List of people from Concord, Massachusetts

The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Concord, Massachusetts .

Writers

• Seth Abramson, poet ^[1]
• Amos Bronson Alcott, teacher and writer
• Louisa May Alcott, novelist
• Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, novelist
• Jane G. Austin, writer of historical fiction
• William Ellery Channing, poet
• Patricia Cornwell, author ^[2]
• George William Curtis, writer and speaker
• Edward Waldo Emerson, physician, writer and lecturer
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, poet and philosopher
• Will Eno, author and playwright
• Allen French, author and historian (including of the history of the town)
• Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian and writer ^[3]
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist and short story writer
• George Parsons Lathrop, poet and novelist
• Alan Lightman, physicist, novelist and essayist ^[4]
• Gregory Maguire, author ^[5]
• Russell Miller, author and historian
• Robert B. Parker, author ^[6]
• David Allen Sibley, ornithologist and author
• Margaret Sidney (pseudonym of Harriett Mulford Stone Lothrop), author
• Henry David Thoreau, author, naturalist and philosopher
• Gordon S. Wood, historian and author ^[7]

Journalists

• Frederic Hudson, journalist
• Joel Kurtzman, economist and journalist
• William Stevens Robinson, journalist
• Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, journalist, author and reformer

Musicians

• Andrew McMahon, musician and lead singer of Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin
• Dean Rosenthal, composer and musician

Actors

• Paget Brewster, actress
• Steve Carell, actor, producer, and director (lived in Acton but attended the Fenn School and the Middlesex School)
• Chris Evans, actor
• Scott Evans, actor
• John Augustus Stone, actor, dramatist and playwright

Athletes

• Casper Asbjornson, Major League Baseball player
• Laurie Baker, USA ice hockey gold medalist ^[8]
• Charlie Booth, soccer player ^[9]
• Michael Fucito, soccer player
• Hal Gill, National Hockey League player ^[10]
• Tom Glavine, Major League Baseball player
• Dick Kazmaier, Princeton college football player who was the last Ivy League Heisman Trophy winner ^[11]
• Kara Mann, strongwoman and chemical engineer
• Uta Pippig, marathon runner ^[12]
• Sam Presti, NBA executive ^[13]
• John Tortorella, Philadelphia Flyers head coach

Politicians

• Chris Abele, county executive of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
• Charles A.P. Bartlett, Pennsylvania State Senator
• William Emerson, minister, father of Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Richard Fadden, CSIS director
• Richard N. Goodwin, advisor and speechwriter to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
• Ebenezer R. Hoar, U.S. Attorney General
• George Frisbie Hoar, U.S. Congressman and Senator
• Samuel Hoar, U.S. Congressman
• Jonas Wheeler, Maine Senate President
• William Whiting, lawyer, writer and politician
• Samuel Willard, 17th-century colonial minister
• Simon Willard, 17th-century intellectual and former British major who co-founded Concord

Military

• Charles Francis Adams Jr., Civil War colonel, Union Army, great-grandson of President John Quincy Adams ^[14]
• Charles Francis Adams III, 44th Secretary of the Navy ^[14]
• Oscar C. Badger, U.S. Navy officer ^[15]
• John Buttrick, Concord militia leader
• Frederick Heyliger, Easy company commander and member of the "Band of Brothers"
• Jonathan Hoar, colonial soldier
• Samuel Prescott, American Revolutionary War, involved in "The Ride" with Paul Revere and William Dawes
• Thomas Wheeler, soldier in King Philip's War

Others

• Samuel Bartlett, silversmith
• Tim Berners-Lee, British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web
• Frank Hagar Bigelow, U.S. astronomer and meteorologist
• Daniel Bliss, jurist, proscribed by the Massachusetts Banishment Act
• Peter Bulkley, Puritan preacher and a co-founder of Concord ^[16]
• Ephraim Bull, inventor of the Concord grape
• Darby Conley, cartoonist
• Bob Diamond, former chief executive of Barclays
• Daniel Chester French, sculptor
• William Watson Goodwin, classical scholar
• John Hoar, redeemer of famed captive Mary Rowlandson during King Philip's War
• Dick Hustvedt, software engineer
• Edward Holton James, socialist
• Edward Jarvis, physician and statistician
• Har Gobind Khorana, Indian American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
• Lynn Harold Loomis, mathematician and co-discoverer of the Loomis–Whitney inequality ^[17]
• Alfred W. McCoy, historian and educator
• Jane Mendillo, CEO of Harvard Management Company
• Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, artist
• Betty Parris, Salem witch trials accuser
• Ezra Ripley, clergyman
• Alice Ruggles Sohier, painter ^[18]
• Robert Solow, Nobel laureate in economics ^[17]
• Stephen Wolfram, British-born scientist and developer of Mathematica software
• Chris Wysopal, entrepreneur and cybersecurity pioneer

See also

• List of people from Massachusetts

References

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