Editing Wayland, Massachusetts (section)

==Notable people==

=== Musicians ===
* [[Sammy Adams]], rapper
* [[Tom Hamilton (musician)|Tom Hamilton]], bass player for [[Aerosmith]]
* [[Daniel Lopatin]], experimental musician better known as [[Oneohtrix Point Never]]
* [[Peter Rowan]], bluegrass musician
* [[Tom Scholz]], guitarist for 1970s rock group [[Boston (band)|Boston]]
* [[Steven Tyler]], member of [[Aerosmith]], who held the first and only [[rock and roll|rock]] concert in the Wayland [[High school (North America)|High School]] field house before the band became known worldwide

=== Businesspeople ===
* [[Andrew Bachman]], [[entrepreneur]] and [[investor]]
* [[Joshua Bekenstein]], co-chairman of Bain Capital
* [[Amar Bose]], founder of [[Bose Corporation]], a company that specializes in high-quality sound systems
* [[George Howell (entrepreneur)|George Howell]], founder of George Howell coffee

=== Athletes ===
* [[Jae Crowder]], NBA player
* [[Ricky Davis]], NBA player
* [[Ted Johnson]], NFL player
* [[Thomas Kiefer]], rower in the [[1984 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Ben McAdoo]], NFL coach
* [[Walter McCarty]], NBA player and coach
* [[Johnny Most]], the radio voice of the [[Boston Celtics]]
* [[Tim Murphy (American football coach)|Tim Murphy]], head coach of the Harvard football team
* [[Tim O'Shea]], former basketball coach at [[Bryant University]]
* [[Jonathan Papelbon]], MLB player
* [[Jerry Remy]], former [[Boston Red Sox]] player and TV announcer
*  [[Alberto Salazar]] (born 1958), distance runner and athletics coach banned for life
* [[Dwight Schofield]], professional hockey player for the Montreal Canadiens, Washington Capitals, Winnipeg Jets, and St. Louis Blues
* [[Ted Williams]], Baseball Hall of Famer, lived on Dudley Pond

=== Actors and actresses===
* [[Beatrice Herford]], actress
* [[Liza Huber]], [[Passions]] actress
* [[Taylor Schilling]], actress and star of the NBC hospital drama ''[[Mercy (TV series)|Mercy]]'' as well as the 2012 movie ''[[The Lucky One (film)|The Lucky One]]'' and the Netflix original drama-comedy series ''[[Orange is the New Black]]''
* [[Ryan Sypek]], actor and star of the TV series ''Wildfire''
 
=== Other ===
* [[Robert Anastas]], former hockey coach and teacher who founded SADD chapter at [[Wayland High School]] following the 1981 deaths of two students in drunk driving crashes
* [[Lydia Maria Child]], 19th-century American abolitionist, novelist, journalist, author of "[[Over the River and Through the Wood]]"
* [[Glenn Cooper]], Internationally best-selling thriller writer and film producer
* [[Gerard Cosloy]], recording industry executive. Manager of [[Homestead Records]], co-founder of [[Matador Records]], Owner of 12XU Records
* [[Archibald Cox]], legal scholar, Special Prosecutor of the [[Watergate Scandal]] involving [[Richard Nixon|President Nixon's]] [[Public administration|Administration]]
* [[Ann Cole Gannett]], politician
* [[Nancy Hasty Evans]], politician
* [[David Hackett Fischer]], Brandeis Professor of History and author
* [[Josiah Johnson Hawes]], pioneering 19th-century photographer
* [[Sarah Hurwitz]], [[Michelle Obama]]'s speech writer
* [[Joyce Kulhawik]], arts and entertainment anchor for [[WBZ-TV|WBZ-TV News]] in [[Boston]]
* [[Allen Morgan (ornithologist)|Allen Morgan]], founder and first executive director of [[Sudbury Valley Trustees]]
* [[Alvaro Pascual-Leone]], noted [[neuroscientist]]
* [[Samuel Parris]], Reverend and Salem Witch Trials magistrate, buried in an unmarked grave in North Cemetery
* [[Harold Russell]], [[Academy Award]] winner for his role as a disabled World War II vet in 1946's ''[[The Best Years of Our Lives]]''
* [[Edmund Sears]], 1800s Unitarian parish minister, author who wrote a number of theological works influential to his contemporary liberal Protestants, famous for penning the words to "[[It Came Upon the Midnight Clear]]"
* [[Mary Sears (oceanographer)|Mary Sears]], [[Oceanographer]]
* [[Sarah Sewall]], lecturer
* [[Erika Uyterhoeven]]
* [[Michael VanRooyen]]
* [[Gladys Widdiss]], tribal historian and potter, President of the [[Aquinnah Wampanoag of Gay Head]] from 1978 until 1987<ref name=vg>{{cite news|first=Phyllis |last=Méras.|title= Gladys Widdiss Dies at 97, Was Widely Respected Tribal Elder |url=http://www.mvgazette.com/article.php?35588 |work=[[Vineyard Guardian]] |date=June 15, 2012 |access-date=July 2, 2012}}</ref>