Notable New Englanders

All of the following people were born in New England or spent a significant portion of their life in New England, making them a well-known figure in the region. Some of them, like Robert Frost, who was actually born in California, emigrated to New England and are now considered to be icons of the region. All of them exemplify some aspect of the region in one way or another.

*Abbie Hoffman
*Adam Sandler
*Some members of "Aerosmith"
*Aimee Mann
*Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
*Alicia Witt
*Amar Bose
*Amos Bronson Alcott
*Amy Poehler
*Anne Sexton
*Anthony Michael Hall
*Barbara Tarantino
*Barbara Walters
*Benjamin Franklin
*Bill Belichick
*William "Billy" Bulger
*Bobby Brown
*Bobby Farrelly
*Richard Buckminster Fuller
*Calvin Coolidge
*Carly Simon
*Charles Bulfinch
*Charles Ives
*Clara Barton
*Claus von Bülow
*Chris Evans
*Conan O'Brien
*Cotton Mather
*Crispus Attucks
*Dan Brown
*Dane Cook
*Daniel Shays
*Daniel Webster
*David Byrne
*Denis Leary
*Dick Dale
*Donna Summer
*Doug Flutie
*E. E. Cummings
*Edgar Allan Poe
*Edward Brooke
*Edward Gorey
*Edward Norton
*Eli Whitney
*Elizabeth Hasselbeck
*Emily Dickinson
*Ephraim Morse
*Ethel Kennedy
*Frank Miller (comics)
*Franklin Pierce
*Frederick Douglass
*George H. W. Bush
*George M. Cohan
*George W. Bush
*George Mitchell
*H. P. Lovecraft
*Hannibal Hamlin
*Harriet Beecher Stowe
*Henry David Thoreau
*Howard Dean
*Jack Kerouac
*James J. "Whitey" Bulger
*James Naismith
*James Taylor
*James Woods
*Jay Leno
*Joe Perry
*John Adams
*John Cena
*John F. Kennedy
*John Ford
*John Greenleaf Whittier
*John Hancock
*John Irving
*John Kerry
*John Quincy Adams
*John Singleton Copley
*John Steinbeck
*John Updike
*Johnny Appleseed
*Jonathan Edwards
*Jonathan Richman
*Joseph F. Amaral M.D.
*Joseph Grew
*Joseph Lieberman
*Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
*Joshua Chamberlain
*Josiah Quincy II
*Josiah Quincy III
*Josiah Quincy, Jr.
*Josiah Quincy
*Junius Morgan
*Katharine Hepburn
*Katharine Lee Bates
*Ken Olsen
*Kevin Eastman
*Leonard Bernstein
*Leonard Nimoy
*Lilla Cabot Perry
*Lizzie Borden
*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
*Louis Sullivan
*Louisa May Alcott
*Mandy Moore
*Mark Wahlberg
*Maria Menounos
*Mary Dyer
*Massasoit
*Matt Damon
*King Philip
*Michael Dukakis
*Nathaniel Hawthorne
*New Kids on the Block
*Norm Crosby
*Oliver Wendell Holmes
*Olympia Snowe
*Patrick Ewing
*Patrick J. Kennedy
*Paul Revere
*Paul Tsongas
*Peter Farrelly
*Peter Laird
*Peter Wolf
*Rachel Dratch
*Ralph Nader
*Ralph Waldo Emerson
*Ric Ocasek
*Richard Cardinal Cushing
*Robert Ellis Cahill
*Robert Frost
*Robert Goulet
*Robert Kennedy
*Robert Kraft
*Robert Lowell
*Roger Williams
*Ronnie James Dio
*Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
*Rosemary Kennedy
*Rowland Hussey Macy
*Ryan Madden
*Samuel Adams
*Samuel Slater
*Sarah Silverman
*Seth MacFarlane
*Seth Meyers
*Spalding Gray
*Squanto
*Stephen King
*Steve Carell
*Steven Tyler
*Sumner Redstone
*Sunny von Bülow
*Susan B. Anthony
*Sylvia Plath
*Edward "Ted" Kennedy
*Theo Epstein
*Theodore Parker
*Tip O'Neill
*Trey Anastasio
*Triple H
*Vincent K. McMahon
*Will McDonough
*William Cohen
*William James Sidis
*William "Bill" Weld
*Winslow Homer