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