72 Notable alumni of
University of Maryland, Baltimore
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The University of Maryland, Baltimore is 1277th in the world, 450th in North America, and 422nd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 72 notable alumni from the University of Maryland, Baltimore sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Elijah Cummings
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Elijah Eugene Cummings was an American politician and lawyer who served in the United States House of Representatives for Maryland's 7th congressional district from 1996 until his death in 2019, when he was succeeded by his predecessor Kweisi Mfume. The district he represented included over half of the city of Baltimore, including most of the majority-black precincts of Baltimore County, and most of Howard County, Maryland. A member of the Democratic Party, Cummings previously served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1983 to 1996.
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Martin O'Malley
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- singerguitaristlawyerpoliticianbanjoist
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Martin Joseph O'Malley is an American politician who served as the 17th commissioner of the Social Security Administration from 2023 to 2024. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 61st governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015 and the 48th mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007.
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Robin Quivers
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- actorradio personalityjournalist
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Robin Quivers is an American radio personality best known for being the long-running co-host of The Howard Stern Show.
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Ben Cardin
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Benjamin Louis Cardin is an American lawyer and former politician who served as a United States senator from Maryland from 2007 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative for Maryland's 3rd congressional district from 1987 to 2007. Cardin served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1967 to 1987 and as its speaker from 1979 to 1987. In 58 years as an elected official, Cardin never lost an election.
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Samuel Mudd
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- physicianfarmerpolitician
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Samuel Alexander Mudd Sr. was an American physician who was imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth concerning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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Wendy Sherman
- Occupations
- diplomat
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Wendy Ruth Sherman is an American diplomat who served as the United States deputy secretary of state from April 2021 to July 2023. She was a professor of the practice of public leadership and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, a senior counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group, and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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Moonlight Graham
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham was an American professional baseball player and physician who appeared as a right fielder in a single major league game for the New York Giants on June 29, 1905. His story was popularized by Shoeless Joe, a novel by W. P. Kinsella, and the subsequent 1989 film Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner, and featuring Burt Lancaster and Frank Whaley, respectively, as older and younger incarnations of Graham.
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Barbara Mikulski
- Enrolled in the University of Maryland, Baltimore
- Studied in 1965
- Occupations
- community organizeruniversity teachersocial workerpolitician
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Barbara Ann Mikulski is an American politician and social worker who served as a United States senator from Maryland from 1987 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she also served in the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987. Mikulski is the third-longest-serving female United States senator, and the longest-serving U.S. senator in Maryland history.
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Cyril Wecht
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- physicianpathologistlawyer
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Cyril Harrison Wecht was an American forensic pathologist. He was president of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American College of Legal Medicine, and headed the board of trustees of the American Board of Legal Medicine. Wecht served as County Commissioner and Allegheny County Coroner and Medical Examiner, serving the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. He was perhaps best known for his criticism of the Warren Commission's findings concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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Robert M. Parker, Jr
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- writerlawyerjournalistpublisher
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Robert McDowell Parker Jr. is a retired American wine critic. His wine ratings on a 100-point scale and his newsletter The Wine Advocate are influential in American wine buying and are therefore a major factor in setting the prices for newly released Bordeaux wines. This made him the most widely known and influential wine critic in the world.
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Diana Trujillo
- Occupations
- military flight engineer
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Lady Diana Trujillo Pomerantz is a Colombian-American aerospace engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She currently leads the engineering team at JPL responsible for the robotic arm of the Perseverance rover. On February 18, 2021, Trujillo hosted the first ever Spanish-language NASA transmission of a planetary landing, for the Perseverance rover landing on Mars.
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Sylvia Trent-Adams
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- military personnelnurse
- Biography
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Sylvia Trent-Adams is a retired U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps rear admiral, who last served as the principal deputy assistant secretary for health from January 2, 2019 to August 31, 2020. She previously served as the deputy surgeon general of the United States from October 25, 2015 to January 2, 2019. Trent-Adams also served as the acting surgeon general of the United States from April 21, 2017 to September 5, 2017. She retired from the U.S. Public Health Service on September 30, 2020 after over 33 years of combined uniformed service.
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Frank Cho
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- screenwritercomics artistwriter
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Frank Cho is a Korean-American comic strip and comic book writer and illustrator, known for his series Liberty Meadows, as well as for books such as Shanna the She-Devil, Mighty Avengers and Hulk for Marvel Comics, and Jungle Girl for Dynamite Entertainment. Cho is noted for his figure drawing, precise lines, and depictions of curvaceous women.
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Charles Mathias
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- military officerlawyerpolitician
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Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. was an American politician and attorney from the U.S. state of Maryland. A member of the Republican Party, he served in both chambers of the United States Congress as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1961 to 1969 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1969 to 1987. He was also a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1959 to 1961.
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John P. Kennedy
- Occupations
- poetlawyerwriterslave drivernovelist
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John Pendleton Kennedy was an American novelist, lawyer and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from July 26, 1852, to March 4, 1853, during the administration of President Millard Fillmore, and as a U.S. Representative from Maryland's 4th congressional district, during which he encouraged the United States government's study, adoption and implementation of the telegraph. A lawyer who became a lobbyist for and director of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Kennedy also served several terms in the Maryland General Assembly and became its Speaker in 1847.
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Daniel Brewster
- Occupations
- military officerlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Daniel Baugh Brewster Sr. was an American attorney and politician from the state of Maryland. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in both chambers of the United States Congress as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1959 to 1963 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1963 to 1969. Previously, he served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1950 to 1958 and from Maryland's 2nd congressional district from 1959 to 1963. After his Senate career, and following a lengthy court battle, Brewster pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of accepting an illegal gratuity.
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Joseph Tydings
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- state's attorneylawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Joseph Davies Tydings was an American lawyer and politician from Maryland. A member of the Democratic Party, he was most notable for his service as a member of the United States Senate for only a single term from 1965 to 1971.
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Margarethe Cammermeyer
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- nursemilitary officerpolitician
- Biography
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Margarethe "Grethe" Cammermeyer is a Norwegian-American former military officer. She served as a colonel in the Washington National Guard and became a gay rights activist.
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Thomas V. Miller, Jr
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Thomas Vincent Miller Jr., known as Mike Miller, was an American politician from Maryland. He had been a state senator representing the 27th District (Calvert, Charles, and Prince George's counties) from 1975 to 2020 and served as its President from 1987 to 2020. He was the longest-serving President of the Maryland Senate, and was for a period the longest-serving state senate president in the United States.
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Albert Cabell Ritchie
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- university teacherlawyerpolitician
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Albert Cabell Ritchie was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat, he was the 49th governor of Maryland from 1920 to 1935. Ritchie was a conservative who campaigned for, but did not win, the presidential nomination in both 1924 and 1932. To date, Ritchie is the state's longest-serving governor, with almost 15 years of service (14 years, 11 months, and 27 days) and a record four terms. Ritchie has the eighth-longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,474 days.
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Andre M. Davis
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Andre Maurice Davis is the former city solicitor for Baltimore and a former United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He was formerly a United States district judge and was nominated first for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit by President Bill Clinton in 2000. He was renominated to the Fourth Circuit by President Barack Obama on April 2, 2009, and he was confirmed by the Senate on November 9, 2009. On February 28, 2014 Davis assumed senior status. Davis retired from the federal bench to become the City Solicitor for the City of Baltimore of which he served from 2017 to 2020.
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John Wesley Davis
- Occupations
- diplomatjudgepolitician
- Biography
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John Wesley Davis was an American physician and Democratic politician, active in the mid-1800s. He is best known for serving as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Governor of the Oregon Territory, and as a four-time member of the Indiana state legislature.
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Rupert Blue
- Occupations
- surgeon
- Biography
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Rupert Lee Blue was an American physician and soldier. He was the fourth Surgeon General of the United States from 1912 to 1920. He served as president of the American Medical Association in 1916–17.
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Katherine Calvin
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- computer scientistmathematicianearth scientist
- Biography
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Katherine Calvin is an American scientist. From 2022 to 2025, she was NASA's Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor. In July 2023, she was elected co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III. As an earth scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), she has researched human use of global resources using Earth modeling systems at JGCRI under the direction of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and the University of Maryland. She has contributed to the third US National Climate Assessment as well as two special reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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Isidor Rayner
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Isidor Rayner was a Democratic member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1905 to 1912. He also represented the Fourth Congressional District of Maryland from 1887 to 1889, and 1891 to 1895.
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Herbert O'Conor
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Herbert Romulus O'Conor was an American lawyer serving as the 51st governor of Maryland from 1939 to 1947. He also served in the United States Senate, representing Maryland from 1947 to 1953. He was a Democrat.
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Manuel Moreno
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- physiciandiplomatlibrarianpolitician
- Biography
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Manuel Moreno was an Argentine politician, brother of Mariano Moreno. He was one of the founders of the Federal Party in the province of Buenos Aires.
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F. Mason Sones
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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F. Mason Sones, Jr. was an American physician whose pioneering work in cardiac catheterization was instrumental in the development of both coronary artery bypass surgery and interventional cardiology.
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Austin Lane Crothers
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- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Austin Lane Crothers, was an American politician and a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 46th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1908 to 1912.
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John Marshall Butler
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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John Marshall Butler was an American lawyer and politician. A Republican, he served as a United States Senator from Maryland from 1951 to 1963.
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John Christian Frederick Heyer
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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John Christian Frederick Heyer was the first missionary sent abroad by Lutherans in the United States. He founded the Guntur Mission in Andhra Pradesh, India. "Father Heyer" is commemorated as a missionary in the Calendar of Saints of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on November 7, along with Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg and Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen.
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Harry Nice
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- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Harry Whinna Nice was an American politician and a member of the Republican Party who served as the 50th governor of Maryland from 1935 to 1939.
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William Cabell Bruce
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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William Cabell Bruce was an American lawyer, politician and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who represented the State of Maryland in the United States Senate from 1923 to 1929.
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Louis L. Goldstein
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- politician
- Biography
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Louis Lazerus Goldstein was an American politician who served as comptroller, or chief financial officer, of Maryland for ten terms from 1959 to 1998. A popular politician and lifelong Democrat, he was first elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1938 and served three terms in the Maryland Senate before winning election as Comptroller. He ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate in 1964.
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Lola Akinmade Åkerström
- Years
- 1978-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- photographertravel writer
- Biography
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Lola Akinmade Åkerström is a Nigerian photographer, speaker, travel storyteller and an international author whose books are published in 18 languages. She is based in Stockholm, Sweden. Her work focuses on culture, tradition, and lifestyle.
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Peter W. Bodde
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- 1954-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Peter William Bodde is a member of the United States Foreign Service, and was the 8th United States Ambassador to Libya. He has previously served as the United States Ambassador to Nepal and as the United States Ambassador to Malawi, during which time he was credited for promoting awareness of HIV/AIDS discrimination.
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Josephine K. Olsen
- Biography
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Josephine King Olsen served as the 20th Director of the Peace Corps from 2018 to 2021. She was appointed by President Donald Trump, and sworn in on March 30, 2018, after being confirmed by the Senate.
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Lynne A. Battaglia
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- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Lynne Ann Battaglia is an American lawyer and former jurist from Howard County, Maryland. From 2001 to 2016 she served as an associate judge on the Maryland Court of Appeals.
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William S. Fulton
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- lawyerpoliticiannewspaper editor
- Biography
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William Savin Fulton was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Arkansas from 1836 until his death in 1844. He had previously served as the fourth governor of Arkansas Territory, from 1835 to 1836, and the second secretary of the Arkansas Territory from 1829 to 1835.
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Antonio Fernós-Isern
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- cardiologistpolitician
- Biography
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Antonio Fernós Isern was the first Puerto Rican cardiologist and the longest serving Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico in the United States Congress.
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Laurie E. Locascio
- Enrolled in the University of Maryland, Baltimore
- 1996-1999 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in toxicology
- Occupations
- academic administratorcivil servantanalytical chemistbiomedical engineeruniversity teacher
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Laurie Ellen Locascio is an American biomedical engineer, analytical chemist, and president and CEO of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). She was formerly the under secretary of commerce for standards and technology and the 17th director of National Institute of Standards and Technology from 2022 to 2024. From 2017 to 2021, Locascio was vice president for research of University of Maryland, College Park, and University of Maryland, Baltimore.
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Elizabeth Bobo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Elizabeth Bobo is an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. She served as Howard County Executive and in the Maryland House of Delegates. Bobo was the first and only female Howard County Executive, serving from 1986 to 1990.
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George L. P. Radcliffe
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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George Lovic Pierce Radcliffe was a Democratic Party member of the United States Senate who represented Maryland from 1935 to 1947.
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Patrick O'Shea
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Patrick G. O’Shea is an Irish-American scientist and academic. From February 2017 to September 2020, he was the fifteenth president of University College Cork. He was previously vice president and chief research officer at the University of Maryland.
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Esteban Edward Torres
- Enrolled in the University of Maryland, Baltimore
- Studied in 1965
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Esteban Edward Torres was an American politician who served as member of the United States House of Representatives for California's 34th congressional district from 1983 to 1999.
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Adelaide C. Eckardt
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Adelaide C. Eckardt is an American politician who was a member of the Maryland Senate, representing District 37.
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Charles Bernard Day
- Years
- 1957-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Charles Bernard Day is a former United States magistrate judge and former nominee to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. His nomination to a life-tenure, federal district court judgeship during 2010 and 2011 ran aground amid opposition from Republican senators, who objected to moving forward with a United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing on his nomination after what were reported to be "insurmountable concerns" by Republicans over matters raised during Day's background investigation.
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Jill E. Brown
- Enrolled in the University of Maryland, Baltimore
- In 1972 graduated with family and consumer science
- Occupations
- teacheraircraft pilot
- Biography
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Jill E. Brown is a retired American pilot, who is the first African-American woman to become a pilot for a major American passenger airline.
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L. Paige Marvel
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Lynda Paige Marvel is an American lawyer who serves as a senior judge of the United States Tax Court.
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Paul E. Knapp
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- military leadermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Paul E. Knapp is a major general in the Wisconsin Air National Guard. He resigned from his position as the adjutant general of the Wisconsin National Guard on June 6th 2024.
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Vincent Luke Palmisano
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Vincent Luke Palmisano was an American politician from Maryland.
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Joanne Ciulla
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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Joanne Bridgett Ciulla is an American philosopher. She is a pioneer in the field of leadership ethics as well as teaching and publishing on business Ethics. She is currently a professor at the Rutgers Business School - Newark and New Brunswick and is the director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership. She has received several awards for her contributions to leadership studies and business ethics.
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E. H. Hedrick
- Occupations
- medical examinerschool superintendentpolitician
- Biography
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Erland Harold Hedrick, better known as E. H. Hedrick was an American Democratic politician from West Virginia.
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Richard Lankford
- Enrolled in the University of Maryland, Baltimore
- Graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Richard Estep Lankford represented the fifth district of the state of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives for five terms from 1955 to 1965.
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James M. Buchanan
- Occupations
- lawyerdiplomatjudgepolitician
- Biography
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James Madison Buchanan was a Baltimore, Maryland jurist and diplomat.
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Carol Brown Goldberg
- Years
- 1940-.. (age 86)
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Carol Brown Goldberg is an American artist working in a variety of media. While primarily a painter creating heavily detailed work as large as 10 feet by 10 feet, she is also known for sculpture, film, and drawing. Her work has ranged from narrative genre paintings to multi-layered abstractions to realistic portraits to intricate gardens and jungles.
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William F. Goodling
- Enrolled in the University of Maryland, Baltimore
- In 1953 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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William Franklin Goodling was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. At the time of his death, he was the Chairman of the Board of the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy.
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William Purington Cole
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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William Purington Cole Jr. was an American jurist and politician. From 1927 to 1929 and from 1931 to 1942, Cole was a United States representative who represented the second district of Maryland. He later served as a judge of the United States Customs Court and as an associate judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
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Yehuda Fulda
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Yehuda Fulda is a businessman involved in various ventures in the US, UK, Italy and Israel. He is a managing partner of TGX Holdings Archived 2016-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, a diversified holding company that includes real estate, consumer goods, telecom and venture capital.
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Rodney Glisan
- Occupations
- military physician
- Biography
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Rodney L. Glisan, M.D. was an American medical doctor who served on the frontier in the United States Army and was well known as a medical authority in the 19th century.
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Linwood Clark
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Linwood Leon Clark was a U.S. representative who represented the second Congressional district of the state of Maryland from 1929 to 1931.
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William P. Spratling
- Years
- 1863-1915 (aged 52)
- Occupations
- neurologist
- Biography
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William Philip Spratling was an American neurologist known for his advances in the treatment and study of epilepsy; he is often described as the first American epileptologist – a word he is credited with having coined in his 1904 work Epilepsy and Its Treatment.
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John Charles Linthicum
- Years
- 1867-1932 (aged 65)
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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John Charles Linthicum was a U.S. congressman from the 4th congressional district of Maryland, serving from 1911 to 1932.
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John Alexander Ahl
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Alexander Ahl was a surgeon, real estate developer, paper mill and iron furnace operator, railroad executive and United States Congressman from Pennsylvania. He was born in Strasburg, Pennsylvania in 1813.
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Eli Jones Henkle
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eli Jones Henkle was a U.S. Congressman from the fifth district of Maryland, serving three terms from 1875 to 1881.
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Carroll Bond
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Carroll T. Bond was an American jurist who served as chief judge of the supreme court of the U.S. state of Maryland, the Court of Appeals.
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Charles Boarman Harris
- Occupations
- surgeon
- Biography
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Dr. Charles Boarman Harris was an American physician and surgeon. The grandson of Rear Admiral Charles Boarman, he was among the original settlers in Pembina, the first settlement in the Dakota Territory. Harris was the first doctor to serve the general population in Pembina County, and to be medically licensed, serving as the county physician for nearly 60 years. At the time of his death in 1942, he was the longest serving physician and surgeon in the state of North Dakota.
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George Alexander Pearre
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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George Alexander Pearre was an American politician.
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Samuel Theobald
- Occupations
- ophthalmologist
- Biography
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Samuel Theobald was a clinical professor of ophthalmology and otology at Johns Hopkins University Medical School.
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Harry Welles Rusk
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Harry Welles Rusk was a U.S. representative from the third district of Maryland. He was also the president of the Kennard Novelty Company in Baltimore. This was the first company to commercially sell ouija boards in 1890.
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Joshua Weldon Miles
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Joshua Weldon Miles was an American politician.
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Charles U. Gravatt
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Charles Urquhart Gravatt was an American physician, naval officer, and Democratic politician who served as a member of the Virginia Senate from 1908 until his death in 1922. A veteran of the Spanish–American War, he served as the fleet surgeon under Admiral William T. Sampson at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
