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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.
[edit] Artists
[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
- Matt Carbone, baseball player
- John Cena, professional wrestler
- Mickey Cochrane, Hall-of-Fame baseball player
- Tony Conigliaro, baseball player
- 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
[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
- 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
- Neal McDonough, actor
[edit] Musicians
[edit] Hosts and Entertainment personalities
[edit] Founders
[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
[edit] Native people
[edit] People involved in the American Revolutionary War
[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, former governor
- Jane Swift, first female governor of Massachusetts
[edit] Religion
[edit] Science
[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
- Capt. Marty Welch, Schooner Captain
- Charles Pomeroy Stone, soldier, explorer, and engineer
[edit] Famous politicians and other residents
- John Adams, 1st Vice President of the U.S., 2nd President of the U.S., 1800 Federalist presidential nominee
- John Quincy Adams, Congressman, Senator, 6th President of the U.S.
- Samuel Adams, Patriot in the American Revolutionary War
- James "Whitey" Bulger, leader of The Winter Hill Gang and wanted fugitive
- William Bulger, former President of the Massachusetts State Senate and former president of the University of Massachusetts.
- George H. W. Bush, 43rd Vice President of the U.S., 41st President of the U.S.
- Paul Cellucci, Governor and United States Ambassador to Canada
- Calvin Coolidge, 29th Vice President of the U.S., 30th President of the U.S.
- Michael Dukakis, Governor, 1988 Democratic presidential nominee
- Mark Foley, the disgraced U.S. Congressman, was born in Newton.
- Elbridge Gerry, Congressman, Governor, 5th Vice President of the U.S., namesake of gerrymandering
- John Hancock, Governor, President of the Continental Congress
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Supreme Court Justice
- James Michael Curley, Governor, Congressman, Mayor of Boston
- Edward M. Kennedy, incumbent U.S. Senator, 1980 Democratic presidential candidate
- John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator, 35th President of the U.S.
- Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator (representing New York), 1968 Democratic presidential candidate
- John F. Kerry, incumbent U.S. Senator, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee
- Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Senator, led the Senate opposition to the League of Nations
- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., U.S. Senator, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.,1960 Republican vice presidential candidate
- Barry McCaffrey, (4-star) Army General, Drug Czar
- John W. McCormack, Speaker of the House of Representatives
- Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Paul Revere, Patriot in the American Revolution
- Theodore Sedgwick, President pro tempore of the Senate, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senator, 1992 Democratic presidential candidate
- Henry Wilson, U.S. Senator, 18th Vice President of the U.S.
[edit] Inventors
- Alexander Graham Bell, Salem (telephone)
- Harold Steven Black, Leominster (negative feedback principle)
- Rachel Fuller Brown, Springfield (antibiotics)
- Robert Goddard, Worcester ("father of modern rocketry")
- Charles Goodyear, Woburn (Vulcanized Rubber)
- Elias Howe, Specer (sewing machine)
- Samuel Morse, Charlestown (Morse code)
- Benjamin Thompson, Woburn (Rumford fireplace, Thermal Underwear)
- Eli Whitney, Westborough (cotton gin)
[edit] Authors and Poets
- Louisa May Alcott, Concord (Little Women)
- Augusten Burroughs, Amherst (Running With Scissors)
- E.E. Cummings, Cambridge (poet)
- Emily Dickinson, Amherst
- W.E.B. DuBois, Great Barrington (The Souls of Black Folk)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Concord (Nature, The Transcendentalist)
- Robert Frost, Lawrence
- Theodore Geisel, Springfield (the Dr. Seuss books)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Salem (The Scarlet Letter)
- Oliver Wendel Holmes, Cambridge (poet)
- Jack Kerouac, Lowell (On the Road)
- Timothy Leary, Springfield (Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out)
- Michael Patrick MacDonald, South Boston (All Souls)
- Stephen McCauley, Woburn (The Object of My Affection)
- Sylvia Plath, Boston (The Bell Jar)
- Edgar Allen Poe, Boston (The Raven)
- Henry David Thoreau, Concord (Walden)
- George Santayana, Boston (The Life of Reason)
- Anne Sexton, Newton (poet)
- Michelle Tea, Chelsea
- Thomas Paine, (Common Sense)
- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Concord (In the forests of the night, Demon in my View)
[edit] Television and Film
- Ben Affleck, Cambridge (Good Will Hunting, Gigli)
- Eric Bogosian, Woburn (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)
- Steve Carell, Acton (The Office, The 40-Year Old Virgin)
- John Cena, West Newbury (WWE Champion)
- Dane Cook, Arlington (Retaliation, Harmful If Swallowed)
- Rob Corddry and Nate Corddry, Weymouth (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Studio 60)
- Marcia Cross, Marlborough (Desperate Housewives)
- Matt Damon, Cambridge (Good Will Hunting, The Bourne Identity, The Departed)
- Geena Davis, Wareham (Thelma and Louise)
- Ken Doane, Worcester (WWE Superstar)
- Rachel Dratch, Lexington (Saturday Night Live)
- Jim Ford III, West Boylston (Knock Knock , Across the Universe)
- John Hodgman, Brookline (The Daily Show, "I'm a PC" in Get a Mac)
- Denis Leary, Worcester (The Sandlot, Wag the Dog)
- Matt LeBlanc, Newton. (Friends)
- Jay Leno, Andover (The Tonight Show)
- Mindy Kaling, Cambridge (The Office)
- Ben Karlin, Needham. (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report)
- John Krasinski, Newton (The Office)
- Ben Kurland, Newton (Sinners)
- Ed McMahon, Lowell (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Star Search)
- Leonard Nimoy, Boston (Star Trek, IMAX voiceover)
- Ed Norton, Boston (American History X, Fight Club)
- B.J. Novak, Newton (The Office)
- Conan O'Brien, Brookline (Late Night with Conan O'Brien)
- Amy Poehler, Burlington (Saturday Night Live)
- Ellen Pompeo, Everett (Old School, Grey's Anatomy)
- Eli Roth, Newton (Hostel)
- Kurt Russell, Springfield (Escape From New York)
- James Spader, Boston (Secretary)
- Liam Kyle Sullivan, Boston (The "Kelly" Skits)
- Uma Thurman, Amherst (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill)
- Steven Tyler, Lynn (Aerosmith)
- Mark Wahlberg, Dorchester (Entourage, The Departed)
- Nancy Walls, Cohasset (Saturday Night Live, The Office)
- Barbara Walters, Boston (journalist)
- Lyle R. Wheeler, Woburn (Academy Award-winning art-director)
- Alicia Witt, Worcester (actress)
- Steven Wright, Burlington (stand-up comedian)
- Rob Zombie, Haverhill (The Devil's Rejects)
