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

Leonard Francis Penn was an American actor and director and the father of musician Michael Penn and actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn.

Lloyd Stowell Shapley was an American mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning economist. He contributed to the fields of mathematical economics and especially game theory. Shapley is generally considered one of the most important contributors to the development of game theory since the work of von Neumann and Morgenstern. With Alvin E. Roth, Shapley won the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design."

Paul Wahlberg is an American chef, actor and a reality TV star. With his brothers Mark and Donnie, he runs the dining burger restaurant and bar Wahlburgers and stars in the reality television show also titled Wahlburgers.

Theodore Lothrop Stoddard was an American historian, journalist, and political scientist. Stoddard wrote several books which advocated eugenics and scientific racism, including The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920). He advocated a racial hierarchy which he believed needed to be preserved through anti-miscegenation laws. Stoddard's books were once widely read both inside and outside the United States.

Dwight D. York, also known as Malachi Z. York, Issa Al Haadi Al Mahdi, Dr. York, et alii, is an American criminal, musician, and writer who is known as the founding leader of various religious/political groups, including most notably the United Nation of Nuwaubian Moors, a religious ministry/Native American tribe that has existed in some form since the 1960s. He is a convicted child molester.

Max Blumenthal is an American journalist, author, blogger, and filmmaker. Blumenthal established The Grayzone in December 2015; he is the website's editor and one of its contributors.

Maurice Roy Hurst Jr. is an American football defensive tackle for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Michigan.

James Patrick McGovern is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district since 1997. He is the Chair of the House Rules Committee and of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China as well as the Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 3rd district from 1997 to 2013, stretches from Worcester to the Pioneer Valley.

Susan Estrich is an American lawyer, professor, author, political operative, and political commentator. She is best known for serving in 2016 as legal counsel to the former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes.

Michael Edward O'Malley is an American actor and writer who has appeared in films and television series. Born in Boston and raised in New Hampshire, O'Malley hosted the early 1990s children's game show Nickelodeon Guts before moving to Los Angeles later that decade to star in his own sitcom for NBC called The Mike O'Malley Show. He is best known for his role as Jimmy Hughes on Yes, Dear, a CBS series which aired from 2000 to 2006. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role as Burt Hummel on the Fox series Glee.