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