List of people from Massachusetts

Military
Maj. Gen. Israel Putnam (1718-1790)

Col. Paul Dudley Sargent (c1745-1828)

Politics
Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr (1892-1970), Treasurer of Boston

Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1772-1851), 5th U.S. Secretary of Navy

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Founding Father

John Hancock (1737-1793), Founding Father

Jonathan Hodges (1764-1837), Treasurer of Salem

Timothy Pickering (1745-1829), 3rd U.S. Secretary of State