Famous People from Boston, Massachusetts

• Adams, Henry

  The author of The Education of Henry Adams

• Adams, Samuel

  Rabble-rousing Founding Father from Boston, with a beer named after him

• Adelson, Sheldon

   The billionaire owner of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation

• Bloomberg, Michael

  The billionaire mayor of New York City, 2002-2014

• Bradlee, Ben

  The editor of The Washington Post, 1968-91

• Bulger, James "Whitey"

  The Boston Irish gangster who was a fugitive, 1995-2011

• Colson, Charles "Chuck"

  The jailed Watergate conspirator who became an evangelical Christian leader

• Dass, Ram

  The LSD guy from the 1960s who wrote 'Be Here Now'

• Dushku, Eliza

  Faith on TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• Edelstein, Lisa

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy on TV's House

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  A founder of Transcendentalism

• Evans, Chris

  He's Captain America in those Marvel movies

• Feige, Kevin

  The head of Marvel Studios since 2007

• Foster, Ben

  Chris Pine's co-star in 'Hell or High Water'

• Francis, Arlene

  Longtime panelist on TV's What's My Line

• Franklin, Benjamin

  The Founding Father who wrote Poor Richard's Almanac

• Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr.

  The U.S. Supreme Court's "Great Dissenter" from 1902-1932

• Homer, Winslow

  The New England painter who did Breezing Up

• Janney, Allison

  C. J. Cregg on TV's The West Wing

• Kennedy, Joseph Sr.

  The millionaire father of President John F. Kennedy

• Lowell, Robert

  The "confessional" poet with the collection Life Studies

• McAuliffe, Christa

  The teacher who died in the Challenger explosion

• McKeown, Erin

  Singer of "Queen of Quiet"

• Nimoy, Leonard

  Mr. Spock on the original Star Trek

• Orkin, Ruth

  Photographer of An American Girl in Italy

• Pixies, The

  The band who recorded "Monkey Gone to Heaven"

• Poe, Edgar Allan

  The author of the poem "The Raven"

• Revere, Paul

  The American colonist of midnight ride fame

• Roth, Eli

  The director of 'Hostel'

• Schilling, Taylor

  Piper in the TV series Orange Is the New Black

• Shaw, Robert Gould

  Civil War leader of the African-American 54th Massachusetts Infantry

• Slattery, John

  The silver-haired, hot-headed ad executive on TV's Mad Men

• Spader, James

  Alan Shore on TV's Boston Legal

• Summer, Donna

   The Queen of Disco who did "I Feel Love" and "Last Dance"

• Sumner, Charles

  The anti-slavery activist who was caned in the U.S. Senate in 1856

• Taylor, James

  Folk-pop singer of "Fire and Rain" and "Carolina in My Mind"

• Thurman, Uma

  The sexy, lanky star of the Kill Bill movies

• Wahlberg, Donnie

  Danny on the TV cop show Blue Bloods

• Wahlberg, Mark

  Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights

• Walters, Barbara

  20/20 veteran and host of ABC's The View

See also: Born in Massachusetts