•
Danny Ainge, executive director of basketball operations and general manager of the
Boston Celtics •
Ray Allen, former player for the
Boston Celtics •
Emily Greene Balch,
Nobel Peace Prize winner •
Roger Nash Baldwin, co-founder of
American Civil Liberties Union •
Arthur Batcheller, U.S. radio inspector •
Katharine Lee Bates, author of "America the Beautiful" •
Gamaliel Bradford, poet, biographer •
Dee Brown, former basketball player for the Boston Celtics and NBA executive •
Laurence E. Bunker, United States Army colonel, aide to
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, leader within the
John Birch Society •
R. Nicholas Burns, former U.S. Under Secretary of State, Ambassador to NATO and to Greece, and State Department spokesman •
Karl E. Case, developer of the
Case–Shiller index •
Dan Chiasson, poet and New Yorker critic •
Gene Clapp, Olympic silver medalist men's eight •
Katharine Coman, historian, professor of economics and sociology, author •
Greg Comella, former professional football player with the New York Giants, Titans, Texans and Buccaneers •
Jane Curtin, comedian, original cast member of
Saturday Night Live •
Richard Darman, economist, former head of the
Office of Management and Budget •
Erik Davis, former pitcher for the Washington Nationals •
Blake Dietrick, WNBA basketball player with the
Seattle Storm and former standout with the
Princeton Tigers •
Dennis Eckersley, former pitcher for the
Oakland A's •
Nancy Hasty Evans, politician •
Carl Everett, former
center fielder for the
Boston Red Sox •
Isabel Fiske Conant, poet and playwright •
Nicole Freedman (born 1972), Olympic cyclist •
Nate Freiman (born 1986), first baseman for the
Oakland Athletics •
Wendell Arthur Garrity Jr., U.S. District Court judge •
Curt Gowdy, sports commentator •
Michael S. Greco, president of American, Massachusetts, and New England bar associations •
Lester Grinspoon, psychiatrist, professor, and drug policy reform advocate •
Ariulf Eric Hampe, German electrical and aeronautical engineer •
Jay Harrington American actor •
Gordon Hayward,
small forward for the
Boston Celtics •
H. H. Hunnewell (1810–1902), railroad financier and horticulturist •
Andrea Jung, CEO of Avon Products •
Phil Laak, professional
poker player, winner of 2004
World Poker Tour •
Christopher Leggett, film producer •
Xihong Lin, Department of Biostatistics chair at the Harvard School of Public Health •
Gregory Mankiw, Harvard economics professor •
Daisuke Matsuzaka, former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox •
Bijan Mazaheri, distance runner •
Fred McLafferty, professor, analytical chemist, author, inventor, leading developer of
mass spectrometry •
Drew Meekins, figure skater •
Ossian Everett Mills, founder of
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity •
Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America •
Bill Mueller, former
third baseman for the Boston Red Sox •
Joseph E. Murray, surgeon, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1990 •
Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American author •
Joe Nash, retired NFL player for the Seattle Seahawks •
Sylvia Plath, poet and author,
The Bell Jar •
Richard Preston and
Douglas Preston, best-selling authors •
Aneesh Raman, former presidential speechwriter at the
White House and
CNN Middle East Correspondent •
Edward Thomas Ryan, president,
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; professor, Harvard University •
James St. Clair, defense lawyer for
Richard Nixon during
Watergate •
Jack Sanford, former
MLB pitcher, 1957
MLB Rookie of the Year Award recipient •
Billy Squier, rock musician •
Brad Stevens, former head coach and current general manager of the Boston Celtics •
Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder •
Steven Tyler, rock musician, lived in Wellesley during the late 1990s and early 2000s •
Michael von Clemm, banker, anthropologist and founder of
Canary Wharf •
Rasheed Wallace, retired professional basketball player •
Greg Yaitanes, Emmy Award-winning film director, writer, actor •
Eddie Yost, baseball player and coach ==References==