Columbia (Maryland)

Howard County

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Columbia is a city in the U.S. state of Maryland in the United States.

Sister cities are Cergy-Pontoise in France and Tres Cantos, Spain.

The software company Micros Systems in Columbia headquarters.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter
  • Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize winner, author
  • Frank Cho, creator of Liberty Meadows Comic
  • George Colligan, living in New York jazz pianist
  • Cristeta Comerford, White House executive chef
  • Laura Lippman, author
  • Aaron McGruder, animator
  • Edward Norton, Academy Award -nominated actor
  • James W. Rouse, urban planner and philanthropist. Grandfather of actor Edward Norton
  • Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE inventor
  • Ian Jones - Quartey, creator of the webcomic RPG World
  • JJ Kincaid, New York City Radio
  • Stephen Hunter, Pulitzer Prize winner, film critic and author
  • Tim Neumark, piano player
  • D' Monroe, actor
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