List of personalities of the city of Boston

The list of personalities in the city of Boston includes people who were born in the capital of the US state of Massachusetts , as well as those who worked in Boston but were not born there. Both sections are sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

Boston-born personalities

17th century

Elihu Yale (1649-1721), merchant
John Wise (1652–1725), pastor and writer
Cotton Mather (1663–1728), Puritan clergyman and scholar
Sarah Kemble Knight (1666–1727) a New England Colony businesswoman

18th century

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), printer, publisher, writer, inventor and statesman
Jane Colman Turell (1708-1735), poet
Richard Gridley (1710–1796), British-American military engineer
Samuel Adams (1722–1803), statesman and revolutionary
James Bowdoin (1726–1790), Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Nathaniel Appleton (1731–1798), businessman and government agent
Thomas Dawes (1731–1809), military, architect and politician
Robert Treat Paine (1731-1814), British-American lawyer and politician
Paul Revere (1735-1818), freedom fighter
William Heath (1737–1814), farmer, soldier and politician
James Lovell (1737-1814), politician
John Singleton Copley (1738–1815), American-English painter
Nathaniel Gorham (1738–1796), politician
Joseph Warren (1741–1775), officer
William Hooper (1742–1790), one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
Francis Dana (1743–1811), lawyer, judge and politician
Jeremy Belknap (1744–1798), clergyman and historian
John Jeffries (1744–1819), physician and aviation pioneer
Josiah Quincy II (1744-1775), lawyer
William Billings (1746–1800), composer
Increase Sumner (1746–1799), politician and judge
Henry Knox (1750–1806), bookseller
James Bowdoin III (1752–1811), businessman, diplomat and art collector
Jonathan Mason (1756–1831), politician
Royall Tyler (1757-1826), lawyer and playwright
Christopher Gore (1758–1827), politician
Samuel Dexter (1761-1816), politician
William Gordon (1763-1802), politician
William Dandridge Peck (1763–1822), botanist and zoologist
Roger Hale Sheaffe (1763–1851), British officer and colonial administrator in Canada
William Hill Brown (1765-1793), writer
Thomas W. Thompson (1766-1821), politician
John Snelling Popkin (1771-1852), classical philologist
John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst (1772–1863), English statesman
Robert Semple (1777-1816), second governor of Assiniboia
Joseph Tuckerman (1778-1840), Unitarian clergyman and social reformer
John Collins Warren (1778-1856), surgeon
David Porter (1780–1843), naval officer
Leonard Jarvis (1781-1854), politician
John R. Jewitt (1783–1821), armourer, writer, navigator, actor and singer
Samuel FB Morse (1791–1872), inventor
George Ticknor (1791–1871), academic
Francis Boott (1792–1863), physician and botanist
Edward Everett (1794–1865), politician
John Neagle (1796–1865), portrait painter
Edwin Vose Sumner (1797–1863), major general in the Union Army
Josiah Warren (1798–1874), social reformer, musician, inventor and writer

19th century

1801 to 1820

James Barnes (1801–1869), railroad manager and Union general
Samuel Gridley Howe (1801–1876), physician, civil rights activist, and philhellene
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), philosopher, influential Unitarian and writer
Horatio Greenough (1805-1852), sculptor
Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (1807–1886), lawyer and politician
Thomas Sumner (1807–1876), captain
Edmund Quincy (1808–1877), abolitionist and writer
Caleb Blood Smith (1808–1864), politician
George Goldthwaite (1809–1879), politician
Albert Pike (1809–1891), lawyer, brigade general, journalist, author and Freemason
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), writer
Robert Charles Winthrop (1809-1894), politician
Albert Gallatin Blanchard (1810-1891), Brigadier General
Oliver Winchester (1810–1880), businessman and politician
Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), politician
Charles Sumner (1811–1874), politician
Charles K. Tuckerman (1811-1896), diplomat and writer
John Bernard Fitzpatrick (1812–1866), Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Boston
Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813–1871), writer, poet, literary and art critic
William Cooper Nell (1816–1874), journalist, publisher and author
Edward Tuckerman (1817–1886), botanist and lichenologist
William M. Evarts (1818–1901), lawyer and statesman
Henry Gardner (1818-1892), politician
Samuel Parkman Tuckerman (1819–1890), composer
Henry Bryant (1820–1867), physician, naturalist, and ornithologist
Charles Devens (1820-1891), lawyer, major general of the Northern States and politician

1821 to 1840

Sarah C. Frothingham (1821–1861), painter
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821–1873), poet
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz (1822–1907), naturalist
Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909), writer and preacher
Gardiner Greene Hubbard (1822-1897), entrepreneur
John Joseph Williams (1822–1907), Archbishop of Boston
Henry Purkitt Kidder (1823–1886), businessman and philanthropist
Francis Parkman (1823-1893), historian
Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824-1896), astronomer
George Henry Hall (1825-1913), painter
Josiah Parsons Cooke (1827-1894), chemist
Roswell Farnham (1827-1903), politician
Frank Fuller (1827–1915), businessman, lawyer, doctor and politician
Louise Taft (1827–1907), mother of US President William Howard Taft
James Cutler Dunn Parker (1828-1916), composer
William Mason (1829–1908), pianist, composer and music teacher
George Francis Train (1829–1904), businessman, writer, author and eccentric traveler
Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (1831–1920), business manager and diplomat
Frederick Norton Finney (1832-1916), railroad engineer and manager
William Stimpson (1832–1872), naturalist and zoologist
Charles William Eliot (1834–1926), professor of chemistry, author and editor
Annie Adams Fields (1834-1915), writer
Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834–1906), astrophysicist and aviation pioneer
George Frederick Barker (1835-1910), chemist
Lyman Abbott (1835–1922), religious philosopher
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893), Bishop
Frank Welch (1835–1878), politician
Winslow Homer (1836-1910), painter
Charles Hallett Wing (1836-1915), chemist
Mary Ann Brown Patten (1837–1861), commander of a cargo sailing ship
Charles Cutter (1837-1903), librarian
Samuel Hubbard Scudder (1837-1911), entomologist and paleontologist
Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863), officer
Henry Adams (1838–1918), historian and cultural philosopher
Edward A. Calahan (1838–1912), inventor of the stock exchange telex
Oliver Fairfield Wadsworth (1838-1911), ophthalmologist
James Mason Crafts (1839-1917), chemist
Henry Pickering Bowditch (1840-1911), physiologist
Frank Morey (1840–1890), politician
Francis Amasa Walker (1840–1897), general, statistician and economist

1841 to 1860

Samuel Franklin Emmons (1841-1911), geologist
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935), legal scholar
Charles Sprague Sargent (1841-1927), botanist
Charles Follen Adams (1842-1918), poet
Charles Pickering Bowditch (1842–1921), businessman, archaeologist, anthropologist and philanthropist
Marian Hooper Adams (1843–1885), high society lady of Washington society and amateur photographer
Albert Augustus Pope (1843–1909), Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
James T. Bates (1844-1914), businessman
William Gilson Farlow (1844-1919), botanist and mycologist
Horace Mann junior (1844–1868), botanist
Matthew Harkins (1845–1921), Bishop of Providence
Charles McBurney (1845-1913), surgeon
Seth Carlo Chandler (1846-1913), astronomer
Frederic Woodman Root (1846–1916), composer and music teacher
Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919), astronomer and physicist
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847–1931), geologist and chemist
De Scott Evans (1847–1898), painter
Charles Loring Jackson (1847-1935), chemist
Lilla Cabot Perry (1848–1933), painter
Abbott Thayer (1849–1921), painter
William Sturgis Bigelow (1850–1926), doctor, collector of Japanese art
John Rayner Edmands (1850–1910), astronomer, librarian and mountain hiker
Henry Cabot Lodge senior (1850-1924), politician
Charles Sprague Pearce (1851-1914), painter
Samuel Wendell Williston (1852–1918), paleontologist, entomologist, geologist and illustrator
Karl Gerhardt (1853–1940), sculptor
Ralph Wormeley Curtis (1854–1922), painter and draftsman
Jane Toppan (1854-1938), serial killer
Percival Lowell (1855-1916), astronomer
Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943), non-fiction author, lawyer and political scientist
Louis Sullivan (1856-1924), architect
John T. Bowen (1857-1940), Professor of Dermatology
Charles Barney Cory (1857-1921), ornithologist
Fannie Merritt Farmer (1857–1915), restaurateur and educator
Nathaniel Carl Goodwin (1857-1919), actor
Thomas William Lawson (1857–1925), stockbroker, millionaire and author
Edward Everett Hayden (1858–1932), naval officer and meteorologist
Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858–1929), entrepreneur
George von Lengerke Meyer (1858–1918), politician
Albert Henry Munsell (1858–1918), painter and art teacher
William Henry Pickering (1858–1938), astronomer
John L. Sullivan (1858-1918), boxer
John Franklin Jameson (1859–1937), historian, university professor and librarian
Jesse Pomeroy (1859-1932), murderer
Charles Gordon Curtis (1860–1953), engineer, inventor and patent attorney
Curtis Guild (1860-1915), politician

1861 to 1880

Wilhelm Berger (1861–1911), German composer, pianist and conductor
Godfrey Lowell Cabot (1861–1962), entrepreneur
William Durant (1861–1947), founder of General Motors and Chevrolet
Charles J. McCarthy (1861-1929), politician
Abbott Lawrence Rotch (1861-1912), meteorologist
Richard Sears (1861-1943), tennis player
Frederick Stevens (1861-1923), politician
Marcella Boveri (1863-1950), biologist
Gamaliel Bradford (1863-1932), writer
John F. Fitzgerald (1863–1950), politician
Lillie P. Bliss (1864–1931), art collector and patron
Frederick Field Bullard (1864–1904), composer
William Fogg Osgood (1864-1943), mathematician
Henry Paul Talbot (1864-1927), chemist
Joseph Gaudentius Anderson (1865–1927), auxiliary bishop in Boston
Charles Edward Adams (1867–1936), politician
Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961), economist, pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Maxime Bôcher (1867-1918), mathematician
Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867–1972), composer
William H. Bradley (1868–1962), Art Nouveau artist
James Connolly (1868–1957), track and field athlete and Olympic champion
Lida Shaw King (1868–1932), archaeologist and classical philologist
Sumner Paine (1868-1904), marksman
William Hale Thompson (1869-1944), politician
John Paine (1870-1951), marksman
Harriet Boyd-Hawes (1871-1945), archaeologist
Edward Kennard Rand (1871–1945), classical philologist
Walter Russell (1871–1963), painter, sculptor, architect, philosopher and mystic
Arthur Blake (1872–1944), track and field athlete
Billy Bitzer (1872–1944), cameraman
Thomas Curtis (1873-1944), athlete
Carl Strauss (1873–1957), painter, etcher and illustrator
James Michael Curley (1874–1958), politician
William Holland (1874–1930), track and field athlete
Frank Knox (1874–1944), politician
Theodore Lyman (1874–1954), physicist
Henry W. Prescott (1874–1943), classical philologist
Thomas Burke (1875–1929), track and field athlete, Olympic participant
Frederick G. Katzmann (1875–1953), public prosecutor
Arthur Train (1875–1945), lawyer and writer
Pauline Iselin (1876–1946), golfer
Charles-Edward Amory Winslow (1877-1957), bacteriologist
Franklyn Farnum (1878–1961), actor and vaudeville artist
Alvan T. Fuller (1878-1958), politician
Starling Burgess (1878–1947), yacht designer and boat builder
Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879-1967), zoologist
Beals Wright (1879-1961), tennis player
George V. Brown (1880–1937), sports official
Frances Perkins (1880–1965), politician
Charles W. Tobey (1880–1953), politician

1881 to 1900

Eleonora Sears (1881–1968), tennis player
George Bonhag (1882–1960), middle and long distance runner
Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882–1966), American-British photographer
Allen Melancthon Sumner (1882–1918), officer in the USMC
Ella Lola (1883–?), Dancer
Archibald Thompson Davison (1883–1961), musicologist, music teacher and choir conductor
Louis Mettling (1884–1907), track cyclist
George W. Meyer (1884-1959), songwriter
Robert W. Upton (1884–1972), politician
George Richards Minot (1885–1950), internist
Nathaniel Niles (1886–1932), figure skater and tennis player
Paul Dudley White (1886-1973), cardiologist
Jeanie Macpherson (1887–1946), actress and screenwriter
Harold Hitz Burton (1888–1964), judge and politician
Joseph P. Kennedy (1888–1969), businessman and diplomat
George B. Seitz (1888–1944), film director and screenwriter
Richard Whitney (1888–1974), banker, investment advisor, broker, and President of the New York Stock Exchange
Roger Adams (1889–1971), chemist
James Lee Peters (1889–1952), ornithologist, curator and author
Henry Richardson (1889–1963), archer
Rose Kennedy (1890–1995), mother of John F. Kennedy
John W. McCormack (1891-1980), politician
Harry Dexter White (1892–1948), economist and politician
Henry Gilman (1893-1986), chemist
Eric Francis MacKenzie (1893–1969), auxiliary bishop in Boston
Arthur Fiedler (1894–1979), conductor and violinist
Alexander Hall (1894–1968), film director
Jimmy McHugh (1894–1969), composer
Adolf Augustus Berle (1895–1971), lawyer and author
Richard Cushing (1895–1970), Archbishop of Boston
Mal Hallett (1896–1952), violinist, alto saxophonist and big band leader
Catherine Filene Shouse (1896–1994), writer, suffragette and art patron
Frank Silver (1896–1960), songwriter, band leader and vaudeville actor
Marianne Kneisel (1897–1972), violinist and music teacher
Leo Reisman (1897–1961), violinist and big band leader
Jack Haley (1898–1979), actor
Murray Mencher (1898–1991), songwriter
Henry Morton Robinson (1898–1961), writer
Ian Keith (1899–1960), theater and film actor
Walter Charles Langer (1899–1981), psychoanalyst
George Marion junior (1899–1968), screenwriter and songwriter
Priscilla White (1900-1989), diabetologist

20th century

1901 to 1910

Sherwin Badger (1901–1972), figure skater
John Moors Cabot (1901-1981), diplomat
Phil Napoleon (1901–1990), jazz trumpeter and band leader
Maurice J. Tobin (1901–1953), politician
George Clapp Vaillant (1901–1945), ethnologist
George D. Woods (1901-1982), economist
Marland Pratt Billings (1902-1996), structural geologist
Robert F. Bradford (1902-1983), politician
Roland Anderson (1903–1989), production designer
Paul A. Dever (1903–1958), politician
Mason Hammond (1903–2002), classical philologist and historian
Henry-Russell Hitchcock (1903–1987), architectural historian and theorist and museum director
Erna Lazarus (1903-2006), screenwriter
Jerry Colonna (1904–1986), actor, comedian and musician
Roland Winters (1904–1989), actor
Walter A. Brown (1905–1964), sports official and ice hockey coach
Howard Johnson (1905-1991), alto saxophonist
Joseph E. Levine (1905–1987), film producer, distributor and financier
Arthur Mendel (1905–1979), choir conductor, musicologist and music teacher
Joseph T. O'Callahan (1905–1964), Jesuit and military chaplain
Oscar Brodney (1907-2008), screenwriter
Arlene Francis (1907-2001), actress
Charles Henderson (1907–1970), composer, conductor, arranger, pianist, author and songwriter
Carl Mydans (1907-2004), photographer
George Weller (1907–2002), journalist and writer
Lawrence Berk (1908–1995), music teacher and composer
Harry Kemelman (1908–1996), writer, literature professor and rabbi
Leone Lane (1908-1993), actress
Brooks Otis (1908–1977), classical philologist
Wilmar H. Shiras (1908–1990), science fiction author
Hyman Spotnitz (1908–2008), psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and psychiatry researcher
Norma Farber (1909–1984), children's book author and poet
Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1909-1976), crime writer
Charles Francis Adams IV (1910–1999), economic manager
Harry Carney (1910–1974), saxophonist
Norman Corwin (1910–2011), journalist and author
Charlie Holmes (1910–1985), jazz alto saxophonist
George C. Homans (1910-1989), sociologist
Arthur Marder (1910–1980), historian
Eliot Noyes (1910–1977), architect and industrial designer
Irene Sharaff (1910–1993), costume designer

1911 to 1920

Toots Mondello (1911-1992), jazz alto saxophonist
Sonny Tufts (1911-1970), actor
Paul Maurice Zoll (1911–1999), cardiologist
Dan Kiley (1912-2004), landscape architect
Albert Lord (1912–1991), literary scholar, Slavist and classical philologist
Alexander Mackendrick (1912-1993), director
Charles Brenner (1913–2008), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
Betty Field (1913–1973), stage and film actress
Anton Leader (1913–1988), film director and film producer
Conrad Marca-Relli (1913–2000), painter
Wayne Millner (1913-1976), American football player
Fred F. Sears (1913–1957), director and actor
Mary Carlisle (1914–2018), actress and singer
Irving Fine (1914–1962), composer
Joseph L. Melnick (1914-2001), epidemiologist
Lawrence Joseph Riley (1914–2001), auxiliary bishop in Boston
Ben Benson (1915–1959), crime novelist
Veda Ann Borg (1915–1973), actress
Jerry Gray (1915–1976), violinist, arranger, composer and big band leader
Richard Evans Schultes (1915-2001), botanist
Hy White (1915-2011), jazz guitarist
Gleason Leonard Archer (1916–2004), lawyer, Protestant theologian and linguist
Johnny Catron (1916–1998), arranger, songwriter and big band leader
Nicholas Christofilos (1916–1972), Greek-American physicist
John Ciardi (1916–1986), poet, translator, etymologist and university lecturer
Milt Raskin (1916–1977), pianist, songwriter and arranger
Dave Lambert (1917–1966), jazz singer and arranger
Robert Lowell (1917–1977), poet
Jan Miner (1917–2004), actress
Frank Robbins (1917–1994), painter and comic book author and illustrator
Robert B. Woodward (1917–1979), chemist and Nobel Prize winner
James MacGregor Burns (1918–2014), political scientist and historian
Albert K. Cohen (1918-2014), criminologist
David Gilbarg (1918-2001), mathematician
Rosemary Kennedy (1918–2005), sister of John F. and Robert F. Kennedy
Turk Van Lake (1918–2002), jazz guitarist, composer, arranger, author and music teacher
McGeorge Bundy (1919–1996), United States National Security Advisor
Ward Costello (1919–2009), actor, composer and lyricist
Victor Heyliger (1919–2006), ice hockey player
Joseph Francis Maguire (1919-2014), Bishop of Springfield
William J. McCarthy (1919-1998), trade unionist
Sid Ramin (1919–2019), orchestrator, arranger and composer
Richard Scarry (1919–1994), children's author and illustrator
Albert Vincent Casey (1920-2004), publisher
Allen Hoskins (1920–1980), film actor
Jack Lesberg (1920-2005), musician
Jerry Maren (1920–2018), actor
Elliot L. Richardson (1920–1999), lawyer and politician
John P. Riley (1920–2016), ice hockey player and coach

1921 to 1930

Ben Bradlee (1921–2014), Vice President of the Washington Post
Sixto Durán Ballén (1921–2016), Ecuadorian politician
Mahlon Hoagland (1921–2009), biochemist, molecular biologist and university professor
Ruth Orkin (1921–1985), photographer and filmmaker
George Hamilton Pearce (1921-2015), Archbishop
Arnold Ross (1921-2000), jazz pianist
Joan Tozzer (1921–2012), figure skater
Bobby Donaldson (1922–1971), jazz drummer
Marie Ellington (1922–2012), jazz singer
Bernard Kates (1922-2010), film actor
Joseph John Ruocco (1922–1980), auxiliary bishop in Boston
Serge Chaloff (1923–1957), jazz baritone saxophonist
Edith Fellows (1923–2011), actress
Peter A. Garland (1923–2005), politician
Daniel Gorenstein (1923–1992), mathematician
Sam Margolis (1923-1996), jazz musician
Charlie Mariano (1923–2009), jazz musician and composer
Judith Merril (1923–1997), US-Canada. Science fiction writer and editor and political activist
Merton H. Miller (1923-2000), economist
Sumner Redstone (1923-2020), entrepreneur
Fred Richmond (1923-2019), politician
Joanne Malkus Simpson (1923-2010), meteorologist
Peggy Cass (1924–1999), actress
Sonny Stitt (1924-1982), saxophonist
Frances Wayne (1924–1978), jazz singer
Don Costa (1925–1983), musician and music producer
Roy Haynes (* 1925), jazz drummer
Nat Hentoff (1925–2017), journalist, historian and jazz critic
James F. McNulty (1925-2009), politician
Gretchen Merrill (1925-1965), figure skater
George Wein (* 1925), jazz musician and impresario
Karl-Alfred Jacobsson (1926-2015), Swedish football player
Sam Parkins (1926–2009), jazz musician and music producer
Henry W. Kendall (1926–1999), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
HC Robbins Landon (1926–2009), musicologist
Peter Larkin (1926–2019), set designer and film architect
Sandy Saddler (1926-2001), boxer
Hilbert Schenck (1926–2013), science fiction author
Ruby Braff (1927-2003), cornetist
Susan Cabot (1927–1986), actress
Norma Connolly (1927–1998), actress
John McCarthy (1927–2011), logician and computer scientist
Elliot Silverstein (* 1927), director and film producer
Robert Joseph Banks (born 1928), Catholic bishop
Joe Gordon (1928–1963), jazz trumpeter
Alexander Grasshoff (1928–2008), director
Josh Greenfeld (1928–2018), script and screenwriter
Paul X. Kelley (1928–2019), General in the US Marine Corps
Jean Kennedy Smith (1928-2020), diplomat
Margaret Kohn (* 1928), pianist and music teacher
Eugene Roche (1928-2004), actor
Joyce Wein (1928–2005), music and festival manager
James J. Bulger (1929-2018), criminal
Charles C. McLaughlin (1929–2005), Professor of History
David G. Nathan (* 1929), pediatric oncologist and hematologist
Alfred G. Redfield (1929-2019), biophysicist
Franklin Stahl (* 1929), geneticist
Barbara Walters (* 1929), journalist and television presenter
Robert Edward Mulvee (1930–2018), Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Providence
Burton Pike (* 1930), Germanist and literary scholar
Donald Schön (1930–1997), philosopher and professor of urban planning
Edward Seaga (1930–2019), Jamaican politician
William Ware Theiss (1930–1992), costume designer
Frederick Wiseman (born 1930), lawyer

1931 to 1940

David Browning (1931-1956), water diver
Charles Colson (1931–2012), Principal Advisor to President Richard Nixon
Tony Conn (* 1937), rockabilly musician
Alfred W. Crosby (1931-2018), historian
Ram Dass (1931–2019), Professor of Psychology at Harvard University
Alan Douglas (1931–2014), music producer
Jake Hanna (1931-2010), jazz musician
George Fortune (1931–2019), opera singer
Ken McIntyre (1931–2001), jazz musician, composer, arranger, band leader and university professor
Leonard Nimoy (1931–2015), actor, director, film producer and photographer
Peter Sorokin (1931–2015), physicist
Norman Abramson (* 1932), engineer and computer scientist
Richard De Angelis (1932–2005), actor and comedian
Walter Gilbert (* 1932), physicist and biochemist
Richard Herd (1932-2020), actor
Edward Kennedy (1932–2009), politician
Elliott Lieb (* 1932), physicist
Joel Rogosin (1932–2020), film producer and screenwriter
Sheldon Adelson (* 1933), entrepreneur and billionaire
Dorothy Iannone (* 1933), painter, graphic artist, object and video artist
June Kenney (born 1933), actress
Ray Santisi (1933–2014), pianist, university professor
Bill Chase (1934–1974), trumpeter
Charles Gross (* 1934), composer
Joseph P. Hoar (born 1934), General of the United States Marine Corps
Ronald Ludington (1934-2020), figure skater
Salvatore Rabbio (* 1934), percussionist and music teacher
Richard Wernick (* 1934), composer and music teacher
Roland Alexander (1935–2006), musician
Richard M. Karp (* 1935), computer scientist
Story Musgrave (born 1935), astronaut
Theodore W. Palmer (* 1935), mathematician
Joachim Pfeufer (* 1935), French architect and concept artist
Hugo Rossi (* 1935), mathematician
Paul Roazen (1936–2005), political scientist
Charles Segal (1936–2002), classical philologist
Richard Bogosian (* 1937), diplomat
Dick Dale (1937-2019), musician
Jared Diamond (* 1937), evolutionary biologist, physiologist and biogeographer
Victor Guillemin (* 1937), mathematician
Bruce McCandless (1937-2017), astronaut
James Petras (* 1937), Professor of Sociology
Gordon R. Sullivan (born 1937), General in the United States Army
Marron Curtis Fort (1938–2019), American-German German studies specialist
Robin Hartshorne (* 1938), mathematician
Lee Kinsolving (1938–1974), actor
Barry Newman (born 1938), actor
John Robert Ross (* 1938), linguist
Shelly Rusten (* 1938), documentary photographer, jazz musician
Dick Sudhalter (1938–2008), jazz musician
Jane Alexander (born 1939), actress
Eugene Fama (* 1939), economist
Raymond Flynn (born 1939), Mayor of Boston
Joan Hannah (* 1939), ski racer
Bill Keith (1939-2015), bluegrass musician
John Voigt (* 1939), jazz researcher, composer and musician
Arlie Russell Hochschild (* 1940), professor of sociology
William Francis Murphy (born 1940), Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop Emeritus of Rockville Center
Maribel Owen (1940–1961), figure skater
John Schuck (* 1940), theater, film and TV actor
Natalie Trundy (1940-2019), actress

1941 to 1950

John Brockman (born 1941), literary agent
Meredith D'Ambrosio (* 1941), musician, painter and songwriter
Lowell Davidson (1941–1990), composer as well as bassist, organist and percussionist
Beth Howland (1941-2015), actress
Clifford Jarvis (1941–1999), jazz drummer
John Thomas (1941-2013), track and field athlete
Elaine Showalter (* 1941), medical historian, literary scholar and feminist
Alma Yoray (1941–2010), dancer, singer and yoga teacher
Michael Bloomberg (born 1942), businessman and Mayor of New York City
Jonathan Borofsky (born 1942), artist
Joe Boyd (born 1942), music producer
Daniel Dennett (* 1942), philosopher
Alfred Fisher (1942–2016), Canadian composer, pianist and music educator
Laurence Foley (1942-2002), diplomat
Peter Gomes (1942–2011), theologian, university professor and author
Madeline Kahn (1942–1999), film, television and theater actress
Arthur Kennedy (* 1942), Roman Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop emeritus in Boston
Steven Kleiman (* 1942), mathematician
Pete Levin (* 1942), jazz and fusion keyboardist
James Francis Lynch (1942–1998), zoologist and conservationist
Peter Rowan (* 1942), bluegrass musician and songwriter
Bob Taft (born 1942), politician
Cynthia Voigt (* 1942), author of children's books
Regina Carrol (1943–1992), actress
Charles Dinarello (* 1943), doctor
Peter Guralnick (* 1943), music critic and author
Charles Janeway (1943-2003), immunologist
Jack Nance (1943–1996), film and television actor
David Parks (* 1943), politician
Ed Rollins (* 1943), political advisor and strategist
Alan Wilson (1943–1970), singer, harmonica player, guitarist and composer
Sheldon Brown (1944-2008), bicycle mechanic
David Evans (* 1944), musicologist
Peter Lynch (* 1944), investment fund manager
Lew Rockwell (* 1944), political commentator, economist at the Austrian school and activist
Richard Armitage (* 1945), diplomat and politician
Lewis Hyde (born 1945), writer
Peter Plympton Smith (born 1945), politician
Tom Werman (* 1945), music producer
George Wyner (born 1945), actor
Chris Burden (1946-2015), artist
L. Peter Deutsch (* 1946), computer scientist
Peter Hayes (* 1946), historian
Tony Levin (born 1946), rock bassist
Janet Morris (* 1946), science fiction and fantasy writer
Peter Abrahams (* 1947), writer
Jerry Bergonzi (* 1947), saxophonist
John Boswell (1947-1994), historian
Mark Edward Brennan (born 1947), Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston
Bob Enos (1947–2008), R&B and jazz musician
Tom van der Geld (* 1947), modern jazz mallet player
Temple Grandin (* 1947), specialist in the design of systems for commercial animal husbandry
Larry Pleau (born 1947), ice hockey player
Meshach Taylor (1947-2014), actor
Jewelle Gomez (* 1948), author, poet and literary critic
Christa McAuliffe (1948–1986), teacher
Paul Mockapetris (* 1948), software developer
Jim Sampson (* 1948), German-American radio presenter
Donna Summer (1948–2012), singer
James Taylor (born 1948), folk / pop artist
Gina Bovaird (* 1949), motorcycle racing driver
Paul Guilfoyle (born 1949), actor
Bob Margolin (* 1949), blues guitarist and singer
Joseph Pilato (1949–2019), actor and voice actor
Daniel Pipes (* 1949), author and publicist
Albert Sacco (* 1949), astronaut
Candace Allen (born 1950), writer
Susan Bottomly (born 1950), model and actress
Arthur Caplan (* 1950), bioethicist
Bill Flynn (born 1950), ice hockey player and coach
Peter W. Galbraith (* 1950), US diplomat, civil servant, professor and writer
George Garzone (* 1950), jazz musician
Allan Jaffe (* 1950), jazz and fusion musician
Larry Roland (* ≈1950), jazz musician and poet
Neil Asher Silberman (* 1950), archaeologist and historian
Steven Van Zandt (* 1950), rock musician, actor and radio host

1951 to 1960

Carolina Barco (* 1951), politician
Harvey Cohen (1951–2007), film and television composer and orchestrator
Ed French (* 1951), makeup artist and special effects artist
Roger B. Myerson (* 1951), economist and Nobel Prize winner
Lawrence O'Donnell (* 1951), political functionary, political analyst and television presenter
Rodman Philbrick (born 1951), author
Jonathan Richman (born 1951), musician
Robert Rosenberg (1951–2006), crime writer and journalist
Anne Twomey (* 1951), actress
Thomas A. Barron (* 1952), author
Neria Douglass (* 1952), lawyer and politician
Donal Fox (* 1952), pianist and composer
John Lee (* 1952), bass guitarist
Bob Mover (* 1952), saxophonist and singer
Charles Bass (born 1952), politician
David Weinberg (* 1992), rower
David Wilczewski (1952–2009), fusion musician
Ellen Crosby (* 1953), journalist and writer
Brian Duffy (* 1953), test pilot and astronaut
James Remar (born 1953), actor
Mike Stern (* 1953), fusion musician
Andrea Barrett (* 1954), writer
Robert Beaser (* 1954), composer, conductor and music teacher
Susan Butcher (1954-2006), dog racing sled driver
Ricky Ford (* 1954), jazz musician
Francisco Goldman (born 1954), author
Harold Hongju Koh (* 1954), legal scholar
Henry Marsh (* 1954), obstacle runner
Arthur Baker (* 1955), DJ, producer and remixer
Jane Ira Bloom (* 1955), jazz musician
Tom Jennings (* 1955), artist and technician
Michael McShane (born 1955), actor
Christopher Wool (* 1955), painter and graphic artist
Eliot A. Cohen (* 1956), professor
Alexandre Rockwell (* 1956), film director
Meg Rosoff (* 1956), writer
Ned Rothenberg (* 1956), jazz and improvisation musician
Aviva Chomsky (* 1957), historian
Lynne Cox (* 1957), long-distance swimmer and author
Eric S. Raymond (* 1957), author and programmer in the hacker and open source scene
Bill Laimbeer (* 1957), basketball player
Rob Schneiderman (* 1957), jazz pianist, composer
Colm Feore (born 1958), American-Canadian actor
Chris Nilan (* 1958), ice hockey player and coach
John Tortorella (* 1958), ice hockey player and coach
Peter Carruthers (* 1959), figure skater
Daniel Goldhagen (* 1959), sociologist and political scientist
Robert Reed (* 1959), Roman Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Boston
Deborah Sasson (* 1959), opera singer and musical artist
Karen Shire (* 1959), sociologist
John J. Sullivan (* 1959), Deputy Secretary of State
Kate Davis (* 1960), film producer, film director, camerawoman and film editor
J. Bradford DeLong (born 1960), economist
Mark Andrew Green (* 1960), politician
Andrew Marcus (* 1960), film editor
Scott McCloud (* 1960), comic artist and theorist
Michael McCormack (* 1960), triathlete
William Monahan (* 1960), screenwriter and writer
James Spader (born 1960), actor
David Thorne (born 1960), artist

1961 to 1970

Caitlin Carruthers (* 1961), figure skater
Jennifer Coolidge (born 1961), actress
Amy Denio (* 1961), multi-instrumentalist
Guru (1961-2010), rapper
Martha Hackett (born 1961), actress
Michael Land (* 1961), composer and musician
David Lovering (born 1961), drummer
DJ Olive (* 1961), sound artist and turntablist
Rob Bargad (* 1962), jazz musician
Clark Gregg (born 1962), actor
Jasmine Guy (* 1962), actress, singer and dancer
Tom Lampert (* 1962), political scientist and writer
John Slattery (* 1962), film and stage actor
Michael Beach (born 1963), actor
John Michael Higgins (born 1963), actor and voice actor
Andrea Robbins (* 1963), photographer
Eric Zinman (* 1963), pianist and composer
Stephen Dunham (1964–2012), actor
Richard J. Green (* 1964), chemist
John Pinette (1964–2014), comedian and actor
John E. Sununu (born 1964), politician
Tom Barrasso (* 1965), ice hockey goalkeeper
Benzino (* 1965), rapper and music producer
Frank Black (born 1965), musician
David Delfino (* 1965), American-Italian ice hockey goalkeeper
Christine Elise (* 1965), actress
Sophie Matisse (* 1965), painter
Clayton Nemrow (* 1965), actor and musical performer
Brian Noonan (born 1965), ice hockey player
Andrew Stanton (* 1965), director and screenwriter
Elly Tanaka (* 1965), biochemist
Maura Tierney (* 1965), actress
Peter Wylde (* 1965), show jumper and Olympic champion
Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi (* 1966), biochemist and university professor
Bryna Kra (* 1966), mathematician
David Ian Salter (born 1966), film editor
Stephanie Wilson (* 1966), astronaut
Connie Britton (born 1967), actress
Lisa Edelstein (* 1967), actress
Fat Mike (* 1967), musician and producer
Blanchard Ryan (born 1967), actress
Paul Stanton (* 1967), ice hockey player
Tim Sweeney (born 1967), ice hockey player
Larry Goldings (* 1968), jazz musician and composer
Sean Gullette (* 1968), screenwriter and actor
Tom Long (1968–2020), Australian film and stage actor
Joseph Nassise (* 1968), writer
Peter R. Orszag (* 1968), economist
Guido Giacomo Preparata (* 1968), Italian economist and political scientist
Seth Putnam (1968-2011), musician
Joseph D. Reitman (born 1968), actor
Michelle Thomas (1968–1998), actress
Darren Turcotte (born 1968), ice hockey player
Guinevere Turner (* 1968), actress and screenwriter
Amie Wilkinson (* 1968), mathematician
Scott Wolf (* 1968), actor
Bobby Brown (born 1969), R&B singer
Ariadne Daskalakis (* 1969), violinist
Michael Moynihan (* 1969), musician, publisher and journalist
Edward Norton (* 1969), actor and director
Donnie Wahlberg (* 1969), singer, actor and producer
James Walters (born 1969), actor, musician and firefighter
Danny Wood (* 1969), singer, songwriter and music producer
John Amaechi (* 1970), American-English basketball player
Susan Athey (* 1970), economist and professor
Dave Eggers (* 1970), writer, screenwriter and publisher
Edward Fletcher (* 1970), actor and painter
Dede Griesbauer (* 1970), triathlete
Armand Van Helden (* 1970), house disc jockey and producer
Cariddi Nardulli (* 1970), Italian actress and production assistant
Jeremy Roenick (born 1970), ice hockey player
Nicholas Sagan (* 1970), writer and screenwriter
Susan Tedeschi (* 1970), blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
Uma Thurman (* 1970), actress

1971 to 1980

Leonardo Ciampa (* 1971), composer, organist, pianist and author
Ted Drury (born 1971), ice hockey player
Jennifer Dundas (born 1971), actress
Jon Kleinberg (* 1971), Professor of Computer Science
Sékou (* 1971), rapper, singer, songwriter and publisher
Mark Wahlberg (* 1971), actor and producer
Alessandro Nivola (born 1972), actor
Eli Roth (* 1972), director, screenwriter, producer and actor
Kevin Feige (* 1973), film producer
Rich Cronin (1974-2010), singer and songwriter
Misha Collins (born 1974), actor
Ezra Edelman (* 1974), film producer and director
Aaron Goldberg (* 1974), jazz pianist
Christopher Rojik (* 1974), basketball player
Jon Coleman (born 1975), ice hockey player
Anne Dudek (* 1975), actress
TJ Thyne (born 1975), film actor
Mark Greif (* 1975), author and publicist
Eric Griffin (born 1976), musician
Shar Jackson (born 1976), actress and rapper
Amanda Palmer (* 1976), musician, poet and cabaret artist
Andrew Bujalski (* 1977), film director
Charles Taylor junior (* 1977), son of Liberian President Charles Taylor
Teryn Ashley (born 1978), tennis player
Jeremy Strong (born 1978), actor
Adam Birnbaum (* 1979), jazz pianist
Emily Cook (* 1979), freestyle skier
Jim Fahey (born 1979), ice hockey player
Malakoff Kowalski (* 1979), German-American-Persian singer, musician, composer and producer
Turner Cody (born 1980), singer-songwriter
Eliza Dushku (* 1980), actress
Ben Foster (born 1980), actor
Mary Halvorson (* 1980), guitarist and composer
Alex McQuilkin (* 1980), artist
Michael Ryan (born 1980), ice hockey player

1981 to 1990

Uzo Aduba (* 1981), actress
Chris Evans (born 1981), actor
Kimball Gallagher (* 1981), pianist and composer
Nicky Jam (* 1981) reggaeton singer
Julia Jones (* 1981), actress
Adrian Lamo (1981–2018), hacker, security analyst, journalist and informant
Kirsten Price (* 1981), porn actress
Susie Abromeit (* 1982), actress
Mirjam Ballmer (* 1982), Swiss politician
Paul-Henri Campbell (* 1982), German-American writer
Tony Dize (* 1982), reggaeton musician
Andy Kim (* 1982), politician
Jonathan Tucker (born 1982), actor
Ari Graynor (born 1983), actress
Sam Jones III (born 1983), actor
Eli Reed (* 1983), musician
Daniela Ruah (* 1983), Portuguese-American actress
Patrick Ewing Jr. (* 1984), basketball player
Kevin Regan (* 1984), ice hockey goalkeeper
Taylor Schilling (* 1984), actress
Sean Sullivan (born 1984), ice hockey player
Tommaso Ciampa (born 1985), wrestler
Jonathan Kale (born 1985), basketball player
Chris Bourque (* 1986), ice hockey player
Darren Elias (* 1986), poker player
John McCarthy (born 1986), ice hockey player
Frankie Shaw (* 1986), actress, director and screenwriter
Keith Yandle (born 1986), ice hockey player
Benn Ferriero (* 1987), ice hockey player
Alicia Sacramone (born 1987), gymnast
Jimmy Hayes (born 1989), ice hockey player

From 1991

Aidan Mitchell (born 1993), actor
Connor Murphy (born 1993), ice hockey player
Jimmy Vesey (born 1993), ice hockey player
Caroline Zhang (* 1993), figure skater
Ryan Donato (born 1996), ice hockey player
Samantha Logan (born 1996), actress
Noah Hanifin (* 1997), ice hockey player
Colin White (born 1997), ice hockey player
Genevieve Hannelius (* 1998), actress
Kik Pierie (* 2000), Dutch soccer player

Famous Boston residents

George Brayton (1830-1892), mechanical engineer
Ernst Perabo (1845–1920), composer and pianist
Harry Zohn (1923–2001), literary historian, essayist and translator
Sophie Freud (* 1924), Austrian-American psychologist, social pedagogue and social scientist as well as author
Noah Gordon (* 1926), writer
Karen Pryor (* 1932), animal trainer
Mario Corti (* 1946), Swiss manager
William Sinkford (born 1946), pastor of the Unitarian Universalist Association
Michael Albert (* 1947), author and political activist
David Lee Thompson (* 1951), sculptor, assemblage artist and poet
Dominique Eade (* 1958), jazz singer, pianist, music teacher, songwriter and composer
Dennis Lehane (* 1965), writer
Tui Sutherland (* 1978), writer
Sammy Adams (* 1987), musician

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