List of Famous people born in District of Columbia, United States of America

Lawrence Joseph Hogan Jr. is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he has served as the 62nd Governor of Maryland since 2015.

Stacy Lattisaw Jackson is an American R&B singer from Washington, D.C., United States.

Brian Kendall Sims is a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in the 182nd district. Elected in 2012, Sims is also a lawyer and activist on LGBT civil rights. Sims is the first openly gay elected state legislator in Pennsylvania history. He won reelection on November 6, 2018.

David Coleman Headley is an American terrorist of Pakistani origin, and a spy who conspired in plotting the 2008 Mumbai attacks. He is currently serving a lengthy prison sentence in the United States.

Theodore N. Lerner is an American real estate developer, and former managing principal owner of the Washington Nationals baseball team. He is the founder of the real estate company Lerner Enterprises, the largest private landowner in the Washington metropolitan area, which owns commercial, retail, residential and hotel properties, as well as Chelsea Piers in New York City. In 2015, Forbes magazine named him the richest person in the State of Maryland.

Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is an American journalist and historian. She has written extensively about Marxism–Leninism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe.

Maya Wiley is an American lawyer, professor, and civil rights activist. She served as the board chair of the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), having been appointed to that role in September 2016. Prior to her role at the CCRB, Wiley served as counsel to the Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio. Wiley is the senior vice president for Social Justice at The New School, and the Henry Cohen Professor of Urban Policy and Management at the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment. Wiley was announced as an MSNBC Legal Analyst on August 27, 2018. On October 7, 2020, Wiley announced that she would run for the position of Mayor of New York City in the 2021 New York City mayoral election.

Yannick Nicolas Ngakoue is an American football defensive end and outside linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Maryland and was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the third round of the 2016 NFL Draft.

Isabelle Fuhrman is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Esther in the 2009 horror film Orphan, and Clove in the 2012 dystopian adventure film The Hunger Games.

The June 1962 Alcatraz escape was a prison break from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security facility located on an island in San Francisco Bay, undertaken by inmates Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin. The three men were able to escape from their cells and leave the island in a raft.