Dundalk Natives and/or Residents of Note

The following - mighty substantial - list of Dundalk natives and/or residents of note began on Wikipedia's Dundalk, Maryland page. Over the past few years, I have spruced up the wording on the list, plus added enough people to more than double it. For the names of the local folks I've added, I mostly relied on newspaper articles in the Dundalk Eagle and also on information from fellow Dundalkians.

On four of my dozen or so blogs/poor man's websites, I have a version of Dundalk natives and/or residents of note that differs slightly from the one on Wikipedia. Anyone can edit Wikipadia pages, and some people and I disagree on who belongs on the list.

If you know anyone who fits right in on the list, and we can verify that with a link to a web page containing info about them, say so in a comment below, or e-mail me here: ursusdave@yahoo.com

Delve into this list, and you shall emerge from the experience with a satisfying degree of new pride and respect for Dundalk. Guaranteed.

Here we go:

Kevin Clash - the voice and soul of Elmo

Robert Curbeam -astronaut

Bucky Lasek - professional skateboarder

Rodney Jones - professional skateboarder

Jason Chapman - professional skateboarder, owner of Charm City Skatepark in Baltimore Maryland, skateboarding action videographer

Tony Sweet - fine art nature photography, workshop instructor, columnist Nikon World and Shutterbug Magazines, author of three books on the art of photography, Nikon Legend Behind the Lens Team Nik member, and jazz musician

Sean Scheidt - Baltimore based photographer and mixed media artist specializing in fashion and lifestyle portraiture

Roy Cox - fashion and advertising photographer with over 27 magazine covers, 12 editorial layouts and photos in over 200 advertisements world wide

Julie Meise - model, TV host, and actress

Bernie Wrightson - illustrator known for his horror illustrations and comic books

Matt Collorafice - visual effects artist whose credits include "The Aviator", "Memoirs of a Geisha", "Smallville" and "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow"

Quinn Richardson - InterfaceMediaGroup, senior compositor, smoke artist for various Discovery networks, expert in 3D animation, color correction and design work

Scott McHugh - Senior solutions architect at Applied Information Sciences, formerly at RDA Corporation as consultant, project Manager, principal architect and EAI Evangelist team lead working across a number of markets and industries

Henrietta Lacks - source of the HeLa cell line

Judy McGowan - 2009 inductee into the International Swimming Hall of Fame honored as a competitive swimmer, judge, coach, and administrator

Ruby Gay - NBA basketball player

Calvin Hill - former NFL pro running back and father of NBA star Grant Hill

Mike Bielecki - former Major League pitcher

Dave Johnson -former Major League pitcher

Wild Bill Hagey - No. 1 Orioles' fan of all time

Nasty" Nestor Aparicio - sports writer and radio talk show host and partner in WNST.net Baltimore Sports Radio AM 1570

Ronnie Franklin - jockey who won both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes aboard Spectacular Bid in 1979

Michael S. Kearns - first person to parachute over all seven continents

Danny Wiseman - pro bowler, won PBA titles on ABC,NBC,CBS and ESPN

Rick Holt - park ranger, Vietnam Veteran who has war time letters on his web site

Rex Derr - Director of Washington State Recreation and Parks Agency, former mayor of Olympia, WA., Thurston County, Washington Citizen of the Year in 2000

Juliana L'Heureax - newspaper columnist, executive director of The Maine Association of Mental Health Services

Deborah Rudicille - Former senior science writer at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, independent journalist, book author - including "Roots of Steel, Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town."

Christopher Thomas Anglim - author of Encyclopedia of Religion and the Law in America plus other published works

Jason Ferrante - opera singer

Jessica Williams - one of the top jazz pianists of our time

Douglas Purviance - Grammy-winning jazz trombonist, who produces, engineers and markets jazz recordings, while also being a band manager and booking agent and he scores and edits movie and TV soundtracks plus we is a jazz educator and clinician on a worldwide basis

Gina Schock - drummer for the first great all female rock 'n roll band The Go Go's, currently a successful songwriter and very active drummer.

Robert "Wawa" Legrand - long time guitarist for Teddy Pendergrass, has more recently played live and/or recorded with Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Chaka Khan, Ciara, Bonnie Raitt and many others, has appeared on numerous television shows with various-famous music stars, and he also teaches guitar to a few fortunate musicians

Gerda Deterer - founder and longtime volunteer president and executive director of Wildlife Rescue, Inc..

Joshua Barney - Naval hero from the times of the very birth of the United States of America

Jack Womer - member of the heroic Filthy Thirteen during World War II.

Sidney Michael Webster Jr. - Killed in action during World War II, here to represent all who sacrificed their lives for freedom during World War II

Robert Alexander Markle JR. - Killed in action in the Korean War, here to represent all who sacrificed their lives for freedom during the Korean War

Edward Alan Lamb - Killed in action in Vietnam, here to represent all who sacrificed their lives for freedom during the Vietnam War