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CLEVELAND

Most Famous People Born in Cleveland, United States

Notable people
2,168
Peak decade
1950s
Median birth year
1942
Most distinctive
Baseball 6.3×

A Great Lakes industrial city whose distinctive professions are baseball at six times the global rate, novelists, screenwriters, music, and basketball — the shape of a postwar industrial city that built a deep entertainment-and-letters bench out of its working-class neighbourhoods. Halle Berry, Henry Mancini, Jerry Siegel (who invented Superman here with Joe Shuster), and Tracy Chapman all belong to this bench. The 19th-century tail is thin; the city was essentially built by the oil and steel booms of the 1890s.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Cleveland during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1950s with 303 notable births.

What Cleveland Is Known For

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Football is Cleveland's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (226).

Cleveland over-indexes on baseball6.3× the global rate.

Cleveland under-produces politician — only 0.6× the global rate.

  1. Football226
  2. Actor171
  3. Politician163
  4. Baseball156
  5. Music81
  6. Basket66
  7. Lawyer61
  8. Singer57
  1. Baseball1566.3×
  2. Novelist293.4×
  3. Screenwriter293.1×
  4. Music812.6×
  5. Basket662.4×
  6. Business452.1×
  7. Artist381.7×
  8. Film451.7×
  1. Politician1630.6×
  2. Writer480.7×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Cleveland's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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Showing 183 of 2,168 notable people

0001 ACTOR

Halle Berry

Born 1966

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0008 SINGER

Tracy Chapman

Born 1964

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0024 ACTOR

Anna Gunn

Born 1968

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0028 MUSIC

Steven Adler

Born 1965

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0037 FILM

Lee Unkrich

Born 1967

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0040 SCIENTIST

Mehmet Oz

Born 1960

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0041 ACTOR

Kath Soucie

Born 1967

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0042 ARTIST

Brian Michael Bendis

Born 1967

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0045 WRITER

James Frey

Born 1969

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0050 SINGER

Gilby Clarke

Born 1962

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0069 WRITER

Dav Pilkey

Born 1966

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0074 ARTIST

Brian Azzarello

Born 1962

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0086 FILM

Richard Brooks (actor)

Born 1962

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0100 WRESTLER

Perry Saturn

Born 1966

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0101 SINGER

Jim Brickman

Born 1961

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0110 ACTOR

Paula Jai Parker

Born 1969

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0123 ACTOR

Daniel Waters (screenwriter)

Born 1962

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0125 ACTOR

Max Perlich

Born 1968

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0128 ACTOR

Jay Grdina

Born 1967

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0138 MATHEMATICIAN

Arthur T. Benjamin

Born 1961

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0151 ACTOR

Sean Kanan

Born 1966

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0159 BASKET

Charles Oakley

Born 1963

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0174 POLITICIAN

Mary Bono

Born 1961

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0178 SCREENWRITER

Stuart Blumberg

Born 1969

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0198 FILM

Quinton Flynn

Born 1964

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0244 BANK

Gary Cohn (investment banker)

Born 1960

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0284 SCREENWRITER

Alan B. McElroy

Born 1960

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0292 PHYSICIST

Mark Buchanan

Born 1961

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0295 POLITICIAN

Nina Turner

Born 1967

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0318 MUSIC

Sean Levert

1968 - 2008

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0321 BASKET

Scott Roth

Born 1963

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0334 SPRINT

Thomas Jefferson (athlete)

Born 1962

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0346 BASKET

Clark Kellogg

Born 1961

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0366 PHILOSOPHER

Paul Copan

Born 1962

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0370 SINGER

Jeffrey Hatrix

Born 1963

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0383 LAWYER

Frank H. Wu

Born 1967

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0388 POLITICIAN

Tony Perkins (politician)

Born 1963

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0416 ACTOR

Mark Hentemann

Born 1969

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0427 RESTAURATEUR

Michael Symon

Born 1969

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0443 PAINTER

Michael Cartellone

Born 1962

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0464 MUSIC

Anthony Burger

1961 - 2006

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0468 HOCKEY

David Ellett

Born 1964

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0485 BASEBALL

Jason Grimsley

Born 1967

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0489 ACTOR

Dan Yeager

Born 1965

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0502 ECONOMIST

David Cutler

Born 1965

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0507 ASTRONAUT

Mary Ellen Weber

Born 1962

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0520 FOOTBALL

Tom Tupa

Born 1966

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0534 PLAYER

Camille Benjamin

Born 1966

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0535 MUSIC

John Bell (musician)

Born 1962

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0538 NOVELIST

Elwood Reid

Born 1966

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0540 SINGER

Danny Vaughn

Born 1961

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0554 ACTOR

Julianne Buescher

Born 1965

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0559 LYRICIST

Kevin Prufer

Born 1969

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0577 MODEL

Jennifer Lyn Jackson

1969 - 2010

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0589 SHOT PUTTER

Kevin Toth

Born 1967

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0611 FILM

Khashyar Darvich

Born 1966

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0615 NOVELIST

S. Andrew Swann

Born 1966

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0631 ASTROPHYSICIST

Marc Kamionkowski

Born 1965

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0663 BASKET

Chris Mack (basketball)

Born 1969

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0680 ACADEMIC

Mike Schlaich

Born 1960

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0693 ACTOR

Penny Porsche

Born 1961

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0696 BOXER

Erich Gliebe

Born 1963

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0704 DRUMMER

Steve Felton

Born 1969

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0713 BASKET

Clinton Smith (basketball)

Born 1964

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0747 CORRESPONDENT

Evan Wright

Born 1966

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0821 PHOTOGRAPHER

Maggie Taylor

Born 1961

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0832 SCREENWRITER

Leslie Harris (director)

Born 1960

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0835 FOOTBALL

Oliver Luck

Born 1960

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0843 WRITER

Michael Ruhlman

Born 1963

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0849 COMPOSER

Kim Märkl

Born 1961

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0852 SONGWRITER

Thom Russo

Born 1969

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0861 JOURNALIST

Mary Jordan (journalist)

Born 1960

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0871 JOURNALIST

Kelly O'Donnell

Born 1965

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0877 ACTOR

James Wilder (actor)

Born 1968

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0893 JOURNALIST

Joe Posnanski

Born 1967

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0900 PSYCHOLOGIST

Jennifer Eberhardt

Born 1965

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0904 HOCKEY

Todd Harkins

Born 1968

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0924 PAINTER

H. Craig Hanna

Born 1967

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0925 CIVIL SERVICE

Capricia Marshall

Born 1964

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0938 LAWYER

Eugene Scalia

Born 1963

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0941 BASEBALL

Doug Dascenzo

Born 1964

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0966 FOOTBALL

Darryl Talley

Born 1960

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0968 MUSIC

Linda Rocco

Born 1966

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0977 WRITER

Daniel Stashower

Born 1960

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0980 ACTOR

Mitch Longley

Born 1965

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1004 LAWYER

Ralph Richard Banks

Born 1964

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1013 HOCKEY

John Fritsche Sr.

Born 1966

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1022 FOOTBALL

Dale Jones (American football)

Born 1963

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1025 ACTOR

Dawn Maxey

Born 1966

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1027 RABBI

Alysa Stanton

Born 1964

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1028 FOOTBALL

Tim McGee

Born 1964

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1056 SWIMMER

Melanie Valerio

Born 1969

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1063 TRANSLATOR

Susan Bernofsky

Born 1966

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1076 FOOTBALL

Bob Mrosko

Born 1965

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1085 SCIENTIST

Kevin Grazier

Born 1961

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1120 FOOTBALL

Eric Wilkerson

Born 1966

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1126 POLITICIAN

Sandra Williams

Born 1968

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1135 NOVELIST

Evan Fallenberg

Born 1961

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1139 FOOTBALL

Anthony Hancock (American football)

Born 1960

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1166 FOOTBALL

Tim Long (American football)

Born 1963

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1176 FILM

Alan Schechter (film producer)

1965 - 2005

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1184 LAWYER

Benita Y. Pearson

Born 1963

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1200 NOVELIST

Russell Potter

Born 1960

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1201 FENCER

Jon Normile

Born 1967

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1206 BASEBALL

Bruce Fields

Born 1960

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1215 ACTOR

John Henton

Born 1960

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1236 JOURNALIST

Lisa Miller (journalist)

Born 1963

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1255 ACTOR

Mark Setlock

Born 1968

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1271 LAWYER

Roberta A. Kaplan

Born 1966

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1275 JOURNALIST

Dana King

Born 1960

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1310 FOOTBALL

Jamie Mueller

Born 1964

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1316 BASEBALL

Kevin Rogers (baseball)

Born 1968

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1317 LAWYER

Steve Dettelbach

Born 1965

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1319 FENCER

Stephen Trevor

Born 1963

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1322 FILM

Robert Banks (filmmaker)

Born 1966

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1336 FOOTBALL

Paul McFadden

Born 1961

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1349 LAWYER

Matt Dolan

Born 1965

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1357 BASEBALL

Dave Mlicki

Born 1968

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1364 CONDUCTOR

John Morris Russell

Born 1961

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1366 FOOTBALL

Anthony Morgan (American football)

Born 1967

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1371 ARTIST

Tony Gardner (designer)

Born 1965

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1374 CYCLIST

Bobby Livingston (cyclist)

Born 1965

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1380 MISSING

Jonathan Cowan

Born 1965

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1381 COMIC

Dan Panosian

Born 1969

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1409 GOLF

Charlie Rymer

Born 1967

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1416 JUSTICE

Mary DeGenaro

Born 1961

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1420 POLITICIAN

David E. Miller

Born 1962

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1429 POLITICIAN

Marlene Anielski

Born 1961

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1440 GUITAR

John Sekula

1961 - 2010

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1479 FOOTBALL

Chris Walsh (American football)

Born 1968

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1487 FOOTBALL

Eric Ball (American football)

Born 1966

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1525 FOOTBALL

Wesley Carroll (wide receiver)

Born 1967

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1530 COACH

Randy Fichtner

Born 1963

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1531 FOOTBALL

John Guzik (defensive lineman)

Born 1962

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1538 BUSINESS

Richard J. Kramer

Born 1963

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1546 FILMMAKER

Tracey Anarella

Born 1963

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1547 BROADCAST

Sheraton Kalouria

Born 1965

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1562 SCULPTOR

Amy Sarkisian

Born 1969

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1576 POLITICIAN

Wayne Schmidt

Born 1966

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1582 BASEBALL

Bill Wertz

Born 1967

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1587 MODEL

Dee Ocleppo

Born 1966

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1591 FOOTBALL

Dave Zawatson

Born 1966

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1604 FOOTBALL

Eric Moten

Born 1968

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1606 LAWYER

Michael David Weiss

1967 - 1999

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1610 POLITICIAN

Alfred C. Carr Jr.

Born 1965

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1632 SPORT

Mike Priefer

Born 1966

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1637 JOURNALIST

Lori Stokes

Born 1962

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1638 SINGER

Jason White (singer-songwriter)

Born 1967

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1639 POLITICIAN

Kelly Skidmore

Born 1962

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1658 ACTOR

Aylam Orian

Born 1968

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1659 FOOTBALL

Mike McGruder

Born 1964

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1679 POLITICIAN

James M. Kelly (Maryland politician)

Born 1960

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1687 POLITICIAN

Mike Bell (politician)

Born 1963

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1694 COMPOSER

Trisha Ward

Born 1964

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1710 JOURNALIST

Lisa Colagrossi

1966 - 2015

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1728 FOOTBALL

Lou Rash

Born 1960

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1738 MUSIC

Tommy Organ

Born 1963

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1752 ACTOR

Lawrence Hecht

Born 1960

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1760 COMPOSER

Kermit Poling

Born 1960

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1761 SPORT

Greg Debeljak

Born 1965

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1779 ARTIST

Benton C Bainbridge

Born 1966

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1827 PAINTER

Steve Locke

Born 1963

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1844 RADIO

Dan McDowell

Born 1969

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1849 FOOTBALL

Roger Jones (American football)

Born 1969

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1853 COACH

Michael Grant (basketball)

Born 1963

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1859 COMEDIAN

David A. Arnold

Born 1968

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1882 PHYSICIAN

Nicholas P. Restifo

Born 1960

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1912 FOOTBALL

Pat Coleman

Born 1967

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1942 CIVIL RIGHTS

Philip Yenyo

Born 1965

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1950 POLITICIAN

Tom Woods (Montana politician)

Born 1961

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1964 GOLF

Karl Zoller

Born 1963

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1974 LAWYER

Linda Singer

Born 1966

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1977 FOOTBALL

Tim Tyma

Born 1960

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2037 VIOLIN

Oleh Mahlay

Born 1969

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2040 HANDBALL

Karyn Palgut

Born 1962

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2051 RADIO

Wayne Winsley

Born 1963

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2063 SINGER

Russell Hamilton

Born 1969

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2080 LAWYER

Carole Rendon

Born 1962

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2083 JOURNALIST

Tom Zeller Jr.

Born 1969

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2091 ARTIST

MaPo Kinnord

Born 1960

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2094 ACTOR

Walter Belcher

Born 1969

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2127 BASKET

Bill Melis

Born 1960

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2138 MEDIA

Janet Coats

Born 1963

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