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 Lidian Jackson Emerson, abolitionist, wife of Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Bob Asbjornson, Major League Baseball player Laurie Baker, USA ice hockey gold medalist 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, former NHL head coach
Politicians
Chris Abele, county executive of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Charles A.P. Bartlett, Pennsylvania state senator George M. Brooks, U.S. representative Simon Brown, 21st lieutenant governor of Massachusetts 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 Henry J. Hosmer, Massachusetts state senator 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 He is recorded as dying in Concord. Perhaps he retired to Concord, or he was just visiting? John Buttrick, Concord militia leader Frederick Heyliger, Easy Company commander and member of the "Band of Brothers" Jonathan Hoar, colonial soldier Benjamin Ralph Kimlau, Chinese American aviator killed in action during World War II 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 Patrick McHale, screenwriter, creator of Over the Garden Wall 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
See also List of people from Massachusetts
References