Famous People
Born in Boston
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Adams, Samuel |
1722-1803 |
Patriot,
Statesman |
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Copley, John Singleton |
1738-1815 |
Artist |
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Curley, James Michael |
1874-1958 |
Mayor of Boston |
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
1803-1882 |
Transcendentalist |
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Farmer, Fannie |
1857-1915 |
Chef |
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Fiedler, Arthur |
1894-1979 |
Conductor |
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Franklin, Benjamin |
1706-1790 |
Statesman,
Inventor |
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Holmes Jr, Oliver Wendell |
1841-1935 |
U.S. Supreme
Court Justice |
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Homer, Winslow |
1836-1910 |
Painter |
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Hutchinson, Thomas |
1711-1780 |
Royal Governor, Historian |
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Johnson, Howard |
1896-1972 |
Restauranteur |
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Kennedy, Joseph |
1888-1969 |
Ambassador to
England |
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Kennedy, Edward |
1932- |
U.S. Senator |
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Lodge, Henry Cabot |
1850-1924 |
U.S. Senator,
Historian |
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Lowell, Percival |
1855-1916 |
Astronomer |
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Mather, Cotton |
1663-1728 |
Clergyman,
Author |
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Morse, Samuel |
1791-1872 |
Inventor
(Telegraphy) |
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Otis, Harrison Gray |
1765-1848 |
U.S. Senator |
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Phillips, Wendell |
1811-1874 |
Abolitionist |
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Pickering, Edward |
1846-1919 |
Physicist,
Astronomer |
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Poe, Edgar Allan |
1809-1849 |
Author, Poet |
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Revere, Paul |
1735-1818 |
Patriot,
Metalsmith |
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Rockwell, Willard |
1888-1978 |
Industrialist
(Transport) |
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Shaw, Robert Gould |
1837-1863 |
Colonel, U.S.
Army |
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Sumner, Charles |
1811-1874 |
U.S. Senator,
Abolitionist |
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Taylor, James |
1948- |
Musician |
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Thurman, Uma |
1970- |
Actor |
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Walters, Barbara |
1931- |
Journalist |
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Winchester, Oliver |
1810-1880 |
Inventor (Weapons) |
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