List of Famous people born in Massachusetts, United States of America
Mark Mitchell
Mark Mitchell is an American retired competitive figure skater. He is a three-time medalist at the United States Figure Skating Championships and placed as high as fourth at the World Figure Skating Championships. He currently works as a coach and choreographer in Boston with Peter Johansson.
Josiah P. Cooke
Josiah Parsons Cooke was an American scientist who worked at Harvard University and was instrumental in the measurement of atomic weights, inspiring America's first Nobel laureate in chemistry, Theodore Richards, to pursue similar research. Cooke's 1854 paper on atomic weights has been said to foreshadow the periodic law developed later by Mendeleev and others. Historian I. Bernard Cohen described Cooke "as the first university chemist to do truly distinguished work in the field of chemistry" in the United States.
Milton Selzer
Milton Selzer was an American stage, film, and television actor.
Maurice Hurley
Maurice Hurley was an American screenwriter and producer known best for his work on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
David Ian Salter
David Ian Salter is an American film editor whose credits include Toy Story 2 (1999), Finding Nemo (2003), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015), and The Addams Family (2019).
Nathan Blecharczyk
Nathan "Nate" Blecharczyk is an American billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder and chief strategy officer of Airbnb, and chairman of Airbnb China. Blecharczyk was also the company's first chief technology officer.
Murvyn Vye
Marvin Wesley Vye Jr. was an American character actor.
Alexander Hall
Alexander Hall was an American film director, film editor and theatre actor.
Joseph E. Levine
Joseph Edward Levine was an American film producer. At the time of his death it was said he was involved in 497 films as a producer, distributor or financier. Levine was responsible for the US releases of Godzilla, King of the Monsters!; Attila; and Hercules, which helped revolutionize US film marketing. Other films produced included Two Women, Contempt, The 10th Victim, Marriage Italian Style, The Lion in Winter, The Producers, The Graduate, The Night Porter, A Bridge Too Far and Carnal Knowledge.
Allen Danziger
Allen Danziger is an American former actor, best known for his role as Jerry in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).