# List of people from Concord, Massachusetts

The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Concord, Massachusetts.

## Writers

* Seth Abramson, poet
* 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
* George William Curtis, writer and speaker
* Edward Waldo Emerson, physician, writer and lecturer
* 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
* Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist and short story writer
* George Parsons Lathrop, poet and novelist
* Alan Lightman, physicist, novelist and essayist
* Gregory Maguire, author
* Russell Miller, author and historian
* Robert B. Parker, author
* 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

## 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

* Casper Asbjornson, Major League Baseball player
* Laurie Baker, USA ice hockey gold medalist
* Charlie Booth, soccer player
* Michael Fucito, soccer player
* Hal Gill, National Hockey League player
* Tom Glavine, Major League Baseball player
* Dick Kazmaier, Princeton college football player who was the last Ivy League Heisman Trophy winner
* Kara Mann, strongwoman and chemical engineer
* Uta Pippig, marathon runner
* Sam Presti, NBA executive
* John Tortorella, Philadelphia Flyers head coach

## Politicians

* Chris Abele, county executive of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
* Charles A.P. Bartlett, Pennsylvania State Senator
* 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
* Charles Francis Adams III, 44th Secretary of the Navy
* Oscar C. Badger, U.S. Navy officer
* John Buttrick, Concord militia leader
* Frederick Heyliger, Easy company commander and member of the "Band of Brothers"
* Jonathan Hoar, colonial soldier
* Samuel Prescott, American Revolutionary War, involved in "The Ride" with Paul Revere and William Dawes
* Thomas Wheeler, soldier in King Philip's War

## Others

* Samuel Bartlett, silversmith
* Tim Berners-Lee, British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web
* Frank Hagar Bigelow, U.S. astronomer and meteorologist
* Daniel Bliss, jurist, proscribed by the Massachusetts Banishment Act
* Peter Bulkley, Puritan preacher and a co-founder of Concord
* Ephraim Bull, inventor of the Concord grape
* Darby Conley, cartoonist
* Bob Diamond, former chief executive of Barclays
* Daniel Chester French, sculptor
* William Watson Goodwin, classical scholar
* John Hoar, redeemer of famed captive Mary Rowlandson during King Philip's War
* Dick Hustvedt, software engineer
* Edward Holton James, socialist
* Edward Jarvis, physician and statistician
* Har Gobind Khorana, Indian American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
* Lynn Harold Loomis, mathematician and co-discoverer of the Loomis–Whitney inequality
* Alfred W. McCoy, historian and educator
* Jane Mendillo, CEO of Harvard Management Company
* Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, artist
* Betty Parris, Salem witch trials accuser
* Ezra Ripley, clergyman
* Alice Ruggles Sohier, painter
* Robert Solow, Nobel laureate in economics
* Stephen Wolfram, British-born scientist and developer of Mathematica software
* Chris Wysopal, entrepreneur and cybersecurity pioneer