List of Famous people born in Maryland, United States of America

Susan Meiselas is an American documentary photographer. She has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1976 and been a full member since 1980. She is best known for her 1970s photographs of war-torn Nicaragua and American carnival strippers.

Paula Marshall is an American actress.

Lauren J. Faust is an American animator and writer, best known as the creator of the animated series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic for Hasbro, as well as for working frequently with her husband Craig McCracken. Faust has also worked as an animator on television series such as The Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and with companies like Cartoon Network Studios, Warner Bros., Hasbro, Disney, DreamWorks Animation and Netflix Animation. She is currently the developer of the televised reboot of DC Super Hero Girls, which premiered in 2019.

Danielle Susan Allen is an American classicist and political scientist. She is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, Harvard's highest faculty honor, where she is also the Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard in 2015, Allen was UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Allen is the daughter of political scientist William B. Allen.

Eugene William Shue is an American former professional basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Shue was one of the top guards of the early days of the NBA and an influential figure in the development of basketball. He is credited with inventing the "Spin Move" while being an early harbinger of other plays and strategies. Shue was an NBA All-Star five consecutive times (1958–62). After his successful playing career, he became a long-serving coach, twice winning NBA Coach of the Year. Throughout his career as player, coach, and executive, Shue was "a specialist at taking over faltering teams."

Chris Quigg is an American theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). He graduated from Yale University in 1966 and received his Ph.D. in 1970 under the tutelage of J. D. Jackson at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been an associate professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, and was head of the Theoretical Physics Department at Fermilab from 1977 to 1987.

Timothy Suhrstedt, ASC is an American cinematographer. He is best known for his work on comedies Little Miss Sunshine, Office Space and The Wedding Singer.

Debra Blaisdell, known professionally as Tracey Adams, is an American former pornographic film actress who has also appeared in mainstream films. She is an AVN Hall of Fame founding inductee.

Bradley M. Kuhn is a free software activist from the United States.

John Simmons Barth is an American writer who is best known for his postmodernist and metafictional fiction.