List of people from Holyoke, Massachusetts
The people listed below were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Notable people
(B) denotes that the person was born there.
Academics and educators
- Morris Swadesh (1909–1967), American linguist known for the Swadesh list, a compilation of unifying concepts across cultures for the purposes of comparative linguistics (B)[1]
- David E. Sweet (1933–1984), founding president of Metropolitan State University and later president of Rhode Island College. (B)[2]
Artists
- Arthur Adams (born 1963), comic book artist known for his work on Longshot and Monkeyman and O'Brien.(B)[3][4]
- Jerome Connor (1874–1943), Irish-born 19th century sculptor.[5]:80
- William Wegman (born 1943), American photographer best known for his compositions posing Weimaraners in costume, his work has been featured on Sesame Street (B)[6]
Film and television
- Ann Dowd (born 1956), Emmy award-winning actress (B)[7]
- T. J. Jagodowski (born 1971), actor and comedian.[8]
- Melanie Kinnaman (born 1954), actress (B)[9]
- Rachel Maddow (born 1973), American television host, political commentator, and Rhodes Scholar, got her first broadcasting job in 1999 at WRNX (100.9 FM) in Holyoke[10]
- Michael Nozik (born 1954), film producer, recipient of 2004 award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for his work on The Motorcycle Diaries (B)[11]
- Eva Tanguay (1879–1947), the "I Don't Care Girl", vaudevillian.[12]
Government and law
- David M. Bartley (born 1935), politician and educator. (B)[13]
- Bob Goodlatte, U.S. Representative from Virginia.(B)[14]
- Marshall Green (1916–1998), Assistant Secretary of State.(B)[15]
- Grace Mary Stern (1925–1998), Illinois state legislator, was born in Holyoke[16]
- William Fairfield Whiting, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce.[17]
- William Whiting, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Music industry
- Hal Blaine (born 1929), professional drummer, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, member of The Wrecking Crew (music). (B)[18]
- Kurt Riley (born 1987), rock and roll musician. (B)
Sports
- Paul Azinger (born 1960), professional golfer, winner of 1993 PGA Championship, and captain of the 2008 U.S. Ryder Cup team. (B)[19]
- Jack Buck (1924–2002), sportscaster in Baseball Hall of Fame.(B)[20]
- Dick Burns (1863–1937), 19th century MLB pitcher and outfielder.(B)[21]
- Jack Doyle (1869–1958), Irish American baseball player who settled in Holyoke and served as police commissioner 1908–09.[22]
- Gerry Geran, Olympic silver medalist, first American-born player in National Hockey League.[23]
- Fran Healy (born 1946), Major League Baseball catcher for the Kansas City Royals, San Francisco Giants and New York Yankees.[24]
- Eddie Hurley (1908–1969), Major League Baseball umpire. (B)[25]
- Mark Wohlers (born 1970), MLB relief pitcher who won a World Series in 1995 with the Atlanta Braves.(B)[26]
- William G. Morgan (1870–1942), inventor of volleyball, first developed as the sport "Mintonette" at the Holyoke YMCA.[27]
Scientists and engineers
- Clemens Herschel (1842–1930), American hydraulic engineer and inventor who developed the Venturi meter while working for the Holyoke Water Power Company[28]
- Montgomery Knight (1901–1943), pioneer in rotorcraft design, first director of the Guggenheim School of Aeronautics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a founder of and long-time researcher at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.[29][30]
- Homer E. Newell Jr. (1915–1983), mathematics professor and NASA administrator, oversaw nearly all unmanned space missions in the Western world from the early 1960's until his retirement in 1974; recipient of the 1965 President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. (B)[31]
Writers
- Donald Bevan (1920–2013), World War II combat veteran, playwright and writer of Stalag 17. (B)[32]
- Sherri Browning Erwin (1968–present), writer. (B)
- John Clellon Holmes (1926–1988), author best known for Go, an early novel about the Beat Generation. (B)[33]
- Raymond Kennedy (1934–2008), novelist, who set many of his books in a fictionalized Holyoke that he called "Ireland Parish" and "Hadley Falls".[5]:31
- Mike LaPlante (born 1966), college basketball head coach, NBA scout and lawyer. Known internationally as an excellent recruiter with contacts with the Senegalese Basketball Federation and credited with bringing many players into the NBA from Africa and Europe.[34]
- Dean Lombardi (born 1958), general manager of NHL's Los Angeles Kings. (B)[35]
- Charles Palliser (born 1947), novelist whose most famous work, The Quincunx, has sold more than a million copies and won the 1991 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. (B)[36]
- Neil Sheehan (born 1936), author of A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. (B)[37]
Other
- Junius Spencer Morgan (1813–1890), businessman, father of J. P. Morgan. (B)[38]
- Belle Skinner (1866–1928), businesswoman and philanthropist who donated Wistariahurst to the city, and worked with Holyoke's government to reconstruct the village of Apremont, France after the First World War[39]
- Theodore J. Wojnar, U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral.[40]
- Ralph T. Browning, (1941-2018), United States Air Force Brigadier General (retired), POW of the Vietnam War, CEO of Greater Phoenix Leadership, Inc.(B)[41]
References
- ↑ Hymes, Dell (1970). "Morris Swadesh". Word. XXVI (1): 119–138. doi:10.1080/00437956.1970.11435588.
- ↑ Who Was Who In America, Vol. IX, 1985–1989. Willmette, Illinois: Marquis Who's Who, Macmillan Directory Division, 1989, p. 349
- ↑ Cooke, Jon B. (November 15, 2001). ""The Art of Arthur Adams", Reprinted from Comic Book Artist #17". Twomorrows.com. Retrieved October 31, 2012.
- ↑ George Khoury and Eric Nolen-Weathington. Modern Masters Volume Six: Arthur Adams, 2006, TwoMorrows Publishing.
- 1 2 Sears, Jacqueline (2015). Legendary Locals of Holyoke. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781439650783.
- ↑ "William Wegman, American (1943- )". Ro Gallery. Long Island City, NY. 2018. Archived from the original on May 21, 2017.
- ↑ Kelly, Ray (September 17, 2017). "Emmy Awards 2017: Ann Dowd, Holyoke native and Holy Cross grad, wins for 'Handmaid's Tale'". The Republican. Springfield, Mass.: MassLive.
- ↑ Anne Ford (June 5, 2008). "Life Without a Script: how funnyman TJ Jagodowski fell into improv—and the mysterious affliction that keeps him from leaving it". Chicago Reader. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
- ↑ Dobbs, G. Michael (2014). Fifteen MInutes With... : 40 Years of Interviews. BearManor Media. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-593-93592-4.
- ↑ Leibovich, Mark (June 7, 2013). "Rachel Maddow". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
- ↑ Roy, Kathryn (November 10, 2010). "Holyoke native Michael Nozik, producer of 'Syriana,' brings 'Next Three Days' with Russell Crowe to the screen".
- ↑ Erdman, Andrew. Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay, Cornell University Press, 2012 pp. 30-32, 36-38, 47, 93-94, 100-03, 114-15, 139-43, 212-14, 222-23.
- ↑ "[Alumni]". The Cross & the Crescent. Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. 52 (3): 55. 1965.
- ↑ "goodlatte". Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
- ↑ "Marshall Green Dies at 82; Longtime Diplomat in Asia". The New York Times. June 11, 1998.
- ↑ 'Illinois Blue Book 193-1994,' Biographical Sketch of Grace Mary Stern, pg. 94
- ↑ W.F. Whiting, Coolidge's Aid in Cabinet, Dies," The Washington Post, September 1, 1936
- ↑ Kelly, Ray (January 22, 2015). "Wrecking Crew' documentary featuring Holyoke drummer Hal Blaine set for release". Retrieved October 19, 2015.
- ↑ "BPGA Tour Media Guide – Paul Azinger". PGA Tour. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
- ↑ Buck, Jack; Rob Rains; Bob Broeg (1997). That's A Winner!. Champaign: Sagamore Publishing. pp. 5–8. ISBN 1-57167-111-0. OCLC 36641485.
- ↑ "Dick Burns Statistics and History". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
- ↑ "Jack Doyle Biography". SABR.org. Retrieved July 20, 2007.
- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Gerry Geran". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on February 4, 2013.
- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Fran Healy". Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on July 12, 2017.
- ↑ Brown, Gary (November 1969). "Sports Editor". Holyoke Morning Transcript.
- ↑ Diaz, George (March 21, 1999). "Mind Over Matters". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
- ↑ "In 1895, William Morgan Invents Mintonette". New England Historical Society. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
Putting his mind to the challenge, Morgan examined the rules of sports such as baseball, basketball, handball and badminton. Taking pieces from each, he created a game he called Mintonette, deriving the name from badminton
- ↑ #129 Holyoke Water Power System (1859). Retrieved May 15, 2018.
- ↑ Daniel P. Schrage; Robert Scott. "History of Rotorcraft Education and Research at Georgia Tech" (PDF). Georgia Institute of Technology.
- ↑ Barnes Warnock McCormick; Conrad F. Newberry; Eric Jumper (2004). Aerospace Engineering Education During The First Century of Flight. AIAA. pp. 271–283. ISBN 1563477106.
- ↑ "Wednesday, March 2, 1966". Hearings Before the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, United States Senate. Eight-Ninth Congress, Second SEssion on S. 2909. A Bill to Authorize Appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration... Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1966. p. 275.
- ↑ Weber, Bruce (June 30, 2013). "Donald Bevan, 93, Sardi's Artist and 'Stalag 17' Writer, Dies". The New York Times. New York.
- ↑ McQuiston, John T. (March 31, 1988). "John Clellon Holmes, 62, Novelist And Poet of the Beat Generation". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Michael LaPlante '85, Head Coach". Suffield Academy. January 25, 2002.
- ↑ NHL Official Guide and Record. National Hockey League (NHL). 2008. p. 68. Dean Lombardi; President and General Manager, Los Angeles Kings
- ↑ "A Novelist Who Pens Dickensian English And Thinks in Fives". The New York Times. February 21, 1990. p. C13. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
A quest for identity and for a sense of belonging, as well as the period in which he lives, are familiar to Mr. Palliser, who was born in Holyoke, Mass., to an American father and an Irish mother and who was sent to England to live with his grandmother after his parents' marriage dissolved.
- ↑ Author Profile Archived October 12, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.; C-SPAN; October 22, 1988
- ↑ Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire: a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Volume 1. Lewis Publishing Company. 1908. p. 56.
- ↑ "BELLE SKINNER DIES ON VISIT TO FRANCE; Holyoke Woman Adopted Whole Village of Hattonehatel After War. REBUILT DESTROYED HOMES Raised $1,000,000 to Make of Place a Model Community--Restored Apremont Also". The New York Times. April 9, 1928. p. 21.
- ↑ "Theodore J. Wojnar". Hall of Valor. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
- ↑ "Browning, Ralph Thomas". P.O.W. Network. July 7, 2018. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
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