List of people from Baltimore

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This is a list of famous or notable people who were born in or lived in Baltimore, Maryland.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] A

• Arunah Shepherdson Abell (1806-1888), founder of the Baltimore Sun^[1] newspaper
• Spiro Agnew (1918-1996), Governor of Maryland and Vice-President of the United States
• Felix Agnus (1839-1925), Union Army general, editor & publisher of Baltimore American newspaper, buried under Black Aggie
• William Albert (1816-1879), member of the United States House of Representatives, born in Baltimore
• Carmelo Anthony (1984- ), professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets
• George Armistead (1780-1818), Commander of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore, uncle of Lewis Addison Armistead
• Lewis Addison Armistead (1817-1863), Confederate general mortally wounded at Gettysburg, buried in Baltimore
• John Astin (1930- ) TV and film actor best known as Gomez Addams on The Addams Family series on TV

[edit] B

• Russell Baker (1925- ) writer, political columnist for The New York Times
• Louis Bamberger (1855-1944), businessman, department store owner, and philanthropist
• Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), owned Shakespeare and Company, key bookstore for expatriates in Paris
• Lewis Black (1948- ), comedian, author, playwright, actor, on Comedy Central's The Daily Show
• Eubie Blake (1887-1983) composer of ragtime, jazz and popular music
• Michael Bloomberg (1942- ), went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and gave over $300 million to it
• A. Aubrey Bodine (1906-1970), renowned photojournalist for The Baltimore Sun
• Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues (1965- ) former professional basketball player with the Charlotte Hornets
• Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1851–1921), US Attorney General, Secretary of the Navy, relative of Napoleon
• Julie Bowen (Julie Bowen Luetkemeyer) (1970- ), film and TV actor
• Conrad Brooks (1931- ), B movie actor.
• Rosey Brown (1932-2004) football star for New York Giants, member of Pro Football Hall of Fame, went to Morgan State University in Baltimore,
• David Byrne (1952- ), songwriter for the New Wave and Talking Heads bands, grew up In Baltimore County

[edit] C

• Cab Calloway (1907–1994), jazz singer and bandleader, raised in Baltimore
• Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (1605-1675), First Lord Baltimore and proprietary governor
• Ben Cardin (1943] ), member of the United States House of Representatives
• John Carroll (1735-1815), first Roman Catholic archbishop in the US
• Ben Carson (1951- ), neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Norman "Chubby" Chaney (1918-1936), short-lived child actor, Our Gang
• Samuel Chase (1741-1811), signer of Declaration of Independence and US Supreme Court judge
• Tom Clancy (1947- ) author of The Hunt for Red October, born in Baltimore County
• Martha Clarke (1944- ), modern choreographer
• Kevin Clash (1960- ) puppeteer best known for portrayal of Elmo on Sesame Street
• Claribel Cone (1864-1929), with sister Etta (1870-1949) collected art of Matisse, Picasso, Van Gogh
• Nathan Corbett (1992-), actor, on The Wire (TV series), Half Nelson (film)
• Hans Conried (1917-1982), comic character actor and voice actor
• Elijah Cummings (1951- ) member of United States House of Representatives
• Harvey Cushing (1869-1939), pioneer neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital

[edit] D

• Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr. (1903–1987), Mayor of Baltimore, US Representative, father of Nancy Pelosi
• Clay Davenport, sabermetrician and computer programmer for NOAA
• Angela Dawson, community activist murdered at age 36 along with her family on October 16, 2002
• Divine (Glen Milstead) (1945-1988) actor best known for his drag persona, Divine
• Juan Dixon (1978- ), basketball player at University of Maryland, College Park and pro ranks
• DMX (real name Earl Simmons) (1970- ), hip hop performer/rapper and actor
• Frederick Douglass (1918-1895), abolitionist, statesman, orator, editor and author, one of the most prominent figures of African American history
• Mildred Dunnock (1901-1991), Oscar-nominated American theater, film and television actress
• Charles S. Dutton actor

[edit] E

• Cass Elliot (born Ellen Naomi Cohen) (1941-1974), singer remembered as member of The Mamas and the Papas
• Donald B. Elliott, member of Maryland House of Delegates.
• Robert Ehrlich (1957- ), former US Congressman, then Governor of Maryland

[edit] F

• Anna Faris (1976- ), actress best known for her role in Scary Movie, born but not raised in Baltimore
• Matthew Fox (1991-2006), greatest person ever born, though far more popular for his blatant and constant drug use
• Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank) (1918-1986), abstract expressionist artist, painter, sculptor, mixed media and textile artist, pupil of Hans Hofmann
• Derek Frazier (1980- ), pro wrestler known for his feud with Ruckus
• Antonio Freeman (1972- ), American football wide receiver, most notably for the Green Bay Packers
• Bill Frisell (1951- ), jazz guitarist and composer

[edit] G

• Dr. Daniel J. Garguillio (1969- ), Parapsychologist and Priest of the Roman Catholic Church
• Lee Gatch (1902-1968), abstract artist
• Rudy Gay (1986- ), basketball player at University of Connecticut and with the Memphis Grizzlies
• James Cardinal Gibbons (1834-1921) American prelate, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore
• Ira Glass (1959- ) radio personality, This American Life on National Public Radio, cousin of Phillip Glass
• Philip Glass (1937- ), influential minimalist composer
• Jacob Glushakow (1914-2000), painter
• Brian Gottfried (1952- ), former tennis player, reached Nº3 in the world in 1977

[edit] H

• Elaine Hamilton (1920- ), artist born in Catonsville in Baltimore metro area
• Louis Hamman (1877-1946), physician and namesake for Hamman's sign, Hamman's syndrome and Hamman-Rich syndrome
• Mary Hamman (1907-1984), American writer and editor, daughter of Dr. Louis Hamman
• Dorothy Hamill (1956), figure skater
• Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal (Elaine Hamilton) (1920- ) artist, born in Catonsville near Baltimore
• Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), hard-boiled detective writer of Maltese Falcon etc., born in Maryland and worked as a detective in Baltimore
• David Hasselhoff (1952- ), actor
• Emily Spencer Hayden (1869 - 1949), photographer
• Alger Hiss (1904-1996), State Department official, accused of being a Soviet spy and convicted of perjury
• Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan Gough) (1915-1959), great jazz singer
• Henry Holt (1840–1926), publisher, founded Henry Holt & Company in 1873.
• Johns Hopkins (1795-1873), Quaker businessman, abolitionist & philanthropist whose bequest established Johns Hopkins University
• John Eager Howard (1752-1827), soldier, Governor of Maryland, namesake of Howard County, Maryland
• William Henry Cardinal Keeler (1931- ) Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore and Cardinal of the Church

[edit] I

• Ivory, Anthony W. (1959- ), Supervisor State of Maryland
• Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson (1967- ), television and film actress

[edit] J

• Thomas David Jones (1955- ), astronaut with doctorate in planetary science
• Brian Jordan (1967- ), pro baseball player who was briefly pro footballer
• James Alvin "Jim" Jones, Jr. (1964- ), former professional duckpin bowling champion.
• Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson (1889-1975), pioneer civil rights activist, organizer of the Baltimore Branch of the NAACP.

[edit] K

• Stacy Keibler (1979-), actress, former pro wrestling personality (WWE Diva)
• John P. Kennedy (1795–1870), US Secretary of the Navy and Congressman
• Stu Kerr (Thomas Stuart Kerr) (1928-1994), television personality and weatherman
• Francis Scott Key (1779-1843), lawyer and amateur poet; wrote the Star Spangled Banner
• Greg Kihn (1950- ), pop musician
• J. William Kime (1934-2006), Commandant of the United States Coast Guard from 1990 to 1994
• Mel Kiper, Jr. (1960- ), American football analyst
• Jeff Koons (1955- ), artist and sculptor, graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore

[edit] L

• Bucky Lasek (1972- ), pro skateboarder
• Barry Levinson (1942- ), screenwriter, film director, and producer of film and television
• Laura Lippman (1959- ), author of detective fiction
• Morris Louis (1912-1962), abstract expressionist painter
• Frank Luber (1939- ), radio announcer, and television reporter

[edit] M

• Marvin Mandel (1920-), Governor of Maryland, assumed office upon resignation of Spiro Agnew
• Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993), first African American US Supreme Court Justice
• Willoughby M. McCormick (1864-1932) started McCormick & Company (spices, herbs, flavorings)
• Jim McKay (James Kenneth McManus) (1921- ), television sports journalist
• Theodore R. McKeldin (1900-1974), Governor of Maryland
• H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), journalist and social critic known as "the Sage of Baltinmore"
• Elijah Moore (1992-present)
• Kweisi Mfume, former CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• Barbara Mikulski (1936- ), United States Senator
• Steve Miller (1950- ), author of science fiction stories and novels
• Garry Moore (Thomas Garrison Morfit) (1915-1993), early television host
• Mario (singer) (Mario Dewar Barrett) singer, grew up in Gwynn Oak, Maryland in Baltimore County

[edit] N

• Jeff Nelson (1966- ), professional baseball player, middle relief pitcher

[edit] O

• Ric Ocasek (1949- ), former vocalist and frontman for The Cars
• Martin O'Malley (1963- ) Mayor of Baltimore and elect for Governor of Maryland in 2006

[edit] P

• William Paca (1740–1799), signatory to the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Maryland
• Tim Page (music critic) (1954- ), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and biographer of Dawn Powell.
• Jim Palmer (1945- ) former Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles
• Nancy Pelosi (1940- ), US Representative from California & Speaker of the House of the US House of Representatives
• Michael Phelps (1985- ), Olympic swimmer and world-record holder
• Jada Pinkett-Smith (1971- ), actress and singer
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), poet, short story writer, editor and critic
• Parker Posey (1968- ), actress, best known for her work in Scream 3 and Blade: Trinity
• Enoch Pratt (1808-1896), businessman and philanthropist, founded Enoch Pratt Free Library, one of oldest free public libraries in the United States
• Greg Puciato (1980- ), musician, best known as singer for experimental metal band The Dillinger Escape Plan

[edit] Q

• Robin Quivers, sidekick of TV and radio personality Howard Stern

[edit] R

• John Rawls (1921-2002), political philosopher, professor of political philosophy at Harvard, author
• Adrienne Rich (1929), poet, writer, teacher, and feminist
• Cal Ripken, Jr. (1960- ), professional baseball player; former shortstop and third baseman for the Baltimore Orioles
• Martin Rodbell (1925-1998), biochemist and molecular endocrinologist who won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Christopher Rouse (1949- ), composer, Pulitzer Prize winner
• James Rouse (1914-1996), pioneering real estate developer, civic activist, and philanthropist
• Mike Rowe (1962- ), host of the Discovery Channel program Dirty Jobs
• Ruckus (real name Claude Marrow), pro wrestler
• Dutch Ruppersberger (1946-), member of the United States House of Representatives
• Babe Ruth (George Herman Ruth, Jr.) (1895-1948), professional baseball player for the New York Yankees and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame

[edit] S

• Paul Sarbanes (1933-), United States Senator
• William Donald Schaefer (1921- ) Mayor of Baltimore, Governor of Maryland & Comptroller of Maryland
• Kurt L. Schmoke (1949), former Mayor of Baltimore
• Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774–1821), established schools and founded first US religious community of apostolic women , the Sisters of Charity (in the Archdiocese of Baltimore)
• Karl Shapiro (1913-2000), US Poet Laureate 1946-47, born in Baltimore
• Pam Shriver (1962- ), former professional tennis player and current sports broadcaster
• Sargent Shriver (1915- ), politician, activist, driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps
• Tupac Shakur (1971-1996), hip hop performer and rapper
• Eli Siegel (1902–1978), poet, critic, founder of philosophy Aesthetic Realism
• Upton Sinclair, writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, born in Baltimore.
• Sisqó (Mark Althavan Andrews) (1978- ), R&B and pop singer
• Raymond A. Spruance (1886-1969), United States Navy admiral in World War II
• Michael S. Steele (1958- ), Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
• Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), left Johns Hopkins Medical School without a degree and became a writer
• Stuart Symington (1901–1988), first Secretary of the Air Force and US Senator from Missouri

[edit] T

• Evan Taubenfeld (1983), musician, Avril Lavigne's former guitarist
• Anne Truitt (1921-2004), minimalist sculptor
• Kathleen Turner (1954- ), actress, graduated University of Maryland Baltimore County
• Anne Tyler (1941- ), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (The Accidental Tourist, etc.)

[edit] U

• Leon Uris (1924-2003), author of Exodus and other novels
• Johnny Unitas (1933-2002), professional football player for the Baltimore Colts, in Pro Football Hall of Fame

[edit] V

• Nikolai Volkoff (1947- ), WWE Hall of Fame professional wrestler

[edit] W

• P. J. Wakefield (1980- ), profession soccer player
• Henry Walters (1848 - 1931), rail magnate (Atlantic Coast Line) and founder of Walters Art Museum in Baltimore
• Dante Washington (1970- ), professional soccer striker
• John Waters (1946- ), filmmaker
• Chick Webb (1905-1939), jazz and swing drummer and band leader who adopted Ella Fitzgerald
• Harry Wendelstedt (1938- ), former umpire in Major League Baseball
• George Hoyt Whipple (1878-1976), graduated and taught medical school at Hopkins, won 1934 Nobel Prize in Medicine
• William Pinkney Whyte (1824-1908), US Senator, Governor of Maryland, Mayor of Baltimore
• Bernard Williams (1978- ) winner of gold medal in 4x100 meter relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• Rosalyn Williams (1961-) , Award winning GOLD medal florist designer by FTD & Tele-Floral and founder of IRVINGTON FLORIST,INC of Baltimore,Md.
• Montel Williams (1956- ), television talk-show host
• Edward Witten (1951- ), mathematical physicist and a leading researcher in string theory
• James Wolcott (1952- ) journalist and cultural critic
• Bernie Wrightson (1948- ) artist known for horror illustrations and comic books
• WikitKlown (1988- ), famous Halo player

[edit] X

[edit] Y

• Richard Q. "Moco" Yardley (died 1979), cartoonist for The Baltimore Sun
• Bernard C. Young, Baltimore politician.

[edit] Z

• Geoff Zahn (1945- ), former baseball pitcher
• Frank Zappa (1940-1993), singer, guitarist, composer and satirist
• Lillian Zuckerman (1916-2004), actress
• Jacob Zimmerman (1991-), Professional Ayrab and wine connoisseur

[edit] References

• 1. ^ (1967) Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Marquis Who's Who. 

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