The following are some notable people from the American state ofMaryland, listed by their field of endeavor. This list may not include Federal officials and members of theUnited States Congress who live in Maryland but are not actual natives.

• Spiro T. Agnew, former governor of Maryland and vice president of the United States
• John R. Bolton, 25thUnited States Ambassador to the United Nations
• Charles Joseph Bonaparte, former Attorney General of the United States; founder of the FBI; grand-nephew of French emperor Napoleon I
• Anthony Brown, United States Congressman, formerlieutenant governor of Maryland
• Charles Carroll of Carrollton, lawyer, politician, and signer of the Declaration of Independence
• John Lee Carroll, 36th governor of Maryland
• Samuel Chase,United States Supreme Court Justice
• Joan Claybrook, president ofPublic Citizen; head of theNHTSA in theCarter administration
• J. Joseph Curran Jr., state attorney general and former lieutenant governor
• Frederick Douglass, abolitionist
• Doug Duncan, county executive
• Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., formergovernor of Maryland and member of theU.S. House of Representatives
• Christopher Emery,Assistant White House Chief Usher
• Merrick Garland, U.S. attorney general
• John Hanson, ninth president of the Continental Congress; first elected under the Articles of Confederation
• Ellen Lipton Hollander,United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the District of Maryland
• Steny Hoyer, current and former House Majority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives
• Sarah T. Hughes, federal judge who administered the presidential oath of office toLyndon B. Johnson
• Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice of theSupreme Court of the United States
• Philip Barton Key, U.A. representative and U.S. district judge
• Allan H. Kittleman, formerMaryland State Senator and county executive forHoward County, Maryland
• Ernest Lyon, formerUnited States Ambassador to Liberia and founder ofMaryland Industrial and Agricultural Institute for Colored Youths
• Thurgood Marshall, first African-American Supreme Court Justice in the history of the United States
• Kweisi Mfume, Congressman and formerNAACP leader
• J. William Middendorf, United States diplomat, Secretary of the Navy
• Aruna Miller,Lieutenant Governor of Maryland and former Maryland State Delegate
• Charles E. Miller, politician, businessman, and philanthropist
• Wes Moore, author, nonprofit executive and currentgovernor of Maryland
• David Nolan, activist and politician
• Johnny Olszewski, Baltimore County Executive and former Maryland State Delegate
• Katie O'Malley, State District Judge and wife of Martin O'Malley
• Martin J. O'Malley, formergovernor of Maryland and2016 candidate for president of the United States
• William Paca, signer of theDeclaration of Independence
• Nancy Pelosi, formerSpeaker of the United States House of Representatives
• Edgar Allan Poe, Maryland attorney general (1911–1915)
• John P. Poe Sr., Attorney General of Maryland (1891–1895)
• Neilson Poe, Judge for Baltimore City and grandfather ofPoe brothers
• Kevin B. Quinn,Chief Executive Officer and Administrator of theMaryland Transit Administration
• William Donald Schaefer, former governor
• Sargent Shriver, politician, former vice presidential candidate
• Michael S. Steele,Lieutenant Governor of Maryland (2003–2007)
• Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the United States
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (Democratic Party), former lieutenant governor of Maryland and oldest daughter ofRobert F. Kennedy
• Jeffrey Zients, director of theNational Economic Council under PresidentBarack Obama
• Dawn Zimmer, mayor ofHoboken, New Jersey

• Otto Eugene Adams
• George Archer
• Richard Snowden Andrews
• Ephraim Francis Baldwin
• Henry F. Brauns
• William Buckland
• Wright Butler
• Charles L. Carson
• Albert Cassell
• Charles E. Cassell
• Thomas Dixon
• George A. Frederick
• Jackson C. Gott
• Nathaniel Henry Hutton
• William Rich Hutton
• Edmund George Lind
• J. Crawford Neilson
• John Rudolph Niernsee
• Edward L. Palmer Jr.
• Theodore Wells Pietsch, architect ofStieff Silver Company Factory (Baltimore)
• Bruce Price
• Howard Van Doren Shaw (died in Baltimore)
• Gideon Shryock
• Mathias Shryock (born in Frederick, Maryland)
• Joseph Evans Sperry
• Philip E. Thomas, first president of theBaltimore and Ohio Railroad
• John Appleton Wilson
• James Bosley Noel Wyatt

• Beatrice Aitchison, mathematician,statistician, topologist, andtransportation economist
• Hattie Alexander,pediatrician andmicrobiologist, developed first effective remedies forHaemophilus influenzae
• Shirley Montag Almon, economist noted for theAlmon lag model
• Richard R. Arnold, NASA astronaut, high school biology teacher
• Benjamin Banneker, surveyor, astronomer, mathematician and almanac author
• Brady Barr, herpetologist
• Ruth Bleier,neurophysiologist and feminist scholar
• Sergey Brin, co-founder ofGoogle
• John H. Brodie, physicist
• Ben Carson, former neurosurgeon, politician, and2016 presidential candidate
• Rachel Carson, environmentalist
• Teresa Cohen, mathematician
• Robert Curbeam,astronaut, engineer, and US naval officer
• George Dantzig, mathematical scientist
• George Delahunty, physiologist, endocrinologist, and professor atGoucher College
• Olive Dennis, railroad engineer and first female member of theAmerican Railway Engineering Association
• Wendell E. Dunn Jr., chemical engineer, metallurgist, and inventor
• Roger L. Easton, principal inventor ofGPS
• Charles Fefferman, mathematician
• Henry Gantt, mechanical engineer
• Solomon Golomb, mathematician who inventedpentominoes
• Michael Griffin,NASA administrator
• Harold E. Harrison and Helen C. Harrison, husband-and-wife research team in pediatrics
• Ethel Browne Harvey, embryologist
• Arlo Hemphill, explorer/ocean conservationist
• Georgeanna Seegar Jones, reproductive endocrinologist
• Howard W. Jones, gynecological surgeon
• Thomas David Jones, NASA astronaut, US Air Force pilot
• Kate Breckenridge Karpeles, first woman to be appointed a contract surgeon by theUnited States Army
• Nick Katz, mathematician
• Mark Mattson, neuroscientist
• John Mauchly, physicist who, withJ. Presper Eckert, invented the first general-purpose electroniccomputer
• Edmund McIlhenny, inventor ofTabasco brand pepper sauce
• Florence Marie Mears, mathematician
• Bessie Moses, gynecologist, obstetrician and Director of the Baltimore Bureau for Contraceptive Advice
• Ayub K. Ommaya, neurosurgeon
• Helen Dodson Prince, astronomer
• Mila Rechcigl, biochemist
• Robert Empie Rogers, chemist
• Arthur William Savage, inventor of theSavage Model 99
• Paul Reed Smith, luthier
• Elsie Shutt, computer programmer and founder of software company
• Terry W. Virts,NASA astronaut, US Air Force pilot
• Douglas C. Wallace, geneticist, evolutionary biologist
• John Archibald Wheeler, theoretical physicist
• Gregory R. Wiseman, NASAastronaut, US Navy aviator
• Edward Witten, physicist, mathematician
• Jean Worthley, naturalist and TV host ofHodgepodge Lodge andOn Nature's Trail
• Jill Zimmerman, computer scientist and professor atGoucher College

• Devin Allen, photojournalist and photographer
• John Barth, author
• Carl Bernstein, journalist and author
• Hanne Blank, author
• Ann Brashares, author
• Pat Brown, author, criminal profiler
• Emma Alice Browne, poet
• Mindie Burgoyne, author and businessperson
• Erin Burnett, journalist andCNNanchor
• James M. Cain, journalist and author
• Christine Michel Carter, author
• Kiran Chetry, journalist
• Connie Chung, television journalist
• Tom Clancy, author
• Lucille Clifton, poet
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, writer, journalist
• Annie McCarer Darlington, poet
• Mark Davis, columnist, radio talk show host
• Minnie S. Davis, author, mental scientist
• Frank Deford, journalist and author
• Matt Drudge, journalist, radio talk show host
• Alex Epstein, author, energy theorist
• Nellie Blessing Eyster, journalist, writer, reformer
• Roland Flint, poet
• Courtney Friel, entertainment reporter forFox News
• Marianne Githens, political scientist, feminist, author, and professor
• Jesse Glass, poet, folklorist
• Meredith Goldstein, advice columnist and reporter
• Sara Haardt, author and professor
• Mary Downing Hahn, author
• Dashiell Hammett, author
• James Alexander Henshall, author
• Karen Hesse, author
• Nancy Hubbard, author and business professor
• Zora Neale Hurston, author
• Julia Ioffe (born 1982), journalist
• Mary E. Ireland, writer, translator, poet
• Nina Kasniunas, political scientist, author, and professor
• Sophie Kerr, author
• Michael Kimball, author
• Cliff Kincaid, investigative journalist
• Gayle King, editor
• Mel Kiper Jr., ESPN football analyst
• Munro Leaf, children's author
• Rick Leventhal, correspondent forFox News
• Walter Lord, author
• H. L. Mencken, journalist and social critic
• Emily J. Miller, senior editor ofWashington Times opinion pages
• Frank Miller, writer and artist
• Ogden Nash, humorous poet
• Suzan-Lori Parks, playwright and screenwriter
• Edgar Allan Poe, poet, writer, and literary critic
• Adrienne Rich, poet and feminist
• Hester Dorsey Richardson, writer
• Nora Roberts, author
• Thomas Roberts, news anchor forMSNBC
• John Thomas Scharf, author, historian, lawyer, politician, and Confederate soldier and sailor
• Karl Shapiro, poet
• Laura Amy Schlitz, children's literature author
• Upton Sinclair, author
• Norman Solomon, journalist, media critic
• Bud Sparhawk, science fiction author
• John Steadman, sportswriter
• Flora E. Strout, teacher, social reformer, non-fiction writer, lyricist
• Mary Spear Tiernan, writer
• Anne Tyler, author
• Sanford J. Ungar, journalist andGoucher College president emeritus
• Leon Uris, author
• Scott Van Pelt, ESPN anchor and radio host
• Amelia B. Coppuck Welby, poet
• Fredricka Whitfield, CNN reporter and anchor
• Emma Howard Wight, writer, newspaper correspondent
• Michael Wilbon, ESPN personality (Pardon the Interruption) andThe Washington Post sports columnist
• Ella B. Ensor Wilson, social reformer, non-fiction writer
• Ibbie McColm Wilson, poet
• James Wolcott, journalist, social critic

• Bernard Addison, jazz guitarist
• Scott Ambush, jazz bassist
• Tori Amos, singer-songwriter
• BT, born Brian Transeau, electronic musician
• Jack Barakat, lead guitarist of the rock bandAll Time Low
• Niki Barr, singer-songwriter
• Keter Betts, jazz bassist
• Eubie Blake, ragtime, jazz and pop composer, lyricist
• Bossman, rapper
• Toni Braxton, singer
• Mark Bryan, guitarist for the rock bandHootie & the Blowfish
• Randy Blythe, vocalist for heavy metal bandLamb of God
• David Byrne, singer/guitarist of rock bandTalking Heads
• Bill Callahan, singer/songwriter formerly known asSmog
• Cab Calloway, jazz singer and bandleader
• Eva Cassidy, singer-songwriter
• Cex, electronic musician
• JC Chasez, singer, songwriter, dancer, actor, producer, and member of pop group*NSYNC
• John Christ, former guitarist of the hard rock bandDanzig
• Cordae, rapper
• Rian Dawson, drummer for the bandAll Time Low
• Dan Deacon, electronic musician
• Deakin (Joshua Dibb), co-founder ofAnimal Collective
• Jeff Draco, independent singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist
• John Duff, singer-songwriter
• Adam Duritz, singer of rock bandCounting Crows
• Cass Elliot, singer of pop bandThe Mamas & the Papas
• Sam Endicott, singer of rock bandThe Bravery
• Entrance, born Guy Blakeslee, singer/songwriter
• John Fahey, folk/blues guitarist
• Brent Faiyaz, singer, record producer
• Neil Fallon, lead singer for the band Clutch
• Mark Fax, composer
• Dean Felber, bass guitarist for the rock bandHootie & the Blowfish
• Gallant, singer-songwriter
• Alex Gaskarth, lead singer and guitarist for the rock bandAll Time Low
• Johnny Gill, singer
• Danny Gatton, guitarist
• Geologist (Brian Weltz), co-founding member ofAnimal Collective
• Ginuwine, R&B singer
• Philip Glass, composer
• Robert Gordon, rockabilly singer
• Tamyra Gray, singer/actress
• Hilary Hahn, concert violinist, two-time Grammy winner
• Greg Hawkes, keyboardist ofThe Cars
• Billie Holiday, singer
• Ron Holloway, tenor saxophonist
• Scott Hull, guitarist, music producer
• Eric Hutchinson, musician
• JPEGMafia, music producer, experimental hip hop artist
• Julienne Irwin, singer andAmerica's Got Talent season 2 finalist
• Joan Jett, singer
• LaKisha Jones,American Idol season 6 finalist
• Tonie Joy, guitarist forMoss Icon
• Camara Kambon, film composer, songwriter, music producer, pianist
• Tommy Keene, singer-songwriter
• Greg Kihn, New Wave and pop musician and singer
• Joe Lally, bassist of rock bandFugazi
• Nathan Larson, film soundtrack composer; guitarist of rock bandsShudder to Think andHot One
• Rod Lee, Baltimore club producer/DJ
• Victoria Legrand, vocalist and keyboardist forBeach House
• Lisa Loeb, singer-songwriter
• Nils Lofgren, solo rock musician and guitarist withBruce Springsteen'sE Street Band
• Logic, rapper
• Benji Madden, guitarist forGood Charlotte
• Joel Madden, lead singer for Good Charlotte
• Spiro Malas,bass-baritoneopera singer
• Mario, singer-songwriter
• Sean Meadows, bass guitarist forLungfish
• Zachary Merrick, bassist and vocals for the rock bandAll Time Low
• Christina Milian, singer-songwriter, actress, dancer
• Jamie Miller, drummer for Bad Religion
• Jason C. Miller, singer-songwriter
• Mýa, singer/songwriter and dancer
• Rico Nasty, rapper
• Ric Ocasek, former frontman ofThe Cars
• John and T.J. Osborne, members of the bandBrothers Osborne
• Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), co-founding member ofAnimal Collective
• Barry Louis Polisar, singer-songwriter ofchildren's music
• Greg Puciato, singer of metal bandThe Dillinger Escape Plan
• Ross Rawlings, pianist, composer, conductor, and music director
• Sam Ray, electronic music asRicky Eat Acid, and founder of bandAmerican Pleasure Club, formerly known as Teen Suicide
• Steve Rochinski, jazz guitarist, recording artist, composer, arranger, author, jazz educator
• Chrisean Rock, rapper
• Maggie Rogers, singer-songwriter and producer
• Alex Scally, instrumentalist and songwriter forBeach House
• Gina Schock, drummer of rock bandThe Go-Go's
• Sisqó, lead singer of R&B groupDru Hill
• Todd Smith, vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist forDog Fashion Disco,Polkadot Cadaver, andKnives Out!
• Noel Paul Stookey, singer withPeter, Paul and Mary
• Avey Tare (David Portner), co-founding member ofAnimal Collective
• Evan Taubenfeld, ex-guitarist and backup vocalist for pop starAvril Lavigne; singer and rhythm guitarist for The Black List Club
• Chad Taylor, guitarist forThe Gracious Few andLive
• Chester Thompson, drummer, frequent collaborator withGenesis
• 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 "Wino" Weinrich, doom metal guitarist and vocalist
• Erica Wheeler, folk singer-songwriter
• Frank Zappa, singer, guitarist and composer

• Cynthia Addai-Robinson, actress
• Gbenga Akinnagbe, actor
• Lori Alan, voice actress
• Karen Allen, actress
• Utkarsh Ambudkar, actor
• 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,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
• 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
• Eddie Deezen, actor
• Alexis Denisof, actor
• Divine, actor, drag queen
• Jack Douglass, Internet personality, comedian
• David Drake, playwright, actor, stage director
• Mildred Dunnock, actress
• Charles Dutton, actor
• Michael Ealy, actor
• Johnny Eck, actor, circus performer (Tod Browning'sFreaks)
• Damon Evans, actor
• Anna Faris, actress
• Evan Farmer, actor, singer
• Lauren Faust, animator
• Faith Fay, actress
• Wayne Federman, comedian, actor, author
• Ben Feldman, actor
• Steven Thomas Fischer, director, producer, cartoonist
• Mona Freeman, actress
• Judah Friedlander, comedian, actor
• Daniel Gallant, writer, producer and director ofNuyorican Poets Café
• Kathie Lee Gifford, TV personality and singer
• Anita Gillette, actress
• Larry Gilliard Jr., actor
• Ira Glass, radio personality, producer
• 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
• 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
• Brendan Hines, actor, singer
• Anne Hummert, creator of daytime radio serials
• Michael Hyatt, actress
• 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
• Kevin Kilner, actor
• Judy Kuhn, actress
• Martin Lawrence, actor, comedian, director and producer
• Mina Le, fashion YouTuber, podcaster, and content creator
• Barry Levinson, filmmaker
• 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
• 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, actress, model, radio DJ
• 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, 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
• Mink Stole, actress
• Rebecca Sugar, animator, singer-songwriter, and screenwriter
• Wanda Sykes, comedian, actress
• Tracie Thoms, actress
• Barbara Walsh, actress
• Jonathan Ward, actor
• John Waters, filmmaker
• Matthew Weiner, writer, director and producer
• Montel Williams, TV personality
• DeWanda Wise, actress
• Frank Zappa, musician, composer
• Stavros Halkias, comedian, actor, podcaster

• Brendan Adams, basketball player
• Nick Adenhart, baseball player
• Joe Alexander, basketball player
• Brady Anderson, baseball player
• Justin Anderson, basketball player
• Carmelo Anthony, basketball player
• Lisa Aukland, professional bodybuilder and powerlifter
• Tavon Austin, football player
• Harold Baines, baseball player
• 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
• Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues, basketball player
• Josh Boone, basketball player
• Riddick Bowe, heavyweight champion boxer
• Matt Bowman, baseball player
• NaVorro Bowman, football player
• Charles Bradley, basketball player
• Dudley Bradley, basketball player
• Troy Brohawn, baseball player
• Andre Brown, football player
• Elise Burgin, tennis player
• James Carter, hurdler
• Sam Cassell, basketball player
• Brett Cecil, baseball player
• Steve Clevenger, baseball player
• Colin Cloherty, football player
• 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, 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, football player, general manager
• Pat Downey, freestyle wrestler
• Michael Dunn, football player
• Kevin Durant, basketball player
• Jerome Dyson, basketball player
• 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
• Jimmie Foxx, Hall of Fame baseball player
• Steve Francis, basketball player
• Corey Fuller, football player
• Kyle Fuller, football player
• Rudy Gay, basketball player
• James Gist, basketball player
• Paul Goldstein, tennis player
• Justin Gorham (born 1998), basketball player in theIsraeli Basketball Premier League
• Brian Gottfried, World No. 3-ranked tennis player
• David Grace, basketball coach
• 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 ofGrant Hill
• Timmy Hill, NASCAR driver
• Tyler Hill, NASCAR driver
• Katie Hoff, swimmer
• Spencer Horwitz (born 1997), baseball player
• Jarrett Jack, basketball player
• Tanard Jackson, football player
• Tracy Jackson, basketball player
• Jelani Jenkins, football player
• Bryant Johnson, football player
• Larry Johnson, football player
• Steve Johnson, baseball player
• Cyrus Jones, football player
• Al Kaline, Hall of Fame baseball player
• Lloyd Keaser, Olympic freestyle wrestler
• Stacy Keibler, professional wrestler
• Charlie Keller, baseball player
• Stanton Kidd, basketball player in theIsraeli 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 player
• Justin Maxwell, baseball player
• Leo Mazzone, baseball coach
• Robert McClain, football player
• Tatyana McFadden, paralympiancategory T54
• Rodney McLeod, football player
• Sara McMann, MMA fighter
• Kimmie Meissner, figure skater
• Shawne Merriman, football player
• Matt Mervis, MLB baseball first baseman
• Debbie Meyer, competition swimmer
• Abby Meyers, basketball player in theWomen's National Basketball Association
• Isaiah Miles, basketball player in theIsraeli Basketball Premier League
• Malcolm Miller, basketball player
• Terence Morris, basketball player
• Daniel Muir, football player
• Bruce Murray, soccer player
• Jeff Nelson, baseball player
• Rashard Odomes, basketball player in theIsraeli 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
• Poe brothers, sixAmerican football players fromPrinceton University
• Oliver Purnell, basketball coach
• Paul Rabil, lacrosse player
• Mike Reid, professional golfer
• 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
• Jill Rutten, soccer player
• Pete Sampras, tennis player
• Jim Schwartz, football coach
• 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, collegiate baseball player
• Tubby Smith, basketball coach
• Kyle Snyder, Olympic freestyle wrestler
• Harold Solomon, tennis player
• Larry Spriggs, basketball player
• Mike Sweetney, basketball player
• Ron Swoboda, baseball player
• Frances Tiafoe, tennis player
• Mark Teixeira, baseball player
• Greivis Vásquez, basketball player
• Cameron Wake, football player
• Shatori Walker-Kimbrough (born 1995), basketball player for the Israeli teamMaccabi Bnot Ashdod, and the Washington Mystics of theWomen's National Basketball Association
• Marvin Webster, basketball player
• Delonte West, basketball player
• Brian Westbrook, football player
• Byron Westbrook, football player
• Greg Whittington, basketball player
• Derrick Williams, football player
• LaQuan Williams, football player
• Madieu Williams, football player
• Reggie Williams, basketball player
• Kennard Winchester, basketball player
• David Wingate, basketball player
• Danny Wiseman, Hall of Fame bowler
• Jay Witasick, baseball player
• Chase Young, football player
• Sam Young, basketball player
• Usama Young, football player
• Joanna Zeiger, Olympic and world champion triathlete, and author

• 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
• Rick Law, illustrator and producer
• Morris Louis, painter
• Claire McCardell, fashion designer
• Joe Shannon, painter, curator and educator
• Amy Sherald, painter, portrait artist
• Anne Truitt, sculptor
• Diane Tuckman, painter and author
• Bernie Wrightson, comic book artist

• John Wilkes Booth, assassin of PresidentAbraham Lincoln
• Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, first proprietary governor of the Maryland Colony
• John Carroll, first Roman Catholic archbishop in the US
• Henry De Butts, 18th-centuryU.S. Army officer, acting Adjutant General and Inspector General
• Stephen Decatur, naval hero of theWar 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 aSoviet 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, firstJew to permanently settle in the New World
• Charles A. May, U.S. Army cavalry officer, considered a hero of theMexican War
• Samuel Mudd, physician convicted and imprisoned for aidingJohn Wilkes Booth
• Cadwalader Ringgold, U.S. Navy officer during the Civil War, explorer
• Edward Rowny, U.S. Army lieutenant general,World War II andKorean War veteran
• Raymond A. Spruance, admiral duringWorld War II, ambassador to thePhilippines
• Harriet Tubman, leader of theUnderground Railroad

• Yosef Alon, Israeli Air Force officer and military attache
• Steve Bisciotti, majority owner of theBaltimore Ravens
• José Antonio Bowen, president ofGoucher College
• Sally Brice-O'Hara, 27thVice-Commandant of theU.S. Coast Guard
• Sally Buck, part-owner of thePhiladelphia Phillies
• Blac Chyna, model, socialite and rapper
• Sherry Cooper, Chief Economist for Dominion Lending Centres; Executive VP and Chief Economist of BMO Financial Group
• A. B. Cosey, American writer, politician, recorder of deeds, and lawyer
• Timothy Creamer, NASA astronaut,U.S. ArmyColonel
• Bud Delp, 1979 Kentucky Derby-winning trainer ofSpectacular Bid
• Rhoda Dorsey, historian and first woman president ofGoucher College
• Michel Faulkner, pastor andNYC politician
• Duff Goldman, owner of Charm City Cakes, star ofAce of Cakes
• Michael Hardt,literary theorist andpolitical philosopher
• Arlo Hemphill, wilderness advocate
• Johns Hopkins, businessman and philanthropist
• Brendan Iribe, game programmer and co-founder ofOculus VR
• Edwin R. Keedy, Dean of theUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School
• Mel Kiper Jr., ESPN football analyst, known for draft coverage
• Seth Klarman, billionaire, founder of TheBaupost Group
• Little Albert, subject ofJohn B. Watson's controversialcase study onclassical conditioning
• Luigi Mangione, alleged assassin ofBrian Thompson.
• 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 theNational Trade Council underPresident Trump
• Creig Northrop, real estate agent, broker, and CEO of Northrop Realty
• Samuel J. Palmisano, president andCEO ofIBM
• Bronza Parks, boatbuilder
• Bob Parsons, CEO and founder ofGo Daddy
• George Peabody, founder of the Peabody Institute, philanthropist
• Frank Perdue, president ofPerdue Farms
• Kevin Plank, CEO and founder of Under Armour
• Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, wife of writerEdgar Allan Poe
• Hortense Powdermaker, anthropologist
• Kenneth Preston, US Army soldier who served as theSergeant Major of the Army
• William Wilson Quinn, former US Army officer
• 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 ofQueerty
• Christian Siriano, winner of Season 4 ofProject Runway
• Daniel Snyder, owner of theWashington Commanders
• Ben Stein, actor, author, economist, political speechwriter
• Robert Stethem, U.S. NavySeabee diver killed byHezbollah militants during thehijacking ofTWA Flight 847
• Matthew VanDyke,freedom fighter and prisoner of war (POW) in the2011 Libyan Civil War
• Bill White,neo-Nazi and former leader and former leader of the AmericanNational Socialist Workers' Party
• Paula White, international Christian evangelist and teacher
• Meredith Whitney (born 1969), businesswoman
• Bill Wilson, head ofAmericans for Limited Government
• Leo Wolman, economist
• George Young, NFL executive

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