MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES


		MOST FAMOUS PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES


	Famous Marylanders Spiro T. Agnew vice president, Baltimore Benjamin Banneker mathematician, astronomer, Oella/Ellicott City John Barth writer, Cambridge Eubie Blake musician, Baltimore John Wilkes Booth actor, Lincoln assassin, Harford County Francis X. Bushman actor, Baltimore James M. Cain writer, Annapolis Samuel Chase jurist, Sumerset Cty John Dickinson statesman, Talbot Cty Frederick Douglass abolitionist, Tuckahoe Christopher Gist frontiersman, Baltimore Philip Glass composer, Baltimore Matthew Henson explorer, Charles Cty Billie Holiday jazz-blues singer, Baltimore Johns Hopkins financier, Anne Arundel Cty Reverdy Johnson lawyer, statesman, Annapolis Thomas Johnson political leader, Calvert Cty Francis Scott Key laywer, author, Carroll Cty Thurgood Marshall jurist, Baltimore H. L. Mencken writer, Baltimore Charles Willson Peale painter, naturalist Queen Annes Cty Babe Ruth baseball player, Baltimore Upton Sinclair author, Baltimore Roger B. Taney jurist, Calvert Cty Harriet Tubman abolitionist, Dorchester Cty Leon Uris author, Baltimore Frank Zappa singer, Baltimore Famous Bay Staters John Adams 2nd U.S. president, Braintree John Quincy Adams 6th U.S. president, Braintree Samuel Adams patriot, Boston Jack Albertson actor, Malden Horatio Alger author, Revere Susan B. Anthony woman suffragist, Adams F. Lee Bailey defense attorney, Waltham Clara Barton American Red Cross founder, Oxford Leonard Bernstein conductor, Lawrence Forrest M. Bird inventor, Stoughton Harold Stephen Black inventor, Leominster Rachel Fuller Brown inventor, Springfield William Cullen Bryant poet, editor, Cummington Luther Burbank horticulturalist, Lancaster George Bush 41st U.S. president, Milton John Chapman / Johnny Appleseed nurseryman, Leominster William D. Coolidge inventor, Hudson John Singleton Copley painter, Boston E. E. Cummings poet, Cambridge Bette Davis actress, Lowell Cecil B. DeMille film director, Ashfield Emily Dickinson poet, Amherst Ralph Waldo Emerson philosopher, poet, Boston		Brian Evans singer, Haverhill Ann Smith Franklin printer, almanac publisher, Boston Benjamin Franklin statesman, scientist, Boston Buckminster Fuller architect, educator, Milton Robert Hutchings Goddard rocketry, Worcester John Hancock statesman, Braintree Nathaniel Hawthorne author, Salem Oliver Wendell Holmes poet, Cambridge Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. jurist, Boston Winslow Homer painter, Boston Elias Howe inventor, Spencer Helen Hunt Jackson writer, Amherst John F. Kennedy U.S. president, Brookline Amy Lowell poet, Brookline Percival Lowell astronomer, Boston James Russell Lowell poet, Cambridge Robert Lowell poet, Boston Horace Mann educator, Franklin Cotton Mather clergyman, Boston Sharon Christa McAuliffe teacher, astronaut, Framingham Samuel F. B. Morse painter, inventor, Charlestown Leonard Nemoy actor, Boston Albert Pike pioneer teacher, lawyer, Boston Edgar Allan Poe writer, Boston Ella Raines actress, Snoquaimie Paul Revere silversmith, Revolutionary War figure, Boston Robert H. Rines inventor, Boston Dr. Seuss Theodore Geisel author, illustrator, Springfield Lucy Stone woman suffragist, West Brookfield Louis Henry Sullivan architect, Boston Henry David Thoreau author, Concord Max Tishler inventor, Boston James McNeill Whistler painter, Lowell Eli Whitney inventor, Westborough John Greenleaf Whittier poet, Haverhill Eli Whitney inventor, Westboro Jo Dee Messina country singer Famous Michiganians Nelson Algren author, Detroit Ralph J. Bunche statesman, Detroit Ellen Burstyn actress, Detroit Bruce Catton historian, Petoskey Roger Chaffee astronaut, Grand Rapids Francis Ford Coppola film director, Detroit Thomas E. Dewey politician, Owosso Edna Ferber author, Kalamazoo Henry Ford industrialist, Dearborn Julie Harris actress, Grosse Pointe Park William R. Hewlett inventor, Ann Arbor Earvin Magic Johnson basketball player, Lansing Donald B. Keck inventor, Lansing Julie Krone jockey, Benton Harbor Ring Lardner writer, Niles	Charles A. Lindbergh aviator, Detroit Madonna singer, Bay City Dick Martin comedian, Detroit John N. Mitchell attorney general, Detroit Ted Nugent singer, Detroit John T. Parsons inventor, Detroit Gilda Radner comedienne, Detroit Della Reese singer, Detroit Diana Ross singer, Detroit Thomas Schippers conductor, Kalamazoo Steven Seagal actor, Lansing Bob Seger singer, Detroit Tom Selleck actor, Detroit John C. Sheehan inventor, Battle Creek Potter Stewart jurist, Jackson Lily Tomlin actress, Detroit Danny Thomas entertainer, Deerfield Margaret Whiting singer, Detroit Stevie Wonder singer, Saginaw Famous Minnesotans LaVerne, Maxene, and Patti Andrews singers, Minneapolis Warren E. Burger jurist, Saint Paul William Demarest actor, Saint Paul William Orville Douglas jurist, Maine Bob Dylan singer, composer, Duluth Francis Scott Fitzgerald author, Saint Paul James Earle Fraser sculptor, Winona Judy Garland singer, actress, Grand Rapids Jean Paul Getty oil executive, Minneapolis Duane Hanson sculptor, Alexandria Garrison Keillor humorist, Anoka Jessica Lange actress, Cloquet Sinclair Lewis author, Sauk Center Edward Lowe inventor, Saint Paul Cornell MacNeil baritone, Minneapolis John Madden sportscaster, Austin Roger Maris baseball player, Hibbing E. G. Marshall actor, Owatonna Charles Horace Mayo surgeon, Rochester William J. Mayo surgeon, Le Sueur Eugene J. McCarthy senator, Watkins Kate Millett feminist, Saint Paul Walter F. Mondale Vice President, Celyon Prince Rogers Nelson singer, Minneapolis Lauris Norstad commander of NATO forces, Minneapolis Westbrook Pegler columnist, Minneapolis Jane Russell actress, Bemidji Winona Ryder actress, Winona Harrison E. Salisbury journalist, Minneapolis Charles Monroe Schulz cartoonist, Minneapolis Kevin Sorbo actor, Mound Maurice H. Stans secretary of commerce, Shakopee Harold Edward Stassen government official, Saint Paul Michael Todd producer, Minneapolis Jesse Ventura politician, entertainer, Minneapolis