Editing Talbot County, Maryland (section)

==Notable people==
Prominent current or former residents of the county include: 
* [[August Belmont IV]], investment banker, racehorse owner, chairman of [[The Jockey Club]]
* [[Bertram Benedict]], author, editor, owner of the [[Editorial Research Reports]]
* [[Bill Veeck]], American [[Major League Baseball]] franchise owner, began the [[racial integration]] of the [[American League]], [[World Series]] champion 
* [[Birch Bayh]], former [[U.S. Senate|U.S. Senator]], author of [[Title IX]]
* [[Bob Harvey (baseball)|Bob Harvey]], former [[Negro league baseball]] player
* [[Casey Cep]], author, journalist
* [[Charles D. Hodges]], lawyer, former [[U.S. House of Representatives|U.S. Congressman]]
* [[Charles Sidney Winder]], U.S. Army officer and [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] general officer
* [[Covey T. Oliver]], former [[U.S. Ambassador to Colombia]], director of [[President John F. Kennedy]]'s [[Alliance for Progress]], law professor
* [[David Bronson]], former [[U.S. House of Representatives|U.S. Congressman]]
* [[Donald Hiss]], lawyer, law professor, alleged member of the [[Ware Group]] and the [[Communist Party]], brother of [[Alger Hiss]]
* [[Edward Lloyd (Continental Congress)|Edward Lloyd]], member of the [[Continental Congress]]
* [[Forrest Shreve]] (1878-1950), botanist, professor, founder of the [[Ecological Society of America]]
* [[Frederick Douglass]], orator, social reformer, former slave
* [[Harold Baines]], former [[Major League Baseball]] player for the [[Chicago White Sox]]
* [[Harry Hughes]], 57th [[Governor of Maryland]]
* [[Henry C. Lay]], author, bishop
* [[James Harry Covington]], lawyer, former [[U.S. House of Representatives|U.S. Congressman]], chief justice of the [[Supreme Court of the District of Columbia]], founder of [[Covington & Burling]]
* [[James Rouse|James Wilson Rouse]], real estate developer
* [[Jeannie Haddaway]], former member of the [[Maryland House of Delegates]]
* [[Jody Schulz]], former [[National Football League]] player for the [[Philadelphia Eagles]]
* [[John Needles]] (1786–1878), Quaker abolitionist 
* [[Johnny Mautz]], Maryland [[Maryland State Senate|state senator]]
* [[Jonathan S. Willis]], former [[U.S. House of Representatives|U.S. Congressman]]
* [[Joseph B. Seth]], lawyer, 66th [[President of the Maryland Senate]], founder and president of the [[Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway|Baltimore and Eastern Shore Railway]]
* [[Lucy Kennedy Miller]], prominent American [[suffragist]]
* [[Maggie Rogers]], singer-songwriter
* [[Mark W. Delahay]], author, judge, friend of [[Abraham Lincoln]], founder of the [[U.S. Republican Party]]
* [[Mary Elizabeth Banning]], Maryland's first [[mycology|myconologist]] (fungi biologist), teacher, botanical illustrator
* Nathaniel Hopkins, former slave, founder of Talbot County Emancipation Day, founder of Trappe's first black school
* [[Oswald Tilghman]]
* [[Perry Benson]], Revolutionary War and War of 1812 hero
* [[George Pickering (minister)|George Pickering]] (1769–1846), was, at his death, the oldest effective Methodist minister in the world born in Talbot County 
* [[Ralph A. Gamble]], lawyer, former [[U.S. House of Representatives|U.S. Congressman]]
* [[Robert Bauman]], former [[U.S. House of Representatives|U.S. Congressman]], national chairman for [[Young Americans for Freedom]] and the [[American Conservative Union]]
* [[Robert Henry Goldsborough]], former [[U.S. Senate|U.S. Senator]]
* [[Robert Morris (financier)|Robert Morris, Jr.]], signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]]; his father made his fortune in Oxford, Maryland
* [[Samuel Hambleton (politician)|Samuel Hambleton]] (1812-1886), former [[U.S. House of Representatives|U.S. Congressman]]
* [[Samuel J. Seymour]], witness to the [[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln|assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln]]
* [[Samuel Stevens, Jr.]] 18th [[Governor of Maryland]]
* [[Tench Francis Jr.]], agent for the [[William Penn]] family, first cashier of the [[Bank of North America]]
* [[Tench Tilghman]], aide to General [[George Washington]]
* [[Thomas B. Symons]], academic, entomologist, President of the [[University of Maryland, College Park]], representative at the [[Jamestown Exposition]]
* [[William Green (former slave)|William Green]], author, former slave
* [[Willard Carroll]], producer, writer, director, founder of [[Hyperion Pictures]]
* [[Willard Goldsmith Rouse]], grandfather of real estate developer [[Willard Rouse III]], great-grandfather of actor [[Edward Norton]]