Editing Newburyport, Massachusetts (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:Firstreligioussocietynbpt.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Meetinghouse of the First Religious Society (Unitarian), built 1801]]

* [[John Quincy Adams]] (1767–1848), U.S. president, resided in Newburyport 1787–1788
* [[Charlotte Johnson Baker]] (1855–1937), physician
* [[Edward Bass]] (1726 –1803), first [[United States|American]] [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|Episcopal]] [[bishop]] of the [[Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts|Diocese of Massachusetts]] and second bishop of the [[Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island|Diocese of Rhode Island]].
* [[Nikole Beckwith]] (born 1980), Newburyport-born and raised writer and filmmaker
* [[Kate Bolick]] (born 1972), Newburyport-born and raised author and essayist
* [[John Parker Boyd]] (1764–1830), U.S. Army Brigadier General in the [[War of 1812]]
* [[John Bromfield, Jr.]] (1779–1849), merchant
* [[John H. Couch]] (1811–1870), sea captain, pioneer and a founder of [[Portland, Oregon]]
* [[Osmond Richard Cummings]] (1923–2013), author and historian
* [[Caleb Cushing]] (1800–1879), diplomat and politician
* [[Timothy Dexter]] (1748–1806), businessman noted for his writing and eccentricity
* [[Robert Gray Dodge]] (1872–1964), Boston Attorney
* [[Andre Dubus III]] (born 1959), novelist
* [[William Lloyd Garrison]] (1805–1879), abolitionist
* [[Edmund Pike Graves]] (1891–1919), aviator who served as a fighter pilot during [[WWI]] and the [[Polish-Soviet War]]
* [[Áine Greaney]] (born {{circa|1962}}), writer and editor
* [[Adolphus Greely]] (1844–1935), polar explorer
* [[Edwin A. Grosvenor]] (1845–1936), author and professor of history 
* [[Laura Coombs Hills]] (1859–1952), painter
* [[Judith Hoag]] (born 1968) actress
* [[Lucy Hooper]] (1816–1841), poet
* [[Charles Tillinghast James]] (1805–1862), mechanical engineer, designer, senator
* [[Benjamin H. Jellison]] (1845–1904), Medal of Honor recipient in the American Civil War
* [[Joe Keery]] (born 1992), actor
* [[Rufus King]] (1755–1827), diplomat and politician
* [[Thomas B. Lawson]] (1807–1888), artist
* [[Francis Cabot Lowell (businessman)|Francis Cabot Lowell]] (1775–1817), manufacturer
* [[John Lowell]] (1743–1802), congressman and federal judge
* [[George Lunt]] (1803–1885), editor, lawyer, author, politician
* [[John P. Marquand]] (1893–1960), author
* [[Donald McKay]] (1810–1880), shipbuilder
* [[Jonathan Meath]] (born 1955), television producer
* [[Johnny Messner (actor)|Johnny Messner]] (born 1970), actor
* [[Robert S. Mulliken]] (1896–1986), recipient of 1966 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
* [[Theophilus Parsons]] (1750–1813), jurist
* [[James Parton]] (1822–1891), biographer
* [[Edmund Pearson]] (1880–1937), librarian and true crime writer
* [[Jacob Perkins]] (1766–1849), early American inventor
* [[Timothy Pilsbury]] (1789–1858), congressman from Texas
* [[Harriet Prescott Spofford]] (1835–1921), writer
* [[Charles A. Spring]] (1800–1891), influential [[Presbyterian]] leader in Iowa and Illinois
* [[Gardiner Spring|Rev. Gardiner Spring]] (1785–1873), author of the [[Gardiner Spring Resolutions]], which gained [[Abraham Lincoln]] the support of the Presbyterian Church
* [[Samuel Spring|Rev. Samuel Spring]] (1746–1819), religious leader, chaplain in [[Benedict Arnold]]'s army
* [[Clara F. Stevens]] (1855–1934), English professor at [[Mount Holyoke College]]
* [[Matthew Thornton]] (1714–1803), signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]]
* [[William S. Tilton]] (1828–1889), Civil War brigade commander at the [[Battle of Gettysburg]]
* [[Peter Tolan]] (born 1958), television/film producer and writer
* [[Richard Trefry]], (1924–2023), [[United States Army]] [[lieutenant general (United States)|lieutenant general]]. 
* [[Charles Henry Turner (painter)|Charles Turner]] (1848–1908), painter, born in Newburyport
* [[Gordon Welchman|William Gordon Welchman]] (1906–1985) English mathematician, university professor, Second World War codebreaker at Bletchley Park, United Kingdom 
* [[William Wheelwright]] (1798–1873), sea captain, US consul in [[Chile]], steamship and railroad promoter in South America
* [[Lothrop Withington]] (1856–1915), genealogist, historian, and book editor who was killed in the sinking of the [[RMS Lusitania]]
* [[Martha Wright (actress)|Martha Wright]] (1923–2016), singer and Broadway actress