- Dr. Seuss
Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 - September 24, 1991) was a famous American writer and cartoonist best known for his classic children's books under the pen name Dr. Seuss, including "The Cat in the Hat", "Green Eggs and Ham", "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish". His books have become staples for many children and their parents. - Mike Scully
Mike Scully (born West Springfield, Massachusetts) is a former executive producer of the Fox series "The Simpsons" (Seasons 9 - 12, 1997 - 2001). He began as a writer/producer on the show during Season 5 and wrote several episodes that aired in Season 6, including "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds", "Lisa's Rival". - Mike Gravel
Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel (born May 13, 1930), is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska for two terms, from 1969 to 1981. He is primarily known for his efforts in ending the draft following the Vietnam War and for having put into the public record the Pentagon Papers in 1971. He is currently a candidate for the 2008 Democratic nomination for President of the United States. - Timothy Leary
Timothy Francis Leary, (October 22, 1920 - May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, advocate of psychedelic drug research and use, and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. As a 1960s counterculture icon, he is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. He coined and popularized the catch phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out." - Alan Curtis Kay
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. He is the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Until mid 2005, he was a Senior Fellow at HP Labs, a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, … - Jim Douglas
James H. "Jim" Douglas (born June 21, 1951) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Vermont. Douglas is a Republican and currently the Governor of Vermont. The governor's principal workplace is at The Pavilion, and during the legislative session the governor often works at a ceremonial office at the Vermont State House. Governor Douglas is a Freemason. Douglas was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. - June Foray
June Foray (born September 18, 1917) is an American voice actress who has worked for most of the studios which produced animated films since the 1940s. Foray was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where her voice was first broadcast in a local radio drama when she was 12 years of age; by age 15 she was doing regular radio voice work. Two years later she moved to Los Angeles, California, and soon became a popular voice actress on radio there, … - Ashley Gearing
Ashley Gearing (born 1991 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American country music artist. Ashley Gearing made her chart debut in 2003, at age twelve, with the song "Can You Hear Me When I Talk to You?", which peaked at #37 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts. She also became the youngest solo artist to enter the Bilboard country charts. "Can You Hear Me When I Talk to You?" was released as a single on Lyric Street Records, … - Larry O'Brien
Lawrence "Larry" Francis O'Brien, Jr. was one of the United States Democratic Party's leading electoral strategists when, for more than two decades, he helped reshape American politics. The son of Irish immigrants, when he wasn't working in politics, O'Brien managed his family's real estate and did public relations work as well. - Jerry Orbach
Jerome Bernard Orbach was an American actor best known for his starring role as Det. Lennie Briscoe in the "Law & Order" television series and for his musical theater roles. - Carole Fredericks
Carole Denise Fredericks (June 5 1952, Springfield, Massachusetts - June 7 2001, Dakar, Senegal) is an African American singer most famous for her recordings in France. She was the oldest sister of blues musician Taj Mahal. At 20 years old, she moved to California where she began her career as a singer. In 1979, she emigrated to France. - Nick Buoniconti
Nicholas Anthony Buoniconti (born December 15, 1940) is a former American Football League and NFL Hall of Fame middle linebacker, who played for the Boston Patriots and Miami Dolphins. Born on December 15 1940 in Springfield, Massachusetts, Buoniconti graduated from Notre Dame, and was drafted by the AFL's Patriots in the thirteenth round of the 1962 AFL draft. - Travis Best
Travis Eric Best (born 12 July 1972 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American professional basketball player, formerly in the NBA, Virtus Bologna in the Italian League, UNICS Kazan in the Russian League. Currently signed a contract with Prokom Trefl Sopot, Poland After playing for Springfield Central High School and college at Georgia Tech, Best was drafted 23rd overall in the 1995 NBA draft by the Indiana Pacers. He has played for the Pacers, the Chicago Bulls, … - Kurt Russell
Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. He became known during the late 1970s, having starred in several Hollywood films, and has continued appearing in leading roles since, including "Escape from New York", "Stargate" and most recently "Grindhouse". - George Tomasini
George Tomasini (born April 20, 1909, died November 22, 1964) was the genius American film editor who often worked with very closely with film director Alfred Hitchcock. Tomasini edited Hitchcock's most well-known works, such as "Marnie", the horror film classics "The Birds" and "Psycho", "North by Northwest", Hitchcock's masterpieces "Vertigo" and "Rear Window", … - Paige Turco
Paige Turco (born May 17, 1965) is an American actress. She is known for playing April O'Neil in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III". Turco was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where she was raised, to Joyce J. and David V. Turco. She attended the Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massachusetts and performed as a soloist at the New England Dance Conservatory, … - Jeanne Sagan
Jeanne Sagan is the bassist for metalcore band All That Remains. She hails from Springfield, Massachusetts. She replaced former bassist Matt Deis. All That Remains' recent album "The Fall of Ideals" is the first she has recorded with the band. Sagan had played in Light Is The Language, The Acacia Strain, and Ligeia previous to joining All That Remains. She plays an Ibanez SRX505 bass. - Bob Kudelski
Bob Kudelski (born March 3, 1964, in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA) is a former National Hockey League center. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in the 1986 NHL Supplemental Draft. After playing three seasons at Yale University, where he was an ECAC First All-Star in 1987, Kudelski made his professional debut with the American Hockey League's New Haven Nighthawks in the 1987-88 season. He also made his NHL debut with the Kings that same season, … - Peter King
Peter King (b. 1957, Springfield, Massachusetts) is a well-respected football columnist for "Sports Illustrated", the author of five books, most notably "Inside the Helmet", as well as a TV analyst and reporter. Since 2006, he is a part of "Football Night in America", NBC's Sunday night NFL studio show. King graduated from Ohio University in 1979, and following graduation, began working for the Cincinnati Enquirer, … - Charles Ryan
Charles V. Ryan is the current mayor of the city Springfield, Massachusetts. He was elected to be the city's mayor in 2003 following the decision of the city's previous mayor, Michael Albano, not to seek reelection. He defeated State Senator Linda Melconian. Ryan's administration has been somewhat controversial as it began months before the city was put under the State Finance Control Board. - Creighton Abrams
Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. was a United States Army general who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968-72 which saw U.S. troop strength fall from 530,000 to 30,000. He served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1972 until shortly before his death in 1974. In honor of Abrams, the U.S. Army named the XM1 main battle tank after him as the M1 Abrams. - Tim Mayotte
Timothy ("Tim") Mayotte (b. August 3 1960, in Springfield, MA, USA) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. The tall serve-and-volleyer learned his game playing on the public courts of Forest Park, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Mayotte played tennis for Stanford University in the early-1980s and won the NCAA singles title in 1981. - Tony MacAlpine
Tony Jeff MacAlpine (born August 29, 1960, in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American guitarist and keyboardist. He is best known as a solo guitarist although he has worked with many different bands and musicians like Planet X, Steve Vai, Vinnie Moore, Mark Boals and Vitalij Kuprij. Besides being a guitarist, MacAlpine is also a classically trained pianist and violinist and plays all the keyboard parts on his own albums. - Steve Susskind
Steve Susskind (October 31942 - January 212005 in Springfield, Massachusetts) was an actor who appeared in numerous small parts in both sitcoms, such as "Frasier, Scrubs", and "NewsRadio". Susskind also performed as a voice actor in both numerous films, such as "Friday the 13th Part 3", "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier", "Monsters, … - Linda Perry
Linda Perry, born April 15, 1965 in Springfield, Massachusetts, to a Portuguese father and Brazilian mother, is an American rock musician, songwriter, and record producer. Once best known as the lead singer and primary songwriter of 4 Non Blondes, Perry has founded two record labels and has become a major songwriter and producer responsible for hit songs by a number of chiefly female singers, such as Gwen Stefani, Pink (who had a #1 hit with "Get the Party Started", … - James A. Redden
James Anthony "Jim" Redden Jr. (born 1929) is a Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. Before appointment to the bench, he was a trial attorney, and a career Democratic politician, serving as a legislator and in two of the state's constitutional offices, Treasurer and Attorney General. As a politician, he was a key figure in some of Oregon's most groundbreaking legislative initiatives, … - Robert B. Parker
Robert B. Parker (born September 17, 1932) is an acclaimed American writer of detective fiction. His most famous works are the Spenser series, which achieved a far wider audience due to being dramatized as a television series, "Spenser: For Hire", on the ABC network during the late 1980s. His works explore aspects of human nature and incorporate considerable knowledge about the Boston metropolitan area. - Worthington Hooker
Worthington Hooker was an American physician, born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He graduated Yale University in 1825 and Harvard University with a degree in Medicine in 1829. He practiced in Connecticut until 1852. Afterwards, he was professor of the theory and practice of medicine at Yale. He was vice president of the American Medical Association in 1864. - Fred Kilgour
Frederick Gridley Kilgour (January 6 1914-July 31 2006) was an American librarian and educator known as the founding director of OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), an international computer library network and database that changed the way people use libraries. He was its president and executive director from 1967 to 1980. - Butler Derrick
Butler Carson Derrick, Jr. (born September 30 1936) was a United States Representative from South Carolina. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, he attended the public schools in Mayesville and Florence in South Carolina. He attended the University of South Carolina from 1954 to 1958 and earned an LL.B. from the University of Georgia Law School in 1965. - Peter Speliopoulos
Peter Speliopoulos, born in 1961 in Springfield, Massachusetts, is an American fashion designer. - Lloyd Wheaton Bowers
Lloyd Wheaton Bowers was born March 9 1859, in Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of Samuel Dwight and Martha Wheaton (Dowd) Bowers. On both sides his ancestors were Puritans who had settled in New England more than two centuries before his birth. His family moved to Brooklyn, New York, and later to Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he was tutored privately in preparation for college. Entering Yale in 1875, he graduated valedictorian of his class in 1879, … - Tom Newberry
Tom Newberry (born April 19, 1939 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is a former American football guard who played ten seasons in the National Football League with the Los Angeles Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers. He was a starter for the Steelers in Super Bowl XXX - Chuck Bresnahan
Charles "Chuck" Bresnahan (born September 8, 1960 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is the current defensive coordinator for the NFL's Cincinnati Bengals. Bresnahan (pronounced "BREZ-nuh-han") joined the Bengals coaching staff in 2004 as an assistant coach, and was promoted to defensive coordinator on January 9, 2005. Prior to joining the Bengals, Bresnahan coached in the NFL with both the Cleveland Browns and the Oakland Raiders. - David Nicholson
David Paul Nicholson (born David Paul Joseph, Jr. in September of 1977, exact date unknown), is a prominent member of society, chronic philanthropist, on-again/off-again member of Mensa International, and seemingly "International Man of Mystery"... Though known to work in various aspects of technology, there is much speculation about David's real motives and his specific career and employer are not known. - Joseph French Johnson
Joseph French Johnson (August 24 1853- 1925) was an American economist, born at Hardwick, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1878, studied in Germany for a year, then began work at the Springfield, Massachusetts "Republican" newspaper. Afterward, he worked on the staff of the Chicago "Tribune", and established the Spokane "Spokesman" (1889). After 1893, his employment took him to various institutions. - Paul Boland
Paul Boland is a singer/impressionist who also was a one-time game show announcer for the 1998 version of "Match Game". He also filled in for announcer Rod Roddy on "The Price is Right" for a week in 2002 during Roddy's cancer operations. He grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. - Frank Hugh Foster
Frank Hugh Foster, Ph. D., D.D. was an American clergyman of the Congregational church. He was born in Springfield, Mass., and graduated at Harvard in 1873. In his activities, he was assistant professor of mathematics in the United States Naval Academy, graduated at Andover Theological Seminary (1877), served as pastor at North Reading, Mass., studied at Göttingen and Leipzig (1979-82), and from 1882 to 1884 was professor of philosophy in Middlebury College. - Lambert Murphy
Lambert Murphy (1885- ?) was an American tenor, born at Springfield, Mass. While pursuing an academic course at Harvard University, he studied singing under T. L. Cushman in Boston from 1904 to 1908. Having filled positions in several important churches in Boston, Brookline, and Fairhaven, he went to New York in 1910 as soloist of St. Bartholomew's. After further study under Isidore Luckstone, he was engaged (1911) as a member of the Metropolitan Opera. - Asher Benjamin
Asher Benjamin (June 15 1773 - July 26 1845), born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, was a prominent American architect who transitioned between Federal style architecture and later Greek Revival. During his apprenticeship, he worked on the Old Connecticut State House, designed by architect Charles Bulfinch, and located in Hartford, Connecticut. He designed numerous houses and churches throughout New England.
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