Since being established after a long civic campaign for higher public education during the early 19th century by an act of the Baltimore City Council in March 1839 and opened the following October in a rented town / rowhouse, hundreds of influential civic, political, business, commercial, industrial, and cultural leaders have passed through its doors at eight geographic sites in the 185 years since. Many graduates of City College have served as members of the United States Congress (U.S. Senators and Representatives), state senators and delegates in the General Assembly of Maryland, the Baltimore City Council, the adjacent surrounding separate Baltimore County Council, plus numerous federal, state and local circuit judges, along with award-winning journalists / authors; leaders in business, commerce, the military, academics, the sciences, and the arts. These lists includes three former Governors of Maryland, six Mayors of Baltimore and County Executives, and recipients of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Wolf Prize. Of the seven Maryland recipients of the famous Congressional Medal of Honor between World War I and World War II, three were graduates of the Baltimore City College. Numerous bridges, highways, buildings, lunar craters, institutions, monuments, and professorships throughout the region, state and nation have been named for B.C.C. alumni / "Collegians".
Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
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| 1931[1] | Musician[2] |
| 1943[3] | Began writing as a reporter for The Evening Sun (old daily afternoon newspaper in Baltimore, 1910-1995), later moving to become a writer, reporter, and features / opinion columnist for The New York Times and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner among other literary and journalism awards. He wrote 17 published books of commentary and two volumes of memoirs, the first about his student years at "City" and his youth in Baltimore during the 1930s and 1940s in his memoir Growing Up (published 1982). For over a half-century, he was one of the most well-known and respected journalists / commentators in the country. He also served over a decade (1992-2004) (succeeding the longtime famous Briton Alistair Cooke) as the host / commentator on the Masterpiece Theatre drama program on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS-TV) |
| 1958 | Jazz musician, Grammy Award winner |
| 1928 | Abstract expressionist painter |
Ciera Nicole Butts | 2008[4] | Miss District of Columbia USA 2014; television personality, Last Squad Standing; winner[5] |
| 1962 | Author of over 50 science fiction/fantasy novels |
| 1964 | Broadway actor, Tony Award nominee |
| 1957 | Author, writer, publisher, speaker, certified public accountant |
| 1954*[6] | Avant garde composer[7] |
| 1933[8] | Painter; works are in permanent collections at the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City |
| 1918[9] | Musician, conductor |
| 1904 | Character actor and voice narrator in film, television, and stage |
| 1933[10] | Author, screenwriter; helped create the film/television cartoon character of "Mr. Magoo" |
| 1967? | Rock musician, radio host |
| 1940 | Radio talk show host in Washington, D.C. and New York |
Reuben Kramer | 1925 | Nationally famous abstract sculptor who won numerous national and international prizes. Sculpted large stone statue of "The Dying Centaur" formerly exhibited during 1930s in central Trophy Hall on second floor (adjacent to B.C.C. Library), which later mysteriously disappeared.[11] |
Rowan LeCompte | 1942 | Stained glass artist, Examples of work placed in windows of the National Cathedral on Mount Saint Alban in Washington, D.C., and other notable places[12] |
| 1984 | Author[13] |
| 1933 | Nationally known TV network variety and game show host in New York City and Hollywood, California during the 1950s and 1960s. Began his acting / entertainment career at the recently constructed "Castle" during his student years documented in the pages of newly founded (1929) student weekly newspaper"The Collegian" and "The Green Bag" yearbook |
| 1946 | News anchor WBAL-TV (Channel 11), local TV variety and game show host plus announcer[14] |
| 1928[15] | Writer, won Academy Award ("Oscar") and Golden Globe for screenplay of Battleground War film |
| 1937 | Television and radio host |
| 1993 | Singer, member of Dru Hill |
| 1932 | Poet; literary critic; professor, Johns Hopkins University; Pulitzer Prize winner |
| 1919[16] | Poet and founder of Aesthetic Realism |
| 1962 | Actor, appeared in 1990s legal television drama L.A. Law and earlier Diner (in 1982, first of a series of feature films about Baltimore life, produced / directed by fellow Baltimorean Barry Levinson) |
| 1942*[17] [18] | Writer, author of Exodus and numerous other literary classics, several of which were produced into major motion pictures or television series |
| 1930 | Television and film writer, producer; director; credits include numerous Western programs such as Gunsmoke, Rawhide, The Virginian among others, and Playhouse 90.[19] |
| 1929 | Composer |
| 1870*[20] | Author, civil libertarian, and attorney[21] |
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Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
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| 1887[22] | Founder of Abercrombie & Fitch |
| 1956[23] | President and chairman of the Cordish Company |
| 1955[24] | President, Abell Foundation (established by the family / descendants of Arunah Shepherdson Abell (1806-1888) and the subsequent A.S. Abell & Company, (longtime publishers of The Baltimore Sunpapers since 1837 to 1986, named for the major co-founder of the local daily group of newspapers); Also served as Baltimore City Housing Commissioner and head of the City's Department of Housing and Community Development (1968–1977) under longtime Mayor William Donald Schaefer, began many visionary programs for urban renewal. Foundation takes an active special interest and support for the City College faculty / student body and experience[25] |
| 1967 | President and Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O.) of The Harbor Bank of Maryland (a.k.a Harbor Bankshares Corporation), which has headquarters in the city and numerous branches throughout the metropolitan area[26] |
| 1961[27] | United States Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, Vice Chair of Goldman Sachs financial firm[28] |
| 1924[29] | Lawyer, entrepreneur, philanthropist; co-founder of the former Baltimore Colts pro football franchise in the National Football League (NFL), 1952-1984, along with Carroll Rosenbloom[30] |
| 1916[31] | Business tycoon, philanthropist, and president of McCormick & Company, nationally famous spice and foods manufacturer (formerly headquartered by Baltimore Inner Harbor, later relocated to Hunt Valley, Baltimore County), endowed annual tradition of a televised banquet on WMAR-TV (Channel 2) for the Charles P. McCormick Unsung Hero Award and Scholarships, awarded to numerous designated high school athletes of the metro Baltimore area secondary schools. |
| 1915[32] | Entrepreneur, owner / operator of numerous local movie and live entertainment theaters, builder of the landmark modernist style Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in Charles Center (by Hopkins Plaza at West Baltimore and North Charles Streets) as part of downtown renewal in 1967-2017 |
| 1915 | Business tycoon, and former longtime president of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Namesake and prime developer for the construction of the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall as an expansive multi-million dollars new home for the orchestra on Mount Royal Avenue in 1982 |
| 1930[33] | President, Mercantile Safe Deposit, Bank & Trust Company of Baltimore, longtime third largest independent bank with a prominent local reputation in the city and state before wave of mergers and out-of-town ownership take-overs and consolidation in the 1990s |
| 1927 | Founder of the Londontown Manufacturing Company, originator of the famous London Fog all-weather and raincoat, major international influence on clothing industry, Offices / plant located at the old 1870s era Meadow Mill, by the Jones Falls stream between Hampden-Woodberry neighborhoods, later relocated in 1990s to Eldersburg in Carroll County, Maryland[34] |
| 1952 | M.D., Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O.), University of Maryland Medical System / University of Maryland Hospital at U.M. at Baltimore |
| 1949 | Founder, Martins West-Martins Caterers, located off the Baltimore Beltway (Interstate 695), west of the city |
| 1926[35] | Former co-founder/owner of the longtime local pro football franchise team Baltimore Colts (1952-1972, now the Indianapolis Colts after 1984), and later Los Angeles Rams (1972) in the National Football League (NFL) |
| 1966 | Business tycoon and co-founder of The Carlyle Group, an investment capital firm, Arranged new local ownership group to purchase the Baltimore Orioles, local Major League Baseball franchise team in the American League in 2023, Also hosts weekly American history program on Maryland Public Television, syndicated nationwide on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS-TV)[36] |
| 1958 | President, Atlanta Braves (Major League Baseball (MLB) in the National League) in Atlanta, Georgia |
| 1913[37] | Electrical engineer and business tycoon |
| 1960 | Philanthropist; Senior Vice President, United Parcel Service (U.P.S,) | |
Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
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| 1897 | Economist, Yale University; President, American Economic Association (1927) |
| 1954 | Head of Advertising and Public Relations Drake University School of Journalism |
| 1961 | Bishop, Fifth Episcopal District, African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| 1905[38] | Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| 1964 | Dean of Graduate Studies, MIT (1999–present)[39] |
| 1927 | President, Teachers College, Columbia University; Superintendent, Baltimore City Public School System, enforced the desegregation of the school system[40] |
| 1868[41] | Political scientist, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University; President, American Political Science Association |
| 1928 | Chemist; president, Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin; National Medal of Science; Vannevar Bush Award (1993) |
| 1878[42] | Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1899–1911) |
| 1928 | Former President, American Jewish Congress |
| 1889 | Dean of faculty, professor, Johns Hopkins University |
| 1953 | Biographer of Benjamin Franklin, du Pont Winterthur Professor of English at the University of Delaware |
| 1935[43] | Political scientist, Harvard University (1948–1984) |
| 1921[44] | Dean of Students, Mathematician, Johns Hopkins University; member, Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame[45] |
| 1908[46] | Burgess Professor of Public Law, Columbia University (1920–1959); director, Social Science Research Council (1934–36), and prolific writer |
| 1967 | President, University of Baltimore, former Dean, Howard University School of Law; 46th Mayor, City of Baltimore |
| 1902 | Founding President, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania[47] |
| | Methodist minister, educator, and the co-founder of Goucher College[48] |
| 1960 | First African American Bishop of the Episcopal Church |
| 1894 | Longest serving superintendent, Baltimore City Public School System 1924–1945[49] |
| 1888 | President, Towson University; Superintendent, Baltimore City Public School System | |
Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
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| 1967[56] | Delegate, District 43, Baltimore (1983–1995, 2003–2023); longest serving chairman of the Baltimore City Delegation (2006–2018) |
| 1905[57] | Delegate, Baltimore County, 1914 |
| 1926 | Delegate (1936–38); Judge, Baltimore Supreme Bench[58] |
| 1953[59] | Delegate, District 46, Baltimore (1979–1994)[60] |
| [61] | Delegate, Baltimore County (1920) and State Senator, Baltimore County (1935–1937) |
| 1994 | Delegate, District 43A Baltimore (2023-present) |
| 1921[62] | Delegate, District 4, Baltimore City (1929–1933), Senate,District 4, Baltimore City (1935–1939)[63] |
| 1968 | Delegate, District 40, Baltimore City (1987–2005)[64] |
| 1961 | Delegate, District 43, Baltimore County and Baltimore City (1967–1992) |
| 1966 | Delegate, District 5B, Baltimore County (1983–1994) |
| 1962 | Delegate, District 11, Baltimore County (1975–1994)[65] |
| 1964 | Delegate, District 7 Baltimore County (1979–1983, 2003–present) |
| 1955 | Delegate, District 43, Baltimore City (1983–1987)[66] |
| 1982 | Delegate, District 41, Baltimore City (1999–2003)[67] |
| 1964 | Delegate, District 34, Harford County (1999–2003, 2007–present) |
| 1954 | Delegate, District 44, Baltimore City (1971–1983)[68] |
| 1968 | Delegate, District 41, Baltimore City (1983–present)[69] |
| 1940 | Delegate, District 5, Baltimore City (1955–1965)[70] |
| 1960 | Delegate, District 41, Baltimore City (1969–82)[71] |
| 1952 | Delegate, District 5, Baltimore City (1966–1970); Councilman, Baltimore City Council (1971–1977)[72] |
| 1843 | Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates (1868); Delegate (1852–1854)[73] |
| 1929 | State Senator (1959–1962); Delegate (1942–50)[74] |
| 1928[75] | President of the Maryland Senate (1951–1954), (1959–1962); State Senator (1941–1962)[76] |
| 1966 | State Senator, District 40, Baltimore City (1991–2007); Delegate (1983–1991)[77] |
| 1949 | State Senator, District 44, Baltimore City (1967–1994)[78] |
| 1964[79] | State Senator, District 45, Baltimore City (1995–present) |
| 1929 | President of the Maryland Senate (1920–1922); State Senator, District 1, Baltimore City (1916–1922); Delegate, District 1, Baltimore City (1904)[80] |
| 1950 | Lieutenant Governor (1986–1994); President of Maryland State Senate (1983–1986); State Senator (1967–1986) [81] |
| 1953 | State Senator, District 45, Baltimore County (1966–present) | |
Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
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| 1953[82] | Maryland Court of Special Appeals, Judge (1982–1995); Baltimore County Circuit Court, Judge (1977–82); District Court (1972–77); Maryland House of Delegates, Delegate, Baltimore County (1967–73)[83] |
| 1932 | Circuit Court, Anne Arundel County, Judge |
| 1938[84] | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1971–1992); Maryland House of Delegates, Delegate, District 5, Baltimore City (1951–1962)[85] |
| 1858[86] | Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1903–1906)[87] |
| 1915 | United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Judge (1959–1997) |
| 1960 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1983–present)[88] |
| 1956 | Circuit Court, Carroll County, Judge (1990–2005); State Senator, Carroll County (1982–1990); Maryland House of Delegates, Delegate, Carroll County (1972–1982)[89] |
| 1956 | Circuit Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1978–1985)[90] |
| 1971[91] | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1998–present)[92] |
| 1917 | Municipal Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1970s)[93] |
| 1938 | District Court, Baltimore City, Administrative Judge (1980s–1990s)[94] |
| 1917 | Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1952–1970)[95] |
| 1941 | Baltimore County, trial magistrate[96] |
| 1960 | Circuit Court, Baltimore County, Judge (2000–present)[97] |
| 1965 | District Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1994–present)[98] |
| 1958 | District Court, Washington County, Judge (1995–present)[99] |
| 1936 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1973–1991)[100] |
| 1968 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1984–present)[101] |
| 1946 | Circuit Court, Baltimore City, Chief Judge (1984–1998), Judge (1967–1998) |
| 1919 | Maryland Court of Appeals, Chief Judge (1966–1971), Judge (1952–1966) |
| 1924[102] | Chief Judge, Supreme Bench of Baltimore City (1962–1976) |
| 1950[103] | Circuit Court Baltimore County (1981–2002), District Court, Baltimore County (1971–1981)[104] |
| 1961 | Circuit Court of Loudoun County, Virginia (1982–)[105] |
| 1966[106] | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1980–1985)[107] |
| 1948 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1973–2000), Delegate, Baltimore City (1963–1973)[108] |
| 1936 | Municipal Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1968–1988)[109] |
| 1965 | District Court, Baltimore County, Judge (2002–present)[110] |
| 1936 | Circuit Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1971–1980)[111] |
| 1947[112] | Circuit Court Baltimore City (1971–2004) |
| 1966 | Circuit Court Baltimore County (1981–2002)[113] |
| 1899 | Maryland Court of Appeals, Chief Judge (1944–1952), Judge (1941–1944) |
. | 1925 | Maryland Court of Special Appeals, Judge (1972–1977)[114] |
| 1917[115] | Circuit Court, Baltimore, Judge (1944–1956) |
| 1949 | Maryland Court of Special Appeals, Judge (1970–2000)[116] |
| 1937 | United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Circuit Judge (1979–2000)[117] |
| 1917[118] | Maryland Court of Appeals, Judge (1964–1967) |
| 1966 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1985–present)[119] |
| 1939[120] | Circuit Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1980–1992) |
| 1964 | Circuit Court, Baltimore City, Chief Judge (2006–2010), Judge (1986–2010) [121] |
| 1965 | United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge (2003–present) [122] |
| 1946 | District Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1974–1998) |
| 1877 (left to attend University of Maryland) | United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Circuit Judge (1922–1927) United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge (1910–1922); U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland (1898–1910) |
| 1953 | District Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1998–2004)[123] |
| 1970 | District Court, Howard County, Judge (1998–2002) |
| 1934[124] | Circuit Court, Baltimore County, Judge (1980–1988) |
| 1964[125] | Circuit Court, Baltimore, Judge (2010–) |
| 1929[126] | Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1964–1981); Maryland House of Delegates, Delegate, District 4, Baltimore (1939–1954)[127] |
| 1930 | United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals 1967–1977[128] |
| 1936 | Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, Chief Justice (1953–1957), Associate Justice (1942–1953) |
| 1909 | United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Chief Judge (1958–1964), Circuit Judge (1956–1958); United States Solicitor General (1954–1956)[129] |
| 1927 [130] | Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1956–1980), Chief Judge (1975–1980), Baltimore City State's Attorney (1950–1956) |
| 1890 | United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Circuit Judge (1931–1963) |
| 1925 | Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1921–1936) |
| 1947[131] | Circuit Court, Baltimore City, Judge (1985–1996) |
| 1843 | Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, Judge (1882–1893) |
| 1936[132] | District and Circuit, Worcester County, Judge |
| 1918 | United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge (1955–1986) |
| 1954 | Maryland Court of Appeals, Judge (1996–2007); Maryland Court of Special Appeals, Chief Judge (1990–1996), Judge (1977–1990) |
| 1967 | Judge, Maryland Court of Special Appeals (2008–), Baltimore County Circuit Court, 3rd Judicial Circuit (1998–2000 and 2001–2002)[133] | |
Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
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| 1989 | Youngest person to become a doctor[166] |
| 1951[167] | Mathematician; Askey-Wilson polynomials |
| 1949 | Polymer and plastics researcher |
| 1932[168] | Surgeon, first to do heart transplant; physician to Hubert Humphrey[169] |
| 1916 | Pathologist |
| 1954[170] | Neurologist |
| 1913 | National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, NASA |
| 1938 | Chemical engineer, metallurgist |
| 1949 | Mathematician, engineer, inventor of polyominoes |
| 1928 | Chemist, former president, University of Texas, Rice University[171] |
| 1878 | Physiologist; pioneer of the use of heparin as a blood anticoagulant; dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine[172] |
| 1960 | Mathematician; Grothendieck-Katz p-curvature conjecture |
| 1920 | Physicist; astronomer; chairman, department of physics, University of California at Los Angeles[173] |
| 1931 | Bio-statistician, created international standards in mental health diagnostics |
| 1957 | Ecologist, Princeton University |
| 1866 | Botanist |
| 1939 | Physicist; professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Oersted Medal (1974) |
| 1943[174] | Biochemist, molecular endocrinologist; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1994 |
| 1922 | Biologist, geneticist |
| 1967 | Pediatrician; medical expert on adolescents |
| 1927 | Theoretical physicist; Wolf Prize in Physics[175] |
| 1909[176] | Sanitary engineer; inventor of modern water treatment techniques | |
Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
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| 1965 | College soccer, head coach, College of William & Mary (1971–2003) |
| 1904 | Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame[177] |
| 1962 | Football, fullback, Baltimore Colts[178] |
| 1921*[179] | Baseball, 2nd baseman, Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox, |
| 1905 | Lacrosse, founding coach, US Naval Academy; coach, Lehigh University and Swarthmore College[180] |
| 1949 | Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame[181] |
| 1937 | Baseball, pitcher, New York Yankees |
| 1940 | Basketball, head coach, Fort Wayne/Detroit Pistons (1954–1957) |
| 1968 | Football, wide receiver, New York Giants[182] |
| 1928[183] | Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame[184] |
| 1999[185] | Football, wide receiver, Detroit Lions |
| 1912 | Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame[186] |
| 1926 | Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame[187] |
| 1921 | Baseball, Manager, New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds |
| 1966 | Football, tight end, St. Louis Cardinals[188] |
| 1899 | Lacrosse, coach, Johns Hopkins University, namesake Schmeisser Award; US Olympian[189] |
| 1962 | Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame[190] |
| 1965 | Lacrosse, coach, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1978–1990), led team to NCAA titles in 1981, 1982 and 1986[191] |
| 1913 | Lacrosse, member National Lacrosse Hall of Fame; Captain, United States Army Corps of Engineers[192] |
| 1967 | Football, wide receiver, San Diego Chargers[193] |
| | Offensive tackle Dallas Cowboys, New York Jets |
| 1918 | Baseball, pitcher, Chicago White Sox |
| 1937[194] | Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame; Lieutenant, United States Navy, World War II[195] |
| 1930[196] | Lacrosse, member of National Lacrosse Hall of Fame; trustee of Johns Hopkins University | |