List of Famous people born in Maryland, United States of America
Bryan Voltaggio
Bryan Voltaggio is an American chef residing in Frederick, Maryland. He received an AOS in culinary arts from The Culinary Institute of America and was mentored by chef Charlie Palmer. He is the executive chef of three restaurants in Maryland: Voltaggio Brothers, Born & Raised, and Thacher & Rye.
John Johnson
John Johnson III is an American football strong safety for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Boston College.
Trina Braxton
Trina Evette Braxton is an American singer, actress and reality television personality. She is a younger sister of R&B singing icon Toni Braxton. Trina had her first big break in music in 1992 as a founding member of the R&B group The Braxtons, formed with her sisters. After losing two members, The Braxtons released their only album, So Many Ways, as a trio in 1996 along with four singles: "So Many Ways", "Only Love", "The Boss", and "Slow Flow".
Ben Cardin
Benjamin Louis Cardin is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Maryland, first elected to that seat in 2006. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 3rd congressional district from 1987 to 2007. Cardin served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1967 to 1987 and as Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1979 to 1987, the youngest person to hold the position in history. In his half-century career as an elected official, he has never lost an election.
Marsha Ivins
Marsha Sue Ivins is an American retired astronaut and a veteran of five Space Shuttle missions.
Thomas David Jones
Thomas David Jones is a former United States astronaut. He was selected to the astronaut corps in 1990 and completed four space shuttle flights before retiring in 2001. He flew on STS-59 and STS-68 in 1994, STS-80 in 1996, and STS-98 in 2001. His total mission time was 53 days 48 minutes. He works as a planetary scientist, space operations consultant, astronaut speaker, and author.
Brandon Novak
Brandon Thomas Novak is an American professional skateboarder, author, addiction interventionist, motivational speaker, and former member of the "CKY crew".
Reggie Williams
Reggie Williams is an American retired professional basketball player who played ten seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was an All-American college player at Georgetown University and was a member of their 1983–84 National Championship team.
Gary Gensler
Gary Gensler is an American academic, former investment banker, and former government official. Gensler leads the Biden–Harris transition's Federal Reserve, Banking and Securities Regulators agency review team. He is also a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Moose
Quinn Ojinnaka is an American professional wrestler and former American football player, known professionally as Moose. He is currently signed to Impact Wrestling, where he is a former two-time Impact Grand Champion. In addition, he has been the GWF Heavyweight Champion from June 3, 2017 to August 12, 2017. He has also worked for Ring of Honor, Revolution Pro Wrestling, Evolve Wrestling, New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Noah. As an offensive lineman, he played college football at Syracuse and was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the fifth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He went on to play for the New England Patriots, St. Louis Rams, and Indianapolis Colts.