Famous people who grew up or lived in and around Boston

Chick Corea1941–1959

📍 Chelsea, MA 02150, USA

I was born Armando Anthony Corea in June 1941 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, a small, crowded, working-class city of immigrants across the Mystic River from Boston, the son of Armando J. Corea…

John Adams1735–1764

📍 133 Franklin Street, Quincy, MA 02169, USA

I was born in October 1735 in this saltbox farmhouse at the foot of Penn's Hill in Braintree, now Quincy, ten miles south of Boston — a modest six-acre farm where my father, a farmer…

John F. Kennedy1917–1921

📍 83 Beals Street, Brookline, MA 02446, USA

I was born on the 29th of May 1917 at 83 Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy. The Beals Street house was a modest, comfortable frame house…

Malcolm X1941–1946

📍 72 Dale Street, Roxbury, Boston, MA 02119, USA

I was born Malcolm Little in Omaha. My father, a preacher for Marcus Garvey's movement, was lost when I was six, and our family was broken apart in Michigan, where my mother was taken into…