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

Abbott Lawrence Lowell was an American educator and legal scholar. He was President of Harvard University from 1909 to 1933.

James M. Wahlberg is an American activist, speaker, director, producer, and writer.

John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst, was a British lawyer and politician. He was three times Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.

Peter Chardon Brooks Adams was an American historian, political scientist and a critic of capitalism.

Theodore Dwight was an American lawyer and journalist. He was the brother of Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College, and the grandson of Jonathan Edwards. He was a distinguished lawyer, a leader of the Federalist Party, and a member of Congress in 1806–1807, and was secretary of the Hartford Convention in 1814–1815.

Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne was an American painter and illustrator as well as the wife of author Nathaniel Hawthorne. She also published her journals and various articles.

Abigail "Nabby" Amelia Adams Smith was the daughter of Abigail and John Adams, founding father and second President of the United States, and the sister of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States. She was named for her mother.

Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist who wrote The Magicians Trilogy: The Magicians (2009), The Magician King (2011), and The Magician's Land (2014). He was the book critic and lead technology writer at Time magazine from 2002 to 2016.

Godfrey Lowell Cabot was an American industrialist who founded the Cabot Corporation.

Livingston Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician. Born in Boston and raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, he is the brother of singer-songwriter James Taylor, singer-songwriter Kate Taylor, singer Alex Taylor, and innkeeper and singer Hugh Taylor. Taylor is most notable for his Billboard hits "I Will Be In Love With You", "First Time Love", and "I’ll Come Running".