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Famous Residents

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Albert Pike pioneer teacher, lawyer, Boston
Amy Lowell poet, Brookline
Benjamin Franklin statesman, scientist, Boston
Bette Davis actress, Lowell
Cecil B. DeMille film director, Ashfield
Clara Barton American Red Cross founder, Oxford
Cotton Mather clergyman, Boston
Dr. Seuss   Theodore Geisel author, illustrator, Springfield
Edgar Allan Poe writer, Boston
Eli Whitney inventor, Westborough
Elias Howe inventor, Spencer
Ella Raines actress, Snoquaimie
Emily Dickinson poet, Amherst
F. Lee Bailey defense attorney, Waltham
George Bush 41st U.S. president, Milton
Henry David Thoreau author, Concord
Horace Mann educator, Franklin
Horatio Alger author, Revere
Jack Albertson actor, Malden
James McNeill Whistler painter, Lowell
John Adams 2nd U.S. president, Braintree
John Chapman / Johnny Appleseed nurseryman, Leominster
John F. Kennedy U.S. president, Brookline
John Greenleaf Whittier poet, Haverhill
John Hancock statesman, Braintree
John Quincy Adams 6th U.S. president, Braintree
Leonard Bernstein conductor, Lawrence
Leonard Nemoy actor, Boston
Lucy Stone woman suffragist, West Brookfield
Max Tishler inventor, Boston
Nathaniel Hawthorne author, Salem
Oliver Wendell Holmes poet, Cambridge
Paul Revere silversmith, Revolutionary War figure, Boston
Percival Lowell astronomer, Boston
Ralph Waldo Emerson philosopher, poet, Boston
Robert Hutchings Goddard rocketry, Worcester
Robert Lowell poet, Boston
Samuel Adams patriot, Boston
Samuel F. B. Morse painter, inventor, Charlestown
Sharon Christa McAuliffe teacher, astronaut, Framingham
Susan B. Anthony woman suffragist, Adams
William Cullen Bryant poet, editor, Cummington
William D. Coolidge inventor, Hudson
Winslow Homer painter, Boston