List of Famous people born in Massachusetts, United States of America
Makai Mason
Makai Mason is an American-German professional basketball player for Baxi Manresa of the Liga ACB. He played college basketball for the Yale Bulldogs and Baylor Bears.
Toby Fox
Toby Fox is an American video game developer and composer. He is best known for developing the games Undertale and Deltarune. He has also composed music for the webcomic Homestuck, as well as for the video games Hiveswap, Escaped Chasm, Little Town Hero, Pokémon Sword and Shield and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. He is also known online as FwugRadiation or as Toby "Radiation" Fox.
Pete Frates
The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, was an activity involving the pouring of a bucket of ice water over a person's head, either by another person or self-administered, to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and encourage donations to research. The challenge was co-founded by Pat Quinn and Pete Frates; it went viral on social media during July–August 2014. In the U.S., many people participated for the ALS Association, and in the UK, many people participated for the Motor Neurone Disease Association, although some individuals opted to donate their money from the Ice Bucket Challenge to other organizations.
Andrew Rubin
Andrew Harold Rubin was an American actor most known for his role of George Martín in Police Academy.
Allison Dale Burroughs
Allison Dale Burroughs is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Michele McPhee
Michele R. McPhee is an American author, talk radio host, and five-time Emmy nominated investigative journalist from Boston. McPhee also worked as columnist and correspondent to the Boston Herald, was the New England reporter for ABC News, and was a general assignment reporter with the television station WCVB. She now lives in Los Angeles writing screenplays, most recently for Showtime's City on a Hill, and has a HBO series in development based on her Newsweek cover story.
Michael Redstone
Michael Redstone was the founder of the Northeast Theater Corporation which is now National Amusements, Inc.
Seth Doane
Seth Doane is an American television journalist, working for CBS News.
BethAnn McLaughlin
BethAnn McLaughlin is a former assistant professor of neurology at Vanderbilt University. Her research at Vanderbilt focused on neural stress responses and brain injury. After being denied tenure in 2017, she sought to have the decision overturned. The decision to deny tenure was upheld, and her employment at Vanderbilt ended in July 2019.
Alan Kay
Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts. He is best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface (GUI) design.