page_title: Milford, Massachusetts
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Milford, Massachusetts / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Public library, Massachusetts
context_page_description: Milford is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 27,000 according to the 2010 census. First settled in 1662 and incorporated in 1780, Milford became a booming industrial and mining community in the 19th century due to its unique location which includes the nearby source of the Charles River, the Mill River, the Blackstone River watershed, and large quantities of Milford pink granite.
context_section_description: Norm Abram, carpenter and co-host of This Old House; host of the New Yankee Workshop
  Adin Ballou, author, religious leader and prominent 19th century proponent of pacifism, socialism and abolitionism; wrote The History of Milford, Massachusetts, 1882
  Nathan Barnatt, actor and comedian
  Michael Bavaro, producer of Rex Trailer's Boomtown
  Albert Fitch Bellows, artist
  Al Cass, musician and inventor
  Horace Brigham Claflin, merchant
  William Claflin, industrialist, philanthropist and governor
  Chris Colabello, Major League Baseball player
  Vincent Connare, designer of the Comic Sans and Trebuchet fonts
  Ezekiel Cornell, member of Continental Congress, 1780-1782
  Paul Coyne, award-winning producer of numerous television series
  John Davoren, politician
  Greg Dickerson, sports broadcaster
  William F. Draper, U.S. Representative, U.S. Ambassador to Italy
  Brian Fair, lead singer of the metal band Shadows Fall
  Rich Gotham, president of the Boston Celtics
  George F. Johnson, businessman
  Art Kenney, pitcher for the Boston Bees (later renamed the Boston Braves) in 1938
  Charles Laquidara, radio disc jockey
  Howie Long, NFL Hall of Famer, TV broadcaster and actor
  Ralph Lumenti, Major League baseball player
  Virginia Martinez, Republican National Committeewoman from Louisiana from 1977 to 1992; landed the Republican convention in 1988 in her adopted city of New Orleans
  Leonard Chapin Mead, college president
  Richard T. Moore, politician
  Joseph E. Murray, pioneer in the area of organ transplants; 1990 recipient of the Nobel Prize for medicine
  Henry "Boots" Mussulli, jazz saxophonist
  John Ritto Penniman, decorative painter, portraitist and decorator; his works are currently displayed in several notable museums, such as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago
  Gerard Phelan, football player who caught the famous 63-yard, game-winning touchdown pass (thrown by Doug Flutie) for the Boston College Eagles in an NCAA game against the Miami Hurricanes
  Ruth Pointer, singer and member of The Pointer Sisters
  George Pyne III, football player
  George Pyne, businessman
  Jim Pyne, former NFL player
  Jorge Rivera, mixed martial artist, UFC middleweight contender
  Brian Skerry, underwater photo-journalist
  Erik Per Sullivan, actor from Malcolm in the Middle, The Cider House Rules, and Christmas with the Kranks
  Michael Videira, midfielder for the Chicago Fire Soccer Club
  Jarvis White, Wisconsin State Assemblyman
caption: Milford Town Library, 1899
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