Editing Pittsfield, Massachusetts (section)

==Notable people==
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* [[Thomas Allen (Massachusetts)|Thomas Allen]], railroad builder and member of [[United States Congress]]<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896">{{cite book | title = Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896 | publisher = Marquis Who's Who |year=1967}}</ref>
* [[William Allen (biographer)|William Allen]], compiler of first work of general biography published in United States<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
* [[Edward Deming Andrews|Edward Deming]] and [[Faith Andrews]], historians, authors, and authorities on the [[Shakers]]
* [[Elizabeth Banks]], actress in films including ''[[Seabiscuit (film)|Seabiscuit]], [[Spider-Man (2002 film)|Spider-Man]], [[The 40-Year-Old Virgin]]'', ''[[W. (film)|W.]]'', ''[[The Hunger Games (film series)|The Hunger Games]]'' and ''[[The Lego Movie]]''; and current host of ''[[Press Your Luck]]''
* [[William Francis Bartlett]], Civil War general
* [[Mark Belanger]], former [[Rawlings Gold Glove Award|Gold Glove]] [[shortstop]] for [[Baltimore Orioles]], 1970 World Series champion
* [[Matt Belknap]], founder of [[Aspecialthing Records]] comedy label, producer and co-host of comedy podcast [[Never Not Funny]]
* [[Charles Berkeley (bobsleigh)|Chuck Berkeley]], 2010 Olympian in bobsled
* [[Michael Boroniec]], sculptor and painter
*[[Lawrence Bossidy]], former CEO of [[Honeywell]]
* [[Henry Shaw Briggs]], [[Brigadier general (United States)|brigadier general]] during [[American Civil War]]
* [[Roger E. Broggie]], Disney Legend Award recipient (1990), selected by [[Walt Disney]] as first Imagineer, team that created Disneyland, Walt Disney World and similar themed amusement parks<ref>Walt Disney's Railroad Story</ref>
* [[John Brown of Pittsfield|Colonel John Brown]], Revolutionary War patriot, first to accuse [[Benedict Arnold]]
* [[Timothy Childs]], congressman
* [[Silvio O. Conte]], congressman
* [[Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge]], philanthropist and music patron, founded Berkshire Music Festival at South Mountain in 1918
* [[Art Ditmar]], 1950s pitcher for [[Oakland Athletics|Philadelphia and Kansas City Athletics]] and [[New York Yankees]]
* [[Michael Downing (writer)]] author of book ''Breakfast with Scot''
* [[J. Allan Dunn]], prolific author for [[pulp magazine]]s
* [[Pat Fallon]], member of the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House]], former member of the [[Texas Senate]] and [[Texas House of Representatives]]
* [[Cy Ferry]], baseball player for [[Detroit Tigers]] and [[Cleveland Indians|Cleveland Naps]] in early years of [[American League]]
* [[Jack Ferry]], baseball player for [[Pittsburgh Pirates]] in 1910s
* [[Marshall Field]], founded [[Chicago]]'s [[Marshall Field's]] department stores, took first job in 1853 as a clerk in Pittsfield; white terra-cotta [[Pittsfield Building]] in downtown [[Chicago]] is so named because of Field's connection to Pittsfield
* [[Daniel Fox (chemist)|Daniel Fox]], shares credit for invention of [[Lexan]] plastic
* [[Peter Francese]], speaker and writer
* [[Marc Gafni]], American author and former rabbi, [[New Age]] spiritual teacher<ref name = "POJ-RR">{{cite news |last=Livneh |first=Neri |date= March 4, 2004 |title=Post-Orthodoxy Journey |url=http://www.haaretz.com/post-orthodoxy-journey-1.115864 |url-status=unfit |work=[[Haaretz]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104144450/http://www.haaretz.com/post-orthodoxy-journey-1.115864 |archive-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Elaine Giftos]], actress
* [[Frank Grant (baseball)|Frank Grant]], 19th Century [[African American]] baseball player
* [[Nancy Graves]], sculptor and painter
* [[Tom Grieve]], player, general manager and broadcaster for Major League Baseball's [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]]
* [[Gene Hermanski]], baseball player, [[Brooklyn Dodgers]], [[Chicago Cubs]], [[Pittsburgh Pirates]]
* [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.]], poet, summered in Pittsfield; mother's family owned {{cvt|26000|acres}} in Pittsfield
* [[Hung Huynh]], winner of reality television show ''[[Top Chef]]'' Season 3, graduate of Pittsfield High School
* [[Donald Kaufman (collector)|Donald Kaufman]], co-founder of KB Toys and antique toy collector
* [[Benjamin Larned]] (1794–1862), colonel and [[Paymaster-General of the United States Army]]
* [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], poet, educator, linguist, owned home on East Street, now site of Pittsfield High School (see photos above)
* [[Jay McInerney]], novelist, author of ''Bright Lights, Big City'' (1984) on which [[Bright Lights, Big City (film)|film]] was based
*[[James Melcher]] (1939–2023), Olympic fencer and hedge fund manager
* [[Herman Melville]], author, resided at [[Arrowhead (Herman Melville House)|Arrowhead]] in Pittsfield, where he wrote his most famous novel, ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' and several others.
* [[William Miller (preacher)|William Miller]], 19th Century preacher
* [[Sarah Morewood]], literary figure in [[the Berkshires]] and intimate friend of Herman Melville. Her farm adjoined [[Arrowhead (Herman Melville House)]], and is now the site of the Country Club of Pittsfield<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ccpittsfield.org/club/scripts/public/public.asp?NS=PUBLIC |title=Country Club of Pittsfield - Golf & Country Club located in the Berkshires of Massachusetts |website=www.ccpittsfield.org |access-date=June 30, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Elaine Cancilla Orbach]], Broadway actress, actor [[Jerry Orbach]]'s widow
* [[Chad Paronto]], Major League Baseball relief pitcher
* [[Edward Partridge]], first bishop of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]
* [[Adrian Pasdar]], actor
* [[Brian Piccolo]], [[Chicago Bears]] halfback, subject of movie ''[[Brian's Song]]''
* [[Robert Prentiss]], Massachusetts and New York politician
* [[Emily Robison]], musician and member of the [[Dixie Chicks]]
* [[John James Rudin]], Roman Catholic bishop
* [[Magic Dick|Richard Salwitz]], musician with [[J Geils Band]]<ref name="A homecoming for Pittsfield Slim">{{cite web|title=A homecoming for Pittsfield Slim|url=http://www.berkshireweb.com/rogovoy/thebeat/beat991126.html|website=berkshireweb.com|access-date=May 26, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526213831/http://www.berkshireweb.com/rogovoy/thebeat/beat991126.html|archive-date=May 26, 2015}}</ref>
* [[Niraj Shah]] (born 1973/74), billionaire CEO and co-founder of [[Wayfair]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/03/10/five-things-you-should-know-about-niraj-shah/67NvrHdIVCnk2PaHHiGDwO/story.html|title=Five things you should know about Niraj Shah - The Boston Globe|website=[[The Boston Globe]]|access-date=December 30, 2017}}</ref>
* [[William Stanley Jr.]], invented first alternating current electrical transformer
* [[Charles Thomas Stearns]], member of Minnesota Territorial Legislature
* [[Howie Storie]], catcher for [[Boston Red Sox]] during early 1930s
* [[John Szarkowski]], photographer, critic, historian, curator of photography at [[Museum of Modern Art|MoMA]]
* [[James Walter Thompson]], 19th Century advertising pioneer
* [[Bruce Tulgan]], author of ''Managing Generation X'' and ''It's Okay To Be the Boss''
* [[Elkanah Watson]], author and agriculturist, in 1810 held the first county fair in the country in Pittsfield
* [[Jack Welch]], former CEO of [[General Electric]]
* [[Turk Wendell]], MLB Pitcher
* [[Paul Weston]], musician, composer and arranger, was raised in Pittsfield.<ref name=Jo>{{cite book|url=http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/o/holaday/JosPage/jobyglee.htm|title=Singers and the Song: G.I. Joe|author=Lees, Gene|year=1989|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=272|isbn=0-19-506087-3|access-date=April 30, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319001921/http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/o/holaday/JosPage/jobyglee.htm|archive-date=March 19, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Charles Brewster Wheeler]], U.S. Army brigadier general<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Nichols |first=Zella Wheeler |editor-last=Branham |editor-first=Charles N. |date=January 1947 |title=Obituary, Charles Brewster Wheeler |url=https://usmalibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/assembly/id/885/rec/2 |magazine=Assembly |location=West Point, NY |publisher=Association of Graduates, United States Military Academy |page=38 |via=West Point Digital Library |ref={{sfnRef|"Obituary, Charles Brewster Wheeler"}}}}</ref>
* [[David Dunnels White]], soldier of 37th Massachusetts Regiment, organized in Pittsfield during Civil War, captured Confederate Major General George Washington Custis Lee, son of famed General [[Robert E. Lee]], during Battle of Sailor's Creek Virginia, April 6, 1865
* [[Charles White Whittlesey]], [[United States Army|Army]] officer and [[Medal of Honor]] recipient who led "Lost Battalion" in [[Meuse-Argonne Offensive]] in October 1918 during final stages of [[World War I]]
* [[Margaret Hicks Williams]], government official, writer, political expert 
* [[Robin Williams]], actor, maintained a summer home in Pittsfield
* [[Stephanie Wilson]], astronaut
* [[Walter Zink]], was a professional baseball pitcher who played for the New York Giants
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