The following is a list of notable alumni of The Baltimore City College (also known colloquially as City College, City, BCC, or The Castle). Founded in 1839, it is recognized as the third-oldest continuously public high school in the United States.
The school was 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, and federal, state and local circuit judges. Alumni also include award-winning journalists; authors; and leaders in business, commerce, the military, academics, the sciences, and the arts. This list 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 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. "Collegians".
| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
|---|---|---|
| Larry Adler | 1931 [1] | Musician [2] |
| Russell Baker | 1943 [3] | Two-time Pulitzer Prize, commentator on the Masterpiece Theatre on (PBS-TV) |
| Gary Bartz | 1958 | Jazz musician, Grammy Award winner |
| Morris Louis Bernstein | 1928 [4] | Abstract expressionist painter |
| Jack L. Chalker | 1962 | Author of over 50 science fiction/fantasy novels |
| André DeShields | 1964 | Broadway actor, Tony Award nominee |
| Philip Glass | 1954* [5] | Avant garde composer [6] |
| Jacob Glushakow | 1933 [7] | 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 |
| Al Goodman | 1918 [8] | Musician, conductor |
| Edward Everett Horton | 1904 [4] | Character actor and voice narrator in film, television, and stage |
| Millard Kaufman | 1933 [9] | Author, screenwriter; helped create the film/television cartoon character of "Mr. Magoo" |
| Greg Kihn | 1967? [10] | Rock musician, radio host |
| Gene Klavan | 1940 [4] | Radio talk show host in Washington, D.C. and New York |
| David Matthews | 1984 | Author [11] |
| Garry Moore (T. Garrison Morfit) | 1933 | Game show host in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s |
| Royal Parker | 1946 | News anchor WBAL-TV (Channel 11), local TV variety and game show host, announcer [12] |
| Robert Pirosh | 1928 [4] | Writer, won Academy Award ("Oscar") and Golden Globe for screenplay of Battleground |
| Fred Robbins | 1937 | Television and radio host |
| Woody Rock | 1993 | Singer, member of Dru Hill |
| Karl Shapiro | 1932 | Poet; literary critic; professor, Johns Hopkins University; Pulitzer Prize winner |
| Eli Siegel | 1919 [13] | Poet and founder of Aesthetic Realism |
| Michael Tucker | 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) |
| Leon Uris | 1942 [14] | Writer, author of Exodus |
| Charles Marquis Warren | 1930 | Television and film writer, producer; director; credits include Gunsmoke , Rawhide , The Virginian and Playhouse 90 [15] |
| Hugo Weisgall | 1929 [4] | Composer |
| Charles Erskine Scott Wood | 1870 | Author, civil libertarian, and attorney [16] |
| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
|---|---|---|
| David T. Abercrombie | 1887 [17] | Founder of Abercrombie & Fitch |
| Robert D. Hormats | 1961 [18] | United States Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, vice chair of Goldman Sachs financial firm [19] |
| Zanvyl Krieger | 1924 [20] | Co-founder of the former Baltimore Colts pro football franchise [21] |
| Charles P. McCormick | 1916 [22] | President of McCormick & Company, spice and foods manufacturer |
| Joseph Meyerhoff | 1915 [22] | Business tycoon, and former longtime president of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra |
| Carroll Rosenbloom | 1926 [23] | Co-founder/owner of the Baltimore Colts |
| David Rubenstein | 1966 | Co-founder of The Carlyle Group, an investment capital firm, arranged new local ownership group to purchase the Baltimore Orioles [24] |
| John Schuerholz | 1958 | President, Atlanta Braves (Major League Baseball in the National League) in Atlanta, Georgia |
| Henry L. Straus | 1913 [25] | Electrical engineer and business tycoon |
| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
|---|---|---|
| William Samuel Booze | 1879 | U.S. congressman, Maryland's 3rd congressional district (1897–1899) |
| Benjamin L. Cardin | 1960 | U.S. senator, Maryland (2007–2023); U.S. congressman, Maryland's 3rd congressional district (1988–2007) |
| Charles Pearce Coady | 1886 [31] | U.S. congressman, Maryland's 3rd congressional district (1913–1921) |
| Elijah Cummings | 1969 | U.S. congressman, Maryland's 7th congressional district (1996–2019) |
| Charles A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger | 1963 | U.S. congressman, Maryland's 2nd congressional district (2003–present) |
| Harry Welles Rusk | 1866 | U.S. congressman, Maryland's 3rd congressional district (1886–1897) |
| William Stuart Symington, III | 1918 [8] | U.S. senator, Missouri (1953–1976); 1st United States Secretary of the Air Force (1947–1950) [32] |
| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
|---|---|---|
| Marvin Mandel | 1937 [33] | 56th governor of Maryland [34] |
| Harry Nice | 1898 [35] | 50th governor of Maryland |
| William Donald Schaefer | 1939 [36] | 58th governor of Maryland; 45th mayor of Baltimore; 32nd comptroller of Maryland |
| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
|---|---|---|
| Curt Anderson | 1967 [28] | Delegate, District 43, Baltimore (1983–1995, 2003–2023); longest serving chairman of the Baltimore City Delegation (2006–2018) |
| Charles B. Bosley | 1905 [37] | Delegate, Baltimore County, 1914 [37] |
| Meyer Cardin | 1926 [4] | Delegate (1936–38); judge, Baltimore Supreme Bench [38] |
| John D. C. Duncan Jr. | [39] | Delegate, Baltimore County (1920) and state senator, Baltimore County (1935–1937) [39] |
| Elizabeth Embry | 1994 | Delegate, District 43A Baltimore (2023–present) |
| Tony Fulton | 1968 | Delegate, District 40, Baltimore City (1987–2005) [40] |
| Ralph M. Hughes | 1966 | State senator, District 40, Baltimore City (1991–2007); delegate (1983–1991) [41] |
| Julian L. Lapides | 1949 | State senator, District 44, Baltimore City (1967–1994) [42] |
| Pat McDonough | 1964 [43] | Delegate, District 7 Baltimore County (1979–1983, 2003–present) |
| Nathaniel J. McFadden | 1964 [43] | State senator, District 45, Baltimore City (1995–present) |
| B. Daniel Riley | 1964 | Delegate, District 34, Harford County (1999–2003, 2007–present) |
| Samuel I. Rosenberg | 1968 | Delegate, District 41, Baltimore City (1983–present) [44] |
| Melvin Steinberg | 1950 [4] | Lieutenant governor (1986–1994); president of Maryland State Senate (1983–1986); state senator (1967–1986) [45] |
| Norman R. Stone, Jr. | 1953 | State senator, District 45, Baltimore County (1966–present) |
| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
|---|---|---|
| Hugh S. Cumming | 1886 [1] | Surgeon General of the United States (1920–1936) |
| Alger Hiss | 1921 [53] | U.S. State Department, alleged Soviet spy |
| Alvin "Buzzy" Krongard | 1954 | Former deputy director of the CIA; former vice-chairman of Bankers Trust; former chairman of Alex. Brown & Sons; member of National Lacrosse Hall of Fame [54] |
| Howard J. Krongard | 1957 [55] | Inspector general of the Department of State (2005–present) |
| Alfred H. Moses | 1947 [1] | U.S. ambassador, Romania |
| Philip B. Perlman | 1908 [56] | U.S. solicitor general (1947–1952) |
| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
|---|---|---|
| Francis B. Burch | 1937 [33] | Attorney general of Maryland (1966–1974); city solicitor, Baltimore (1961–1963) [57] |
| Dennis Callahan | 1958 | Mayor of Annapolis (1985–1989) |
| Philip H. Goodman | 1931 | 43rd mayor of Baltimore (1962–1963) |
| Leonard Hamm | 1967 [58] | Police commissioner, Baltimore (2005–2007) [59] |
| Shading appears where relevant |
| Democratic Party |
| Republican Party |
| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
|---|---|---|
| Gregory Kane | 1969 | Columnist, Baltimore Sun |
| Michael Olesker | 1963 | Former columnist, Baltimore Sun ; columnist, The Examiner, author |
| John Steadman | 1945 | Sports editor, Baltimore Evening Sun [60] |
| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob Beser | 1938 | Lt., Army Air Corps, World War II; crew member on the Enola Gay ; awarded Silver Star and Distinguished Flying Cross | [61] [62] [63] |
| Frederick C. Billard | 1892 | Admiral, commandant of the Coast Guard | [17] |
| Henry Gilbert Costin | 1916 | Pfc., US Army, World War I; Medal of Honor | [64] [65] |
| Isadore S. Jachman | 1939 | Sgt., US Army, World War II; Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Purple Heart, Croix de Guerre | [66] |
| J. William Kime | 1951 | Admiral, commandant of the Coast Guard | [67] |
| John E. Morrison | 1936 | Major general, United States Air Force | [68] [69] |
| Milton Ernest Ricketts | 1930 | Lt., US Navy, World War II; Medal of Honor | [70] |
| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
|---|---|---|
| Balamurali Ambati | 1989 | Youngest person to become a doctor [71] |
| Richard Askey | 1951 [72] | Mathematician; Askey-Wilson polynomials |
| Eric Baer | 1949 [4] | Polymer and plastics researcher |
| Edgar Berman | 1932 [73] | Surgeon, first to do heart transplant; physician to Hubert Humphrey [74] |
| Louis R. Caplan | 1954 [75] | Neurologist |
| Hugh Latimer Dryden | 1913 [25] | National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, NASA |
| Wendell E. Dunn, Jr. | 1938 | Chemical engineer, metallurgist |
| Solomon W. Golomb | 1949 | Mathematician, engineer, inventor of polyominoes |
| Norman L. Hackerman | 1928 [70] | Chemist, former president, University of Texas, Rice University [76] |
| William Henry Howell | 1878 | Physiologist; pioneer of the use of heparin as a blood anticoagulant; dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine [77] |
| Nicholas Katz | 1960 [72] | Mathematician; Grothendieck-Katz p-curvature conjecture |
| Simon A. Levin | 1957 | Ecologist, Princeton University |
| Charles C. Plitt | 1866 | Botanist |
| Robert Resnick | 1939 | Physicist; professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Oersted Medal (1974) |
| Martin Rodbell | 1943 [78] | Biochemist, molecular endocrinologist; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1994 |
| Tracy M. Sonneborn | 1922 [53] | Biologist, geneticist |
| Victor Strasburger | 1967 | Pediatrician; medical expert on adolescents |
| John Archibald Wheeler | 1927 [79] | Theoretical physicist; Wolf Prize in Physics [80] |
| Abel Wolman | 1909 [81] | Sanitary engineer; inventor of modern water treatment techniques |
| Alumni | Class | Reason for notability |
|---|---|---|
| Al Albert | 1965 | College soccer, head coach, College of William & Mary (1971–2003) |
| Max Bishop | 1921* [82] | Baseball, 2nd baseman, Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox, |
| Tommy Byrne | 1937 [1] | Baseball, pitcher, New York Yankees |
| Charley Eckman | 1940 | Basketball, head coach, Fort Wayne/Detroit Pistons (1954–1957) |
| Thom Gatewood | 1968 | Football, wide receiver, New York Giants [83] |
| Malik Hamm | 2017 | Football, linebacker, Baltimore Ravens |
| Bryant Johnson | 1999 [84] | Football, wide receiver, Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions |
| William Kelso Morrill | 1926 [25] | Lacrosse, member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame [85] |
| Johnny Neun | 1921 [53] | Baseball, manager, New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds |
| William C. Schmeisser | 1899 | Lacrosse, coach, Johns Hopkins University, namesake Schmeisser Award; US Olympian [86] |
| Charles Tapper | 2012 | Offensive tackle Dallas Cowboys, New York Jets |
| Alphonse "Tommy" Thomas | 1918 [4] | Baseball, pitcher, Chicago White Sox |
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