Alumni |
Class |
Reasoning for notability |
Larry Adler |
1931[1] |
Musician[2] |
Gary Bartz |
1958 |
Jazz musician, Grammy Award winner |
Morris Louis Bernstein |
1928[3] |
Abstract expressionist painter |
Russell Baker |
1943[4] |
Writer, reporter, columnist for The New York Times and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, who wrote about "City" and his youth in Baltimore in his memoir Growing Up (1982) |
Ciera Nicole Butts |
2008[5] |
Miss District of Columbia USA 2014; Television Personality, Last Squad Standing; winner[6] |
Jack L. Chalker |
1962 |
Author of over 50 science fiction/fantasy novels |
André DeShields |
1964 |
Broadway actor, Tony Award nominee |
Peter G. Engelman |
1957 |
Author, writer, publisher, speaker, certified public accountant |
Philip Glass |
1954*[7] |
Avant garde composer[8] |
Jacob Glushakow |
1933[9] |
Painter; works are in permanent collections at the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, and Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Al Goodman |
1918[10] |
Musician, conductor |
Edward Everett Horton |
1904[3] |
Character actor in film, television, and stage |
Millard Kaufman |
1933[11] |
Author, screenwriter; helped create the film/television cartoon character of Mr. Magoo |
Greg Kihn |
1967?[12] |
Rock musician, radio host |
Gene Klavan |
1940[3] |
Radio talk show host in Washington, D.C. and New York |
Reuben Kramer |
1925 |
Abstract sculptor[13] |
Rowan LeCompte |
1942 |
Stained glass artist, National Cathedral[14] |
David Matthews |
1984 |
Author[15] |
T. Garrison Morfit (Garry Moore) |
1933 |
TV variety show host |
Royal Parker |
1946 |
News anchor WBAL-TV, TV variety show host[16] |
Robert Pirosh |
1928[3] |
Writer, won Oscar and Golden Globe for screenplay of Battleground |
Fred Robbins |
1937 |
Television and radio host |
Woody Rock |
1993 |
Singer, member of Dru Hill |
Karl Shapiro |
1932 |
Poet; literary critic; professor, Johns Hopkins University; Pulitzer Prize winner |
Eli Siegel |
1919[17] |
Poet and founder of Aesthetic Realism |
Michael Tucker |
1962 |
Actor, appeared in L.A. Law and Diner |
Leon Uris |
1942*[18][19] |
Writer, author of Exodus and other literary classics |
Charles M. Warren |
1930 |
Television and film writer, producer. Director of long-running western TV series Gunsmoke; writer and creator, Rawhide; writer, Playhouse 90 drama anthology series; producer, The Iron Horse[20] |
Charles Erskine Scott Wood |
1870*[21] |
Author, civil libertarian, and attorney[22] |
Hugo Weisgall |
1929[3] |
Composer |
Alumni |
Class |
Reasoning for notability |
David T. Abercrombie |
1887[23] |
Founder of Abercrombie & Fitch |
David S. Cordish |
1956[24] |
President and Chairman of the Cordish Company |
Robert C. Embry Jr. |
1955[25] |
President, Abell Foundation (named for the founder of the local Baltimore Sun), Baltimore City Housing Commissioner (1968–1977)[26] |
Joseph Haskins Jr. |
1967[27] |
President and C.E.O.of the Harbor Bank of Maryland[28] |
Robert D. Hormats |
1961[29] |
Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, Vice Chair of Goldman Sachs[30] |
Zanvyl Krieger |
1924[31] |
Lawyer, entrepreneur, philanthropist; co-founder of Baltimore Colts[32] |
Morris A. Mechanic |
1915[33] |
Entrepreneur, builder of the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre |
Charles P. McCormick |
1916[34] |
Business tycoon, and president of McCormick & Company |
Joseph Meyerhoff |
1915[34] |
Business tycoon, and former President of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra |
John E. Motz |
1930[35] |
President, Mercantile Bank & Trust Company, Baltimore |
Israel Myers |
1927 |
Founder of London Fog, originator of the London Fog coat[36] |
Morton Rapoport |
1952[3] |
M.D., CEO, University of Maryland Medical System |
Martin Resnick |
1949[3] |
Founder, Martins West-Martins Caterers |
Carroll Rosenbloom |
1926[37] |
Former owner of Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Rams (NFL) |
David Rubenstein |
1966 |
Business tycoon and co-founder of The Carlyle Group[38] |
John Schuerholz |
1958 |
President, Atlanta Braves (MLB) |
Henry L. Straus |
1913[39] |
Electrical engineer and business tycoon |
Calvin E. Tyler, Jr. |
1960[3] |
Philanthropist; Senior VP, United Parcel Service |
Alumni |
Class |
Reasoning for notability |
Thomas Sewall Adams |
1897 |
Economist, Yale University; President, American Economic Association (1927) |
John Richard Bryant |
1961[29] |
Bishop, Fifth Episcopal District, African Methodist Episcopal Church |
Isaac M. Colbert |
1964 |
Dean for Graduate Studies, MIT (1999–present)[40] |
Alan M. Chesney |
1905[41] |
Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
John Henry Fischer |
1927[37] |
President, Teachers College, Columbia University; Superintendent, Baltimore City Public School System, enforced the desegregation of the school system[42] |
Henry Jones Ford |
1868[43] |
Political scientist, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University; President, American Political Science Association |
Norman Hackerman |
1928[3] |
Chemist; president, Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin; National Medal of Science; Vannevar Bush Award (1993) |
William W. Howell |
1878[44] |
Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1899–1911) |
Arthur Hertzberg |
1928[23] |
Former President, American Jewish Congress |
John H. Latane |
1889[23] |
Dean of Faculty, Professor, Johns Hopkins University |
Leo Lemay |
1953[44] |
Biographer of Benjamin Franklin, du Pont Winterthur Professor of English at the University of Delaware |
Arthur Maass |
1935[45] |
Political scientist, Harvard University (1948–1984) |
William K. Morrill |
1921[46] |
Dean of Students, Mathematician, Johns Hopkins University; member, Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame[47] |
Lindsay Rogers |
1908[48] |
Burgess Professor of Public Law, Columbia University (1920–1959); Director, Social Science Research Council (1934–36),[48] and prolific writer[citation needed] |
William R. Straughn |
1902[41] |
Founding President, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania[49] |
Kurt Schmoke |
1967[27] |
President, University of Baltimore, former Dean, Howard University School of Law; 46th Mayor, City of Baltimore |
John B. Van Meter |
|
Methodist minister, educator, and the co-founder of Goucher College[50] |
Orris G. Walker, Jr. |
1960 |
First African American Bishop of the Episcopal Church |
David E. Weglein |
1894[1] |
Longest serving superintendent, Baltimore City Public School System[51] |
Henry Skinner West |
1888[1] |
President, Towson University; Superintendent, Baltimore City Public School System |
Alumni |
Class |
Reasoning for notability |
Curt Anderson |
1967[27] |
Delegate, District 43, Baltimore City (1983–1995, 2003–present); chairman of the Baltimore City Delegation |
Meyer Cardin |
1926[3] |
Delegate (1936–38); Judge, Baltimore City Supreme Bench[58] |
Anthony M. DiPietro, Jr. |
1953[59] |
Delegate, District 46, Baltimore City (1979–1994)[60] |
Melvin L. Fine |
1921[61] |
Delegate, District 4, Baltimore City (1929-1933), Senate,District 4, Baltimore City (1935-1939) [62] |
Tony Fulton |
1968 |
Delegate, District 40, Baltimore City (1987–2005)[63] |
Henry R. Hergenroeder, Jr. |
1961[3] |
Delegate, District 43, Baltimore County and Baltimore City (1967–1992) |
Lawrence A. LaMotte |
1966 |
Delegate, District 5B, Baltimore County (1983–1994) |
Ervin "Ted" Levin |
1962 |
Delegate, District 11, Baltimore County (1975–1994)[64] |
Pat McDonough |
1964[65] |
Delegate, District 7 Baltimore County (1979–1983, 2003–present) |
Charles "Bucky" Muth |
1955 |
Delegate, District 43, Baltimore City (1983–1987)[66] |
Wendell F. Phillips |
1982 |
Delegate, District 41, Baltimore City (1999–2003)[67] |
B. Daniel Riley |
1964 |
Delegate, District 34, Harford County (1999–2003, 2007–present) |
Frank C. Robey, Jr. |
1954 |
Delegate, District 44, Baltimore City (1971–1983)[68] |
Samuel I. Rosenberg |
1968 |
Delegate, District 41, Baltimore City (1983–present)[69] |
Edgar P. Silver |
1940 |
Delegate, District 5, Baltimore City (1955–1965)[70] |
Steven V. Sklar |
1960 |
Delegate, District 41, Baltimore City (1969–82)[71] |
Allen B. Spector |
1952 |
Delegate, District 5, Baltimore City (1966–1970); Councilman, Baltimore City Council (1971–1977)[72] |
William A. Stewart |
1843[1] |
Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates (1868); Delegate (1852–1854)[73] |
J. Raymond Buffington |
1929 |
State Senator (1959–1962); Delegate (1942–50)[74] |
George W. Della |
1928[75] |
President of the Maryland Senate (1951–1954), (1959–1962); State Senator (1941–1962)[76] |
Ralph M. Hughes |
1966 |
State Senator, District 40, Baltimore City (1991–2007); Delegate (1983–1991)[77] |
Julian L. Lapides |
1949 |
State Senator, District 44, Baltimore City (1967–1994)[78] |
Nathaniel J. McFadden |
1964[65] |
State Senator, District 45, Baltimore City (1995–present) |
William I. Norris |
1929[3] |
President of the Maryland Senate (1920–1922); State Senator, District 1, Baltimore City (1916–1922); Delegate, District 1, Baltimore City (1904)[79] |
Melvin Steinberg |
1950[3] |
Lieutenant Governor (1986–1994); President of Maryland State Senate (1983–1986); State Senator (1967–1986) [80] |
Norman R. Stone, Jr. |
1953 |
State Senator, District 45, Baltimore County (1966–present) |
Alumni |
Class |
Reasoning for notability |
Paul E. Alpert |
1953[81] |
Maryland Court of Special Appeals, Judge (1982–1995); Baltimore County Circuit Court, Judge (1977–82); District Court (1972–77); Maryland House of Delegates, Delegate, Baltimore County (1967–73)[82] |
Arthur A. Anderson |
1932 |
Circuit Court, Anne Arundel County, Judge |
Carl W. Bacharach |
1938[83] |
District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1971–1992); Maryland House of Delegates, Delegate, District 5, Baltimore City (1951–1962)[84] |
Thomas S. Baer |
1858[85] |
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1903–1906)[86] |
John R. Bartels |
1915 |
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Judge (1959–1997) |
H. Gary Bass |
1960 |
District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1983–present)[87] |
Raymond A. Beck |
1956 |
Circuit Court, Carroll County, Judge (1990–2005); State Senator, Carroll County (1982–1990); Maryland House of Delegates, Delegate, Carroll County (1972–1982)[88] |
Austin W. Brizendine |
1956 |
Circuit Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1978–1985)[89] |
Emanuel Brown |
1971[90] |
District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1998–present)[91] |
Albert H. Blum |
1917 |
Municipal Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1970s)[92] |
Joseph A. Ciotola |
1938 |
District Court, Baltimore City, Administrative Judge (1980s–1990s)[93] |
James K. Cullen |
1917 |
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1952–1970)[94] |
Webster C. Dove |
1941 |
Baltimore County, trial magistrate[95] |
Robert N. Dugan |
1960[3] |
Circuit Court, Baltimore County, Judge (2000–present)[96] |
Darryl G. Fletcher |
1965[3] |
District Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1994–present)[97] |
Ralph H. France, II |
1958 |
District Court, Washington County, Judge (1995–present)[98] |
Sol J. Friedman |
1936[1] |
District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1973–1991)[99] |
Askew Gatewood |
1968 |
District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1984–present)[100] |
Robert I. H. Hammerman |
1946 |
Circuit Court, Baltimore City, Chief Judge (1984–1998), Judge (1967–1998) |
Francis Hall Hammond |
1919 |
Maryland Court of Appeals, Chief Judge (1966–1971), Judge (1952–1966) |
Charles D. Harris |
1924[101] |
Chief Judge, Supreme Bench of Baltimore City (1962–1976) |
J. William Hinkel |
1950[102] |
Circuit Court Baltimore County (1981–2002), District Court, Baltimore County (1971–1981)[103] |
Thomas D. Horne |
1961 |
Circuit Court of Loudoun County, Virginia (1982– )[104] |
Neal M. Janey |
1966[105] |
District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1980–1985)[106] |
Martin A. Kircher |
1948 |
District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1973–2000), Delegate, Baltimore City (1963–1973)[107] |
I. Sewell Lamdin |
1936 |
Municipal Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1968–1988)[108] |
Bruce S. Lamdin |
1965 |
District Court, Baltimore County, Judge (2002–present)[109] |
Marvin J. Land |
1936[1] |
Circuit Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1971–1980)[110] |
Marshal A. Levin |
1947[111] |
Circuit Court Baltimore City (1971–2004)[111] |
Dana M. Levitz |
1966 |
Circuit Court Baltimore County (1981–2002)[112] |
Ogle Marbury |
1899[23] |
Maryland Court of Appeals, Chief Judge (1944–1952), Judge (1941–1944) |
William Albert Menchine. |
1925[3] |
Maryland Court of Special Appeals, Judge (1972–1977)[113] |
Herman M. Moser |
1917[114] |
Circuit Court, Baltimore, Judge (1944–1956) |
Charles E. Moylan, Jr. |
1949[3] |
Maryland Court of Special Appeals, Judge (1970–2000)[115] |
Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr. |
1937[54] |
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Circuit Judge (1979–2000)[116] |
Reuben Oppenheimer |
1917[117] |
Maryland Court of Appeals, Judge (1964–1967)[117] |
Theodore Oshrine |
1966 |
District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1985–present)[118] |
Joseph I. Pines |
1939[119] |
Circuit Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1980–1992) |
John N. Prevas |
1964[3] |
Circuit Court, Baltimore City, Chief Judge (2006–2010), Judge (1986–2010) [120] |
William D. Quarles Jr. |
1965 |
United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge (2003–present) [121] |
Alan Resnick (judge) |
1946[3] |
District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1974–1998) |
John Carter Rose |
1877 (left to attend University of Maryland) |
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Circuit Judge (1922–1927) United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge (1910–1922); U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland (1898–1910) |
I. Marshall Seidler |
1953 |
District Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1998–2004)[122] |
C. James Sfekas |
1970[3] |
District Court, Howard County, Judge (1998–2002) |
James S. Sfekas |
1934[123] |
Circuit Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1980–1988) |
Stephen J. Sfekas |
1964[124] |
Circuit Court, Baltimore, Judge (2010–) |
Albert L. Sklar |
1929[125] |
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1964–1981); Maryland House of Delegates, Delegate, District 4, Baltimore City (1939–1954)[126] |
Frederick J. Singley |
1930 |
United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals 1967–1977[127] |
A. Cecil Snyder |
1936[3] |
Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, Chief Justice (1953–1957), Associate Justice (1942–1953) |
Simon Sobeloff |
1909 |
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Chief Judge (1958–1964), Circuit Judge (1956–1958); United States Solicitor General (1954–1956)[128] |
Anselm Sodaro |
1927 [129] |
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1956–1980), Chief Judge (1975–1980), Baltimore City State's Attorney (1950–1956)[129] |
Morris Ames Soper |
1890[23] |
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Circuit Judge (1931–1963) |
Charles Francis Stein, Sr. |
1925[3] |
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1921–1936) |
Marvin Steinberg |
1947[130] |
Circuit Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1985–1996) |
William A. Stewart (judge) |
1843[1] |
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1882–1893) |
Edward O. "Ned" Thomas |
1936[131] |
District and Circuit, Worcester County, Judge |
Robert Dorsey Watkins |
1918[1] |
United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge (1955–1986) |
Alan M. Wilner |
1954 |
Maryland Court of Appeals, Judge (1996–2007); Maryland Court of Special Appeals, Chief Judge (1990–1996), Judge (1977–1990) |
Alexander Wright, Jr. |
1967[27] |
Judge Maryland Court of Special Appeals Judge (2008– ), Baltimore County Circuit Court, 3rd Judicial Circuit (1998-2000 and 2001–2002)[132] |
Alumni |
Class |
Reasoning for notability |
John W. Anderson |
1964 |
Sheriff, Baltimore City (1989–present)[136] |
Thomas N. Biddison |
1924[137] |
Baltimore City Solicitor 1947–58; member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame[138] |
Devon Brown |
1967[139] |
Director, Washington, D.C. Department of Corrections (2006–present), Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Corrections (2002–2006)[140] |
Francis B. Burch |
1937[54] |
Attorney General of Maryland (1966–1974); City Solicitor, Baltimore (1961–1963)[141] |
Dennis Callahan |
1958 |
Mayor of Annapolis (1985–1989) |
John L. Cain |
1958 |
Baltimore City Council, 1st District (1991–2004)[142] |
Reubin Caplan |
1924 |
Baltimore City Council, 1st District (1963–1979) |
Michael E. Cryor |
1964[65] |
chairman, Maryland Democratic Party[143] |
Martin "Mike" Curran |
1955 |
Baltimore City Council, 3rd District (1977–1995)[144] |
Wilbur "Bill" Cunningham |
1967[27] |
Baltimore City Council, 3rd District (1988–1996) |
Ronald L. Daniel |
1967[145] |
Police Commissioner, Baltimore City (1999–2000)[146] |
Stanley S. Fine |
1961 |
Director, Maryland Lottery (1973–1978)[147] |
Philip H. Goodman |
1931 |
42nd Mayor of Baltimore (1962–1963) |
Leonard Hamm |
1967[148] |
Police Commissioner, Baltimore City (2005–2007)[149] |
Hyman A. Pressman |
1930[150] |
Baltimore City Comptroller (1975–1995)[151] |
Alumni |
Class |
Reasoning for notability |
Balamurali Ambati |
1989 |
Youngest person to become a doctor[165] |
Richard Askey |
1951[166] |
Mathematician; Askey-Wilson polynomials |
Eric Baer |
1949[3] |
Polymer and plastics researcher |
Edgar Berman |
1932[167] |
Surgeon, first to do heart transplant; physician to Hubert Humphrey[168] |
William Bloom |
1916[33] |
Pathologist |
Louis R. Caplan |
1954[169] |
Neurologist |
Hugh Latimer Dryden |
1913[39] |
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, NASA |
Wendell E. Dunn, Jr. |
1938 |
Chemical engineer, metallurgist |
Solomon W. Golomb |
1949 |
Mathematician, engineer, inventor of polyominoes |
Norman L. Hackerman |
1928[150] |
Chemist, former president, University of Texas, Rice University[170] |
William Henry Howell |
1878 |
Physiologist; pioneer of the use of heparin as a blood anticoagulant; dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine[171] |
Nicholas Katz |
1960[166] |
Mathematician; Grothendieck-Katz p-curvature conjecture |
Lee Kinsey |
1920[17] |
Physicist; astronomer; chairman, Department of Physics, University of California at Los Angeles[172] |
Morton Kramer |
1931[150] |
Bio-statistician, created international standards in mental health diagnostics |
Simon A. Levin |
1957 |
Ecologist, Princeton University |
Charles C. Plitt |
1866 |
Botanist |
Robert Resnick |
1939 |
Physicist; professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Oersted Medal (1974) |
Martin Rodbell |
1943[173] |
Biochemist, molecular endocrinologist; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1994 |
Tracy M. Sonneborn |
1922[46] |
Biologist, geneticist |
Victor Strasburger |
1967 |
Pediatrician; medical expert on adolescents |
John Archibald Wheeler |
1927[75] |
Theoretical physicist; Wolf Prize in Physics[174] |
Abel Wolman |
1909[175] |
Sanitary engineer; inventor of modern water treatment techniques |
Alumni |
Class |
Reasoning for notability |
Al Albert |
1965 |
College soccer, head coach, The College of William and Mary (1971–2003) |
A. Gordon Armstrong |
1904 |
Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame[176] |
Bob Baldwin |
1962 |
Football, fullback, Baltimore Colts[177] |
Max Bishop |
1921*[178] |
Baseball, 2nd baseman, Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox, |
Frank Gottlob Breyer |
1905[41] |
Lacrosse, founding coach, US Naval Academy; coach, Lehigh University and Swarthmore College[179] |
Emil "Buzzy" Budnitz |
1949 |
Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame[180] |
Tommy Byrne |
1937[1] |
Baseball, pitcher, New York Yankees |
Charley Eckman |
1940 |
Basketball, head coach, Fort Wayne/Detroit Pistons (1954–1957) |
Tom Gatewood |
1968 |
Football, wide receiver, New York Giants[181] |
Lorne Randolf Guild |
1928[182] |
Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame[183] |
Bryant Johnson |
1999[184] |
Football, wide receiver, Detroit Lions |
John C. Knipp |
1912[39] |
Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame[185] |
William Kelso Morrill |
1926[39] |
Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame[186] |
Johnny Neun |
1921[46] |
Baseball, Manager, New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds |
Ara Person |
1966 |
Football, tight end, St. Louis Cardinals[187] |
William C. Schmeisser |
1899 |
Lacrosse, coach, Johns Hopkins University, namesake Schmeisser Award; US Olympian[188] |
Jerry Schnydman |
1962 |
Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame[189] |
William E. Scroggs |
1965 |
Lacrosse, coach, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1978–1990), led team to NCAA titles in 1981, 1982 and 1986[190] |
Edward M. Stuart |
1913[41] |
Lacrosse, member National Lacrosse Hall of Fame; Captain, United States Army Corps of Engineers[191] |
John Sykes |
1967 |
Football, wide receiver, San Diego Chargers[192] |
Charles Tapper |
|
Offensive tackle Dallas Cowboys, New York Jets |
Alphonse "Tommy" Thomas |
1918[3] |
Baseball, pitcher, Chicago White Sox |
John C. Tolson |
1937[193] |
Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame; Lieutenant, United States Navy, World War II[194] |
Church Yearly |
1930[195] |
Lacrosse, member of National Lacrosse Hall of Fame; trustee of Johns Hopkins University[195] |