39.2868° N, 76.6201° W
BALTIMORE
Most Famous People Born in Baltimore, United States
- Notable people
- 2,329
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1939
- Most distinctive
- Baseball 7.0×
A port city whose distinctive professions are baseball at seven times the global rate, basketball, and an unusually thick column of officers, novelists, and lawyers — the shape of a Mid-Atlantic city that has always sat at the meeting point of the Navy yard, the courts, and the literary establishment. Frank Zappa, Babe Ruth, Michael Phelps, and Edgar Allan Poe (who died here, not born) all belong to this bench, and the 19th-century tail is heavier than in most American cities its size.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Baltimore during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Baltimore Is Known For
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Politician is Baltimore's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (255).
Baltimore over-indexes on baseball — 7.0× the global rate.
Baltimore under-produces painter — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Baltimore's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1860s Clear ×
Henrietta Szold
1860 - 1945
William Walker Atkinson
1862 - 1932
William McGregor Paxton
1869 - 1941
William J. Burns
1861 - 1932
Jesse William Lazear
1866 - 1900
Stephen Bonsal
1865 - 1951
Rida Johnson Young
1869 - 1926
David T. Abercrombie
1867 - 1931
George Veditz
1861 - 1937
William Henry Howell
1860 - 1945
Robert Alexander (United States Army officer)
1863 - 1941
Edwin Thanhouser
1865 - 1956
Basil Spalding de Garmendia
1860 - 1932
Joseph Keiley
1869 - 1914
John Whitridge Williams
1866 - 1931
Elmer Wachtel
1864 - 1929
Charles Pearce Coady
1868 - 1934
William Thomas Russell
1863 - 1927
Henry Van Peters Wilson
1863 - 1939
William Samuel Booze
1862 - 1933
Frank Charles Wachter
1861 - 1910
Charles Carroll Marden
1867 - 1932
Charles Reginald Schirm
1864 - 1918
Esther Hasson
1867 - 1942
John Carter Rose
1861 - 1927
Alexander Crever Abbott
1860 - 1935
Henry Symes Lehr
1869 - 1929
Theodore Marburg
1862 - 1946
Charles Lee Reese
1862 - 1940
Thomas Cromwell Corner
1865 - 1938
Charles Christian Plitt
1869 - 1933
William Gibson Spiller
1863 - 1940
Charles E. Coates
1866 - 1939
Louis A. Simon
1867 - 1958
Caroline Bamberger Fuld
1864 - 1944
Frank Foreman
1863 - 1957
Edgar M. Lazarus
1868 - 1939
Crittenden Marriott
1867 - 1932
Les German
1869 - 1934
William L. Kenly
1865 - 1928
George Bell Jr.
1867 - 1926
Henrietta Vinton Davis
1860 - 1941
Ed Beatin
1866 - 1931
William Orndorff
1862 - 1927
Joe Yingling
1867 - 1903
Ida R. Cummings
1867 - 1958
Arthur G. Fisk
1868 - 1938
Jack Horner (baseball)
1863 - 1910
Jimmy Say
1862 - 1894
Charlie Yingling
1865 - 1897
Skyrocket Smith
1868 - 1916
Joe Miller (shortstop)
1861 - 1928
Charles Kephart Swartz
1861 - 1949
Sam Shaw (baseball)
1864 - 1947
Mike Gaule
1869 - 1918
Bill Gardner (baseball)
1868 - 1948
William Henry Hunt Gleason
1862 - 1949
John Lyston
1867 - 1909
Robert McLane
1867 - 1904
Harry Scherer
1868 - 1897
Frederick O'Brien
1869 - 1932
Ambrose McGann
1868 - 1941
Robert Emmet Callan
1864 - 1936
George Alexander (musician)
1867 - 1913
W. G. Read Mullan
1860 - 1910
Matthew Bacon Sellers II
1869 - 1932
Cuno Hugo Rudolph
1860 - 1932
George Powell
1869 - 1927
Alfred Jenkins Shriver
1867 - 1939
Richard E. S. Toomey
1862 - 1948
Fred Smith (1890s pitcher)
1863 - 1941
Caroline Latimer
1860 - 1933
Charles Gerhardt (Army officer)
1863 - 1957