People involved in the American Revolution

• John Adams, revolutionary, later President
• Samuel Adams, revolutionary
• Crispus Attucks, first casualty of the war
• John Glover (general), revolutionary general
• John Hancock
• James Otis
• Robert Treat Paine
• William Prescott
• Paul Revere, revolutionary

Public Office

• John Adams, 2nd U.S. president and 1st vice president
• John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. president
• Joe Arpaio, Sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona
• Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
• George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st U.S. president
• Andrew Card, State Rep., U.S. Secretary of Transportation, White House Chief of Staff
• Calvin Coolidge, mayor, state representative, senator and governor, 30th U.S. president
• Michael Dukakis, governor and 1988 Democratic nominee for president
• Richard Goodwin, speechwriter for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Robert F. Kennedy; congressional investigator probing the 1950s Twenty One quiz show scandal
• John Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts and President of the Continental Congress
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
• Edward Kennedy, U.S. Senator
• John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. president
• Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator (New York)
• John Forbes Kerry, U.S. Senator and 2004 Democratic nominee for president
• Tip O’Neill, 55th Speaker of the House, from 1977 -1987
• Frances Perkins, U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 – 1945 and first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet
• Mitt Romney, former governor
• Jane Swift, first and only female governor of Massachusetts
• John Volpe, U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Nixon and Governor of Massachusetts

Science

• Ethan Allen, co-inventor of the single-action revolver
• Nima Arkani-Hamed, theoretical physicist
• Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
• Benjamin Franklin, scientist and public official
• Robert Goddard, inventor (“father of modern rocketry”)
• Elias Howe, inventor
• Melvin Johnson, prominent firearms designer
• Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor and artist
• William T.G. Morton, dentist and physician
• Albert Sacco, chemical engineer and Payload Specialist for NASA
• John Henry Schwarz, theoretical physicist
• Andrew Strominger, theoretical physicist
• Benjamin Thompson, physicist and inventor
• Edward Thorndike, psychologist
• Worcester Warner, mechanical engineer, astronomer
• Samuel Wellman, inventor of the crucible steel furnace
• Daniel Wesson, prominent firearms designer
• Eli Whitney, inventor
• Robert Wood, physicist, inventor