Editing Lynn, Massachusetts (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Harry Agganis]], All-American quarterback at [[Boston University]] and [[Boston Red Sox]] player
* [[Corinne Alphen]], model and actress
* [[Stan Andrews]], major league baseball player
* [[Julie Archoska]], football player
* [[Paul Barresi]], pornographic actor
* [[Louis P. Bénézet]], educator and writer
* [[Verna Bloom]], American actress (''[[Animal House]]'', ''[[High Plains Drifter]]'', ''[[The Last Temptation of Christ (film)|The Last Temptation of Christ]]'')
* [[Ben Bowden]], pitcher on [[2014 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team]]; currently pitches for the [[Atlanta Braves]] and has pitched for the [[Colorado Rockies]]
* [[Estelle Parsons]], actress, singer and stage director, Best Supporting Actress 1967 Academy Awards, was born at Lynn in 1927.
* [[Walter Brennan]], actor, winner of three [[Academy Awards]], was born in Lynn
* [[Les Burke]], major league baseball player
* [[Marion Cowan Burrows]], physician and pharmacist, state legislator (1928–1932) representing Lynn
* [[John Deering (baseball)|John Deering]], major league baseball player
* [[Joe Dixon (musician)|Joe Dixon]], jazz clarinet player
* [[Frederick Douglass]], abolitionist<ref name="itemlive.org-2018"/>
* [[Charles Remond Douglass]], soldier
* [[Mary Baker Eddy]], founder of Christian Science
* [[Zari Elmassian]], singer, born in Lynn
* [[Derek Falvey]], Major League Baseball executive, was raised in Lynn
* [[Josh Fogg]], major league baseball player
* [[James Durrell Greene]], famous inventor and US Civil War Brevet Brigadier General, was born in Lynn
* [[Bump Hadley]], major league baseball player
* [[Neil Hamilton (actor)|Neil Hamilton]], actor, played "Commissioner Gordon" on TV's ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]''
* [[Hutchinson Family Singers]], 19th century singing group
* [[George Edward Harney|George E. Harney]], architect 
* [[Jim Hegan]], major league baseball player
* [[Frederick Herzberg]], psychologist, most famous for introducing job enrichment and the Motivator-Hygiene theory, was born in Lynn
* [[Ken Hill (baseball)|Ken Hill]], professional baseball player
* [[Mary Sargent Hopkins]], women's health advocate and bicycle enthusiast
* [[Chris Howard (pitcher)|Chris Howard]], professional baseball pitcher
* [[Ruth Bancroft Law]], aviator, was born in Lynn
* [[Jerry Maren]], longtime character actor who played the middle "Lollipop Guild" member in 1939's "[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard Of Oz]]" film
* [[Jan Ernst Matzeliger]], [[Suriname]]se inventor of shoe-manufacturing equipment, lived in Lynn
* [[Linda McCarriston]], poet, was born and raised in Lynn
* [[Thomas M. McGee]], attorney, State Representative, State Senator, Mayor of Lynn
* [[Thomas W. McGee]], City Councillor, State Representative, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
* [[Ralph McLane]], clarinetist
* [[Walter Mears]], journalist
* [[Ralph Merry]], founder of [[Magog, Quebec]], was born in Lynn in 1753.
* [[Mike Ness]], musician, founder of the rock band, [[Social Distortion]]. Born in Lynn
* [[Alex Newell]], actor and singer, notably from the hit TV series ''[[Glee (TV series)|Glee]]''
* [[Jack Noseworthy]], actor
* [[Mike Pazik]], major league baseball player
* [[William Dudley Pelley]], founder of the [[Silver Legion of America]]
* [[Lotta S. Rand]], social worker, Red Cross worker in WWI France
* [[Ruth Roman]], actress, notably from ''[[Strangers on a Train (film)|Strangers on a Train]]'', was born in Lynn
* [[Tom Rowe (ice hockey)|Tom Rowe]], professional hockey player
* [[Blondy Ryan]], major league baseball player
* [[Harold Shapero]], Composer and educator, was born in Lynn
* [[Todd Smith (wrestler)|Todd Smith]], pro wrestler
* [[Louise Spizizen]], composer, musician, and author
* [[Susan Stafford]], original hostess of ''[[Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]''
* [[Lesley Stahl]], television journalist, ''[[60 Minutes]]'', was born in Lynn
* [[Gasper Urban]], football player
* [[Holman K. Wheeler]], architect of more than 400 structures in Lynn<ref>{{cite book |date=1886 |title=Industries of Massachusetts: Historical and Descriptive Review of Lynn, Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill, Salem, Beverly, Peabody, Danvers, Gloucester, Newburyport, and Amesbury, and their leading Manufacturers and Merchants. |publisher=International Publishing Co. |url=https://archive.org/details/industriesofmass00wars/page/52 |page=52 |access-date=2019-09-22}}</ref>
* [[Frances Hodges White]], children's author
* [[Tom Whelan]], major league baseball player
* [[Charles Herbert Woodbury]], artist and teacher
* [[John Yau]], poet and art critic