Born in Roxbury

Roxbury

Dissolved municipality and current neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Roxbury as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. American theologian, editor, author (1835-1922), American filmmaker and novelist, American singer): Lyman Abbott, Rebecca Miller, Ralph Tresvant and some more.

Celebrities from Roxbury

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Lyman Abbott

American theologian, editor, author (1835-1922)

*December 18th, 1835 †October 22nd, 1922, New York City

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Rebecca Miller

American filmmaker and novelist

*September 15th, 1962

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Ralph Tresvant

American singer

*May 16th, 1968

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Ricky Bell

American musician

*September 18th, 1967

56

Ronnie DeVoe

American musician

*November 17th, 1967

72

Billy Bitzer

American cinematographer (1872–1944)

*April 21st, 1872 †April 29th, 1944, Hollywood

56

Jay Gould

American railroad magnate and financier

*May 27th, 1836 †December 2nd, 1892, New York City

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Arthur Duffey

American track and field athlete

*June 14th, 1879 †January 23rd, 1955, Boston

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Paul Dudley

Colonial Massachusetts attorney general and chief justice

*September 3rd, 1675 †January 25th, 1751, Roxbury

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Charles Dana Gibson

American artist and illustrator (1867-1944)

*September 14th, 1867 †December 23rd, 1944, Manhattan

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Darryl Cato-Bishop

American football defensive lineman

*January 26th, 1990

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Shabazz Napier

American basketball player

*July 14th, 1991

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Stephen Flemmi

American mobster

*June 9th, 1935

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Melanie Levesque

American politician

*May 20th, 1957

71

Samuel Langley

American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian (1834-1906)

*August 22nd, 1834 †February 27th, 1906, Aiken

70

Edith Barrett

American actress (1907-1977)

*January 19th, 1907 †February 22nd, 1977, Albuquerque

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Nathaniel Currier

American lithographer

*March 27th, 1813 †November 20th, 1888, Amesbury

60

Michael Beach

American actor

*October 30th, 1963

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Susan Batson

American actress

*January 1st, 1944

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Wayne Selden, Jr.

American basketball player

*September 30th, 1994

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Joseph Warren

American doctor (1741-1775)

*June 11th, 1741 †June 17th, 1775, Charlestown

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Increase Sumner

Governor of Massachusetts; Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice

*November 27th, 1746 †June 7th, 1799, Boston

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Seth Warner

Continental Army officer (1743-1784)

*May 17th, 1743 †December 26th, 1784, Roxbury

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Maurice J. Tobin

American politician (1901-1953)

*May 22nd, 1901 †July 19th, 1953, Scituate

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Joseph Dudley

Royal governor of Massachusetts (1647-1720)

*September 23rd, 1647 †April 2nd, 1720, Roxbury

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John L. Sullivan

American boxer

*October 15th, 1858 †February 2nd, 1918, Abington

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William Heath

American politician (1737-1814)

*March 2nd, 1737 †January 24th, 1814, Roxbury

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Ekua Holmes

American children's book illustrator

*July 6th, 1955

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Rich Cronin

American singer and rapper (1974–2010)

*August 30th, 1974 †September 8th, 2010, Boston

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Katherine Sleeper Walden

American environmental activist

*November 27th, 1862 †March 3rd, 1949, Tamworth

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Big James Henderson

American powerlifter

*April 9th, 1965

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Fred J. Scollay

American actor

*March 19th, 1923 †November 3rd, 2015, Hobe Sound

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