People of Maryland
| Benjamin Banneker |
Ellicott |
1731-1806 |
Mathematician |
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| Anna Ellis Carroll |
Pocomoke City |
1815-1893 |
Political science writer |
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| Charles Carroll |
Annapolis |
1737-1832 |
Revolutionary leader, public official |
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| Samuel Chase |
Somerset County |
1741-1811 |
Supreme Court justice |
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| Stephen Decatur |
Sineppuxent |
1779-1820 |
Naval officer |
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| John Dickinson |
Talbot County |
1732-1808 |
Colonial figure, public official |
|
| Frederick Douglass |
Tuckahoe |
1817-1895 |
social reformer |
|
| John Hanson |
Charles County |
1721-1783 |
President under the Articles of Confederation |
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| Billie Holiday |
Baltimore |
1915-1959 |
Singer |
|
| Francis Scott Key |
Carroll County |
1779-1843 |
Lawyer, poet |
|
| Thurgood Marshall |
Baltimore |
1908-1993 |
Supreme Court justice |
|
| Henry Louis Mencken |
Baltimore |
1880-1956 |
Journalist, editor, critic |
|
| Charles Willson Peale |
Queen Anne?s County |
1741-1827 |
Artist, naturalist |
|
| Anne Newport Royall |
Maryland |
1769-1854 |
Author |
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| James Rumsey |
Cecil County |
1743-1792 |
Inventor |
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| George Herman (Babe) Ruth |
Baltimore |
1895-1948 |
Baseball player |
|
| Upton Beall Sinclair |
Baltimore |
1878-1968 |
Author, social reformer |
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| Roger Brooke Taney |
Calvert County |
1777-1864 |
Chief justice of the United States |
|
| Harriet Tubman |
Dorchester County |
1820?-1913 |
Abolitionist |
|
| Leon Uris |
Baltimore |
1924- |
Author |
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| Mason Locke (Parson) Weems |
Anne Arundel County |
1759-1825 |
Author |
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Source:
The World Almanac of the U.S.A.
by Allan Carpenter and Carl Provorse, Copyright 1996.
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