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| Benjamin Banneker | Ellicott | 1731-1806 | Mathematician | | | -------------------------- | ------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------- | | | Anna Ellis Carroll | Pocomoke City | 1815-1893 | Political science writer | | | Charles Carroll | Annapolis | 1737-1832 | Revolutionary leader, public official | | | Samuel Chase | Somerset County | 1741-1811 | Supreme Court justice | | | Stephen Decatur | Sineppuxent | 1779-1820 | Naval officer | | | John Dickinson | Talbot County | 1732-1808 | Colonial figure, public official | | | Frederick Douglass | Tuckahoe | 1817-1895 | social reformer | | | John Hanson | Charles County | 1721-1783 | President under the Articles of Confederation | | | Billie Holiday | Baltimore | 1915-1959 | Singer | | | Francis Scott Key | Carroll County | 1779-1843 | Lawyer, poet | | | Thurgood Marshall | Baltimore | 1908-1993 | Supreme Court justice | | | Henry Louis Mencken | Baltimore | 1880-1956 | Journalist, editor, critic | | | Charles Willson Peale | Queen Anne?s County | 1741-1827 | Artist, naturalist | | | Anne Newport Royall | Maryland | 1769-1854 | Author | | | James Rumsey | Cecil County | 1743-1792 | Inventor | | | George Herman (Babe) Ruth | Baltimore | 1895-1948 | Baseball player | | | Upton Beall Sinclair | Baltimore | 1878-1968 | Author, social reformer | | | Roger Brooke Taney | Calvert County | 1777-1864 | Chief justice of the United States | | | Harriet Tubman | Dorchester County | 1820?-1913 | Abolitionist | | | Leon Uris | Baltimore | 1924- | Author | | | Mason Locke (Parson) Weems | Anne Arundel County | 1759-1825 | Author | |