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".
Arts and entertainment
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Chalker
Glass
Horton
Tucker
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]
Clergy and education
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Ford
Van Meter
Alumni Class Reason for notability
Thomas Sewall Adams
1897
Economist, Yale University ; president, American Economic Association (1927)
John Richard Bryant
1961[ 18]
Bishop, Fifth Episcopal District, African Methodist Episcopal Church
Henry Jones Ford
1868[ 26]
Political scientist, Johns Hopkins University , University of Pennsylvania , Princeton University ; president, American Political Science Association
Norman Hackerman
1928[ 4]
Chemist; president, Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin ; National Medal of Science ; Vannevar Bush Award (1993)
Arthur Hertzberg
1928[ 17]
Former president, American Jewish Congress
Leo Lemay
1953[ 27]
Biographer of Benjamin Franklin , du Pont Winterthur Professor of English at the University of Delaware
Kurt Schmoke
1967[ 28]
President, University of Baltimore , former dean, Howard University School of Law ; 47th mayor, City of Baltimore
John B. Van Meter
Methodist minister , educator, and the co-founder of Goucher College [ 29]
David E. Weglein
1894[ 1]
Longest serving superintendent, Baltimore City Public School System 1924–1945[ 30]
Henry Skinner West
1888[ 1]
President, Towson University ; superintendent, Baltimore City Public School System
Government and politics
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Cardin
Cummings
Schaefer
Anderson
McDonough
Rosenberg
Lapides
Stone
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)
Stewart
Alumni Class Reason for notability
Thomas S. Baer
1858[ 46]
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, judge (1903–1906)[ 47]
John R. Bartels
1915
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York , judge (1959–1997)
Robert I. H. Hammerman
1946
Circuit court, Baltimore City , chief judge (1984–1998), judge (1967–1998)
Francis Hall Hammond
1919
Maryland Court of Appeals , chief judge (1966–1971), judge (1952–1966)
Ogle Marbury
1899[ 17]
Maryland Court of Appeals , chief judge (1944–1952), judge (1941–1944)
Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr.
1937[ 33]
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit , circuit judge (1979–2000)[ 48]
Reuben Oppenheimer
1917[ 49]
Maryland Court of Appeals , judge (1964–1967)[ 49]
Joseph I. Pines
1939[ 50]
Circuit court, Baltimore City , judge (1980–1992)
William D. Quarles Jr.
1965
United States District Court for the District of Maryland , judge (2003–present)[ 51]
John Carter Rose
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)
A. Cecil Snyder
1936[ 4]
Supreme Court of Puerto Rico , chief justice (1953–1957), associate justice (1942–1953)
Simon Sobeloff
1909
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit , chief judge (1958–1964), circuit judge (1956–1958); United States Solicitor General (1954–1956)[ 52]
Morris Ames Soper
1890[ 17]
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit , circuit judge (1931–1963)
Charles Francis Stein, Sr.
1925[ 4]
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, judge (1921–1936)
Robert Dorsey Watkins
1918[ 1]
United States District Court for the District of Maryland , judge (1955–1986)
Alan M. Wilner
1954
Maryland Court of Appeals , judge (1996–2007); Maryland Court of Special Appeals , chief judge (1990–1996), judge (1977–1990)
Cumming
Hiss
State and local officials
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Matz
Memorial plaque for BCC alumni who died in World War I
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
[ 62] [ 63] [ 64]
Frederick C. Billard
1892
Admiral, commandant of the Coast Guard
[ 17]
Henry Gilbert Costin
1916
Pfc., US Army , World War I; Medal of Honor
[ 65] [ 66]
David H. Huntoon
1969
Lt. General US Army , 58th Superintendent of the United States Military Academy
[ 67]
Isadore S. Jachman
1939
Sgt., US Army , World War II; Medal of Honor , Distinguished Service Cross , Purple Heart , Croix de Guerre
[ 68]
J. William Kime
1951
Admiral, commandant of the Coast Guard
[ 69]
John E. Morrison
1936
Major general, United States Air Force
[ 70] [ 71]
Milton Ernest Ricketts
1930
Lt., US Navy , World War II; Medal of Honor
[ 72]
Ambati
Dryden
Dunn
Alumni Class Reason for notability
Balamurali Ambati
1989
Youngest person to become a doctor[ 73]
Richard Askey
1951[ 74]
Mathematician; Askey-Wilson polynomials
Eric Baer
1949[ 4]
Polymer and plastics researcher
Edgar Berman
1932[ 75]
Surgeon, first to do heart transplant; physician to Hubert Humphrey[ 76]
Louis R. Caplan
1954[ 77]
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[ 72]
Chemist, former president, University of Texas , Rice University [ 78]
William Henry Howell
1878
Physiologist; pioneer of the use of heparin as a blood anticoagulant ; dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine [ 79]
Nicholas Katz
1960[ 74]
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[ 80]
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[ 81]
Theoretical physicist; Wolf Prize in Physics [ 82]
Abel Wolman
1909[ 83]
Sanitary engineer; inventor of modern water treatment techniques
Varsity sports letter
Budnitz
Alumni Class Reason for notability
Al Albert
1965
College soccer, head coach, College of William & Mary (1971–2003)
Max Bishop
1921*[ 84]
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 [ 85]
Malik Hamm
2017
Football , linebacker , Baltimore Ravens
Bryant Johnson
1999[ 86]
Football , wide receiver , Arizona Cardinals , Detroit Lions
William Kelso Morrill
1926[ 25]
Lacrosse , member, National Lacrosse Hall of Fame [ 87]
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[ 88]
Charles Tapper
2012
Offensive tackle Dallas Cowboys , New York Jets
Alphonse "Tommy" Thomas
1918[ 4]
Baseball, pitcher, Chicago White Sox
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