Who are famous people from Boston?

- Ben Affleck

- Matt Damon

- Mark Wahlberg

- Edward Norton

- Amy Ryan

- John Krasinski

- Alyson Hannigan

- Chris Evans

Musicians

- Aerosmith

- Boston

- The Cars

- New Edition

- The J. Geils Band

- Dropkick Murphys

- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

- Passion Pit

Authors

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

- Henry David Thoreau

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

- Emily Dickinson

- Louisa May Alcott

- Henry James

- Edith Wharton

- John Updike

Politicians

- John Adams

- John Quincy Adams

- Calvin Coolidge

- John F. Kennedy

- Robert F. Kennedy

- Ted Kennedy

- Tip O'Neill

- Mitt Romney

Athletes

- Ted Williams

- Bobby Orr

- Larry Bird

- Bill Russell

- Mookie Betts

- David Ortiz

- Rob Gronkowski

- Tom Brady

Other notable figures

- Benjamin Franklin

- Paul Revere

- Samuel Adams

- Alexander Graham Bell

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

- Frederick Douglass

- Martin Luther King Jr.

- John F. Kennedy

- Robert F. Kennedy

- Ted Kennedy

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg