Politicians, Jurists, and Statesmen
- Spiro T. Agnew, former Governor of Maryland and Vice President of the United States
- Charles Joseph Bonaparte, former Attorney General of the United States, founder of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, grand nephew of French emperor Napoleon I.
- John R. Bolton, 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- Anthony G. Brown, current Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
- Charles Carroll of Carrollton, lawyer, politician, and signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Samuel Chase, United States Supreme Court Justice
- J. Joseph Curran, Jr., state Attorney General and former Lieutenant Governor
- Frederick Douglass, abolitionist
- Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., Governor of Maryland 2003-2007
- John Hanson, first president of the United States in Congress Assembled
- Steny Hoyer, current House Minority Whip, U.S. House of Representatives
- Thurgood Marshall, civil rights leader and United States Supreme Court Justice
- Kweisi Mfume, NAACP leader and former Congressman
- Catherine Curran O'Malley, State District Judge and wife of Martin O'Malley
- Martin J. O'Malley, Current Governor of Maryland
- William Paca, signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Nancy Pelosi, 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- William Donald Schaefer, former Governor
- Sargent Shriver, politician, former Vice Presidential candidate
- Michael S. Steele, Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, 2003 - 2007
- Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the United States
- Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland and oldest daughter of Robert F. Kennedy
- Jeffrey Zients, first U.S. Chief Performance Officer under President Barack Obama
- Dawn Zimmer, mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey
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“The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)