grammy winner
*Greg Hawkes, keyboardist of The Cars
*Billie Holiday, singer
*Ron Holloway, tenor saxophonist
*Scott Hull (musician), Scott Hull, guitarist, music producer
*Eric Hutchinson, musician
*JPEGMafia, music producer, experimental hip hop artist
*Julienne Irwin, singer and ''America's Got Talent (season 2), America's Got Talent'' season 2 finalist
*Joan Jett, singer
*LaKisha Jones, ''American Idol (season 6), American Idol'' season 6 finalist
*Tonie Joy, guitarist for Moss Icon
*Tommy Keene, singer-songwriter
*Greg Kihn, New Wave and pop musician and singer
*Joe Lally, bassist of rock band Fugazi (band), Fugazi
*Nathan Larson (musician), Nathan Larson, film soundtrack composer; guitarist of rock bands Shudder to Think and Hot One
*Rod Lee, Baltimore club producer/DJ
*Victoria Legrand, vocalist and keyboardist for Beach House
*Lisa Loeb, singer-songwriter
*Nils Lofgren, solo rock musician and guitarist with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band
*Logic (rapper), Logic, rapper
*Benji Madden, guitarist for Good Charlotte
*Joel Madden, lead singer for Good Charlotte
*Spiro Malas, bass-baritone opera singer
*Mario (entertainer), Mario, singer-songwriter
*Sean Meadows, bass guitarist for Lungfish (band), Lungfish
* Zachary Merrick, bassist and vocals for the rock band
All Time Low
All Time Low is an American rock band from Towson, Maryland, formed in 2003. Consisting of lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist Alex Gaskarth, lead guitarist Jack Barakat, bassist/backing vocalist Zack Merrick, and drummer Rian Dawson, the band too ...
*Christina Milian, singer-songwriter, actress, dancer
*Jamie Miller (US musician), Jamie Miller, drummer for Bad Religion
*Jason C. Miller, singer-songwriter
*Mýa, singer/songwriter and dancer
*Rico Nasty, rapper
*Ric Ocasek, former frontman of The Cars
*John and T.J. Osborne, members of the band Brothers Osborne
*Panda Bear (musician), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), co-founding member of Animal Collective
*Barry Louis Polisar, singer-songwriter of children's music
*Greg Puciato, singer of metal band The Dillinger Escape Plan
*Ross Rawlings, pianist, composer, conductor, and music director
*Sam Ray, electronic music as Ricky Eat Acid, and founder of band American Pleasure Club, formerly known as Teen Suicide
*Steve Rochinski, jazz guitarist, recording artist, composer, arranger, author, jazz educator
*Maggie Rogers (singer), Maggie Rogers, singer-songwriter and producer
*Alex Scally, instrumentalist and songwriter for Beach House
*Gina Schock, drummer of rock band The Go-Go's
*Sisqó, lead singer of R&B group Dru Hill
*Todd Smith (musician), Todd Smith, vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for Dog Fashion Disco, Polkadot Cadaver, and Knives Out!
*Noel Paul Stookey, singer with Peter, Paul and Mary
*Avey Tare (David Portner), co-founding member of Animal Collective
*Evan Taubenfeld, ex-guitarist and backup vocalist for pop star Avril Lavigne; singer and rhythm guitarist for The Black List Club
*Chad Taylor (guitarist), Chad Taylor, guitarist for The Gracious Few and Live (band), Live
*Chester Thompson, drummer, frequent collaborator with Genesis (band), Genesis
*Jordan Tice, bluegrass guitarist and singer, band member of Hawktail
*Ultra Naté, house music/dance-pop musician
*Chick Webb, jazz and swing drummer and bandleader
*Scott Weinrich, Scott "Wino" Weinrich, doom metal guitarist and vocalist
*Erica Wheeler (singer-songwriter), Erica Wheeler, folk singer-songwriter
*Frank Zappa, singer, guitarist and composer
Actors, filmmakers, and entertainers
![Jada Pinkett Smith at NY PaleyFest 2014 for Gotham](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Jada_Pinkett_Smith_at_NY_PaleyFest_2014_for_Gotham.jpg)
*Cynthia Addai-Robinson, actress
*Gbenga Akinnagbe, actor
*Lori Alan, voice actress
*Karen Allen, actress
*Bess Armstrong, actress
*Jay Ashley, pornographic film star
*John Astin, actor
*Jonathan Banks, actor
*Noelle Beck, actress
*Clara Beranger, silent film screenwriter
*Lewis Black, comedian, actor
*Wolfgang Bodison, actor
*Edwin Booth, actor
*Julie Bowen, actress
*Tamar Braxton, actress, television personality, and musician (''The Real (TV series), The Real'', ''Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series), Dancing with the Stars'')
*Kimberly J. Brown, actress
*Norman "Chubby" Chaney, actor (''Little Rascals'', ''Our Gang'' shorts)
*Crystal Chappell, actress
*Josh Charles, actor
*Hank Chen, actor
*Josh Clark (actor), Josh Clark, actor
*Kevin Clash, puppeteer
*Gaelan Connell, actor, singer
*Hans Conreid, actor
* Whitney Cummings, stand-up comedian
* Brian Dannelly, film director and screenwriter
*Tommy Davidson, actor, comedian
*Wendy Davis (actress), Wendy Davis, actress
*Eddie Deezen, actor
*Alexis Denisof, actor
*Divine (Glen Milstead), Divine, actor, drag queen
*Jack Douglass, Internet personality, comedian
*David Drake (actor), David Drake, playwright, actor, stage director
*Mildred Dunnock, actress
*Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dutton, actor
*Robert Duvall, actor
*Michael Ealy, actor
*Johnny Eck, actor, circus performer (Tod Browning's ''Freaks (1932 film), Freaks'')
*Damon Evans (actor), Damon Evans, actor
*Anna Faris, actress
*Evan Farmer, actor, singer
*Lauren Faust, animator
*Faith Fay, actress
*Wayne Federman, comedian, actor, author
*Ben Feldman (actor), Ben Feldman, actor
*Mona Freeman, actress
*Judah Friedlander, comedian, actor
*Daniel Gallant, writer, producer and director of Nuyorican Poets Café
*Kathie Lee Gifford, TV personality and singer
*Anita Gillette, actress
*Larry Gilliard Jr., actor
*Ira Glass, radio personality, producer
*John Glover (actor), John Glover, actor
*Duff Goldman, television personality
*George O. Gore II, actor
*Alfred Gough, screenwriter and producer
*Holter Graham, actor
*Linda Hamilton, actress
*Brandon Hardesty, actor
*Ian Harding, actor
*Linda Harrison (actress), Linda Harrison, actress
*David Hasselhoff, actor
*Shawn Hatosy, actor
*Rondo Hatton, actor
*Goldie Hawn, actress
*Robert Hays, actor
*Elden Henson, actor
*Taraji P. Henson, actress
*Russell Hicks (actor), Russell Hicks, actor
*Brendan Hines, actor, singer
*Anne Hummert, creator of daytime radio serials
*Michael Hyatt, actress
*Mo'Nique, Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson, actress
*Thomas Jane, actor
*Penny Johnson Jerald, actress
*Rian Johnson, filmmaker
*Spike Jonze, music video director, filmmaker, and producer
*Kevin Kangas, writer, director of B-horror movies
*John Kassir, actor, comedian
*Stacy Keibler, actress, model
*Josh Kelly (actor), Josh Kelly
*Kevin Kilner, actor
*Judy Kuhn, actress
*Martin Lawrence, actor, comedian, director and producer
*Barry Levinson, filmmaker
*Peyton List (actress born 1986), Peyton List, actress, model
*Ernie Lively, actor
*Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
*William H. Macy, actor
*Paula Marshall, actress
*Shane McMahon, professional wrestler
*Dale Midkiff, actor
*Debra Monk, actress, singer
*Garry Moore, television personality
*Cookie Mueller, actress, writer
*Sean Murray (actor), Sean Murray, actor
*Mildred Natwick, actress
*Toby Orenstein, theatre producer and founder
*Devika Parikh, actress
*Jameson Parker, actor
*Nicole Ari Parker, actress
*Mark Pellington, film director
*Sam Phillips (model), Sam Phillips, actress, model, radio DJ
*David Pollock (actor), David Pollock, actor
*Parker Posey, actress
*Robin Quivers, radio personality
*Lance Reddick, actor
*Patricia Richardson, actress
*Howard Rollins, actor
*Mark Rolston, actor
*Jessica Lee Rose, actress
*John Rothman, actor
*Thomas Rothman, film executive
*Mike Rowe (television host), Mike Rowe, TV personality
*Lamman Rucker, actor
*Johnathon Schaech, actor, writer
*Richard Schiff, actor
*Dwight Schultz, actor
*Teddy Sears, actor
*Anna Deavere Smith, actress, playwright
*Jada Pinkett Smith, actress
*Daniel Stern (actor), Daniel Stern, actor
*Mink Stole, actress
*Wanda Sykes, comedian, actress
*Tracie Thoms, actress
*Barbara Walsh, actress
*Jonathan Ward (actor), Jonathan Ward, actor
*John Waters (filmmaker), John Waters, filmmaker
*Matthew Weiner, writer, director and producer
*Montel Williams, TV personality
*DeWanda Wise, actress
*Frank Zappa, musician, composer
Athletes
![Joanna Zeiger](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Joanna_Zeiger.jpg)
*Nick Adenhart, baseball player
*Joe Alexander (basketball player), Joe Alexander, basketball player
*Brady Anderson, baseball player
*Justin Anderson (basketball), Justin Anderson, basketball player
*Carmelo Anthony, basketball player
*Lisa Aukland, professional bodybuilder and powerlifter
*Tavon Austin, football player
*Harold Baines, baseball player
*Home Run Baker, Frank Baker, baseball player
*Ken Bannister, basketball player
*Shaquil Barrett, football player
*Lonny Baxter, basketball player
*Steve Barber, baseball player
*Michael Beasley, basketball player
*Kyle Beckerman, soccer player
*Bill Belichick, football coach
*Len Bias, basketball player
*Keith Bogans, basketball player
*Muggsy Bogues, Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues, basketball player
*Josh Boone (basketball), Josh Boone, basketball player
*Riddick Bowe, heavyweight champion boxer
*Matt Bowman, baseball player
*NaVorro Bowman, football player
*Charles Bradley (basketball), Charles Bradley, basketball player
*Dudley Bradley, basketball player
*Troy Brohawn, baseball player
*Andre Brown (running back), Andre Brown, football player
*Elise Burgin, tennis player
*James Carter (hurdler), James Carter, hurdler
*Sam Cassell, basketball player
*Brett Cecil, baseball player
*Steve Clevenger, baseball player
*Colin Cloherty, football player
*Andy Cohen (baseball), Andy Cohen, baseball second baseman and coach
*Chris Coghlan, baseball player
*Brandon Coleman, football player
*Jerome Couplin III, football player
*Dante Cunningham, basketball player
*Quintin Dailey, basketball player
*Adrian Dantley, basketball player
*Ronald Darby, football player
*Will Davis (linebacker), Will Davis, football player
*Dominique Dawes, Olympic gymnast
*Delino DeShields Jr., baseball player
*Judy Devlin, badminton player
*Susan Devlin, badminton player
*Stefon Diggs, football player
*Juan Dixon, basketball player
*Joey Dorsey, basketball player
*John Dorsey (American football), John Dorsey, football player, general manager
*Pat Downey (wrestler), Pat Downey, freestyle wrestler
*Michael Dunn (American football), Michael Dunn, football player
*Kevin Durant, basketball player
*Jerome Dyson, basketball player
*James Ellsworth (wrestler), James Ellsworth, professional wrestler
*Eva Fabian, American-Israeli world champion swimmer
*Michel Faulkner, football player
*Duane Ferrell, basketball player
*Danny Ferry, basketball player
*Tony Fiammetta, football player
*Gavin Floyd, baseball player
*Moise Fokou, football player
*Domonique Foxworth, football player
*Jimmy Foxx, Hall of Fame baseball player
*Steve Francis, basketball player
*Corey Fuller (wide receiver), Corey Fuller, football player
*Kyle Fuller, football player
*Rudy Gay, basketball player
*James Gist, basketball player
*Paul Goldstein (tennis), Paul Goldstein, tennis player
*Justin Gorham (born 1998), basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
*Brian Gottfried, World No. 3-ranked tennis player
*Jeff Green (basketball), Jeff Green, basketball player
*Donté Greene, basketball player
*Gabe Gross, baseball player
*Lefty Grove, Hall of Fame baseball player
*Todd Gurley, football player
*Scott Hall, professional wrestler
*Jeff Halpern, hockey player
*Derrick Harvey, football player
* Marcus Hatten, basketball player
*Rob Havenstein, football player
*Darrius Heyward-Bey, football player
*Roy Hibbert, basketball player
*Calvin Hill, football player, father of Grant Hill (basketball), Grant Hill
*Timmy Hill, NASCAR driver
*Tyler Hill (racing driver), Tyler Hill, NASCAR driver
*Katie Hoff, swimmer
*Jarrett Jack, basketball player
*Tanard Jackson, football player
*Tracy Jackson, basketball player
*Jelani Jenkins, football player
*Bryant Johnson, football player
*Larry Johnson (running back), Larry Johnson, football player
*Steve Johnson (baseball), Steve Johnson, baseball player
*Cyrus Jones, football player
*Al Kaline, Hall of Fame baseball player
*Lloyd Keaser, Olympic freestyle wrestler
*Stacy Keibler, professional wrestler
*Stanton Kidd, basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
*Linas Kleiza, basketball player
*Rick Knapp, pitching coach
*Adam Kolarek, baseball player
*Cyrus Kouandjio, football player
*Steve Krulevitz, American-Israeli tennis player
*Aaron Laffey, baseball player
*Bucky Lasek, professional skateboarder
*Ty Lawson, basketball player
*Katie Ledecky, Olympic swimmer
* Ivan Leshinsky, American-Israeli basketball player
*Steve Lombardozzi Jr., baseball player
*Sugar Ray Leonard, Hall of Fame boxer
*Reggie Lewis, basketball player
*Sidney Lowe, basketball player, assistant coach
*Matt Maloney, basketball player
*Helen Maroulis, Olympic freestyle wrestler
*Roger Mason (basketball), Roger Mason, basketball player
*Justin Maxwell, baseball player
*Leo Mazzone, baseball coach
*Robert McClain, football player
*Tatyana McFadden, paralympian T54 (classification), category T54
*Rodney McLeod, football player
*Sara McMann, MMA fighter
*Kimmie Meissner, figure skater
*Shawne Merriman, football player
*Matt Mervis, baseball player
*Debbie Meyer, competition swimmer
*Isaiah Miles, basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
*Malcolm Miller (basketball), Malcolm Miller, basketball player
*Terence Morris, basketball player
*Daniel Muir, football player
*Jeff Nelson (pitcher), Jeff Nelson, baseball player
*Rashard Odomes, basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
*Quinn Ojinnaka, football player
*Victor Oladipo, basketball player
*Chinanu Onuaku, basketball player
*Travis Pastrana, motorsport athlete
*Sam Perlozzo, baseball player and manager
*Julian Peterson, football player
*Michael Phelps, Olympic swimmer
*Tom Phoebus, baseball player
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Poe brothers
The Poe brothers were six American football players who played football at Princeton University from 1882 until 1901. They were sons of John P. Poe Sr., an 1854 Princeton graduate and the Attorney General of Maryland from 1891 until 1895. They wer ...
, six American football players from Princeton University
*Billy Ripken, baseball player
*Cal Ripken Jr., Hall of Fame baseball player
*Bob Robertson, baseball player
*Josh Roenicke, baseball player
*Axl Rotten, professional wrestler
*Jake Rozhansky, American-Israeli professional soccer player
*Babe Ruth, Hall of Fame baseball player
*Pete Sampras, tennis player
*Jim Schwartz, football coach
*Dennis Scott (basketball), Dennis Scott, basketball player
*Josh Selby, basketball player
*Kevin Shaffer, football player
*Visanthe Shiancoe, football player
*Pam Shriver, tennis player
*Gene Shue, basketball player
*Lawrence Sidbury, football player
*Dickey Simpkins, basketball player
*Ira Smith (baseball), Ira Smith, collegiate baseball player
*Tubby Smith, basketball coach
*Kyle Snyder (wrestler), Kyle Snyder, Olympic freestyle wrestler
*Harold Solomon, tennis player
*Larry Spriggs, basketball player
*Mike Sweetney, basketball player
*Ron Swoboda, baseball player
*Mark Teixeira, baseball player
*Greivis Vásquez, basketball player
*Cameron Wake, football player
*Marvin Webster, basketball player
*Delonte West, basketball player
*Brian Westbrook, football player
*Byron Westbrook, football player
*Greg Whittington, basketball player
*Derrick Williams (American football), Derrick Williams, football player
*LaQuan Williams, football player
*Madieu Williams, football player
*Reggie Williams (basketball, born 1964), Reggie Williams, basketball player
*Kennard Winchester, basketball player
*David Wingate (basketball), David Wingate, basketball player
*Danny Wiseman, Hall of Fame bowler
*Jay Witasick, baseball player
*Chase Young, football player
*Sam Young (basketball), Sam Young, basketball player
*Usama Young, football player
*Joanna Zeiger, Olympic and world champion triathlete, and author
Visual artists
![Frank Cho at WonderCon 2010 2](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Frank_Cho_at_WonderCon_2010_2.JPG)
*Rushern Baker IV, painter
*Chrystelle Trump Bond, dancer, choreographer, and dance historian
*F. Lennox Campello, visual artist, art critic, author, blogger
*Norman Carlberg, sculptor
*Anne Cherubim, painter
*Frank Cho, comic book creator, writer and artist
*Joseph Craig English, printmaker
*Jane Frank, painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, illustrator
*Jason Freeny, sculptor, toy designer, designer toy artist
*Lee Gatch, painter, mixed media artist
*Dick Hafer, cartoonist and comics creator
*Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal, painter
*Joseph Holston, painter and printmaker
*Wayson R. Jones, painter
*Andrei Kushnir, painter
*Morris Louis, painter
*Joe Shannon (artist), Joe Shannon, painter, curator and educator
*Amy Sherald, painter, portrait artist
*Anne Truitt, sculptor
*Diane Tuckman, painter and author
*Bernie Wrightson, comic book artist
Individuals of historic significance
![Harriet Tubman by Squyer, NPG, c1885](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Harriet_Tubman_by_Squyer%2C_NPG%2C_c1885.jpg)
*John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln
*Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, first proprietary governor of the Maryland Colony
*John Carroll (priest), John Carroll, first Roman Catholic archbishop in the US
*Henry De Butts, 18th-century United States Army, U.S. Army officer, acting Adjutant General and Inspector General
*Stephen Decatur, naval hero of the War of 1812
*Julia Dorsey, African-American suffragist
*William Hemsley Emory, U.S. Army officer and surveyor of Texas
*Matthew Henson, Arctic explorer
*Alger Hiss, UN official accused of being a Soviet Union, Soviet spy in 1948, convicted of perjury in 1950
*Francis Scott Key, composer of "The Star-Spangled Banner", the poem used for the United States national anthem
*Jacob Lumbrozo, first Jew to permanently settle in the New World
*Charles A. May, U.S. Army cavalry officer, considered a hero of the Mexican–American War, Mexican War
*Samuel Mudd, physician convicted and imprisoned for aiding John Wilkes Booth
*Cadwalader Ringgold, U.S. Navy Officer during the Civil War, explorer
*Edward Rowny, U.S. Army Lieutenant General, World War II and Korean War veteran
*Raymond A. Spruance, admiral during World War II, ambassador to the Philippines
*Harriet Tubman, leader of the Underground Railroad
Miscellaneous
![20131005_Bronza_Parks_cutout_Chesapeake_Bay_Maritime_Museum](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/20131005_Bronza_Parks_cutout_Chesapeake_Bay_Maritime_Museum.JPG)
*Yosef Alon, Israeli Air Force officer and military attache
*Steve Bisciotti, majority owner of the Baltimore Ravens
*José Antonio Bowen, president of
Goucher College
Goucher College ( ') is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland. It was chartered in 1885 by a conference in Baltimore led by namesake John F. Goucher and local leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church.https://archive.org/details/h ...
*Sally Brice-O'Hara, 27th Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, Vice-Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, U.S. Coast Guard
*Sally Buck, part-owner of the Philadelphia Phillies
*Blac Chyna, model, socialite and rapper
*Sherry Cooper, Chief Economist for Dominion Lending Centres; Executive VP and Chief Economist of BMO Financial Group
*Timothy Creamer, NASA astronaut, United States Army, U.S. Army Colonel (United States), Colonel
*Bud Delp, 1979 Kentucky Derby-winning trainer of Spectacular Bid
*Rhoda Dorsey, historian and first woman president of
Goucher College
Goucher College ( ') is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland. It was chartered in 1885 by a conference in Baltimore led by namesake John F. Goucher and local leaders of the Methodist Episcopal Church.https://archive.org/details/h ...
*Michel Faulkner, pastor and New York City, NYC politician
*Duff Goldman, owner of Charm City Cakes, star of ''Ace of Cakes''
*Michael Hardt, literary theorist and political philosopher
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Arlo Hemphill
Arlo Hanlin Hemphill (born October 7, 1971) is an American wilderness advocate. His educational background is in marine biology. Hemphill is a Fellow National of the Explorers Club and has been listed in ''Nature'' (Myers ''et al.'' 2000) as one ...
, wilderness advocate
*Johns Hopkins, businessman and philanthropist
*Brendan Iribe, game programmer and co-founder of Oculus VR
*Edwin R. Keedy, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Mel Kiper Jr.
Mel Kiper Jr. (; born July 25, 1960) is an analyst covering American football for ESPN. He has appeared on ESPN's annual NFL draft coverage since 1984, providing in-depth information on the nation's potential draft picks.
Career
Kiper said th ...
, ESPN football analyst, known for draft coverage
*Seth Klarman, billionaire, founder of The Baupost Group
*Little Albert, subject of John B. Watson's controversial case study on classical conditioning
* Joseph Maskell (1939–2001), Catholic priest accused of sexual abuse
*Derrick Miller, paroled former US Army National Guard sergeant sentenced to life in prison for murder
*Peter Navarro, Director of the White House National Trade Council, National Trade Council under Donald Trump, President Trump
*Creig Northrop, real estate agent, broker, and CEO of Northrop Realty
*Samuel J. Palmisano, president and Chief executive officer, CEO of IBM
*Bronza Parks, boatbuilder
*Bob Parsons, CEO and founder of Go Daddy
*George Peabody, founder of the Peabody Institute, philanthropist
*Frank Perdue, president of Perdue Farms
*Kevin Plank, CEO and founder of Under Armour
*Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, wife of writer
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wide ...
*Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist
*John Rawls, philosopher
*Hilary Rhoda, model
*Jim Rogers, businessman, investor, author
*James Rouse, city planner
*Elizabeth Lownes Rust, philanthropist, humanitarian, missionary
*Ida Mary Barry Ryan, philanthropist
*Bradford Shellhammer, entrepreneur and designer, founding editor of ''Queerty''
*Christian Siriano, winner of Season 4 of ''Project Runway''
*Daniel Snyder, owner of the Washington Commanders
*Ben Stein, actor, author, economist, political speechwriter
* Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee (US Navy), Seabee diver killed by Hezbollah militants during the Aircraft hijacking, hijacking of TWA Flight 847
*Matthew VanDyke, freedom fighter and prisoner of war (POW) in the 2011 Libyan civil war, 2011 Libyan Civil War
*Paula White, international Christian evangelist and teacher
*Bill Wilson (Americans for Limited Government), Bill Wilson, head of Americans for Limited Government
*Leo Wolman, economist
*George Young (American football executive), George Young, NFL executive
See also
* Lists of Americans
External links
{{Lists of people by U.S. state
Lists of people from Maryland,