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

Michael Crawford Chapman, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer and film director well known for his work on many films of the American New Wave of the 1970s and in the 1980s with directors such as Martin Scorsese and Ivan Reitman. He shot more than forty feature films and of those movies on over half he worked with only three different directors.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. Noted for his long service, concise and pithy opinions, and deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is one of the most widely cited United States Supreme Court justices in history, particularly for opinions on civil liberties and American constitutional democracy, and is one of the most influential American common law judges, honored during his lifetime in Great Britain as well as the United States. Holmes retired from the court at the age of 90, an unbeaten record for oldest justice in the federal Supreme Court. He previously served as an Associate Justice and as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and was Weld Professor of Law at his alma mater, Harvard Law School.

Esteban Carpio is an American convicted prison inmate, serving a life sentence for the murder of a policeman in 2005.

Nathan Irving Hentoff was an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media. Hentoff was a columnist for The Village Voice from 1958 to 2009. Following his departure from The Village Voice, Hentoff became a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and continued writing his music column for The Wall Street Journal, which published his works until his death. He often wrote on First Amendment issues, vigorously defending the freedom of the press.

Cid (Sidney) Corman was an American poet, translator and editor, most notably of Origin, who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century.

Jermaine Wiggins is a former American football tight end. He played college football at Georgia, and signed with the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 1999.

Junius Spencer Morgan I was an American banker and financier as well as the father of John Pierpont "J.P." Morgan. He founded J. S. Morgan & Co. along with George Peabody.

Alex B. Morse is an American politician serving as the 44th and current mayor of Holyoke since 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, at age 22, he was elected the youngest mayor of Holyoke. He has been reelected three times; his current term expires in January 2022, after which he plans to retire.

David Chokachi is an American film and television actor. He is known for his role in the TV series Witchblade, Baywatch, and Beyond The Break.

Cass Robert Sunstein FBA is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics. He is also The New York Times best-selling author of The World According to Star Wars (2016) and Nudge (2008). He was the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012.