List of people from Boston explained

This is a list of people who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Boston, Massachusetts and its surrounding metropolitan statistical area.

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Notes and References

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  2. Web site: Samuel Adams Wisner. 999-2014 Starpulse.com. 8 May 2014.
  3. Samuel Adams. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 8 May 2014.
  4. Web site: Aerosmith. 1996 – 2014 Museum of Science, Boston. 8 May 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140430075839/http://www.mos.org/planetarium/laser-aerosmith. 30 April 2014. dead.
  5. Web site: Ben Affleck. 2014 Time Inc.. 8 May 2014.
  6. Web site: Casey Affleck. 2014 NY Times Co.. 8 May 2014.
  7. News: Akrobatik. Boston.com. 10 June 2011. 2014 Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC. 8 May 2014. Caballero. Martín.
  8. Web site: Al B. Sure. 1999-2014 Starpulse.com. 8 May 2014.
  9. Book: Channing Home . Report (1913) . Boston . 3-4 . 6 January 2024 . en.
  10. Web site: Louisa May Alcott. 2014 Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.. 8 May 2014.
  11. Web site: Horatio Alger, Jr.. University of Rochester. 8 May 2014.
  12. Book: Havig, Alan. Fred Allen's Radio Comedy. 9 June 2010. Temple University Press, Jun 9, 2010. 27–28. 9781439905609.
  13. Book: Bolino, August C.. Men of Massachusetts: Bay State Contributors to American Society. 6 August 2012. iUniverse, Aug 2, 2012. 225. 9781475933765.
  14. Web site: Nathaniel M. Allen. 2014 www.militarytimes.com.. 8 May 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140508224551/http://projects.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=2435. 8 May 2014. live.
  15. Web site: John Amaechi. 2000-2014 Sports Reference LLC. 8 May 2014.
  16. Web site: Tony Amonte. NHL Alumni Pro-Am Boston. 8 May 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140430022344/http://nhlalumniproam.com/players/tony-amonte/. 30 April 2014. dead.
  17. Web site: Leroy Anderson. PBS. 8 May 2014.
  18. Web site: Mary Antin. 1998–2014, Jewish Women's Archive. 8 May 2014.
  19. Web site: Isabel Atkin – British Ski and Snowboard. www.teambss.org.uk. 14 February 2022.
  20. Web site: Crispus Attucks. WGBH PBS Online. 8 May 2014.
  21. Web site: Red Auerbach. 2014 NBA Media Ventures, LLC.. 8 May 2014.
  22. Web site: 2 sisters make Army history as first pair to attain general rank . 2023-06-22 . ABC News . en.
  23. Web site: Lieutenant General Maria B. Barrett - General Officer Management Office . 2023-06-22 . www.gomo.army.mil.
  24. Web site: Dana Barros. 2000-2014 Sports Reference LLC.. 8 May 2014.
  25. Web site: Zered Bassett. ocusskatemag. 8 May 2014.
  26. Web site: Benjamin E. Bates. Bates College. 8 May 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140509001958/http://www.bates.edu/advancement/societies/about/who-was-benjamin-e-bates/. 9 May 2014. dead.
  27. Web site: Ruth Batson. 2003 The New York Times Company. 8 May 2014.
  28. Web site: Peter D. Bear. 1996-2014 Wisconsin Historical Society. 8 May 2014.
  29. Web site: Mark Bellhorn. 2000-2013 Sports Reference LLC.. 8 May 2014.
  30. Web site: Asher Benjamin. 2014 Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.. 8 May 2014.
  31. Nazzal . James A. . 2000 . 'Verite Sans Peur': Cora Agnes Benneson, a First-Wave Feminist of Illinois . . 93 . 3 . 273–286 . 40193344 . subscription.
  32. Web site: Frank Weston Benson. GALLERY FRANCE. 8 May 2014.
  33. Web site: Leonard Bernstein. The Library of Congress. 14 May 2014.
  34. Web site: Big Shug. 2014 Billboard. 14 May 2014.
  35. Web site: About Me . Molly Birnbaum . 2011-07-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110621065656/http://www.mollybirnbaum.com/about-me/ . 2011-06-21 . dead .
  36. Web site: Will Blalock. 2014 CBS Interactive. 14 May 2014.
  37. News: Boston-born Blatt Hired to Coach Maccabi Tel Aviv. Necn .
  38. News: . Oxygenized Air . . 1867-05-01 . 2015-10-21 .
  39. News: Mayor's Ties to Hometown Fade, but for a Few, They Are Still Felt. The New York Times. 18 March 2012. 14 May 2014. Grynbaum. Michael M..
  40. Web site: Bob and Ray. 2013 Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame at Massasoit Community College. 14 May 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140917074632/http://www.massbroadcastershof.org/hof_bob_elliott.htm. 17 September 2014. dead.
  41. Web site: Ernie Boch, Jr.. Boch.com. 14 May 2014. https://archive.today/20140514171240/http://www.boch.com/dealership/about.htm. 14 May 2014. dead.
  42. Web site: Ron Brace. 2014 CBS Interactive. 14 May 2014.
  43. Web site: Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee. Brighton-Alston Historical Society. 14 May 2014.
  44. Web site: William J. Bratton. 2014 UMass Boston. 14 May 2014.
  45. Web site: John Britton (doctor). 2014 U.S. News & World Report LP. 14 May 2014.
  46. Web site: Edward W. Brooke. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 14 May 2014.
  47. News: Czupryn . Jonathan . 2015-04-05 . Born to a Star and Becoming One for Maryland . 2024-02-03 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
  48. Scott Brown. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 14 May 2014.
  49. Book: The State of Wisconsin Blue Book. 1981. Legislative Reference Bureau, 1981. 33.
  50. Web site: Charles Bulfinch. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.. 14 May 2014.
  51. https://archive.org/details/ancientmiddlese00goulgoog/page/n32 Ephraim Wales Bull article
  52. http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20297170 Melnea A. Cass papers, 1954-1979
  53. Web site: Nicholas Raymond Cerio. 2014 maLineage.com. 14 May 2014.
  54. Web site: Kevin Chapman. 2014 CBS Interactive Inc.. 14 May 2014.
  55. 'Black Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court 1867-Present,' State Library of Massachusetts: 2010
  56. Web site: Michael Chiklis. 2014 Universal Sports, Universal Sports trademarks and copyrights are the property of NBC Universal Inc.. 14 May 2014.
  57. Web site: John A. Collins. 23 September 2013. New England Historical Society. 15 May 2014.
  58. [Misha Collins]
  59. Web site: Jerry Colonna (entertainer). 2000-2014 HistoryOrb.com. 15 May 2014.
  60. Web site: Greg Comella. 2001 CNN/Sports Illustrated. An AOL Time Warner Company. 15 May 2014.
  61. Web site: Dane Cook. 2008-2012 Digital Library Consulting.. 15 May 2014.
  62. Book: Willard. Frances Elizabeth. Livermore. Mary Ashton Rice. A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. 1893. Moulton. 205–.
  63. Web site: Jennifer Coolidge. 2014 CBS Interactive Inc.. 15 May 2014.
  64. Book: Willard . Frances Elizabeth . Frances Willard . Livermore . Mary Ashton Rice . Mary Livermore . A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life . 1893 . . 194-95 . COLLINS, Mrs. Miriam O'Leary .
  65. Web site: John Singleton Copley. 2000 American Council of Learned Societies.. 15 May 2014.
  66. Web site: Artifact from "From Here I Saw What Happened and I Could Not Understand" (One of two "Kanga Twin" dresses designed by Hekima Hapa, fabric from Tanzania) . Brooklyn Museum . Brooklyn Museum . 5 April 2021.
  67. Web site: Lynne Cox. BookBrowse LLC 1997-2014.. 15 May 2014.
  68. Web site: Norm Crosby. 2014 Los Angeles Times. 15 May 2014.
  69. Web site: James Michael Curley. 2014 Encyclopædia Britannica. 15 May 2014.
  70. Web site: Jane Curtin. 2014 CBS Interactive Inc.. 15 May 2014.
  71. Book: Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. III . Charles Scribner's Sons . New York . 1959.
  72. Book: Debolt, Baugess, Abbe A., James S.. Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture. 12 December 2011. ABC-CLIO 2011. 161. 9780313329449.
  73. Book: Diamond, Hemmings, Maxine, Harriet. Matt Damon: A Biography. 1998. Pocket Books 1998. 9780671026493. registration. Matt Damon..
  74. Book: Time Out Boston. 2011. Time Out Guides 2011. 262. 9781846701887.
  75. News: Bryan. Marquard. John Ferruggio, at 84; hero of 1970 Pan Am hijacking . Boston Globe. June 22, 2010 . June 27, 2010.
  76. Book: Chase, Salmon Portland and Niven, John. The Salmon P. Chase Papers. 1993. Kent State University Press. 648. 9780873384728.
  77. Book: Eaklor, Vicki L. . Queer America: A GLBT History of the 20th Century . 2008 . Greenwood Press . Westport, Conn. . 978-0-313-33749-9 . 212 . October 20, 2010 . The nineties also saw the first openly transgender person in a state office, Althea Garrison, elected in 1992 but serving only one term in Massachusetts' House..
  78. Marie Jansen Dies at 65.New York Times, March 21, 1914; p. 13
  79. Web site: Boston's Keytar Bear Tells All. 4 April 2014.
  80. Web site: Teddy bear shreds on keytar. YouTube.
  81. Web site: CNN Programs - Anchors/Reporters - John King. CNN.
  82. Web site: Major General Paula C. Lodi - General Officer Management Office . 2023-06-22 . www.gomo.army.mil.
  83. Book: Reichler, Joseph L. . The Baseball Encyclopedia . 1969 . 4th . 1979 . Macmillan Publishing . New York . 0-02-578970-8 . registration .
  84. News: D. Leo Monahan, 86; Boston sports reporter, columnist. Marquard. Bryan. April 2, 2013. The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts.
  85. Howard I. Chapelle: The History of American Sailing Ships. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1935; republished: New York: Bonanza Books, 1982, p. 138
  86. Web site: From Our Cabinet:Declaration of Independence . Massachusetts Historical Society . August 22, 2006 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060222101300/http://www.masshist.org/Cabinet/july2002/rowe.htm . February 22, 2006 .
  87. Book: Davis, Henry Blaine Jr. . 1998 . Generals In Khaki . Raleigh, NC . Pentland Press . 330–331 . 978-1-5719-7088-6 . Google Books.
  88. STEVENS, Frederick Clement (1861–1923). Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. September 29, 2012.
  89. THOMPSON, Thomas Weston (1766 - 1821). Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. December 6, 2013.
  90. Book: 1927 . The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography . XVII . New York, NY . James T. White & Company . 7 . Google Books.