List of Saint Mary's College of Maryland people

• Kay Aldridge (1934) – actor, model, star of Perils of Nyoka^[1]
• Julie Croteau – Women's Major League Baseball pioneer, inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
• Ellen Hackl Fagan (born June 13, 1960) – abstract artist and curator
• David Fraser-Hidalgo (1992)  – member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing District 15, sits on the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce^[2]
• Jesse Kirkland (2011) – Olympic sailor, 49er racing dinghies^{[citation needed]}
• Matthew Schissler (1993) – founder of Cord Blood America, Inc.,^[3] a pioneer in harvesting non-embryonic stem cells for medical use; and Pyrenees Investments; semi-finalist for the 2008 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award
• Brandon Scott  – politician, president of the Baltimore City Council and 52nd Mayor of Baltimore
• John F. Slade III (1964) – associate judge with the 4th District Court of Maryland, former member of Maryland House of Delegates^[4]
• Paul Reed Smith (1978) – luthier, founder of PRS Guitars^[5]
• Scott Steele (1981) – Olympic silver medalist in sailboarding^[6]

• Jeffrey J. Byrd – microbiologist, science editor, author, editor od The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microbiology, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education, formerly called the Journal of Microbiology Education
• Lucille Clifton – former Poet Laureate of Maryland; two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist; deceased
• Norton Dodge – economist, collector of dissident Soviet era art; smuggled thousands of Soviet dissident paintings, prints and sculptures out of communist Russia over a number of years and at great risk to his own life; amassed one of the largest collections of Soviet-era art outside the Soviet Union; deceased
• Mary Adele France – first president of the junior college; convinced the Maryland legislature that women attaining the right to vote made it rational to expand the former St. Mary's Female Seminary into a junior college, in 1927; science and math teacher at the school
• David Froom – composer, Guggenheim Fellow,^[7] twice honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Ives Scholarship,^[8] Academy Award for lifetime achievement^[9]), first prize in the Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards,^[10] commissioned by the Fromm Foundation of Harvard^[11] and the Koussevitzky Foundation of the Library of Congress,^[12] published by ACA^[13]
• Michael Glaser – former Poet Laureate of Maryland; professor emeritus
• Earl Hofmann – painter, sculptor, educator; part of Baltimore's 20th-century realist art school, studied with and assisted Jacques Maroger at the Maryland Institute College of Art; considered a major part of the 20th-century Baltimore art scene before relocating to Southern Maryland; deceased
• James A. Kenney, III – judge of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals (1997–2007);^[14] Assistant State's Attorney in St. Mary's County, Maryland (1964–67);^[14] won the Maryland Leadership in Law Award in 2003;^[14] adjunct professor
• Jane Margaret O'Brien – St. Mary's College of Maryland's college's first female president (after it became a four-year college) and its fifth president overall (1996–2009)
• Juliana Geran Pilon – author of many books, including Notes from the other side of night,^[15] The UN: assessing Soviet abuses,^[16] The Bloody Flag: Post-Communist Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Spotlight on Romania,^[17] Why America Is Such a Hard Sell: Beyond Pride and Prejudice,^[18] Cultural Intelligence for Winning the Peace,^[19] Soulmates: Resurrecting Eve;^[20] director of the Center for Culture and Security at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C.;^[21] former visiting professor
• Luis Enrique Sam Colop – Guatemalan/Native American linguist,^[22] lawyer, poet, writer, newspaper columnist, promoter of the K'iche' language and social activist;^[23] former Fulbright visiting scholar

Nitze senior fellows visit St. Mary's College several times throughout their assigned year to give lectures and meet with Nitze scholars and other St. Mary's students.

Previous Nitze fellows include:

• Nicholas Thompson (2010–2011)
• John Prendergast (2009–2010)
• T.R. Reid (2008–2009)
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (2007–2008)
• David E. Sanger (2006–2007)
• Edward P. Jones (2005–2006)
• Diane Rehm (2004–2005)
• Josiah Ober (2003–2004)
• Norine G. Johnson (2002–2003)
• Mario Livio (2001–2002)
• Wole Soyinka
• Lucille Clifton (spring 2001)
• Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson (fall 2000)
• Richard Lewontin (spring 2000)
• Ben Cardin (fall 1999)