List of Famous people born in Massachusetts, United States of America

Granville Stanley Hall was a pioneering American psychologist and educator. His interests focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory. Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association and the first president of Clark University. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Hall as the 72nd most cited psychologist of the 20th century, in a tie with Lewis Terman.

William Franklin Knox was an American politician, newspaper editor and publisher. He was also the Republican vice presidential candidate in 1936, and Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D. Roosevelt during most of World War II. On December 7, 1941, Knox flanked by his assistant John O’Keefe walked into Roosevelt's White House study at approximately 1:30 p.m. EST announcing that Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor. Knox was mentioned by name in Adolf Hitler's speech of December 11, 1941, in which Hitler asked for a German declaration of war against the United States.

Dudley Murphy was an American film director.

Deborah Forte is an American producer of family television series and movies, websites and digital media including Clifford the Big Red Dog, The Magic School Bus, the series Goosebumps, Sony's films Goosebumps and Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, Horrible Histories, Dragon, WordGirl, Maya & Miguel, I Spy, The Baby-Sitters Club, The Golden Compass, Astroblast, and JoJo's Circus. She created Scholastic Media, a division of Scholastic Inc. She is the founder of Silvertongue Films and under that banner is currently producing a television adaptation of His Dark Materials. She is attached to produce The 39 Clues and Spirit Animals for Universal and Clifford the Big Red Dog for Paramount. Her productions have won six Emmys, one Academy Award, the Humanitas Prize, and the Annenberg Public Policy Center Award for Outstanding Educational Program on a Commercial Broadcast Station.

Edward Davis Jones was a U.S. statistician and journalist. Jones is best known as the "Jones" in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and as a founder of The Wall Street Journal.

Edward Robinson was an American writer and authority on art.

Fay Roope was a Harvard graduate and a character actor who appeared in American theater in New York City from the 1920s through 1950, and in American film and television from 1949 through 1961.

Frederic Ward Putnam was an American anthropologist.

Frederick William Lander was a transcontinental United States explorer, general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and a prolific poet.

Henry Durant was the founding president of the University of California.