Famous Massachusetts People

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Massachusetts: Famous Bay Staters

Biographies of almost all of these famous Massachusetts residents can be found in the Gale database, Infotrac, Biography Resource Center. Just click on Databases in the list on the right and enter your library barcode number.

   Abigail Adams, wife and mother of presidents, Weymouth, WoBio IV
   Charles F. Adams,    WB
   John Adams, 2nd U.S. president, Braintree    NAB 6; WB; WoBio V
   John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. president, Braintree    NAB 6; WB; WoBio V
   Samuel Adams, patriot, Boston    NAB 6; WB; WoBio IV
   Jack Albertson, actor, Malden
   Louisa May Alcott, author,    NAB 10; WoBio V
   John and Priscilla Alden, Pilgrims,    WB; LW
   Horatio Alger, author, Revere   WoBio V
   Susan B. Anthony, woman suffragist, NAB 1; WoBio V
   Crispus Attucks, patriot, Boston    WB
   F. Lee Bailey, defense attorney, Waltham
   Clara Barton, American Red Cross founder, Oxford    NAB ; WoBio V
   Leonard Bernstein, conductor, Lawrence    WoBio VII
   Forrest M. Bird, inventor, Stoughton
   Harold Stephen Black, inventor, Leominster
   William Bradford, colonial governor    WoBio IV
   Rachel Fuller Brown, inventor, Springfield    NAB 1
   William Cullen Bryan, poet, editor, Cummington   WoBio VII
   Charles Bulfinch, architect,    WB; WoBio V
   Thomas Bulfinch    WB
   Luther Burbank, horticulturalist, Lancaster    NAB 8; WoBio V
   George Bush, 41st U.S. president, Milton    NAB 6; WoBio VII
   Lydia Maria Francis Child, writer and abolitionist WoBio V; LW
   Calvin Coolidge, president    WB; WoBio VII
   William D. Coolidge, inventor, Hudson
   John Singleton Copley, painter, Boston    NAB 9; WoBio VII
   John Cotton
   e.e. Cummings, poet, Cambridge    NAB 10; WoBio VII
   James M. Curley, politician    WB
   Bette Davis, actress, Lowell    NAB 5; WoBio VII
   Stephen Daye    WB
   Cecil B. DeMille, film director, Ashfield    NAB 9; WoBio VII
   Emily Dickinson, poet, Amherst    NAB 10; WoBio V
   Thomas Dudley    WB
   Michael Dukakis, politician    WB
   John Eliot    WB; WoBio IV
   Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher, poet, Boston    NAB 9; WB; WoBio V
   John Endecott    WB
   Edward Everett    WB
   Ann Smith Franklin, printer, almanac publisher, Boston
   Benjamin Franklin, statesman, scientist, Boston    NAB 3, 6 & 8;    WB; WoBio IV
   Buckminster Fuller, architect, educator, Milton    NAB 8; WoBio VII
   Thomas Gage    WB
   William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist; WoBio V
    Theodore Geisel/Dr. Seuss, author, illustrator, Springfield    NAB 10; WoBio VII
   Elbridge Gerry    WB
   Robert Hutchings Goddard, rocketry, Worcester    NAB 8; WoBio VII
   Nathaniel Gorham, signer of Constitution, Charlestown SCUS;    WB
   John Hancock, statesman, Braintree    WB; WoBio IV
   John Harvard    WB
   Nathaniel Hawthorne, author, Salem    NAB 10; WB; WoBio V
   Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet, Cambridge    NAB 10; WB
   Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., jurist, Boston    NAB 7; WB; WoBio VIII
   Winslow Homer, painter, Boston    NAB 9; WoBio V
   Elias Howe, inventor, Spencer    NAB 3; WoBio V
   Anne Hutchinson, religious leader    WB; WoBio IV
   Thomas Hutchinson, politician,    WB; WoBio IV
   Helen Hunt Jackson, writer, Amherst; WoBio V
   Rufus King, signer of Constitution, SCUS
   Edward M. Kennedy, politician, Brookline    WB
   John F. Kennedy, U.S. president, Brookline    NAB 6; WB; WoBio VIII
   Robert F.Kennedy, politician, Brookline    WB; WoBio VIII
   Henry Knox    WB
   Lucy Larcom, writer & mill girl, Lowell    LW
   Henry Cabot Lodge    WB; WoBio VIII
   Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr, politician    WB
   Amy Lowell, poet, Brookline    NAB 10; WB; WoBio VIII
   Francis Cabot LowelL
   James Russell Lowell, poet, Cambridge    WB
   Percival Lowell, astronomer, Boston
   Robert Lowell, poet, Boston    NAB 10
   Mary Lyon, educator    NAB 7; WoBio VI
   Horace Mann, educator, Franklin    NAB 7; WB; WoBio IV
   Massasoit, chief    WB; WoBio IV
   Cotton Mather, clergyman, Boston    WB; WoBio IV
   Sharon Christa McAuliffe teacher, astronaut, Framingham,
   John McCormick, inventor    WB
   Albert Abraham Michelson, physicist, Worcester    WoBio VI
   Margaret Mitchell, astronomer, Nantucket    NAB 8; LW
   Samuel F. B. Morse, painter, inventor, Charlestown    NAB 3; WoBio VI
   Leonard Nimoy, actor, Boston
   Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, politician    WB; WoBio IX
   James Otis, inventor    WB
   Robert Paine    WB
   Theodore Parker    WB; WoBio VI
   George Peabody, merchant
   Wendell Phillips   WoBio VI
   Timothy Pickering
   Albert Pike, pioneer teacher, lawyer, Boston
   Edgar Allan Poe, writer, Boston    NAB 10 (though he is mostly thought of as a Baltimore man); WoBio VI
   Ella Raines, actress, Snoquaimie
   Edward Randolph    WB
   Paul Revere, silversmith, Revolutionary War figure, Boston
   Robert H. Rines, inventor, Boston
   Samoset,    WB
   Deborah Sampson, patriot    WB; LW
   Franklin Benjamin Sanford, abolitionist, Concord
   Samuel Sewell    WB; WoBio IV
   Daniel Shays, activist    AB; WoBio IVI
   William Shirley    WB
   Squanto    WB
   Miles Standish    WB; WoBio IV
   Lucy Stone, woman suffragist, West Brookfield    NAB 1; WoBio VI
   Louis Henry Sullivan, architect, Boston    NAB 9; WoBio VI
   Charles Sumner, politician   WB; WoBio VI
   Henry David Thoreau, author, Concord    NAB 10; WB; WoBio VI
   Max Tishler, inventor, Boston
   Joseph Warren, patriot    WB
   Phyllis Wheatley, colonial poet, NAB 10; WB
   James McNeill Whistler, painter, Lowell    NAB 9; WoBio VI
   Peregrine White    WB
   Eli Whitney, inventor, Westborough    NAB 3
   John Greenleaf Whittier, poet, Haverhill   WoBio VI
   Ted Williams, baseball player
   Roger Williams, religious leader/founder of RI    WB; WoBio IV
   Henry Wilson, politician    WB
   Edward Winslow    WB
   John Winthrop    WB; WoBio IV