page_title: Brookline, Massachusetts
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Brookline, Massachusetts / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo portrait of John F. Kennedy, President of the United States.
context_page_description: Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, in the United States, and is a part of Greater Boston. Brookline borders six of Boston's neighborhoods: Brighton, Allston, Fenway–Kenmore, Mission Hill, Jamaica Plain, and West Roxbury. The city of Newton lies to the west of Brookline.
  At the 2010 census, the population of the town was 58,732. It is the most populous municipality in Massachusetts to have a town form of government.
  Brookline was first settled in 1638 as a hamlet in Boston; it was incorporated as a separate town in 1705.
  Brookline was the birthplace and hometown of John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States.
context_section_description: Jeff Adrien (born 1986), University of Connecticut Huskies basketball captain and power forward
  Bhumibol Adulyadej, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej (King Rama IX) of Thailand lived his infancy in Brookline while his father the prince studied at Harvard Medical School
  Eddie Andelman, sports radio host and businessman, moved to Brookline as child, graduated from Brookline High
  Larz Anderson, U.S. Ambassador to Japan
  Ray Atherton, first U.S. Ambassador to Canada, born and raised in Brookline
  Linda Barnes, novelist
  Saul Bellow, Nobel Prize-winning novelist, lived the last 12 years of his life in Brookline
  Larry Bird, professional basketball player, lived in Brookline while he played for the Boston Celtics
  Ran Blake, jazz pianist and composer
  Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City 2002–12, lived in Brookline as a child
  Marita Bonner (1899-1971), writer, essayist, and playwright
  Zabdiel Boylston, physician who introduced inoculation against smallpox to the North American colonies in 1721
  Tom Brady, lived in Brookline while quarterback of the New England Patriots
  Gisele Bündchen, supermodel and wife of Tom Brady
  Richard Burgin, author, editor of Boulevard (magazine)
  Michael A. Burstein, science-fiction writer
  Stanley Cavell (born 1926), professor of philosophy, winner of a MacArthur Fellowship
  Herman Chernoff (born 1923), statistician
  Ida Conquest, actress
  Zach Cone, creator and player of Biker Boy
  Harvey Cushing, "father of modern neurosurgery"
  Thomas Aspinwall Davis (1798-1845), businessman and mayor of Boston
  Michael Dukakis (born 1933), former Governor of Massachusetts and 1988 Democratic Presidential candidate
  Adam Edelman (born 1991), American-born four-time Israeli National Champion in skeleton event, and Israeli Olympian
  Theo Epstein (born 1973), Chicago Cubs President of Baseball Operations and former Boston Red Sox general manager
  Hank Eskin, webmaster of Where's George?
  Alice Ettinger, radiologist
  Frederick Perry Fish (1855–1930), pioneering intellectual property attorney
  Kenny Florian, professional mixed martial artist
  Terry Francona, former manager of the Boston Red Sox
  Edward Fredkin, digital physics pioneer, inventor of the trie data structure, the Fredkin gate and the Billiard-Ball Computer Model for reversible computing
  Irwin Freedberg, dermatologist
  Peter Gammons, baseball writer and ESPN commentator
  King Gillette, popularizer of the safety razor
  Sheldon Lee Glashow (born 1932), Nobel Prize-winning physicist
  Robert R. Glauber, Harvard faculty, former Chairman of NASD
  Robert Goldwyn (1930–2010), editor-in-chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery for 25 years, Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, and Chief of Plastic Surgery at the Beth Israel Hospital
  Ellen Goodman (born 1941), American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist
  Minnie Goodnow (1871-1952), WWI nurse and nurse educator
  Roland Hayes (1887-1977), lyric tenor and composer
  John Hodgman (born 1971), author and contributor for This American Life and The Daily Show
  Sybil Holmes (1889–1979), first female member of the Massachusetts Senate
  Levi Yitzchak Horowitz (1921–2009), the Bostoner Rebbe
  Isabella Howland (1895–1974), painter and sculptor
  Richard Jones, US ambassador to Israel, lived in Brookline with his family
  Victor Kac, (born 1943), mathematician, MIT faculty, creator of Kac-Moody algebras, creator of Superalgebra
  Jeffrey Karp, biomedical researcher
  John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), 35th President of the United States (1961–63), born and lived first 10 years of his life in Brookline
  Eunice Kennedy Shriver, (1921–2009), sister of President John F. Kennedy, born in Brookline
  Patricia Kennedy Lawford, (1924–2006), sister of President John F. Kennedy, born in Brookline
  Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), Attorney General, US Senator, brother of President John F. Kennedy, born in Brookline
  Jean Kennedy Smith (born 1928), sister of President John F. Kennedy, born in Brookline
  Louise Andrews Kent (1886–1969), author
  Robert Kraft (born 1941), New England Patriots owner
  Jon Krakauer (born 1954, raised in Corvallis, Oregon), aut
caption: John F. Kennedy
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