Washington, D.C

Famous Citizens

Humor columnist Art Buchwald (b. 1925).

Escaped slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass (1818–1895).

Jazz legend Edward "Duke" Ellington (1899–1974).

Newspaper publisher Katharine Graham (b. 1917).

Actress Helen Hayes (1900–93).

French-born architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754–1825), who de signed the plan for the nation's capital.

First Lady Dolley Madison (1769–1849).

Socialite Perle Mesta (1891–1975).

Englishman James Smithson (1765–1829), who donated the funds for the founding of the Smithsonian Institution.

Composer John Philip Sousa (1854–1932).

Poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892).