page_title: Towson High School
section_title: Notable alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Towson High School / Notable alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: Towson High School, Towson, Md., contributed by User:JGHowes
context_page_description: Towson High School is a high school in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States, founded in 1873. The school's current stone structure was built in 1949. Located in the northern Baltimore suburb of Towson and serving the surrounding communities of Towson, Lutherville, and Ruxton, it is part of the Baltimore County Public Schools system, the 25th largest school system in the nation as of 2005. Area middle schools that feed into Towson High are Dumbarton Middle School, Ridgely Middle School, and Loch Raven Technical Academy, although students from other areas attend the Law and Public Policy magnet school. In 2010, Towson was ranked No. 341 in Newsweek magazine's "America's Best High Schools: The List" annual national survey. In a Baltimore Style readership vote in 2018, Towson High School was named "Best Public High School" in the Baltimore area.
context_section_description: The school's alumni association, founded in 1907, says it is "one of the oldest, continuous, public school alumni associations in the U.S.". Well-known alumni include:
  Jean Marie Donnell (1938) - movie and TV actress
  Evan Farmer - actor / TV personality
  Joyce Hens Green - Federal judge
  Billy Jones, first black basketball player in the ACC
  Andy Karl – singer/actor in seven Broadway shows
  James M. Kelly, special assistant to President Bush, formerly a Maryland House Delegate.
  Harris Glenn Milstead (1963) - better known as the movie actor and singer "Divine"
  Ellen O. Moyer - politician
  Lowell Blair Nesbitt (1951) - fine artist
  Ken Ono - mathematician and film producer
  Santa J. Ono - immunologist and President, University of British Columbia, Past President University of Cincinnati
  Michael Phelps (2003) - 28-time Olympic medalist and swimming world record holder
  Mary Watters Risteau (1907) - first woman to be elected to the Maryland House of Delegates
  Ellen Sauerbrey (1955) - politician
  Dan Szymborski (1996) - sports statistician
  Jack Thomas (1970) - All- American Lacrosse Player
  Derek Waters (1998) - actor, comedian, writer and creator of Drunk History
  Ting Cui (2020) - figure skater
caption: Cedar Avenue entrance
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