Notable People from Maryland

Jackie Ronne

American explorer (1919–2009)

Charles Marquis Warren

film director (1912-1990)

J. William Middendorf II

American diplomat

Anne Truitt

American artist (1921-2004)

Beverly Byron

American politician (1932–2025)

Michael Martin Hammer

American academic (1948–2008)

Jack L. Chalker

American author (1944-2005)

Harlan Marbley

boxer (1943–2008)

Michele Carey

American actress (1943–2018)

Nick Zedd

American filmmaker and writer

Dwight Muhammad Qawi

American boxer (1953–2025)

Mutulu Shakur

American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army

Quintin Dailey

American basketball player (1961-2010)

Andrew Sudduth

American rower

Axl Rotten

American professional wrestler (1971–2016)

Traci Braxton

American singer and media personality (1971–2022)

Brooke Greenberg

American Syndrome X patient (1993–2013)

Clarence Muse

American actor and director (1889–1979)

William Hindman

American politician (1743-1822)

Josiah Henson

author, abolitionist, and minister; born into slavery, in Port Tobacco, Charles Co., Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1830

Gabriel Duvall

United States federal judge (1752-1844)

Joseph Galloway

American politician

James Cooper

American lawyer, soldier, and politician (1810-1863)

Louis E. McComas

American politician (1846-1907)

Ephraim King Wilson II

American politician (1821-1891)

William Pinkney Whyte

American politician (1824–1908)

Blanche Calloway

American singer, bandleader and composer

Blair Lee I

American politician (1857-1944)

George L. Wellington

American politician (1852-1927)

John G. Townsend Jr.

American politician (1871-1964)

Carrie Ingalls

Little House on the Prairie character

Mary K. Bryan

American botanist (1877-1926)

E. Stanley Jones

Methodist missionary and theologian (1884-1973)

John Marshall Butler

American politician (1897-1978)

J. Glenn Beall

politician and United States Army soldier (1894-1971)

Fulton Oursler

American journalist, playwright, editor and writer (1893-1952)

Herbert O'Conor

American politician (1896-1960)

Francis X. Bushman, Jr.

American actor (1903-1978)

Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr.

American politician (1903–1987)

Tom Godwin

American writer (1915–1980)

Garry Moore

American entertainer, comedian, game show host (1915–1993)

J. Glenn Beall Jr.

American politician (1927-2006)

Charles Mathias

American politician (1922-2010)

William Donald Schaefer

American politician (1921-2011)

Donald L. Coburn

American dramatist

David Jacobs

American screen writer (1939–2023)

Jack Blessing

American actor (1951-2017)

Nick Adenhart

American professional baseball player (1986–2009)

Edward Fenwick

Catholic bishop (1768-1832)

John Leeds Kerr

American politician (1780-1844)