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

William Adams Richardson was the 29th United States Secretary of the Treasury and later a Judge and Chief Justice of the Court of Claims.

Samuel Holten was an American physician and statesman from Danvers, Massachusetts. He represented Massachusetts as a delegate to the Continental Congress and as a member of the United States House of Representatives.

Philo Carpenter was Chicago, Illinois' first pharmacist, and an outspoken abolitionist.

Peter Mamakos was an American film and television actor.

Caleb Cushing was an American Democratic politician and diplomat who served as a Congressman from Massachusetts and Attorney General under President Franklin Pierce. He was an eager proponent of territorial and commercial expansion, especially regarding the acquisition of Texas, Oregon and Cuba. He believed that enlarging the American sphere would fulfill "the great destiny reserved for this exemplar American Republic." Cushing secured the first American treaty with China, the Treaty of Wangxia of 1844; it gave American merchants trading rights in five Chinese ports. After the Civil War, Cushing negotiated a treaty with Colombia to give the United States a right-of-way for a trans-oceanic Canal. He helped obtain a favorable settlement of the Alabama Claims, and as the ambassador to Spain in 1870s defused the troublesome Virginius Affair.

Nathaniel Prentice Banks was an American politician from Massachusetts and a Union general during the Civil War.

Franklin Swift Billings was an American businessman and politician from Woodstock, Vermont. He served as the 53rd Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1923 to 1925 and as the 60th Governor of Vermont from 1925 to 1927.

Benjamin Winslow Harris was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer and judge from Massachusetts. He was the father of Robert Orr Harris.

Louis Adams Frothingham was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.

Joseph Bradley Varnum was a U.S. politician of the Democratic-Republican Party from Massachusetts. He served as a U.S. Representative and United States Senator, and held leadership positions in both bodies.