List of Famous People From Massachusetts

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Below is a list of famous people that were born in Massachusetts.

List of Famous Athletes From Massachusetts

Jarrod Shoenmaker: US Olympian 2008 Beijing 18th in Triathlon, second US athlete
World Duathlon Champion 2009, Under 23 Triathlon World Champion 2004
Harry Agganis, baseball player
Chris Alexander, baseball player
Tony Amonte, hockey player
Jerry Azumah, football player
Jeff Bagwell, baseball player
Tom Barrasso, hockey player
Dana Barros, basketball player
Shawn Bates, hockey player
David Bavaro, football player
Mark Bavaro, football player
Jason Bere, baseball player
Mark Bellhorn, baseball player
Joe Bellino, football player, Heisman Trophy Winner
Travis Best, basketball player
Ron Brace, football player
Andy Brickley, hockey player
Chris Capuano,Baseball player
Gosder Cherilus, football player
Erika Lawler, U.S Olympic Women’s Hockey Team
John Cena, professional wrestler
Mickey Cochrane, Hall-of-Fame baseball player
Todd Collins, football player
Marc Colombo, football player
Tony Conigliaro, baseball player
Stephen Cooper, football player
Bob Cousy, Hall of Fame basketball player
Jim Craig, USA Olympic hockey player, 1980 Lake Placid
Honey Craven, equestrian
Ron Darling, former starting pitcher, color commentator
Manny Delcarmen, relief pitcher for the Colorado Rockies
Vinny Del Negro, basketball player, head coach
Zak DeOssie, football player for the New York Giants
Mike DeVito, football player for the New York Jets
Rich Dubee, pitching coach for the Philadelphia Phillies
Mike Eruzione, USA Olympic Hockey Player, 1980 Lake Placid
Patrick Ewing, Hall of Fame basketball player
Mark Fidrych, Baseball player, 1976 MLB AL. rookie of the year
Ray Fitzgerald, baseball player
Kenny Florian, UFC Fighter
Doug Flutie
Peter Giunta, football coach
Tom Glavine, baseball pitcher
Tony Gonzalez, football player
Tom Grieve, baseball player, sportscaster
Josh Grispi, WEC Fighter
Bill Guerin, hockey player
Marvin Hagler, boxer
Matt Hasselbeck, football player
Tim Hasselbeck, football player
Fran Healy, baseball player, announcer
Rich Hill, baseball pitcher
Jarrett Jack, went to school in Worcester, Mass.
Tim Keefe, 19th century baseball pitcher
Nancy Kerrigan, Olympic figure skater
Bill Laimbeer, basketball player
Joe Lauzon, UFC Fighter
Michael Leach, tennis player
Howie Long, hall of fame football player
Rocky Marciano, boxer
Lou Merloni, baseball player
Mike Milbury, hockey player
Jay Pandolfo, hockey player
Carlos Peña, baseball player
Tom Poti, hockey player
Kassim Osgood, football player
John Quinlan, professional wrestler
Jeff Reardon, baseball player
Jerry Remy, baseball player, announcer
Jorge Rivera
Jeremy Roenick, hockey player
David Sacco, hockey player
Joe Sacco, hockey player
Alicia Sacramone, olympic gymnast
Craig Smith, basketball player
Lofa Tatupu, football player
Keith Tkachuk, hockey player
Micky Ward, boxer
Jerry White, baseball player
Jermaine Wiggins, football player
Mark Wohlers, baseball pitcher
Wilbur Wood, baseball pitcher
Antoine Wright, basketball player
Paul Wylie, Olympic figure skater
Gosder Cherilus, NFL Player

List of Famous Actors From Massachusetts

Jane Alexander, actress
Ben Affleck, Oscar-winning screenwriter, director & actor
Casey Affleck, actor
John Ashton, actor
Elizabeth Banks, actress
Susan Batson, actress, producer
Michael Beach, actor
Traci Bingham, actress, model
Eric Bogosian, actor, playwright
Ray Bolger, actor
Walter Brennan, actor
Paget Brewster, actress
Phil Brown, actor
Jere Burns, actor
Peggy Cass, actress, comedian
Kevin Chapman, actor
Michael Chiklis, actor
Etan Cohen, screenwriter
Jennifer Coolidge, actress
Marcia Cross, actress
Jane Curtin, actress
Matt Damon, Oscar-winning screenwriter & actor
Bette Davis, actress
Geena Davis, Oscar-winning actress
Jeffrey Donovan, actor
Olympia Dukakis, Oscar-winning actress
Eliza Dushku, actress
Richard Dysart, actor
Lisa Edelstein, actress
Charles H. Eglee, Emmy-winning TV producer and writer
John Enos III, actor
Kathryn Erbe, actress
Chris Evans, actor
Guy Ferland, film & TV director
Arlene Francis, actress
Ben Foster, actor
Samuel Fuller, director, screenwriter
Christos Gage, screenwriter
Pamela Gidley, actress
Ray Girardin, actor
Paul Michael Glaser, actor, director
Nick Gomez, director
Ruth Gordon, actress
Sprague Grayden, actress
Adam Green, actor, director, screenwriter
Lynnie Greene, actress, writer, producer
Clark Gregg, actor, screenwriter
Scott Grimes, actor
Paul Guilfoyle, actor
Anthony Michael Hall, actor
Jane Hamsher, film producer
Van Hansis, actor
Jay Harrington, actor
Nichole Hiltz, actress
Judith Hoag, actress
Hal Holbrook, actor
Ann Jillian, actress
Amy Jo Johnson, actress
JoJo, actress, singer
Jean Louisa Kelly, actress
Matt LeBlanc, actor
Rex Lee, actor
Jack Lemmon, Oscar-winning actor
Richard Libertini, actor
Alexander Mackendrick, director
Neal McDonough, actor
Melinda McGraw, actress
Maria Menounos, actress
Jan Miner, actress
Agnes Moorehead, Emmy-winning actress
David Morse, actor
Bridget Moynahan, actress
Donna Murphy, actress
Barry Newman, actor
Edward Norton, actor, director
Estelle Parsons, actress
Leonard Nimoy, actor, director
Elizabeth Perkins, actress
Matthew Perry, actor
Rebecca Pidgeon, actress
Maryann Plunkett, actress
Ellen Pompeo, actress
Joseph D. Reitman, actor
James Remar, actor
Patrick Renna, actor
Robert Richardson, Oscar-winning cinematographer
Eli Roth, director, screenwriter, actor
Harold Russell, Academy Award-winning actor
Kurt Russell, actor
Alex Schemmer, actor
Taylor Schilling, actress
Fred J. Scollay, actor
Tom Everett Scott, actor
James Spader, Emmy-winning actor
Skipp Sudduth, actor
Erik Per Sullivan, actor
Robin Thomas, actor
Uma Thurman, actress
Nancy Travis, actress
Jonathan Tucker, actor
Paige Turco, actress
Anne Twomey, actress
Steven Van Zandt, actor
Johnny Washbrook, child actor
Sam Waterston, actor
Donnie Wahlberg, actor and former musician
Mark Wahlberg, actor and former musician
Brian J. White, actor, dancer
Kristen Wilson, actress
Alicia Witt, actress
Greg Yaitanes, director
Michael Yebba, actor, screenwriter

List of Famous Authors From Massachusetts

Herbert Baxter Adams, educator, historian
Louisa May Alcott, author,
Horatio Alger, Jr., author
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, author
Mike Barnicle, journalist
Edward Bellamy, author and socialist
Elizabeth Bishop, poet
Anne Bradstreet, poet
Augusten Burroughs
Robert Ellis Cahill, folklorist, author
Robert Cormier, author, columnist
Bernard Cornwell, fictional character))
William Cullen Bryant, poet
e.e. cummings, poet
Stephen Daye, printer
Emily Dickinson, poet
W. E. B. Du Bois, author, editor, historian
Andre Dubus III, author
Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet
Robert Frost, poet
Nicholas Gage, writer and journalist
John Kenneth Galbraith, author, educator, and public official
Khalil Gibran, artist, poet, writer
Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr.Seuss, author, poet and illustrator
Edward Gorey, author and illustrator
Nathaniel Hawthorne, author
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet and essayist
Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author
Sebastian Junger, author, journalist
Jack Kerouac, author
Jonathan Kozol, author, educator, activist
Stanley Kunitz, poet
Peter Laird, Comic book creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Timothy Leary, psychologist, author
Dennis Lehane, author
Henry Cabot Lodge, author and public official
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
James Russel Lowell, poet
Michael Patrick MacDonald, author, activist
William Manchester, author and biographer
Stephen McCauley,
Robin Moore, author
Marvin Olasky, author, editor-in-chief of WORLD Magazine
Charles Olson, poet
Thomas Paine,
Sylvia Plath, poet, author, and essayist
Edgar Allan Poe, author and poet
R.A. Salvatore, author
George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet, novelist
Daniel Scott
Anne Sexton, poet
Mark Shasha, author
Kyle Smith, film critic, novelist, essayist
Michelle Tea,
Henry David Thoreau, philosopher, author
John Updike
Edith Wharton, author
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., author, American historian
John Greenleaf Whittier, poet and abolitionist
Jane Yolen, author

List of Famous Musicians From Massachusetts

Lou Barlow, alternative rock musician and songwriter
Frank Black, singer and guitarist of the Pixies
Bobby Brown singer
Nuno Bettencourt singer and guitarist of Extreme
Neil Cicierega, singer and internet cult icon
Rich Cronin, singer
Danny Davis, country musician
Brad Delp, deceased, lead singer of former bands
John Flansburgh, one half of They Might Be Giants
Stephen Foster, composer
Norman Greenbaum, singer
Barry Goudreau guitars,backing vocals
Kay Hanley singer
Sib Hashian drums, percussion, backing vocals
Juliana Hatfield, guitarist/singer-songwriter
Tom Hamilton Bassist Aerosmith
JoJo, singer
Sonya Kitchell, singer-songwriter
Joey Kramer, Drummer Aerosmith
Phil Labonte, singer
Aaron Lewis, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of Staind
Mary Lou Lord, singer/guitarist
John Linnell, one half of They Might Be Giants
J Mascis, singer, guitarist and songwriter for Dinosaur Jr.
Jo Dee Messina, country artist
Andrew McMahon, singer/pianist
Spider One, singer
Joe Perry, guitarist, singer Aerosmith, The Joe Perry Project
Linda Perry singer and songwriter
Wanda Perry-Josephs, singer
Ruth Pointer, singer, song writer The Pointer Sisters
Jonathan Richman songwriter, singer in The Modern Lovers
Robby Roadsteamer, musician, comedian, performance artist.
Tom Scholz musician,composer band ”
Carly Simon musician, singer, composer
Slaine, hip hop MC
Chad Stokes Urmston, Pete Francis Heimbold; of Dispatch
Donna Summer singer, songwriter
James Taylor musician, singer, composer
Brad Whitford singer/guitarist Aerosmith
Alan Wilson
Rob Zombie singer, director
Akrobatik, hip hop artist

List of Famous Bands From Massachusetts

Aerosmith
All That Remains
Antarctica
A Rocket To The Moon
Boston
Boys Like Girls
The Breeders
Bury Your Dead
The Cars
Converge
Deep Wound
Dinosaur Jr
Dispatch
Doomriders
The Dresden Dolls
Dropkick Murphys
The Ducky Boys
Ernie and the Automatics
Extreme
Folk Implosion
Four Year Strong
Freezepop
Galaxie 500
Gang Starr, hip hop duo
Godsmack
Guster
Have Heart
The J. Geils Band
Killswitch Engage
Lemon Demon
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Mission of Burma
The Modern Lovers
New Edition
New Kids on the Block
Pixies
Passion Pit
Return to Zero
Sebadoh
Shadows Fall
Staind
State Radio
Street Dogs
Tavares
Unearth

List of Famous Politicians From Massachusetts

John Adams, 2nd U.S. president and 1st vice president
John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. president
Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
James Bowdoin, colonial governor
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
Calvin Coolidge, mayor, state representative, senator and governor, 30th U.S. president
James Michael Curley, Mayor of Boston and Governor of Massachusetts
Paul Douglas, senator of Illinois from 1949 – 1967
Michael Dukakis, governor and 1988 Democratic nominee for president
Richard Goodwin, speechwriter for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Robert F. Kennedy
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
John Forbes Kerry, U.S. Senator and 2004 Democratic nominee for president
Harold Hongju Koh, Legal Adviser of the Department of State under President Barack Obama
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., U.S. Senator, U.S. Ambassador, and 1960 Republican nominee for Vice-President
Ed Markey, Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Thomas Menino, current mayor of Boston
Tip O’Neill, 55th Speaker of the House, from 1977 -1987
Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Frances Perkins, U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 – 1945 and first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet
Mitt Romney, former governor
Jane Swift, first and only female governor of Massachusetts
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
Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross
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.
Abby Kelley Foster, suffragist and abolitionist
Margaret Fuller, feminist
Elbridge Gerry, Congressman, Governor, 5th Vice President of the U.S., namesake of gerrymandering
John Hancock, Governor, President of the Continental Congress
Abbie Hoffman, political activist and founder of the Yippies
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
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,
John W. McCormack, Speaker of the United States 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
Lucy Stone, suffragist and abolitionist
Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senator, 1992 Democratic presidential candidate
Henry Wilson, U.S. Senator, 18th Vice President of the U.S.
Malcolm X, political activist

List of Famous Television and Film Actors and Actresses From Massachusetts

Ben Affleck, Cambridge
Eric Bogosian, Woburn
Steve Carell, Acton
John Cena, West Newbury
Dane Cook, Arlington
Rob Corddry and Nate Corddry, Weymouth
Marcia Cross, Marlborough
Matt Damon, Cambridge
Geena Davis, Wareham
Ken Doane, Worcester
Jeffrey Donovan, Amesbury
Rachel Dratch, Lexington
Chris Evans, Sudbury
John Hodgman, Brookline
Denis Leary, Worcester
Matt LeBlanc, Newton
Jay Leno, Andover
Mindy Kaling, Cambridge
Ben Karlin, Needham
John Krasinski, Newton
Ben Kurland, Newton
Ed McMahon, Lowell
Maria Menounos, Medford
Leonard Nimoy, Boston
Edward Norton, Boston
B.J. Novak, Newton
Conan O’Brien, Brookline
Amy Poehler, Burlington
Ellen Pompeo, Everett
Eli Roth, Newton
Kurt Russell, Springfield
James Spader, Boston
Liam Kyle Sullivan, Boston
Uma Thurman, Amherst
Steven Tyler, Lynn
Mark Wahlberg, Dorchester
Nancy Walls, Cohasset
Barbara Walters, Boston
Lyle R. Wheeler, Woburn
Alicia Witt, Worcester
Steven Wright, Burlington
Rob Zombie, Haverhill

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