This is a list of people who were born in, lived in, or are closely associated with the city of Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Athletics Lawson Aschenbach, NASCAR driver Justin Carter (born 1987), basketball player for Maccabi Kiryat Gat of the Israeli Premier League Chris Coghlan, Major League Baseball player Dominique Dawes, three-time women's Olympic gymnastics team member, member of the Magnificent Seven Stefon Diggs, football player for the New England Patriots Trevon Diggs, football player for the Dallas Cowboys Hank Fraley, former football player in the NFL Jake Funk, football player for the Los Angeles Rams and Super Bowl LVI champion Dwayne Haskins, NFL quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers Courtney Kupets, 2004 Olympic gymnast and three-time NCAA champion Charles Lee, Charlotte Hornets head coach Malcolm Miller, basketball player and NBA champion for the Toronto Raptors John Papuchis, college football coach Guy Prather, football player Paul Rabil, lacrosse player (midfield), four-time All-American at Johns Hopkins University Chop Robinson, defensive end for the Miami Dolphins James White, basketball player who played for the San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets
Arts & entertainment 6ix, record producer Utkarsh Ambudkar, actor, rapper Kimberly J. Brown, actress who starred in Halloweentown Mark Bryan, lead guitarist of Hootie & the Blowfish Jared E. Bush, filmmaker, director, CCO of Disney Isabel McNeill Carley, writer, music teacher, lived in Gaithersburg from 2004 until her death in 2011 Kiran Chetry, CNN anchor Jeanine Cummins, author Brandon Victor Dixon, actor, singer and theatrical producer Astrid Ellena, Miss Indonesia 2011 Judah Friedlander, actor, most notably from the television show 30 Rock Joshua Harris, author and former Christian pastor Matt Holt, former singer of Nothingface and Kingdom of Snakes Paul James, actor, most notably from the television show Greek Kelela, R&B singer Tim Kurkjian, ESPN baseball analyst, appears on SportsCenter and Baseball Tonight Matthew Lesko, author of Free Money books Logic (Robert Bryson Hall II), hip hop musician, rapper, musical engineer Lucas and Marcus, dancers and YouTube personalities Shane McMahon, WWE wrestler and commissioner of WWE SmackDown Live Jim Miklaszewski, chief Pentagon correspondent for NBC News Nick Mullen, comedian Eddie Stubbs, country musician, disc jockey, and Grand Ole Opry announcer Jodie Turner-Smith, actress and model Wale, hip hop musician and rapper
Military, politics, & public service Georges C. Benjamin, former secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Andrew Platt, former Maryland House of Delegates member David P. Weber, former assistant inspector general for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Other Sankar Adhya, member of the National Academy of Sciences Jessica Watkins, NASA astronaut Frederick Yeh, biologist and animal welfare activist
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