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List of people from Boston

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This is a list of people who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Boston, Massachusetts and its surrounding metropolitan statistical area.

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Samuel Adams
Ben Affleck
Crispus Attucks

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Boston

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Matt Damon
W. E. B. Du Bois

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Robert Frost

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Robert Goulet

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Winslow Homer

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Keytar Bear

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Amy Lowell
Jack Lemmon

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Samuel Morse

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Jack Nance
Edward Norton

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Evelyn Parnell
Sylvia Plath

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Lee Remick

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Phillis Wheatley

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Malcolm X
  • Malcolm X (1925–1965) – civil rights activist, Muslim minister (lived in Roxbury)

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  • Donnie Yen (born 1963) – Hong Kong actor, martial artist

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See also

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References

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