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List of people from Massachusetts
This is a list of people from Massachusetts. It includes both people born in the state, and people famous for association with it.
Athletics
Artists
Business
Entertainment
Comedians
Film
- Jane Alexander, actress
- Ben Affleck, actor
- Ray Bolger, actor
- Jane Curtin, actress
- Matt Damon, actor
- Bette Davis, actress
- Geena Davis, actress
- Olympia Dukakis, actress
- Jack Lemmon, actor
- Leonard Nimoy, actor, director
- Kurt Russell, actor
- Sam Waterston, actor
- Mark Wahlberg, actor and former musician
Musicians
See List of Massachusetts musicians
Radio
Founders
Literature
- Louisa May Alcott, author
- Horatio Alger, author
- William Cullen Bryant, poet
- Stephen Daye , printer
- Emily Dickinson, poet
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet
- Theodore Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss), author and illustrator
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, author
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet and essayist
- Helen Maria Hunt Jackson , author
- Henry Cabot Lodge, author and public official
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet
- Sylvia Plath, poet, author, and essayist
- Edgar Allan Poe, author
- Henry David Thoreau, philosopher
- John Greenleaf Whittier, poet and abolitionist
Native people
Public office
- John Adams, 2nd US president and 1st vice president
- John Quincy Adams, 6th US president
- George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st US president
- James Michael Curley, Mayor of Boston and Governor of Massachusetts
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., justice of the Supreme Court
- Thomas Hutchinson, governor
- Edward Kennedy, senator
- John F. Kennedy, 35th US president
- John F. Kerry, senator and 2004 Democratic candidate for president
- Thomas Menino, current mayor of Boston
- Mitt Romney, current governor
Religion
Science
Others
See also
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