List of people from Massachusetts

Architects

• Lucius W. Briggs (1866–1940) – architect
• Charles Bulfinch (1763–1844) – architect
• Elias Carter (1781–1864) – architect
• Theophilus P. Chandler Jr. (1845–1928) – architect
• Josephine Wright Chapman (1867–1943) – architect
• Charles Amos Cummings (1833−1905) – architect
• Stephen C. Earle (1839–1913) – architect
• William LeBaron Jenney (1832–1907) – architect
• Samuel McIntire (1757–1811) – architect
• Robert Swain Peabody (1845–1917) – architect
• Josep Lluís Sert (1902–1983) – Spanish architect; dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design
• John Goddard Stearns Jr. (1843–1917) – architect

Sculptors

• Russell Gerry Crook (1869–1955) – sculptor
• Cyrus Edwin Dallin (1861–1944) – sculptor; Olympic archer; namesake of Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum
• Murray Dewart (born 1947) – sculptor
• Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) – neoclassical sculptor
• Joseph Skinger (1911–1967) – metalsmith and sculptor

A–F

• Abdul-Malik Abu (born 1995), basketball player in the Israeli Premier Basketball League
• Kim Adler − bowler
• Harry Agganis (1929–1955) − baseball player
• Nick Ahmed − baseball player
• Tenley Albright – Olympic figure skater
• Kiko Alonso − football player
• Tony Amonte − hockey player^[1]
• Prince Amukamara − football player
• Jim Arvanitis − martial artist, MMA trainer
• Paul Azinger − golfer, television commentator
• Jerry Azumah − football player
• Jeff Bagwell (born 1968) − baseball player
• Sasha Banks − professional wrestler, ring name Mercedes Kaestner-Varnado
• Tom Barrasso − hockey player^[2]
• Dana Barros − basketball player
• Mark Bavaro − football player
• Tyler Beede − baseball player
• Joe Bellino − football player, Heisman Trophy winner
• Mackenzy Bernadeau − football player
• Travis Best − basketball player^[3]
• David Blatt (born 1959) − basketball player and coach
• Brian Boyle − hockey player^[4]
• Edward Scott Bozek (1950–2022) − Olympic épée fencer
• Ron Brace − football player
• John Brebbia − baseball player
• Andy Brickley − hockey player^[5]
• Charles Brickley − football player and coach
• Aimee Buchanan (born 1993) − Olympic figure skater
• Nick Buoniconti − Hall of Fame football player
• Thomas Burke – U.S. Olympic sprinter (first gold medalist in 100 meter dash, 1896 Athens)
• Geoff Cameron – U.S. soccer player
• Chris Capuano − baseball pitcher
• Mary Carew − sprinter, Olympic gold medalist
• Michael Carter-Williams − basketball player
• Brett Cecil − baseball 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 (1945–1990) − baseball player
• James Brendan Connolly – U.S. Olympic champion (triple jump)
• Stephen Cooper − football player
• Charlie Coyle − hockey player^[6]
• 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 (born 1995) − 2023 World Saber Champion, 2015 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
• Meghan Duggan – ice hockey player
• Leo Durocher (1905–1991) − Hall of Fame baseball manager
• Jack Eichel – hockey player
• Mike Eruzione − USA Olympic hockey player, 1980 Lake Placid
• Carl Etelman (1900–1963) − football back and coach
• Patrick Ewing − Hall of Fame basketball player
• Mark Fidrych − baseball pitcher, 1976 AL Rookie of the Year
• Jake Fishman − American-Israeli baseball pitcher for the Miami Marlins and Team Israel
• 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

• Tony Gaffney (born 1984) – basketball player
• Breno Giacomini − football player
• Peter Giunta − football coach
• Tom Glavine − Hall of Fame baseball pitcher
• Jared Goldberg − Olympic skier
• Billy Gonsalves – U.S. soccer player
• Colin Grafton − figure skater
• Kaz Grala – NASCAR driver
• Frank Grant − Hall of Fame baseball player
• Geoffrey Gray (born 1997) – American-Israeli professional basketball player
• Mike Grier − ice hockey player
• Josh Grispi − WEC fighter
• Matt Grzelcyk − hockey player
• Bill Guerin − hockey player
• Marvin Hagler (1954–2021) – middleweight champion boxer
• Pete Hamilton − NASCAR driver
• Jordan Harris (born 2000) − NHL hockey player for the Montreal Canadiens
• Matt Hasselbeck − football player
• Tim Hasselbeck − football player
• Steve Hathaway − baseball pitcher
• Steven Hauschka − football player
• Carmelo Hayes − professional wrestler
• Ed Healey − NFL Hall of Fame player for Chicago Bears
• Chris Herren − basketball player
• Rich Hill − baseball pitcher
• James Ihedigbo − football player
• Tim Keefe − 19th-century baseball pitcher
• Nancy Kerrigan − Olympic figure skater
• Kofi Kingston − WWE wrestler
• Joe Lauzon − UFC fighter
• Peter Laviolette − hockey player, head coach
• Erika Lawler − US national hockey team
• Michael Leach − tennis player
• Dana LeVangie − baseball player, coach
• Rebecca Lobo – basketball player
• Howie Long − Hall of Fame football player, sportscaster

M–R

• Connie Mack − Hall of Fame baseball manager
• Andrew Mackiewicz (born 1995) − Olympic saber fencer
• Rabbit Maranville − Hall of Fame baseball player
• Rocky Marciano − undefeated world heavyweight boxing champion
• Obi Melifonwu − football player
• Lou Merloni − baseball player
• Kristie Mewis – United States national soccer team player
• Sam Mewis – United States national soccer team player
• Mike Milbury − hockey player and coach
• Wayne Millner − Hall of Fame football player and coach
• Ross Miner (born 1991) – skating coach and retired competitive figure skater
• Joe Nash – football player
• Sean Newcomb − basketball player
• Nerlens Noel − basketball player
• Ryan O'Rourke − baseball player
• Rob Oppenheim − professional golfer
• Francis Ouimet − golfer
• Jay Pandolfo − hockey player
• Bert Patenaude – U.S. soccer player (first hat-trick in the World Cup history)
• Craig Patrick − hockey player
• Carlos Peña − baseball player
• Joe Philbin − football coach
• Elena Pirozhkova – Olympic freestyle wrestler
• Tom Poti − hockey player
• John Quinlan − professional wrestler
• Joe Ragland (born 1989) – American-Liberian basketball player
• 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
• Dan Ross − football player

S–Z

• Joe Sacco − hockey player
• Alicia Sacramone − Olympic gymnast
• Sandy Saddler − champion boxer
• Alberto Salazar (born 1958) – distance runner and athletics coach banned for life
• Keith Sanderson (born 1975) – sport shooter
• Cory Schneider − hockey player
• Wayne Selden Jr. (born 1994) – basketball player
• Anthony Sherman − NFL player
• Simon Shnapir − Olympic medalist pairs skater
• Jarrod Shoemaker − triathlete
• Jared Shuster (born 1998) − Atlanta Braves baseball pitcher
• Jack Sharkey − world heavyweight boxing champion
• John L. Sullivan − first world heavyweight boxing champion
• Harry Swartz (born 1996) − soccer player
• Lofa Tatupu − football player
• Jared Terrell (born 1995) − basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• John Thomas – U.S. Olympian (high jump)
• Keith Tkachuk − hockey player
• Jordan Todman − football player
• Pie Traynor − Hall of Fame baseball player
• Mark van Eeghen − football player
• Jimmy Vesey − hockey player
• Noah Vonleh − basketball player
• Pete Walker − baseball pitcher, coach
• Ben Wanger – American-Israeli baseball pitcher
• Micky Ward − boxer
• David Warsofsky − National Hockey League player
• Ryan Warsofsky (born 1987) − ice hockey player and NHL ice hockey coach
• Turk Wendell − baseball pitcher
• Jerry White − baseball player
• Ryan Whitney − hockey player, Spittin' Chiclets podcast host
• Jamila Wideman − basketball player, lawyer, and activist
• Jermaine Wiggins − football player
• Brian Wilson − baseball pitcher
• Mark Wohlers − baseball pitcher
• Wilbur Wood − baseball pitcher
• Willy Workman (born 1990) − American-Israeli basketball player

Comedians

• Edwin Adams – comedian, stage actor
• Orny Adams – comedian, actor, Teen Wolf
• Fred Allen – radio comedian
• Anthony Barbieri – comedy writer and performer, Jimmy Kimmel Live!
• Mike Birbiglia – comedian
• Andrew Bowen – comedian, MADtv
• Bo Burnham – comedian
• Bill Burr – comedian, actor
• Louis C.K. – comedian, actor, director, Louie
• Bryan Callen – comedian, actor
• Mario Cantone – comedian
• Steve Carell – comedian, actor, The Office
• Robert Carlock – producer, writer, 30 Rock
• Jessica Chaffin – comedian and actor, The Heat
• Lenny Clarke – comedian and actor, Rescue Me
• Jerry Colonna – comedian, singer
• Dane Cook – comedian and actor; Retaliation, Harmful If Swallowed (Arlington)
• Nate Corddry – comedian, actor, The Daily Show
• Rob Corddry – comedian, actor, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
• Rob Delaney – comedian, writer
• Jamie Denbo – comedian, actress, Terriers
• Nick DiPaolo – comedian
• Rachel Dratch – comedian, Saturday Night Live
• Ayo Edebiri – comedian, actress
• John Ennis – comedian, actor, Mr. Show with Bob and David
• Spike Feresten – comedy writer, television personality
• Christian Finnegan – comedian, actor, Are We There Yet?
• Chris Fleming – comedian
• Gary Gulman – comedian
• Pete Holmes – comedian, comedy writer, television personality, voice-over actor
• Jerma985 − online personality (Boston)
• Penn Jillette – comedian, illusionist, juggler, writer
• Mindy Kaling – comedian, actress The Office US, The Mindy Project
• Robert Kelly – comedian, actor, NYC 22
• Jen Kirkman – comedian, actress, writer, SuperNews!
• John Krasinski – comedian, actor The Office US
• Denis Leary – comedian and actor
• Jay Leno – comedian and talk show host
• Jason Mantzoukas – comedian and writer, The League
• Matt Mira – comedian, writer, and podcaster
• Eugene Mirman – comedian and writer, Bob's Burgers
• B. J. Novak – comedian, actor, head writer of The Office US
• Conan O'Brien – comedian and talk show host (Cambridge)
• Patrice O'Neal – comedian, writer
• John Pinette – comedian, actor
• Amy Poehler – comedian, actress, Parks and Recreation
• Paula Poundstone – comedian
• Joe Rogan – comedian, actor
• Faith Salie – comedian, actress, radio host, Significant Others
• Frankie Saluto – circus performer, professional clown
• Lew Schneider – comedian, actor, writer, Everybody Loves Raymond
• Matt Selman – writer, producer, The Simpsons
• Tom Shillue – comedian, host of Red Eye
• Jenny Slate – comedian, actress, Saturday Night Live
• Doug Stanhope – comedian
• Steve Sweeney – comedian and actor
• Jimmy Tingle – comedian and actor
• Nancy Walls – comedian, actress
• Steven Wright – comedian, actor (Burlington)
• Katya Zamolodchikova − drag queen, actor, author, recording artist, podcaster, and comedian (Marlborough, Boston)

Television and film

A–H

• Uzo Aduba – actress
• Ben Affleck – Oscar-winning screenwriter, director and actor; Good Will Hunting, Argo (Berkeley, California)
• Casey Affleck – actor (Falmouth), Oscar-winning actor, Manchester by the Sea
• Jack Albertson – Oscar-winning actor
• Jane Alexander – Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress
• Kristian Alfonso – actress
• Christopher Allport – actor
• Shawn Andrews – actor
• John Ashton – actor
• Elizabeth Banks – actress
• Susan Batson – actress, producer
• Michael Beach – actor
• Tobin Bell – actor
• Paul Benedict – actor
• H. Jon Benjamin – voice actor; Bob's Burgers, Archer (Worcester)
• Traci Bingham – actress, model
• Connie Britton – actress
• Vail Bloom – actress
• Verna Bloom – actress
• Eric Bogosian – actor, playwright; Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Talk Radio (Woburn)
• Ray Bolger – actor
• Walter Brennan – Academy Award-winning actor
• Paget Brewster – actress
• Clarence Brown – director
• Phil Brown – actor
• Wally Brown – actor
• Jere Burns – actor
• Steve Carell – actor, The Office, The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Acton)
• Richard Carle – actor
• Corey Carrier – actor
• Max Casella – actor
• Peggy Cass – actress, television personality
• John Cazale – actor
• John Cena – actor and WWE Champion (West Newbury)
• Kevin Chapman – actor
• Michael Chiklis – actor
• Etan Cohen – screenwriter
• Misha Collins – actor
• Jennifer Coolidge – actress
• Nate Corddry – actor, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Studio 60 (Weymouth)
• Rob Corddry – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Weymouth)
• Marcia Cross – Desperate Housewives (Marlborough)
• Monique Gabriela Curnen – actress
• Jane Curtin – actress
• Matt Damon – Academy Award-winning screenwriter and actor; Good Will Hunting, The Bourne Identity, The Departed (Cambridge)
• Bette Davis – actress
• Geena Davis – Academy Award-winning actress; Thelma and Louise (Wareham)
• Billy De Wolfe – actor, comedian, singer, voice actor Frosty the Snowman
• Ken Doane – wrestler (Worcester)
• Ed Donovan – Monster, Acts of Mercy (South Boston)
• Jeffrey Donovan – actor; Burn Notice (Amesbury)
• Illeana Douglas – actress
• Rachel Dratch – actress, Saturday Night Live (Lexington)
• Anne Dudek – actress
• Olympia Dukakis – Academy Award-winning actress
• Eliza Dushku – actress
• Richard Dysart – actor
• Ayo Edebiri – comedian, actress
• Lisa Edelstein – actress
• Ben Edlund – producer, writer
• Charles H. Eglee – Emmy Award-winning producer and writer
• Lee Eisenberg – producer, writer
• John Enos III – actor
• Kathryn Erbe – actress
• Chris Evans – actor
• Scott Evans – actor
• Charles Farrell – actor
• Guy Ferland – film and television director
• Betty Field – actress
• Alison Folland – actress
• Ben Foster – actor
• Arlene Francis – actress
• Samuel Fuller – director, screenwriter
• Sabina Gadecki – model, actress
• Christos Gage – screenwriter
• Pamela Gidley – actress
• Paul Michael Glaser – actor, director
• Nick Gomez – director
• Ruth Gordon – actress
• Joey Graceffa – YouTube personality, actor
• Sprague Grayden – actress
• Ari Graynor – actress
• Adam Green – actor, director, screenwriter
• Lynnie Greene – actress, writer, producer
• Clark Gregg – actor, screenwriter
• Scott Grimes – actor
• Paul Guilfoyle – actor
• Jack Haley – actor
• Anthony Michael Hall – actor
• Pooch Hall – actor
• Neil Hamilton – actor
• Jane Hamsher – film producer
• Van Hansis – actor
• G Hannelius – actress
• Jay Harrington – actor
• Jesse Heiman – actor
• John Michael Higgins – actor
• Nichole Hiltz – actress
• Marin Hinkle – actress
• Judith Hoag – actress
• John Hodgman – The Daily Show, "I'm a PC" in Get a Mac (Brookline)
• Hal Holbrook – actor

I–P

• Marie Jansen – musical actress
• Ann Jillian – actress
• Amy Jo Johnson – actress
• Chris J. Johnson – actor
• JoJo – actress, singer
• Julia Jones – actress
• Jennifer Jostyn – actress
• Madeline Kahn – actress, singer
• Mindy Kaling – actress, Inside Out, The Mindy Project (Cambridge)
• Ben Karlin – comedian, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report (Needham)
• Joe Keery – actor, Stranger Things
• David E. Kelley – Emmy Award-winning writer and producer
• Jean Louisa Kelly – actress
• Arthur Kennedy – actor
• The Klimaszewski Twins – models, actresses
• John Krasinski – actor, The Office (Newton)
• Ben Kurland – The Artist (Newton)
• Denis Leary – actor, Rescue Me, A Bug's Life, Ice Age (Worcester)
• Matt LeBlanc – actor, Friends (Newton)
• Rex Lee – actor
• Jack Lemmon – Academy Award-winning actor
• Jay Leno – comedian and host, The Tonight Show (Andover)
• Joseph E. Levine – producer
• Richard Libertini – actor
• Laura Linney – actress (Northfield Mount Hermon School)
• Alexander Mackendrick – director
• Rob Mariano – Survivor contestant
• Nora Marlowe – actor
• Erica McDermott – actress
• Neal McDonough – actor
• Richard McGonagle – actor
• Melinda McGraw – actress
• Ed McMahon – television personality, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Star Search (Lowell)
• Terrence E. McNally – actor
• Julie McNiven – actress
• Maria Menounos – Entertainment Tonight, Extra (Medford)
• Jan Miner – actress
• Eugene Mirman – voice actor
• William Monahan – screenwriter
• Agnes Moorehead – Emmy Award-winning actress
• David Morse – actor
• Robert Morse – actor, singer
• Ebon Moss-Bachrach – actor
• Bridget Moynahan – actress
• Peter Murnik – actor
• Donna Murphy – actress
• Alexandra Neil – actress
• Barry Newman – actor
• Julianne Nicholson – actress
• Leonard Nimoy – actor, Star Trek, IMAX voiceover (Boston)
• Alessandro Nivola – actor
• Lance Norris – actor, The Judge (Cohasset)
• Edward Norton – actor, American History X, The Incredible Hulk (Boston)
• B. J. Novak – actor, The Office (Newton)
• Conan O'Brien – television personality, Late Night with Conan O'Brien (Brookline)
• Tricia O'Kelley – actress
• Gretchen Palmer – actress
• Benjamin John Parrillo – actor
• Estelle Parsons – Academy Award-winning actress
• Adrian Pasdar – actor
• Elizabeth Perkins – actress
• John Bennett Perry – actor
• Matthew Perry – actor
• Rebecca Pidgeon – actress
• Joseph Pilato – actor
• Maryann Plunkett – actress
• Amy Poehler – actress, Saturday Night Live, Inside Out (Burlington)
• Ellen Pompeo – Old School, Grey's Anatomy (Everett)
• Robert Preston – actor

Q–Z

• Alan Rachins – actor
• Natalie Ramsey – actress
• Kim Raver – actress (Northfield Mount Hermon School)
• Joseph D. Reitman – actor
• James Remar – actor
• Patrick Renna – actor
• Robert Richardson – Academy Award-winning cinematographer
• Alex Rocco – actor
• Eli Roth – director, screenwriter, actor; Hostel (Newton)
• Harold Russell – Academy Award-winning actor
• Kurt Russell – actor, Escape from New York (Springfield)
• Damien Sandow – born Aaron Haddad, professional wrestler
• Taylor Schilling – actress
• Fred J. Scollay – actor
• Tom Everett Scott – actor
• Jere Shea – actor
• John Slattery – actor
• Hillary B. Smith – actress
• Paul L. Smith – actor
• Talisa Soto – actress
• James Spader – Emmy Award-winning actor; The Blacklist, Boston Legal (Boston)
• Caroll Spinney – puppeteer of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street
• Andrew Stanton – director, screenwriter, producer
• David Starzyk – actor
• Skipp Sudduth – actor
• Erik Per Sullivan – actor
• Liam Kyle Sullivan – the "Kelly" Skits (Boston)
• Julie Taymor – director
• Casey Patrick Tebo – director
• Robin Thomas – actor
• Uma Thurman – actress, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill (Amherst)
• T. J. Thyne – actor
• Maura Tierney – actress
• Nancy Travis – actress
• Jonathan Tucker – actor
• Paige Turco – actress
• Anne Twomey – actress
• Steven Tyler – actor, musician, TV personality (Lynn, Marshfield)
• Steven Van Zandt – actor
• Donnie Wahlberg – actor and musician
• Mark Wahlberg – actor, musician, producer; Entourage, The Departed, Ted (Dorchester)
• Nancy Walls – actress, Saturday Night Live, The Office (Cohasset)
• Barbara Walters – television journalist and personality (Boston)
• Sam Waterston – actor
• William A. Wellman – Academy Award-winning director
• Lyle R. Wheeler – Academy Award-winning art director (Woburn)
• Brian J. White – actor, dancer
• Kristen Wilson – actress
• Alicia Witt – actress (Worcester)
• Kenny Wormald – dancer, actor
• George Wyner – actor
• Greg Yaitanes – director
• Rob Zombie – director, screenwriter, The Devil's Rejects (Haverhill)

Radio

• Dean Barnett – occasional fill-in radio host for Hugh Hewitt
• Liane Hansen – senior host of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday
• Ray and Tom Magliozzi – of Car Talk
• Leslie Marshall – radio talk host
• Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr. – former Howard Stern Show regular
• Ryen Russillo – sports radio host
• Paul Sullivan – radio talk host

Hosts, sportscasters, and television personalities

• Tom Bergeron – television personality and game show host
• Michelle Bonner – ESPN SportsCenter and ESPNEWS anchor
• Susie Castillo – MTV VJ and 2003 Miss USA
• Liz Claman – anchor for Fox Business Network's Countdown to the Closing Bell
• Bertha Coombs – general assignment reporter for CNBC
• S. E. Cupp – conservative pundit and Crossfire panelist
• Fred Cusick – play-by-play announcer for the Boston Bruins
• Arwa Damon – video correspondent for CNN International and CNN based in Iraq
• Damien Fahey – MTV VJ
• Josh Gates – explorer and host of Destination Truth on Syfy network
• Ed Herlihy – radio and television announcer
• John King – CNN chief national correspondent
• Steve Kornacki – political commentator on MSNBC and host of Up
• Wayne Larrivee – play-by-play announcer for the Green Bay Packers; previously for the Chicago Bears
• Josh Lewin – play-by-play announcer for the Texas Rangers
• Sean McDonough – sports announcer for ESPN
• Maria Menounos – television presenter for Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood
• Katie Nolan – Emmy-winning television host for Fox Sports 1
• Dave O'Brien – ESPN sportscaster
• Lawrence O'Donnell – political commentator on MSNBC and host of The Last Word
• Don Orsillo – play-by-play announcer for the San Diego Padres
• Gil Santos – WBZ, voice of the New England Patriots
• John Sencio – host of Cash in the Attic for HGTV, MTV VJ during the 1990s, actor and musician
• George Stephanopoulos – chief political correspondent for ABC News, co-anchor of Good Morning America
• Lesley Visser – sportscaster, Boston Globe sportswriter, co-host of The NFL Today
• Suzyn Waldman – sportscaster for WCBS-AM and color commentator for the New York Yankees
• Mike Wallace – television personality and journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent

A–D

• Francis Ellingwood Abbot – philosopher and theologian
• Herbert Baxter Adams – educator, historian
• Mary Hall Adams – editor, letter writer
• Amanda L. Aikens – editor, philanthropist
• Louisa May Alcott – author, Little Women (Concord)
• Emily Gillmore Alden – educator, author
• Lucy Morris Chaffee Alden – author, hymnwriter
• Susannah Valentine Aldrich – author, hymnwriter
• Horatio Alger Jr. – author
• Sarah Louise Arnold − educator, textbook author
• Amelia Atwater-Rhodes – author, In the Forests of the Night, Demon in my View (Concord)
• Martha Violet Ball – educator, philanthropist, activist, writer, editor
• Mike Barnicle – journalist
• Catharine Webb Barber – newspaper editor, author
• Clara Bancroft Beatley − educator, lecturer, author
• Peter Beinart – journalist (Cambridge)
• Edward Bellamy – author and socialist
• Amalie Benjamin – journalist, The Boston Globe
• James Bennet – editor-in-chief of The Atlantic
• Ella A. Bigelow – author, clubwoman
• Lettie S. Bigelow – poet and author
• Elizabeth Bishop – poet (Worcester)
• Mary Agnes Dalrymple Bishop – journalist, newspaper editor
• 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)
• Howard Bryant – sports journalist for ESPN
• William Cullen Bryant – poet
• Clara Louise Burnham – novelist
• Augusten Burroughs – author of 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
• Mary Bassett Clarke – writer
• Helen Field Comstock – poet, philanthropist
• Harriet Abbott Lincoln Coolidge – author, philanthropist, reformer
• Robert Cormier – author, columnist (Leominster)
• Bernard Cornwell – created Richard Sharpe (Chatham)
• Sibylla Bailey Crane – educator, composer, writer
• Robert Creeley – poet (Arlington, Acton)
• E. E. Cummings – poet (Cambridge)
• Martha E. Sewall Curtis – suffragist, writer
• Steve Curwood – journalist, author (Boston)
• Cora Linn Daniels – author
• Stephen Daye – printer
• Donald Davidson – philosopher
• 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)

E–G

• Mary F. Eastman – educator, writer, suffragist
• Gordon Edes – sports journalist
• Dave Eggers – author
• Ralph Waldo Emerson – poet, Nature, The Transcendentalist (Concord)
• Lizzie P. Evans-Hansell – novelist, short story writer
• Jessie Forsyth – newspaper editor, temperance advocate
• Harriet Putnam Fowler – author, poet
• 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)
• Anna Gardner – abolitionist, poet
• Khalil Gibran – artist, poet, writer
• George Gilder – author, intellectual (Tyringham)
• Ellen Goodman – journalist, syndicated columnist
• Edward Gorey – author and illustrator
• Cynthia Roberts Gorton – poet, author
• Hattie Tyng Griswold – writer, poet

H–M

• Lucie Caroline Hager – author
• Mary Whitwell Hale – hymnwriter
• Nathaniel Hawthorne – author, The Scarlet Letter (Salem)
• Eliza Putnam Heaton – journalist, editor
• Nat Hentoff – historian, novelist, music critic (Boston)
• Grace Hibbard – writer, poet
• George V. Higgins – columnist, author, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
• M. E. Hirsh – novelist
• Louise Manning Hodgkins – educator, author, editor
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. – poet and essayist (Cambridge)
• Lucy Hooper – poet
• Helen Maria Hunt Jackson – author
• Katharine Johnson Jackson – physician, writer
• Charlotte A. Jerauld – poet, writer
• S. O. Johnson – author
• Rebecca Richardson Joslin – writer, lecturer, benefactor, clubwoman
• 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
• Hannah Lyman – biographer
• 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)
• Hillary Monahan – author
• Robin Moore – author, The Green Berets (Boston)
• Mary L. Moreland – minister, evangelist, suffragist, author
• Orson Desaix Munn – publisher of Scientific American (Monson)

N–Z

• Marvin Olasky – author, editor-in-chief of WORLD Magazine
• Grace A. Oliver – author, social reformer
• Charles Olson – poet (Worcester)
• Robert B. Parker – author (Springfield)
• Annie Stevens Perkins – writer
• Bliss Perry – literary critic, writer, editor (Williamstown)
• Maude Gillette Phillips – author, educator
• Charlie Pierce – sportswriter, political blogger, author
• Daniel Pipes – author, In the Path of God (Boston, Cambridge)
• Eliza A. Pittsinger – poet
• 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)
• Cora Scott Pond Pope – pageant writer, suffragist
• Rufus Porter – founder of Scientific American magazine (Boxford)
• Douglas Preston – author, The Book of the Dead (Cambridge)
• Dora Knowlton Ranous – actress, author, editor, translator
• Jane Maria Read – poet
• John Rennie – editor-in-chief of Scientific American magazine
• Bob Ryan – sportswriter for The Boston Globe
• R.A. Salvatore – author (Leominster)
• George Santayana – philosopher, essayist, poet, novelist, The Life of Reason (Boston)
• Caroline M. Sawyer – poet, biographer, editor
• 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
• Harriette R. Shattuck – writer, suffragist
• Dan Shaughnessy – sportswriter (Groton)
• Anita Shreve – author
• Kyle Smith – film critic, novelist, essayist
• Jeff Stein – columnist
• Jane Agnes Stewart (1860−1944) – author, editor, and contributor to periodicals
• Lothrop Stoddard – political scientist, historian, journalist, anthropologist, eugenicist
• Clara Harrison Stranahan – author
• Lucy Switzer – social activist, writer
• Sabrina Tavernise – journalist (Granville)

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  Michelle Tea – Rent Girl (Chelsea)
• Henry David Thoreau – philosopher, author, Walden (Concord)
• Eliza Townsend – poet
• John Updike – author
• Annie Russell Wall – historian, writer, teacher
• Julia Rush Cutler Ward – occasional poet
• Lillie Eginton Warren – educator, author
• Anna Cabot Quincy Waterston – writer
• Edith Wharton – author
• Phillis Wheatley – first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry
• John Greenleaf Whittier – poet and abolitionist
• Celeste M. A. Winslow – author
• Susan H. Wixon – author, editor, feminist
• Thomas E. Woods Jr. – author, historian (North Andover)
• Jane Yolen – author

Classical music

• John Coolidge Adams (born 1947) – composer (contemporary classical with strong roots in minimalism)
• Samuel Adler (born 1928) – composer and conductor; lived and studied for a time in Massachusetts before moving to New York
• Leroy Anderson (1908–1975) – composer of short, light concert pieces
• Leonard Bernstein – conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist of Ukrainian Jewish descent
• Sarah Caldwell (1924–2006) – opera conductor, impresario and stage director of opera
• Michael Gandolfi – composer of contemporary classical music
• Serge Koussevitzky (Russian: Сергей Александрович Кусевицкий) – born in Russia, composer; conductor, Boston Symphony Orchestra; professor to Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Adler and Sarah Caldwell
• Lowell Mason (1792–1872) – music director, banker and composer; set music to "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
• Walter Piston (1894–1976) – composer, music theorist and professor of Italian-American descent
• Roger Sessions (Roger Huntington Sessions, 1896–1985) – composer, critic and teacher
• Randall Thompson (1899–1984) – composer of choral works

Other music

A–M

• Akrobatik – rapper
• Rich Amiri – rapper
• Bell Biv Devoe – R&B group
• Nuno Bettencourt – singer and guitarist of the band Extreme
• Tracy Bonham – alternative-rock musician
• Bobby Brown – singer
• Michael Burkett (also known as Fat Mike; born in Massachusetts) – singer, bassist of the band NOFX and owner of Fat Wreck Chords record label
• Gary Cherone – rock singer and songwriter
• Roderick Chisholm – philosopher
• Neil Cicierega – singer and internet cult icon
• Clairo – indie pop singer
• Ray Conniff – easy-listening recording artist
• Cousin Stizz (from Dorchester) – rapper
• Sibylla Bailey Crane – art-song composer
• Rich Cronin – singer with the band LFO
• Danny Davis – country musician
• Brad Delp – lead singer of the former bands Boston, RTZ
• Tony Dize – singer
• Nicole Fiorentino – bass guitarist of the band The Smashing Pumpkins
• John Flansburgh – half of They Might Be Giants
• Thom Gimbel – rhythm guitar, saxophone, flute, keyboards, vocals for the band Foreigner
• Barry Goudreau – guitars, backing vocals for the bands Boston, RTZ, Ernie and the Automatics
• Norman Greenbaum – singer
• Tom Hamilton – bassist of the band Aerosmith
• Kay Hanley – singer for the band Letters to Cleo
• Sib Hashian – drums, percussion, backing vocals for the bands Boston , RTZ, Ernie and the Automatics
• Juliana Hatfield – guitarist, singer-songwriter
• Roy Haynes – jazz musician
• Pete Francis Heimbold – member of the band Dispatch
• Nicky Jam – singer, songwriter
• JoJo – singer
• Sonya Kitchell – singer-songwriter
• Joey Kramer – drummer for the band Aerosmith
• Jordan Knight – singer-songwriter
• Phil Labonte – singer of the band All That Remains
• Jack Landrón – folk singer-songwriter
• Aaron Lewis – lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the band Staind
• John Linnell – one half of They Might Be Giants
• Mary Lou Lord – singer, guitarist
• Joyner Lucas – rapper
• Taj Mahal – blues musician
• Ken Maiuri − musician, singer-songwriter, live keyboardist for the band The B-52s
• J Mascis – singer-songwriter, guitarist for the band Dinosaur Jr
• Jonah Matranga – singer-songwriter
• Andrew McMahon – singer, pianist
• Jo Dee Messina – country artist
• Angie Miller – singer-songwriter

N–Z

• Matt Nathanson – singer-songwriter
• Mike Ness – guitarist, singer-songwriter for the band Social Distortion
• Taecyeon Ok – actor, model, and member of the South Korean pop boy band 2PM
• Paul Pena – singer-songwriter and guitarist
• Joe Perry – guitarist, singer for the bands Aerosmith, The Joe Perry Project
• Linda Perry – singer-songwriter
• Bobby "Boris" Pickett – singer (novelty song "Monster Mash")
• Rachel Platten – singer-songwriter
• Ruth Pointer – singer-songwriter of the vocal group The Pointer Sisters
• Poppy (Moriah Rose Pereira) – musician and YouTube personality
• Alisan Porter – singer-songwriter and retired actress; winner of The Voice season 10
• Maia Reficco – singer
• Jonathan Richman – singer-songwriter in the band The Modern Lovers
• David Robinson – drummer for the band The Cars
• Tom Scholz – musician, composer for the band Boston
• Carly Simon – musician, singer, composer
• Slaine – hip-hop MC
• Slut Boy Billy – rapper
• Spider One – singer
• Billy Squier – rock musician
• Quinn Sullivan – guitarist, singer
• Donna Summer – singer-songwriter
• James Taylor – singer-songwriter, instrumentalist
• Meghan Trainor – singer-songwriter
• Chad Stokes Urmston – member of the band Dispatch
• Brad Whitford – singer, guitarist for the band Aerosmith
• Alan Wilson – guitarist and singer for the band Canned Heat
• Rob Zombie – singer, director

Presidents

• John Adams (1735–1826) – 2nd president of the United States
• John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) – 6th president of the United States
• George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) – 41st president of the United States
• Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) – 30th president of the United States
• John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) – 35th president of the United States

Vice presidents

• 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

• 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) – acting governor of Massachusetts
• 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

• 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 from Massachusetts; 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

• Jake Auchincloss (born 1988) – current U.S. congressman for Massachusetts's 4th congressional district
• Katherine Clark (born 1963) – current U.S. congresswoman for Massachusetts's 5th congressional district
• Susan Davis (born 1944) – U.S. congresswoman from California (born in Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• Bill Keating (born 1952) – current U.S. congressman for Massachusetts's 9th congressional district
• Joseph P. Kennedy II (born 1952) – U.S. congressman from Massachusetts
• Joseph P. Kennedy III (born 1980) – U.S. congressman from Massachusetts
• Patrick J. Kennedy (born 1967) – U.S. congressman from Rhode Island (born in Brighton, Massachusetts)
• Stephen Lynch (born 1955) – current U.S. congressman for Massachusetts's 8th congressional district
• John W. McCormack (1891–1980) – longtime U.S. congressman from Massachusetts and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• Jim McGovern (born 1959) – current U.S. congressman for Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district
• Seth Moulton (born 1978) – current U.S. congressman for Massachusetts's 6th congressional district
• Richard Neal (born 1949) – current U.S. congressman for Massachusetts's 1st congressional district
• Tip O'Neill (1912–1994) – longtime U.S. congressman from Massachusetts and speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• Ayanna Pressley (born 1974) – current U.S. congresswoman for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district
• Lori Trahan (born 1973) – current U.S. congresswoman for Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district

Other politicians and government figures

• Joe Arpaio (born 1932) – sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona (born in Springfield, Massachusetts)
• William M. Bulger (born 1934) – former president of the Massachusetts State Senate and former president of the University of Massachusetts
• Andrew Card (born 1947) – Massachusetts state legislator, U.S. secretary of transportation, White House Chief of Staff
• P.J. Crowley (born 1951) – assistant secretary of state for Public Affairs under President Obama
• Bill de Blasio (born 1961) – 109th mayor of New York City (raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• William P. Doyle – commissioner of the Federal Maritime Commission (born in Boston, raised in Weymouth)
• Thomas Finneran (born 1950) – speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
• John F. Fitzgerald (1863–1950) – U.S. congressman from Massachusetts, 38th and 40th mayor of Boston; maternal grandfather of President John F. Kennedy
• Richard Goodwin (1931–2018) – speechwriter for John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy; congressional investigator
• Nathaniel Gorham (1738–1796) – Massachusetts delegate and 6th president of the Continental Congress
• Tim Hickey (born 1938) – deputy state treasurer of Massachusetts
• Kim Janey (born 1965) – acting mayor of Boston
• John F. Kelly (born 1950) – U.S. secretary of Homeland Security under President Donald Trump
• Jean Kennedy Smith (1928– 2020) – U.S. ambassador to Ireland
• P. J. Kennedy (1858–1929) – member of the Massachusetts state legislature
• Harold Hongju Koh (born 1954) – legal adviser of the Department of State under President Obama
• Gina McCarthy (born 1954) – EPA administrator under President Obama
• Thomas Menino (1942–2014) – longest-serving mayor of Boston
• Ernest Moniz (born 1944) – U.S. secretary of energy under President Obama
• Peter R. Orszag (born 1968) – director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Obama
• Frances Perkins (1880–1965) – U.S. secretary of labor (1933–1945); first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet
• Timothy Pickering (1745–1829) – U.S. secretary of state, Massachusetts politician, soldier in Continental Army in the American Revolution
• Cass Sunstein (born 1954) – administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President Obama
• Marty Walsh (born 1967) – 54th mayor of Boston and current United States Secretary of Labor

First Ladies

• Abigail Adams (1744–1818) – First Lady of the United States

A–E

• 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
• Clara Barton – nurse, founder of the American Red Cross^[8]
• Florence Bascom – geologist, first woman to graduate with a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, started geology department at Bryn Mawr
• Alexander Graham Bell – inventor
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee – World Wide Web; MIT professor
• Nathaniel Bowditch – mathematician
• 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
• 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
• Jeff Corwin – biologist, wildlife conservationist, and television personality
• William Healey Dall – naturalist, malacologist
• Daniel Dennett – cognitive scientist and philosopher

F–M

• Benjamin Franklin – scientist, diplomat, public official
• Seraph Frissell – physician, medical writer
• Buckminster Fuller – architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor
• Robert Goddard – inventor
• Ward Goodenough – anthropologist
• Temple Grandin – doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University
• Sylvester Graham – inventor
• Crawford Greenewalt – chemical engineer
• Isaac Greenwood – mathematician
• 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
• Barbara McInnis – public health nurse, tuberculosis specialist, teacher, and innovator who dedicated her life to providing health care to homeless people
• Albert Abraham Michelson – physicist, first American to receive the Nobel Prize in science
• Maria Mitchell – first U.S. female astronomer
• Samuel Morse – painter, co-developer of Morse code
• William T.G. Morton – dentist and physician
• Richard Muther – industrial engineer

N–Z

• 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