Famous Potomac Residents

 

Business

•    Bruce Cort – CEO Cort and Associates Inc
•    Chuck O'Dell – former CEO of Marriott
•    Richard Edwin Marriott (pictured) and
•    Steve Mayer – CEO Cogenesys
•    Mitchell Rales – Chairman Danaher Corporation
•    Friedman Billings Ramsey – co-founder Eric Billings
•    David Ritz – owner , Ritz Camera
•    David Siegel Chairman – CEO Gate Gourmet

 

 

 

Entertainment

Lynda Carter – actress, played Wonder Woman (pictured)
•    Robert A. Altman (Zenimax Media) – married to Lynda Carter
•    Kenneth Feld – owner, Ringling Bros. and
Barnum & Bailey Circus, Disney on Ice
•    Shahrukh Khan – Bollywood actor, has a part-time residence (rumored)
•    Mac McGarry – host of the Washington and Charlottesville, Virginia, versions of “It's Academic.”
•    Taylor Momsen – actress from CW TV series “Gossip Girl”
•    Max Reinhardt – theatre and film director
•    Donnie Simpson – WPGC 95.5 radio personality and former BET Video VJ
•    Sylvester Stallone – actor

 

 

 

 

Government & Politics

•    Atiku Abubakar – Vice President of Nigeria
•    Michael Chertoff – United States Secretary of Homeland Security
•    John Glenn – former Astronaut and Senator from Ohio (pictured)
•    Empress Farah Pahlavi – the Queen and Empress of Iran
•    H.R.M. Reza Pahlavi II – the Crown Prince of Iran
•    Arnold Schwarzenegger – governor of California (part-time residence)
•    Eunice Kennedy Shriver – sister of John, Robert and Edward Kennedy.
(Mother of Maria Shriver)
•    Sargent Shrive – husband of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of
The Peace Corps, former ambassador to France
•    Robert Wexler – U.S. congressman

 

 

Sports

•    Freddy Adu – Soccer player of S.L. Benfica
•    Calbert Cheaney – former NBA Washington Wizards player
•    John Davis – football player, University of Maryland
and Washington Redskins
•    Patrick Ewing – NBA player (pictured)
•    Jeff Halpern – NHLTampa Bay Lightning player
•    Dahani Jones – NFL Cincinnati Bengals
•    Eddie Jordan – Former head coach of the NBA Washington Wizards
•    Michael Jordan – Former NBA player
•    Sugar Ray Leonard – Former boxer (former resident)
•    Mark Lerner – owner Washington Nationals
•    Bruce Levinson – owner NBA Atlanta Hawks
•    Alonzo Mourning – NBA player
•    Dikembe Mutombo – NBA Player
•    Daniel Snyder – owner of the NFL Washington Redskins
•    Mike Tyson – former boxer (former resident)
•    Buck Williams – NBA player
•    Gary Williams – head coach of University of Maryland basketball team.
Final Four Champs 2001
•    Bill Wolfe – owner First Washington Realty Trust

 

 

 

Writers & Journalists

• Wolf Blitzer – anchor/ host CNN's "The Situation Room"
(pictured)
•    Leon Harris – anchor for WJLA-TV
•    Ted Koppel – former ABC News anchor
•    Lea Thompson – "Dateline NBC" correspondent
•    Topper Shutt – chief meteorologist for WUSA-TV

 

 

 

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