| Famous Bay Staters 
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John Adams, 2nd President of the United States, Braintree.
John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States, Braintree.
Samuel Adams, Revolutionary patriot, Boston.
Jack Albertson, actor, Malden.
Horatio Alger, author, Revere.
Fred Allen, radio personality, Cambridge.
Susan B. Anthony, woman suffragist, Adams.
F. Lee Bailey,
criminal defense attorney, Waltham.
Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, Oxford.
Leonard Bernstein, conductor, Lawrence.
Forrest M. Bird, inventor, Stoughton.
Harold Stephen Black, inventor, Leominster.
Rachel Fuller Brown, inventor, Springfield.
William Cullen Bryant, poet, editor, Cummington.
Luther Burbank, horticulturalist, Lancaster.
George Bush, 41st President of the
United States, Milton.
Andrew H. Card, Jr., White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of
Transportation, Holbrook.
John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed, Leominster.
William D. Coolidge, inventor, Hudson.
John Singleton Copley, painter, Boston.
E.E. Cummings, poet, Cambridge.
Richard Henry Dana, adventurer, Cambridge.
Bette Davis, actress, Lowell.
Cecil B. DeMille, film director, Ashfield.
Emily Dickinson, poet, Amherst.
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
philosopher poet, Boston.
Brian Evans, singer, Haverhill.
Ann Smith Franklin,
printer, almanac publisher, Boston.
Benjamin Franklin, statesman, scientist, publisher, Boston.
Buckminster Fuller, architect, educator,
Milton.
Theodore Geisel, aka
Dr. Seuss, Springfield.
Robert Hutchings
Goddard, rocket
scientist, Worcester.
John Hancock,
statesman, Braintree.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, author, Salem.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet, Cambridge.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., jurist, Boston.
Winslow Homer, painter, Boston.
Elias Howe, inventor, Spencer.
Helen Hunt Jackson,
writer, Amherst.
John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the
United States, Brookline.
Amy Lowell, poet, Brookline.
Percival Lowell, astronomer, Boston.
James Russell Lowell, poet, Cambridge.
Robert Lowell, poet, Boston.
Horace Mann, educator,
Franklin.
Cotton Mather, clergyman, Boston.
Sharon Christa McAuliffe, teacher,
astronaut, Framingham.
Jo Dee Messina, country singer, Holliston.
Samuel F.B. Morse, painter, inventor, Charlestown.
William Thomas Green
Morton, first to use
ether as an anesthetic, Charlton.
Lucretia Coffin Mott, abolitionist and woman's rights advocate, Nantucket.
Leonard Nimoy, actor, Boston.
Albert Pike, teacher,
lawyer, Boston.
Edgar Allan Poe, writer, Boston.
Ella Raines, actress, Snoquaimie.
Paul Revere, silversmith, Revolutionary patriot, Boston.
Robert H. Rines, inventor, Boston.
Lucy Stone, woman suffragist, West Brookfield.
Louis Henry Sullivan, architect, Boston.
Henry David Thoreau,
author, Concord.
Max Tishler, inventor, Boston.
James McNeill
Whistler, painter, Lowell.
Eli Whitney, inventor, Westborough.
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