Biographical Records
Notable People from Massachusetts
6,067 notable figures born in Massachusetts, showing page 28 of 122, ranked by historical prominence.
Ether Shepley
1789 – 1877
juristpoliticianjudge
Ed Herlihy
1909 – 1999
radio personalitynews presenteractor
William Upham
1792 – 1853
politicianlawyer
James "Grizzly" Adams
1812 – 1860
explorermountaineer
William Claflin
1818 – 1905
politician
Edwin Percy Whipple
1819 – 1886
literary criticjournalistwriter
Muriel Mussells Seyfert
1909 – 1997
astronomer
Don Terry
1902 – 1988
boxeractor
Thomas Church
1902 – 1978
landscape architectarchitect
Barbara Daly Baekeland
1921 – 1972
socialite
Carol Haney
1924 – 1964
choreographerballet dancersinger
John Mead Howells
1868 – 1959
architect
William B. Ide
1796 – 1852
joinerpolitician
Eli Thayer
1819 – 1899
educatorpolitician
Josephine Wright Chapman
1867 – 1943
architect
Herbert Abrams
1920 – 2003
painter
Thomas C. Durant
1820 – 1885
businesspersonphysician
Curt Conway
1915 – 1974
film actortelevision actorstage actor
Milton Parsons
1904 – 1980
television actoractor
Albert Bigelow Paine
1861 – 1937
humoristchildren's writernovelist
Alice Bache Gould
1868 – 1953
historian
William Emmett Dever
1862 – 1929
tannerpoliticianlawyer
Marcus A. Coolidge
1865 – 1947
politician
Isaac Sprague
1811 – 1895
botanistbotanical illustratorpainter
Abby May
1800 – 1877
suffragistsocial worker
Valentine Bialas
1903 – 1965
speed skater
Elizabeth Carter Brooks
1867 – 1951
suffragistsocial activisteducator
Clifford Harrison
1927 – 1988
ice hockey player
Charles Frederick Briggs
1804 – 1877
journalistwriter
William Howe
1803 – 1852
civil engineerinventorarchitect
Mary Brewster Hazelton
1868 – 1953
painter
David Gove
1978 – 2017
ice hockey playerice hockey coach
Ady Barkan
1983 – 2023
political activistlawyer
Henry Gilford Picard
1906 – 1997
golfer
I. Rice Pereira
1902 – 1971
draftspersonpainterartist
Kathleen O'Malley
1924 – 2019
film actortelevision actoractor
Winfield Scott Hammond
1863 – 1915
prosecutorjuristgovernor
Cheryl Araujo
1961 – 1986
victim
William L. Langer
1896 – 1977
university teacherhistorian
Austin Warren
1899 – 1986
literary scholarliterary criticjournalist
Ralph Sanford
1899 – 1963
actor
George Luz
1921 – 1998
military personnel
Charles Warren
1868 – 1954
university teacherhistorianjurist
Virginia Lee Burton
1909 – 1968
textile artistdesignerchildren's writer
Harold Leavitt
1922 – 2007
business psychologistpsychologist
Eddie Fontaine
1927 – 1992
television actorguitaristmusician
Paddy Duffy
1864 – 1890
boxer
Joseph A. Ball
1894 – 1951
cinematographer
Danny Murphy
1955 – 2014
film actoractor
Sidney Fay Blake
1892 – 1959
scientific collectorbotanistbotanical collector