Boston

Famous Citizens

Samuel Adams (1722–1803), Revolutionary War leader.

Larry Bird (b. 1956), star player for the Boston Celtics.

Louis D. Brandeis (1856–1942), first Jew appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Charles Bulfinch (1763–1844), architect of numerous Boston landmarks.

William Ellery Channing (1780–1842), founder of American Unitarian Association.

Julia Child (b. 1912), culinary expert and television personality.

John Singleton Copley (1738–1815), first great North American portrait painter.

Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), tenacious investigative reporter.

Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), founder of the Christian Science church.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), writer, philosopher, and leading Transcendentalist.

Arthur Fiedler (1894–1979), Boston Pops conductor and organizer of the Esplanade concerts.

William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879), abolitionist writer and editor.

Paul Revere, Revolutionary War hero, rode from Boston to Lexington to warn the countryside that the British were on the march. ()

John Hancock (1737–1793), first signer of the Declaration of Independence.

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), president of the United States (1960–1963).

Malcolm X (1925–1965), Black Muslim leader.

Cotton Mather (1663–1728), Congregational clergyman known for sermons.

Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), landscape architect who planned Boston's park network.

Paul Revere (1735–1818), Revolutionary War era patriot.

Ted Williams (b. 1918), Red Sox baseball hero.