List of people from Cumberland, Maryland explained

This is a list of people from Cumberland, Maryland.

• Frederick John Bahr (1837–1885) – immigrant from Baden, Germany; bought Wills Mountain, including the narrows and Lovers Leap, to avoid the encroachment of the Civil War, settled there with his family in a cabin on the top of the mountain
• Rod Breedlove (1938–2021) – former football linebacker, played eight seasons in the National Football League with the Washington Redskins and the Pittsburgh Steelers, 1960–1967
• Earle Bruce (1931–2018) – football player and coach, most notably a head coach at Ohio State; inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame
• Wright Butler – architect of Allegany Courthouse
• Harry Clarke (1916–2005) – football player, two touchdowns in 1940 NFL Championship Game in Chicago Bears' 73–0 victory over Washington Redskins
• Kia Corthron (born 1961) – playwright, screenwriter; attended Allegany High School
• J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) – poet, writer, and professor for Stanford University; born in Cumberland^[1]
• Alice Darr – jazz vocalist^{[2] [3]}
• James Deetz (1930–2000) – father of historical archeology
• Eddie Deezen (born 1957) – comic and voice actor
• Jeanne R. Faatz (born 1941) - member of the Colorado State Legislature from 1979-1998.
• Jane Frazier – lived in a log house built in 1754 just outside Cumberland; was captured by Indians; a Frazier family member wrote a book about the incident, Red Morning
• Patrick Hamill (1817–1895) – U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 4th District 1869–1871; buried in Odd Fellow's Cemetery
• Drew Hankinson (born 1983) – professional wrestler currently signed to WWE under name of Luke Gallows
• Christopher Hastings (born 1983) – comic artist and creator of The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, set in a fictional version of Cumberland^[4]
• Tom Hull (born 1952) – linebacker who played two seasons in National Football League with San Francisco 49ers and Green Bay Packers in 1974 and 1975
• Indian Will – well-known Native American who lived in a former settlement of the Shawnee Indians at the site of present-day Cumberland in the 18th century; namesake of Wills Creek and Wills Mountain
• Donnie Izzett (born 1975) – missing Frostburg State University student
• Ty Johnson (born 1997) – NFL running back for the Detroit Lions and currently with the New York Jets
• Marianne Lake (born 1969) – CEO of Consumer Lending, JPMorgan Chase
• William Harrison Lowdermilk (1839–1897) – Union soldier, printer, and newspaper publisher^[5]
• William H. Macy (born 1950) – actor; attended Allegany High School, was junior and senior class president
• Samuel Magill – established the first newspaper in Cumberland, the Allegany Freeman, published weekly, 1813–1816^[6]
• Edward Mallory (1930–2007) – TV actor, director, drama professor
• Phil Mallow (born 1957), West Virginia state delegate
• Mark Manges (1956-2023) – quarterback for University of Maryland, College Park (1974–77); appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated in October 1976
• John Van Lear McMahon (1800–1871) – Maryland legislator and historian
• Victorine Louistall Monroe (1912– 2006) – Professor Emerita of Library Science at West Virginia University
• Kelly L. Moran (born 1960) – author of book Shelley Chintz, 2001;^[7] designer and builder of the Stone Cottage; attended Bruce High School
• Edward Otho Cresap Ord (1818–1883) – born in Cumberland; designer of Fort Sam Houston; U.S. Army officer who saw action in the Seminole War, the Indian Wars, and the American Civil War
• Sam Perlozzo (born 1951) – former Major League Baseball player; former manager of the Baltimore Orioles (2005–2007); attended Bishop Walsh High School
• Bruce Price (1845–1903) – architect of Cumberland Emmanuel Church
• Francis Xavier Seelos (1819–1867) – pastor of SS. Peter & Paul's Catholic Church, 1857–1862, beatified by the Vatican in 2000 (final stage of canonization process)
• Russell Shorto (born 1959) – author of The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America and Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
• Casper R. Taylor, Jr (1934–2023) – Member of House of Delegates, 1975–2003, Speaker of the House, 1994–2003
• Three X Sisters – singing trio
• Steve Trimble (1958–2011) – pro football defensive back
• George L. Wellington (1852–1927) – U.S. Senator

Notes and References

1. Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry, page 110
2. Web site: Whatever happened to Alice Darr? . 2 August 2019 .
3. https://www.jazzwax.com/2019/02/alice-darr-feature-story.html
4. Web site: Christopher Hastings on 'The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: Timefist' [Interview] ]. Sims . Chris . August 15, 2012 . Comics Alliance . October 17, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131018042053/http://comicsalliance.com/christopher-hastings-dr-mcninja-timefist-interview/ . October 18, 2013 .
5. Ames W. Williams. The W. H. Lowdermilk Company. Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Vol. 51, [The 51st separately bound book] (1984), pp. 158–165. Published by: Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
6. Lowdermilk, page 301
7. Book: 0-9676925-0-4 . Shelley Chintz: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pattern Books . Moran . Kelly L. . 2000 . Thaxted Cottage Publishers .