- Entrance
Entrance is the musical vehicle for indie rock musician Guy Blakeslee. His style is a sort of psychedelic folk music, often consisting of vocals and guitar with old, public domain blues songs. Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Blakeslee first gained notice as a member of The Convocation Of.... He later left the band and moved to Chicago to pursue a solo career under the guise of the name Entrance.
- Babe Ruth
George Herman Ruth, Jr. (February 6, 1895 - August 16, 1948), also known as "Babe", "The Great Bambino", "The Sultan of Swat", and "The Colossus of Clout", was an American Major League baseball player from 1914-1935. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest baseball players in history. Many polls place him as the number one player of all time.
- Barbara Mikulski
Barbara Ann Mikulski (born July 20, 1936), a member of the Democratic Party, is the current Class III United States Senator representing the State of Maryland. The first, and, to date, only, woman elected to represent Maryland in the Senate, she has served as senator since 1987, and is currently the most senior female U.S. Senator.
- Steny Hoyer
"Congressman Hoyer is a skilled legislator. He recently forced Republicans to scuttle budget legislation that included a number of cuts in programs important to labor and working families by attaching an increase in the minimum wage to the bill." - Abe Breehey , assistant director of government affairs
- Ben Cardin
Benjamin Louis "Ben" Cardin (born October 5 1943) is a Democratic member of the United States Senate representing the state of Maryland. On November 7, 2006, Cardin was elected to the United States Senate seat being vacated by Paul Sarbanes, having defeated Republican challenger Lt. Governor Michael S. Steele.
- Frederick Douglass IV
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1817 on a tobacco plantation in eastern Maryland. His mother was hired out when he was still an infant. He later recalled that he did not see his mother "more than four or five times in my life." When Douglass was about six years old, he was sent to a nearby plantation where he ran errands and performed simple chores. Douglass learned in 1825 that he was to be sent away from the plantation to Baltimore.
- John Brown
John Brown (c.1760-December 13, 1815) was an American Congressman from the seventh district of Maryland. Brown's birth date and location are unknown, but he served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1807 to 1808 and was elected as a Republican to the Eleventh Congress in 1809. He was reelected to the Twelfth Congress, but resigned before the close of the Eleventh Congress to accept an appointment as clerk of the court of Queen Anne's County, Maryland, …
- Paul Sarbanes
U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland will speak on campus Thursday, Dec. 2, to open the Hellenic Cultural Studies Program's new Odyssey Lecture Series. His talk will begin at 8 p.m. in the Mills Godwin Jr. Life Sciences Building auditorium. It is free and open to the public. Sarbanes, a Democrat, has served in the Senate since 1976.
- Robert Ehrlich
Robert Leroy "Bob" Ehrlich, Jr. (born November 25, 1957) is an American politician who served as the 60<sup>th</sup> Governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007. A Republican, he became governor after defeating Democratic opponent Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a member of the Kennedy family, 51% to 48% in the 2002 elections.
- Kweisi Mfume
Mr. Mfume became President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on February 20, 1996, after being unanimously elected to the position by the NAACP's Board of Directors. Previously he held a seat in the United States Congress where he represented Maryland's 7th Congressional District for ten years.
- John Henry
John Henry (November 1750-December 16, 1798) was a Governor of Maryland and member of the United States Senate. He was born near Vienna in Dorchester County, Maryland. He was a member of the Episcopal Church and the United States Democratic-Republican Party. He attended West Nottingham Academy in Cecil County, …
- Chris van Hollen
Christopher "Chris" Van Hollen, Jr. (born January 10 1959) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing since 2003. The district includes most of Montgomery County, an affluent suburban county adjacent to Washington, D.C. After the Democrats regained control of the House in the 2006 elections, Van Hollen became the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the fifth-ranking position among House Democrats.
- Wayne Gilchrest
Wayne Thomas Gilchrest (born April 15 1946) is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing (map) since 1991. The district includes the entire Eastern Shore and a few suburbs of Baltimore, including parts of Anne Arundel County and Harford County.
- Roscoe Bartlett
Roscoe Gardner Bartlett,(born June 3 1926) is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 6th district (map) of Maryland since 1993. He often refers to himself not as a lawmaker but rather as a "citizen legislator."
- Elijah Cummings
Elijah Eugene Cummings (born January 18 1951) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 7th district of the State of Maryland (map) since 1996.
- William Donald Schaefer
William Donald Schaefer (born November 2, 1921) is an American politician who served in public office for 50 years at both the state and local level in Maryland. A Democrat, he was mayor of Baltimore from 1971 to 1987, the 58<sup>th</sup> Governor of Maryland from 1987 to 1995, and the Comptroller of Maryland from 1999 to 2007. On September 12, 2006, Schaefer was defeated in his reelection bid for Comptroller by Maryland Delegate Peter Franchot in the Democratic Primary.
- Cal Ripken Jr.
Calvin Edwin Ripken, Jr. (born August 24 1960 in Havre de Grace, Maryland), commonly known as Cal or Cal Jr., less frequently Junior or Rip, is a former shortstop and third baseman in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Baltimore Orioles from 1981 to 2001. A 19-time MLB All-Star, Ripken is considered one of the best shortstops to ever play the game.
- Maj. John Marshall
Maj. John Marshall (1726-1800), a veteran of the American Revolution. John was born in 1726 in Charles Co., Maryland. He was the son of William Marshall III (1690-1724) and Rebecca (Bishop) Batie (1693-1750). He inherited a portion of his fathers estate “Pequasco”, located in Charles County along with his older brother, William Marshall IV (1720-1793). John served as a Major during the American Revolution.
- Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman (1820 - 1913) escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849 and traveled north. She then helped hundreds of other slaves flee to the north to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Mrs. Tubman helped John Brown recruit soldiers for his raid on Harpers Ferry (1859). She spied for the Union (in South Carolina ) during the US Civil War. After the war, she lived in Auburn, New York , and founded the Harriet Tubman Home for Aged Negroes.
- John Lee
John Lee (January 30, 1788 - May 17, 1871) was a U.S. Representative from Maryland, son of Thomas Sim Lee. Born at "Needwood", near Frederick, Maryland, Lee was educated by private tutors and at Harvard University. He studied law, but did not practice, and rather engaged in the management of his estate "Needwood". Lee was elected as a Jackson Federalist to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825).
- Larry Johnson
Larry Alphonso Johnson, Jr. (born November 19, 1979 in La Plata, Maryland), often nicknamed as L.J., is an American football running back who plays for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League.
- John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 - April 26, 1865) was an American actor from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Lincoln died the next day from a single gunshot wound to the head - the first American president to be assassinated. Booth was a successful professional stage actor of his day and a member of the prominent Booth family of actors.
- William Smith
William Smith (April 12, 1728 - March 27, 1814) was an American politician and representative of the fourth congressional district of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives. Smith was born in Donegal Township of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He moved to Baltimore, Maryland in 1761, and was appointed a member of the committee of correspondence in 1774, and a member of the committee of observation in 1775.
- John Sarbanes
John Peter Spyros Sarbanes (born May 22, 1962) is an American lawyer and politician who has represented the third district of Maryland in the United States Congress since 2007. The district includes the state capital of Annapolis, central portions of the City of Baltimore, and parts of Howard and Baltimore Counties.
- Thomas Stone
Thomas Stone (1743-October 5, 1787) was an American planter who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a delegate for Maryland. He later worked on the committee that formed the Articles of Confederation in 1777, and became President of Congress in 1784.
- Albert Wynn
WYNN: A win is a win. The DCCC says they are committed to supporting incumbents, so that's one weird dynamic. And then you've got the Congressional Black Caucus, which tends to support incumbents as well. Wynn is apparently a rainmaker for the CBC Foundation. Wynn has been doing a lot of local political outreach, he's joined the Out of Iraq and Progressive Caucuses, and altered his voting record dramatically.
- Doug Gansler
Douglas F. "Doug" Gansler (born 1962) is a Maryland politician and Attorney General of Maryland. Gansler won the Democratic nomination in the primary election on September 12, 2006, and beat Republican Scott Rolle in the general election on November 7, 2006. Gansler spent some of his early years in New Jersey before moving to the Washington area in the mid-1970's. His political ambition seems to have been incubated early.
- H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), better known as H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth-century journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore." He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century.
- Thomas Johnson
Thomas Johnson (1732-1819) was an American jurist with a distinguished political career. He was the first elected Governor of Maryland, a delegate to the Continental Congress and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- Dutch Ruppersberger
Charles Albert Ruppersberger III; usually known as Dutch Ruppersberger (born January 31 1946) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 2<sup>nd</sup> Congressional district of Maryland (map) since 2003. The district includes parts of Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County, Harford County and Baltimore City. Areas in the district include Dundalk, Towson and Severn.
- James Thomas
James 'Alexander Lockteal' Thomas (March 11, 1785 - December 25, 1845) served as Governor of the state of Maryland in the United States from 1833 to 1836. He practiced medicine and served as judge in several courts throughout Maryland, and served in the Maryland State Senate from 1824-1830. He was known as a womaniser at times, but mostly tried to get out of work, to read books. Although he was normally a rather serene character, rarely entering into lengthy conversation, …
- John Hanson
John Hanson (April 13, 1715 - November 22, 1783) was a delegate to the Continental Congress from Maryland. Because he was the first man to serve a full term as President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation in 1781 and 1782, he has been called the first President of the United States, but this claim is inaccurate. Hanson is one of the most enigmatic figures in US history.
- Bill White
William A. White (born 1977), also known as Bill White, is the leader of the American National Socialist Workers' Party and the administrator of the far-right, antisemitic website "Overthrow.com". The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremist groups, …
- Rachel Carson
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 - April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist and nature writer whose landmark book, "Silent Spring", is often credited with having launched the global environmental movement. "Silent Spring" had an immense effect in the United States, where it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- Ken Mehlman
Kenneth Brian Mehlman (born August 21, 1966, Baltimore, Maryland) is an American attorney who was chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2005 to 2007. He served as the campaign manager for George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign. In a June 2007 press release by the White House website, Mehlman was nominated by President George W. Bush to be a board member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial committee.
- John Dickinson
John Dickinson (November 2 1732 - February 14 1808) was an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware. He was a milita officer during the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania and Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of Delaware, and President of Pennsylvania. Among the wealthiest men in the British American colonies, …
- Clara Barton
Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 - April 12, 1912), better known as Clara Barton, was a pioneer American teacher, nurse, and humanitarian. She has been described as having had an "indomitable spirit" and is best remembered for organizing the American Red Cross.
- John Campbell
John Campbell was a United States Representative from Maryland. Born near Port Tobacco, he studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced. He held several local offices and was a member of the Maryland State Senate for three years. Campbell was elected as a Federalist to the Seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1801 to March 3, 1811. He was judge of the orphans’ court of Charles County.
- Mike Smith
Mike Smith (born on October 11, 1973 in Middle River, Maryland, USA) is a musician, best known as the former guitarist of Snot, theSTART, and Limp Bizkit. Currently he is the singer and guitarist for the band evolver.
- Kevin Durant
Kevin Wayne Durant (born September 29, 1988 in Washington, D.C.) is a 6'9" basketball player for the Seattle SuperSonics, taken second in the 2007 NBA Draft from the University of Texas. He was selected as the 2006-2007 Phillips 66 Big 12 Player of the Year and received numerous other awards. After his freshman season, Durant opted to enter the NBA Draft and was selected #2 overall, behind fellow freshman Greg Oden.