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List of people from Maryland
The following are notable people from the U.S. state of Maryland.
- Spiro T. Agnew, former Vice President of the United States
- Tori Amos, singer/songwriter
- Benjamin Banneker, astronomer, clockmaker, and publisher
- John Barth, postmodern writer (The Sot-Weed Factor)
- Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross
- Eubie Blake, composer of ragtime, jazz, and popular music, as well as a lyricist.
- Charles Joseph Bonaparte, former Attorney General of the United States, founder of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, grand nephew of French emperor Napoleon I.
- John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin
- James M. Cain, journalist and crime fiction author (Mildred Pierce, The Postman Always Rings Twice)
- Cab Calloway, famous jazz singer and bandleader.
- Cęcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, First Lord Baltimore and proprietary governor
- John Carroll, first Roman Catholic archbishop in the US
- Charles Carroll of Carrollton, lawyer, politician, and signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Dr. Ben Carson, noted neurosurgeon
- Rachel Carson, pioneering environmentalist
- Samuel Chase, Supreme Court Justice
- Tom Clancy, novelist
- Stephen Decatur, naval hero of the War of 1812
- Frederick Douglass, abolitionist
- John Fahey, Renowned folk/blues guitarist
- Jad and David Fair of the seminal indie rock band Half Japanese
- Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator (2005 - )
- Dashiell Hammett, detective fiction author
- John Hanson, first president of the United States in Congress Assembled
- Jim Henson, filmmaker and puppeteer
- Billie Holiday, singer
- Johns Hopkins, businessman and philanthropist
- Francis Scott Key, writer of the national anthem
- Joel Madden, lead singer of punk/pop band Good Charlotte
- Benji Madden, guitarist of punk/pop band Good Charlotte; twin brother of Joel
- Thurgood Marshall, civil rights leader and Supreme Court Justice
- H. L. Mencken, journalist and social critic
- Kweisi Mfume, NAACP leader and former Congressman
- Edward Norton, actor
- George Peabody, founder of the Peabody Institute, philanthropist
- Edgar Allan Poe, poet and writer
- Cal Ripken, Jr., baseball player
- James Rouse, city planner
- Babe Ruth, baseball player
- Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the United States
- Harriet Tubman, leader on the Underground Railroad
- Oprah Winfrey, entrepreneur and talk show host
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