List of famous people from Baltimore
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This is a list of famous people and celebrities that were either born in or have lived in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Laszlo Schütz - semi-proffesional Basketball Player for the Telekom Baskets Bonn
- Eubie Blake – composer of ragtime, jazz and popular music
- Brandon – singer
- Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues – former professional basketball player with the Charlotte Hornets
- John Bolton – Ambassador to the UN
- Charles Joseph Bonaparte – former United States Attorney General and Secretary of the Navy
- David Byrne – songwriter for the New Wave and Talking Heads bands
- Cab Calloway – jazz singer and bandleader
- Ben Carson – neurosurgeon
- Tom Clancy – author, born in Baltimore County
- Elijah Cummings – politician, member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th District of Maryland
- Angela Dawson – community activist murdered along with her family on October 16, 2002
- DMX – hip hop performer/rapper and actor
- Frederick Douglass – abolitionist, statesman, orator and author
- James A. "Jim" Jones, Jr., former professional duckpin bowler, and professional wiffleball player.
- Anna Faris – actress, best known for her role in Scary Movie
- Cass Elliot – singer, best remembered as member of The Mamas and the Papas
- Derek Frazier, pro wrestler
- Rudy Gay – former highly praised college basketball player at the University of Connecticut
- Philip Glass – composer
- Dorothy Hamill – figure skater
- David Hasselhoff – actor
- Billie Holiday – jazz singer
- Johns Hopkins – businessman, Quaker, abolitionist and philanthropist
- Marcie Jones – author and journalist
- William Henry Cardinal Keeler – Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore
- Stacy Keibler – former WWE Diva and actress
- Bucky Lasek – Professional Skateboarder
- Barry Levinson – screenwriter, film director, and producer of film and television
- Laura Lippman – author of detective fiction
- Morris Louis - abstract expressionist painter
- Thurgood Marshall – first African American United States Supreme Court Justice
- Jim McKay – television sports journalist
- H.L. Mencken – journalist and social critic
- Kweisi Mfume – former CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson – television and film actress
- Brandon Novak – Skateboarder and member of Viva La Bam
- Ric Ocasek – former vocalist and frontman for The Cars
- Jim Palmer – former Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles
- Nancy Pelosi – Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and representative from the state of California
- Michael Phelps – Olympic swimmer and world-record holder
- Jada Pinkett-Smith – actress
- Edgar Allan Poe – poet, short story writer, editor and critic
- Parker Posey – actress, best known for her work in Scream 3 and Blade: Trinity
- Greg Puciato – singer and musician, best known as the singer for experimental metal band The Dillinger Escape Plan
- Robin Quivers – sidekick of Howard Stern
- Adrienne Rich – feminist, poet, teacher, and writer
- Cal Ripken, Jr. – professional baseball player; former shortstop and third baseman for the Baltimore Orioles
- Ruckus, professional wrestler
- Babe Ruth – professional baseball player for the New York Yankees and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
- Pam Shriver – former professional tennis player and current sports broadcaster
- Sisqó – R&B and pop singer
- Evan Taubenfeld – Avril Lavigne's former guitarist
- Anne Truitt – minimalist sculptor
- Anne Tyler – Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
- Johnny Unitas – former professional football player for the Baltimore Colts
- Nikolai Volkoff – WWE hall of fame professional wrestler
- John Waters – filmmaker
- Montel Williams – famous television talk-show host
- Frank Zappa – singer, guitarist, composer and satirist
- LaKisha Jones – singer
