| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Louis Agassiz |
Paleontologist |
28-May-1807 |
14-Dec-1873 |
Ichthyologist at Harvard |
| Robert Bacon |
Government |
5-Jul-1860 |
29-May-1919 |
US Ambassador to France, 1909-12 |
| John Bartlett |
Author |
14-Jun-1820 |
3-Dec-1905 |
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations |
| Jacob Bigelow |
Botanist |
27-Feb-1787 |
10-Jan-1879 |
American Medical Botany |
| E. Power Biggs |
Organist |
29-Mar-1906 |
10-Mar-1977 |
Anglo-American organist |
| Edwin Booth |
Actor |
13-Nov-1833 |
7-Jun-1893 |
Renowned 19th century American actor |
| Edwin G. Boring |
Psychologist |
23-Oct-1886 |
1-Jul-1968 |
A History of Experimental Psychology |
| Nathaniel Bowditch |
Astronomer |
26-Mar-1773 |
17-Mar-1838 |
American Practical Navigator |
| Charles Bulfinch |
Architect |
8-Aug-1763 |
15-Apr-1844 |
Architect of the U.S. Capitol |
| Mac Bundy |
Government |
30-Mar-1919 |
16-Sep-1996 |
National Security Advisor, 1961-66 |
| William Bundy |
Government |
24-Sep-1917 |
6-Oct-2000 |
Cold War advisor to JFK, LBJ |
| Anson Burlingame |
Diplomat |
14-Nov-1820 |
23-Feb-1870 |
US Ambassador to China, 1861-70 |
| Rufus Choate |
Attorney |
1-Oct-1799 |
13-Jul-1859 |
Attorney and Senator from Massachusetts |
| Frank Conroy |
Author |
15-Jan-1936 |
6-Apr-2005 |
Stop-Time |
| Carl Cori |
Scientist |
5-Dec-1896 |
20-Oct-1984 |
Catalytic conversion of glycogen |
| Gerty Cori |
Scientist |
15-Aug-1896 |
26-Oct-1957 |
Catalytic conversion of glycogen |
| Robert Creeley |
Poet |
21-May-1926 |
30-Mar-2005 |
Founded Black Mountain Review |
| Benjamin Robbins Curtis |
Judge |
4-Nov-1809 |
15-Sep-1874 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1851-57 |
| Samuel Dexter |
Politician |
14-May-1761 |
4-May-1816 |
US Secretary of War, Treasury |
| Dorothea Dix |
Activist |
4-Apr-1802 |
17-Jul-1887 |
Activist for the insane |
| Mary Baker Eddy |
Religion |
16-Jul-1821 |
3-Dec-1910 |
Founded Christian Science movement |
| Charles William Eliot |
Educator |
20-Mar-1834 |
22-Aug-1926 |
President, Harvard University, 1869-1909 |
| Edward Everett |
Politician |
11-Apr-1794 |
15-Jan-1865 |
Governor of Massachuetts, 1836-40 |
| Felix Frankfurter |
Judge |
15-Nov-1882 |
22-Feb-1965 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1939-62 |
| R. Buckminster Fuller |
Architect |
12-Jul-1895 |
1-Jul-1983 |
Futurist, invented the geodesic dome |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner |
Philanthropist |
14-Apr-1840 |
17-Jul-1924 |
Prominent art patron, collector |
| Curt Gowdy |
Sports Journalist |
31-Jul-1919 |
20-Feb-2006 |
Voice of the Red Sox |
| Robert Grant |
Novelist |
24-Jan-1852 |
19-May-1940 |
Unleavened Bread |
| Asa Gray |
Botanist |
18-Nov-1810 |
30-Jan-1888 |
Botany of the Northern United States |
| Horace Gray |
Judge |
24-Mar-1828 |
15-Sep-1902 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1882-1902 |
| Edwin Hall |
Physicist |
7-Nov-1855 |
20-Nov-1938 |
Discovered the Hall Effect |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Author |
29-Aug-1809 |
7-Oct-1894 |
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table |
| Winslow Homer |
Painter |
24-Feb-1836 |
30-Sep-1910 |
Maritime painter, Eight Bells |
| Julia Ward Howe |
Activist |
27-May-1819 |
17-Oct-1910 |
Battle Hymn of the Republic |
| Samuel Gridley Howe |
Educator |
10-Nov-1801 |
9-Jan-1876 |
Founder of Perkins Institution |
| Edwin H. Land |
Inventor |
7-May-1909 |
1-Mar-1991 |
Polaroid Land Camera |
| Henry Cabot Lodge |
Politician |
12-May-1850 |
9-Nov-1924 |
US Senator from Massachusetts, 1893-1924 |
| Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. |
Politician |
5-Jul-1902 |
27-Feb-1985 |
Ambassador, Massachusetts Senator |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Poet |
27-Feb-1807 |
24-Mar-1882 |
Evangeline |
| Amy Lowell |
Poet |
9-Feb-1874 |
12-May-1925 |
What's O'Clock |
| James Russell Lowell |
Author |
22-Feb-1819 |
12-Aug-1891 |
The Biglow Papers |
| Bernard Malamud |
Author |
26-Apr-1914 |
18-Mar-1986 |
The Fixer |
| Richard Olney |
Government |
15-Sep-1835 |
8-Apr-1917 |
US Secretary of State, 1895-97 |
| Francis Parkman |
Historian |
16-Sep-1823 |
8-Nov-1893 |
France and England in North America |
| Walter Piston |
Composer |
20-Jan-1894 |
12-Nov-1976 |
Symphony No. 3 |
| Nathan M. Pusey |
Educator |
4-Apr-1907 |
14-Nov-2001 |
President of Harvard, 1953-71 |
| Josiah Quincy |
Educator |
4-Feb-1772 |
1-Jul-1864 |
President of Harvard, 1829-45 |
| Anne Revere |
Actor |
25-Jun-1903 |
18-Dec-1990 |
National Velvet |
| William Barton Rogers |
Educator |
7-Dec-1804 |
30-May-1882 |
Founder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Josiah Royce |
Philosopher |
20-Nov-1855 |
14-Sep-1916 |
The Religious Aspect of Philosophy |
| Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
Historian |
15-Oct-1917 |
28-Feb-2007 |
The Age of Roosevelt |
| Julian Schwinger |
Physicist |
12-Feb-1918 |
16-Jul-1994 |
Quantum electrodynamics |
| B. F. Skinner |
Psychologist |
20-Mar-1904 |
18-Aug-1990 |
Radical Behaviorism |
| Jared Sparks |
Author |
10-May-1789 |
14-Mar-1866 |
Life and Writings of George Washington |
| I. F. Stone |
Journalist |
24-Dec-1907 |
17-Jul-1989 |
I. F. Stone's Weekly |
| Joseph Story |
Judge |
18-Sep-1779 |
10-Sep-1845 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1812-45 |
| Charles Sumner |
Politician |
6-Jan-1811 |
11-Mar-1874 |
Anti-slavery Senator from Massachusetts |
| Helen B. Taussig |
Doctor |
24-May-1898 |
20-May-1986 |
Mother of pediatric cardiology |
| Charles Tufts |
Business |
17-Jul-1781 |
24-Dec-1876 |
Founder of Tufts University |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis |
Journalist |
20-Jan-1806 |
20-Jan-1867 |
Pencillings by the Way |
| Robert Charles Winthrop |
Politician |
12-May-1809 |
16-Nov-1894 |
Speaker of the 30th Congress |
