Famous People of Massachusetts

Links to Famous Bay Staters

A shorter list from which to choose

John Adams (2^nd U.S. President, Braintree)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ja2.html

http://www.americanpresident.org/history/johnadams/

John Quincy Adams (6^th U.S. President, Braintree)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ja6.html

http://www.americanpresident.org/history/johnquincyadams/

Samuel Adams (patriot, Boston)

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/adams_s.htm

http://www.colonialhall.com/adamss/adamss.php

Jack Albertson (actor, Malden)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0016776/bio

http://www.hollywood.com/celebs/detail/id/186081

Horatio Alger (author, Revere)

http://www.online-literature.com/horatio-alger/

http://www.bookrags.com/biography-horatio-alger/

Susan B. Anthony (woman suffragist, Adams)

http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/biography.html

http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/sba/first.htm

F. Lee Bailey (defense attorney, Waltham)

http://www.nndb.com/people/692/000023623/

http://www.clipfile.org/clips/000632.php

Clara Barton (American Red Cross Founder, Oxford)

http://www.civilwarhome.com/bartonbio.htm

http://www.nps.gov/anti/clara.htm

Leonard Bernstein (conductor, Lawrence)

http://www.leonardbernstein.com/lifeswork/biography/

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lbhtml/lbhome.html

Forrest M. Bird (inventor, Stoughton)

http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/bird.html

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/15.html

Harold Stephen Black (inventor, Stoughton)

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/16.html

http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.invent.org/hall%5Fof%5Ffame/1%5F1%5F6%5Fdetail.asp%3FvInventorID=16

Rachel Fuller Brown (inventor, Springfield))

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blnystatin.htm

http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCEWWW/Features/eChemists/Bios/Brown.html

William Cullen Bryant (poet, editor, Cummington)

http://www.thetrustees.org/pages/285_bryant_homestead.cfm

http://www.2020site.org/literature/william_bryant.html

Luther Burbank (horticulturalist, Lancaster)

http://www.ffrf.org/fttoday/back/burbankbio.html

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/21.html

George Bush (41^st U.S. President, Milton)

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760625.html

http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/

John Chapman/Johnny Appleseed (nurseryman, Leominster)

http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/PA_Env-Her/biographies/johnnyappleseed.htm

The original story about Appleseed in Harpers Magazine that made him famous.

http://mason.gmu.edu/~drwillia/apple/

William D. Coolidge (inventor, Hudson)

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/33.html

http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/coolidge.html

John Singleton Copley (painter, Boston)

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/c/copley/biograph.html

http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/copley/copley_bio.htm

E.E. Cummings (poet, Cambridge)

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/eecummings/

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/156

Bette Davis (actress, Lowell)

http://www.bettedavis.com/

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Guild/7634/davis.html

Cecil B. DeMille (film director, Ashfield)

http://classicmoviefavorites.com/demille/

http://www.lostcitydemille.com/bio.html

Emily Dickinson (poet, Amherst)

http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155

Ralph Waldo Emerson (philosopher, poet, Boston)

http://www.online-literature.com/emerson/

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/

Brian Evans (singer, Haverhill)

http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Evans,_Brian/

http://www.brianevansonline.com/

Ann Smith Franklin (printer, almanac publisher, Boston)

http://libweb2.princeton.edu/rbsc2/ga/unseenhands/printers/Franklin.html

Benjamin Franklin (printer, statesman, scientist, Boston)

http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/facts/

http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html

Buckminster Fuller (architect, educator, Milton)

http://www.worldtrans.org/whole/bucky.html

http://www.bfi.org/

Robert Hutchings Goddard (rocketry, Worcester)

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/67.html

http://www.roswellcvb.com/goddard.html

John Hancock (statesman, Braintree)

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/hancock.htm

http://www.colonialhall.com/hancock/hancock.php

Nathaniel Hawthorne (author, Salem)

http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/

http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/Life&Times/BiographicalInfo/Introduction.html

Oliver Wendell Holmes (poet, Cambridge)

http://www.bartleby.com/65/ho/HolmesOdad.html

http://www.who2.com/oliverwendellholmessr.html

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (jurist, Boston)

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/owholmes.htm

http://harvardregiment.org/holmes.html

Winslow Homer (painter, Boston)

http://govschl.ndsu.nodak.edu/~rausch/homer.htm

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/Winslow_Homer.htm

Elias Howe (inventor, Spencer)

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blEliasHowe.htm

http://www.history.rochester.edu/Scientific_American/mystery/howe.htm

Helen Hunt Jackson (writer, Amherst)

http://www.socalhistory.org/Biographies/hhjackson.htm

http://donald.phast.umass.edu/local/amherst/walking_tour/jackson.html

John F. Kennedy (U.S. president, Brookline)

http://www.jfklibrary.org/jfk_biography.html

http://www.historyplace.com/kennedy/gallery.htm photographs

Amy Lowell (poet, Brookline)

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/amylowell/

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/amylowell/life.htm

Percival Lowell (astronomer, Boston)

http://www.lowell.edu/AboutLowell/plowell.html

http://www.seasky.org/spacexp/sky5e12.html

http://www.as.wvu.edu/~planet/marstalk/lowell.htm

James Russell Lowell (poet, Cambridge)

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/auth/lowell.htm

http://www.famousamericans.net/jamesrusselllowell/

Robert Lowell (poet, Boston)

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lowell/bio.htm

http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_054800_lowellrobert.htm

Horace Mann (educator, Franklin)

http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agexed/aee501/mann.html

http://www.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/mann.html

http://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/horace.html

Cotton Mather (clergyman, Boston)

http://www.puritansermons.com/bio/biomathe.htm

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_BMAT.HTM

Sharon Christa McAuliffe (teacher, astronaut, Framingham)

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/mcauliffe.html

http://www.starhop.com/cm_bio.htm

Jo Dee Messina (country singer, Holliston)

http://www.jodeemessina.com/bio/index.html

http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/messina_jo_dee/bio.jhtml

Samuel F.B. Morse (painter, inventor, Charlestown)

http://www.morsehistoricsite.org/history/morse.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/atthtml/mrshome.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sfbmhtml/sfbmlesseressay.html

Leonard Nemoy (actor, Boston)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000559/bio

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/cast/69076.html

Albert Pike (pioneer teacher, lawyer, Boston)

http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/pike.html

http://www.geocities.com/stlaasr/albertpike.html

Edgar Allan Poe (writer, Boston)

http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/Bio.html

http://www.eapoe.org/geninfo/poechron.htm

http://www.eapoe.org/index.htm

Paul Revere (silversmith, Revolutionary War figure, Boston)

http://www.paulreverehouse.org/

http://earlyamerica.com/paul_revere.htm

Robert H. Rines (inventor, Boston)

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/122.html

http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/rines.html

Dr. Seuss Theodore Geisel (author, illustrator, Springfield)

http://www.seussville.com/

http://www.seuss.org/seuss/seuss.bio.html

Lucy Stone (woman suffragist, West Brookfield)

http://www.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/OYTT-images/LucyStone.html

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa062899.htm

Louis Henry Sullivan (architect, Boston)

http://www.artnet.com/library/08/0822/T082279.asp

http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Louis_H._Sullivan.html

http://www.archinform.net/arch/12.htm?ID=dOxKj1uYFt4RmeGl

Henry David Thoreau (author, Concord)

http://www.transcendentalists.com/1thorea.html

http://www.thoreau.niu.edu/

Max Tishler (inventor, Boston)

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/145.html

http://stills.nap.edu/html/biomems/mtishler.html

James McNeill Whistler (painter, Lowell)

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/whistler/

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/W/whistler.html

Eli Whitney (inventor, Westborough)

http://www.eliwhitney.org/

http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/152.html

John Greenleaf Whittier (poet, Haverhill)

http://www.bartleby.com/65/wh/WhittrJG.html

http://www.haverhillpl.org/Departments/special/jgwhittier.htm

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