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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[edit] Artists
- John Singleton Copley, painter
- Childe Hassam, painter
- Winslow Homer, painter
- Fitzhugh Lane, painter
- Norman Rockwell, artist
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist
[edit] Athletes
- Tony Amonte, hockey player
- Jeff Bagwell, baseball player
- Tom Barrasso, hockey player
- Dana Barros, basketball player
- Travis Best, basketball player
- Larry Bird, basketball star
- Mark Bellhorn, baseball player
- Andy Brickley, hockey player
- Michael Caminiti, bocce ball champion
- John Cena, professional wrestler
- Mickey Cochrane, Hall-of-Fame baseball player
- Tony Conigliaro, baseball pitcher
- Jim Craig, USA Olympic hockey player, 1980 Lake Placid
- Honey Craven, equestrian
- Bill Guerin, hockey player
- Anthony Gurley, Newton North High School, attending Wake Forest University
- Tom Glavine, baseball pitcher
- Fran Healy, baseball player, announcer
- Jarrett Jack, went to school in Worcester, Mass.
- Tim Keefe, 19th century baseball pitcher
- Rocky Marciano, boxer
- Lou Merloni, baseball player
- Mike Milbury, hockey player
- Joe Morgan, baseball player, announcer
- Jay Pandolfo, hockey player
- Carlos Peña, baseball player
- Tom Poti, hockey player
- Jerry Remy, baseball player, announcer
- Jeremy Roenick, hockey player
- Joe Sacco, hockey player
- Tarun Shanker, world champion sprinter
- Keith Tkachuk, hockey player
- Mark Wohlers, baseball pitcher
- Wilbur Wood, baseball pitcher
[edit] Business
- Charles Bulfinch, architect
- William LeBaron Jenney, architect
- Henry Huttleston Rogers, industrialist
[edit] Crime
- James J. Bulger
- Arthur "Butchy" Doe
- Ronald Dermody
- Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi
- Jimmy Flynn
- Cornelius Hughes
- Stevie Hughes
- George "Boston George" Jung
- Bernard "Bernie" McLaughlin
- George McLaughlin
- Edward "Punchy" McLaughlin
- James "Buddy" McLean
- Russell Nicholson
- Jacob D. Robida
- Alex Rocco
- James "Spike" O'Toole
- Frank Salemme
- Frank Wallace
- Howie Winter
[edit] Entertainment
[edit] Comedians
- Mike Birbiglia comedian
- Bill Burr comedian
- Louis C.K. comedian, director
- Mario Cantone comedian
- Steve Carell comedian, actor, The Daily Show
- Dane Cook comedian, stand up, and actor
- Nate Corddry comedian, actor, The Daily Show
- Rob Corddry comedian, The Daily Show
- Lenny Clarke comedian, stand up, and actor
- Nick DiPaolo comedian
- Rachel Dratch comedian
- John Ennis comedian, actor, Mr. Show with Bob and David
- Denis Leary comedian and actor
- Jay Leno comedian and talk show host
- Conan O'Brien comedian and talk show host
- Patrice Oneal comedian, writer
- Amy Poehler comedian, actress
- Steve Sweeney comedian and actor
- Nancy Walls comedian, actress
- Steven Wright comedian, actor
[edit] Actors and film people
- Jane Alexander, actress
- Ben Affleck, Oscar-winning screenwriter & actor
- Casey Affleck, actor
- Ray Bolger, actor
- Eric Bruno Borgman
- Kate Bosworth, actress
- Michael Chiklis, actor
- Jane Curtin, actress
- Matt Damon, Oscar-winning screenwriter & actor
- Bette Davis, actress
- Geena Davis, Oscar-winning actress
- Olympia Dukakis, Oscar-winning actress
- Eliza Dushku, actress
- Nate Dushku, actor
- Chris Evans, actor
- Amy Jo Johnson, actress
- Matt LeBlanc, actor
- Jack Lemmon, Oscar-winning actor
- Bridget Moynahan, actress
- Leonard Nimoy, actor, director
- Matthew Perry, actor
- Ellen Pompeo, actress
- Kurt Russell, actor
- Uma Thurman, actress
- Sam Waterston, actor
- Mark Wahlberg, actor and former musician
[edit] Musicians
- Frank Black, singer and guitarist of the Pixies
- Bobby Brown singer
- Neil Cicierega, singer and internet cult icon
- Kay Hanley singer (Letters to Cleo)
- JoJo, singer
- Mary Lou Lord, singer/guitarist
- Andrew McMahon, singer/pianist
- Joe Perry, guitarist
- Linda Perry singer and songwriter
- Wanda Perry-Josephs, singer
- Jonathan Richman singer in The Modern Lovers
- James Taylor singer
[edit] Radio
- Ray and Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk
- Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr., former Howard Stern Show regular
[edit] Hosts and Entertainment personalities
- Susie Castillo, current MTV VJ and 2003 Miss USA
- Damien Fahey, current MTV VJ
- Maria Menounos, actress and television presenter known for hostess/correspondent work on both Entertainment Tonight and later Access Hollywood
- John Sencio, prominent MTV VJ during the early-to-mid 90's, occasional actor and tv host since
[edit] Founders
- Pilgrims, first settlers
- John Alden
- Mary Allerton
- Elizabeth Poole, the foundress of Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1637; also the first woman to have founded a town in the Americas.
[edit] Literature
- Louisa May Alcott, author
- Horatio Alger, author
- Anne Bradstreet, poet
- William Cullen Bryant, poet
- Stephen Daye, printer
- Emily Dickinson, poet
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet
- John Kenneth Galbraith, author, educator, and public official
- Theodore Seuss Geisel, author and illustrator
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, author
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet and essayist
- Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author
- Peter Laird, Comic book creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- 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
[edit] Military
- Gerald F. DeConto Captain, US Navy Killed at the Pentagon during September 11 attacks
[edit] Native people
- Nauset, Algonquian tribe
- Massachuset, tribe
- Wampanoag, Algonquian tribe
[edit] 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
[edit] Public office
- John Adams, 2nd U.S. president and 1st vice president
- John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. president
- Edward Brooke, U.S. Senator
- George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st U.S. president
- Andrew Card, State Rep., U.S. Secretary of Transportation, White House Chief of Staff
- Paul Cellucci, governor and U.S. Ambassador to Canada
- James Michael Curley, Mayor of Boston and Governor of Massachusetts
- Michael Dukakis, governor and 1988 Democratic nominee for president
- John Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts and President of the Continental Congress
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- Thomas Hutchinson, governor
- Edward Kennedy, U.S. Senator
- John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. president
- Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator (New York)
- John Forbes Kerry, U.S. Senator and 2004 Democratic nominee for president
- Thomas Menino, current mayor of Boston
- Mitt Romney, current governor
- Jane Swift, first female governor of Massachusetts
[edit] Religion
- Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam leader
- Edward Everett Hale, religious leader
- John Harvard, clergyman and namesake of Harvard University
- Bernard Francis 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] Others
- Susan B. Anthony, reformist
- Harvey Ball, inventor of the smiley face
- F. Lee Bailey
- Michelle Bonner, ESPN SportsCenter anchor & ESPNEWS anchor
- Becky DelosSantos, Playboy playmate of the Month April 1994
- Adrian Lamo, hacker
- Horace Mann, educationist and abolitionist
- Barbara Walters, television commentator
- Charles Pomeroy Stone, soldier, explorer, and engineer
