- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century. - Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams was an American statesman, politician, writer and political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Adams was instrumental in garnering the support of the colonies for rebellion against Great Britain, eventually resulting in the American Revolution, and was also one of the key architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped American political culture. - Edward Everett
Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 - January 15, 1865) was a Whig Party politician from Massachusetts. Everett was elected to the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate, and also served as President of Harvard University, United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Britain, … - Charles Bulfinch
Charles Bulfinch was an early American architect, and regarded by many as the first native-born American to practice architecture as a profession. That distinction is also claimed for Robert Mills. Bulfinch split his career between his native Boston and Washington, D.C., where he served as Commissioner of Public Building and built the original rotunda and dome of the U.S. Capitol. His works are notable for their simplicity, balance, and good taste, … - Sumner Redstone
Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein on May 27 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts) is majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, he is majority owner of Midway Games, Viacom and CBS Corporation. - Robert Treat Paine
Robert Treat Paine (March 11, 1731-May 11, 1814) was a signer of the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Massachusetts. He was born in Boston and attended the Boston Latin School. He graduated from Harvard College in 1749, then taught school and studied theology. He became a merchant and traveled to the southern colonies, Spain, the Azores and England. He returned home and was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts in 1757 or 1759, … - William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing (June 10, 1818-December 23, 1901) was a Transcendentalist poet, nephew of the Unitarian preacher Dr. William Ellery Channing. (His namesake uncle was usually known as "Dr. Channing," while the nephew was commonly called "Ellery Channing," in print.) The younger Ellery Channing was thought brilliant but undisciplined by many of his contemporaries. Amos Bronson Alcott famously said of him in 1871, "Whim, thy name is Channing." Nevertheless, … - Nat Hentoff
Nat Hentoff contributes regularly to Village Voice and The Wall Street Journal . Among other publications in which his work has appeared are The New York Times , The New Republic , Commonwealth , The Atlantic , and The New Yorker , where he was a staff writer for more than 25 years. - Arthur Fiedler
Arthur Fiedler (December 17, 1894 - July 10, 1979) was the long-time conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, a symphony orchestra that specialized in popular music. With a combination of musicianship and showmanship, he made the Pops the best-known orchestra in the country. Some criticized him for watering down music, particularly when adapting popular songs or edited portions of the classical repertoire, but Fiedler deliberately kept performances informal, light, … - Thomas Cushing
Thomas Cushing (March 24, 1725 - February 28, 1788) was an American lawyer and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts. He was a delegate for Massachusetts in the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776, and Lt. Governor of the state from 1780 to 1788. Between the resignation of John Hancock and the inauguration of James Bowdoin, he served as Acting Governor of Massachusetts in 1785. Thomas was born into a prosperous and leading mercantile family of Boston. - James Bowdoin
James Bowdoin (August 7, 1726 - November 6, 1790) was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts during the American Revolution. He served in both the colonial council (senate) and house and was President of the state's constitutional convention. After independence he was governor of Massachusetts. His grandfather "(Pierre Boudouin)" was a Huguenot refugee from France. Pierre took his family first to Ireland, then to Portland, Maine, … - John Lothrop Motley
John Lothrop Motley was an American historian. The son of Thomas Motley, he was born at Dorchester (now a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts), attended the Round Hill School, Boston Latin School, and graduated from Harvard in 1831. His boyhood was in Dedham, near the site of the present day Noble and Greenough School. He then studied at Göttingen, where he became a friend of Otto von Bismarck, and afterwards at Frederick William University, Berlin. - William Eustis
William Eustis was an early American statesman. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and studied at the Boston Latin School before he entered Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1772. He studied medicine under Dr. Joseph Warren and helped care for the wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill, where Warren was killed. He served the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War as surgeon of the artillery regiment at Cambridge and then as a hospital surgeon. - Samuel Pierpont Langley
Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22 1834, Roxbury, Massachusetts (near Boston) - February 27 1906, Aiken, South Carolina) was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation. He graduated from Boston Latin School, was an assistant in the Harvard College Observatory, then became chair of mathematics at the United States Naval Academy. - Robert Charles Winthrop
Robert Charles Winthrop (May 12, 1809 - November 16, 1894) was an American philanthropist and one time Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Thomas Lindall Winthrop (1760-1841) and Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple (1769-1825), attended the prestigious Boston Latin School, and graduated from Harvard University in 1828. On March 12, 1832, he married Elizabeth Cabot Blanchard (1809-1842), with whom he had three children. - James Lloyd
James Lloyd (December, 1769-April 5, 1831) was a Federalist United States Senator from Massachusetts during the early years of the United States. Born in Suffolk County, Lloyd attended Boston Latin School and Harvard College, graduating in 1787. A merchant by trade, he was a Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1800-01 and served in the Massachusetts Senate in 1804. In 1808, upon the resignation of Senator John Quincy Adams, … - William Hooper
William Hooper (June 28, 1742-October 14, 1790), was an American political leader from North Carolina who signed the United States Declaration of Independence. Hooper was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of William Hooper who emigrated from Scotland after studying at the University of Edinburgh. William Hooper senior was minister at Trinity Church in Boston and entered his son into Boston Latin School. - Andrew Viterbi
Andrew James Viterbi, Ph.D. (born March 9, 1935) is an Italian-American electrical engineer and businessman. Viterbi was born in Bergamo, Italy to Jewish parents and emigrated with them in 1939 to the United States as a refugee. His original name was Andrea, but when he was naturalized in the US, his parents changed it to "Andrew", since "Andrea" is a female name in many English-speaking countries. - John King
John King (born August 31,1964) is an American journalist. In 1985, King joined the Associated Press where he began as a writer. In 1987 he broke the story that a juror in the case of Benjamin LaGuer, an inmate proclaiming his innocence, accused other members of the panel of uttering racist remarks before and during deliberations. - Mitchell Kertzman
Mitchell Kertzman is a venture capitalist with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, and former CEO of Sybase, Powersoft, and Liberate Technologies. - Francis James Child
Francis James Child (February 1, 1825-September 11, 1896), was an American scholar and educationist, and collector of what came to be known as the Child Ballads. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he attended Boston Latin School and graduated from Harvard in 1846, topping his class in all subjects. He was tutor in mathematics in 1846-1848; and in 1848 was transferred to a tutorship in history, political economy and English literature. - Edward Charles Pickering
Edward Charles Pickering was an American astronomer and physicist, brother of William Henry Pickering. Along with Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars. He wrote "Elements of Physical Manipulations (2 vol., 1873-76)". Pickering attended Boston Latin School, and received his B.S. from Harvard in 1865. Later, he served as director of Harvard College Observatory from 1877 to his death in 1919, … - Frank M. Snowden Jr.
Frank M. Snowden, Jr. (July 17, 1911 - February 18, 2007), was an American Professor Emeritus of Classics at Howard University, and one of the foremost authorities on blacks in classical antiquity. Snowden was born in York County, Virginia. His father was an Army colonel. He graduated from Boston Latin School and earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. He taught classics at Georgetown University, Vassar College, and Mary Washington College. - John Leverett
John Leverett (1616 - March 16, 1679) was a colonial magistrate, merchant, soldier and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. John Leverett was born, perhaps, in Boston, Lincolnshire where he is thought to have been educated at Boston Grammar School before emigrating to Boston, Massachusetts with his father in 1633, where he was educated at the Boston Latin School. Though he was enjoying considerable commercial success in the colonies, … - Christopher Gore
Christopher Gore (September 21 1758 - March 1 1827) was a prominent Massachusetts lawyer, Federalist politician, and diplomat. Gore was born in Boston in 1758, the tenth of thirteen children of Frances and John Gore, a successful merchant and artisan. He attended Boston Latin School and graduated from Harvard College in 1776, and served in the Continental Army as a clerk with an artillery regiment. - Samuel Francis Smith
Samuel Francis Smith (21 October, 1808 - 16 November, 1895) wrote the lyrics to "America". Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Smith was educated at the Eliot School, Boston Latin School, Harvard College (now Harvard University), and Andover Theological Seminary. It was at Andover that he wrote the song "America", and the house he lived in is now a Phillips Academy dormitory (called America House, or A-House) He attended Harvard from 1825 to 1829, … - Henry Lee Higginson
Henry Lee Higginson (November 18, 1834 - November 14, 1919) was a noted American businessman and philanthropist, and founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Higginson was born in New York City, the second child of George and Mary (Cabot Lee) Higginson, and a cousin of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. When he was four years old, his family moved to Boston. He graduated from Boston Latin School in 1851, and began studies at Harvard College. - Justin Winsor
Justin Winsor (January 2, 1831-October 22, 1897) was a prominent American writer, librarian, and historian. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from the Boston Latin School. He entered Harvard, but left early to study in Paris and Heidelberg. He did finally receive his degree in 1853. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. - Edward Lawrence Logan
Edward Lawrence Logan, B.A., LL.B. (b. January 20 1875, Boston - d. July 6 1939, Boston) was an American militia officer and jurist. General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport in Boston is named in his honor. Logan was born in South Boston to a military family, and attended Boston Latin School and Harvard University. After his graduation in 1897, Logan enlisted in the 9th Infantry of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, in which he rapidly advanced. - Wade H. McCree
Wade Hampton McCree, Jr. (July 3, 1920 - August 30, 1987) was the first African American judge appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit and the second African American solicitor general in the history of the United States. McCree was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and attended Boston Latin School. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and graduated "summa cum laude" from Fisk University in 1941. After a four-year stint in the Army during World War II, … - Clifton Sprague
Vice Admiral Clifton Albert Frederick ("Ziggy") Sprague was a World War II-era officer in the U.S. Navy. Sprague was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and attended the Boston Latin School, and the United States Naval Academy in June 1914 where he was given the nickname “Ziggy”. Due to the American involvement in World War 1 he received his commission as an Ensign one year early on June 28, 1917, finishing forty-third out of 199. - Barry Newman
Barry Foster Newman (born November 7 1938), is an American actor best known for the character "Kowalski" in the cult classic film "Vanishing Point" in which he plays a pill-popping outlaw/hero driving a supercharged, white 1970 Dodge Challenger. He is also known for his television character Anthony Petrocelli on the crime-drama "Petrocelli", for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. Newman was born in Boston, Massachusetts. - Samuel Langdon
Samuel Langdon (January 12, 1723 - November 29, 1797) was a U.S. Congregational clergyman and educator. After serving as pastor in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he was appointed president of Harvard University in 1774. He held that post until 1780. He was the founder of Girls' High School, Kandy in Sri Lanka. He is famous in Sri Lanka because of that Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1723, Langdon attended Boston Latin School and graduated from Harvard in 1740. - Charles Francis Adams Sr.
Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (August 18, 1807 - November 21, 1886), the son of President John Quincy Adams and Louisa Catherine Johnson-Adams and the grandson of President John Adams and Abigail Adams, was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer. He was born in Boston, and attended Boston Latin School and Harvard College, where he graduated in 1825. He then studied law with Daniel Webster, and practiced in Boston. - Orson Bean
Orson Bean (born July 22, 1928) is an American film, television, and stage actor, as well as an author. In addition to his acting career, which began in 1952, he is also known for his numerous appearances on a variety of game shows in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Born Dallas Frederick Burroughs in Burlington, Vermont), he is a second cousin to Calvin Coolidge, who was President of the United States at the time of his birth. - Richard Saltonstall Greenough
Richard Saltonstall Greenough was an American sculptor and younger brother to Neoclassical sculptor Horatio Greenough. Greenough was born in Boston, the youngest child of Elisabeth (Bender) and David Greenough (1774–1836). He was educated at the Boston Latin School, class of 1829. At age 17 he followed his brother in a career in sculpture, and in 1837 left for Italy where he belonged to the second generation of American expatriate artists. - Jack O'Callahan
Jack O'Callahan (born July 24, 1957) is a former ice hockey player who was a defenseman on the 1980 Winter Olympics United States national team that upset the Soviet Union in the famous "Miracle on Ice" game. O'Callahan is a native of Charlestown, Massachusetts. He graduated from Boston Latin School in 1975 and then attended Boston University from 1975-1979, where he was a team captain during the 1977-78 and 1978-79 seasons and was named All-East twice, … - Clifton Reginald Wharton Jr.
Clifton Reginald Wharton, Jr. (born September 13 1926) is an American economist and corporate executive appointed United States Deputy Secretary of State during the Clinton Administration. Born in Boston, his father Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr. was a noted ambassador. After graduating from Boston Latin School, the younger Wharton entered Harvard College at 16. - Jonathan Mason
Jonathan Mason (September 12, 1756-November 1, 1831) was a Federalist United States Senator and Representative from Massachusetts during the early years of the United States. Mason was born in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He attended Boston Latin School the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), graduating in 1774. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1779, he was a Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1786 to 1796. - Ed Ames
Ed Ames (born Edmund Dantes Urick on July 9, 1927) is an American popular singer and actor. He is best known for his Pop and Adult Contemporary hits of the 1960s like "When the Snow Is On the Roses". He also was originally part of a popular singing group of 1950s called The Ames Brothers.
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