List of people from Holyoke, Massachusetts

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The people listed below were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Notable people[]

(B) denotes that the person was born there.

Academics and educators[]

  • Lois Green Carr (1922–2015), American historian whose work primarily focused on Chesapeake Bay, daughter of Constance McLaughlin Green. (B)[1]
  • Joseph Ellis (born 1943), Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian best known for his work on the founders of the United States.[2]
  • Henrietta Hooker (1851–1929), American botanist and educator, among the first women to receive a doctorate in botany from an American university.[3]
  • Constance McLaughlin Green (1897–1975), Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian best known for her history of Washington, D.C.; her dissertation and first major published work was a comprehensive history of Holyoke.
  • Edward Pinkowski (1916–2020), American writer, journalist, and historian whose focus was Polish-American history; best remembered as re-discoverer of the bones of Casimir Pulaski. (B)[4]
  • Ervin Staub (born 1938), professor emeritus of psychology, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; founding director of the doctoral program on the psychology of peace and violence.[5]
  • Morris Swadesh (1909–1967), American linguist known for the Swadesh list, a compilation of unifying concepts across cultures for the purposes of comparative linguistics (B)[6]
  • David E. Sweet (1933–1984), founding president of Metropolitan State University and later president of Rhode Island College. (B)[7]
  • Eric Toensmeier (born 1970), lecturer in permaculture and regenerative agriculture at Yale University, author of Paradise Lot, documenting his work with Jonathan Bates converting a house in Holyoke into a permaculture garden.[8][9]

Artists[]

  • Arthur Adams (born 1963), comic book artist known for his work on Longshot and Monkeyman and O'Brien.(B)[10][11]
  • William Chadwick (1879–1962), British-born American Impressionist painter, and member of the Old Lyme art colony.[12]
  • Jerome Connor (1874–1943), Irish-born 19th century sculptor.[13]:80
  • Ray D'Addario (1920–2011), American photographer best known for his work as the chief photographer of the Nuremberg trials, whose portraits are found in all contemporary news reports and history books covering the postwar trial of Nazi leadership. (B)[14]
  • Mitch Epstein (born 1952), American fine-art photographer, director, cinematographer, and production designer. (B)
  • Gary Hallgren (born 1945), American illustrator and underground cartoonist whose work has been published in such publications as The New York Times and Mad.[15][16]
  • William Wegman (born 1943), American photographer best known for his compositions posing Weimaraners in costume, his work has been featured on Sesame Street (B)[17]

Business and industry[]

  • Michael J. Kittredge II (1952–2019), businessman, founder of the Yankee Candle Company, alumni of Holyoke Community College, who opened his first factory in a Holyoke mill before later relocating to South Deerfield.[18]
  • Junius Spencer Morgan (1813–1890), businessman, father of J. P. Morgan. (B)[19]
  • Belle Skinner (1866–1928), businesswoman and philanthropist who donated Wistariahurst to the city, and worked with Holyoke's government to reconstruct the village of Apremont, France after the First World War[20]
  • J. Lewis Wyckoff (1864–1931), businessman and cofounder of stationery manufacturer White & Wyckoff, golf promoter, and credited with Holyoke's 1909 annexation of Smith's Ferry.[21][22]

Government and law[]

  • David M. Bartley (born 1935), politician and educator. (B)[23]
  • Stanley C. Cox (1883–1942), physician and head of the Medical Division of the Office of Civilian Defense during World War II.[24]
  • Maurice A. Donahue (1918–1999), Massachusetts state representative and President of the Massachusetts Senate.(B)[25]
  • Eileen Donoghue (born 1954), former member of Massachusetts Senate, city manager of Lowell, Massachusetts (B)[26]
  • Donald Dwight (born 1931), American newspaper executive of Holyoke Telegram-Transcript Dwight family, 64 Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts during Governor Francis Sargent's administration (B)[27]
  • Bob Goodlatte, U.S. Representative from Virginia.(B)[28]
  • Marshall Green (1916–1998), Assistant Secretary of State.(B)[29]
  • Robert Jubinville (born 1946), member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council and one of three "Board Certified Criminal Trial Attorneys" in the Commonwealth. (B)[30]
  • François A. Pouliot (1896–1990), member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.(B)[31]
  • Grace Mary Stern (1925–1998), Illinois state legislator, was born in Holyoke (B)[32]
  • William Fairfield Whiting, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce.[33]
  • William Whiting, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

Military[]

Music[]

Scientists and engineers[]

Sports[]

  • Bob Adams (1901–1996), Major League Baseball pitcher who played two games for the Boston Red Sox, later coaching the Lehigh Engineers. (B)[53]
  • Paul Azinger (born 1960), professional golfer, winner of 1993 PGA Championship, and captain of the 2008 U.S. Ryder Cup team. (B)[54]
  • Jack Buck (1924–2002), sportscaster in Baseball Hall of Fame.(B)[55]
  • Dick Burns (1863–1937), 19th century MLB pitcher and outfielder.(B)[56]
  • Joan Newton Cuneo (1876–1934), American race car driver, known for her competence and winning races against drivers both male and female, her successful career influenced a subsequent ban on women in racing. (B)[57]
  • Jack Doyle (1869–1958), Irish American baseball player who settled in Holyoke and served as police commissioner 1908–09.[58]
  • Jeff Eisenberg (born 1956), professional hockey and advertising executive, whose first position as a general assistant manager of a sports team began with the Holyoke Millers in the summer of 1980.[59]
  • Peter Fatse (born 1987), professional baseball coach, assistant hitting coach for the Boston Red Sox (B)[60]
  • Kenny Gamble (born 1965), former college football record breaker and NFL running back. (B)[61]
  • Gerry Geran (1896–1981), Olympic silver medalist, first American-born player in National Hockey League. (B)[62]
  • Fran Healy (born 1946), Major League Baseball catcher for the Kansas City Royals, San Francisco Giants, and New York Yankees. He also was a broadcaster for the Yankees and New York Mets.[63]
  • Jessica Huot (born 1983), a former competitive ice dancer for Finland, Finnish national champion from 2002 to 2004. (B)[64]
  • J. J. Jennings (born 1952), American football tailback and fullback who played for Rutgers in college, and opted to play in the short-lived World Football League rather than being drafted to the NFL. (B)[65]
  • Mike LaPlante (born 1966), college basketball head coach, NBA scout and lawyer. Known internationally as an excellent recruiter with contacts with the Senegalese Basketball Federation and credited with bringing many players into the NBA from Africa and Europe.[66]
  • Frank Leja (1936–1991), Major League Baseball first baseman for the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels.(B)[67]
  • Dean Lombardi (born 1958), general manager of NHL's Los Angeles Kings. (B)[68]
  • Joe Lucey (1897–1980), a pitcher and shortstop in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees.(B)[69]
  • George Malley (born 1955), long-distance runner who broke the American men's 12 km record for road races at Holyoke on March 21, 1981.[70]
  • Roger Marquis (1937–2004), a right fielder who played a single game and registered one at bat for the Baltimore Orioles in 1955 at the age of 18.(B)[71]
  • William G. Morgan (1870–1942), inventor of volleyball, first developed as the sport "Mintonette" at the Holyoke YMCA.[72]
  • Eddie Hurley (1908–1969), Major League Baseball umpire. (B)[73]
  • Frank McCoy (American football) (1881–?), American football coach, head coach of the University of Maine. (B)[74]
  • Archie Roberts (born 1942), former college football and NFL quarterback, heart surgeon. (B)[75]
  • Donald Ross (1872–1948), Scottish-American professional golfer, and notable golf course architect, who was initially backed by J. Lewis Wyckoff.[21][76][77]
  • H. R. Schenker (1882–1922), American football and baseball coach, best known as the head football coach for the Duke Blue Devils football University of Texas at Austin. (B)[78]
  • Herman G. Steiner (1897–1982), American football, baseball, and track coach, best known as the head football coach for the Duke Blue Devils football program.[79]
  • Tommy Tucker (1863–1935), Major League Baseball first baseman who spent most of his career with the Boston Beaneaters, precursor to the Boston Braves. (B)[80]
  • Nelson Vargas (born 1974), Major League Soccer forward for the Tampa Bay Mutiny and Miami Fusion, recipient of 4 caps with the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team, member of 1996 US Olympic Soccer Team. (B)[81]
  • Mickey Welch (1859–1941), Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Smiling Mickey", he spent most of his professional career with the New York Giants.[82]
  • Mark Wohlers (born 1970), MLB relief pitcher who won a World Series in 1995 with the Atlanta Braves.(B)[83]

Stage and screen[]

  • Michael Berresse (born 1964), actor, choreographer, and stage director. (B)[84]
  • Pauline Curley (1903–2000), vaudevillian and silent film actress in the earth 20th century. (B)[85]
  • Ann Dowd (born 1956), Emmy award-winning actress (B)[86]
  • Ormi Hawley (1889–1942), actress in silent films, reportedly appearing in more than 300 motion pictures. (B)[87]
  • Hal Holbrook (1925-2021), Emmy award-winning actor, member of the Valley Players at Mountain Park, 1941–1962.[88]
  • T. J. Jagodowski (born 1971), actor and comedian.[89]
  • Bambi Jones (born 1931), burlesque performer, vedette, inductee in the Burlesque Hall of Fame. (B)[90]
  • Melanie Kinnaman (born 1954), actress (B)[91]
  • Rachel Maddow (born 1973), American television host, political commentator, and Rhodes Scholar, got her first broadcasting job in 1999 at WRNX (100.9 FM) in Holyoke[92]
  • Michael Nozik (born 1954), film producer, recipient of 2004 award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for his work on The Motorcycle Diaries (B)[93]
  • Steve Porter (born 1978), award-winning music video producer, remixer and DJ, owning and operating Porterhouse Media.
  • Eva Tanguay (1879–1947), the "I Don't Care Girl", vaudevillian.[94]

Writers[]

  • Polly Adler (1900–1962), madam connected to Lucky Luciano, ran a bordello frequented by celebrities and a New York mayor, known for work A House Is Not a Home, posthumously made into a film by the same name.[95]
  • Donald Bevan (1920–2013), World War II combat veteran, playwright and writer of Stalag 17. (B)[96]
  • Jacques Ducharme, (1910–1993), writer and historian, wrote The Delusson Family, a story of a French-Canadian family in Holyoke, and the first Franco-American novel in the English language to be nationally published. (B)[97][98]
  • Sherri Browning Erwin (1968–present), writer. (B)
  • Bartholomew Gill (1943–2002), crime fiction and mystery novelist, newspaper features writer, and columnist writing on nature and outdoor recreation for The Star-Ledger. (B)[99]
  • John Clellon Holmes (1926–1988), author best known for Go, the first published novel depicting the Beat Generation. (B)[100]
  • Raymond Kennedy (1934–2008), novelist, who set many of his books in a fictionalized Holyoke that he called "Ireland Parish" and "Hadley Falls".[13]:31
  • Charles Palliser (born 1947), novelist whose most famous work, The Quincunx, has sold more than a million copies and won the 1991 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. (B)[101]
  • Stanley Reynolds (1934–2016), American journalist, author, and critic who spent most of his life in the United Kingdom, and was a regular contributor to The Guardian.(B)[102]
  • Neil Sheehan (1936–2021), author of A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. (B)[103]
  • Suhotra Swami (1950–2007), Hindu Vaishnava author, philosopher and a leading guru in the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (B)[104]
  • Elizabeth Towne (1865–1960), influential writer, editor, and publisher in the New Thought and self-help movements; first woman to run, unsuccessfully, for Mayor of Holyoke[105]

Other[]

See also[]

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