# 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 and multi-award winning record producer, DJ and record label owner
* Patrick F. Burke, American football player
* Garrett Caples, 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, 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 age 10
* John J. Joubert (1963–1996), serial killer
* Francis Kilcoyne (died 1985), President of Brooklyn College
* William S. Knox, US congressman 1895–1903
* Thomas J. Lane, U.S. congressman 1941–1963
* 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
* Ray MacDonnell, actor
* Robert S. Maloney, U.S. congressman 1921–1923
* 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
* John O'Connell, professional baseball player
* Henry K. Oliver, Treasurer of Massachusetts 1886–1889
* Endicott Peabody, Governor of Massachusetts 1963–1965
* 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 1879–1885
* Statik Selektah, record producer, DJ and radio personality
* 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 1875–1877 and mayor of Lawrence 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 1911–1914
* Michael C. Wholley, general counsel for NASA
* William M. Wood, co-founder of American Woolen Company