Title: List of people from Maryland Content: right|200px|thumb| The following is a list of people from Maryland, a state in the United States. This list may not include federal officials and members of the United States Congress who live in Maryland but were not born there. ==Politicians, jurists, and statesmen== * Spiro T. Agnew, former Governorauthor of Maryland and Vice President of the United States * John R. Bolton, 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations * Charles Joseph Bonaparte, former Attorney General of the United States; founder of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; grand-nephew of French emperor Napoleon I * Anthony G. Brown, current Lieutenant Governor of Maryland * Charles Carroll of Carrollton, lawyer, politician, and signer of the Declaration of Independence * Samuel Chase, United States Supreme Court Justice * Frank J. Christensen, labor leader * J. Joseph Curran, Jr., state Attorney General and former Lieutenant Governor * Frederick Douglass, abolitionist * Doug Duncan, county executive * Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., Governor of Maryland (2003–2007) * John Hanson, ninth president of the Continental Congress; first elected under the Articles of Confederation * Steny Hoyer, current House Minority Whip, U.S. House of Representatives * Thurgood Marshall, civil rights leader and United States Supreme Court Justice * Kweisi Mfume, NAACP leader and former Congressman * Catherine Curran O'Malley, State District Judge and wife of Martin O'Malley * Martin J. O'Malley, Governor of Maryland * William Paca, signer of the Declaration of Independence * Nancy Pelosi, 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives * 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, former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland and oldest daughter of Robert F. Kennedy * Jeffrey Zients, first U.S. Chief Performance Officer under President Barack Obama * Dawn Zimmer, mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey ==Architects== * Otto Eugene Adams * George Archer * Richard Snowden Andrews * Ephraim Francis Baldwin * Henry F. Brauns * William Buckland (architect) * Wright Butler * Charles L. Carson * Albert Cassell * Charles E. Cassell * Francis E. Davis * Thomas Dixon * George A. Frederick * T. Buckler Ghequier, architect of St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Washington, D.C.) * Jackson C. Gott, architect of Charles Theatre (Baltimore) * Nathaniel Henry Hutton * William Rich Hutton * Thomas C. Kennedy * Edmund George Lind * Alfred Mason, prolific designer of schools * John Murdoch, co-designer of Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church (Baltimore) * J. Crawford Neilson * John Rudolph Niernsee * Edward L. Palmer, Jr. * Josias Pennington, co-designer of Mount Royal Station (Baltimore) * Theodore Wells Pietsch, architect of Stieff Silver Company Factory (Baltimore) * Bruce Price * Howard Van Doren Shaw (died in Baltimore) * Gideon Shryock * Mathias Shryock (born in Frederick, Maryland) * Otto G. Simonson, supervised U.S. Custom House (Baltimore, Maryland); partner, Simonson & Pietsch * Joseph Evans Sperry * Douglas H. Thomas, architect of Belvedere Hotel (Baltimore) * John Appleton Wilson * James Bosley Noel Wyatt, architect of Baltimore City Courthouse and homes in Roland Park ==Scientists and inventors== * Richard R. Arnold, NASA astronaut, high school biology teacher * Benjamin Banneker, surveyor, astronomer, mathematician and almanac author * Brady Barr, herpetologist * Dr. Ben Carson, neurosurgeon * Rachel Carson, environmentalist * Robert Curbeam, astronaut, engineer, and U.S. Navy officer * George Dantzig, mathematical scientist * Wendell E. Dunn, Jr., chemical engineer, metallurgist, and inventor * Roger L. Easton, principal inventor of GPS * Charles Fefferman, mathematician * Henry Gantt, mechanical engineer * Solomon Golomb, mathematician who invented pentominoes * Michael Griffin, NASA administrator * Arlo Hemphill, explorer/ocean conservationist * Thomas David Jones, NASA astronaut, US Air Force pilot * Nick Katz, mathematician * John Mauchly, physicist who, with J. Presper Eckert, invented the first general-purpose electronic computer * Ayub K. Ommaya, neurosurgeon * Mila Rechcigl, biochemist * Robert Empie Rogers, chemist * Arthur William Savage, inventor of the Savage Model 99 * Paul Reed Smith, luthier * Terry W. Virts, NASA astronaut, US Air Force pilot * Douglas C. Wallace, geneticist, evolutionary biologist * John Archibald Wheeler, theoretical physicist * Gregory R. Wiseman, NASA astronaut, US Navy aviator * Edward Witten, physicist, mathematician ==Authors, including journalists== * John Barth, author * Carl Bernstein, journalist and author * Hanne Blank, author * Ann Brashares, author * Pat Brown, author, criminal profiler * Erin Burnett, journalist and CNN anchor * James M. Cain, journalist and author * Kiran Chetry, journalist * Connie Chung, television journalist * Tom Clancy, author * Lucille Clifton, poet * Ta-Nehisi Coates, writer, journalist * Mark Davis, columnist, radio talk show host * Frank Deford, journalist and author * Matt Drudge, journalist, radio talk show host * Roland Flint, poet * Courtney Friel, entertainment reporter for Fox News * Jesse Glass, poet, folklorist * Meredith Goldstein, advice columnist and reporter * Mary Downing Hahn, author * Dashiell Hammett, author * Karen Hesse, author * Zora Neale Hurston, author * Sophie Kerr, author * Michael Kimball, author * Gayle King, editor * Mel Kiper Jr., ESPN football analyst * Munro Leaf, children's author * Rick Leventhal, correspondent for Fox News * Walter Lord, author * H. L. Mencken, journalist and social critic * Emily J. Miller, senior editor of Washington Times opinion pages * Frank Miller, writer and artist * Ogden Nash, humorous poet * Suzan-Lori Parks, playwright and screenwriter * Adrienne Rich, poet and feminist * Nora Roberts, author * Thomas Roberts, news anchor for MSNBC * John Thomas Scharf, author, historian, lawyer, politician, and Confederate soldier and sailor * Karl Shapiro, poet * Upton Sinclair, author * Norman Solomon, journalist, media critic * Bud Sparhawk, science fiction author * John Steadman, sportswriter * Anne Tyler, author * Leon Uris, author * Scott Van Pelt, ESPN anchor and radio host * Fredricka Whitfield, CNN reporter and anchor * James Wolcott, journalist, social critic ==Musicians== * Bernard Addison, jazz guitarist * Scott Ambush, jazz bassist * BT, born Brian Transeau, electronic musician * 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 band Hootie & the Blowfish * David Byrne, singer/guitarist of rock band Talking Heads * Bill Callahan, singer/songwriter formerly known as Smog * Cab Calloway, jazz singer and bandleader * Eva Cassidy, singer/songwriter * 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 * Dan Deacon, electronic musician * 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, born Guy Blakeslee, singer/songwriter * John Fahey, folk/blues guitarist * Mark Fax, composer * Dean Felber, bass guitarist for the rock band Hootie & the Blowfish * Danny Gatton, guitarist * Ginuwine, R&B; singer * Philip Glass, composer * Robert Gordon, rockabilly singer * Tamyra Gray, singer/actress * Hilary Hahn, concert violinist, two-time Grammy Award winner * Billie Holiday, singer * Ron Holloway, tenor saxophonist * Scott Hull, guitarist, music producer * Eric Hutchinson, musician * Julienne Irwin, singer and America's Got Talent season 2 finalist * Joan Jett, singer * LaKisha Jones, American Idol season 6 finalist * Tommy Keene, singer/songwriter * Greg Kihn, New Wave and pop musician and singer * Joe Lally, bassist of rock band Fugazi * Nathan Larson, film soundtrack composer; guitarist of rock bands Shudder to Think and Hot One * Rod Lee, Baltimore club producer/DJ * Lisa Loeb, singer/songwriter * Nils Lofgren, solo rock musician and guitarist with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band * Logic, rapper * Benji Madden, guitarist for Good Charlotte * Joel Madden, lead singer for Good Charlotte * Spiro Malas, bass-baritone opera singer * Mario, singer/songwriter * Christina Milian, singer, songwriter, actress, dancer * Mýa, singer/songwriter and dancer * Ric Ocasek, former lead singer of The Cars * Barry Louis Polisar, singer/songwriter of children's music * Greg Puciato, singer of metal band The Dillinger Escape Plan * Gina Schock, drummer of rock band The Go-Go's * Sisqó, lead singer of R&B; group Dru Hill * Noel Paul Stookey, singer with Peter, Paul and Mary * Evan Taubenfeld, ex-guitarist and backup singer for pop star Avril Lavigne; singer and rhythm guitarist for The Black List Club * Chad Taylor, guitarist for The Gracious Few and Live * Chester Thompson, drummer, frequent collaborator with Genesis * 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 * Erin Willett, The Voice season 2 finalist * Frank Zappa, singer, guitarist and composer ==Actors, filmmakers, and entertainers== * 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 * Noelle Beck, actress * Lewis Black, comedian, actor * Wolfgang Bodison, actor * Edwin Booth, actor * John Wilkes Booth, actor * Julie Bowen, actress * Kimberly J. Brown, actress * Norman "Chubby" Chaney, actor (Little Rascals, Our Gang shorts) * Crystal Chappell, actress * Josh Charles, actor * Josh Clark, actor * Kevin Clash, puppeteer * Gaelan Connell, actor, singer * Hans Conreid, actor * Whitney Cummings, stand-up comedienne * 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's Freaks) * Damon Evans, actor * Anna Faris, actress * Evan Farmer, actor, singer * Lauren Faust, animator * Faith Fay, actress * Wayne Federman, comedian, actor, author * 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 * 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 * Taraji P. Henson, actress * Russell Hicks, actor * Brendan Hines, actor, singer * Michael Hyatt, actress * Mo'Nique Imes- Jackson, actress * Thomas Jane, actor * 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 * Kevin Kilner, actor * Judy Kuhn, actress * Martin Lawrence, actor, comedian, director and producer * Barry Levinson, filmmaker * Peyton List, actress, model * Ernie Lively, actor * Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress * William H. Macy, actor * Paula Marshall, actress * Dale Midkiff, actor * Debra Monk, actress, singer * Garry Moore, television personality * Cookie Mueller, actress, writer * Sean Murray, actor * Mildred Natwick, actress * 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 * Wanda Sykes, comedienne, actress * Tracie Thoms, actress * Gil Wadsworth, producer * Barbara Walsh, actress * Jonathan Ward, actor * John Waters, filmmaker * Matthew Weiner, writer, director and producer * Sean Whalen, actor * Montel Williams, TV personality * Frank Zappa, musician, composer ==Athletes== * Nick Adenhart, baseball player * Joe Alexander, basketball player * Brady Anderson, baseball 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 * Lonny Baxter, basketball player * Steve Barber, baseball player * Michael Beasley, basketball 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 * NaVorro Bowman, football player * Charles Bradley, basketball player * Dudley Bradley, basketball player * Troy Brohawn, baseball player * Andre Brown, football player * Sam Cassell, basketball player * Brett Cecil, baseball player * Colin Cloherty, football player * Dante Cunningham, basketball player * Quintin Dailey, basketball player * Adrian Dantley, basketball player * Dominique Dawes, Olympic gymnast * Delino DeShields, Jr., baseball player * Juan Dixon, basketball player * Joey Dorsey, basketball player * Kevin Durant, basketball player * 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, football player * Kyle Fuller, football player * Rudy Gay, basketball player * James Gist, basketball player * Jeff Green, basketball player * Donté Greene, basketball player * Gabe Gross, baseball player * Lefty Grove, Hall of Fame baseball player * Scott Hall, professional wrestler * Jeff Halpern, hockey player * Derrick Harvey, football player * Darrius Heyward-Bey, football player * Roy Hibbert, basketball player * Calvin Hill, football player, father of Grant Hill * Katie Hoff, swimmer * Jarrett Jack, basketball player * Tanard Jackson, football player * Tracy Jackson, basketball player * Bryant Johnson, football player * Larry Johnson, football player * Steve Johnson, baseball player * Al Kaline, Hall of Fame baseball player * Stacy Keibler, professional wrestler * Linas Kleiza, basketball player * Rick Knapp, pitching coach * Aaron Laffey, baseball player * Bucky Lasek, professional skateboarder * Ty Lawson, basketball player * Katie Ledecky, Olympic swimmer * Sugar Ray Leonard, Hall of Fame boxer * Reggie Lewis, basketball player * Sidney Lowe, basketball player, assistant coach * Matt Maloney, basketball player * Roger Mason, basketball player * Justin Maxwell, baseball player * Leo Mazzone, baseball coach * Robert McClain, football player * Rodney McLeod, football player * Sara McMann, MMA fighter * Kimmie Meissner, figure skater * Shawne Merriman, football player * Terence Morris, basketball player * Daniel Muir, football player * Jeff Nelson, baseball player * Quinn Ojinnaka, football player * Travis Pastrana, motorsport athlete * Sam Perlozzo, baseball player and manager * Julian Peterson, football player * Michael Phelps, Olympic swimmer * Tom Phoebus, baseball player * Billy Ripken, baseball player * Cal Ripken, Jr., Hall of Fame baseball player * Bob Robertson, baseball player * Josh Roenicke, baseball player * Axl Rotten, professional wrestler * Babe Ruth, Hall of Fame baseball 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 * Larry Spriggs, basketball player * Mike Sweetney, basketball player * Ron Swoboda, baseball player * Mark Teixeira, baseball player * Greivis Vásquez, basketball player * Marvin Webster, basketball player * Delonte West, basketball player * Brian Westbrook, football player * Byron Westbrook, football 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 * Sam Young, basketball player * Usama Young, football player ==Visual artists== * Norman Carlberg, sculptor * Frank Cho, comic book creator, writer and artist * Jane Frank, painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, illustrator * Lee Gatch, painter, mixed media artist * Dick Hafer, cartoonist and comics creator * Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal, painter * Morris Louis, painter * Anne Truitt, sculptor * Bernie Wrightson, comic book artist ==Individuals of historic significance== * John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham 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-century U.S. Army officer, acting Adjutant General and Inspector General * Stephen Decatur, naval hero of the War of 1812 * William Hemsley Emory, United States Army officer and surveyor of Texas * Matthew Henson, Arctic explorer * Alger Hiss, UN official accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948, convicted of perjury in 1950 * Francis Scott Key, composer of the 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 War * Samuel Mudd, physician convicted and imprisoned for aiding John Wilkes Booth * Cadwalader Ringgold, U.S. Navy Officer during the Civil War, explorer * Raymond A. Spruance, admiral during World War II, ambassador to the Philippines * Harriet Tubman, leader of the Underground Railroad ==Miscellaneous== * Steve Bisciotti, majority owner of the Baltimore Ravens * Bud Delp, 1979 Kentucky Derby-winning trainer of Spectacular Bid * Michel Faulkner, pastor and NYC politician * Duff Goldman, owner of Charm City Cakes, star of Ace of Cakes * Ed Hale, businessman, owner of Baltimore Blast * Michael Hardt, literary theorist and political philosopher * Arlo Hemphill, wilderness advocate * Johns Hopkins, businessman and philanthropist * Mel Kiper, Jr., ESPN football analyst, known for draft coverage * Little Albert, subject of John B. Watson's controversial case study on classical conditioning * Samuel J. Palmisano, president and 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 * John Rawls, philosopher * Hilary Rhoda, model * James Rouse, city planner * Christian Siriano, winner of Season 4 of Project Runway * Ben Stein, actor, author, economist, political speechwriter * Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver killed by Hezbollah militants during the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 * Matthew VanDyke, freedom fighter and prisoner of war (POW) in the 2011 Libyan Civil War * Bill Wilson, head of Americans for Limited Government * George Young, NFL executive ==Related pages== * Lists of Americans