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

Thomas Ball was an American sculptor and musician. His work has had a marked influence on monumental art in the United States, especially in New England.

Edward Emerson Simmons (1852-1931) was an American Impressionist painter, remembered for his mural work.

Henry Billings Brown was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 29 December 1890 to 28 May 1906. A respected lawyer and U.S. District Judge in Detroit, Michigan, before ascending to the high court, Brown authored hundreds of opinions in his 31 years as a federal judge, including the majority opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, which upheld the legality of racial segregation in public transportation and implicitly provided approval for the system of Jim Crow laws until Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska. He described many mollusks of the Pacific Northwest of America, and was for many years America's preeminent authority on living and fossil mollusks.

George Holden Tinkham was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Massachusetts.

Shearjashub Bourne was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Massachusetts who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and United States House of Representatives.

Wilhelm Reinhard Berger was a German composer, pianist and conductor.

John Francis "Shano" Collins was an American right fielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox.

Grafton Dulany Cushing was an American teacher, lawyer and politician who served as 45th Lieutenant Governor for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1915 to 1916.

Evelyn Ellis was an American character actress of stage and film. Devoting herself to the theatre, her film roles were few, but she appeared in films including The Joe Louis Story and The Lady from Shanghai. Toward the end of her career, Miss Ellis, as she was called, also directed a few theater plays. The Baltimore Afro American newspaper in its issue in October 26, 1929, described her as a “quiet and unassuming young lady with a very charming personality".