List of people from Massachusetts
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This is a list of people from Massachusetts. It includes both people born in the state, and people famous for association with it.
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Artists
- John Singleton Copley, painter
- Childe Hassam, painter
- Winslow Homer, painter
- Fitzhugh Lane, painter
- Norman Rockwell, artist
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist
Athletes
- Jeff Bagwell, baseball player
- Larry Bird, basketball star
- Mark Bellhorn , baseball player
- Mickey Cochrane, Hall-of-Fame baseball player
- Tony Conigliaro, baseball pitcher
- Fran Healy, baseball player, announcer
- Tim Keefe, 19th century baseball pitcher
- Rocky Marciano, boxer
- Lou Merloni, baseball player
- Joe Morgan, baseball player, announcer
- Jerry Remy, baseball player, announcer
- Mark Wohlers, baseball pitcher
- Wilbur Wood, baseball pitcher
Business
- Charles Bulfinch, architect
- William leBaron Jenney, architect
- Henry Huttleston Rogers, industrialist
Entertainment
Comedians
- Denis Leary, comedian and actor
- Jay Leno, comedian and talk show host
- Conan O'Brien, comedian and talk show host
Film
- Jane Alexander, actress
- Ben Affleck, actor
- Ray Bolger, actor
- Michael Chiklis, actor
- Jane Curtin, actress
- Matt Damon, actor
- Bette Davis, actress
- Geena Davis, actress
- Olympia Dukakis, actress
- Jack Lemmon, actor
- Leonard Nimoy, actor, director
- Kurt Russell, actor
- Sam Waterston, actor
- Mark Wahlberg, actor and former musician
Musicians
See List of Massachusetts musicians
Radio
- Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr. (a.k.a. Hank the angry drunken dwarf), Howard Stern radio show regular
Founders
- Pilgrims, first settlers
Literature
- Louisa May Alcott, author
- Horatio Alger, author
- William Cullen Bryant, poet
- Stephen Daye, printer
- Emily Dickinson, poet
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet
- Theodore Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss), author and illustrator
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, author
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet and essayist
- Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author
- Henry Cabot Lodge, author and public official
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet
- Sylvia Plath, poet, author, and essayist
- Edgar Allan Poe, author
- Henry David Thoreau, philosopher
- John Greenleaf Whittier, poet and abolitionist
Native people
- Nauset, Algonquian tribe
- Massachuset, tribe
- Wampanoag, Algonquian tribe
People involved in the American Revolutionary War
- Samuel Adams, revolutionary
- Crispus Attucks, first casualty of the war
- John Hancock
- James Otis
- Robert Treat Paine
- William Prescott
- Paul Revere, revolutionary
Public office
- John Adams, 2nd US president and 1st vice president
- John Quincy Adams, 6th US president
- George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st US president
- James Michael Curley, Mayor of Boston and Governor of Massachusetts
- John Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts and President of the Continental Congress
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., justice of the Supreme Court
- Thomas Hutchinson, governor
- Edward Kennedy, senator
- John F. Kennedy, 35th US president
- John F. Kerry, senator and 2004 Democratic candidate for president
- Thomas Menino, current mayor of Boston
- Mitt Romney, current governor
Religion
- Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam leader
- Edward Everett Hale, religious leader
- John Harvard, clergyman and namesake of Harvard University
- Bernard Cardinal Law, archbishop and cardinal
- Cotton Mather, minister
- Increase Mather, minister
- Dwight Lyman Moody, evangelist
- Edmund Sears, Unitarian parish minister who penned "It Came upon the Midnight Clear" in 1849.
Science
- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
- Luther Burbank, horticulturist
- Benjamin Franklin, scientist and public official
- Robert Goddard, inventor
- Elias Howe, inventor
- Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor and artist
- Eli Whitney, inventor
Others
- Susan B. Anthony, reformist
- Harvey Ball, inventor of the smiley face
- F. Lee Bailey
- Adrian Lamo, hacker
- Horace Mann, educationist and abolitionist
- Barbara Walters, television commentator