After learning all the celebs who proudly call it their home, you’ll be convinced MD is the best state in the United States. (Photo: WENN)
Michael Phelps, the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 28 medals, was born in the city of Baltimore. (Photo: WENN)
Jada Pinkett Smith is another celebrity who was born in Baltimore. She attended the Baltimore School of the Arts and majored in dance and theatre. (Photo: WENN)
He is famously remembered as L.A. County Lifeguard Mitch Buchannon, but David Hasselhoff was actually born in Baltimore. (Photo: WENN)
Though she was raised in Washington State, funny girl Anna Faris was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1976 and lived there until the age of six. (Photo: WENN)
The three-times Academy Award nominee Edward Norton was born and raised in the city of Columbia, Maryland. (Photo: WENN)
Julie Bowen plays suburban L.A. mom Claire Dunphy but in real life, the “Modern Family” star was actually born and raised in Baltimore. (Photo: WENN)
Although the “Shameless” actor William H. Macy was born in Miami, he actually grew up in Cumberland, Maryland. (Photo: WENN)
Actress Goldie Hawn was born in Washington, D.C. but she was raised in Takoma Park, a small city in Montgomery County, Maryland. (Photo: WENN)
Joel and Benji Madden from former pop punk band Good Charlotte, grew up in Waldorf. (Photo: WENN)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus was born in New York City but grew up in several states, including Maryland! She graduated from Holton-Arms School in Bethesda. (Photo: WENN)
Maryland’s coastal location brings with it a deeply rooted maritime heritage—and that’s why we’re sure there most be something on this state’s water that makes Marylanders so freaking talented and utterly hot.
Though there are already plenty of reasons to love Maryland—it’s one of the original 13 colonies, birthplace of the US Naval Academy, home of the Ravens and the Orioles, and has the absolute best crabs in the world—, after learning all the celebs who proudly call it their home, you’ll be convinced MD is the best state in the United States.
In honor of National Maryland day, here are 10 celebrities, from Olympic legends to talented actors to hilarious comedians, who were all born and raised in the Old Line State. Click through our photo gallery above to find out who they are!
