Bernard Purdie
born 1939 American R&B, soul and funk drummer
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
1946–2011 American writer
James Black Groome
1838–1893 American politician
Julian C. Smith
1885–1975 United States Marine Corps general
Alexander Evans
1818–1888 American politician
Hart Benton Holton
1835–1907 American politician
Hiram McCullough
1813–1885 American politician
James Allison, Jr.
1772–1854 American politician
Levin Gale
1784–1834 American politician
Samuel C. Sample
1796–1855 American politician
Bobby Jones
born 1949 Former Major League Baseball outfielder
Dwayne Henry
born 1962 American baseball player
Elias Glenn
1769–1846 United States federal judge
John Glenn
1795–1853 American judge
Larry Webster
born 1969 American football player
Doug Davis
1944–2011 American football player
Stephen P. Anderson
born 1967 Songwriter, instrumentalist, painter, bowhunter
John M. Miller
1820–1897 American politician
Leonard Rose
born 1959 American hacker
Michael Rudolph
1793–1795 Acting Adjutant General and acting Inspector General of the U.S. Army in 1793.
Niles Scott
born 1995 American football player
Richard Covington Mackall
1822–1902 Maryland dentist and doctor
Isabel Hollingsworth Mackall Young
1886–1962 American housewife and mother
James Duffy
1923–2011 American historian
James Williams
born 1825 Fugitive slave in Gold Rush California and autobiographical writer (1825–after 1873)
John Evans Mackall
1882–1912 American physician
John Henry Jamar
1840–1923 American physician
John Mackall Young
1915–2015 American
Margaret Hollingsworth Jamar
1835–1900 American housewife
Sophia Corinne Jamar
1874–1961 American artist
Also called Elkton home
HG Hoagland Gates
1891–1944 American cattle breeder
James F. Stepter
1833–1864 Private in the Union Army
Mary Eliza Bradbury
1830–1875 Schoolteacher in Elkton, Maryland, who established her own school