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Famous People from Massachusetts by Picture

Can you name these famous Bay Staters based on a picture?
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Last updated: December 18, 2023
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First submittedMarch 25, 2012
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Brookline
Cambridge
Cambridge
Adams
Amherst
Braintree
Brockton
Boston
Boston
various
Brookline
Boston
Canton
Burlington
Lawrence
Sudbury
Great Barrington
(Founded the NAACP)
Amherst
(Poet)
Concord
(Once lived near a pond)
Lowell
(Beatnik author)
32 Comments
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Level 28
Mar 25, 2012
Well, Well, Well..... It's pretty sad when more people get Conan than Dubois.
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Level 76
Oct 6, 2014
Never heard of him. I am not American. I don't even know what NAACP means and not ashamed of that. On the other hand Conan O'Brien is somewhat of a legend in our country. He even met our president of the time. Both being redheads.
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Level 96
May 5, 2021
Are you from Finland, by any chance?
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Level 83
Dec 19, 2023
I don't live in the USA but we learnt about the NCAAP and the Civil Rights movement regardless
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Level 19
Jan 12, 2024
Maybe they live somewhere else other than you? Lol
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Level 62
Jan 11, 2024
Well well well 🤓
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Level 65
Mar 26, 2012
Who's Dubois. I guarantee we never learned about him when I was in school.
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Level 66
Oct 5, 2014
One of my housemates from long ago told the story about how his parents got a visit from the FBI, who wanted to inform them that their son had joined a Communist front group in high school. the W.E.B DuBois Club. He claimed he didn't know about its politics--he thought he was joining The Boys Club.
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Level 29
Mar 1, 2017
add john cena please
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Level ∞
Dec 18, 2023
Okay. Just visited his Wikipedia page. Apparently he went to prep school, lol.
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Level 64
Jul 20, 2019
Where are Ben Affleck, Edward Norton, George H. W. Bush, James Spader, John Cena, Joyner Lucas, Kurt Russel, Meghan Trainor, Michael Bloomberg and Uma Thurman? I did a quick google search and realized you forgot some really famous people
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Level 57
Jan 11, 2021
Edgar Allan Poe as well
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Level ∞
Dec 18, 2023
Not all of these people grew up in Massachusetts. That's the problem with just asking Google.

Added some, but this can never be a comprehensive list.

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Level 83
Dec 19, 2023
Surely when setting a quiz you have a choice of who you include or don't include. It has nothing to do with forgetting.
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Level 20
Jan 20, 2023
Famous people from Massachusetts ME well I wish
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Level 86
Dec 18, 2023
Well, I was going to complain that Bill Burr is a huge outlier in terms of recognition, but the stats tell me I'm wrong. Never seen that person nor heard the name before.
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Level 85
Dec 18, 2023
Not American but I've heard of Bill Burr . He's a very funny comedian you should check him out on YouTube.
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Level 74
Dec 21, 2023
I've never heard of that name either, although he sort of looked familiar.
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Level 90
Jan 12, 2024
Same here, except I thought he was Billy Corgan at first.
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Level 89
Dec 18, 2023
It's Amherst, not Amhearst. Thank you.
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Level ∞
Dec 18, 2023
Fixed
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Level 67
Dec 19, 2023
Only missed Chris Evans. I'm usually glad to look up and learn a quick something on the ones I miss. But I'm good on this one, no hard drive space for that guy.
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Level 90
Jan 12, 2024
What's so bad about Chris Evans? I can't fault you for not caring about some random celebrity... But why hate on him in particular? He's easy on the eyes, has had some fun acting roles, and doesn't seem to be a terrible person. And I mean, that's America's ass!
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Level 79
Dec 19, 2023
Very good quiz - enough challenge for just about anyone since there are people from many different fields and from different time periods. I got 18/20 - I knew Rocky Marciano but I spent the last 45 seconds misspelling his name enough that it never picked up any of my variations (which included a "Z" and an "S"... ah well, my bad. Showing my age, I suppose, I still have absolutely NO clue as to who this "Bill Burr" is... W.E.B. Dubois, Emily Dickenson, Thoreau, Susan B. Anthony etc were no issue for me, but sometimes people popular right now may have never crossed my radar...
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Level 67
Jan 11, 2024
Surprised to learn Mark Wahlberg is from Boston. That has never come up before.
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Level 57
Jan 11, 2024
Paul Revere? Or Jack Black? Hmm..
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Level 69
Jan 11, 2024
John Kerry born in various? How'd he pull it off?
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Level 69
Jan 12, 2024
Wind surfing.
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Level 69
Jan 12, 2024
According to his Wikipedia page, John Cena went to high school in Lawrence, but he was born in—and in professional wrestling, is billed from—West Newbury.
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Level 68
Jan 12, 2024
I live 15 miles from Lawrence and I've never heard of John Cena.
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Level 74
Jan 13, 2024
Come now, any wrestling fan worth his salt knows John Cena is from West Newbury.
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Level 73
Jun 20, 2024
The Revere one looks like Jack black and the Thoreau one reminded me of Ellen degeneres haha