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==Notable people==
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While many notable people own property or regularly visit the island, the following have been residents of the island:

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* [[Askamaboo]], a 17th-century female Wampanoag sachem
* [[William Barnes Sr.]], attorney and Republican Party political leader<ref>{{cite book |last=New York State Bar Association |date=1913 |title=Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xuI8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA713 |location=Albany, NY |publisher=The Argus Company |pages=713–716 |via=[[Google Books]] |ref={{sfnRef|''Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting''}}}}</ref>
* [[Eliza Starbuck Barney]], abolitionist, genealogist<ref name="Stout">{{cite web|last1=Stout|first1=Kate|title=Who Was Eliza Barney?|url=https://www.nha.org/history/hn/HNbarneystout.htm|website=www.nha.org|publisher=Nantucket Historical Association|access-date=December 3, 2017}}</ref> 
* [[Caio Canedo]], Emirati national team soccer player
* [[Donick Cary]] writer, producer
* [[James H. Cromartie]], artist
* [[A. J. Cronin]], novelist
* [[Doug DeMuro]], Entrepreneur, founder of automotive auction website Cars & Bids, automotive journalist, automotive content creator
* [[J. A. Folger|James A. Folger]], founder of the coffee company bearing his name
* [[Mayhew Folger]], whaling captain
* [[Peter Folger (Nantucket settler)|Peter Folger]], missionary
* [[Anna Gardner]], abolitionist, poet, teacher
* [[Robert Moller Gilbreth]], businessman, educator, and politician<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gilbrethnetwork.tripod.com/dozen.html|title=The Gilbreth Network: That Most Famous Dozen|website=gilbrethnetwork.tripod.com}}</ref>
* [[Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford]], first woman ordained as a Universalist minister in New England
* [[Elin Hilderbrand]], author 
* [[Dorcas Honorable]], last of the Nantucket [[Wampanoag]]s
* [[Pauline Mackay]], golfer
* [[Rowland Hussey Macy]], 19th-century retailer, founder of Macy's department store
* [[Maria Mitchell]], astronomer
* [[Allison Mleczko]], ice hockey player
* [[Raymond Rocco Monto]], orthopedic surgeon
* [[Mary Morrill]], grandmother of [[Benjamin Franklin]]
* [[Lucretia Coffin Mott]], minister, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights
* [[Cyrus Peirce]], educator
* [[Nathaniel Philbrick]], author
* [[Joseph Gardner Swift]], first graduate of the [[United States Military Academy]]
* [[Nancy Thayer]], author<ref>{{Cite web|last=Thayer|first=Nancy|date=May 29, 2019|title=Travel to Nantucket like a local with this guide.|url=https://www.newsweek.com/nantucket-insider-guide-1438523|access-date=November 21, 2020|website=Newsweek|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Meghan Trainor]], singer and songwriter<ref>
{{Citation
 | last = Globe correspondent
 | title = All about Nantucket's Meghan Trainor
 | newspaper = Boston Globe
 | series = Style
 | date = September 16, 2014
| url = https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/style/2014/09/16/all-about-nantucket-meghan-trainor/hBHcLNeJ5u1cj97XzXXcoO/story.html
 | access-date = September 4, 2015 }}
</ref>
* [[Charles F. Winslow]], physician, 19th-century science author
* [[Mary A. Brayton Woodbridge]], 19th-century temperance reformer, editor
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