List of sons and daughters of the city of Worcester, Massachusetts

This is a list of public figures that American US in the city of Worcester ( Massachusetts ) were born. The list does not claim to be complete.

18th century

Levi Lincoln
(1782–1868)

Benjamin Swan (1762–1839), businessman, banker and politician
John Curtis Chamberlain (1772–1834), politician
Levi Lincoln Jr. (1782–1868), politician; Mayor of Worcester
Enoch Lincoln (1788–1829), politician, Governor of Maine
Charles Allen (1797–1869), politician
George Bancroft (1800-1891), historian and politician

Pierre-Basile Mignault (1854–1945), lawyer
Ellen Day Hale (1855–1940), painter and printmaker
Charles G. Washburn (1857–1928), politician
Fanny Bullock Workman (1859–1925), geographer, cartographer, writer and mountaineer
William Augustine Hickey (1869–1933), Roman Catholic Bishop of Providence
Lewis Stone (1879–1953), actor
Robert Goddard (1882–1945), scientist and rocket pioneer
Robert Benchley (1889–1945), humorist, theater critic and actor
Robert Frazer (1891-1944), actor
Samuel Nathaniel Behrman (1893–1973), writer

Charles F. Sullivan (1904–1962), politician
Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006), poet
Lillian Asplund (1906–2006), survivor of the sinking of the Titanic
Wendell Culley (1906-1983), jazz musician
Isadore Nathaniel Parker (1908–2011), jazz trumpeter
Charles Olson (1910-1970), poet
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), modern poet and writer
Albina Osipowich (1911–1964), swimmer; 1928 Olympic champion in the 100 m freestyle
Samuel Fuller (1912–1997), actor, screenwriter and director
Rita Johnson (1913-1965), actress
Arthur Kennedy (1914–1990), stage and film actor
Loring Coes junior (1915–1978), chemist, was the first to synthesize the coesite named after him
Irene Higginbotham (1918–1988), pianist and songwriter
John Michael Hayes (1919-2008), screenwriter
Helen Walker (1920–1968), actress
Harvey Ball (1921–2001), is considered the inventor of the "smiley"
Al Vega (1921-2011), jazz pianist
Jaki Byard (1922–1999), jazz musician
Kenneth O'Donnell (1924–1977), politician and advisor to US President John F. Kennedy
Kathleen O'Malley (1924-2019), actress
Barbara Carroll (1925–2017), jazz pianist and singer
Noah Gordon (* 1926), writer (The Medicus, The Shaman, The Heirs of the Medicus)
Don Fagerquist (1927–1974), jazz trumpeter
John Aloysius Marshall (1928–1994), Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield
Harry Sheppard (* 1928), jazz vibraphonist
Russ Adams (1930-2017), sports photographer
David Edward Foley (1930–2018), Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham