List of people from New England

All of the following people were born in New England or spent a significant portion of their life there, making them a well-known figure in the region. This includes people who were born in or lived in the U.S. states of Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. 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
 * Alisan Porter
 * Amar Bose
 * Amos Bronson Alcott
 * Amy Jo Johnson
 * Amy Poehler
 * Anna Kendrick
 * Anne Sexton
 * Anthony Michael Hall
 * Barbara Walters
 * Ben Affleck
 * Benjamin Franklin
 * Bernie Sanders
 * Bette Davis
 * Bill Belichick
 * Bill Burr
 * Bill De Blasio
 * William "Billy" Bulger
 * Bobby Brown
 * Bobby Farrelly
 * Richard Buckminster Fuller
 * Calvin Coolidge
 * Carly Simon
 * Carmelo Hayes
 * Casey Affleck
 * Charles Bulfinch
 * Charles Ives
 * Charlie Day
 * Clara Barton
 * Claus von Bülow
 * Chris Evans
 * Conan O'Brien
 * Cotton Mather
 * Crispus Attucks
 * Dan Brown
 * Dane Cook
 * Daniel Shays
 * Daniel Webster
 * David Byrne
 * Debra Messing
 * Denis Leary
 * Dick Dale
 * Donna Summer
 * Donnie Wahlberg
 * Doug Flutie
 * E. E. Cummings
 * Edgar Allan Poe
 * Edward Brooke
 * Edward Gorey
 * Edward Norton
 * Eli Whitney
 * Elisabeth Hasselbeck
 * Elizabeth Warren
 * Ellen Pompeo
 * Emily Dickinson
 * Ephraim Morse
 * Ethel Kennedy
 * Eugene Mirman
 * Frank Miller
 * Franklin Pierce
 * Frederick Douglass
 * George HW Bush
 * George M. Cohan
 * George W Bush
 * George Mitchell
 * H. Jon Benjamin
 * 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
 * Jamie Loftus
 * Jay Harrington
 * Jay Leno
 * Joe Perry
 * Joe Raposo
 * Joey Graceffa
 * John Adams
 * John Cena
 * John F. Kennedy
 * John Ford
 * John Greenleaf Whittier
 * John Hancock
 * John Irving
 * John Kerry
 * John Krasinski
 * John Quincy Adams
 * John Singleton Copley
 * John Steinbeck
 * John Updike
 * Johnny Appleseed
 * JoJo (singer)
 * Jonathan Edwards
 * Jonathan Richman
 * Joseph Grew
 * Joseph Lieberman
 * Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
 * Josh Meyers
 * Joshua Chamberlain
 * Josiah Quincy II
 * Josiah Quincy III
 * Josiah Quincy Jr.
 * Josiah Quincy
 * Joyner Lucas
 * Jun Hasegawa
 * Junius Morgan
 * Katharine Hepburn
 * Katharine Lee Bates
 * Katie Nolan
 * Ken Olsen
 * Kevin Eastman
 * Leonard Bernstein
 * Leonard Nimoy
 * Lilla Cabot Perry
 * Lizzie Borden
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 * Louis Sullivan
 * Louisa May Alcott
 * Matt Leblanc
 * Mandy Moore
 * Mark Wahlberg
 * Maria Menounos
 * Mary Dyer
 * Massasoit
 * Matt Damon
 * Meghan Trainor
 * Meredith Viera
 * King Philip
 * Michael Dukakis
 * Mindy Kaling
 * Misha Collins
 * Mitt Romney
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * New Kids on the Block
 * Norm Crosby
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes
 * Olympia Snowe
 * Patrick Dempsey
 * Patrick Ewing
 * Patrick J. Kennedy
 * Patrick Sharp
 * Paul Revere
 * Paul Tsongas
 * Peter Farrelly
 * Peter Laird
 * Peter Wolf
 * Rachael MacFarlane
 * Rachel Dratch
 * Rachel Nichols
 * Ralph Nader
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * Ric Ocasek
 * Richard Cushing
 * Robert Ellis Cahill
 * Robert Frost
 * Robert Goulet
 * Robert F. Kennedy
 * Robert Kraft
 * Robert Lowell
 * Roger Williams
 * Ronnie James Dio
 * Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
 * Rosemary Kennedy
 * Rowland Hussey Macy
 * Ruth Buzzi
 * Sam Hyde
 * Samuel Adams
 * Samuel Slater
 * Sarah Silverman
 * Sawyer Fredericks
 * Sean Patrick Maloney
 * Seth MacFarlane
 * Seth Meyers
 * Spalding Gray
 * Squanto
 * Stephen King
 * Stephanie McMahon
 * Steve Carell
 * Steven Tyler
 * Sumner Redstone
 * Sunny von Bülow
 * Susan B. Anthony
 * Sylvia Plath
 * Taylor Schilling
 * Edward "Ted" Kennedy
 * Theo Epstein
 * Dr. Seuss
 * Theodore Parker
 * Tip O'Neill
 * Trey Anastasio
 * Triple H
 * Vincent K. McMahon
 * Will McDonough
 * William Cohen
 * William James Sidis
 * William "Bill" Weld
 * Winslow Homer