72 Notable alumni of University of Maryland, Baltimore
Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees
University of Maryland, Baltimore is ranked #216 in the world and #94 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 72 notable alumni from University of Maryland, Baltimore sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of Maryland, Baltimore won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Charles U. Gravatt
1849-1922 (aged 73)
politician
Charles Urquhart Gravatt was an American physician, naval officer, and Democratic politician who served as a member of the Virginia Senate from 1908 until his death in 1922. A veteran of the Spanish–American War, he served as the fleet surgeon under Admiral William T. Sampson at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
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2. Samuel Theobald
1846-1930 (aged 84)
ophthalmologist
Samuel Theobald was a clinical professor of ophthalmology and otology at Johns Hopkins University Medical School.
3. Harry Welles Rusk
1852-1926 (aged 74)
lawyer
politician
Harry Welles Rusk was a U.S. representative from the third district of Maryland. He was also the president of the Kennard Novelty Company in Baltimore. This was the first company to commercially sell ouija boards in 1890.
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4. Carroll Bond
1873-1943 (aged 70)
lawyer
judge
Carroll T. Bond was an American jurist who served as chief judge of the supreme court of the U.S. state of Maryland, the Court of Appeals.
5. Charles Boarman Harris
1857-1942 (aged 85)
surgeon
Dr. Charles Boarman Harris was an American physician and surgeon. The grandson of Rear Admiral Charles Boarman, he was among the original settlers in Pembina, the first settlement in the Dakota Territory. Harris was the first doctor to serve the general population in Pembina County, and to be medically licensed, serving as the county physician for nearly 60 years. At...
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6. George Alexander Pearre
1860-1923 (aged 63)
lawyer
politician
George Alexander Pearre was an American politician.
7. John Alexander Ahl
1813-1882 (aged 69)
politician
John Alexander Ahl was a surgeon, real estate developer, paper mill and iron furnace operator, railroad executive and United States Congressman from Pennsylvania. He was born in Strasburg, Pennsylvania in 1813.
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8. Eli Jones Henkle
1828-1893 (aged 65)
politician
Eli Jones Henkle was a U.S. Congressman from the fifth district of Maryland, serving three terms from 1875 to 1881.
9. Rodney Glisan
1827-1890 (aged 63)
military physician
Rodney L. Glisan, M.D. was an American medical doctor who served on the frontier in the United States Army and was well known as a medical authority in the 19th century.
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10. Linwood Clark
1876-1965 (aged 89)
lawyer
judge
politician
Linwood Leon Clark was a U.S. representative who represented the second Congressional district of the state of Maryland from 1929 to 1931.
11. William P. Spratling
1863-1915 (aged 52)
neurologist
William Philip Spratling was an American neurologist known for his advances in the treatment and study of epilepsy; he is often described as the first American epileptologist – a word he is credited with having coined in his 1904 work Epilepsy and Its Treatment.
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12. Richard Lankford
1914-2003 (aged 89)
lawyer
politician
Richard Estep Lankford represented the fifth district of the state of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives for five terms from 1955 to 1965.
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13. Carol Brown Goldberg
1940-. (aged 86)
artist
Carol Brown Goldberg is an American artist working in a variety of media. While primarily a painter creating heavily detailed work as large as 10 feet by 10 feet, she is also known for sculpture, film, and drawing. Her work has ranged from narrative genre paintings to multi-layered abstractions to realistic portraits to intricate gardens and jungles.
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14. William Purington Cole
1889-1957 (aged 68)
lawyer
judge
politician
William Purington Cole Jr. was an American jurist and politician. From 1927 to 1929 and from 1931 to 1942, Cole was a United States representative who represented the second district of Maryland. He later served as a judge of the United States Customs Court and as an associate judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
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15. Joanne Ciulla
1952-. (aged 74)
philosopher
Joanne Bridgett Ciulla is an American philosopher. She is a pioneer in the field of leadership ethics as well as teaching and publishing on business Ethics. She is currently a professor at the Rutgers Business School - Newark and New Brunswick and is the director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership. She has received several awards for her contributions to...
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16. E. H. Hedrick
1894-1954 (aged 60)
medical examiner
school superintendent
politician
Erland Harold Hedrick, better known as E. H. Hedrick was an American Democratic politician from West Virginia.
17. Vincent Luke Palmisano
1882-1953 (aged 71)
lawyer
politician
Vincent Luke Palmisano was an American politician from Maryland.
18. Jill E. Brown
1950-. (aged 76)
teacher
aircraft pilot
Jill E. Brown is a retired American pilot, who is the first African-American woman to become a pilot for a major American passenger airline.
19. Paul E. Knapp
military leader
military personnel
Paul E. Knapp is a major general in the Wisconsin Air National Guard. He resigned from his position as the adjutant general of the Wisconsin National Guard on June 6th 2024.
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20. Esteban Edward Torres
1930-2022 (aged 92)
diplomat
politician
Esteban Edward Torres was an American politician who served as member of the United States House of Representatives for California's 34th congressional district from 1983 to 1999.
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21. Adelaide C. Eckardt
1943-. (aged 83)
politician
Adelaide C. Eckardt is an American politician who was a member of the Maryland Senate, representing District 37.
22. Charles Bernard Day
1957-. (aged 69)
lawyer
judge
Charles Bernard Day is a former United States magistrate judge and former nominee to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. His nomination to a life-tenure, federal district court judgeship during 2010 and 2011 ran aground amid opposition from Republican senators, who objected to moving forward with a United States...
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23. Antonio Fernós-Isern
1895-1974 (aged 79)
cardiologist
politician
Antonio Fernós Isern was the first Puerto Rican cardiologist and the longest serving Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico in the United States Congress.
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24. George L. P. Radcliffe
1877-1974 (aged 97)
lawyer
politician
George Lovic Pierce Radcliffe was a Democratic Party member of the United States Senate who represented Maryland from 1935 to 1947.
25. Patrick O'Shea
scientist
Patrick G. O’Shea is an Irish-American scientist and academic. From February 2017 to September 2020, he was the fifteenth president of University College Cork. He was previously vice president and chief research officer at the University of Maryland.
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26. Josephine K. Olsen
1942-. (aged 84)
Josephine King Olsen served as the 20th Director of the Peace Corps from 2018 to 2021. She was appointed by President Donald Trump, and sworn in on March 30, 2018, after being confirmed by the Senate.
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27. Lynne A. Battaglia
1946-. (aged 80)
lawyer
judge
politician
Lynne Ann Battaglia is an American lawyer and former jurist from Howard County, Maryland. From 2001 to 2016 she served as an associate judge on the Maryland Court of Appeals.
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28. William S. Fulton
1795-1844 (aged 49)
lawyer
politician
newspaper editor
William Savin Fulton was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Arkansas from 1836 until his death in 1844. He had previously served as the fourth governor of Arkansas Territory, from 1835 to 1836, and the second secretary of the Arkansas Territory from 1829 to 1835.
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29. William Cabell Bruce
1860-1946 (aged 86)
lawyer
politician
William Cabell Bruce was an American lawyer, politician and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who represented the State of Maryland in the United States Senate from 1923 to 1929.
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30. Lola Akinmade Åkerström
1978-. (aged 48)
photographer
travel writer
Lola Akinmade Åkerström is a Nigerian photographer, speaker, travel storyteller and an international author whose books are published in 18 languages. She is based in Stockholm, Sweden. Her work focuses on culture, tradition, and lifestyle.
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31. Peter W. Bodde
1954-. (aged 72)
diplomat
Peter William Bodde is a member of the United States Foreign Service, and was the 8th United States Ambassador to Libya. He has previously served as the United States Ambassador to Nepal and as the United States Ambassador to Malawi, during which time he was credited for promoting awareness of HIV/AIDS discrimination.
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32. Harry Nice
1877-1941 (aged 64)
lawyer
judge
Harry Whinna Nice was an American politician and a member of the Republican Party who served as the 50th governor of Maryland from 1935 to 1939.
33. John Marshall Butler
1897-1978 (aged 81)
lawyer
politician
John Marshall Butler was an American lawyer and politician. A Republican, he served as a United States Senator from Maryland from 1951 to 1963.
34. John Christian Frederick Heyer
1793-1873 (aged 80)
missionary
John Christian Frederick Heyer was the first missionary sent abroad by Lutherans in the United States. He founded the Guntur Mission in Andhra Pradesh, India. "Father Heyer" is commemorated as a missionary in the Calendar of Saints of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on November 7, along with Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg and Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen.
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35. Isidor Rayner
1850-1912 (aged 62)
lawyer
politician
Isidor Rayner was a Democratic member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1905 to 1912. He also represented the Fourth Congressional District of Maryland from 1887 to 1889, and 1891 to 1895.
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36. Herbert O'Conor
1896-1960 (aged 64)
lawyer
politician
Herbert Romulus O'Conor was an American lawyer serving as the 51st governor of Maryland from 1939 to 1947. He also served in the United States Senate, representing Maryland from 1947 to 1953. He was a Democrat.
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37. Manuel Moreno
1781-1857 (aged 76)
physician
diplomat
librarian
politician
Manuel Moreno was an Argentine politician, brother of Mariano Moreno. He was one of the founders of the Federal Party in the province of Buenos Aires.
38. Austin Lane Crothers
1860-1912 (aged 52)
lawyer
judge
politician
Austin Lane Crothers, was an American politician and a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 46th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1908 to 1912.
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39. John Wesley Davis
1799-1859 (aged 60)
diplomat
judge
politician
John Wesley Davis was an American physician and Democratic politician, active in the mid-1800s. He is best known for serving as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Governor of the Oregon Territory, and as a four-time member of the Indiana state legislature.
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40. Rupert Blue
1868-1948 (aged 80)
surgeon
Rupert Lee Blue was an American physician and soldier. He was the fourth Surgeon General of the United States from 1912 to 1920. He served as president of the American Medical Association in 1916–17.
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41. Katherine Calvin
computer scientist
mathematician
earth scientist
Katherine Calvin is an American scientist. From 2022 to 2025, she was NASA's Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor. In July 2023, she was elected co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III. As an earth scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), she has researched human use of global resources using Earth modeling...
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42. Thomas V. Miller, Jr
1942-2021 (aged 79)
politician
Thomas Vincent Miller Jr., known as Mike Miller, was an American politician from Maryland. He had been a state senator representing the 27th District (Calvert, Charles, and Prince George's counties) from 1975 to 2020 and served as its President from 1987 to 2020. He was the longest-serving President of the Maryland Senate, and was for a period the longest-serving state...
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43. Albert Cabell Ritchie
1876-1936 (aged 60)
university teacher
lawyer
politician
Albert Cabell Ritchie was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat, he was the 49th governor of Maryland from 1920 to 1935. Ritchie was a conservative who campaigned for, but did not win, the presidential nomination in both 1924 and 1932. To date, Ritchie is the state's longest-serving governor, with almost 15 years of service (14 years, 11 months, and...
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44. Andre M. Davis
1949-. (aged 77)
lawyer
judge
Andre Maurice Davis is the former city solicitor for Baltimore and a former United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He was formerly a United States district judge and was nominated first for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit by President Bill Clinton in 2000....
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45. Daniel Brewster
1923-2007 (aged 84)
military officer
lawyer
politician
Daniel Baugh Brewster Sr. was an American attorney and politician from the state of Maryland. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in both chambers of the United States Congress as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1959 to 1963 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1963 to 1969. Previously, he...
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46. Joseph Tydings
1928-2018 (aged 90)
state's attorney
lawyer
politician
Joseph Davies Tydings was an American lawyer and politician from Maryland. A member of the Democratic Party, he was most notable for his service as a member of the United States Senate for only a single term from 1965 to 1971.
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47. Margarethe Cammermeyer
1942-. (aged 84)
nurse
military officer
politician
Margarethe "Grethe" Cammermeyer is a Norwegian-American former military officer. She served as a colonel in the Washington National Guard and became a gay rights activist.
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48. John P. Kennedy
1795-1870 (aged 75)
poet
lawyer
writer
slave driver
novelist
John Pendleton Kennedy was an American novelist, lawyer and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from July 26, 1852, to March 4, 1853, during the administration of President Millard Fillmore, and as a U.S. Representative from Maryland's 4th congressional district, during which he encouraged the United States government's study, adoption and implementation of the telegraph....
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49. Robert M. Parker, Jr
1947-. (aged 79)
writer
lawyer
journalist
publisher
Robert McDowell Parker Jr. is a retired American wine critic. His wine ratings on a 100-point scale and his newsletter The Wine Advocate are influential in American wine buying and are therefore a major factor in setting the prices for newly released Bordeaux wines. This made him the most widely known and influential wine critic in the world.
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50. Diana Trujillo
1981-. (aged 45)
military flight engineer
Lady Diana Trujillo Pomerantz is a Colombian-American aerospace engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She currently leads the engineering team at JPL responsible for the robotic arm of the Perseverance rover. On February 18, 2021, Trujillo hosted the first ever Spanish-language NASA transmission of a planetary landing, for the Perseverance rover landing on Mars.
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51. Samuel Mudd
1833-1883 (aged 50)
physician
farmer
politician
Samuel Alexander Mudd Sr. was an American physician who was imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth concerning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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52. Moonlight Graham
1877-1965 (aged 88)
baseball player
Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham was an American professional baseball player and physician who appeared as a right fielder in a single major league game for the New York Giants on June 29, 1905. His story was popularized by Shoeless Joe, a novel by W. P. Kinsella, and the subsequent 1989 film Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner, and featuring Burt...
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53. Elijah Cummings
1951-2019 (aged 68)
lawyer
judge
politician
Elijah Eugene Cummings was an American politician and lawyer who served in the United States House of Representatives for Maryland's 7th congressional district from 1996 until his death in 2019, when he was succeeded by his predecessor Kweisi Mfume. The district he represented included over half of the city of Baltimore, including most of the majority-black precincts of Baltimore County,...
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54. Martin O'Malley
1963-. (aged 63)
singer
guitarist
lawyer
politician
banjoist
Martin Joseph O'Malley is an American politician who served as the 17th commissioner of the Social Security Administration from 2023 to 2024. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 61st governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015 and the 48th mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007.
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55. Robin Quivers
1952-. (aged 74)
actor
radio personality
journalist
Robin Quivers is an American radio personality best known for being the long-running co-host of The Howard Stern Show.
56. Yehuda Fulda
1975-. (aged 51)
businessperson
Yehuda Fulda is a businessman involved in various ventures in the US, UK, Italy and Israel. He is a managing partner of TGX Holdings Archived 2016-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, a diversified holding company that includes real estate, consumer goods, telecom and venture capital.
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57. John Charles Linthicum
1867-1932 (aged 65)
lawyer
politician
John Charles Linthicum was a U.S. congressman from the 4th congressional district of Maryland, serving from 1911 to 1932.
58. Barbara Mikulski
1936-. (aged 90)
community organizer
university teacher
social worker
politician
Barbara Ann Mikulski is an American politician and social worker who served as a United States senator from Maryland from 1987 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she also served in the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1987. Mikulski is the third-longest-serving female United States senator, and the longest-serving U.S. senator in Maryland history.
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59. Louis L. Goldstein
1913-1998 (aged 85)
politician
Louis Lazerus Goldstein was an American politician who served as comptroller, or chief financial officer, of Maryland for ten terms from 1959 to 1998. A popular politician and lifelong Democrat, he was first elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1938 and served three terms in the Maryland Senate before winning election as Comptroller. He ran unsuccessfully for U.S....
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60. Joshua Weldon Miles
1858-1929 (aged 71)
lawyer
politician
Joshua Weldon Miles was an American politician.
61. William F. Goodling
1927-2017 (aged 90)
teacher
politician
William Franklin Goodling was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. At the time of his death, he was the Chairman of the Board of the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy.
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62. F. Mason Sones
1918-1985 (aged 67)
physician
F. Mason Sones, Jr. was an American physician whose pioneering work in cardiac catheterization was instrumental in the development of both coronary artery bypass surgery and interventional cardiology.
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63. L. Paige Marvel
1949-. (aged 77)
judge
Lynda Paige Marvel is an American lawyer who serves as a senior judge of the United States Tax Court.
64. Frank Cho
1971-. (aged 55)
screenwriter
comics artist
writer
Frank Cho is a Korean-American comic strip and comic book writer and illustrator, known for his series Liberty Meadows, as well as for books such as Shanna the She-Devil, Mighty Avengers and Hulk for Marvel Comics, and Jungle Girl for Dynamite Entertainment. Cho is noted for his figure drawing, precise lines, and depictions of curvaceous women.
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65. Elizabeth Bobo
1943-. (aged 83)
politician
Elizabeth Bobo is an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. She served as Howard County Executive and in the Maryland House of Delegates. Bobo was the first and only female Howard County Executive, serving from 1986 to 1990.
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66. Wendy Sherman
1949-. (aged 77)
diplomat
Wendy Ruth Sherman is an American diplomat who served as the United States deputy secretary of state from April 2021 to July 2023. She was a professor of the practice of public leadership and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, a senior counselor at Albright Stonebridge Group, and a senior fellow at the Belfer...
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67. Cyril Wecht
1931-2024 (aged 93)
physician
pathologist
lawyer
Cyril Harrison Wecht was an American forensic pathologist. He was president of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American College of Legal Medicine, and headed the board of trustees of the American Board of Legal Medicine. Wecht served as County Commissioner and Allegheny County Coroner and Medical Examiner, serving the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. He was perhaps best...
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68. Ben Cardin
1943-. (aged 83)
lawyer
politician
Benjamin Louis Cardin is an American lawyer and former politician who served as a United States senator from Maryland from 2007 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative for Maryland's 3rd congressional district from 1987 to 2007. Cardin served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1967 to 1987 and as its speaker from...
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69. Charles Mathias
1922-2010 (aged 88)
military officer
lawyer
politician
Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. was an American politician and attorney from the U.S. state of Maryland. A member of the Republican Party, he served in both chambers of the United States Congress as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1961 to 1969 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1969 to 1987. He...
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70. James M. Buchanan
1803-1876 (aged 73)
lawyer
diplomat
judge
politician
James McGill Buchanan Jr. was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory originally outlined in his most famous work, The Calculus of Consent, co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962. He continued to develop the theory, eventually receiving the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986.
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71. Laurie E. Locascio
1961-. (aged 65)
academic administrator
civil servant
analytical chemist
biomedical engineer
university teacher
Laurie Ellen Locascio is an American biomedical engineer, analytical chemist, and president and CEO of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). She was formerly the under secretary of commerce for standards and technology and the 17th director of National Institute of Standards and Technology from 2022 to 2024. From 2017 to 2021, Locascio was vice president for research of University...
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72. Sylvia Trent-Adams
1965-. (aged 61)
military personnel
nurse
Sylvia Trent-Adams is a retired U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps rear admiral, who last served as the principal deputy assistant secretary for health from January 2, 2019 to August 31, 2020. She previously served as the deputy surgeon general of the United States from October 25, 2015 to January 2, 2019. Trent-Adams also served as the acting surgeon general...
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