List of people from Cumberland, Maryland

This is a list of people from Cumberland, Maryland:

• Robert Reinhard (born 1990) - Venerable leader and managing editor of Wake Forest sports blog Blogger So Dear and MBA candidate at Vanderbilt.^[1]
• 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
• Rob Breedlove (born 1938) - former football linebacker, played eight seasons in the National Football League with the Washington Redskins and the Pittsburgh Steelers, 1960-1967
• Earle Bruce - football player and coach
• Wright Butler - architect of Allegany Courthouse
• 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^[2]
• James Deetz (1930–2000) - father of historical archeology
• Eddie Deezen (born 1958) - comic actor
• 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) - wrestles for the TNA IMPACT Wrestling as DOC, formerly with World Wrestling Entertainment as Festus/Luke Gallows
• Christopher Hastings (born 1983) - comic artist and creator of The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, set in a fictional version of Cumberland^[3]
• Tom Hull (born 1952) - former linebacker who played two seasons in the National Football League with the San Francisco 49ers and the 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
• William Harrison Lowdermilk (1839-1897) - Union soldier, printer, and newspaper publisher^[4]
• 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^[5]
• Mark Manges (born 1956) - quarterback for the University of Maryland, College Park (1974–77); appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated October 1976
• John Van Lear McMahon (1800–1871) - Maryland legislature and historian
• Kelly L. Moran (born 1960) - author of the book Shelley Chintz, 2001;^[6] 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; a 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
• Daniel Sollinger (born 1967) - film producer
• Casper R. Taylor, Jr (born 1934) - Member of House of Delegates, 1975–2003 - Speaker of the House, 1994–2003
• George L. Wellington (1852–1927) - United States Senator
• Steve Whiteman - singer of 80s metal band KIX
• Steve Trimble (May 11, 1958 – July 11, 2011) was an American football defensive back in the National Football League, the United States Football League, and the Arena Football League.

References

1. "Blogger So Dear". Blogger So Dear.
2. Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry, page 110
3. Sims, Chris (August 15, 2012). "Christopher Hastings on 'The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: Timefist' [Interview]". Comics Alliance. Retrieved October 17, 2013.
4. 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.
5. Lowdermilk, page 301
6. ISBN 0-9676925-0-4