List of Famous people born in Massachusetts, United States of America
Jonathan Tucker
Jonathan Moss Tucker is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the films The Virgin Suicides (1999), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), Hostage (2005), In the Valley of Elah (2007), The Ruins (2008), and Charlie's Angels (2019). He has appeared in the television series The Black Donnellys (2007), Parenthood (2011–2013), Kingdom (2014–2017), Justified (2015), Snowfall (2018), Westworld (2018), and City on a Hill.
Maria Cole
Maria Cole was an American jazz singer and the wife of singer Nat King Cole; mother of the singer Natalie Cole.
T. J. Thyne
Thomas Joseph Thyne is an American actor, best known for his role in Bones as Dr. Jack Hodgins, an entomologist, mineralogist, and botanist.
Bruce McCandless II
Bruce McCandless II was a United States Navy officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut. In 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, he completed the first untethered spacewalk by using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
Sarah Bloom Raskin
Sarah Bloom Raskin is an American attorney and regulator, who was formerly a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and a former United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. Previously, she served as Maryland Commissioner of Financial Regulation and as a Managing Director at the Promontory Financial Group. She is a Rubenstein Fellow at Duke University.
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was the wife and closest advisor of John Adams, as well as the mother of John Quincy Adams. She is sometimes considered to have been a Founder of the United States, and is now designated as the first Second Lady and second First Lady of the United States, although these titles were not used at the time. She and Barbara Bush are the only two women to be married to one U.S. president and the mother of another.
Sam Mewis
Samantha June Mewis is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for English FA WSL team Manchester City and the United States national team. She played college soccer for the UCLA Bruins. Her club career started in 2013 when she signed with Pali Blues of the W-League and she has since won three NWSL Championship titles with Western New York Flash and North Carolina Courage.
Dave Gettleman
David Alan Gettleman is an American football executive who is the Senior Vice President and general manager for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He was previously the general manager of the Carolina Panthers.
Tom Long
Tom Long was an Australian film and television actor. He played court official and avid surfer Angus in the late 1990s TV series SeaChange and Brenden Abbott in the 2003 Australian TV movie The Postcard Bandit.
Christopher G. Kennedy
Christopher George Kennedy is an American businessman, politician, and Chair of Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises, Inc. He is a son of former U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a member of the Kennedy family. Kennedy served as Chair of the Board of Trustees for the University of Illinois from 2009 to 2015. Until April 2012, he was also president of Merchandise Mart Properties, a commercial property management firm based in Chicago.