List of people from Concord, Massachusetts
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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Concord, Massachusetts.
- Seth Abramson, poet[1]
- 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[2]
- George William Curtis, writer and speaker
- Edward Waldo Emerson, physician, writer and lecturer
- Lidian Jackson Emerson, abolitionist, wife of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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[3]
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist and short story writer
- George Parsons Lathrop, poet and novelist
- Alan Lightman, physicist, novelist and essayist[4]
- Gregory Maguire, author[5]
- Russell Miller, author and historian
- Robert B. Parker, author[6]
- 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[7]
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
- Bob Asbjornson, Major League Baseball player
- Laurie Baker, USA ice hockey gold medalist[8]
- Michael Fucito, soccer player
- Hal Gill, National Hockey League player[9]
- Tom Glavine, Major League Baseball player
- Dick Kazmaier, Princeton college football player who was the last Ivy League Heisman Trophy winner[10]
- Kara Mann, strongwoman and chemical engineer
- Uta Pippig, marathon runner[11]
- Sam Presti, NBA executive[12]
- John Tortorella, former NHL head coach
Politicians
- Chris Abele, county executive of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
- Charles A.P. Bartlett, Pennsylvania state senator
- George M. Brooks, U.S. representative
- 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[13]
- Charles Francis Adams III, 44th secretary of the Navy[13]
- Oscar C. Badger, U.S. Navy officer[14]
- John Buttrick, Concord militia leader
- Frederick Heyliger, Easy Company commander and member of the "Band of Brothers"
- Jonathan Hoar, colonial soldier
- Benjamin Ralph Kimlau, Chinese American aviator killed in action during World War II
- Samuel Prescott, American Revolutionary War, involved in "The Ride" with Paul Revere and William Dawes
- Thomas Wheeler, soldier in King Philip's War