40.9406° N, 76.8083° W
NEWTON
Most Famous People Born in Newton, United States
- Notable people
- 327
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- Median birth year
- 1927
- Most distinctive
- Skater 7.6×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Newton during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Newton Is Known For
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Politician is Newton's biggest profession — 16% of all notables (53).
Newton over-indexes on skater — 7.6× the global rate.
Newton under-produces football — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Newton's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Politics & Law
- Science
- Writing
- Film & TV
- Music
- Other
Jack Lemmon
1925 - 2001
Tori Amos
Born 1963
Amy Poehler
Born 1971
Matt LeBlanc
Born 1967
John Krasinski
Born 1979
Burl Ives
1909 - 1995
Janeane Garofalo
Born 1964
Eli Roth
Born 1972
Anne Sexton
1928 - 1974
B. J. Novak
Born 1979
Julie Taymor
Born 1952
Roger Sherman
1721 - 1793
Robert Morse
Born 1931
Brad Falchuk
Born 1971
Josephine Hull
1877 - 1957
Charles Murray (political scientist)
Born 1943
Kathryn Erbe
Born 1965
Mike Mangini
Born 1963
Russell Banks
Born 1940
Julian Jaynes
1920 - 1997
James Harris Simons
Born 1938
D. C. Fontana
1939 - 2019
Thomas Bulfinch
1796 - 1867
Tenley Albright
Born 1935
Mark Sandman
1952 - 1999
Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt
1861 - 1884
Ralph Burns
1922 - 2001
Sharon Needles
Born 1981
Gracie Gold
Born 1995
Leverett Saltonstall
1892 - 1979
Alex Karpovsky
Born 1975
Mark Foley
Born 1954
Nell Scovell
Born 1960
Jane Morgan
Born 1924
Paul Overstreet
Born 1955
M. Hoke Smith
1855 - 1931
Roger Kellaway
Born 1939
William Poole
1821 - 1855
Paul G. Kirk
Born 1938
Sinclair Weeks
1893 - 1972
Jessica Chaffin
-
Robert L. Johnson
Born 1946
John W. Griggs
1849 - 1927
Ann Graybiel
Born 1942
Harold Barclay
1924 - 2017
Alexander H. Rice
1818 - 1895
Frederick Converse
1871 - 1940
Jesse M. Unruh
1922 - 1987
Emilio Q. Daddario
1918 - 2010
Errett Bishop
1928 - 1983
Tom Adair
1913 - 1988
Lester Grinspoon
1928 - 2020
Emerson Hough
1857 - 1923
Jesse Walter Fewkes
1850 - 1930
Roland Thaxter
1858 - 1932
Tony Clark
Born 1972
Fiske Kimball
1888 - 1955
Ardolph L. Kline
1858 - 1930
Virginia Lee Burton
1909 - 1968
Karen Kondazian
Born 1950
Alphonse Lacroix
1897 - 1973
Mary Mazzio
Born 1961
Rodman M. Price
1816 - 1894
Kiko Alonso
Born 1990
Guy Ballard
1878 - 1939
Genevra Stone
Born 1985
Linda Gray Sexton
Born 1953
Charles Johnson Maynard
1845 - 1929
Rebecca Parris
1951 - 2018
Nathaniel Benchley
1915 - 1981
Tal Rabin
Born 1962
Frederick Hovey
1868 - 1945
Reynold C. Fuson
1895 - 1979
William Jackson (Massachusetts)
1783 - 1855
Hallam L. Movius
1907 - 1987
Aoife O'Donovan
Born 1982
Jennifer Kirk
Born 1984
Seth Mnookin
Born 1972
William Tudor Gardiner
1892 - 1953
Gordon D. Kaufman
1925 - 2011
John Daley (boxer)
1909 - 1963
Ephraim Williams
1715 - 1755
Willard Rice
1895 - 1967
Laurie Koehn
Born 1982
Dustin Richardson
Born 1984
Ivan Riley
1900 - 1943
Lee Segel
1932 - 2005
Wilmon Henry Sheldon
1875 - 1980
William Bross
1813 - 1890
John M. Haines
1863 - 1917
Bob Howard (singer)
1906 - 1986
Harold E. Foster
1906 - 1996
Henry J. B. Cummings
1831 - 1909
Elizabeth P. Hoisington
1918 - 2007
Richard Gelles
Died 2020
Arthur Walworth
1903 - 2005
Louis F. Post
1849 - 1928
Waldo Rudolph Wedel
1908 - 1996
Robert T. Anderson
Born 1945
Pete Hamilton
1942 - 2017
Deborah Forte
-
Louis Fabian Bachrach Jr.
1917 - 2010
Kristin Harmel
Born 1979
Laurence F. Arnold
1891 - 1966
Ernest Hatch Wilkins
1880 - 1966
Errett P. Scrivner
1898 - 1978
Theodore Cross
1924 - 2010
Joseph Healy
1776 - 1861
James S. Gracey
1927 - 2020
Gregory Kelley
1944 - 1961
Matt Chatham
Born 1977
John Palmer Parker (rancher)
1790 - 1868
Jim Corsi (baseball)
Born 1961
Ellen Goodman
Born 1941
Shirley Sherrod
Born 1948
Donald S. Harrington
1914 - 2005
Christopher Loria
Born 1960
William Helms
Died 1813
Dan Harris (journalist)
Born 1971
James Delaney (tennis)
Born 1953
Kendyl Stewart
Born 1994
Carol Sudhalter
Born 1943
Jeff Kealty
Born 1976
Elton Watkins
1881 - 1956
George C. Maxwell
1771 - 1816
John Curtis (baseball)
Born 1948
Barry Levy
Born 1972
Erica Rhodes
Born 1986
Norman Thomas di Giovanni
1933 - 2017
Emil Haury
1904 - 1992
Jay Clark (sport shooter)
1880 - 1948
Travis Hughes
Born 1978
C. J. Young
Born 1968
Jerry Punch
Born 1953
James Arnold Lowell
1869 - 1933
Edwin B. Brooks
1868 - 1933
Alexandra Illmer Forsythe
1918 - 1980
Bruce Lawrence
Born 1941
Sara Haines
Born 1977
Warren F. Daniell
1826 - 1913
James Peter Warbasse
1866 - 1957
Josh Altman
Born 1979
George K. Burgess
1874 - 1932
Glenn Andreotta
1947 - 1968
Rob Chiarelli
Born 1963
Eleanor Carothers
1882 - 1957
Chris Delaney
Born 1957
Stanwood Cobb
1881 - 1982
Francis P. Farquhar
1887 - 1974
Fritz Richmond
1939 - 2005
Bobby Hicks
Born 1933
Sidney Hinds
1900 - 1991
Johnny Budd
1899 - 1963
Ann Warren Griffith
1911 - 1983
Ralph Lowell
1890 - 1978
Barbara Swan
1922 - 2003
Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch
1867 - 1951
Joe Gibbon
1935 - 2019
Carly Gold
Born 1995
Andrew Sears
-
Shorty McWilliams
1926 - 1997
Edward Sheehan
1930 - 2008
William Coolidge Lane
1859 - 1931
John Davis (United States Court of Claims judge)
1851 - 1902
John Westbrook (Pennsylvania)
1789 - 1852
Nancy Caroline
1944 - 2002
Richard Muther (industrial engineer)
1913 - 2014
Nathaniel Fish Moore
1782 - 1872
Kimberly J. Mueller
Born 1957
Joe Sostilio
1915 - 2000
Mary E. Switzer
1900 - 1971
Andy Katz
Born 1969
A. Joseph DeNucci
1939 - 2017
Clara Louise Burnham
1854 - 1927
William Kennedy (New Jersey)
1775 - 1826
Herbert E. Merwin
1878 - 1963
Rita Crocker Clements
1931 - 2018
Dennis Setzer
Born 1960
Thomas Curtis Clarke
1827 - 1901
Felicity Jones (naturist)
Born 1988
John O'Leary
1926 - 2019
J. C. Monahan
-
Suzyn Waldman
Born 1946
Setti Warren
Born 1970
Peter Mollica
Born 1941
Virginia Bosler
Died 2020
Brock Long
Born 1975
Dorothea Jameson
1920 - 1998
Jeffries Wyman (biologist)
1901 - 1995
Robert F. Foley
Born 1941
Ilya Welter
Born 1966
Red Strader
1902 - 1956
Leslie Dewan
Born 1984
William L. Saltonstall
1927 - 2009
H. Adams Carter
1914 - 1995
Carol Schlosberg
1957 - 1998
Hollis French
Born 1958
David Jensen (ice hockey, born 1965)
Born 1965
Peter Koutoujian
Born 1961
Rich Miano
Born 1962
J. Weston Allen
1872 - 1942
Alison Littell McHose
Born 1965
Guy Porter
1884 - 1951
Chris Angel
Born 1972
Josh Zakim
Born 1983
Todd Gilbert
Born 1970
Andrew Chin
Born 1992
William Grover Smith
1857 - 1921
A. A. Townsend
1810 - 1879
Cherie Berry
Born 1946
Robin McNamara
Born 1947
Mike Granger
Born 1991
Bob Gallagher (baseball)
Born 1948
Suzanne Davis (figure skater)
1912 - 1991
James Lore Murray
1919 - 2004
Olga C. Nardone
1921 - 2010
Bruce Ryburn Payne
1874 - 1937
Alexandra Kavvada
Born 1983
Kerry Berry Brogan
-
Harold Grinspoon
Born 1929
John DiMaio
Born 1955
Helen Roney Sattler
1921 - 1992
Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer
1812 - 1894
Lynnie Greene
Born 1954
Caroline D. Gentile
1924 - 2008
Pete Muller (photographer)
Born 1982
Danny Baugher
Born 1984
Edward Haven Mason
1849 - 1917
Hugh Calkins
1924 - 2014
Mitch Holmes
Born 1962
Alfred Genovese
1931 - 2011
Kevin Seal
-
Amalie Benjamin
Born 1982
Bryan Smith (American football)
Born 1983
Alexander Freeman (filmmaker)
Born 1987
Richard Parks (author)
Born 1955
Joseph Jacobson
Born 1965
Allen Questrom
Born 1941
Russ Van Atta
1906 - 1986
Caleb Hopkins (Upper Canada)
1786 - 1880
Bob Coronato
Born 1970
Charles Church Roberts
1882 - 1957
Frank A. Mason
1862 - 1940
Normie Roy
1928 - 2011
Richard Toomey
-
Sean DePaula
Born 1973
Melissa Lozada-Oliva
Born 1993
Mike Wellman
Born 1956
Bob Barr (1930s pitcher)
1908 - 2002
Shane Lee (racing driver)
Born 1993
Lyle Goodhue
1903 - 1981
Francis Burr
1886 - 1910
Patrick Miller (soldier)
Born 1980
Steve Trimper
-
John C. Yoder
1951 - 2017
Mary Tuthill Lindheim
1912 - 2004
Oliver Leland Loring
1904 - 1979
Jade McCarthy
Born 1980
Katherine Strueby
1908 - 1988
Bob Trice
1926 - 1988
Joe Malone (politician)
Born 1954
Samuel Finley Brown Morse
1885 - 1969
Marc Rhoades
-
James F. C. Hyde
1825 - 1898
Richard W. Burkhardt
1918 - 2014
Fritz Maytag
Born 1937
Walter Lovell
1884 - 1937
Eddie Yount
1915 - 1973
James Evans (Mississippi politician)
Born 1950
Mark Connolly (public official)
1955 - 2019
Platt Rogers
1850 - 1928
Nate Teut
Born 1976
Judith Loganbill
-
Earnest Williams
Born 1949
Hafu (video game player)
Born 1991
Warren Huston
1913 - 1999
David George Ouellet
1944 - 1967
Barry Russo
Born 1925
Lillie Eginton Warren
1859 - 1926
John D. Towle
Died 1887
David Mahoney (soccer)
Born 1981
William Stetson Merrill
1886 - 1969
Louisa Bertman
-
Wallace H. Nutting
Born 1928
Ben Brewster
Born 1948
Percival Symonds
1893 - 1960
Francis Oliver Haddock
1892 - 1934
Hal Deviney
1893 - 1933
Mike Spegal
Born 1968
John A. Locke (Massachusetts politician)
Born 1962
Jessica Kate Meyer
-
Sam Brill
Born 1985
Winifred E. Lefferts
1903 - 1995
Law Daniels
1862 - 1929
Nathaniel Pettit
1724 - 1803
Elana Mann
Born 1982
Edward T. Martin
1910 - 1984
Cedric Isom
Born 1984
Dal Millington Lemmon
1887 - 1958
Daniel Symmes
1772 - 1817