List of people from Massachusetts

Summary

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 "Massachusettsans" or "Bay Staters" after the Commonwealth's nickname.

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Architects edit

Artists edit

 
John Singleton Copley
 
Winslow Homer

Sculptors edit

Athletes edit

 
John Cena
 
Candy Cummings
 
Eli Dershwitz
 
Mike Eruzione
 
Patrick Ewing
 
Doug Flutie
 
Howie Long
 
Connie Mack
 
Rocky Marciano
 
Aly Raisman
 
John L. Sullivan
 
Bert Patenaude (front row, center) scored the first hat-trick in FIFA World Cup history in 1930 for the United States.
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M–R
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Michael Bloomberg
 
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
 
Robert Kraft
 
Kevin Systrom

Civil rights leaders and political activists edit

 
W.E.B. Du Bois
 
Lucy Stone

Crime edit

 
Bartolomeo Vanzetti (left) and Nicola Sacco (right)

Entertainment edit

 
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
 
Joe Rogan
 
Mark Wahlberg
 
Barbara Walters
 
Mike Wallace

Comedians edit

Television and film edit

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Radio edit

Hosts, sportscasters, and television personalities edit

Early settlers/colonists edit

Literature, journalism, and philosophy edit

 
Louisa May Alcott
 
Emily Dickinson
 
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Nathaniel Hawthorne
 
Dr. Seuss
 
Henry David Thoreau

Military edit

 
Henry Knox
 
Joseph Hooker

Music edit

 
Aerosmith
 
Leonard Bernstein
 
Donna Summer
 
Rob Zombie

Classical music edit

Other music edit

Native Americans edit

 
Squanto

People involved in the American Revolution edit

 
Paul Revere
 
Samuel Adams

Politics and Government edit

 
John Adams
 
John Quincy Adams
 
Calvin Coolidge
 
John Hancock
 
John F. Kennedy
 
Robert F. Kennedy
 
Ted Kennedy

Presidents edit

Vice Presidents edit

  • John Adams (1735–1826) – 1st Vice President of the United States
  • George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) – 43rd Vice President of the United States
  • Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) – 29th Vice President of the United States
  • Elbridge Gerry (1744–1814) – 5th Vice President of the United States (namesake of gerrymandering)
  • Henry Wilson (1812–1875) – 18th Vice President of the United States

Governors edit

  • Samuel Adams (1722–1803) – 4th Governor of Massachusetts and Delegate to the Continental Congress
  • Charlie Baker (born 1956) – 72nd Governor of Massachusetts
  • James Bowdoin (1726–1790) – 2nd Governor of Massachusetts
  • Paul Cellucci (1948–2013) – 69th Governor of Massachusetts and U.S. Ambassador to Canada
  • James Michael Curley (1874–1958) – 35th Mayor of Boston and 53rd Governor of Massachusetts
  • Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) – 48th Governor of Massachusetts
  • Michael Dukakis (born 1933) – 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee
  • Edward Everett (1794–1865) – 15th Governor of Massachusetts; U.S. Secretary of State; remembered for his two-hour speech at Gettysburg
  • Elbridge Gerry (1744–1814) – 9th Governor of Massachusetts
  • John Hancock (1737–1793) – 1st and 3rd Governor of Massachusetts and President of the Continental Congress
  • Thomas Hutchinson (1711–1780) – Colonial Governor
  • Levi Lincoln Sr. (1749–1820) – U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Secretary of State and Governor of Massachusetts (acting)
  • Deval Patrick (born 1956) – 71st Governor of Massachusetts
  • Mitt Romney (born 1947) – 70th Governor of Massachusetts, 2012 Republican presidential nominee
  • Jane Swift (born 1965) – first and only female Governor of Massachusetts (acting)
  • John A. Volpe (1908–1994) – U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Nixon and 61st and 63rd Governor of Massachusetts
  • David I. Walsh (1872–1947) – U.S. Senator and 46th Governor of Massachusetts
  • Bill Weld (born 1945) – 68th Governor of Massachusetts, 2016 Libertarian Vice-Presidential nominee

United States Senators edit

  • Edward Brooke (1919–2015) – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; first African-American popularly elected to the Senate
  • Henry L. Dawes (1816–1903) – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; notable for the Dawes Act
  • Paul Douglas (1892–1976) – U.S. Senator from Illinois (born in Salem, Massachusetts)
  • John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) – U.S. Senator and Congressman from Massachusetts
  • Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) – U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York (born in Brookline, Massachusetts)
  • Ted Kennedy (1932–2009) – longtime U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
  • John Kerry (born 1943) – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, U.S. Secretary of State, and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee
  • Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924) – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, led the Senate opposition to the League of Nations
  • Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902–1985) – U.S. Senator Massachusetts and 1960 Republican vice-presidential nominee
  • Ed Markey (born 1946) – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (incumbent) and former Congressman
  • Warren Rudman (1930–2012) – U.S. Senator from New Hampshire (born in Boston)
  • Leverett Saltonstall (1892–1979) – U.S. Senator (Minority Whip) and 55th Governor of Massachusetts
  • Theodore Sedgwick (1746–1813) – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (President pro tempore of the Senate) and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
  • Roger Sherman (1721–1793) – U.S. Senator from Connecticut and delegate to Continental Congress; signer of Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and U.S. Constitution (born in Newton, Massachusetts)
  • Charles Sumner (1811–1874) – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; notable leader of the Radical Republicans
  • John E. Sununu (born 1964) – U.S. Senator from New Hampshire (born in Boston)
  • Paul Tsongas (1941–1997) – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and 1992 Democratic presidential candidate
  • Elizabeth Warren (born 1949) – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (incumbent) and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate
  • Daniel Webster (1782–1852) – U.S. Senator and Congressman from Massachusetts, and U.S. Secretary of State
  • Henry Wilson (1812–1875) – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts

United States Representatives edit

Other politicians edit

First Ladies edit

Lawyers and jurists edit

 
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Religion edit

 
Louis Farrakhan

Science, engineering, and medicine edit

 
Johnny Appleseed
 
Clara Barton
 
Jeff Corwin
 
Benjamin Franklin
 
Robert Goddard
 
Eli Whitney

Others edit

See also edit

References edit

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  2. ^ Hoag, Effective Voting, 1914
  3. ^ "The Story of My Childhood". World Digital Library. 1907. Retrieved October 9, 2013.