- Ed Brubaker
Ed Brubaker (born November 17,1966) is an American cartoonist and writer. He was born at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. He is best known for his work as a comic book writer on such titles as "Batman", "Daredevil", "Captain America", "Iron Fist", "Catwoman", "Gotham Central", "Sleeper", "Uncanny X-Men" and "X-Men: Deadly Genesis", and for helping to revive the crime comics genre. - A. James Clark
A. James Clark, an engineer and business executive, is chairman and chief executive officer of Clark Enterprises, Inc., headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. The company's largest subsidiary is Clark Construction Group, LLC, one of the United States' largest construction companies, founded in 1906 as the George Hyman Construction Company. Clark is a 1950 graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, and has given generously to the University's School of Engineering, … - Mark Halperin
Mark E. Halperin (born January 11, 1965), is a political analyst for "Time" magazine, Time.com and ABC News. He is also an editor at large for "Time". - David Rubenstein
David Rubenstein is the co-founder of The Carlyle Group, an American private equity firm. Rubenstein grew up in Baltimore, and graduated from the Baltimore City College and then from Duke University "magna cum laude" in 1970. He earned his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1973. Prior to starting Carlyle, Rubenstein was a domestic policy advisor to President Jimmy Carter and worked in private practice in Washington, D.C. He lives in Bethesda, … - Michael Jenkins
Michael Jenkins (born August 27, 1976 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA) was a running back in the Canadian Football League. Jenkins attended the University of Wyoming in 1997, and the University of Arkansas between 1998-1999. In 2000, Jenkins joined the Toronto Argonauts as a free agent. In his rookie year, he played all 18 games and amassed 1,050 rushing yards on 183 carries with two rushing touchdowns complemented with 400 yards receiving. - William Proxmire
Edward William Proxmire was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1957 to 1989. - Dawud Salahuddin
Dawud Salahuddin was born David T. Belfield in Roakoke Rapids, NC on November 10, 1950. He is most famous for the alleged murder of Iranian dissident Ali Akbar Tabatabai in Bethesda in 1980. Salahuddin grew up in Bayshore, Long Island in a Baptist family, and attended Howard University for one semester. He has said that, as a child the, "most damage done to him," was "an indecency, an insufficiency, certainly a shame not to be white." He became politicized in 1963, … - Jacob Wrey Mould
Jacob Wrey Mould (1825-1886) was an architect, illustrator, linguist and musician, noted for his many contributions to the design and construction of New York City's Central Park. Born in Chislehurst, Kent, England, in 1825, Mould graduated from King's College London, in 1842. For two years thereafter, he studied the Alhambra in Spain under Owen Jones, with whom he later co-designed the "Turkish Chamber" of Buckingham Palace. - Greg Cook
Greg Cook is an underground cartoonist and comic book artist who has been published in "Nickelodeon Magazine", "Pulse" magazine, "The Believer" magazine, "New Art Examiner", "Arthur", "NON", and "L'Association's Comix 2000". He was born in Chicago, Illinois, graduated at the Art Institute in 1995, and now works as a newspaper reporter and artist/illustrator. - Luc Chatel
Luc Marie Chatel was born on August 15 1964 in Bethesda. He has been the Secretary of State for Consumer affairs and Tourism in the government of François Fillon since June 2007. - Tim Kurkjian
Tim Kurkjian, (born December 10, 1956) in Bethesda, Maryland. He is an analyst on ESPN's "Baseball Tonight" and "SportsCenter". Kurkjian regularly appears on the show analyzing stats and situations. He is also a contributor to "ESPN The Magazine" and "ESPN.com". Kurkjian is a guest on "Mike & Mike in the Morning". He appears on the show every Thursday at 7:44 AM, every week to discuss the latest in happenings in baseball. - Peter Vaghi
Peter Vaghi is an American Roman Catholic priest and former lawyer associated with several noted American jurists. He is pastor of the Church of the Little Flower (which was named after Saint Thérèse de Lisieux and is part of the Archdiocese of Washington) in Bethesda, Maryland. He was previously pastor of the historic St. Patrick's Church in Washington, D.C. Msgr. Vaghi was born in Washington, D.C.. After attending the College of the Holy Cross, … - Smith Hempstone
Smith Hempstone (February 1, 1929 - November 19, 2006) was a journalist and the United States ambassador to Kenya in 1989-93. He was a vocal proponent of democracy, fighting for free elections in Kenya in 1991. Hempstone graduated from University of the South and served as a Marine in the Korean War. He worked as the Africa correspondent for "The Chicago Daily News", wrote several books, and wrote a synidicated column carried by 90 newspapers. - Dean Felber
Dean Felber (born Everett Dean Felber, 9 June 1967, Bethesda, Maryland) plays the bass guitar and acoustic guitar, and helps with background music, in the rock band, Hootie & the Blowfish. Felber played with Mark Bryan in a high school band named 'Missing in Action', while he attended Seneca Valley High School. He later went to the University of South Carolina, and attended finance classes during college. Felber joined Hootie & the Blowfish during his college career. - Preston Burpo
Preston Burpo (born September 26, 1972 in Bethesda, Maryland) is an American soccer player, who currently plays goalkeeper for C.D. Chivas USA of Major League Soccer. Burpo played collegiate soccer at Southern New Hampshire University from 1992 to 1995. During his career there he earned a goals against average of 1.19 and recorded 38 shutouts. He was the first Penman to earn All-Region honors in 1992. - Ilona Massey
Ilona Massey (July 5, 1912 - August 12, 1974) was a film, stage and radio performer. Billed as "the new Dietrich," she starred in films with Nelson Eddy and had a short-lived eponymous TV series, "The Ilona Massey Show." Massey was born Ilona Hajmassey in Budapest, Austria-Hungary and died in Bethesda, Maryland. - David H. Li
Professor David H. Li is an author and expert on Chinese history and chess. He has written several books and also translated several Chinese classics to English. He was born in 1928 in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China, and moved to the United States in 1949, where he still lives in Bethesda, Maryland. He was an accountant and accounting teacher. His academic career included lectures at the University of Washington, Seattle, … - Peter Prendergast
Peter Prendergast (27 October 1946-14 January 2007) was a Welsh landscape painter. After the death of Sir Kyffin Williams in September 2006, he was recognised as the leading landscape painter in Wales. - George Ludwig
George Döring Ludwig, M.D., was an American professor of medicine and medical researcher noted for developing the first application of ultrasonic energy to the human body for medical purposes, at the Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, in the late 1940s. He was the founding chairman of the Department of Medicine of the Medical College of Ohio. - Caradog Prichard
Caradog Prichard (November 3, 1904 - February 25, 1980) was a Welsh poet and novelist writing in Welsh. His daughter, Mari Prichard, was married to the late Humphrey Carpenter. Caradog Prichard was born and grew up in the Gwynedd slate-quarrying town of Bethesda, in north-west Wales. Prichard began his career as a journalist with Welsh language newspapers in Caernarfon, Llanrwst and Cardiff, before moving to London, where he spent much of his life. - Bethan Gwanas
Bethan Gwanas (born 16 January 1962) is a popular contemporary Welsh author, who publishes exclusively in the Welsh language. A prolific writer, she has had 17 titles published in the last decade. Whilst not just a fiction writer, she has written novels for teenagers and Welsh learners, though most of her recent work has been for adults. She graduated in French from Aberystwyth University, and in 1985 she won the Crown at the Urdd Eisteddfod. - Hani Miletski
Hani Miletski (1962 -) is a sexologist, and sex therapist living in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. She specializes as a trainer and supervisor in the field, addiction, and also works within the criminal justice system. Miletski published the first brief overview of mother-son incest research. She shed light on a topic that has suffered societal neglect because of the taboo nature of incest, the widespread denial of all forms of female sexual aggression, … - Carlton R. Sickles
Carlton Ralph Sickles was an American lawyer and a Congressman from Maryland's at-large district. Sickles was born in Hamden, Connecticut. After graduating from Georgetown in 1943, Sickles entered the U.S. Army and served until the end of World War II. He returned home to study law and was admitted to the bar in 1948. In addition to practicing law, Sickles taught at the Georgetown University Law School (1960–1966), … - Bradley Fish
Bradley Fish (b. Bethesda, Maryland, 1970) is an American born musician based in Israel. He relocated to Israel in 2004, first living in Tel Aviv, and finally settling in Jerusalem. He holds a B.A. degree in guitar from Northern Illinois University, where he studied with jazz guitarist Fareed Haque. Fish's musical loops performed on the Appalachian dulcimer, banjo, German concert zither, and "guzheng" (Chinese zither) are the most widespread in the world. - John Ogwen
John Ogwen is a Welsh actor. Best known to British audiences for his starring role in the 1978 drama series "Hawkmoor", and appearances in the television series "The District Nurse" and the "Doctor Who" serial "Revelation of the Daleks", Ogwen has been a stalwart of Welsh language television and film since the early 1970s. He has also written plays, presented documentary series and recorded readings of Welsh-language works. - Kristina Sisco
Kristina Sisco (born April 18, 1982 in Bethesda, Maryland) is an American actress. The daughter of a Navy reservist, Kristina moved four times by age 12. Born in Bethesda, she moved to Texas and California before returning to Bethesda. At age 13, she began her acting career by working as an amateur reporter for a local Bethesda UPN station. Her exposure led to some modelling jobs and a part in a re-enactment on America's Most Wanted. - Henry Hodges
Henry Hodges is an up-and-coming child actor who has played lead roles in several Broadway musicals including two Disney shows and two shows by the Sherman Brothers. Coincidentally he has played characters in two different musicals with the same last name. In "Beauty and the Beast" he played "Mrs. Potts'" son, "Chip" and in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" he played the part of "Jeremy Potts". Hodges was born in Bethesda, Maryland on June 1, 1993. - Joel Breton
Joel Breton (born 1971) is a game producer, international D.J. and entrepreneur. Breton's first role as a producer was for GT Interactive (GT), where he produced "Duke Nukem", "Anno 1602", "Unreal", the original Unreal Engine, "Quake" and "Doom" along with several other video games. - Eric Pierpoint
Eric Pierpoint is an American actor. He was born on November 18, 1950 in Los Angeles, California. Best known for his role as George Francisco on FOX Television's "Alien Nation", he has appeared on all of the Star Trek spin-offs. He played five characters in the four series from 1993 to 2005. He is the son of Robert Pierpoint, newsman. He was exposed early to the D.C. political scene as he traveled around with his CBS newsman father, Robert Pierpoint, … - Pablo Rudomin
Pablo Rudomin Zevnovaty, PhD (born 1934 in Mexico City) is a Mexican neuroscientist. Born to Russian parents he is a graduate of the biology program of the National School of Biological Sciences of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN). He has been the director of the program of bioph neuroscience at the CINVESTAV (Center for Research and Advanced Studies) of the IPN since 1984. - Edward Steers Jr.
Edward Steers, Jr. is an American historian specializing in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Steers worked as a research scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda for thirty years until he retired in 1994 and started a new career as a writer. He is the author of a number of books, including "Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln", "The "Quotable" Lincoln" and "Lincoln: A Pictorial History". - Howell Estes
Howell Marion Estes Jr. (1914 - June 2, 2007) was a United States Air Force four-star general during the Vietnam War. Born in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, Estes graduated from West Point, in 1936. During World War II, he was a flight instruction commander, and in 1947 he joined the newly created U.S. Air Force. He also flew missions in the Korean War. In 1954 he commanded planning and operations teams of a hydrogen bomb test on Enewetak, Marshall Islands. - Dwight Griswold
Dwight Palmer Griswold (November 27, 1893-April 12, 1954) was an American politician who served as the Governor of Nebraska from 1940 to 1946 and U.S. Senator from 1952 to 1954. He was a Republican. Griswold was born in Harrison, Nebraska. He attended public schools in Gordon, Nebraska, Kearney Military Academy, and Nebraska Wesleyan University. He received a B.A. degree from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln in 1914. - Idris Foster
Sir Idris Llewelyn Foster (1911-1984) was a distinguished Welsh scholar, and was most notably Jesus Professor of Celtic at the University of Oxford from 1947 until 1978. He was born in Carneddi, Bethesda, Caernarfonshire and read Latin and Welsh at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He was appointed Head of the Department of Celtic at the University of Liverpool in 1936. His academic career was interrupted by World War Two, when he worked in Naval Intelligence. - Gwenlyn Parry
Gwenlyn Parry (1932, Neiniolen, Wales - 5th of November 1991, Cardiff, Wales) Gwenlyn Parry, perhaps the most notable Welsh playwright in the second half of the 20th century was born in 1932 in the Welsh village of Neiniolen and died in November of 1991 in the Cardiff area of South Wales. He is buried in Macpela, Pen-y-groes, North Wales. Parry was author of several prominent Welsh plays including Y Twr, Saer Doliau, Ty ar a Tywod, Panto and Sal. - Leila Megane
Leila Megane was a British mezzo-soprano opera singer. Born Margaret Jones in Bethesda, Wales, she married T. Osborne Roberts (1879–1948), a composer. She sang in Paris, Milan, Rome, New York, and London. On 11 October 1922, she made the first complete recording of Sir Edward Elgar's "Sea Pictures" with Elgar himself conducting. On 12 November 1945, she gave her Farewell Concert in Pwllheli Town Hall. - Goronwy Roberts Baron Goronwy-Roberts
Goronwy Owen Goronwy-Roberts, Baron Goronwy-Roberts PC, MA (20 September 1913 – 23 July 1981) was the younger son of E. E. and Amelia Roberts from Bethesda, Caernarvonshire. He was educated at the University of Wales and the University of London and appointed a Fellow of the University of Wales in 1938. He was Labour Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire from 1945-50 and for Caernarvon from 1950 until February 1974, … - Lawson P. Ramage
Lawson Paterson "Red" Ramage was a Vice Admiral in the United States Navy and a noted submarine commander. During his career, Ramage was honored with the Congressional Medal of Honor, two Navy Crosses, two Distinguished Service Medals and the Bronze Star Medal. Ramage was born in Monroe Bridge, Massachusetts, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1931. He entered the Submarine School in 1935, and would spend most of his career serving in submarines. - John Hicks Eynon
Rev. John Hicks Eynon (1801 -1888) born in Gloucestershire, England. In 1839 he helped to form the first Bible Christian Chapel at Cobourg, Ontario. At the Bible Christian Conference of 1831, held in Cornwall, UK, it was decided to send missionaries to Canada. His memorial stone at Bethesda Cemetery near Tyrone, Darlington Township, reads.. "In memory of the Rev. John H. Eynon. Entered the Bible Christian Ministry in 1826. - Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff
Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff was an American scientist and pioneer of X-ray crystallography. He was the son of judge Abram Ralph and Ethel Agnes ("née" Catchpole) Wyckoff. He studied at Hobart College, where he made bachelor of science, continued at Cornell University, and published his first scientific paper (of more than 400) at the age of nineteen.
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