Awesome Marylanders

Did you know these people were from Maryland?!?

Dr. Ben Carson 

{neurosurgeon}

 

Tom Clancy

{author}

Sylvester Stallone

{actor}

Michael Phelps

{Olympic swimmer}

Katie Ledecky

{Olympic swimmer}

Babe Ruth 

{baseball player}

Johns Hopkins

{businessman, philanthropist}

Francis Scott Key

{writer of the national anthem}

Harriet Tubman

{leader in the underground railroad}

Spiro T. Agnew

{39th Vice President of the United States}

Others Include:

David Hasselhoff (actor)

Thurgood Marshall (first African-American Justice on the Supreme Court)

Jim Henson (creator of the Muppets)

Benjamin Banneker (mathematician, writer, inventor, astronomer, publisher)

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And every state has their black sheep.... ours just happen to include Johns Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirator Samuel J. Mudd ... these, of course, would fall under the "non-awesome" section.