Cambridge Massachusetts
1. Leroy Anderson (1908)
American Composer Of Short Light
Composer of Sleigh Ride, Blue Tango, The Syncopated Clock, and other pieces of light concert music.
2. Donald Regan (1918)
American Cabinet Official
Politician who served in the Reagan administration as the Secretary of the Treasury and as the White House Chief of Staff. He notably helped form the economic policies that would...
3. Joe Hyams (1923)
Recipient Of The Purple Heart Me
Author of several Hollywood biographies who interviewed many stars throughout his career.
4. Anne McCaffrey (1926)
American-irish Novelist
An Irish-American science fiction author, she is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Her novel, The White Dragon, was one of the first science fiction books to become...
5. Eddie Higgins (1932)
American Musician
Known for his elegance and sophistication as well as his encyclopedic knowledge of harmonies. He was a master of many styles.
6. Lenny Clarke (1953)
American Actor And Comedian
Comedian and actor who is on the FX series, Rescue Me in the role of Uncle Teddy alongside Denis Leary.
7. China Forbes (1970)
American Singer And Songwriter
American singer-songwriter best known for her work with the band Pink Martini. As of 2014, she has also released two solo albums, Love Handle and 78.
8. Mike Jarvis (1945)
American Basketball Player-coach
Men's college basketball known for his successful runs as head coach at schools like Boston University and Florida Atlantic. He won the America East Tournament Championship with Boston in 1988...
9. E. E. Cummings (1894)
American Poet Painter Essayist A
Edward Estlin Cummings known as E. E. Cummings with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e e cummings was an American poet...
10. Joe Keenan (writer) (1958)
American Writer
Joe Keenan is an award-winning American screenwriter television producer and novelist.
11. Charles K. Williams (1782)
American Politician
Charles Kilbourne Williams was an American lawyer and politician. He served asChief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 1834 to 1846 and as Governor of Vermont from 1850 to...
12. Frank P. Bennett (1853)
American Politician
P. Bennett was an American journalist magazine publisher and politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as a member of the Everett Massachusetts Board...
13. William Eustis (1753)
Massachusetts-born Physician Pol
Eustis was an early American physician politician and statesman from Massachusetts. Trained in medicine he served as a military surgeon during the American Revolutionary War notably at the Battle of...
14. Tim Hickey (1938)
American Politician
Timothy William Tim Hickey is an American politician. A Democrat he served five terms representing the 3rd Middlesex District in Cambridge in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He served as...
15. Charles V. Blanchard (1866)
American Politician
Charles V. Blanchard was an American politician who served as a Massachusetts State Representative and as a Massachusetts State Senator. While he was a member of the Massachusetts House Blanchard...
16. George Edwin Mitchell (1844)
American Mayor
George Edwin Mitchell was a Massachusetts politician who served as the fifteenth Mayor of Chelsea Massachusetts.
17. David T. Dickinson (1867)
American Politician
David Taggart Dickinson was a Massachusetts attorney and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as the twenty eighth Mayor of Cambridge Massachusetts. Dickinson was born in...
18. Dave Lindstrom (1954)
American Football Player
David Alan Dave Lindstrom ia a former American football defensive end in the National Football League playing eight seasons for the Kansas City Chiefs.
19. Albertina Noyes (1949)
Figure Skater
Albertina Natalie Tina Noyes is an American former figure skater. She won the silver medal at the U. S. Figure Skating Championships four times and is the 1967 North American...
20. Anne Warner (rower) (1954)
Olympic Medalist In Rowing
Anne Elizabeth Taubes Warner is an American rower who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. She was born in Cambridge Massachusetts. In 1976 she was a crew member of the...
21. Peter G. Sheridan (Unknow)
United States Federal Judge
Peter G. Sheridan is a United States federal judge. Born in Cambridge Massachusetts Sheridan received a B. S. from St. Peter's College in 1972 and a J. D. from Seton...
22. Charles Bailyn (1959)
unknow
Charles David Bailyn is the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University and inaugural dean of faculty at Yale-NUS. He earned a B. S. in astronomy...
23. William Hathaway (1924)
American Politician
Dodd Hathaway was an American politician and lawyer from Maine.
24. Susan Walker Fitzgerald (1871)
American Suffragist
Susan Grimes Walker is best known for her long commitment to the struggle for women's suffrage and her involvement in progressive political organizations.
25. Richard M. Russell (1891)
Lawyer And Politician
Richard Manning Russell was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Cambridge on March 3 1891 to Governor William Russell and Margaret Manning Swan. Russell attended Middlesex...
26. Charles H. Saunders (1821)
American Politician
Charles Hicks Saunders was a Massachusetts politician who served on the Common Council Board of Aldermen and as the Mayor of Cambridge Massachusetts.
27. Francis X. Hurley (1903)
American Politician
s Xavier Hurley was an American politician who served as the 17th Massachusetts Auditor and the 46th Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts. He was a 1924 graduate of Harvard College....
28. W. Paul White (1945)
Member Of Massachusetts Senate
. Paul White is an American political politician who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1973 to 1989 and the Massachusetts Senate from 1989 to 1999....
29. Mark van Eeghen (1952)
American Football Player
Mark van Eeghen is an American football player who played ten years in the National Football League including making two Super Bowl appearances. He was a member of the Oakland...
30. Jimmy Tingle (1955)
American Comic And Actor
Jimmy Tingle is an American comic and occasional actor.
31. Dave DeGuglielmo (1968)
American Football Player And Coa
Dave DeGuglielmo is the current American football offensive line coach for the New England Patriots of the National Football League.
32. Thomas F. August (Unknow)
American Politician
Thomas F. August was a Massachusetts attorney and politician who served as the 31st Mayor of Somerville Massachusetts. August lost re-election in a three-way race with Eugene C. Brune who...
33. Thomas H. D. Mahoney (1913)
American Politician
Thomas Henry Donald Mahoney was an American professor and politician.
34. Thomas H. Eliot (1907)
American Politician
Thomas Hopkinson Eliot was a lawyer politician and academic serving as chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis and in the US House of Representatives from Massachusetts. A great-grandson of...
35. Francis W. Hatch, Jr. (1925)
American Politician
s Whiting Frank Hatch Jr. was a Massachusetts politician news reporter insurance company executive and advocate for the arts and the environment.
36. Bill Barrett (outfielder) (1900)
American Baseball Player
Joseph Barrett was an outfielder who played in Major League Baseball between 1921 and 1930. Nicknamed Whispering Bill he batted and threw right-handed.
37. Jeffrey Reich (1957)
American Businessman
Jeffrey Peter Reich was a senior managing director and member of the Board of Directors of Bear Stearns Co. Inc.. He retired from Bear Stearns in 1995 and has since...
38. Isaac Hill (1789)
American Politician
Isaac Hill was an American politician and newspaper editor who served as a United States Senator and as Governor of New Hampshire.
39. Thomas N. Hastings (1858)
American Architect And Politicia
Thomas Nelson Hastings was an American politician and architect who served as the President of the New Hampshire Senate. On January 4 1899 Hastings was chosen as the President of...
40. Edward D. Hayden (1833)
American Politician
Edward Daniel Hayden was a U. S.
41. Edward J. Sullivan (Unknow)
American Politician
Edward J. Sullivan was clerk of courts for Middlesex County Massachusetts and mayor of Cambridge Massachusetts. Edward's brother Walter J. Sullivan also served as Mayor of Cambridge as did his...
42. Andrij Parekh (1971)
American Cinematographer
Andrij Parekh is an American cinematographer. Parekh was born in Cambridge Massachusetts of Ukrainian and Indian descent. Andrij studied cinematography at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the FAMU...
43. Jason Bere (1971)
American Baseball Player
Jason Phillip Bere is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for parts of 11 seasons from 1993 to 2003.
44. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823)
Union United States Army Officer
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American Unitarian minister author abolitionist and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s identifying himself with disunion and...
45. Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872)
American Author
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott born in Cambridge Massachusetts was a nationally recognized American author. She was a frequent contributor to The Ladies' Home Journal.
46. Karl Kolseth (1892)
American Baseball Player
Karl Dickey Koley Kolseth was a Major League Baseball first baseman who played for the Baltimore Terrapins of the Federal League in 1915.
47. Dad Clarkson (1866)
Major League Baseball Pitcher
Arthur Hamilton Dad Clarkson was a pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1891 to 1896. He played for the New York Giants Boston Beaneaters St. Louis Browns and Baltimore Orioles.
48. Mert Hackett (1859)
Major League Baseball Player
Mortimer Martin Mert Hackett was an American Major League Baseball player from Cambridge Massachusetts who played mainly as a catcher from 1883 to 1887 for three different team; the Boston...
49. Charlie Maloney (1886)
American Baseball Player
Charles Michael Maloney was a professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues for the Boston Doves. He went to college at Boston College.
50. Mack Hillis (1901)
American Baseball Player
Malcolm David Mack Hillis was a Major League Baseball second baseman. Hillis played for the New York Yankees in 1924 and the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1928. He had 9 career...