Famous People from Worcester, Massachusetts

• Benchley, Robert

  1930s New Yorker theater critic and witty essayist

• Bishop, Elizabeth

  Poet Laureate of the United States, 1949-50

• Fuller, Samuel

  The director of Pickup on South Street and The Naked Kiss

• Hoffman, Abbie

  The yippie who wrote Steal This Book

• Kunitz, Stanley

  U.S. Poet Laureate, 2000-01

• Leary, Denis

  Star of cable TV's Rescue Me

• Witt, Alicia

  Co-star of TV's Cybill

See also: Born in Massachusetts