Talmadge Branch (born January 30, 1956) is an American politician who represented the 45th legislative district in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1995 to 2023.

Branch was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2020 Maryland 7th congressional district special primary election to fill out the term of the late Elijah Cummings.

He attended Northern High School in Baltimore and then Essex Community College where he got his A.A. in 1978.

[3] On April 16, 2022, Branch announced that he would not seek re-election in the 2022 Maryland House of Delegates elections.

He said that he did not plan to endorse a third delegate candidate to succeed him and that he would stay in the Baltimore area to build on a consulting business.