Notable interments at Mount Auburn Cemetery

736 notable figures are documented at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Wikidata's burial records, each with a Wikipedia article and a recorded place of burial. Listed alphabetically.

• Abbie Farwell Brown (1871–1927), writer, children's writer
• Abbott Lawrence (1792–1855), politician, diplomat
• Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943), writer, lawyer, politician
• Abbott Lawrence Rotch (1861–1912), university teacher, balloonist, meteorologist
• Abiel Holmes (1763–1837), writer, historian, Christian minister
• Abraham Eustis (1786–1843), military personnel
• Abraham Maslow (1908–1970), psychologist, university teacher
• Achilles Fang (1910–1995), translator, university teacher, man of letters
• Ada Chastina Bowles (1836–1928), suffragette
• Adam Ulam (1922–2000), historian, political scientist, university teacher
• Albert Enoch Pillsbury (1849–1930), lawyer, politician
• Albert Richard Pritchard (1863–1927), businessperson
• Albert Smith (1793–1867), lawyer, politician
• Albion P. Howe (1818–1897), military officer
• Alexander Viets Griswold Allen (1841–1908), writer, professor, author
• Alfred Tozzer (1877–1954), archaeologist, anthropologist, linguist
• Alice Mary Longfellow (1850–1928), preservationist
• Alpheus Spring Packard (1839–1905), zoologist, geologist, university teacher
• Alvan Clark (1804–1887), astronomer, businessperson, painter
• Alvin Adams (1804–1877), businessperson, expressman
• Alvin F. Sortwell (1854–1910), politician
• Amos Adams Lawrence (1814–1886), politician
• Amos Kidder Fiske (1842–1921), writer, journalist
• Amos Lawrence (1786–1852), businessperson
• Amy Lawrence Lowell (1874–1925), writer, poet, socialite
• Anna Cabot Lowell (1811–1874), writer
• Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy Waterston (1812–1899), writer, poet, diarist
• Anna Winlock (1857–1904), astronomer
• Anne Revere (1903–1990), actor, stage actor, television actor
• Annie Adams Fields (1834–1915), writer, poet, biographer
• Anson Burlingame (1820–1870), lawyer, politician, diplomat
• Archibald Cary Coolidge (1866–1928), writer, diplomat, historian
• Archibald Cary Coolidge (1866–1928), writer, diplomat, historian
• Archibald M. Howe (1848–1916), lawyer, politician, historian
• Archimedes Russell (1840–1915), architect
• Artemas Ward Jr. (1762–1847), judge, lawyer, politician
• Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1822–1862), military chaplain, cleric, religious role
• Arthur Foote (1853–1937), composer, pianist, organist
• Arthur Gilman (1837–1909), writer, banker, editing staff
• Arthur M. Schlesinger (1917–2007), writer, historian, university teacher
• Asa Gray (1810–1888), writer, curator, university teacher
• Asahel Stearns (1774–1839), lawyer, politician, university teacher
• Augustus Addison Gould (1805–1866), physician, zoologist, malacologist
• Augustus Lowell (1830–1900), businessperson
• Augustus Pearl Martin (1835–1902), politician
• B. F. Skinner (1904–1990), writer, psychologist, inventor
• B. O. Flower (1858–1918), editor, journalist
• Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824–1896), astronomer, writer
• Benjamin E. Bates (1808–1878), banker, financier
• Benjamin F. Hallett (1797–1862), lawyer
• Benjamin Pierce Cheney Jr. (1866–1942), businessperson
• Benjamin Pitman (1815–1888), judge
• Benjamin Robbins Curtis (1809–1874), judge, lawyer, politician
• Benjamin W. Crowninshield (1837–1892)
• Benjamin Waterhouse (1754–1846), botanist, military physician
• Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1772–1851), politician
• Bernard Bailyn (1922–2020), writer, historian, university teacher
• Bernard Malamud (1914–1986), screenwriter, writer, university teacher
• Bert Waters (1871–1930), lawyer, American football player
• Berta Ottenstein (1891–1956), chemist, dermatologist
• Bowdoin B. Crowninshield (1867–1948), engineer
• Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), scientist, writer, poet
• Bud Collins (1929–2016), writer, journalist, tennis player
• Burt Green Wilder (1841–1925), physician, military officer, zoologist
• Burt Green Wilder (1841–1925), physician, military officer, zoologist
• C. S. Wheeler (1816–1843), writer, teacher, editor
• Carl E. Gardner (1885–1963), musician, drummer, music teacher
• Carl Engelman (1929–1983), computer scientist, software developer, university teacher
• Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984), physician, chemist, researcher
• Caroline Healey Dall (1822–1912), writer, economist, historian
• Caroline Knapp (1959–2002), writer, editor, journalist
• Caroline Knapp (1959–2002), writer, editor, journalist
• Caroline Sturgis Tappan (1818–1888), writer, poet, art collector
• Caroline Ticknor (1866–1937), writer, poet, biographer
• Charles A. Peabody Jr. (1849–1931), politician
• Charles A. Whittier (1840–1908), military officer
• Charles Allerton Coolidge (1858–1936), architect
• Charles Amos Cummings (1833–1905), architect
• Charles Bedaux (1886–1944), engineer, entrepreneur
• Charles Bulfinch (1763–1844), architect, politician
• Charles Carleton Coffin (1823–1896), writer, politician, war correspondent
• Charles Carroll Everett (1829–1900), writer, theologian, philosopher
• Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944), painter, illustrator, caricaturist
• Charles Davenport (1812–1903), businessperson
• Charles Devens (1820–1891), judge, lawyer, politician
• Charles Eliot (1859–1897), architect, businessperson, landscape architect
• Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), writer, historian, translator
• Charles Eliot Ware (1814–1887), physician
• Charles F. Sprague (1857–1902), politician
• Charles Felton Pidgin (1844–1923), writer, composer, statistician
• Charles Folsom (1794–1872), librarian, university teacher
• Charles Folsom Walcott (1836–1887), military officer
• Charles Greeley Loring (1828–1902), military officer
• Charles Greely Loring (1881–1966), architect
• Charles Greely Loring (1881–1966), architect
• Charles Greely Loring (1794–1868), politician
• Charles H. Matchett (1843–1919), politician, Esperantist
• Charles H. Saunders (1821–1901), politician
• Charles Hale (1831–1882), politician, journalist
• Charles Hall Grandgent (1862–1939), university teacher, romanist, philologist
• Charles Hammond Gibson Jr. (1874–1954)
• Charles Harrison Stedman (1805–1866), politician, psychiatrist, surgeon
• Charles Hayden (1870–1937), banker, financier
• Charles Jackson Paine (1833–1916), military officer
• Charles Jesse Bullock (1869–1941), politician, economist
• Charles L. Bouton (1869–1922), mathematician, university teacher
• Charles Lee Underhill (1867–1946), politician, merchant, non-fiction writer
• Charles Lewis Slattery (1867–1930), Anglican priest
• Charles Loring Jackson (1847–1935), chemist
• Charles Lowell (1782–1861), Christian minister
• Charles Pickering (1805–1878), writer, physician, botanist
• Charles Pickering Bowditch (1842–1921), financier, anthropologist, archaeologist
• Charles R. Greco (1873–1963), architect
• Charles Russell Lowell (1835–1864), military officer
• Charles Steedman (1811–1890), military officer
• Charles Storer Storrow (1809–1904), civil engineer
• Charles Sumner (1811–1874), writer, lawyer, politician
• Charles Theodore Russell (1815–1896), politician
• Charles Thomas Jackson (1805–1880), physician, geologist, chemist
• Charles Tufts (1781–1876), businessperson
• Charles W. Eliot II (1899–1993), landscape architect
• Charles W. Reed (1842–1926)
• Charles Wendell Townsend (1859–1934), naturalist, physician, author
• Charles William Eliot (1834–1926), writer, university teacher
• Charlie Devens (1910–2003), baseball player
• Charlotte Cushman (1816–1876), actor, stage actor
• Chester Noyes Greenough (1874–1938), educator
• Christopher Columbus Langdell (1826–1906), lawyer, jurist
• Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813–1892), writer, poet, artist
• Clara Endicott Sears (1863–1960), writer, historian
• Clarence Blackall (1857–1942), architect
• Claude Shannon (1916–2001), engineer, computer scientist, mathematician
• Clifford Herschel Moore (1866–1931), university teacher, classical scholar, classical philologist
• Cordelia Howard (1848–1941), actor
• Cornelius Conway Felton (1807–1862), writer, translator, university teacher
• Curt Gowdy (1919–2006), actor, announcer, film producer
• Cyrus Alger (1782–1856), engineer, metallurgist
• Daniel Chapman Stillson (1826–1899), inventor
• Daniel Gregory Mason (1873–1953), composer, music critic, journalist
• Daniel L. Marsh (1880–1968), politician
• Daniel L. Marsh (1880–1968), politician
• Daniel Pinckney Parker (1781–1850), actor, merchant
• Daniel Sharp (1783–1853), Christian minister
• David Bradford (1939–2005), economist, university teacher
• David Gergen (1942–2025), lawyer, analyst, political scientist
• David Humphreys Storer (1804–1891), naturalist, physician, ichthyologist
• David Ives (1919–2003), television executive
• David Marr (1945–1980), computer scientist, mathematician, psychologist
• Dirk Jan Struik (1894–2000), mathematician, historian, university teacher
• Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), writer, psychologist, public figure
• E. Power Biggs (1906–1977), composer, organist, music arranger
• Eben Norton Horsford (1818–1893), chemist, university teacher
• Edgar H. Brown (1926–2021), mathematician, university teacher
• Edmund Quincy (1808–1877), writer, biographer
• Edward Burlingame Hill (1872–1960), composer
• Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919), astronomer, astrophysicist, university teacher
• Edward D. Hayden (1833–1908), lawyer, politician
• Edward Dexter Sohier (1810–1888), lawyer
• Edward Everett (1794–1865), writer, politician, governor
• Edward F. Jones (1828–1913), writer, businessperson, politician
• Edward Kent (1802–1877), judge, mayor, lawyer
• Edward Laurens Mark (1847–1946), zoologist
• Edward Needles Hallowell (1836–1871)
• Edward Robinson (1858–1931), curator, art historian, archaeologist
• Edward Vermilye Huntington (1874–1952), scientist, mathematician, university teacher
• Edward W. Hooper (1839–1901)
• Edward Winslow Hinks (1830–1894), politician, military officer
• Edward Winslow Hinks (1830–1894), politician, military officer
• Edwin Bidwell Wilson (1879–1964), mathematician, physicist, polymath
• Edwin Booth (1833–1893), actor, stage actor, theatre manager
• Edwin Boring (1886–1968), psychologist, university teacher
• Edwin H. Land (1909–1991), photographer, entrepreneur, physicist
• Edwin Hale Abbot (1834–1927), lawyer
• Edwin Hall (1855–1938), physicist, university teacher
• Edwin J. Lewis Jr. (1859–1937), architect
• Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–1886), writer, journalist, literary critic
• Edwin S. Webster (1867–1950), engineer
• Edwina Booth Grossman (1861–1938), writer
• Eleanor H. Porter (1868–1920), writer, children's writer, novelist
• Elisha Hunt Allen (1804–1883), judge, lawyer, politician
• Elisha Huntington (1796–1865), mayor, physician, politician
• Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (1787–1860), writer, poet, translator
• Eliza Riddle Field (1812–1871), actor
• Eliza Ware Farrar (1791–1870), writer
• Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (1822–1907), naturalist, writer, biographer
• Elizabeth Lincoln Gould (?–1914), writer
• Ella Cheever Thayer (1849–1925), writer, novelist
• Ella Lyman Cabot (1866–1934), writer
• Ellen Cheney Johnson (1829–1899), activist
• Ellen Wayles Randolph (1796–1876)
• Elliot Hersey Goodwin (1874–1931)
• Emily Appleton (1818–1905), animal rights advocate
• Emily Elizabeth Parsons (1824–1880), nurse
• Emma Crow (1839–1920), writer
• Emma G. Cummings (1856–1940), naturalist, writer, ornithologist
• Emory Washburn (1800–1877), judge, lawyer, politician
• Ephraim Emerton (1851–1935), writer, historian, translator
• Erwin Griswold (1904–1994), lawyer, jurist, university teacher
• Erwin N. Hiebert (1919–2012), physicist, university teacher, historian of science
• Eugene Fuller (1858–1930), physician
• Eugene Wambaugh (1856–1940), lawyer
• Eugenia Brooks Frothingham (1874–1971), writer, novelist, suffragist
• Evangelinos Apostolides Sophokles (1807–1883), writer, librarian, university teacher
• Ezra Abbot (1819–1884), writer, librarian, translator
• Ezra Palmer Gould (1841–1900), biblical scholar
• F. O. C. Darley (1822–1888), printer, illustrator, painter
• Fannie Farmer (1857–1915), writer, cook, author
• Fanny Dickerson Bergen (1846–1924), folklorist, non-fiction writer
• Fanny Fern (1811–1872), writer, journalist, children's writer
• Fanny Parnell (1848–1882), writer, poet
• Fanny Peabody Mason (1864–1948)
• Felix Fleischner (1893–1969), radiologist
• Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965), judge, lawyer, politician
• Flora E. Strout (1867–1962), teacher, missionary, lecturer
• Flora Virginia Milner Livingston (1862–1949), librarian, mycologist, literary scholar
• Florence Howe Hall (1845–1923), writer, historian, suffragist
• Florida Ruffin Ridley (1861–1943), writer, teacher, journalist
• Frances Sargent Osgood (1811–1850), writer, poet
• Francis Cabot Lowell (1855–1911), judge, lawyer, politician
• Francis Calley Gray (1790–1856), politician, jurist, art collector
• Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847–1936), writer, theologian, university teacher
• Francis Parkman (1823–1893), writer, historian, horticulturist
• Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1831–1889), historian
• Frank Austin Gooch (1852–1929), engineer, chemist
• Frank Burr Mallory (1862–1941), physician, pathologist
• Frank Conroy (1936–2005), writer, university teacher, novelist
• Frank Crowninshield (1872–1947), journalist, art collector, art critic
• Frank Harris Hitchcock (1867–1935), politician, jurist
• Frank Hill Smith (1842–1904), painter, interior designer
• Frank W. Clarke (1847–1931), physicist, chemist, geologist
• Frank William Taussig (1859–1940), economist
• Franklin Morse (1873–1929), American football player
• Franklin Patterson (1916–1994), writer
• Franklin W. Smith (1826–1911), writer
• Fred Norris Robinson (1871–1966), academic
• Frederic W. Lincoln, Jr. (1817–1898), mayor, politician, nautical instrument maker
• Frederic Ward Putnam (1839–1915), naturalist, zoologist, ethnologist
• Frederick Mosteller (1916–2006), mathematician, university teacher, statistician
• Frederick O. Prince (1818–1899), lawyer, politician
• Frederick Simpson Deitrick (1875–1948), lawyer, politician
• G. W. Pierce (1872–1956), physicist, inventor, university teacher
• Gamaliel Bradford (1863–1932), writer, poet, historian
• Garafilia Mohalbi (1817–1830)
• Gene Dresselhaus (1929–2021), physicist
• George Aiken (1830–1876), actor, playwright, stage actor
• George C. Howard (1818–1887), actor, stage actor
• George C. Magoun (1840–1893), businessperson
• George Cabot (1752–1823), politician, merchant
• George Cabot Lodge (1873–1909), poet, politician
• George Cheyne Shattuck (1813–1893), physician, educator
• George Cheyne Shattuck Sr. (1783–1854), physician
• George David Birkhoff (1884–1944), mathematician, university teacher, topologist
• George Edward Ellis (1814–1894), writer, historian, Christian minister
• George F. Loring (1851–1918), architect
• George Ferdinand Becker (1847–1919), geologist
• George Glover Crocker (1843–1913), politician
• George H. Lyman (1850–1945), lawyer, politician
• George Hayward (1791–1863), teacher, physician
• George Hayward (1791–1863), teacher, physician
• George Hayward (1791–1863), teacher, physician
• George Hayward (1791–1863), teacher, physician
• George Henri Desmond (1874–1965), architect
• George Henry Chase (1874–1952), university teacher, art historian, archaeologist
• George Hodges (1856–1919), writer, theologian
• George Howe (1886–1955), architect
• George L. Fox (1825–1877), actor, mime artist, autobiographer
• George Leonard Andrews (1828–1899), military officer
• George Lewis Ruffin (1834–1886), judge, lawyer, politician
• George Luther Stearns (1809–1867), merchant
• George Mackey (1916–2006), mathematician, university teacher, topologist
• George Makepeace Towle (1841–1893), writer, lawyer, politician
• George Martin Lane (1823–1897), university teacher, linguist, classical philologist
• George Oliver Brastow (1811–1878), politician
• George Oliver Brastow (1811–1878), politician
• George Partridge Sanger (1819–1890), judge, lawyer, politician
• George Putnam, Sr. (1807–1878), Christian minister
• George Rumford Baldwin (1798–1888), engineer, civil engineer
• George Stillman Hillard (1808–1879), writer, lawyer, politician
• George Whitefield Chadwick (1854–1931), composer, university teacher, music teacher
• Gerry Studds (1937–2006), teacher, politician, legislative assistant
• Gian-Carlo Rota (1932–1999), philosopher, mathematician, university teacher
• Gordon Allport (1897–1967), psychologist, research fellow
• Gordon Willey (1913–2002), archaeologist, anthropologist
• Grace A. Oliver (1844–1899), writer
• Grafton D. Cushing (1864–1939), lawyer, politician, lieutenant governor
• Greely S. Curtis (1830–1897), military officer
• Hannah Adams (1755–1831), writer, historian, theologian
• Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (1780–1865), writer, novelist
• Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903–1990), photographer, engineer, inventor
• Harriet Hosmer (1830–1908), artist, sculptor
• Harriet Jacobs (1815–1897), writer, nanny, autobiographer
• Harriet Lane Huntress (1860–1922), civil servant, education activist
• Harriot Curtis (1881–1974), golfer
• Harriot Kezia Hunt (1805–1875), physician, suffragist
• Harrison Gray Otis (1765–1848), writer, lawyer, politician
• Harry Grant (1877–1915), engineer, racing automobile driver
• Harvey D. Parker (1805–1884), patron of the arts
• Harvey Jewell (1820–1881), lawyer, politician
• Harvey M. Munsell (1843–1913)
• Helen B. Taussig (1898–1986), physician, cardiologist
• Helen Hopekirk (1856–1945), composer, music educator
• Henry Asbury Christian (1876–1951), physician
• Henry Bryant (1820–1867), zoologist, surgeon, ornithologist
• Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879–1967), zoologist, botanical collector, biologist
• Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924), writer, politician, jurist
• Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902–1985), politician, diplomat, military officer
• Henry Coffin Nevins (1843–1892)
• Henry Davis Sleeper (1878–1934), antiquarian seller, designer, collector
• Henry E. Warren (1872–1957), businessperson, inventor
• Henry Fowle Durant (1822–1881), lawyer
• Henry Guy Carleton (1851–1910), writer, playwright
• Henry Harrison Sprague (1841–1920), lawyer, politician
• Henry Hoolulu Pitman (1845–1863), military personnel
• Henry Hornblower (1863–1941)
• Henry Ingersoll Bowditch (1808–1892), physician, environmental health officer, abolitionist
• Henry Jacob Bigelow (1818–1890), surgeon, university teacher
• Henry Kimball Hadley (1871–1937), composer, conductor
• Henry L. Eustis (1819–1885), military officer
• Henry Larcom Abbot (1831–1927), military personnel, engineer, military officer
• Henry Lee (1782–1867), economist
• Henry Lee Higginson (1834–1919), businessperson, banker, patron of the arts
• Henry Marion Howe (1848–1922), author, metallurgist, mining engineer
• Henry Northey Hooper (1799–1865), politician, merchant, industrialist
• Henry O. Marcy (1837–1924), physician
• Henry Pickering Bowditch (1840–1911), physician, university teacher, physiologist
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), writer, poet, professor
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (1881–1950), writer, professor, translator
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (1881–1950), writer, professor, translator
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (1881–1950), writer, professor, translator
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (1881–1950), writer, professor, translator
• Henry Ware Jr. (1794–1843), writer, professor, Christian minister
• Henry Williamson Haynes (1831–1912), librarian, university teacher, anthropologist
• Herbert Bloch (1911–2006), historian, university teacher, archaeologist
• Herbert Ernest Cushman (1865–1944), philosopher
• Herbert Weir Smyth (1857–1937), university teacher, linguist, philologist
• Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973), mathematician, university teacher, statistician
• Horace Elisha Scudder (1838–1902), writer, historian, biographer
• Horace Gray (1828–1902), judge, lawyer
• Horatio Greenough (1805–1852), architect, artist, sculptor
• Horatio Hollis Hunnewell (1810–1902), banker, botanist
• Hosea Ballou (1771–1852), writer, theologian
• Hosea Ballou II (1796–1861), writer, educator, Christian minister
• Huntley Nowel Spaulding (1869–1955), politician, governor
• I. F. Stone (1907–1989), journalist, classical scholar
• Irving Babbitt (1865–1933), writer, journalist, literary critic
• Irving Segal (1918–1998), mathematician
• Isaac McLellan (1806–1899), writer, poet, magazine writer
• Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), curator, art collector, philanthropist
• Israel Thorndike (1755–1832), sailor, politician, privateer
• J. B. Woodworth (1865–1925), geologist
• J. Bertram Read (1870–1929), businessperson, tennis player
• J. Pickering Putnam (1847–1917), architect
• J. Randolph Coolidge Jr. (1862–1928), architect
• J. Wiley Edmands (1809–1877), businessperson, politician
• Jacob Abbott (1803–1879), writer, pastor, author
• Jacob Bigelow (1787–1879), physician, poet, translator
• James Augustus Fox (1827–1901), lawyer, politician
• James Augustus Fox (1827–1901), lawyer, politician
• James Brown (1800–1855), publisher
• James Bryant Conant (1893–1978), politician, ambassador, diplomat
• James C. Carter (1827–1905), lawyer
• James Clarke White (1833–1916), dermatologist
• James Cutler Dunn Parker (1828–1916), composer, pianist, music educator
• James Davenport Whelpley (1817–1872), physician, editor, journalist
• James Durrell Greene (1828–1902), gunsmith
• James Flack Norris (1871–1940), chemist
• James Fowle Baldwin (1782–1862), civil engineer
• James Freeman Curtis (1825–1914), chief of police
• James Henry Blake (1845–1941), zoologist, artist, malacologist
• James Henry Carleton (1814–1873), military officer
• James Jackson (1777–1867), teacher, physician
• James Jackson (1881–1952), politician, banker
• James Jackson Putnam (1846–1918), psychologist, neurologist
• James Jefferson Myers (1842–1915), lawyer, politician
• James Lowry Donaldson (1814–1885), military officer
• James Phinney Munroe (1862–1929), writer
• James Rhyne Killian (1904–1988), scientist, academic administrator
• James Russell Lowell (1819–1891), writer, teacher, poet
• James Sturgis Pray (1871–1929), landscape architect
• James Thomas Fields (1817–1881), writer, poet, journalist
• James Thompson Bixby (1843–1921), priest
• James Wallace Black (1825–1896), photographer
• Jane G. Austin (1831–1894), writer
• Janet Akyüz Mattei (1943–2004), astronomer
• Jared Sparks (1789–1866), writer, historian, university teacher
• Jeffries Wyman (1814–1874), physician, zoologist, anthropologist
• Jeremiah Mason (1768–1848), lawyer, politician
• Jeremy Belknap (1744–1798), historian, cleric
• Johann Spurzheim (1776–1832), physician, psychologist, physiologist
• John Allen Lewis (1819–1885), newspaper editor
• John Bartlett (1820–1905), writer, editor, publisher
• John Chipman Gray (1839–1915), writer
• John Ciardi (1916–1986), writer, poet, translator
• John D. Black (1883–1960), economist, university teacher
• John Downes (1784–1854), military officer
• John Dunlop (1874–1957), American football coach
• John Elliott (1858–1925), painter
• John F. Andrew (1850–1895), lawyer, politician, jurist
• John Farrar (1779–1853), mathematician, university teacher
• John G. Palfrey (1796–1881), writer, politician, historian
• John Gardner Coolidge (1863–1936), diplomat
• John Hanson Twombly (1814–1893)
• John Henry Sherburne (1877–1959), politician
• John Henry Wright (1852–1908), historian, translator, university teacher
• John L. Withrow (1837–1909), theologian
• John Langdon Sibley (1804–1885), pastor, librarian
• John Lowell Gardner (1837–1898), merchant
• John Lowell Gardner (1837–1898), merchant
• John M. S. Williams (1818–1886), politician
• John Michael Tobin (1841–1898), politician
• John Murray (1741–1815), writer, theologian
• John Nolen (1869–1937), landscape architect
• John P. Bigelow (1797–1872), politician
• John Patrick Spiegel (1911–1991), psychiatrist
• John Perkins Cushing (1787–1862), merchant
• John Pierpont (1785–1866), writer, teacher, priest
• John Quincy Adams Brackett (1842–1918), lawyer, politician, governor
• John R. Meyer (1927–2009), economist, university teacher
• John Rawls (1921–2002), politician, pedagogue, university teacher
• John S. Jacobs (1818–1873), sailor, miner, autobiographer
• John Templeton Bowen (1857–1940), university teacher, dermatologist
• John Thornton Kirkland (1770–1840), writer, pastor, university teacher
• John Torrey Morse (1840–1937), writer, lawyer, politician
• John W. Candler (1828–1903), politician
• John Wells Farley (1878–1959), head coach, American football player
• John Wesley Young (1879–1932), mathematician
• Jonas Chickering (1798–1853), piano maker, musical instrument maker
• Jonathan Cole (1925–2009), physician, professor, psychiatrist
• Jonathan Mason (1756–1831), lawyer, politician
• Josef Anton Hofmann (1924–2010), audio engineer, electrical engineer
• Joseph A. Gilmore (1811–1867), politician
• Joseph Ballard Murdock (1851–1931), politician, military officer
• Joseph Coolidge (1798–1879)
• Joseph Cushing Edmands (1842–1878), military officer
• Joseph Emerson Worcester (1784–1865), writer, statistician, lexicographer
• Joseph Henry Thayer (1828–1901), translator, theologian, military chaplain
• Joseph Lovering (1813–1892), astronomer, mathematician, university teacher
• Joseph M. Field (1810–1856), actor, editor, journalist
• Joseph Story (1779–1845), judge, writer, lawyer
• Joseph Wallace Oman (1864–1941), politician, governor, military officer
• Joseph Winlock (1826–1875), astronomer, mathematician
• Josephine Shaw Lowell (1843–1905), social worker, philanthropist
• Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842–1924), journalist, suffragist
• Joshua Bowen Smith (1813–1879), abolitionist
• Josiah P. Cooke (1827–1894), writer, chemist, mineralogist
• Josiah Quincy III (1772–1864), judge, writer, lawyer
• Josiah Royce (1855–1916), writer, historian, university teacher
• Josiah Warren (1798–1874), writer, businessperson, economist
• Joyce Barbara Friedman (1928–2018), computer scientist, mathematician, computational linguist
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