- Matt Cain
Matthew Thomas Cain (born October 1 1984 in Dothan, Alabama) is a pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. He is 6' 3" tall and weighs 235 lbs. Cain graduated from Houston High School in Germantown, Tennessee, and was selected by the Giants in the 1st round (25th overall) in the 2002 MLB amateur entry draft. Prior to the 2005 season, Cain was named the Giants' #1 prospect by Baseball America. He has a fastball, curve, slider and change-up. - William Anderson
William Anderson (1762 - December 16, 1829) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. William Anderson was born in Accomack County, Virginia, in 1762. Married to Elizabeth Dixon. During the Revolutionary War, he joined the Continental Army at the age of fifteen and served until the end of the war. He was a major on the staff of General Lafayette and distinguished himself at Germantown and Yorktown. - James Cox
James Cox was a member of the United States House of Representatives (from New Jersey) in the 11th Congress. He was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey on 16 October 1753, the son of Judge Joseph and Mary (Mount) Cox. He was an officer in the American Revolutionary War at the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth, and was elected Brigadier General of the Monmouth Brigade after the war. - Bruce Murray
Bruce Murray (born January 25, 1966 in Germantown, Maryland) is a former American soccer forward, who at the time of his retirement was the all-time leading scorer for the U.S. National Team, a record that has since been eclipsed by Eric Wynalda, Brian McBride, Landon Donovan, and Joe-Max Moore. - Charles Darrow
Charles Brace Darrow (August 10, 1889-August 29, 1967), has been credited, erroneously, as having invented the "Monopoly" board game. Darrow was a domestic heater salesman from Germantown, a neighborhood in Philadelphia (the part of Germantown he lived in is now called "Mount Airy") during the Great Depression. The house he lived in still stands at 40 Westview Street. While Darrow eventually sold "Monopoly" to Parker Brothers, … - Alexander Martin
Alexander Martin (1740 -- 10 November 1807) was the Federalist governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1782 to 1784 and from 1789 to 1792. Martin was born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey and attended the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), graduating with an A.B. degree in 1756 and an A.M. in 1759. He moved to North Carolina around 1761 and became a practicing attorney in Guilford County. - James Potter
James Potter, was a soldier, farmer and politician from Colonial- and Revolutionary-era Pennsylvania. He rose to the rank of brigadier general of Pennsylvania militia during the Revolutionary War, and served as Vice-President of Pennsylvania, 1781-1782. - George Washington Parke Custis
George Washington Parke Custis (April 30, 1781 - October 10, 1857), the adopted son (and also stepgrandson) of United States President George Washington, was a nineteenth-century American writer, orator, and agricultural reformer. Through his mother Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart, he was a great-grandson of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore. He was the grandson of Martha Washington through her first marriage to Daniel Parke Custis. - Moses Hazen
Moses Hazen (June 1, 1733 - February 5, 1803), was a Brigadier-General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Hazen was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. During the French and Indian War, he served as an officer in Rogers' Rangers at Fortress Louisbourg and Quebec. For his services in the war, Hazen was given a commission as a Lieutenant in the 44th Regiment of Foot in the British Army. - William Shippen
Dr. William Shippen, Sr. was an American physician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a civic and educational leader who represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress. William was born to Joseph Shippen (1679-1741, son of Edward Shippen, governor of Pennsylvania) and Abigail Grosse Shippen (1677-1704) at Philadelphia. His father was a prominent merchant. William studied medicine and built a large practice in Philadelphia. In 1735 he married Susannah Harrison. - Silas Simmons
Silas Joseph "Si" Simmons (October 14 1895? - October 29 2006) was an American semi-professional and professional baseball player for African-American teams in the pre-Negro League era, and became the longest-lived professional baseball player in history. The previous record was held by Chet Hoff, who died at age 107 in 1998. Simmons was born in Middletown, Delaware. He was a five-foot-ten, left-handed pitcher/outfielder, and began playing for the Germantown Blue Ribbons, … - Franklin Buchanan
Franklin Buchanan (September 13, 1800-May 11, 1874) was an officer in the United States Navy who became an admiral in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War, and commanded the ironclad CSS Virginia. Buchanan was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He became a midshipman in 1815, was promoted to Lieutenant in 1825, Commander in 1841 and Captain in 1855. Over the four and a half decades of his U.S. Navy service, Buchanan had extensive and worldwide sea duty. - George Weedon
George Weedon (1734-1793) was an American soldier during the Revolutionary War from Fredericksburg, Virginia. He served as a Brigadier General in the Continental Army and later in the Virginia militia. Weedon served as a Lieutenant under George Washington in the French and Indian War, mainly assigned to garrison duty in western Virginia. After the war, he moved to Fredericksburg and opened a tavern. - Theodore William Richards
Theodore William Richards was an American chemist. He was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on 31 January 1868. His parents were William T. Richards, a land- and seascape painter, and Anna née Matlack, a poet. He was educated at first by his mother, and traveled to England and France. In 1883 he entered Haverford College, Pennsylvania, graduating in science in 1885 and entering Harvard University. - James Peale
James Peale was an American painter, best known for his miniature and still life paintings, and a younger brother of noted painter Charles Willson Peale. Peale was born in Chestertown, Maryland, the second child, after Charles, of Charles Peale (1709–1750) and Margaret Triggs (1709–1791). His father died when he was an infant, and the family moved to Annapolis. In 1762 he began to serve apprenticeships there, first in a saddlery and later in a cabinetmaking shop. - General John Neville
Brigadier General John Neville was an American military officer who fought in the American Revolution and the Whiskey Rebellion. Born in Virginia, he served with British General Edward Braddock during the French and Indian War and fought in Dunmore’s War in 1774. During the Revolutionary War he was Colonel of the 4th Virginia Regiment serving at Trenton, Princeton, Germantown, and Monmouth. He also served as commandant at Fort Pitt. - Wilhelm von Knyphausen
Wilhelm Reichsfreiherr zu Innhausen und Knyphausen (1716 - 1800) was a Hessian general during the American Revolutionary War. In the army of Hesse-Kassel, Knyphausen was a lieutenant general. With 42 years of military experience, he traveled to North America in 1776 and led Hessian troops in the Battles of White Plains, Fort Washington, Brandywine, Germantown, Springfield, and Monmouth. In 1779 and 1780, he commanded British-held New York City. - Kathleen M. Dumais
Kathleen M. Dumais (b. 1958) is an American politician and represents the 15th District of the House of Delegates in the State of Maryland, encompassing the western and northern portions of Montgomery County. Born in La Jolla, California, Dumais moved to Maryland to pursue a degree at the University of Maryland School of Law. She specialized in family and juvenile law and had a career-long interest in education, … - Mat Johnson
Mat Johnson (born in Philadelphia August 19, 1970) is the author of Drop and Hunting in Harlem. He was raised in Germantown and Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mat is thought by many of his fellow writers and fan base to be a fresh voice within the African-American literary tradition. Like many black American writers before him, notably Claude McKay, Mat developed his writing skills while living in Harlem, … - John Lacey
John Lacey (February 4 1755 - February 17 1814) was an American military officer during the American Revolutionary War. He was appointed a brigadier general in the Pennsylvania militia by the Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council in January 1778. A native of Buckingham Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Lacey was a member of local militia unit which was incorporated into the Pennsylvania Line of the Continental Army. - Craig L. Rice
Craig L. Rice is an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. He is one of three members of the Maryland House of Delegates from District 15, which includes Barnesville, Boyds, Clarksburg, Darnestown, Dickerson, Germantown, North Bethesda, North Potomac, Poolesville, and Potomac in Montgomery County, Maryland. Rice was elected in 2006 to serve with incumbents Kathleen Dumais and Brian Feldman, defeating Republican Jean Cryor, … - Joseph Montgomery
Joseph Montgomery (1733-1794) was an American Presbyterian minister and a delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania. Joseph was born near Harrisburg "(now Paxtang, Pennsylvania)" on October 3, 1733. The area at that time was part of Lancaster County. His parents, John and Martha (Finley) Montgomery, had immigrated from Northern Ireland. One known sibling is "Nancy" Agnes Montgomery (Mrs. - Adam Kuhn
Adam Kuhn (1741-1817) was an American physician and naturalist, and one of the earliest professors of Medicine in a North American university. Kuhn was born in Germantown, son of German immigrant parents, went to Sweden and studied Medicine and Natural history 1761-1764 at Uppsala University, where he was probably the only American student of Carolus Linnaeus. He continued his studies at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated as M.D. in 1767. - James Iredell Waddell
James Iredell Waddell (July 3, 1824 - March 15, 1886) was an officer in the United States Navy and later in the Confederate States Navy. Waddell was born in Pittsboro, North Carolina. He joined the United States Navy as a Midshipman in September 1841. His nearly two decades in the U.S. Navy included early service in USS "Pennsylvania", Mexican-American War operations off Veracruz aboard USS "Somers", a tour off South America in USS "Germantown", … - John W. Griffin
John William Griffin (June 9, 1927 - March 23, 2006) was an Ohio farmer and a perennial candidate over the last forty years for various local, state, and federal offices in Ohio. While he lost far more political races than he won, at the time of his death he was a duly-elected member of the Ohio State Board of Education. A resident of Miami Township in south central Montgomery County, Ohio between Miamisburg and Germantown, … - Jackson Kemper
Bishop Jackson Kemper (December 24, 1789 - May 24, 1870) was the first missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Baptized David Jackson Kemper by Dr. Benjamin Moore, the Assistant Rector of his parents' congregation at New York City's Trinity Church, he would eventually drop the given name "David." He had been born in the Hudson River Valley of New York, … - George W. S. Trow
George William Swift Trow Jr. (September 28, 1943 - November 24, 2006) was an essayist, novelist, playwright, and media critic. He worked for "The New Yorker" for almost 30 years, and wrote numerous essays and books. He is best known for his essay "Within the Context of No Context", first published on November 17, 1980 and later released as a book. Trow was born in Greenwich, Connecticut. - Joseph Doughty
John Doughty was born in New York City on 25 July 1754. He graduated from King's College (Columbia University) in 1770 and entered military service through New Jersey state channels in January 1776. He served as adjutant general of two Morris County battalions and was appointed captain-lieutenant of the Eastern Artillery Company of New Jersey in March 1776. - John Alden Mason
John Alden Mason was an archaeological anthropologist and linguist. Mason was born in Orland, Indiana, but grew up in Philadelphia's Germantown. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1907 and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 1911. His dissertation was an ethnographic study of the Salinian Amerindian ethnic group of California. He also authored a number of linguistic studies, … - Robert F. Colesberry
Robert F. Colesberry (1946 - February 9 , 2004) was an American film and television producer and first assistant director notable for his work as a producer on the Emmy Award winning miniseries "The Corner" and Peabody Award winning "The Wire" for HBO. Colesberry had a recurring cameo on "The Wire" as detective Ray Cole. Colesberry died from complicatons following cardiac surgery in 2004. - Abu Usamah
Abu Usamah (born March 4 1964) is an Imam at Green Lane Masjid in Birmingham, England. - Nisbet Balfour
Major-General Nisbet Balfour (Dunbog, 1743 - 10 October 1823, Dunbog) was a British soldier in the Revolutionary War and later a Scottish Member of Parliament (MP) in the British Parliament. He was born in Dunbog, in the county of Fife, Scotland in 1743. He was one of Cornwallis' most trusted officers during the American Revolution. He fought and was severely injured in the Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill) and also participated in battles in Elizabethtown, Brandywine, … - Joseph T. Bayly
Joseph Tate Bayly was an American author and publishing executive. Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, Bayly earned his BA at Wheaton College, Illinois, in 1940, and then entered Faith Theological Seminary to gain his BD in 1945. In 1944, Bayly married Mary Lou DeWalt, a classmate at Wheaton College. Bayly was awarded honorary doctorates from Sterling College and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. - G.A.G.E.
Chaz "G.A.G.E." Scott is a Latin-American rapper from Philadelphia. He was born and raised in Germantown, but currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. The acronym "G.A.G.E." stands for "Germantown Avenue, Gotta Eat." G.A.G.E. is a protege of producer/rapper Dr. Dre, currently signed to his Aftermath Entertainment imprint. Mel-Man, a Philadelphia producer and Dre's right-hand man, discovered G.A.G.E. through a three-song demo. He brought the demo to the attention of Dr. Dre, … - Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is a film, stage, and television actor. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is from Irish and Italian Heritage. After graduating from Germantown Academy in 1993, Cooper attended Georgetown University, from which he graduated with a B.A. in English in 1997. - Mike Richter
Michael Thomas "Mike" Richter (born September 22, 1966 in Abington, Pennsylvania) is a former National Hockey League (NHL) goaltender. One of the most successful American-born goaltenders in history, he is best known for having led the New York Rangers to the Stanley Cup title in 1994 and for repeatedly representing the United States in international play. He attended and played for Germantown Academy, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. - Princess Superstar
Princess Superstar (born Concetta Kirschner, 1971) is an American rapper. Her musical style -a mixture of hip hop, rock and electronica- is "flip flop", as she describes it. Her parents were psychologists, and they moved the family to Philadelphia, sending Kirschner to a private school named Germantown Academy. Kirschner was socially awkward, and claims her time in school was "from hell." She was a member of the Singing Club, … - Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain was a prominent American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1959 with his collaborator Emilio Segrè for their discovery of the antiproton, a fundamental particle. Born in San Francisco, Chamberlain graduated from Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia in 1937. He studied physics at Dartmouth College (A.B. 1941), where he was a member of Theta Chi Fraternity, and at the University of California, Berkeley. - Owen Josephus Roberts
Owen Josephus Roberts (May 2, 1875 - May 17, 1955) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court for fifteen years. He also led the fact-finding commission that investigated the attack on Pearl Harbor. - Brian L. Roberts
Brian L. Roberts is Chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation, an American company providing cable, entertainment and communications products and services. He is the son of Comcast co-founder Ralph J. Roberts. A graduate of Germantown Academy High School, Roberts received his B.S. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity.
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