# List of Baltimore City College alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of The Baltimore City College, (also known colloquially as City College, City, B.C.C. or as The Castle). Founded in 1839, it is recognized as the third-oldest continuously public high school in the United States.
Since being established after a long civic campaign for higher public education during the early 19th century by an act of the Baltimore City Council in March 1839 and opened the following October in a rented town / rowhouse, hundreds of influential civic, political, business, commercial, industrial, and cultural leaders have passed through its doors at eight geographic sites in the 185 years since. Many graduates of City College have served as members of the United States Congress (U.S. Senators and Representatives), state senators and delegates in the General Assembly of Maryland, the Baltimore City Council, the adjacent surrounding separate Baltimore County Council, plus numerous federal, state and local circuit judges, along with award-winning journalists / authors; leaders in business, commerce, the military, academics, the sciences, and the arts. These lists includes three former Governors of Maryland, six Mayors of Baltimore and County Executives, and recipients of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Wolf Prize. Of the seven Maryland recipients of the famous Congressional Medal of Honor between World War I and World War II, three were graduates of the Baltimore City College. Numerous bridges, highways, buildings, lunar craters, institutions, monuments, and professorships throughout the region, state and nation have been named for B.C.C. alumni / "Collegians".

## Arts and entertainment

| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
| Larry Adler | 1931 | Musician |
| Russell Baker | 1943 | two-time Pulitzer Prize, commentator on the Masterpiece Theatre on (PBS-TV) |
| Gary Bartz | 1958 | Jazz musician, Grammy Award winner |
| Morris Louis Bernstein | 1928 | Abstract expressionist painter |
| Ciera Nicole Butts | 2008 | Miss District of Columbia USA 2014; television personality, Last Squad Standing; winner |
| Jack L. Chalker | 1962 | Author of over 50 science fiction/fantasy novels |
| André DeShields | 1964 | Broadway actor, Tony Award nominee |
| Peter G. Engelman | 1957 | Author, writer, publisher, speaker, certified public accountant |
| Philip Glass | 1954* | Avant garde composer |
| Jacob Glushakow | 1933 | Painter; works are in permanent collections at the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City |
| Al Goodman | 1918 | Musician, conductor |
| Edward Everett Horton | 1904 | Character actor and voice narrator in film, television, and stage |
| Millard Kaufman | 1933 | Author, screenwriter; helped create the film/television cartoon character of "Mr. Magoo" |
| Greg Kihn | 1967? | Rock musician, radio host |
| Gene Klavan | 1940 | Radio talk show host in Washington, D.C. and New York |
| Reuben Kramer | 1925 | Abstract sculptor |
| Rowan LeCompte | 1942 | Stained glass artist, Examples of work placed in windows of the National Cathedral |
| David Matthews | 1984 | Author |
| T. Garrison Morfit (Garry Moore) | 1933 | Game show host in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s. |
| Royal Parker | 1946 | News anchor WBAL-TV (Channel 11), local TV variety and game show host plus announcer |
| Robert Pirosh | 1928 | Writer, won Academy Award ("Oscar") and Golden Globe for screenplay of Battleground War film |
| Fred Robbins | 1937 | Television and radio host |
| Woody Rock | 1993 | Singer, member of Dru Hill |
| Karl Shapiro | 1932 | Poet; literary critic; professor, Johns Hopkins University; Pulitzer Prize winner |
| Eli Siegel | 1919 | Poet and founder of Aesthetic Realism |
| Michael Tucker | 1962 | Actor, appeared in 1990s legal television drama L.A. Law and earlier Diner (in 1982, first of a series of feature films about Baltimore life, produced / directed by fellow Baltimorean Barry Levinson) |
| Leon Uris | 1942 | Writer, author of Exodus |
| Charles Marquis Warren | 1930 | Television and film writer, producer; director; credits include Gunsmoke, Rawhide, The Virginian and Playhouse 90. |
| Hugo Weisgall | 1929 | Composer |
| Charles Erskine Scott Wood | 1870 | Author, civil libertarian, and attorney |

## Business

| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
| David T. Abercrombie | 1887 | Founder of Abercrombie & Fitch |
| David S. Cordish | 1956 | President and chairman of the Cordish Company |
| Robert C. Embry Jr. | 1955 | President, Abell Foundation |
| Joseph Haskins Jr. | 1967 | President and chief executive officer (C.E.O.) of The Harbor Bank of Maryland |
| Robert D. Hormats | 1961 | United States Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, Vice Chair of Goldman Sachs financial firm |
| Zanvyl Krieger | 1924 | Co-founder of the former Baltimore Colts pro football franchise |
| Charles P. McCormick | 1916 | President of McCormick & Company, nationally famous spice and foods manufacturer |
| Morris A. Mechanic | 1915 | builder of the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in Charles Center |
| Joseph Meyerhoff | 1915 | Business tycoon, and former longtime president of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. |
| John E. Motz | 1930 | President, Mercantile Safe Deposit, Bank & Trust Company of Baltimore |
| Israel Myers | 1927 | Founder of the Londontown Manufacturing Company |
| Morton Rapoport | 1952 | M.D., chief executive officer (C.E.O.), University of Maryland Medical System / University of Maryland Hospital at U.M. at Baltimore |
| Martin Resnick | 1949 | Founder, Martins West-Martins Caterers, located off the Baltimore Beltway (Interstate 695), west of the city |
| Carroll Rosenbloom | 1926 | Co-founder/owner of the Baltimore Colts |
| David Rubenstein | 1966 | Co-founder of The Carlyle Group, an investment capital firm, Arranged new local ownership group to purchase the Baltimore Orioles |
| Charles Rudo | 1937 | Owner, Charley Rudo Sports |
| John Schuerholz | 1958 | President, Atlanta Braves (Major League Baseball (MLB) in the National League) in Atlanta, Georgia |
| Henry L. Straus | 1913 | Electrical engineer and business tycoon |
| Calvin E. Tyler, Jr. | 1960 | Philanthropist; Senior Vice President, United Parcel Service (U.P.S,) |

## Clergy and education

| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
| Thomas Sewall Adams | 1897 | Economist, Yale University; President, American Economic Association (1927) |
| Neil R. Bernstein | 1954 | Head of Advertising and Public Relations Drake University School of Journalism |
| John Richard Bryant | 1961 | Bishop, Fifth Episcopal District, African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| Alan M. Chesney | 1905 | Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| Isaac M. Colbert | 1964 | Dean of Graduate Studies, MIT (1999–present) |
| John Henry Fischer | 1927 | President, Teachers College, Columbia University; Superintendent, Baltimore City Public School System, enforced the desegregation of the school system |
| Henry Jones Ford | 1868 | Political scientist, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University; President, American Political Science Association |
| Norman Hackerman | 1928 | Chemist; president, Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin; National Medal of Science; Vannevar Bush Award (1993) |
| William W. Howell | 1878 | Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1899–1911) |
| Arthur Hertzberg | 1928 | Former President, American Jewish Congress |
| John H. Latane | 1889 | Dean of faculty, professor, Johns Hopkins University |
| Leo Lemay | 1953 | Biographer of Benjamin Franklin, du Pont Winterthur Professor of English at the University of Delaware |
| Arthur Maass | 1935 | Political scientist, Harvard University (1948–1984) |
| William K. Morrill | 1921 | Dean of Students, mathematician, Johns Hopkins University; member, Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame |
| Lindsay Rogers | 1908 | Burgess Professor of Public Law, Columbia University (1920–1959); director, Social Science Research Council (1934–36), and prolific writer |
| Kurt Schmoke | 1967 | President, University of Baltimore, former Dean, Howard University School of Law; 46th Mayor, City of Baltimore |
| William R. Straughn | 1902 | Founding President, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania |
| John B. Van Meter | | Methodist minister, educator, and the co-founder of Goucher College |
| Orris G. Walker, Jr. | 1960 | First African American Bishop of the Episcopal Church |
| David E. Weglein | 1894 | Longest serving superintendent, Baltimore City Public School System 1924–1945 |
| Henry Skinner West | 1888 | President, Towson University; Superintendent, Baltimore City Public School System |

## Government and politics
### Congress

| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
| William Samuel Booze | 1879 | U.S. Congressman, Maryland's 3rd congressional district (1897–1899) |
| Benjamin L. Cardin | 1960 | U.S. Senator, Maryland (2007–2023); U.S. Congressman, Maryland's 3rd congressional district (1988–2007) |
| Charles Pearce Coady | 1886 | U.S. Congressman, Maryland's 3rd congressional district (1913–1921) |
| Elijah Cummings | 1969 | U.S. Congressman, Maryland's 7th congressional district (1996–2019) |
| Charles A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger | 1963 | U.S. Congressman, Maryland's 2nd congressional district (2003–present) |
| Harry Welles Rusk | 1866 | U.S. Congressman, Maryland's 3rd congressional district (1886–1897) |
| William Stuart Symington, III | 1918 | U.S. Senator, Missouri (1953–1976); 1st United States Secretary of the Air Force (1947–1950) |

### Governors

| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
| Marvin Mandel | 1937 | 56th Governor of Maryland |
| Harry Nice | 1898 | 50th Governor of Maryland |
| William Donald Schaefer | 1939 | 60th Governor of Maryland; 44th Mayor of Baltimore; 32nd Comptroller of Maryland |

### State legislature

| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
| Curt Anderson | 1967 | Delegate, District 43, Baltimore (1983–1995, 2003–2023); longest serving chairman of the Baltimore City Delegation (2006–2018) |
| Charles B. Bosley | 1905 | Delegate, Baltimore County, 1914 |
| Meyer Cardin | 1926 | Delegate (1936–38); Judge, Baltimore Supreme Bench |
| Anthony M. DiPietro, Jr. | 1953 | Delegate, District 46, Baltimore (1979–1994) |
| John D. C. Duncan Jr. | | Delegate, Baltimore County (1920) and State Senator, Baltimore County (1935–1937) |
| Elizabeth Embry | 1994 | Delegate, District 43A Baltimore (2023–present) |
| Melvin L. Fine | 1921 | Delegate, District 4, Baltimore City (1929–1933), Senate,District 4, Baltimore City (1935–1939) |
| Tony Fulton | 1968 | Delegate, District 40, Baltimore City (1987–2005) |
| Henry R. Hergenroeder, Jr. | 1961 | Delegate, District 43, Baltimore County and Baltimore City (1967–1992) |
| Lawrence A. LaMotte | 1966 | Delegate, District 5B, Baltimore County (1983–1994) |
| Ervin "Ted" Levin | 1962 | Delegate, District 11, Baltimore County (1975–1994) |
| Pat McDonough | 1964 | Delegate, District 7 Baltimore County (1979–1983, 2003–present) |
| Charles "Bucky" Muth | 1955 | Delegate, District 43, Baltimore City (1983–1987) |
| Wendell F. Phillips | 1982 | Delegate, District 41, Baltimore City (1999–2003) |
| B. Daniel Riley | 1964 | Delegate, District 34, Harford County (1999–2003, 2007–present) |
| Frank C. Robey, Jr. | 1954 | Delegate, District 44, Baltimore City (1971–1983) |
| Samuel I. Rosenberg | 1968 | Delegate, District 41, Baltimore City (1983–present) |
| Edgar P. Silver | 1940 | Delegate, District 5, Baltimore City (1955–1965) |
| Steven V. Sklar | 1960 | Delegate, District 41, Baltimore City (1969–82) |
| Allen B. Spector | 1952 | Delegate, District 5, Baltimore City (1966–1970); Councilman, Baltimore City Council (1971–1977) |
| William A. Stewart | 1843 | Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates (1868); Delegate (1852–1854) |
| J. Raymond Buffington | 1929 | State Senator (1959–1962); Delegate (1942–50) |
| George W. Della | 1928 | President of the Maryland Senate (1951–1954), (1959–1962); State Senator (1941–1962) |
| Ralph M. Hughes | 1966 | State Senator, District 40, Baltimore City (1991–2007); Delegate (1983–1991) |
| Julian L. Lapides | 1949 | State Senator, District 44, Baltimore City (1967–1994) |
| Nathaniel J. McFadden | 1964 | State Senator, District 45, Baltimore City (1995–present) |
| William I. Norris | 1929 | President of the Maryland Senate (1920–1922); State Senator, District 1, Baltimore City (1916–1922); Delegate, District 1, Baltimore City (1904) |
| Melvin Steinberg | 1950 | Lieutenant Governor (1986–1994); President of Maryland State Senate (1983–1986); State Senator (1967–1986) |
| Norman R. Stone, Jr. | 1953 | State Senator, District 45, Baltimore County (1966–present) |

### Judiciary

| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
| Paul E. Alpert | 1953 | Maryland Court of Special Appeals, Judge (1982–1995); Baltimore County Circuit Court, Judge (1977–82); District Court (1972–77); Maryland House of Delegates, Delegate, Baltimore County (1967–73) |
| Arthur A. Anderson | 1932 | Circuit Court, Anne Arundel County, Judge |
| Carl W. Bacharach | 1938 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1971–1992); Maryland House of Delegates, Delegate, District 5, Baltimore City (1951–1962) |
| Thomas S. Baer | 1858 | Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1903–1906) |
| John R. Bartels | 1915 | United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Judge (1959–1997) |
| H. Gary Bass | 1960 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1983–present) |
| Raymond A.Beck | 1956 | Circuit Court, Carroll County, Judge (1990–2005); State Senator, Carroll County (1982–1990); Maryland House of Delegates, Delegate, Carroll County (1972–1982) |
| Austin W.Brizendine | 1956 | Circuit Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1978–1985) |
| Emanuel Brown | 1971 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1998–present) |
| Albert H. Blum | 1917 | Municipal Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1970s) |
| Joseph A. Ciotola | 1938 | District Court, Baltimore City, Administrative Judge (1980s–1990s) |
| James K. Cullen | 1917 | Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1952–1970) |
| Webster C. Dove | 1941 | Baltimore County, trial magistrate |
| Robert N. Dugan | 1960 | Circuit Court, Baltimore County, Judge (2000–present) |
| Darryl G. Fletcher | 1965 | District Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1994–present) |
| Ralph H. France, II | 1958 | District Court, Washington County, Judge (1995–present) |
| Sol J. Friedman | 1936 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1973–1991) |
| Askew Gatewood | 1968 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1984–present) |
| Robert I. H. Hammerman | 1946 | Circuit Court, Baltimore City, Chief Judge (1984–1998), Judge (1967–1998) |
| Francis Hall Hammond | 1919 | Maryland Court of Appeals, Chief Judge (1966–1971), Judge (1952–1966) |
| Charles D. Harris | 1924 | Chief Judge, Supreme Bench of Baltimore City (1962–1976) |
| J. William Hinkel | 1950 | Circuit Court Baltimore County (1981–2002), District Court, Baltimore County (1971–1981) |
| Thomas D. Horne | 1961 | Circuit Court of Loudoun County, Virginia (1982– ) |
| Neal M. Janey | 1966 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1980–1985) |
| Martin A. Kircher | 1948 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1973–2000), Delegate, Baltimore City (1963–1973) |
| I. Sewell Lamdin | 1936 | Municipal Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1968–1988) |
| Bruce S. Lamdin | 1965 | District Court, Baltimore County, Judge (2002–present) |
| Marvin J. Land | 1936 | Circuit Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1971–1980) |
| Marshal A. Levin | 1947 | Circuit Court Baltimore City (1971–2004) |
| Dana M. Levitz | 1966 | Circuit Court Baltimore County (1981–2002) |
| Ogle Marbury | 1899 | Maryland Court of Appeals, Chief Judge (1944–1952), Judge (1941–1944) |
| William Albert Menchine. | 1925 | Maryland Court of Special Appeals, Judge (1972–1977) |
| Herman M. Moser | 1917 | Circuit Court, Baltimore, Judge (1944–1956) |
| Charles E. Moylan, Jr. | 1949 | Maryland Court of Special Appeals, Judge (1970–2000) |
| Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr. | 1937 | United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Circuit Judge (1979–2000) |
| Reuben Oppenheimer | 1917 | Maryland Court of Appeals, Judge (1964–1967) |
| Theodore Oshrine | 1966 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1985–present) |
| Joseph I. Pines | 1939 | Circuit Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1980–1992) |
| John N. Prevas | 1964 | Circuit Court, Baltimore City, Chief Judge (2006–2010), Judge (1986–2010) |
| William D. Quarles Jr. | 1965 | United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge (2003–present) |
| Alan Resnick (judge) | 1946 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1974–1998) |
| John Carter Rose | 1877 (left to attend University of Maryland) | United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Circuit Judge (1922–1927) United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge (1910–1922); U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland (1898–1910) |
| I. Marshall Seidler | 1953 | District Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1998–2004) |
| C. James Sfekas | 1970 | District Court, Howard County, Judge (1998–2002) |
| James S. Sfekas | 1934 | Circuit Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1980–1988) |
| Stephen J. Sfekas | 1964 | Circuit Court, Baltimore, Judge (2010–) |
| Albert L. Sklar | 1929 | Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1964–1981); Maryland House of Delegates, Delegate, District 4, Baltimore (1939–1954) |
| Frederick J. Singley | 1930 | United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals 1967–1977 |
| A. Cecil Snyder | 1936 | Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, Chief Justice (1953–1957), Associate Justice (1942–1953) |
| Simon Sobeloff | 1909 | United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Chief Judge (1958–1964), Circuit Judge (1956–1958); United States Solicitor General (1954–1956) |
| Anselm Sodaro | 1927 | Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1956–1980), Chief Judge (1975–1980), Baltimore City State's Attorney (1950–1956) |
| Morris Ames Soper | 1890 | United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Circuit Judge (1931–1963) |
| Charles Francis Stein, Sr. | 1925 | Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1921–1936) |
| Marvin Steinberg | 1947 | Circuit Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1985–1996) |
| William A. Stewart (judge) | 1843 | Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1882–1893) |
| Edward O. "Ned" Thomas | 1936 | District and Circuit, Worcester County, Judge |
| Robert Dorsey Watkins | 1918 | United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge (1955–1986) |
| Alan M. Wilner | 1954 | Maryland Court of Appeals, Judge (1996–2007); Maryland Court of Special Appeals, Chief Judge (1990–1996), Judge (1977–1990) |
| Alexander Wright, Jr. | 1967 | Judge, Maryland Court of Special Appeals (2008– ), Baltimore County Circuit Court, 3rd Judicial Circuit (1998–2000 and 2001–2002) |

### Federal government

| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
| Hugh S. Cumming | 1886 | Surgeon General of the United States (1920–1936) |
| Alger Hiss | 1921 | U.S. State Department, alleged Soviet spy |
| Alvin "Buzzy" Krongard | 1954 | Former deputy director of the CIA; former vice-chairman of Bankers Trust; former chairman of Alex. Brown & Sons; member of National Lacrosse Hall of Fame |
| Howard J. Krongard | 1957 | Inspector general of the Department of State (2005–present) |
| Alfred H. Moses | 1947 | U.S. Ambassador, Romania |
| Leon H. A. Pierson | 1920 | U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland (1957–1961) |
| Philip B. Perlman | 1908 | U.S. Solicitor General (1947–1952) |

### State and local officials

| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
| John W. Anderson | 1964 | Sheriff, Baltimore (1989–present) |
| Thomas N. Biddison | 1924 | Baltimore City Solicitor 1947–58; member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame |
| Devon Brown | 1967 | Director, Washington, D.C. Department of Corrections (2006–present), Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Corrections (2002–2006) |
| Francis B. Burch | 1937 | Attorney General of Maryland (1966–1974); City Solicitor, Baltimore (1961–1963) |
| Dennis Callahan | 1958 | Mayor of Annapolis (1985–1989) |
| John L. Cain | 1958 | Baltimore City Council, 1st District (1991–2004) |
| Reubin Caplan | 1924 | Baltimore City Council, 1st District (1963–1979) |
| Michael E. Cryor | 1964 | chairman, Maryland Democratic Party |
| Martin "Mike" Curran | 1955 | Baltimore City Council, 3rd District (1977–1995) |
| Wilbur "Bill" Cunningham | 1967 | Baltimore City Council, 3rd District (1988–1996) |
| Ronald L. Daniel | 1967 | Police Commissioner, Baltimore (1999–2000) |
| Stanley S. Fine | 1961 | Director, Maryland Lottery (1973–1978) |
| Philip H. Goodman | 1931 | 42nd Mayor of Baltimore (1962–1963) |
| Leonard Hamm | 1967 | Police Commissioner, Baltimore (2005–2007) |
| Hyman A. Pressman | 1930 | Baltimore Comptroller (1975–1995) |
* Shading appears where relevant
* Democratic Party
* Republican Party

## Journalism

| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
| George Bauman | 1945 | Reporter, WJZ-TV |
| Joe Day | 1951 | Reporter, WCVB-TV |
| Alan Z. Forman | 1957 | Managing editor, content director, Voice of Baltimore; former reporter/copy editor, Baltimore Sun |
| Brent Gunts | 1935 | Former VP and general manager, WBAL-TV |
| H. Corbin Gwaltney | 1939 | Founding publisher, The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Chronicle of Philanthropy |
| Gregory Kane | 1969 | Columnist, Baltimore Sun |
| Ron Matz | 1964 | Reporter, WJZ-TV |
| Michael Olesker | 1963 | Former columnist, Baltimore Sun; columnist, The Examiner, author |
| Hamilton Owens | 1905 | Editor-in-chief, Evening Sun, coined Maryland nickname of "the Free State" |
| John Jacob Oliver, Jr. | 1963 | CEO and publisher, Afro-American Newspaper |
| Gilbert Sandler | 1941 | Author, writer for the Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Magazine, and Jewish Times |
| John Steadman | 1945 | Sports editor, Baltimore Evening Sun |

## Military

| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
| Jacob Beser | 1938 | Lt., Army Air Corps, World War II; crew member on the Enola Gay; awarded Silver Star and Distinguished Flying Cross |
| Frederick C. Billard | 1892 | Admiral, Commandant of the Coast Guard |
| Henry Gilbert Costin | 1916 | Pfc., US Army, World War I; Medal of Honor |
| Isadore S. Jachman | 1939 | Sgt., US Army, World War II; Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Purple Heart, Croix de Guerre |
| J. William Kime | 1951 | Admiral, Commandant of the Coast Guard |
| Walter B. Massenburg | 1965 | Admiral, Commandant, Naval Air Station Patuxent River |
| Milton Ernest Ricketts | 1930 | Lt., US Navy, World War II; Medal of Honor |
| Louis Waters, Jr. | 1987 | Lieutenant Colonel (LTC), Maryland Army National Guard, Operation Enduring Freedom, awarded Bronze Star |

## Science

| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
| Balamurali Ambati | 1989 | Youngest person to become a doctor |
| Richard Askey | 1951 | Mathematician; Askey-Wilson polynomials |
| Eric Baer | 1949 | Polymer and plastics researcher |
| Edgar Berman | 1932 | Surgeon, first to do heart transplant; physician to Hubert Humphrey |
| William Bloom | 1916 | Pathologist |
| Louis R. Caplan | 1954 | Neurologist |
| Hugh Latimer Dryden | 1913 | National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, NASA |
| Wendell E. Dunn, Jr. | 1938 | Chemical engineer, metallurgist |
| Solomon W. Golomb | 1949 | Mathematician, engineer, inventor of polyominoes |
| Norman L. Hackerman | 1928 | Chemist, former president, University of Texas, Rice University |
| William Henry Howell | 1878 | Physiologist; pioneer of the use of heparin as a blood anticoagulant; dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| Nicholas Katz | 1960 | Mathematician; Grothendieck-Katz p-curvature conjecture |
| Lee Kinsey | 1920 | Physicist; astronomer; chairman, department of physics, University of California at Los Angeles |
| Morton Kramer | 1931 | Bio-statistician, created international standards in mental health diagnostics |
| Simon A. Levin | 1957 | Ecologist, Princeton University |
| Charles C. Plitt | 1866 | Botanist |
| Robert Resnick | 1939 | Physicist; professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Oersted Medal (1974) |
| Martin Rodbell | 1943 | Biochemist, molecular endocrinologist; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1994 |
| Tracy M. Sonneborn | 1922 | Biologist, geneticist |
| Victor Strasburger | 1967 | Pediatrician; medical expert on adolescents |
| John Archibald Wheeler | 1927 | Theoretical physicist; Wolf Prize in Physics |
| Abel Wolman | 1909 | Sanitary engineer; inventor of modern water treatment techniques |

## Sports

| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
| Al Albert | 1965 | College soccer, head coach, College of William & Mary (1971–2003) |
| A. Gordon Armstrong | 1904 | Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame |
| Bob Baldwin | 1962 | Football, fullback, Baltimore Colts |
| Max Bishop | 1921* | Baseball, 2nd baseman, Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox, |
| Frank Gottlob Breyer | 1905 | Lacrosse, founding coach, US Naval Academy; coach, Lehigh University and Swarthmore College |
| Emil "Buzzy" Budnitz | 1949 | Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame |
| Tommy Byrne | 1937 | Baseball, pitcher, New York Yankees |
| Charley Eckman | 1940 | Basketball, head coach, Fort Wayne/Detroit Pistons (1954–1957) |
| Thom Gatewood | 1968 | Football, wide receiver, New York Giants |
| Lorne Randolf Guild | 1928 | Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame |
| Malik Hamm | 2017 | Football, Linebacker, Baltimore Ravens |
| Bryant Johnson | 1999 | Football, wide receiver, Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions |
| John C. Knipp | 1912 | Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame |
| William Kelso Morrill | 1926 | Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame |
| Johnny Neun | 1921 | Baseball, Manager, New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds |
| Ara Person | 1966 | Football, tight end, St. Louis Cardinals |
| William C. Schmeisser | 1899 | Lacrosse, coach, Johns Hopkins University, namesake Schmeisser Award; US Olympian |
| Jerry Schnydman | 1962 | Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame |
| William E. Scroggs | 1965 | Lacrosse, coach, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1978–1990), led team to NCAA titles in 1981, 1982 and 1986 |
| Edward M. Stuart | 1913 | Lacrosse, member National Lacrosse Hall of Fame; Captain, United States Army Corps of Engineers |
| John Sykes | 1967 | Football, wide receiver, San Diego Chargers |
| Charles Tapper | 2012 | Offensive tackle Dallas Cowboys, New York Jets |
| Alphonse "Tommy" Thomas | 1918 | Baseball, pitcher, Chicago White Sox |
| John C. Tolson | 1937 | Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame; Lieutenant, United States Navy, World War II |
| Church Yearly | 1930 | Lacrosse, member of National Lacrosse Hall of Fame; trustee of Johns Hopkins University |

## Other

* Makayla Gilliam-Price, 2016, social activist
* Renee Drew, 1986, Oncology Nurse Practitioner
* F. Pierpont Davis, architect and 1932 Olympics 8 Metre gold medalist