Boston is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Absalom Boston (1785–1855), American mariner Aliyah Boston (born 2001), American basketball player Andrew Boston (born 1994), Australian rules footballer Archie Boston Jr. (born 1943), American graphic artist and retired professor Bernie Boston (1933–2008), American photographer Blake Boston (born 1990), American rapper and subject of an internet meme Bob Boston (1918–2002), American baseball player Brad Boston (born 1974), Canadian sailor Brandon Boston Jr. (born 2001), American basketball player Bruce Boston (1943–2024), American writer and poet Billy Boston (born 1934), Welsh rugby league footballer Chief Boston (1917–2002), American football player, college football coach, and United States Army officer David Boston (born 1978), American football player Daryl Boston (born 1963), American baseball player Denzel Boston (born 2003), American football player Frank Boston (1938–2011), American politician Frank E. Boston (1890–1960), American physician Granger Boston (1921–1958), English cricketer Gretha Boston (born 1959), American singer and actress Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston (1898–1969), Sierra Leonean diplomat and politician Jacques Boston (born 1973), Guinean Anglican bishop John Boston (brewer) (died 1804), Australian brewer John Boston (politician) (c. 1832–after 1880), American politician Jonathan Boston (born 1957), New Zealand academic Justin Boston (born 1989), American racing driver Lawrence Boston (born 1956), American former basketball player Leonard N. Boston (1871–1931), American physician Lucy M. Boston (1892–1990), British author McKinley Boston (born 1945), American university administrator Nigel Boston (1961–2024), British-American mathematician Paul Boston (born 1952), Australian artist Penelope Boston, American speleologist and astrobiologist Peter Boston (1918–1999), British architect and illustrator, son of Lucy M. Boston Prince Boston (born 1750), American enslaved person, uncle of Absalom Boston Rachel Boston (born 1982), American model and actress Ralph Boston (1939–2023), American track and field athlete Richard Boston (1938–2006), British journalist and writer Rob Boston (born 1962), American author, advocate of church-state separation Robert Boston (politician) (c. 1836–1922), Canadian politician and farmer Roseina Boston (1935–2018), Australian musician Shelly Boston (born 1975), Australian former basketball player Terence Boston, Baron Boston of Faversham (1930–2011), British politician Thomas Boston (1676–1732), Scottish theologian Tre Boston (born 1992), American football player Walter Boston (1874–1968), Australian politician Ward Boston (1923–2008), United States Navy captain

See also Carey Hoyt Bostian (1907–2000), American educator and Chancellor of North Carolina State University