This is a list of people from Massachusetts. It includes both people born in the state, and people famous for association with it.

Athletics

• Larry Bird
• Rocky Marciano, boxer

Artists

• John Singleton Copley, painter
• Childe Hassam, painter
• Winslow Homer, painter
• Fitzhugh Lane , painter
• Norman Rockwell, artist
• James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist

Business

• Charles Bulfinch, architect
• William leBaron Jenney , architect
• Henry Huttleston Rogers, industrialist

Entertainment

Comedians

• Denis Leary, comedian and actor
• Jay Leno, comedian and talk show host
• Conan O'Brien, comedian and talk show host

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

• Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr. (a.k.a. Hank the angry drunken dwarf), Howard Stern radio show regular

Founders

• Pilgrims, first settlers
  • John Alden
  • Mary Allerton

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

• Nauset , Algonquian tribe
• Massachuset , tribe
• Wampanoag, Algonquian tribe

People involved in the American Revolutionary War

• Samuel Adams, revolutionary
• Crispus Attucks, first casualty of the war
• John Hancock
• James Otis
• Robert Treat Paine
• William Prescott
• Paul Revere, revolutionary

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

• Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam leader
• Edward Everett Hale, religious leader
• John Harvard, clergyman and namesake of Harvard University
• Bernard Cardinal Law, archbishop and cardinal
• Cotton Mather, minister
• Increase Mather, minister
• Dwight Lyman Moody, evangelist

Science

• Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
• Luther Burbank, horticulturist
• Benjamin Franklin, scientist and public official
• Robert Goddard, inventor
• Elias Howe, inventor
• Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor and artist
• Eli Whitney, inventor

Others

• Susan B. Anthony, reformist
• F. Lee Bailey
• Horace Mann, educationist and abolitionist
• Barbara Walters, television commentator

See also

• List of people by U.S. state
• Lists of people