Born on October 31, 1959 in Fort Meade, Maryland, Stephenson came from a family of engineers and hard scientists ; his father is a professor of electrical engineering whose father was a physics professor.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the only son of Jacob Hackerman and Anna Raffel, immigrants from the Baltic regions of the Russian Empire that later became Estonia and Latvia, respectively.

Born in Charles County, Maryland, Mudd was the fourth of ten children of Henry Lowe and Sarah Ann Reeves Mudd.

Born in Baltimore County, Maryland to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little formal education and was largely self-taught.

Born in Lonaconing, Maryland, Grove was a sandlot star in the Baltimore area during the 1910s.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 3, 1956, Williams enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps upon graduating high school in 1974.

Born in Washington D. C., Sugar graduated from the University of Maryland.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Andrew Sterett was the son of John Sterett, a former Revolutionary War captain and a successful shipping merchant.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, into a conservative, upper-middle-class family, he became involved with John Waters and Waters's acting troupe, the Dreamlanders, in the mid-1960s and starred in a number of Waters's early films such as Mondo Trasho ( 1969 ), Multiple Maniacs ( 1970 ), Pink Flamingos ( 1972 ) and Female Trouble ( 1974 ).

Born in in Washington, DC, Lovins spent much of his youth in Silver Spring, Maryland and in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Jada Koren Pinkett was named after her mother's favorite soap opera actress, Jada Rowland.

Born into slavery in Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Ontario, Canada, in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden in Kent County.

Born in Portland, Oregon, Hanna moved with her family to Calverton, Maryland in 1971.

Born in Hughesville, Maryland, Turner attended Episcopal local schools after Catholic schools refused to admit him because of his race.

Born Charles Joseph Parrott in Baltimore, Maryland, Chase began performing in vaudeville as a teenager and started his career in films by working at the Christie Film Company in 1912.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 25, 1795, the son of merchant John Kennedy and Nancy Pendleton.

Born free in Baltimore, Maryland, she had a long and prolific career, publishing her first book of poetry at age 20 and her first novel, the widely praised Iola Leroy, at age 67.

Born in Calvert County, Maryland, on September 21, 1788, the daughter of Walter Smith, a prosperous Maryland planter and veteran officer of the American Revolution, and Ann Mackall-Smith, " Peggy " was raised amid refinement and wealth.

Born at Quantico in Somerset County, Maryland, Pattison's family moved to Philadelphia when he was five.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Miller attended the University of Wisconsin – Madison and spent the early part of her career as a journalist.

Born at “ Richfields ” ( his father's farm ), near Frederick, Maryland, Schley graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1860, and went as midshipman on board the frigate Niagara to China and Japan.

Born in the historic village of Bartonsville in Frederick, Maryland, Bowie grew up in St Louis, Missouri.

Born in 1846 in Sykesville, Maryland, he also served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1876 to 1878.

Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, Carrel was raised in a devout Catholic family and was educated by Jesuits, though he no longer practiced his religion when he entered the university.

Born and raised in Arkansas, Clinton became both a student leader and a skilled musician.

Born in McComb, Mississippi, as Ellas Otha Bates, he was adopted and raised by his mother's cousin, Gussie McDaniel, whose surname he assumed, becoming Ellas McDaniel.

Born December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey, Sinatra was the only child of Italian immigrants Natalie Della ( Garaventa ) and Antonino Martino Sinatra, and was raised Roman Catholic.

Born in Exeter, England, and raised on cricket, Chadwick was one of the prime movers in the rise of baseball to its unprecedented popularity at the turn of the 20th century.

Born Farrokh Bomi Bulsara to Indian parents in Zanzibar, he was raised in Panchgani near Mumbai.

Born in Canton, China and raised in Hong Kong and Shanghai, Pei drew inspiration at an early age from the gardens at Suzhou.

Born in Burslem, Staffordshire, England, the twelfth and last child of Thomas Wedgwood and Margret Wedgwood ( née Stringer ; d. 1766 ), Josiah was raised within a family of English Dissenters.

Born and raised in Jerusalem, Josephus was educated alongside his brother.

Born in Hornell, New York, United States, Freas ( pronounced like " freeze ") was the son of two photographers, and was raised in Canada.

Born into a life of luxury, he was raised next door to the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

Born John Smith Hurt in Teoc, Carroll County, Mississippi and raised in Avalon, Mississippi, he learned to play guitar at age nine.

Born and raised in Iran, Saidi went to the United States in 1931 and attended college there.

Born and raised in Mbewuleni, what is now the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, Mbeki is one of four children of Epainette and Govan Mbeki.

Born in Sioux City, Iowa, and raised in the midwestern states of Nebraska, Missouri and Illinois, Admiral Clark graduated from Evangel College and earned a Master's Degree of Business Administration ( MBA ) from the University of Arkansas.

Born and raised in Brantford, Ontario, Gretzky honed his skills at a backyard rink and regularly played minor hockey at a level far above his peers.

Born in Osaka Prefecture, he was raised in Tottori Prefecture from the age of four.

Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.

* Born and raised in Hamburg, Schmidt is regarded in Germany as an embodiment of hanseatic values, according to which he has never accepted a medal or an order of merit ( not even the Federal Republic's Federal Cross of Merit ).

Born and raised in Damascus, he died at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem.

Born in Louisiana and raised in Florida, Lincks was inspired to write the play after visiting the Pleasant Hills Shaker village in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, a restored community that the Shakers occupied for more than a century, before abandoning it in 1927 because of the inability of the sect to attract new converts.

Born and raised in Chicago's South Side, Margulis, along with her three siblings, attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

Born and raised in East Donegal.

Born and raised in Burt.

A staunch supporter of Scottish independence, he was a member of the S. N. P .. Born in Glasgow to Donegal parents, he was raised at Glencar in Letterkenny and was educated at St. Eunan's College.