List of people from Lawrence, Massachusetts

This is a list of people from Lawrence, Massachusetts.


 * Laurence A. Abercrombie, triple Navy Cross recipient, Admiral, and submariner
 * A. J. Antoon, Tony Award-winning theatre director
 * Sarah Lord Bailey (1856–1922), elocutionist and teacher
 * Fred Beal, labor-union organizer
 * Al Bernardin, inventor of the Quarter Pounder
 * Leonard Bernstein, composer, conductor of New York Philharmonic, winner of a Tony Award and 18 Grammy Awards, born in Lawrence
 * Colin Blackwell, professional ice hockey player
 * Johnny Broaca, professional baseball player
 * Dj Buddha, multi-platinum & multi-award winning record producer, DJ and record label owner
 * Patrick F. Burke, American football player
 * Garrett Caples, famous poet
 * Doc Casey, professional baseball player
 * James A. Champy, author, management expert, retired CEO
 * Ed Coleman, radio reporter, host for the New York Mets
 * John William Comber, Catholic missionary and bishop
 * Elaine Comparone, harpsichordist
 * Bill Cronin, American football player
 * Irene Daye, jazz singer
 * Ferdinand Waldo Demara, "The Great Impostor"
 * Anthony DeSpirito, jockey
 * Marcos Devers, first Dominican-American to serve as a mayor in the U.S.
 * William E. Donovan, MLB pitcher and manager
 * Sully Erna, Godsmack lead singer
 * Aaron Feuerstein, one of the CEOs of Malden Mills; known for his generosity, for which he was awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award
 * Joseph D. FitzGerald, president of Fairfield University (1951–1958)
 * Jocko Flynn, MLB pitcher
 * Robert Frost, iconic poet, winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and a Congressional Gold Medal, a graduate of Lawrence High School
 * Ziwe Fumudoh, comedian and comic writer
 * Robert Goulet, Grammy-winning singer and Tony-winning actor, born in Lawrence
 * Andrew Haldane, US Marine Corps officer
 * Steve Holman, voice of the Atlanta Hawks
 * Nicky Jam, birth name Nick Rivera Caminero, rapper and reggaeton artist, lived in Lawrence until the age of 10
 * John J. Joubert (1963–1996), serial killer
 * Francis Kilcoyne (died 1985), President of Brooklyn College
 * William S. Knox, US congressman from 1895 to 1903
 * Thomas J. Lane, U.S. congressman from March 4, 1941, to March 3, 1963
 * Abbott Lawrence, founder of Lawrence, U.S. congressman, and ambassador to the United Kingdom
 * Anna LoPizzo, striker killed during the Lawrence textile strike
 * Sal Maccarone, sculptor
 * Statik Selektah, record producer, DJ and radio personality
 * Ray MacDonnell, actor
 * Robert S. Maloney, U.S. congressman from 1921 to 1923
 * Frank McManus, MLB catcher
 * Robbie Merrill, Godsmack bassist
 * Paul Monette, author, poet, and activist
 * George Moolic, professional baseball player
 * Ray Mungo, author of 18 books and co-founder of Liberation News Service
 * Georges Niang, professional basketball player
 * Jane Ellen "Bonnie" Newman, executive dean of Harvard's Kennedy School and president of the University of New Hampshire
 * Georges Niang, professional basketball player
 * John O'Connell, professional baseball player
 * Henry K. Oliver, Treasurer of Massachusetts from 1886 to 1889
 * Endicott Peabody, Governor of Massachusetts from 1963 to 1965
 * Leo Z. Penn, actor and director, father of Sean Penn
 * Joe Perry, guitarist of Aerosmith
 * Elizabeth Pillion, Army chemist
 * Raymond Preston, NFL linebacker
 * William Quinlan, NFL defensive end
 * Reks, rapper
 * Gil Reyes, boxer, WBA, Fedecentro welterweight champion
 * William Herbert Rollins, pioneer in field of radiation protection
 * Dave Rozumek, NFL player
 * William A. Russell, U.S. congressman from 1879 to 1885
 * James Michael Shannon, Attorney General of Massachusetts and CEO of National Fire Protection Association
 * Edgar J. Sherman, Attorney General of Massachusetts and Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court
 * Bethann Siviter, expatriate British nurse leader and author
 * John K. Tarbox, U.S. congressman from 1875 to 1877 and Mayor of Lawrence from (1873–1875)
 * Termanology, rapper
 * Ernest Thayer, writer and poet, Casey at the Bat
 * Thelma Todd, actress
 * Emily Greene Wetherbee, poet and educator
 * John E. White, Auditor of Massachusetts July 6, 1911 to 1914
 * Michael C. Wholley, general counsel for NASA
 * William M. Wood, co-founder of American Woolen Company