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

Arthur Gordon Webster was an American physicist who founded the American Physical Society.

Arthur William Foote was an American classical composer, and a member of the "Boston Six." The other five were George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Edward MacDowell, John Knowles Paine, and Horatio Parker.

Oliver Ditson was an American businessman and founder of Oliver Ditson and Company, one of the major music publishing houses of the late 19th century.

Richard Olney was an American statesman.

Lawrence Joseph Henderson was a physiologist, chemist, biologist, philosopher, and sociologist. He became one of the leading biochemists of the early 20th century. His work contributed to the Henderson–Hasselbalch equation, used to calculate pH as a measure of acidity.

William Jonathan Humphrey was an American actor and film director.

Tom O'Rourke was born in Boston and became a boxing manager in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Winthrop Murray Crane was a U.S. political figure and businessman.

William Eustis Russell was a lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He served four terms as mayor of Cambridge, and was the 37th Governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1891 to 1894. He was the state's youngest ever chief executive, and was the first Democrat since the American Civil War to serve more than one term in that office.

Joseph Francis O'Connell was an American lawyer, academic, and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Boston, Massachusetts from 1907 to 1911.