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

  • Lois Green Carr (1922–2015), American historian whose work primarily focused on Chesapeake Bay, daughter of Constance McLaughlin Green. (B)[1]
  • Joseph Ellis (born 1943), Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian best known for his work on the founders of the United States.[2]
  • Henrietta Hooker (1851–1929), American botanist and educator, among the first women to receive a doctorate in botany from an American university.[3]
  • Constance McLaughlin Green (1897–1975), Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian best known for her history of Washington, D.C.; her dissertation and first major published work was a comprehensive history of Holyoke.
  • Ervin Staub (born 1938), professor emeritus of psychology, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; founding director of the doctoral program on the psychology of peace and violence.[4]
  • 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)[5]
  • David E. Sweet (1933–1984), founding president of Metropolitan State University and later president of Rhode Island College. (B)[6]

Artists

Government and law

Military

Music

Scientists and engineers

Sports

Stage and screen

Writers

  • Polly Adler (1900–1962), madam connected to Lucky Luciano, ran a bordello frequented by celebrities and a New York mayor, known for work A House Is Not a Home, posthumously made into a film by the same name.[73]
  • Donald Bevan (1920–2013), World War II combat veteran, playwright and writer of Stalag 17. (B)[74]
  • 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)[75]
  • Raymond Kennedy (1934–2008), novelist, who set many of his books in a fictionalized Holyoke that he called "Ireland Parish" and "Hadley Falls".[9]: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.[76]
  • Dean Lombardi (born 1958), general manager of NHL's Los Angeles Kings. (B)[77]
  • 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)[78]
  • Stanley Reynolds (1934–2016), American journalist, author, and critic who spent most of his life in the United Kingdom, and was a regular contributor to The Guardian.(B)[79]
  • Neil Sheehan (born 1936), author of A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. (B)[80]
  • Suhotra Swami (1950–2007), Hindu Vaishnava author, philosopher and a leading guru in the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (B)[81]
  • Elizabeth Towne (1865–1960), influential writer, editor, and publisher in the New Thought and self-help movements; first woman to run, unsuccessfully, for Mayor of Holyoke[82]

Other

See also

References

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