- Source: 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
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
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
Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist and short story writer
George Parsons Lathrop, poet and novelist
Alan Lightman, physicist, novelist and essayist
Gregory Maguire, author
Russell Miller, author and historian
Robert B. Parker, author
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
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
Michael Fucito, Major League Soccer player
Hal Gill, National Hockey League player
Tom Glavine, Major League Baseball player
Dick Kazmaier, Princeton college football player who was the last Ivy League Heisman Trophy winner
Kara Mann, strongwoman and chemical engineer
Uta Pippig, marathon runner
Sam Presti, NBA executive
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
Charles Francis Adams III, 44th Secretary of the Navy
Oscar C. Badger, U.S. Navy officer
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
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
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
Robert Solow, Nobel laureate in economics
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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