Famous People Born in Massachusetts

Abbie Hoffman ( Worcester )
Abigail Adams ( Weymouth )
Adolphus Greely ( Newburyport )
Al Davis ( Brockton )
Alexandra Kerry
Alicia Witt ( Worcester )
Allison Janney ( Boston )
Amy Jo Johnson ( Cape Cod )
Amy Poehler ( Burlington )
Anne Sexton ( Newton )
Anne Sullivan ( Feeding Hills )
Arlene Francis ( Boston )
Barbara Walters ( Boston )
Benjamin Franklin ( Boston )
Bette Davis ( Lowell )
Casey Affleck ( Falmouth )
Charles Sumner ( Boston )
Christa McAuliffe ( Boston )
Clara Barton ( North Oxford )
Conan O'Brien ( Brookline )
Connie Hines ( Dedham )
David Souter ( Melrose )
Denis Leary ( Worcester )
Dr. Seuss ( Springfield )
E.E. Cummings ( Cambridge )
Edgar Allan Poe ( Boston )
Edward Bancroft ( Westfield )
Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy ( Brookline )
Elbridge Gerry ( Marblehead )
Eli Whitney ( Westboro )
Eliza Dushku ( Boston )
Elizabeth Bishop ( Worcester )
Elizabeth Short ( Hyde Park )
Ellen Pompeo ( Everett )
Emily Dickinson ( Amherst )
Erin McKeown ( Boston )
Eunice Kennedy Shriver ( Brookline )
Geena Davis ( Wareham )
George Bush ( Milton )
Henry Adams ( Boston )
Henry David Thoreau ( Concord )
Horace Mann ( Franklin )
Jack Kerouac ( Lowell )
Jack Lemmon ( Newton )
James "Whitey" Bulger ( Boston )
James McNeill Whistler ( Lowell )
James Spader ( Boston )
James Taylor ( Boston )
John "Johnny Appleseed" Chapman ( Leominster )
John Adams ( Braintree )
John F. Kennedy ( Brookline )
John Hancock ( Braintree )
John Krasinski ( Newton )
John Quincy Adams ( Braintree )
John Slattery ( Boston )
JoJo ( Foxboro )
Joseph Kennedy, Jr. ( Hull )
Joseph Kennedy, Sr. ( Boston )
Julie Taymor ( Newton )
King Bhumibol Adulyadej ( Cambridge )
Kurt Russell ( Springfield )
Leonard Nimoy ( Boston )
Lisa Edelstein ( Boston )
Lizzie Borden ( Fall River )
Lucretia Mott ( Nantucket Island )
Luther Burbank ( Lancaster )
Mark Foley ( Newton )
Mark Wahlberg ( Boston )
Martha Coakley ( Pittsfield )
Matt Damon ( Cambridge )
Matthew Perry ( Williamstown )
Michael Bloomberg ( Boston )
Michael Chiklis ( Lowell )
Michael Dukakis ( Brookline )
Mike Wallace ( Brookline )
Nathaniel Hawthorne ( Salem )
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ( Boston )
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. ( Cambridge )
Patrick Kennedy ( Brighton )
Paul Revere ( Boston )
R. Buckminster Fuller ( Milton )
Rachael Ray ( Cape Cod )
Ralph Waldo Emerson ( Boston )
Rebecca Lobo ( Southwick )
Rob Zombie ( Haverhill )
Robert Benchley ( Worcester )
Robert F. Kennedy ( Brookline )
Robert Gould Shaw ( Boston )
Rosemary Kennedy ( Brookline )
Russell Banks ( Newton )
Ruth Orkin ( Boston )
Samuel F. B. Morse ( Charlestown )
Steve Carell ( Concord )
Susan B. Anthony ( Adams )
Sylvia Plath ( Jamaica Plain )
The Pixies ( Boston )
Thomas Bulfinch ( Newton )
Timothy Leary ( Springfield )
Uma Thurman ( Boston )
Vanessa Kerry