Following are notable people who were either born, raised, or have lived for a significant period of time in Saugus, Massachusetts:
Name | Description |
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Joseph Alexander Ames | Portrait artist |
Nathan Ames | Inventor credited with patenting the first escalator in 1859 |
Steven Angelo | State Representative 1981 to 2001,House of Representatives Chairman Committee on Natural Resources, and Government Regulations Committee.Assistant Majority Leader. Saugus Town Manager 1998 to 2002. |
Ben Arnold [1] | Suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts |
Stephen Bachiler | English clergyman; early proponent of the separation of church and state |
Margaret Jewett Smith Bailey | Pioneer, missionary, and author |
Jimmy Bannon [2] [3] | Major League Baseball player for the St. Louis Browns and Boston Beaneaters |
Tom Bannon | Professional baseball player and manager |
Frank P. Bennett | Journalist, magazine publisher and politician |
Frank P. Bennett, Jr. | Politician, banker, and editor who served in the Massachusetts General Court |
Janis M. Berry | Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court; 1994 Republican nominee for Massachusetts Attorney General |
Elizabeth Bishop [4] | Poet, short-story writer; recipient of the 1976 Neustadt International Prize for Literature; Poet Laureate of the United States, 1949–1950; Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956; National Book Award winner in 1970 |
Belden Bly | Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1948–1979 |
Wade Boggs [5] [6] | Former professional baseball player |
Charles Henry Bond | Cigar manufacturer (Waitt & Bond), real estate investor, and art patron |
Paul H. Boucher | Town Manager of Saugus, Massachusetts (1967–1968); Village Manager of Maywood, Illinois (1970–1970) |
Tom Brunansky [7] | Former Major League Baseball right fielder |
Wayne Budd | Former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts and United States Associate Attorney General |
Abijah Cheever | Doctor and politician |
Jonathan Cheever | Snowboarder |
Joseph Cheever | Farmer and politician; Saugus' first Town Treasurer and State Representative |
Gerry Cheevers [8] | Goaltender in the National Hockey League and World Hockey Association |
Don Cherry [9] | Former National Hockey League head coach; current Hockey Night in Canada analyst |
Tracee Chimo | Actress |
Edward J. Collins, Jr. | Deputy Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Revenue (1978–1991); Town Manager of Saugus (1991–1996); chief financial officer and Treasurer of Boston (1996–2002); advisor to Mayor of Boston Thomas Menino (2002–2005); namesake of the Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston |
Dean Cook | Libertarian Party nominee for Governor of Massachusetts in 1994 and 1998 [10] |
Robert Cornetta | Town Manager of Saugus (1980–1982) and a state court judge (1991–present) |
Maurice Cunningham | Attorney, educator, and political figure; Town Manager of Saugus, 1974–1976 |
John A. Curry | Former president of Northeastern University |
Patrick Cusick | Civil engineer and city planner; served as executive director of the Pittsburgh Regional Planning Association, general manager of the Litchfield Park Land and Development Company, and President of the Greater Hartford Community Development Corporation |
Arthur F. DeFranzo | U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II |
Gary Doak [11] | Former National Hockey League defenceman |
William Eustis | 12th Governor of Massachusetts; resided part-time at his brother's home in Cliftondale [12] |
Vernon W. Evans | Politician and educator who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Superintendent of the Saugus Public Schools, and as a member of the Saugus Board of Selectmen |
Ed Fallon | Member of the Iowa House of Representatives from the 66th district (1993–2006); Candidate for Governor of Iowa (2002) and US House of Representatives (2006) |
Mark Falzone | Deputy Director of the National Immigration Forum; Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the Ninth Essex District, 2001–2011 |
Cornelius Conway Felton | Regent of the Smithsonian Institution; president of Harvard University |
John B. Felton | Mayor of Oakland, California (1869–1871), namesake of Felton, California |
Samuel Morse Felton, Sr. | Railroad executive |
Fanny Fern | Popular columnist, humorist, novelist, and author of children's stories |
Vincent Ferrini | Writer and poet |
Gustavus Fox | Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the Civil War |
Edmund Freeman | One of the founders of Sandwich, Massachusetts; Deputy Governor of Plymouth Colony under Governor William Bradford |
Tony Garofano [13] | Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1920 and 1923–1935 |
Bob Gaudet [14] | Head men's ice hockey coach at Dartmouth College |
John Geoghan | Priest; a key figure in the Roman Catholic sex abuse cases |
Norman Hansen | Politician and government official who held various positions in Saugus |
Harriet Russell Hart [15] [16] | Third woman ever elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, served 1925–1926 |
Samuel Hawkes | 19th-century member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1854 |
Horatio G. Herrick | Sheriff of Essex County, Massachusetts (1867–1893) [17] |
Paul G. Hewitt | Physicist, former boxer, uranium prospector, author, and cartoonist |
Pickmore Jackson | Shoe manufacturer and politician |
William Jackson | English-American pottery manufacturer and politician |
James Franklin Jeffrey | Diplomat, expert in political, security, and energy issues in the Middle East, Turkey, Germany, and the Balkans |
Joseph Jenckes Sr. | Inventor and holder of first machine patent in America |
Benjamin Newhall Johnson | Attorney and historian; his hunting camp became Breakheart Reservation |
Phyllis Katsakiores | Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives (1982–2012) |
Rose Kaufman | Screenwriter, The Wanderers and Henry & June |
Tim Kelly | Playwright |
John B. Kennedy | City Manager of Medford, Massachusetts (1957–1958); Town Manager of Norwood, Massachusetts (1951–1957) and Saugus (1958–1960); candidate for Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts in 1960 |
Bobby Keyes | Guitarist and songwriter who has played and collaborated with a wide range of famous rock and roll, soul, blues, R&B, and pop recording artists |
Dave Lucey | Registrar of Motor Vehicles, 1972–1974 |
Susan Lynch | First Lady of New Hampshire |
Doug Mackie | Offensive tackle who played for the New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons of the NFL and the Tampa Bay Bandits and New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League |
William Moulton Marston | Psychologist, feminist theorist, and comic book writer who created Wonder Woman |
Darrell Martinie | National radio personality and official state astrologer for Massachusetts |
Colin McManus [18] | Team USA ice dancer |
Bob Montgomery | Former Major League Baseball catcher who played for the Boston Red Sox, 1970–1979 |
Deborah Moody | The only woman to found a colonial settlement in early North America |
Francis Moorehouse | General Electric executive and Saugus Town Manager |
Benjamin F. Newhall | Businessman, abolitionist, politician, and writer |
Henry Newhall | Businessman whose land holdings eventually formed the city of Santa Clarita, California. |
Eddie Palladino | Public address announcer for the Boston Celtics |
Arlie Pond | Former Major League pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles |
C. F. Nelson Pratt | Politician |
Johnny Rae | Jazz drummer and vibraphonist |
Frank Rich [19] | Independent candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1982 |
Joseph Roby | Parson of the Third Parish Church for 51 years; supporter of the American Revolution |
Eileen Rose | Singer-songwriter |
Derek Sanderson [20] [21] | Former Boston Bruins player |
Glen Sather [20] | Former Boston Bruins player; current president and general manager of the New York Rangers |
Chris Serino [22] | Former head men's hockey coach at Merrimack College; head baseball coach at the University of New Hampshire |
James Shurtleff | Journalist, politician, and city manager |
Harry Sinden [23] | Former head coach, general manager, and team president of the Boston Bruins |
John P. Slattery [24] | Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 12th Essex District, 1995–2003 |
Nicholas Spanos | Professor of Psychology and Director of the Laboratory for Experimental Hypnosis at Carleton University, 1975–1994; known for the study of hypnosis, skepticism, and debunking conspiracy theories [25] |
Art Spinney | Guard who played 9 seasons with the Baltimore Colts |
Marion L. Starkey | Author, The Devil in Massachusetts |
Art Statuto | Center who played for the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL and the Buffalo Bills of the All-America Football Conference |
Edward Thompson Taylor | Methodist clergyman |
Ella Cheever Thayer [26] | Playwright and novelist |
William Tudor | Wealthy lawyer and leading citizen of Boston |
Mike Vecchione | Professional ice hockey player who currently plays for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League |
Josiah Warren | Individualist anarchist, inventor, musician, and author widely regarded as the first American anarchist [27] |
Sandra Whyte | Ice hockey player; gold medal winner at the 1998 Winter Olympics |
Frederick Willis | Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1944–1948 |
Donald Wong | Representative for the 9th Essex District of the Massachusetts House of Representatives; former chairman of the Saugus Board of Selectmen |
Kevin Wortman | Former professional hockey player for the Calgary Flames |
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