List of people from Massachusetts

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This is a list of people who were born in/raised in, lived in, or have significant relations with the American state of Massachusetts. It includes both notable people born in the Commonwealth, and other notable people who are from the Commonwealth. People from Massachusetts are called "Bay Staters" after the Commonwealth's nickname.

Architects

• Charles Bulfinch, architect
• Josephine Wright Chapman, architect
• Theophilus P. Chandler Jr., architect
• William LeBaron Jenney, architect
• Samuel McIntire, architect
• Josep Lluís Sert, Spanish architect; Dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design

Artists

John Singleton Copley

Winslow Homer

• Harvey Ball, inventor of the smiley face
• Will Barnet, painter
• Frank Weston Benson, painter
• John Singleton Copley, painter
• Thomas Dewing, painter
• Charles Dana Gibson
• Duff Goldman, cake artist
• Nancy Graves (1939–1995), sculptor, painter, engraver and film director
• Childe Hassam, painter
• Winslow Homer, painter
• Peter Laird, co-creator of the comic book Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Fitzhugh Lane, painter
• Jack Levine, painter
• Shawn McManus, comic book artist
• Willard Metcalf, painter
• Tony Millionaire, cartoonist, illustrator
• Lilla Cabot Perry (1848–1933), impressionist
• Ted Rall, political cartoonist
• Robert Reid, painter
• René Ricard, poet, art critic, painter
• Norman Rockwell, artist
• Paul Ryan, cartoonist
• Albert Pinkham Ryder, painter
• Mark Shasha, painter, author
• Stass Shpanin, visual artist listed in Guinness Book of World Records as world's youngest professional artist
• Edward Simmons, painter
• Frank Stella, artist
• Andrew Stevovich, artist
• Edmund Charles Tarbell, painter
• Abbott Handerson Thayer, painter
• James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist
• N. C. Wyeth (1882–1945), artist

Athletes

John Cena

Candy Cummings

Patrick Ewing

Connie Mack

Rocky Marciano

Aly Raisman

John L. Sullivan

A–F

• Kim Adler, bowler
• Harry Agganis, baseball player
• Nick Ahmed, baseball player
• Kiko Alonso, football player
• Tony Amonte, hockey player
• Prince Amukamara, football player
• Jim Arvanitis, martial artist, MMA trainer
• Paul Azinger, golfer, television commentator
• Jerry Azumah, football player
• Jeff Bagwell, baseball player
• Tom Barrasso, hockey player
• Dana Barros, basketball player
• Mark Bavaro, football player
• Joe Bellino, football player, Heisman Trophy winner
• Mackenzy Bernadeau, football player
• Travis Best, basketball player
• David Blatt (born 1959), Israeli-American basketball player and coach, most recently for the Cleveland Cavaliers
• Ron Brace, football player
• John Brebbia, baseball player
• Andy Brickley, hockey player
• Charles Brickley, football player and coach
• Aimee Buchanan (born 1993), American-born Olympic figure skater for Israel
• Nick Buoniconti, Hall of Fame football player
• Chris Capuano, baseball pitcher
• Mary Carew, sprinter, Olympic gold medalist
• Michael Carter-Williams, basketball player
• John Cena, professional wrestler
• Jacques Cesaire, football player
• Gosder Cherilus, football player
• Jack Chesbro, Hall of Fame baseball player
• Alex Cobb, baseball player
• Mickey Cochrane, Hall of Fame baseball player
• Chris Colabello, baseball player
• Tim Collins, baseball player
• Todd Collins, football player
• Marc Colombo, football player
• Tony Conigliaro, baseball player
• Stephen Cooper, football player
• Jim Craig, USA Olympic hockey player, 1980 Lake Placid
• Honey Craven, equestrian
• Candy Cummings, Hall of Fame baseball player
• Tim Daggett, gymnast
• Ron Darling, baseball pitcher, television commentator
• Vinny Del Negro, basketball player, head coach
• Tony DeMarco, welterweight champion boxer
• Zak DeOssie, football player for New York Giants
• Eli Dershwitz, Under-20 World Saber Champion, and US Olympic saber fencer
• Mike DeVito, football player for Kansas City Chiefs
• Oliver Drake, baseball pitcher
• Rich Dubee, baseball coach
• Leo Durocher, Hall of Fame baseball manager
• Adam Edelman (born 1991), American-born four-time Israeli National Champion in skeleton event, and Israeli Olympian
• Mike Eruzione, USA Olympic hockey player, 1980 Lake Placid
• Patrick Ewing, Hall of Fame basketball player
• Mark Fidrych, baseball pitcher, 1976 AL Rookie of the Year
• Ray Fitzgerald, baseball player
• Kenny Florian, UFC Fighter
• Doug Flutie, NFL quarterback, CFL Hall of Famer, Heisman Trophy winner
• Nate Freiman (born 1986), baseball player

G–L

• Chris Gamble, football player
• Breno Giacomini, football player
• Peter Giunta, football coach
• Tom Glavine, baseball pitcher
• Gracie Gold, Olympic figure skater
• Jared Goldberg, Olympic skier
• Colin Grafton, figure skater
• Frank Grant, Hall of Fame baseball player
• Mike Grier, ice hockey player
• Josh Grispi, WEC fighter
• Bill Guerin, hockey player
• Marvin Hagler, champion boxer
• Pete Hamilton, NASCAR driver
• Matt Hasselbeck, football player
• Tim Hasselbeck, football player
• Steve Hathaway, baseball pitcher
• Steven Hauschka, football player
• Ed Healey, NFL Hall of Fame player for Chicago Bears
• Chris Herren, basketball player
• Rich Hill, baseball pitcher
• James Ihedigbo, football player
• Jarrett Jack, basketball player
• Tim Keefe, 19th-century baseball pitcher
• Nancy Kerrigan, Olympic figure skater
• Joe Lauzon, UFC fighter
• Peter Laviolette, hockey player, head coach
• Erika Lawler, U.S Olympic women's hockey team
• Michael Leach, tennis player
• Dana LeVangie, baseball player, coach
• Howie Long, Hall of Fame football player, sportscaster

M–R

• Connie Mack, Hall of Fame baseball manager
• Rabbit Maranville, Hall of Fame baseball player
• Rocky Marciano, undefeated heavyweight boxer
• Obi Melifonwu, football player for the Oakland Raiders
• David Merkow (born 1985), golfer
• Lou Merloni, baseball player
• Alex Meyer, Olympic open water swimmer
• Mike Milbury, hockey player and coach
• Wayne Millner, Hall of Fame football player and coach
• Sean Newcomb, basketball player
• Nerlens Noel, basketball player
• Ryan O'Rourke, baseball player
• Rob Oppenheim (born 1980), professional golfer
• Kassim Osgood, football player
• Francis Ouimet, golfer
• Jay Pandolfo, hockey player
• Craig Patrick, hockey player
• Carlos Peña, baseball player
• Joe Philbin, football coach
• Brian Piccolo, football player
• Tom Poti, hockey player
• John Quinlan, professional wrestler
• Aly Raisman (born 1994), Olympic gymnast
• Jeff Reardon, baseball player
• Jerry Remy, baseball player, broadcaster
• Patrick Ricard, football player
• Jorge Rivera, UFC fighter
• Richard Rodgers, football player
• Jeremy Roenick, hockey player
• Annette Rogers, sprinter, Olympic gold medalist
• Dan Ross, football player

S–Z

• Joe Sacco, hockey player
• Alicia Sacramone, Olympic gymnast
• Sandy Saddler, champion boxer
• Cory Schneider, hockey player
• Anthony Sherman, NFL player
• Simon Shnapir, Olympic medalist pairs skater
• Jarrod Shoemaker, triathlete
• Craig Smith, basketball player
• John L. Sullivan, first heavyweight boxing champion
• Lofa Tatupu, football player
• Keith Tkachuk, hockey player
• Jordan Todman, football player
• Pie Traynor, Hall of Fame baseball player
• Mark van Eeghen, football player
• Noah Vonleh, basketball player
• Pete Walker, baseball pitcher, coach
• Micky Ward, boxer
• David Warsofsky (born 1990), National Hockey League player
• Turk Wendell, baseball pitcher
• Sara Whalen (born 1976), American Olympic soccer player
• Jerry White, baseball player
• Jamila Wideman (born 1975), female basketball player, lawyer and activist
• Jermaine Wiggins, football player
• Brian Wilson, baseball pitcher
• Mark Wohlers, baseball pitcher
• Wilbur Wood, baseball pitcher
• Blidi Wreh-Wilson, football player
• Antoine Wright, basketball player
• Paul Wylie, Olympic figure skater

Business

Michael Bloomberg

Robert Kraft

• Sheldon Adelson, chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp.
• Benjamin Bates IV, entrepreneur, namesake of Bates College
• Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg L.P.
• Amar Bose, inventor
• Horace Bowker (1877–1954), farm economist and businessman^[1]
• Edward Goodwin Burnham, industrialist, Connecticut state senator
• Safra A. Catz, president of Oracle Corporation
• John S. Chen, chief executive officer of BlackBerry Ltd.
• Al Davis, former owner of the Oakland Raiders (deceased 2011)
• Elias Hasket Derby, reportedly America's first millionaire
• James Dole, "Pineapple King", founder of Dole Food Company
• Dan Duquette, General Manager of the Baltimore Orioles
• Thomas C. Durant, vice-president of the Union Pacific Railroad (1862-1870)
• William C. Durant, founder of General Motors and Chevrolet
• John Wesley Emerson, founder of the Emerson Electric Company
• Theo Epstein, General Manager of the Chicago Cubs; previously with Boston Red Sox
• Aaron Feuerstein, inventor
• Dave Gettleman, General Manager of the Carolina Panthers
• Crawford Greenewalt, president of DuPont (1948–1962)
• Reed Hastings, chief executive officer of Netflix
• Irwin M. Jacobs, co-founder and former chairman of Qualcomm
• Howard Deering Johnson, founder of the Howard Johnson's chain
• Leo Kahn, co-founder of Staples Inc.
• Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., businessman, investor, ambassador to United Kingdom
• Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots
• Jeffrey Lurie, owner of the Philadelphia Eagles
• George Swinnerton Parker, founder of Parker Brothers games
• Sumner Redstone, entertainment mogul
• Henry Huttleston Rogers, industrialist
• James Harris Simons, mathematician, billionaire hedge fund manager
• Jes Staley, chief executive officer of Barclays
• Jack Welch, chief executive officer of General Electric (1981–2001)
• Oliver Winchester, founder of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company
• Robert Wolf, Chairman and CEO of UBS's Group Americas division

Civil rights and activists

Susan B. Anthony

W.E.B. Du Bois

• Abigail Adams, advocate for women's rights and against slavery; second First Lady; wife of John Adams; mother of John Quincy Adams
• Susan B. Anthony, social reformist, suffragist
• David Bossie, political activist, president of Citizens United
• Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, social reformist; lived in New Bedford
• W. E. B. Du Bois, civil rights activist, co-founder of the NAACP
• Abby Kelley Foster, suffragist and abolitionist
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, feminist historian and writer
• Elizabeth Freeman, slave in Sheffield; sued for and won freedom on basis of state constitution, 1781
• Margaret Fuller, journalist and suffragist
• William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist, journalist, and social reformist
• Charles Garry, civil rights attorney
• Abbie Hoffman, political activist, co-founder of the "Yippies"
• Horace Mann, U.S. Congressman, educationist, and abolitionist
• Grover Norquist, president of advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform
• Nathaniel Raymond, human rights investigator and anti-torture advocate
• Lucy Stone, suffragist and abolitionist
• Neera Tanden, president of Center for American Progress
• Quock Walker, slave in Worcester County; won freedom on basis of state constitution, 1781
• Malcolm X, civil rights activist; lived in Roxbury in the early 1940s

Crime

• Elizabeth Borden, murderer, acquitted
• James J. "Whitey" Bulger, mobster
• Albert DeSalvo, criminal
• Thomas DeSimone, gangster
• "Anthony the Animal" Fiato, mobster
• Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, gangster
• Jimmy Flynn, mobster
• Mark Foley, U.S. Congressman, criminal
• David Gilbert, radical activist
• George "Boston George" Jung, smuggler
• Bernard "Bernie" McLaughlin, gangster
• Edward "Punchy" McLaughlin, gangster
• James "Buddy" McLean, mobster
• James "Spike" O'Toole, mobster
• Jacob D. Robida, criminal
• "Handsome Johnny" Roselli, mobster
• Frank Salemme, mobster
• Frank Wallace, gangster
• Howie Winter, mobster

Entertainment

Ben Affleck

Ray Bolger

Walter Brennan

Steve Carell

Matt Damon

Bette Davis

Ed Herlihy

Jack Lemmon

Jay Leno

Leonard Nimoy

Conan O'Brien

Amy Poehler

Mark Wahlberg

Barbara Walters

Founders

• John Adams, Braintree
• Samuel Adams, Boston
• Benjamin Franklin, Boston
• John Hancock, Braintree
• Pilgrims, the first European settlers (Plymouth Colony, 1620)
• Puritans, English settlers in the 16th and 17th centuries (Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1628)
• Elizabeth Poole, founder of Taunton, in 1637; the first woman to have founded a town in the Americas

Literature

Louisa May Alcott

Emily Dickinson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Edgar Allan Poe

Dr. Seuss

Henry David Thoreau

• Herbert Baxter Adams, educator, historian
• Louisa May Alcott, author, Little Women (Concord)
• Horatio Alger, Jr., author
• Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, author, In the Forests of the Night, Demon in my View (Concord)
• Mike Barnicle, journalist
• Peter Beinart, journalist (Cambridge)
• Edward Bellamy, author and socialist
• Amalie Benjamin, journalist, The Boston Globe
• James Bennet, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic
• Elizabeth Bishop, poet (Worcester)
• Benjamin C. Bradlee, Editor-in-chief and Vice President of the Washington Post, author, journalist
• Anne Bradstreet, poet
• Joseph Breck, author, magazine editor, publisher (Medfield)
• William Cullen Bryant, poet
• Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors (Amherst)
• Robert Ellis Cahill, sheriff, politician, folklorist, author, some three dozen books on New England history and lore (Salem)
• John Casey, author
• Robert Cormier, author, columnist (Leominster)
• Bernard Cornwell, created Richard Sharpe (Chatham)
• E. E. Cummings, poet (Cambridge)
• Steve Curwood, journalist, author (Boston)
• Stephen Daye, printer
• Emily Dickinson, poet (Amherst)
• E. J. Dionne, liberal op-ed columnist for The Washington Post (Boston)
• W. E. B. Du Bois, author, editor, historian, The Souls of Black Folk (Great Barrington)
• Andre Dubus III, author
• Will Durant, writer, historian, philosopher (North Adams)
• Gordon Edes, sports journalist
• Dave Eggers, author
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet, Nature, The Transcendentalist (Concord)
• Dan Fitzpatrick, author (Fairhaven, Shelburne Falls)
• George Frazier, journalist (Boston)
• Robert Frost, poet (Lawrence)
• Linda Gaboriau, dramaturg and literary translator (Boston)
• Nicholas Gage, writer and journalist (Worcester)
• John Kenneth Galbraith, author, educator, and public official
• Peter Gammons, sportswriter (Boston)
• Khalil Gibran, artist, poet, writer
• George Gilder, author, intellectual (Tyringham)
• Ellen Goodman, journalist, syndicated columnist
• Edward Gorey, author and illustrator
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, author, The Scarlet Letter (Salem)
• Nat Hentoff, historian, novelist, music critic (Boston)
• George V. Higgins, columnist, author, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
• M. E. Hirsh, novelist
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet and essayist (Cambridge)
• Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author
• Sebastian Junger, author, journalist
• Janice Kaplan, novelist, magazine editor
• Marina Keegan, author, playwright (Wayland)
• Jack Kerouac, author, On the Road (Lowell)
• Ronald Kessler, journalist, author, In the President's Secret Service (Belmont)
• Richard Kindleberger, reporter, editor, The Boston Globe (Lincoln)
• Peter King, sportswriter, author
• Jonathan Kozol, author, educator, activist
• Stanley Kunitz, poet, Poet Laureate of the United States (Worcester)
• Peter Laird, comic book creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Timothy Leary, psychologist, author, Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (Springfield)
• Dennis Lehane, author
• Mark Leibovich, journalist and author, The New Imperialists (Boston)
• Henry Cabot Lodge, author and public official
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), author
• Amy Lowell, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
• James Russell Lowell, poet (Fireside Poets)
• Robert Lowell, poet
• Michael Patrick MacDonald, author, activist, All Souls (South Boston)
• William Manchester, author and biographer
• William Marston, comic book writer, co-created Wonder Woman
• Tony Massarotti, sportswriter, The Boston Globe (Waltham)
• Stephen McCauley, The Object of My Affection (Woburn)
• Will McDonough, sportswriter for the Boston Globe (South Boston)
• Eileen McNamara, columnist, The Boston Globe (Cambridge)
• Susan Minot, novelist, short story writer (Boston, Manchester)
• Robin Moore, author, The Green Berets (Boston)
• Orson Desaix Munn, publisher of Scientific American (Monson)
• Marvin Olasky, author, editor-in-chief of WORLD Magazine
• Charles Olson, poet (Worcester)
• Robert B. Parker, author (Springfield)
• Bliss Perry, literary critic, writer, editor (Williamstown)
• Charlie Pierce, sportswriter, political blogger, author
• Daniel Pipes, author, In the Path of God (Boston, Cambridge)
• Sylvia Plath, poet, author, and essayist, The Bell Jar (Boston)
• Edgar Allan Poe, author and poet, "The Raven", "The Fall of the House of Usher" (Boston)
• Rufus Porter, founder of Scientific American magazine (Boxford)
• Douglas Preston, author, The Book of the Dead (Cambridge)
• John Rennie, editor-in-chief of Scientific American magazine
• R.A. Salvatore, author (Leominster)
• George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet, novelist, The Life of Reason (Boston)
• Daniel Scott, author, Some of Us Have to Get Up in the Morning, Pay This Amount (Braintree)
• Horace Scudder, man of letters, editor
• Dr. Seuss, born Theodor Seuss Geisel, author, poet and illustrator (Springfield)
• Anne Sexton, poet (Newton)
• Mark Shasha, author
• Dan Shaughnessy, sportswriter (Groton)
• Anita Shreve, author
• Kyle Smith, film critic, novelist, essayist
• Jeff Stein, columnist
• Sabrina Tavernise, journalist (Granville)
• Michelle Tea, Rent Girl (Chelsea)
• Henry David Thoreau, philosopher, author, Walden (Concord)
• John Updike, author
• Edith Wharton, author
• John Greenleaf Whittier, poet and abolitionist
• Thomas E. Woods, Jr., author, historian (North Andover)
• Jane Yolen, author

Military

Henry Knox

• Clarence Lionel Adcock, US Army, deputy to General Lucius D. Clay in 1946
• Nathaniel M. Allen, soldier in Civil War, awarded Medal of Honor
• George Bancroft, Secretary of the Navy and founder of the US Naval Academy
• William Francis Buckley, US Army officer and CIA operative; died in 1985 while being tortured by the Islamist group Hezbollah
• George W. Casey, Jr., US Army general and Chief of Staff of the United States Army
• Christopher Cassidy, US Navy SEAL, NASA astronaut
• Joseph Dunford, United States Marine Corps general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Barack Obama
• John Wesley Emerson, Civil War commander
• General John Galvin, retired US Army; former dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University
• Adolphus Greely, Polar explorer, US Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor
• Cyprian Howe (1726–1806), colonel in the American Revolutionary War
• Henry Knox, officer in the Continental Army, 1st United States Secretary of War
• Barry McCaffrey, four-star Army General, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
• Andrew T. McGuire (1928–1997), Korean War veteran, served with 11th Airborne Div and 7th Infantry Div, awarded two Silver Stars, three Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts
• George Patton IV (1923–2004), major general in the U.S. Army
• Israel Putnam, major general in the American Revolutionary War
• Elmer J. Rogers, Jr. (1903–2002), United States Air Force lieutenant general
• Charles Pomeroy Stone, soldier, explorer, and engineer
• Ralph Talbot (1897–1918), United States Marine Corps pilot during World War I, Medal of Honor

Music

Aerosmith

Leonard Bernstein

Donna Summer

Rob Zombie

Native Americans

Squanto

• King Philip, war chief (Wampanoag)
• Crispus Attucks (see below)
• Samoset, first Native American to make contact with the Pilgrims (Abenaki)
• Squanto, helped the Pilgrims in their first visit to the New World (Wampanoag)
• Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, first Native American graduate of Harvard University (Wampanoag)
• Passaconaway, Chief of the Pennacook tribe (Pennacook)
• Massasoit, Chief of the Wampanoag tribe in 1621 (Wampanoag)

People involved in the American Revolution

Paul Revere

• John Adams, Patriot; 2nd President and 1st Vice President of the United States
• Samuel Adams, 4th Governor of Massachusetts and Delegate to the Continental Congress
• Crispus Attucks, first casualty of the American Revolutionary War
• John Glover, Brigadier General in the Continental Army
• John Hancock, 1st and 3rd Governor of Massachusetts and President of the Continental Congress
• James Otis, lawyer; known for his catchphrase "No taxation without representation"
• Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence and 1st Attorney General of Massachusetts
• William Prescott, Colonel during the Battle of Bunker Hill
• Paul Revere, silversmith; Patriot; known for his "Midnight Ride"
• Deborah Sampson, disguised herself as a man in the Continental Army
• Artemus Ward, Major general in the American Revolution; Congressman from Massachusetts
• Dr. Joseph Warren, physician; President of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress

Politics and government

John Adams

John Quincy Adams

John Hancock

John F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy

Ted Kennedy

• John Adams, 2nd President and 1st Vice President of the United States
• John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States
• Samuel Adams, 4th Governor of Massachusetts and Delegate to the Continental Congress
• Joe Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona
• Charlie Baker, 72nd Governor of Massachusetts (incumbent)
• Michael Bloomberg, 108th Mayor of New York City
• James Bowdoin, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts
• Edward Brooke, U.S. Senator
• George H. W. Bush, 41st President and 43rd Vice President of the United States
• Andrew Card, State Rep., U.S. Secretary of Transportation, White House Chief of Staff
• Paul Cellucci, governor and U.S. Ambassador to Canada
• Calvin Coolidge, 30th President and 29th Vice President of the United States
• P.J. Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs under President Obama
• James Michael Curley, 35th Mayor of Boston and 53rd Governor of Massachusetts
• Susan Davis, U.S. Representative of California
• Henry L. Dawes, U.S. Senator, notable for the Dawes Act
• Bill de Blasio, 109th Mayor of New York City
• Paul Douglas, U.S Senator of Illinois (1949–1967)
• Michael Dukakis, 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts and 1988 Democratic presidential candidate
• Edward Everett, 15th Governor of Massachusetts; U.S. Secretary of State; remembered for his two-hour speech at Gettysburg
• Thomas Finneran, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1996–2004)
• John F. Fitzgerald, U.S. Congressman, 38th and 40th Mayor of Boston; maternal grandfather of President John F. Kennedy
• Elbridge Gerry, 5th Vice President of the United States, 9th Governor of Massachusetts, namesake of gerrymandering
• Richard Goodwin, speechwriter for John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy; congressional investigator
• John Hancock, 1st and 3rd Governor of Massachusetts and President of the Continental Congress
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Thomas Hutchinson, Colonial Governor
• John F. Kelly, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security under President Donald Trump
• Edward M. Kennedy, U.S. Senator
• John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
• Joseph P. Kennedy II, U.S. Congressman
• Joseph P. Kennedy III, U.S. Congressman
• Patrick J. Kennedy, U.S. Congressman
• Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator
• John Kerry, U.S. Senator, 2004 Democratic nominee, and U.S. Secretary of State
• Harold Hongju Koh, Legal Adviser of the Department of State under President Obama
• David Kris, Assistant Attorney General under President Obama
• Levi Lincoln Sr., U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Secretary of State and Governor of Massachusetts (acting)
• Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Senator, led the Senate opposition to the League of Nations
• Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., U.S. Senator, 1960 Republican nominee for Vice-President
• Ed Markey, U.S. Senator, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Gina McCarthy, EPA Administrator under President Obama
• John W. McCormack, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• Thomas Menino, longest-serving mayor of Boston
• Ernest Moniz, U.S. Secretary of Energy under President Obama
• Tip O'Neill, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1977–1987)
• Peter R. Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Obama
• Deval Patrick, 71st Governor of Massachusetts
• Frances Perkins, U.S. Secretary of Labor (1933–1945) and first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet
• Mitt Romney, 70th Governor of Massachusetts, 2012 Republican nominee for U.S. president
• Warren Rudman, U.S. Senator
• Theodore Sedgwick, President pro tempore of the Senate, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Roger Sherman, signer of Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and U.S. Constitution
• Charles Sumner, U.S. Senator, notable leader of the Radical Republicans
• Cass Sunstein, Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President Obama
• John E. Sununu, U.S. Senator of New Hampshire
• Jane Swift, first and only female Governor of Massachusetts (acting)
• Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senator and 1992 Democratic presidential candidate
• John A. Volpe, U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Nixon and 61st and 63rd Governor of Massachusetts
• David I. Walsh, U.S. Senator and 46th Governor of Massachusetts
• Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senator
• Bill Weld, 68th Governor of Massachusetts, 2016 Vice-Presidential nominee
• Henry Wilson, 18th Vice President of the United States, U.S. Senator

Religion

Louis Farrakhan

• Francis Ellingwood Abbot, philosopher and theologian
• Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), spiritual teacher
• Russell Conwell, Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, lawyer, and writer
• Mary Dyer, martyr
• Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unitarian and Transcendentalist
• 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
• Emmanuel Lemelson, Greek Orthodox priest, investor and philanthropist
• Cotton Mather, minister
• Increase Mather, minister
• Dwight Lyman Moody, evangelist, founder of the Northfield Mount Hermon School
• Edmund Sears, Unitarian parish minister who penned "It Came upon the Midnight Clear" in 1849
• Samuel Webber, clergyman, mathematician, and academic

Science

Johnny Appleseed

Benjamin Franklin

Robert Goddard

Eli Whitney

• Cyrus Alger, metallurgist, arms manufacturer and inventor
• Ethan Allen, co-inventor of the single-action revolver
• Johnny Appleseed, pioneer nurseryman
• Jerome Apt, astronaut
• Nima Arkani-Hamed, theoretical physicist
• Elliot Aronson, psychologist
• Charlotte Barnum, mathematician
• Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web; MIT professor
• Ephraim Wales Bull, cultivator of the Concord grape
• Luther Burbank, horticulturist
• William Burt, inventor, surveyor, and millwright
• Vannevar Bush, engineer, inventor and science administrator
• Rachel Fuller Brown, chemist
• Roderick Chisholm, philosopher
• Noam Chomsky, linguist
• Michael Cohen, first doctor to diagnose Proteus syndrome
• Morris Cohen, metallurgist
• William D. Coolidge, physicist
• Elias James Corey, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1990
• William Healey Dall, naturalist, malacologist
• Daniel Dennett, cognitive scientist and philosopher
• Benjamin Franklin, scientist, diplomat, public official
• Buckminster Fuller, architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor
• Robert Goddard, inventor
• Charles Goodyear, inventor
• Temple Grandin, doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University
• Sylvester Graham, inventor
• Crawford Greenewalt, chemical engineer
• Frederick Hauck, NASA astronaut
• Elias Howe, inventor
• Dan Itse, chemical engineer and New Hampshire public official
• Melvin Johnson, prominent firearms designer
• Richard Karp, computer scientist, computational theorist
• Alan Kay, computer scientist
• Nathaniel S. Keith, manufacturer, chemist, inventor, and electrical engineer
• Robert Lanza, medical doctor, scientist
• Lewis Howard Latimer, inventor and draftsman
• Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, Jr., mechanical engineer
• Henrietta Swan Leavitt, astronomer
• Gilbert N. Lewis, physical chemist, discovered covalent bonds
• Robert Lindsay, physicist, specializing in acoustics
• Richard Lindzen, atmospheric physicist
• Arthur Little, chemist and chemical engineer
• Percival Lowell, astronomer
• Elizabeth Marston, psychologist, co-creator of Wonder Woman
• William Marston, psychologist, co-creator of Wonder Woman
• John McCarthy, computer scientist, cognitive scientist
• Albert Abraham Michelson, physicist, first American to receive the Nobel Prize in science
• Samuel Morse, painter, co-developer of Morse code
• Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor and artist
• William T.G. Morton, dentist and physician
• Richard Muther, industrial engineer
• Lloyd Ohlin, sociologist and criminologist
• Robert T. Paine, ecologist
• Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, mathematician, philosopher, and scientist
• Jacob Perkins, inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist
• Gregory Pincus, scientist, developed birth control pill
• Rufus Porter, inventor
• Cornelius Rhoads, pathologist and oncologist
• Albert Sacco, chemical engineer and payload specialist for NASA
• John Henry Schwarz, theoretical physicist
• Samuel Scudder, entomologist and palaeontologist
• Andrew Strominger, theoretical physicist
• Benjamin Thompson, physicist and inventor
• Edward Thorndike, psychologist
• Janice E. Voss, engineer, NASA astronaut
• An Wang, inventor, computer engineer, co-founder of Wang Laboratories
• Worcester Warner, mechanical engineer, astronomer
• Samuel Wellman, inventor of the crucible steel furnace
• David Ames Wells, engineer, textbook author, economist
• Daniel Wesson, firearms designer
• Charles Abiathar White, geologist, paleontologist
• Frank C. Whitmore, chemist
• Eli Whitney, inventor
• Kenneth G. Wilson, theoretical physicist
• John Winthrop, mathematician, physicist, astronomer
• Robert Wood, physicist, inventor
• Sewall Wright, geneticist

Others

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• Henry Adams, historian
• F. Lee Bailey, attorney
• Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross^[2]
• Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician
• William M. Bulger, former President of the Massachusetts State Senate and former president of the University of Massachusetts
• Donald Davidson, philosopher
• Isaac Greenwood, mathematician
• Kevin Hassett, economist, specializing in macroeconomics and tax policy
• Jill Lepore, historian
• Corey Lewandowski, campaign manager for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign
• Carroll Quigley, historian and theorist of the evolution of civilizations
• Acharya S, internet personality, conspiracy theorist
• Monroe and Isabel Smith, co-founders of American Youth Hostels
• Lothrop Stoddard, political scientist, historian, journalist, anthropologist, eugenicist

See also

• Lists of Americans

References