Editing West Newbury, Massachusetts (section)

== Notable people ==
[[File:John Cena July 2018.jpg|thumb|225px|Professional wrestler and actor [[John Cena]] in 2018]]
* [[John Cena]], professional wrestler, hip-hop musician, actor and television presenter, currently signed with [[WWE]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Stapleton |first1=John Paul |title=John Cena talks West Newbury on 'Today' |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2015/12/30/john-cena-talks-west-newbury-today/bdnBtkAAMCCqvsWl0KdUsN/story.html?event=event12 |access-date=August 25, 2019 |work=The Boston Globe |date=December 30, 2015}}</ref>
* [[Raymond Abbott]], author
* [[Pat Badger]], bassist for the rock band [[Extreme (band)|Extreme]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Slideshow: Yankee Homecoming Weekend |url=https://www.newburyportnews.com/nt-jva-yh-jpg/image_fec1ae14-7ae6-11e7-bc73-d3f325a862b1.html |access-date=August 25, 2019 |work=Newburyport Daily News |date=August 6, 2017 |quote="West Newbury's and founder Pat Badger plays with Eagles cover band Dark Desert Eagles"}}</ref>
* Eben Moody Boynton, inventor of the [[Boynton Bicycle Railroad]], politician<ref>{{cite news |title=Moody Boynton, Bicycle Railroad Inventor, Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/431218893/# |access-date=January 13, 2020 |work=Boston Globe |date=March 10, 1927 |page=1,3}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Greeley and Moody Boynton |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=42166172&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjQzMDg0MjM0NCwiaWF0IjoxNTc4OTQ4ODEwLCJleHAiOjE1NzkwMzUyMTB9.UPkT7N5l1_P5nyy7n9NwUAdoGArPvIg4TPKIOZIrT6E |access-date=January 13, 2020 |work=Boston Globe |date=July 18, 1897 |page=25 |quote=No more singular character has been in evidence before the Massachusetts legislature for many years than E. Moody Boynton, the sage and inventor of West Newbury.}}</ref>
* George Young Bradley, crew member and chronicler of the [[Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869]] exploring the Grand Canyon<ref>{{cite web |title=Lost in the Grand Canyon, Other Explorers: George Young Bradley (1836-1885) |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/other-explorers/ |website=PBS American Experience |publisher=Public Broadcasting System |access-date=September 26, 2022 | quote=A moody man and a loner, Bradley’s secretly-kept diary is the most compelling and detailed record of the trip.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The Nineteenth Regiment |url=http://newburyport.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=george%20bradley&i=f&d=12111862-01021863&m=between&ord=k1&fn=newburyport_herald_usa_massachusetts_newburyport_18621225_english_1&df=1&dt=5&cid=2710 |access-date=September 26, 2022 |work=Newburyport Herald |date=December 25, 1862 |page=1 |quote=At the taking of Fredericksburg, [soldiers including] George Y. Bradley were slightly wounded. They were all of West Newbury.}}</ref>
* [[Bertrand R. Brinley]], writer of short stories and children's tales, best known for his Mad Scientists' Club stories<ref>{{cite news |title=West Newbury: High School Reception |url=http://newburyport.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=bertrand%20brinley&i=f&d=01011773-12312019&m=between&ord=k1&fn=newburyport_daily_news_and_newburyport_herald_usa_massachusetts_newburyport_19350622_english_2&df=1&dt=5&cid=2710 |access-date=August 25, 2019 |work=Newburyport Daily News and Newburyport Herald |date=June 22, 1935 |pages=2 |quote="the president of the graduating class, Bertrand Russell Brinley"}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=St. Joseph's Students Get Letters from Noted Authors |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/545365866/?terms=%22Bertrand%2BBrinley%22 |access-date=August 25, 2019 |work=The North Adams Transcript |date=April 15, 1966 |pages=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Moore |first1=Leonard B. |title=Neophyte Missilemen: State Boys' Rocket Called Tops by Army |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/236778770/?terms=Bertrand%2BBrinley |access-date=August 25, 2019 |work=The Hartford Courant |date=March 2, 1959 |pages=28 |quote="Capt. Bertrand Brinley, the guiding force behind amateur rocket groups throughout the county"}}</ref>
* [[Addison Brown]], United States District Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of New York]], a botanist, and a serious amateur astronomer<ref>{{cite news |title=Addison Brown Dies: Ex-District Judge |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/04/10/100393859.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 |access-date=February 14, 2020 |work=New York Times |date=April 10, 1913 |page=11 |quote=He was born in West Newbury, Mass., Feb. 21, 1830, of Pilgrim stock.}}</ref>
* [[John Appleton Brown]], American landscape artist known for scenes of New England in spring<ref>{{cite news |title=John Appleton Brown |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/542829455/?article=b4e466ab-410c-494e-a71a-5bbe0ccc8014&focus=0.43945047,0.18060298,0.57173765,0.24932685&xid=2378&_ga=2.44697698.756377948.1578756119-2129257001.1535019961 |access-date=January 26, 2020 |work=Standard Union |date=January 20, 1902 |location=Brooklyn, NY |page=2 |quote=He was born in West Newbury, Mass., [i]n 1844, and studied in Europe under the best masters....}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Downes |first1=William Howe |title=John Appleton Brown, Landscapist |journal=The American Magazine of Art |date=1923 |volume=14 |issue=8 |pages=436–39 |jstor=23927935 }}</ref>
* [[Cidny Bullens]], rock musician and performer of autobiographical "Somewhere Between: A One Wo/Man Show"<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schaffer |first1=Noah |title=Singer Cidny Bullens traces a journey toward transitioning in his new memoir |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/05/arts/singer-cidny-bullens-traces-journey-toward-transitioning-his-new-memoir/ |access-date=July 10, 2023 |work=The Boston Globe |date=July 5, 2023 |quote=This week Bullens kicks off a series of local readings and performances with an event at Jabberwocky Books in Newburyport, just a few miles from his childhood home of West Newbury. 'Now it’s a bedroom community, but when I was growing up it was a farming town,' says Bullens from his Nashville home. 'It was small and rural and perfect for me.'}}</ref>
* [[Elmer Burnham]], American football player and coach<ref>{{cite news |title=Grid coaching great, Burnham, dead at 82 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/516213194/?terms=elmer%2Bburnham |access-date=October 6, 2019 |work=South Bend Tribune |date=March 17, 1977 |pages=44 |quote=A native of West Newbury, Mass., ... where an athletic field is named in his honor.}}</ref>
* [[Margaret Coit]], writer<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bailey |first1=Michael J. |title=Margaret Coit Elwell, 83: won Pulitzer Prize in 1981 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35258447/obituary_for_margaret_coit_elwell_aged/?xid=637&_ga=2.227478173.108441330.1566738683-2129257001.1535019961 |access-date=August 25, 2019 |work=The Boston Globe |date=March 19, 2003 |pages=D12/56 |quote="She ... returned permanently to New England, settling in West Newbury"}}</ref>
* [[Rawly Eastwick]], former professional baseball player<ref>{{cite news |last1=Muldoon |first1=Michael |title=Under the Lights: Dyer an American hero |url=https://www.eagletribune.com/sports/under-the-lights-dyer-an-american-hero/article_b0c074c0-94b9-5e0c-a205-8a9c97603c62.html |access-date=August 25, 2019 |work=The Eagle Tribune |date=October 23, 2011 |location=North Andover, Massachusetts |quote="Red Sox killer Rawly Eastwick of West Newbury"}}</ref>
* [[Cornelius Conway Felton]], educator, president of [[Harvard University]]<ref>{{harvnb|Currier|1896|pp=672–76}}</ref>
* [[Samuel Morse Felton Sr.]], railroad executive<ref>{{harvnb|Currier|1896|pp=677–80}}</ref>
* [[Todd Grinnell]], actor<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Joel |title=Arts center raises curtain on a season of change: Firehouse takes hard look at future |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/443856694/?terms=%22Todd%2BGrinnell%22%2B%22West%2BNewbury%22 |access-date=August 25, 2019 |work=The Boston Globe |date=January 22, 2006 |quote="Todd Grinnell of West Newbury, one of the stars of NBC's new ... sitcom, 'Four Kings'"}}</ref>
* [[Edwin A. Grosvenor]], historian, author, chairman of the history department at [[Amherst College]], and president of the national organization of [[Phi Beta Kappa]] societies from 1907 to 1919<ref>{{cite news |title=Amherst Prof 50 Years Wed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/430299456/?terms=%22edwin%2Bgrosvenor%22 |access-date=October 6, 2019 |work=The Boston Globe |date=October 21, 1923 |page=31 |quote=Born Aug 30, 1845, in West Newbury ...}}</ref>
* [[Justin Haley (baseball)|Justin Haley]], Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins baseball pitcher turned firefighter<ref>{{cite news |title=Ex-Sox pitcher graduates from Firefighting Academy |url=https://newburyportnews-cnhi.newsmemory.com/ |access-date=March 15, 2022 |work=The Daily News of Newburyport |date=March 15, 2022 |quote="I want to congratulate Firefighter Haley on completing the academy…," Chief Michael Dwyer said in a press release. "Firefighter Haley’s commitment to his family helped lead him here, and he will be a great asset to our department and community here in West Newbury."}}</ref> 
* Mary Ault Harada, record-breaking Masters Class runner<ref>{{cite news |title=A masterful showing |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38483146/mary_harada_race_resultsmasters/?xid=637&_ga=2.64975976.639646929.1572782482-2129257001.1535019961 |access-date=November 5, 2019 |work=The Boston Globe |date=August 16, 2012 |pages=4 |quote=Masters Hall of Famer Mary Harada, 77, of West Newbury, won the 800 and 5,000 meters.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Vellante |first1=John |title=Notebook: A lifetime of running |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38482595/mary_harada_running_more_than_40_years/?xid=637&_ga=2.136885367.639646929.1572782482-2129257001.1535019961 |access-date=November 5, 2019 |work=The Boston Globe |date=December 27, 2009 |pages=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Gasper |first1=Christopher L. |title=She's outrunning Father Time |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38482015/mary_harada_running_at_70_pt_1/?xid=637&_ga=2.103265479.639646929.1572782482-2129257001.1535019961 |access-date=November 5, 2019 |work=The Boston Globe |date=June 1, 2006 |pages=60 |format=contains photos of Mary Harada}}</ref>
* [[Roland Hayes]], African-American lyric tenor and composer<ref>{{cite news |title=Roland Hayes, Noted Singer To Be Eagerly Welcomed as Resident of West Newbury |url=http://newburyport.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=roland%20hayes&i=f&d=01011945-12311963&m=between&ord=k1&fn=newburyport_daily_news_and_newburyport_herald_usa_massachusetts_newburyport_19461114_english_11&df=1&dt=10&cid=2710 |access-date=August 13, 2019 |work=Newburyport Daily News and Newburyport Herald |date=November 11, 1946 |pages=11}}</ref>
* [[Frances Keegan Marquis]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Head of First WAACS in Africa Was Simmons Grad in '16 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32482157/frances_marquie_bio_pt_2/?xid=637&_ga=2.17067195.32997884.1570299596-2129257001.1535019961 |access-date=October 6, 2019 |work=The Boston Globe |date=January 30, 1943 |pages=3 |quote="Capt. Marquis was born in West Newbury, Mass., and graduated from that town's high school at the age of 14."}}</ref> first to command a women's expeditionary force, the 149th [[Women's Army Corps|WAAC]] Post Headquarters Company,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cowan |first1=Ruth |title=Waac Skipper In North Africa Can Make A Very Nice Lemon Pie |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32389656/backgroundwac_skipper/?xid=637&_ga=2.50404395.32997884.1570299596-2129257001.1535019961 |access-date=October 6, 2019 |work=The Palm Beach Post |agency=AP |date=February 1, 1943 |pages=6}}</ref> serving in [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|General Eisenhower's]] North African headquarters in Algiers<ref>{{cite book |last1=Treadwell |first1=Mattie E. |title=The Women's Army Corps |date=1954 |publisher=[[United States Army Center of Military History]] |location=Ft. Belvoir, Virginia |pages=360 |edition=1991 |series = United States Army in World War II |url=http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/Wac/index.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080108141650/http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/Wac/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 8, 2008 |access-date=October 6, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Lenny Mirra]], State Representative who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives<ref>{{cite news |last1=Amaro |first1=Bruce |title=Lenny Mirra prepares to step into 2nd Essex seat |url=https://www.wickedlocal.com/article/20121130/News/311309592 |access-date=August 25, 2019 |work=WickedLocal.com |date=November 30, 2012 |quote="Mirra, a West Newbury resident, took the election"}}</ref>
* [[Steven Pearlstein]], journalist, professor, former moderator of the Town of West Newbury<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pearlstein |first1=Steven |title=Robinson Professor of Public Affairs |url=https://schar.gmu.edu/about/faculty-directory/steven-pearlstein |website=Schar School of Policy and Government |publisher=George Mason University |access-date=July 14, 2020 |quote="He is a former moderator of West Newbury, Mass."}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Pearlstein |first1=Steven |title=Subverting Wishes of Majority |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/437723354/?terms=%22Steven%2BPearlstein%22%2B%22West%2BNewbury%22 |access-date=July 14, 2020 |work=Boston Globe |date=March 16, 1986 |page=A25,125 |quote="On my reading list this time each year is a little red book called 'Town Meeting Time,' which guides me as I try to guide the discussions at the annual West Newbury town meeting."}}</ref>
* [[Benjamin Perley Poore]], journalist<ref>{{cite news |title=Ben: Perley Poore: The Journalist and Soldier Lays Down his Pen and Sword |url=http://newburyport.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=ben%20poore&i=f&d=01011773-12312019&m=between&ord=k1&fn=newburyport_daily_herald_usa_massachusetts_newburyport_18870530_english_3&df=1&dt=10&cid=2710 |access-date=August 25, 2019 |work=Newburyport Daily Herald |date=May 30, 1887 |pages=3 |quote="Major Ben: Perley Poore, of Indian Hill, West Newbury, died"}}</ref>
* [[Julian Steele]], civil rights and affordable housing activist and first African-American town moderator in Massachusetts<ref>{{cite news |last1=Marion |first1=Frieda |title=Julian D. Steele, Nationally Known Welfare Worker, Has Farm Estate in West Newbury |url=http://newburyport.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?k=julian%20steele&i=f&m=between&ord=k1&fn=newburyport_daily_news_and_newburyport_herald_usa_massachusetts_newburyport_19500302_english_23&df=1&dt=10&cid=2710 |access-date=August 12, 2019 |work=Newburyport Daily News and Newburyport Herald |date=March 2, 1950 |pages=A15/23}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Bay State Negro Elected: Town Names Only Voter of His Race to Be Moderator |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/03/05/84243704.html?pageNumber=24 |access-date=August 13, 2019 |work=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=March 5, 1952 |pages=24}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Coit |first1=Margaret L. |title=The Small Town Under Big Pressures: Urgent new pressures threaten old frugality at a New England hamlet's annual meeting |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/02/24/93562737.html?pageNumber=196 |access-date=August 13, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=February 24, 1952 |pages=20/196, 21/197, 23/199 |format=contains photos of town hall, Julian Steele and his predecessor moderator}}</ref>
* [[John Tufts (music educator)|John Tufts]], early American music educator<ref>{{harvnb|Currier|1902|pp=356–57}}</ref>