List of Baltimore City Personalities

The list of personalities in the city of Baltimore includes people who were born in Baltimore , Maryland, USA , as well as those who worked in Baltimore without being born there. Both sections are sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

Baltimore Born Personalities

18th century

• Elizabeth Patterson (1785–1879), wife of Jérôme Bonaparte
• John P. Kennedy (1795–1870), politician and writer
• Franklin Buchanan (1800–1874), officer and admiral
• David Stewart (1800-1858), politician

19th century

1801 to 1850

• David T. Disney (1803-1857), politician
• Richard Vincent Whelan (1809–1874), Bishop of Wheeling
• Anthony Kennedy (1810-1892), politician
• William H. French (1815–1881), United States Army career officer and general
• William Vandever (1817-1893), politician
• James Monroe Deems (1818–1901), composer and brigadier-general
• William Pinkney Whyte (1824-1908), politician
• Richard Caton Woodville (1825–1855/56), painter
• Thomas Beall Davis (1828-1911), politician
• George Hume Steuart (1828–1903), General
• John Donnell Smith (1829–1928), plant collector and botanist
• Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte-Patterson II (1830–1893), grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte
• John Lee Carroll (1830-1911), politician
• James Gibbons (1834–1921), Archbishop of Baltimore
• Philip Reese Uhler (1835–1913), librarian and entomologist
• Alfred Marshall Mayer (1836-1897), physicist
• William Hickley Gross (1837–1898), Archbishop of Oregon City
• Henry Smith (1838-1916), politician
• James Ryder Randall (1839-1908), journalist and poet
• Kate Josephine Bateman (1842-1917), actress
• Owen Patrick Bernard Corrigan (1849–1929), auxiliary bishop in Baltimore
• Hermann Oelrichs (1850–1906), banker, multimillionaire and co-owner of the North German Lloyd shipping company

1851 to 1900

• Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1851–1921), politician, grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte
• Martha Carey Thomas (1857-1935), educator, suffragist and linguist; second president of Bryn Mawr College
• Joseph Paxson Iddings (1857-1920), geologist
• Mary Mackall Gwinn (1860–1940), literary scholar and university professor
• Henrietta Szold (1860–1945), activist
• John Carter Rose (1861-1927), federal judge
• George Veditz (1861–1937), President of the National Association of the Deaf
• Robert Alexander (1863–1941), lawyer and officer
• William Thomas Russell (1863–1927), Bishop of Charleston
• John Whitridge Williams (1866-1931), gynecologist and obstetrician
• Esther Hasson (1867–1942), superintendent
• James Young (1872-1948), director
• Joe Gans (1874-1910), boxer
• William A. Nitze (1876–1957), Romance scholar and philologist
• Upton Sinclair (1878–1968), socially critical writer
• Francis Peyton Rous (1879–1970), pathologist and Nobel Prize winner
• Henry L. Mencken (1880–1956), writer and journalist, literary critic, columnist and satirist
• Peter Leo Ireton (1882–1958), Bishop of Richmond
• Francis X. Bushman (1883-1966), film actor
• Alonzo G. Decker (1884–1956), entrepreneur, inventor and theosophist
• Eli Stanley Jones (1884–1973), Methodist theologian, missionary in India, speaker, author and consultant
• Edmund C. Lynch (1885–1938), financial services entrepreneur
• Mabel Garrison (1886–1963), singer
• Raymond A. Spruance (1886–1969), US Navy Admiral
• Sylvia Beach (1887–1962), bookseller and publisher
• Eubie Blake (1887-1983), jazz pianist and composer
• Flora Dobler Sutton (1890–1976), mathematician specializing in statistics .
• Philip Perlman (1890–1960), politician
• Miriam Cooper (1891–1976), actress
• Mike C. Levee (1891–1972), film producer
• Minna Gombell (1892–1973), actress
• Charley Chase (1893–1940), film actor and director
• Karel Lotsy (1893–1959), Dutch football and sports official
• Anna Mullikin (1893–1975), American mathematician; known from the Janiszewski-Mullikin theorem
• E. Franklin Frazier (1894–1962), sociologist
• Simon Sobeloff (1894–1973), lawyer, judge, and United States Solicitor General
• Lawson Wilkins (1894-1963), endocrinologist
• Henry Nicholas Gunther (1895–1918), the last fallen in the First World War
• Louis Harant (1895-1986), marksman
• Anna G. Krause (1895–1968), Romance and Hispanicist, university lecturer
• Babe Ruth (1895-1948), baseball player
• Sarah T. Hughes (1896–1985), lawyer and politician
• Herbert O'Conor (1896–1960), politician
• Henry Segrave (1896–1930), British racing driver and record-breaking driver
• John Marshall Butler (1897–1978), politician
• John Ries Bartels (1897–1997), federal judge
• John Joyce Russell (1897-1993), Bishop of Richmond
• David KE Bruce (1898–1977), lawyer
• Lawrence Shehan (1898–1984), Archbishop of Baltimore
• Sherman Clark (1899-1980), rowing athlete
• Frank McDonald (1899–1980), film and television director, actor and cameraman
• John Ambrose Meyer (1899–1969), politician
• Dorothy Swaine Thomas (1899–1977), sociologist and economist
• Henri Châtin Hofmann (1900–1961), dancer
• Leo McConville (1900–1968), jazz trumpeter
• Theodore McKeldin (1900–1974), politician
• Elmer Snowden (1900–1973), banjo player, band leader and music entrepreneur

20th century

1901 to 1910

• Mildred Dunnock (1901–1991), film and stage actress
• Paul Ford (1901–1976), actor
• Michael William Hyle (1901–1967), Bishop of Wilmington
• Ruth Krauss (1901–1993), children's book author
• Gordon Beecher (1904–1973), composer and vice admiral
• Blanche Calloway (1904–1978), jazz singer, band leader and composer
• Alger Hiss (1904–1996), lawyer and US government official
• Robert Edward Gross (1905–1988), physician and surgeon
• Mildred Natwick (1905-1994), actress
• Chick Webb (1905-1939), drummer
• Pete Brown (1906–1963), saxophonist
• Jesse Cryor (1906-2006), blues and jazz singer and songwriter
• Virginia Hall (1906–1982), secret agent in World War II
• Wallace Jones (1906-1983), jazz trumpeter
• John K. Waters (1906-1989), General
• Earl Snakehips Tucker (1906–1937), dancer and entertainer
• Alexander Brown Griswold (1907–1991), historian
• Jerome Thoms (1907-1977), film editor
• Joe Turner (1907–1990), jazz pianist and singer
• John Bright (1908–1989), screenwriter
• Christian Roy Kaldager (1908-2005), Norwegian Major General in the Air Force
• Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993), Judge
• Clarence Brereton (1909–1953), jazz musician
• Michael Gordon (1909–1993), director and actor in film and theater
• Gordon Gray (1909–1982), official in the United States Government
• Clyde Hart (1910-1945), jazz pianist
• Jerome Darr (1910-1986), guitarist
• James Dudley (1910-2004), wrestling manager
• Johnny Eck (1910 / 11–1991), actor, artist, magician and musician
• Robert Pirosh (1910–1989), film director and screenwriter
• Vernon Reese (1910-1995), football player and official

1911 to 1920

• Mark Fax (1911–1974), composer and music teacher
• Thomas Austin Murphy (1911–1991), Auxiliary Bishop in Baltimore
• Anne Brown (1912–2009), soprano
• Norman Hackerman (1912–2007), chemist and materials researcher
• Harry F. Klinefelter (1912-1990), endocrinologist
• Morris Louis (1912–1962), painter
• Bernardo José Nolker (1912–2000), Catholic priest, Bishop of Paranaguá in Brazil
• Frank Westheimer (1912–2007), chemist and biochemist
• Thomas Joseph Mardaga (1913–1984), Bishop of Wilmington
• Karl Shapiro (1913-2000), poet
• Larry Adler (1914–2001), harmonica player and author
• Milbourne Christopher (1914–1984), magician
• John Latouche (1914–1956), librettist and writer
• Dorothea Orem (1914–2007), nurse, nursing theorist and entrepreneur
• Abraham Sachs (1914–1983), mathematician and Assyriologist
• Thomas H. Kerr (1915–1988), composer and music teacher
• Alan Shulman (1915–2002), composer and cellist
• Don Ewell (1916-1983), Stride pianist and band leader
• Ansley Coale (1917-2002), Demographer
• Hans Conried (1917–1982), voice actor as well as film, television and stage actor
• Margie Gibson (1917–), arranger and songwriter
• Millard Kaufman (1917-2009), screenwriter
• Walter Lord (1917–2002), non-fiction author
• Edward L. Rowny (1917-2017), officer
• Spiro Agnew (1918–1996), politician
• William L. Snyder (1918-1998), film producer
• Jerry Adler (musician) (1918–2010), harmonica virtuoso
• Robert E. Hecht (1919–2012), art dealer
• Bea Booze (1920–1975), R&B and jazz singer and guitarist
• Marvin Mandel (1920–2015), politician

1921 to 1930

• Judy Agnew (1921–2012), widow of Spiro Agnew
• William Donald Schaefer (1921–2011), politician
• John Rawls (1921-2002), philosopher
• Anne Truitt (1921–2004), minimalist sculptor
• Louis Witten (* 1921), theoretical physicist
• Rose Lee Maphis (born 1922), country musician
• Don Abney (1923-2000), jazz pianist
• Ellis Larkins (1923-2002), jazz pianist
• Dick Katz (1924–2009), jazz pianist, composer, publicist, producer and arranger
• J. William Middendorf (* 1924), politician
• Leon Uris (1924–2003), writer
• Joseph D. Lichtenberg (* 1925), psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and self-psychologist
• Edward F. Moore (1925–2003), co-founder of automaton theory and inventor of the Moore automaton
• Martin Rodbell (1925-1998), biochemist
• Donald Symington (1925-2013), actor
• Stanley Weiner (1925–1991), composer and violinist
• Hubert M. Blalock (1926–1991), sociologist
• Mona Freeman (1926-2014), actress
• Frank O'Hara (1926–1966), poet
• Edmund Gettier (* 1927), philosopher and professor emeritus
• Bruce Jennings (1927–1997), racing car driver
• Betty Leslie-Melville (1927-2005), animal rights activist
• Hank Levy (1927–2001), composer and baritone saxophonist
• Tom McIntosh (1927–2017), jazz trombonist, composer and arranger of hard bop
• Gordon Carroll (1928-2005), film producer
• William Clifford Newman (1928–2017), Roman Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Baltimore
• Frank Minion (* 1929), jazz singer
• Adrienne Rich (1929–2012), feminist, poet, lecturer and author
• Yusuf Salim (1929–2008), jazz pianist and composer
• John Astin (born 1930), actor and director

1931 to 1940

• Nedda Casei (1932-2020), mezzo-soprano
• Ethel Ennis (1932-2019), jazz singer
• Solomon W. Golomb (1932–2016), mathematician and engineer
• James Francis Stafford (* 1932), Archbishop and Cardinal Emeritus
• George Coyne (1933-2020), Jesuit and astronomer
• Erik Darling (1933–2008), folk singer, guitarist and banjo player
• Jerry Leiber (1933–2011), music producer and songwriter
• Arthur Waskow (* 1933), author, peace activist and rabbi
• Marc Olden (1933-2003), thriller writer
• Sallie Blair (1934-1992), singer
• Anita Huffington (* 1934), sculptor
• Al Kaline (1934-2020), baseball player
• Terry Johnson (born 1935), rhythm and blues singer
• Amos Badertscher (* 1936), photographer
• Anita Gillette (born 1936), actress
• Walon Green (* 1936), film and television producer, screenwriter and director
• Barbara Mikulski (* 1936), politician
• John Corcoran (* 1937), logician and philosopher
• Gordon R. England (* 1937), businessman, politician and Deputy Secretary of Defense of the USA
• Philip Glass (* 1937), musician and composer
• Albert Dailey (1939–1984), jazz pianist and composer
• James Hartle (* 1939), theoretical physicist
• Charles Jencks (1939–2019), architect and architectural theorist
• Gary Bartz (* 1940), jazz musician and composer
• Jay Leonhart (* 1940), bassist, singer and songwriter
• Nancy Pelosi (born 1940), politician
• Frank Zappa (1940–1993), composer and musician

1941 to 1950

• Cass Elliot (1941–1974), singer
• Clifford Flanigan (1941–1993), theater scholar, medievalist and university professor
• Martha Cooper (* 1942), photojournalist
• Barry Levinson (born 1942), film director
• Bob Lind (* 1942), singer
• Tom Peters (* 1942), management consultant
• Peter Trooboff (* 1942), lawyer
• Ben Cardin (* 1943), politician
• Kurt W. Fischer (1943–2020), development theorist
• Nicholas Katz (* 1943), mathematician
• Jack L. Chalker (1944-2005), science fiction writer
• Monty Hoyt (1944–1997), figure skater
• Betty Dorsey (1945–2020), pop and jazz singer
• Arthur L. Jones (1945–2006), White House Assistant Press Secretary
• Michael Tucker (born 1945), actor
• Bruce McAllister (* 1946), science fiction and fantasy writer
• Thomas F. Monteleone (* 1946), science fiction and horror author
• John Waters (born 1946), film director
• Tom Clancy (1947-2013), writer
• Tamara Dobson (1947–2006), actress and photo model
• Nancy Fraser (* 1947), political scientist
• Calvin Hill (born 1947), American football player
• Michael Keyser (* 1947), racing car driver, journalist and photographer
• Jameson Parker (born 1947), serial actor
• Robert Parker (* 1947), wine critic and author
• Jonathan Sachs (* 1947), programmer
• Dwight Schultz (born 1947), actor
• John R. Bolton (* 1948), politician and diplomat
• John Hall (* 1948), musician and politician
• Gina Kolata (* 1948), science journalist
• Susan Meiselas (* 1948), photographer
• Elliott Sober (* 1948), philosopher
• Tim Suhrstedt (* 1948), cameraman
• Chester Thompson (born 1948), drummer
• Joan D. Vinge (born 1948), science fiction writer
• Jessica Williams (* 1948), pianist and composer
• Bernie Wrightson (1948-2017), comic book artist
• Jimmy Young (1948-2005), boxer
• Beverly Burns (born 1949), pilot
• Steven Cole (born 1949), opera singer
• Eugénie Kuffler (* 1949), composer, flautist and dancer
• Ric Ocasek (1949–2019), musician
• Christopher Rouse (1949–2019), composer
• Joni Eareckson Tada (* 1949), author and artist
• Mike McQuay (1949-1995), science fiction writer
• David Rubenstein (* 1949), investor, lawyer and philanthropist
• Harold Ivory Williams (1949-2010), gospel, R&B and fusion musician
• Alan Gross (* 1949 or 1950), IT specialist and development worker, convicted in Cuba of endangering the state
• Howard Ashman (1950–1991), actor and film and musical music writer and producer
• Howard E. Rollins junior (1950–1996), film and stage actor

1951 to 1960

• John Ellinger (* 1951), soccer player and coach
• Bruce Beehler (* 1951), ornithologist, ecologist and conservationist
• Elijah Cummings (1951–2019), Democratic Party politician
• Charles S. Dutton (born 1951), actor
• Bill Frisell (* 1951), guitarist
• Marsha Ivins (* 1951), astronaut
• Tim Wells (* 1951), jazz musician
• Edward Witten (* 1951), mathematician and physicist
• Brian Gottfried (* 1952), tennis player
• David Hasselhoff (* 1952), actor and singer
• James Kelsey (1952-2007), Bishop
• Douglas Purviance (* 1952), jazz musician
• Bess Armstrong (born 1953), actress
• Dwight Qawi (born 1953), boxer
• Myron Romanul (* 1954), pianist and conductor
• Debbie Jacobs (born 1955), disco singer
• Thomas David Jones (* 1955), astronaut
• Jonathan Meath (born 1955), comedian and actor
• Amy Sue Rosen (1955–2003), dancer and choreographer
• W. Daniel Hillis (* 1956), computer engineer and inventor
• Mark Rolston (* 1956), film and theater actor
• Leah Ayres (born 1957), actress
• Gary Gensler (* 1957), politician
• Michael William Fisher (born 1958), Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Washington
• Kevin Kilner (* 1958), politician
• Laura Miller (* 1958), politician
• Mitchell Thomas Rozanski (* 1958), Roman Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Saint Louis
• Grant Aleksander (born 1959), actor
• Ira Glass (* 1959), producer and radio presenter
• Randy Pausch (1960–2008), professor of computer science
• Robert F. Chew (1960–2013), actor

1961 to 1970

• Gregg Karukas (* 1961), keyboardist and composer
• Karin Konoval (* around 1961), actress
• Gary Thomas (* 1961), jazz musician
• Geoffrey Blake (born 1962), actor
• Elise Burgin (* 1962), tennis player
• Winard Harper (* 1962), jazz musician
• Robert Lee Curbeam (born 1962), astronaut
• Lance Reddick (* 1962), actor and musician
• Mark Pellington (born 1962), director
• Pam Shriver (born 1962), tennis player
• Tom Williams (* 1962), jazz musician
• Kevin Chamberlin (born 1963), actor
• Cyrus Chestnut (* 1963), jazz, gospel and classical pianist
• Philip Ursprung (* 1963), art historian
• Adam Duritz (* 1964), singer
• Gabrielle Goodman (* 1964), singer of modern jazz
• Kevin Levrone (born 1964), professional bodybuilder, musician, actor and blogger
• Muggsy Bogues (born 1965), basketball player
• Philip Harper (* 1965), jazz musician
• Reggie Lewis (1965-1993), basketball player
• Matthew Weiner (* 1965), screenwriter, director and television producer
• Steve Dannenmann (* 1966), auditor and poker player
• Danny Ferry (born 1966), basketball player
• Stacy Galina (born 1966), actress
• Jim Schwartz (born 1966), American football coach
• Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright (* 1966), translator
• Carolyn Lawrence (* 1967), voice actress
• Terry Wayne Virts (* 1967), astronaut
• Antonio Hart (* 1968), jazz musician
• Parker Posey (born 1968), actress
• Sam Cassell (born 1969), basketball player
• Thomas Jane (* 1969), actor and director
• Julie Bowen (born 1970), actress
• John Dierker (* 1970), jazz and improvisation musician
• DMX (born 1970), rapper
• Kurt Lockwood (* 1970), actor, musician and porn actor
• Nicole Ari Parker (born 1970), actress
• Dante Washington (born 1970), football player
• Joanna Zeiger (* 1970), triathlete

1971 to 1980

• Josh Charles (born 1971), actor
• Brian Gene Nichols (born 1971), violent criminal
• Jada Pinkett Smith (born 1971), actress and singer
• Holter Graham (born 1972), actor
• Hasim Rahman (born 1972), boxer
• Aaron Becker (* 1974), children's book author and illustrator
• Heather Brown (born 1975), actress and singer
• Tracie Thoms (* 1975), actress
• Anna Faris (* 1976), actress
• Brendan Hines (* 1976), actor, singer and songwriter
• Keion Carpenter (1977-2016), American football player
• James Carter (born 1978), track and field athlete
• Khia Edgerton (1978-2008), DJ
• Megan Henning (* 1978), actress
• Bernard Williams (* 1978), athlete
• Stacy Keibler (* 1979), actress and wrestler
• Matthew VanDyke (* 1979), filmmaker and activist
• Joel Brown (born 1980), athlete
• Christi Shake (* 1980), model and actress
• Peter Brendler (* ≈1980), jazz musician

From 1981

• Beth Botsford (born 1981), swimmer
• Lloyd Banks (born 1982), rapper
• Kyle Harrison (born 1982), lacrosse player
• Utkarsh Ambudkar (born 1983), actor
• Joey Dorsey (born 1983), basketball player
• Antoine Jordan (born 1983), basketball player
• Evan Taubenfeld (* 1983), musician
• Kenny Cooper (born 1984), football player
• Dontaye Draper (born 1984), basketball player
• Michael Phelps (* 1985), swimmer
• Penn Badgley (born 1986), actor
• Andy San Dimas (* 1986), porn actress
• Chester Frazier (born 1986), basketball player
• Rudy Gay (* 1986), basketball player
• Daniel Herrington (* 1986), racing driver
• Peyton List (born 1986), actress
• Mario (* 1986), R&B singer and actor
• Angel McCoughtry (born 1986), basketball player
• John Patrick Amedori (* 1987), actor and rock musician
• Tiffany Boone (born 1987), actress
• Candice Wiggins (* 1987), basketball player
• Abigail Mac (* 1988), porn actress
• Kurt Hugo Schneider (* 1988), musician, singer, songwriter and filmmaker
• DaJuan Summers (* 1988), basketball player
• Malcolm Delaney (born 1989), basketball player
• Sophia Kennedy (* 1989), singer and musician
• Tavon Austin (born 1990), football player
• Corey Wallace (* ≈1990), jazz musician
• Beatrice Capra (* 1992), tennis player
• Shaquil Barrett (born 1992), American football player
• Brooke Greenberg (1993–2013), woman with the physical and psychological appearance of a child about one year old
• LaMonte Wade (* 1994), baseball player
• Todd Gurley (born 1994), football player
• Kamau Stokes (born 1995), basketball player

Baltimore resident

• Arunah S. Abell (1806–1888), publisher, founder of the Baltimore Sun.
• Frederick Douglass (1817 / 18–1895), slave, abolitionist and writer
• Eric W. Gritsch (1931–2012), church historian and Luther researcher
• Amos Badertscher (* 1936), photographer
• Ellen Handler Spitz (* 1939), art historian
• Nikolai Volkoff (1947-2018), professional wrestler
• Aleksander Wojtkiewicz (1963-2006), Polish-American chess master
• Sujata Massey (* 1964), crime writer
• Cary J. Kolat (* 1973), Ringer
• Paweł Blehm (* 1980), Polish chess player and teacher
• Dawn Richard (* 1983), R&B singer and songwriter
• Alex Gaskarth (* 1987), singer and songwriter for the band All Time Low

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