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Famous Baltimoreans

Anne Tyler; Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Babe Ruth; baseball player for New York Yankees
Barry Levinson; screenwriter, director and producer film and television
David Simon; journalist for Baltimore Sun, author, television writer, producer, creator.
Edgar Allan Poe; poet and short story writer
H. L. Mencken; journalist and author
John Waters; filmmaker
Michael S. Steele; former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, first African American chairman of the Republican National Committee
Thurgood Marshall; first African American Supreme Court Justice

Pembleton: "[Mary's] never liked Baltimore. She always considered it to be a sleepy little Southern hamlet struggling to be a world class city." Therapist: "Is she right?" Pembleton: "Baltimore is a brown town, full of brown people, run by brown people. I know Baltimore. Baltimore is in my blood." Conversation between Pembleton and a marriage counsellor: Valentine's Day. (14 February 1997)
Bayliss: "Oh Billy Town eh? What a magical place this is!" Felton: "Tim there are no hillbillies pitching tents and cooking up possum stew here, so don't call it Billy Town. This is South Bawlamer.'' Bayliss: "I've heard you call it that before." Felton: "That's different I'm from here." Conversation between Tim Bayliss and Beau Felton: The Old and the Dead. (3 March 1995)
"I love Baltimore. It's the northern most southern city; friendly and gracious like Dixie but liberally conservative like any good WASP enclave." Congressman Wade to Detective Pembleton: Cradle to Grave. (13 January 1995)