List of Famous people born in Massachusetts, United States of America
Joachim Pfeufer
William McVey
William Mozart McVey was an American sculptor, animalier and teacher.
Robert Treat Paine
Robert Treat Paine was an American lawyer and politician, best known as a signer of the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Massachusetts. He served as the state's first attorney general, and served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court. Paine was also a founding member of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and had always opposed slavery.
Clarence Irving Lewis
Clarence Irving Lewis, usually cited as C. I. Lewis, was an American academic philosopher and the founder of conceptual pragmatism. First a noted logician, he later branched into epistemology, and during the last 20 years of his life, he wrote much on ethics. The New York Times memorialized him as "a leading authority on symbolic logic and on the philosophic concepts of knowledge and value."
Gardiner Greene Hubbard
Gardiner Greene Hubbard was an American lawyer, financier, and community leader.
Ryan Sypek
Ryan Sypek is an American actor and real estate broker.
Thomas Reilly
Thomas Francis Reilly is an American attorney and politician who served as the 45th Massachusetts Attorney General. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts to Irish immigrant parents.
Bill Keating
William Richard Keating is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 9th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he first entered Congress in 2011, representing Massachusetts's 10th congressional district until redistricting. Keating's district currently includes Cape Cod and most of the South Coast. He raised his profile advocating for criminal justice issues in both houses of the Massachusetts General Court (1977–1999) before becoming District Attorney (DA) of Norfolk County where he served three terms prior to his congressional tenure.
Lew Rockwell
Llewellyn Harrison Rockwell Jr. is an American author, editor, and political consultant. A libertarian and a self-professed anarcho-capitalist, he founded and is the chairman of the Mises Institute, a non-profit dedicated to promoting the Austrian School of economics.
George Hamilton Pearce
The Most Reverend George Hamilton Pearce, SM, DD was the first Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Apia, Samoa, and the first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Suva, Fiji.