People from Newton, Massachusetts

Newton, Massachusetts has been the home of many notable people.

Academics

*David Berson, neurobiologist, professor at Brown University
*J. Walter Fewkes, ethnologist and archaeologist
*Stanley Fischer, governor of the Bank of Israel and former professor at the MIT Department of Economics
*Michael Hammer, one of the founders of the management theory of Business process reengineering
*H. Robert Horvitz, MIT professor of biology who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2002 together with Sydney Brenner and John Sulston
*Ruth Langer, Professor of theology at Boston College, and a noted expert on Jewish Liturgy and on Christian Jewish Relations
*Rosalind Picard, director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab
*Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard professor during 1980-2002, before moving to his current position of a director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University
*Jonathan Sarna, Joseph H. Braun and Belle R. Braun, professor of American Jewish History in the department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University
*Andrei Shleifer, economist and professor of economics at Harvard
*Isadore Singer, mathematician, recipient of the Abel Prize (2004) and National Medal of Science (1983), and Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at MIT
*Lawrence Summers, former Harvard president, former secretary of the treasury, and nephew of the Nobel Prize laureate Paul Samuelson
*Susumu Tonegawa, MIT professor who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987
*Howard Zinn, radical historian and author of "A People's History of the United States"

Actors and Actresses

*Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress and Miss World 2000
*Matt Damon, actor, Oscar-winning screenwriter (with Ben Affleck) for "Good Will Hunting"
*Bette Davis, twice Oscar-winning actress
*Anne Dudek, actress
*Kathryn Erbe, actress
*Jonathan Katz, actor, best known for his starring role on the animated sitcom "Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist"
*John Krasinski, actor best known for playing Jim Halpert on NBC's "The Office"
*Ben Kurland, actor
*Matt LeBlanc, actor, most known for role on sitcom "Friends"
*Jack Lemmon, Oscar-winning actor
*Robert Morse, actor, star of "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" and "Tru"
*B.J. Novak, stand-up comedian, "The Office" actor, writer
*Rebecca Pidgeon, actress, singer and songwriter, and the wife of playwright David Mamet
*Robert Preston, actor, "Professor" Harold Hill in "The Music Man"
*Louis Szekely, known as Louis C.K., stand-up comedian, "Lucky Louie" actor, writer, comedian

Artists

*Arthur Polonsky, draughtsman, painter and academic
*Sidewalk Sam (Robert Guillemin), folk artist
*Nancy Schön, sculptor, most famously of the "Make Way for Ducklings" statues on Boston Common; also did statues of Winnie-the-Pooh and Eeyore at the Newton Free Library

Authors, writers, journalists, poets, etc.

*Binyamin Appelbaum, journalist
*Tom Ashbrook
*Isaac Asimov, prolific science fiction and non-fiction writer
*Russell Banks, writer of fiction and poetry
*Alex Beam, columnist for the "Boston Globe"
*Thomas Bulfinch, author of "Bulfinch's Mythology"
*Ty Burr, film critic for the Boston Globe
*Virginia Lee Burton, illustrator and author of children's books
*Anita Diamant, author of fiction and non-fiction books
*Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, poet, lecturer, philosopher
*Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist
*Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of novels "The Scarlet Letter", "The House of the Seven Gables", "The Blithedale Romance"
*Don Lessem, author
*Elizabeth McCracken , author
*David Mamet, playwright, screenwriter and film director
*Tova Mirvis, novelist
*Diana Muir, writer and historian
*Michael Novak, author
*William Novak, author
*Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate of the United States
*Anne Sexton, poet, writer
*Samuel Shem, playwright
*Andrew Szanton collaborative memoirist
*Ben Ames Williams, novelist
*Jonathan Wilson, novelist and critic

Business and industry

*Roger Berkowitz, owner of Legal Sea Foods
*Richard B. Carter, head of Carter's Ink Company from 1905-1949
*Jim Davis, CEO of New Balance Athletic Shoe
*Louis K. Liggett, drug store magnate
*Sumner Redstone, Global media businessman

Colonial figures

*Waban, 17th Century American Indian tribal chief lived in Nonantum
*Ephraim Williams, Colonel in the colonial militia during the French and Indian War and benefactor of Williams College

Environmentalists

*Francis P. Farquhar, president of the Sierra Club, pioneering mountain climber

Fictional Newtonians

*Gorgeous Rosensweig Teitelbaum, one of the three sisters in Wendy Wasserstein's 1994 play The Sisters Rosensweig, is a "housewife, mother and radio personality" who lives in Newton. [ [http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=2397 All About Jewish Theatre - 'The Sisters Rosensweig' captivates at Croton Falls' Schoolhouse Theatre ] ]
*Andrew Sabot, the male ingenue in Cole Porter's 1928 play Paris is a Mayflower descendant form Newton Center whose mother comes to Paris to prevent his marriage to a French actress.

Government, Education and Politics

*Benigno Aquino, Jr. and Corazon Aquino, Filipino public intellectual and political figure
*Joseph Healy, United States Representative from New Hampshire
*Horace Mann, public educator, college president (Antioch College) and United States Representative from Massachusetts
*Cyrus Peirce, public educator, college president of Framingham State College (which was once located in West Newton). The Peirce School in West Newton is named for him.
*Roger Sherman, the only person to have signed all four basic documents of American sovereignty: the Continental Association of 1774, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
*Nguyen Van Thieu, exiled President of South Vietnam [cite web|url = http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/09/23/boston_where_the_famous_come_to_hide/ | title = Boston, where the famous come to hide - The Boston Globe |accessdate = 2007-06-24]

Music

*Ralph Burns, songwriter, bandleader, composer, conductor, arranger and bebop pianist
*Stephen Custer, cellist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, grew up in Newton
*Osvaldo Golijov, Grammy award-winning composer of classical music
*Vaughn Monroe, singer, trumpeter and big band leader
*Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra Music Director Laureate
*Fritz Richmond, jug and washtub bass player
*Mark Sandman, lead singer of the alternative rock band Morphine
*Anal Cunt, popular noisecore/grindcore band
*Horatio Parker, composer, first Dean of Yale Music School, born in Auburndale (A village of Newton)

Philosophy, religion and spirituality

*Ram Dass (Dr. Richard Alpert), author, philosophic and religious "guru"
*Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist. See Dupee Estate-Mary Baker Eddy Home.
*Timothy Leary, author, psychologist, lecturer at Harvard, advocate of L.S.D.-25 ("i.e.", Lysergic acid diethylamide) and other entheogens, jailbird, computer enthusiast

Physicians

*Atul Gawande, general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital

Political activists

*Charles Jacobs (political activist), founder of the American Anti-Slavery Group and of The David Project Center for Jewish Leadership
*Andrea Levin, director of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America

Producers and Directors

*Eli Roth, film director, producer, actor
*Julie Taymor, director of Broadway theatre and film.

Psychologists and Psychiatrists

*Julian Jaynes, psychologist
*Kenneth Levin, psychiatrist and historian
*Kurt Lewin, "the father of social psychology"

Radio, television and motion pictures

*Maria Lopez, former judge, TV court show host
*Paula S. Apsell, television producer

cience, medicine and technology

*Reginald Fessenden(1866-1932), inventor and radio pioneer, his house at 45 Waban Hill Road is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
*Charles Stark Draper, inventor of the aircraft internal guidance system, and founder of MIT's Draper Labs
*Atul Gawande, surgeon, writer for "The New Yorker"
*Jonathan Mann, head of the World Health Organization's global AIDS project
*Frank E. Winsor, civil engineer and chief engineer of the Quabbin Reservoir project
*Francis Edgar Stanley and Freelan O. Stanley, twin brothers, who invented the famous steam-powered automobile known as the Stanley Steamer

ongwriters

*Katharine Lee Bates, professor of English at Wellesley College and author of the lyrics to "America the Beautiful"
*Samuel Francis Smith, Baptist minister and author of the lyrics to My Country, 'Tis of Thee, also known as "America"

ports

Baseball

*The following current and former players of the Boston Red Sox:
**Matt Clement, (former)
**Jim Corsi, (former player of the Boston Red Sox, Florida Marlins, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, and Houston Astros)
**JD Drew, (current)
**Mark Loretta, (former)
**Doug Mirabelli, (former)
**Trot Nixon, (former)
**David Ortiz, (current)
**Wily Mo Peña, (former)
**Jimmy Piersall, (former)
**Jason Varitek, (current)
**Ted Williams, (former)

Basketball

*Larry Bird, former Boston Celtics basketball player
*Jack Long, Boston Celtics

occer

*Taylor Twellman current New England Revolution player

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