- John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy , also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, or JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of the United States. In 1960 he became the youngest person ever to be elected President of the United States, and the second youngest, after Theodore Roosevelt, to serve. Kennedy served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. - Paul Revere
Paul Revere (bap. December 22, 1734 (OS) / January 1 1735 (NS) - May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. Because he was immortalized after his death for his role as a messenger in the battles of Lexington and Concord, Revere's name and his "midnight ride" are well-known in the United States as a patriotic symbol. In his lifetime, Revere was a prosperous and prominent Boston craftsman, … - John Adams
John Adams (1704 - January 1740), was an American poet. Adams was the only son of Hon. John Adams (merchant) of Nova Scotia, and he graduated from Harvard University in 1721. He joined the ministry of the Congregational Church at Newport, Rhode Island, on April 11 1728, in opposition to the wishes of Mr. Clap, who was pastor there. Clap's friends formed a new society, and Adams was dismissed in about two years. Adams was distinguished for his intellect and piety. - Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (April 17 1790) was one of the most critical Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, political theorist, politician, printer, scientist, inventor, civic activist, environmentalist, and diplomat. As a scientist he was a major figure in the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As a political writer and activist he, more than anyone, invented the idea of an American nation, … - Free
Marie Wright aka (Free) aka (Marie Antoinette) is an African-American rapper and singer. She is also a former radio D.J. at KKBT 100.3 The Beat music station in Los Angeles,CA. - Ted Kennedy
Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (born February 22, 1932) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. In office since November 1962, Kennedy is presently the second-longest serving member of the Senate, after Robert Byrd of West Virginia. The most prominent living member of the Kennedy family, he is the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both of whom were assassinated in the 1960s. - 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. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century. - Peter Gammons
Peter Gammons (born April 9 1945) is a sportswriter, media personality and a National Baseball Hall of Fame honoree. - Michael Bloomberg
Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and the founder of Bloomberg L.P., currently serving as the Mayor of New York City. He was a general partner at Salomon Brothers before founding the financial software service company in 1981. Although a lifelong Democrat, he ran on the Republican ballot and was elected mayor in 2001, and was reelected to a second term in 2005. - John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams Secretary of State, - Malcolm X
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965), also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an American Black Muslim minister and spokesman for the Nation of Islam. After leaving the Nation of Islam in 1964, he went on a pilgrimage to Mecca and became a Sunni Muslim; he also founded the Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. - Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre. Poe died at the age of 40. - Dan Shaughnessy
Dan Shaughnessy is a sports columnist and reporter for "The Boston Globe" as well as a best selling author and television and radio sports personality. Shaughnessy grew up in Groton, Massachusetts is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. - Barbara Walters
Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American journalist, writer and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows ("Today" and "The View"), evening news magazine ("20/20"), and on "The ABC Evening News", as the first female evening news anchor. Walters was first known as a popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBC's "Today", … - Manny Delcarmen
Manuel (Manny) Delcarmen (born February 16, 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States) is a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the Boston Red Sox. A graduate of West Roxbury High School, where he was the salutatorian, Delcarmen was a second-round draft pick by Boston in 2000; he was the first draftee from a Boston public high school in 34 years and made his debut with the Red Sox on July 27, 2005. - Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, also called RFK, was one of two younger brothers of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and served as United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964. He was one of President Kennedy's most trusted advisors and worked closely with the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis. His contribution to the African-American Civil Rights Movement is sometimes considered his greatest legacy. - Mark Wahlberg
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5 1971) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, and television producer. Also known as Marky Mark in his earlier days, he had become famous in his debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He also enjoyed great fame as a sought-after advertising icon. - John Winthrop
John Winthrop was the 2nd Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Harvard College. He was a distinguished mathematician, physicist and astronomer, born in Boston, Mass. His great-great-grandfather, also named John Winthrop, was founder of the Massachusetts Bay colony. He graduated in 1732 at Harvard, where, from 1738 until his death he was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy. - Peter Faneuil
Peter Faneuil (June 20 1700 - March 3 1743) was a wealthy American colonial merchant and philanthropist who donated Faneuil Hall to Boston. The eldest child of one of three Huguenot brothers who fled France with considerable wealth after the 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Peter Faneuil was born in New Rochelle, New York to Benjamin Faneuil and Anne Bureau. Having emigrated to America about a decade earlier and become freemen of Massachusetts Bay in 1691, … - Carl Pavano
Carl Pavano, born on January 8, 1976 in New Britain, Connecticut into an Italian-American family, is a pitcher for the New York Yankees. Pavano is able to throw a sinker along with a fastball, a slider, and a changeup. - Red Auerbach
Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach (September 20 1917 - October 28 2006) was a highly successful and influential basketball coach of the BAA Washington Nationals, the NBA Tri-Cities Blackhawks and the NBA Boston Celtics. In the closing stages of his career, he worked as a front office executive and president of the Celtics until his death. As a coach, the son of an Russian Jewish immigrant won 938 games, a record at his retirement, and won nine titles with the Celtics, … - William Dawes
William Dawes, Jr. (April 5, 1745 - February 25, 1799) was one of the three men who alerted colonial minutemen of the approach of British army troops prior to the Battle of Lexington and Concord at the outset of the American Revolution. - Bobby Brown
Robert Berisford "Bobby" Brown (born February 5, 1969) is an American Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, songwriter, and dancer. Brown began his career with the popular boy band New Edition in 1980 but was later ousted from the group due to behavioral problems. He embarked on a solo career in 1986 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits. Brown is the ex-husband of R&B singer Whitney Houston and the star of his own reality show, "Being Bobby Brown" on Bravo. - Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 - February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, "The Bell Jar", under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, detailing her struggle with depression. Along with Anne Sexton, Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry that Robert Lowell and W.D. Snodgrass initiated. - Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann (born September 8, 1960) is an American rock guitarist, bassist, singer, and noted songwriter. - Samuel Sewall
Samuel Sewall (b. December 11 1757, Boston, Massachusetts - June 8 1814 Wiscasset) was an American lawyer. He represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House and later served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. His great-grandfather Samuel Sewall was a judge at the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts, and subsequently Chief Justice of Massachusetts. - Rob Zombie
Robert Bartleh Cummings (born), better known as Rob Zombie, is an American heavy metal, groove metal and industrial rock musician, director, and writer. His dreadlocks, gruff vocal style and fascination with horror movies have helped him become a distinctive element in American heavy metal. He is best known as founder, lead singer and songwriter for White Zombie. - Donna Summer
Donna Summer (born LaDonna Adrian Gaines, on December 31, 1948) is a legendary American singer, songwriter, and artist, best known for a string of dance hits in the 1970s that earned her the title "Queen of Disco" and as one of the few disco-based artists to have longevity on the charts into the late-1980s. Though she's notable for her disco hits, Summer's repertoire has expanded to include R&B, soul, funk, rock, pop and gospel. - James Spader
James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American actor best known for his eccentric roles in movies such as "sex, lies, and videotape" (for which he won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival), "Stargate", and "Secretary", as well as his role as the lead character in the TV series "Boston Legal". - Josiah Quincy
Josiah Quincy (b. October 15 1859 - d. September 8 1919) was an American politician from Massachusetts who served as mayor of Boston from 1895 to 1899. His father, Josiah Quincy, Jr., and grandfather, Josiah Quincy III, also served as mayor of Boston. - Carlton Fisk
Carlton Ernest Fisk (born December 26, 1947 in Bellows Falls, Vermont) is a former Major League Baseball catcher who played for 24 years with the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox. Although born in Vermont, Fisk is quick to point out that he is actually from Charlestown, New Hampshire, just across the Connecticut River from Bellows Falls, Vermont. This being the case, Fisk graduated from Charlestown High School, … - 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, … - Frank Black
Frank Black (born Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV on April 6, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Active since 1985, Black is best known as the frontman of the influential alternative rock band Pixies, where he performed under the stage name Black Francis. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career under his current pseudonym. - Doug Flutie
Douglas Richard "Doug" Flutie (born October 23, 1962) is an American former professional gridiron football player in the National Football League (American football) and Canadian Football League (Canadian football). Within the United States, he is perhaps best known for his career at Boston College and for the Boston College v. Miami game on November 23, 1984, in which his "Hail Mary" pass won the game for BC 47-45. - Francis Ford
Francis J.W. Ford was born in Boston on December 23, 1882 and died on May 26, 1975 at the age of 93. Ford was a U.S. District Court Judge in Boston from 1933 to 1972, after serving briefly as senior judge during his final year of service. (NY Times, 5-28-1975.) The sculptor Kahlil Gibran was commissioned to create a bronze bas relief of Ford in 1977, which was placed in the John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse in Boston. A dedication was held on November 7, 1977. - Thomas Hutchinson
Thomas Hutchinson (September 9 1711 - June 3 1780) was the American colonial governor of Massachusetts from 1771 to 1774 and a prominent Loyalist in the years before the American Revolutionary War. For many years he had worked on a history of the commonwealth compiling original manuscripts and source materials. He published his history of Massachusets in England after he left the colony in 1774 when its government was temporarily turned over to General Gage. - Mo Vaughn
Maurice Samuel 'Mo' Vaughn (born December 15, 1967 in Norwalk, Connecticut), nicknamed "Hit Dog", (a nickname given to him by his Omega Psi Phi fraternity brothers at Seton Hall University) was a Major League Baseball first baseman from 1991 to 2003. Vaughn won the American League MVP award in 1995 and was a key factor in the Boston Red Sox's 1995 and 1998 playoff teams. - Tip O'Neill
Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. (December 9, 1912 – January 5, 1994) was an American politician. O'Neill was an outspoken liberal Democrat and influential member of the U.S. Congress, serving in the House of Representatives for 34 years and representing two congressional districts of Massachusetts. He was the Speaker of the House from 1977 until his retirement in 1987, making him the second longest-serving Speaker in U.S. history after Sam Rayburn. - Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley was the first African American female writer to be published in the United States. Her book "Poems on Various Subjects" was published in 1773, two years before the American Revolutionary War began, and is seen as one of the first examples of African American literature.
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