List of people from Concord, Massachusetts explained

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]
• Michael Fucito, Major League Soccer player
• Hal Gill, National Hockey League player^[9]
• Tom Glavine, Major League Baseball player
• Dick Kazmaier, Princeton college football player who was the last Ivy League Heisman Trophy winner^[10]
• Kara Mann, strongwoman and chemical engineer
• Uta Pippig, marathon runner^[11]
• Sam Presti, NBA executive^[12]
• 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^[13]
• Charles Francis Adams III, 44th Secretary of the Navy^[13]
• Oscar C. Badger, U.S. Navy officer^[14]
• 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^[15]
• 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^[16]
• 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^[17]
• Robert Solow, Nobel laureate in economics^[16]
• Stephen Wolfram, British-born scientist and developer of Mathematica software
• Chris Wysopal, entrepreneur and cybersecurity pioneer

See also

• List of people from Massachusetts

Notes and References

1. Web site: Seth Abramson, MFA Blog Contributor. 5 July 2007. June 15, 2010. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20101105012543/http://creative-writing-mfa-handbook.blogspot.com/2007/07/seth-abramson-mfa-blog-contributor.html. November 5, 2010.
2. News: Memmott . Carol . Crime pays quite well for Patricia Cornwell . USA Today . January 28, 2017 . December 3, 2008 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20120205125004/http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-12-01-patricia-cornwell_N.htm . February 5, 2012 .
3. Web site: Lamb . Brian . Booknotes: No Ordinary Time . . December 30, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120825012338/http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/61121-1/Doris+Kearns+Goodwin.aspx . 2012-08-25 .
4. Web site: Redirect. www.mit.edu. 2 May 2018. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20170919204658/http://www.mit.edu/~humanistic/faculty/lightman.html. 19 September 2017.
5. Web site: Gregory Maguire. Houghton Mifflin Books. August 13, 2007. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20070826171939/http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=2334. August 26, 2007.
6. News: Kifner . John . He Said He Had a Pistol; Then He Flashed a Knife . . June 11, 1997 . April 3, 2007 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20131114150300/http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/25/specials/parker-interview97.html . November 14, 2013 .
7. Web site: Providence College: 2007 Honorary Degree Citations. Providence College. August 30, 2007. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070927051107/http://www.providence.edu/About+PC/College+News/Hidden+Press+Kit+Items/2007+Honorary+Degree+Citations.htm. 2007-09-27.
8. Web site: United States Olympic Committee – Baker, Laurie . USOC . August 13, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070714080043/http://www.usoc.org/26_1160.htm . July 14, 2007.
9. Web site: Hal Gill. ESPN. April 9, 2007. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20060821170657/http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/players/profile?statsId=1661. August 21, 2006.
10. Web site: Dick Kazmaier, Heisman winner, dies. ESPN College Football. 2 August 2013 . ESPN Internet Ventures. 1 November 2013. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20131104075133/http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9532326/dick-kazmaier-princeton-heisman-winner-dies-82. 4 November 2013.
11. News: English . Bella . She's home, for the long run . Boston Globe . June 25, 2007 . November 3, 2004 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20041206130907/http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2004/11/03/shes_home_for_the_long_run/ . December 6, 2004 .
12. Web site: SONICS: Presti Named Sonics General Manager. NBA. December 24, 2007. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20080219041726/http://www.nba.com/sonics/news/presti070607.html. February 19, 2008.
13. https://htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/240-fairhaven-hill-road-1577478304.pdf
14. Badger, Oscar C.. 1900. He is recorded as dying in Concord. Perhaps he retired to Concord, or he was just visiting?
15. Bulkeley, Peter. 1900 . x . x.
16. Web site: Beecher. Norman. Norman Beecher, 1080 Monument Street. Concord Oral History Program. Concord Free Public Library. 1 November 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131104004535/http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Fin_Aids/OH_Texts/Beecher.html. 4 November 2013.
17. Web site: Twilight of American Impressionism. March 5, 2020. Portsmouth Historical Society. 2020-05-19.