Editing Deerfield, Massachusetts (section)

== Notable people ==
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* [[Frank Boyden]] (1879–1972), Headmaster of Deerfield Academy
* [[Alon Bement]] (1876–1954), an American artist, [[Arts administration|arts administrator]], [[author]], and [[Teacher|educator]], whose family helped found Deerfield<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=November 24, 1954 |title=ALON BEMEMT, A PAINTER, IS DEAD; Former Dean of Traphagen School of Fashion Had Led Art and Industry Alliance |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/11/24/84439333.html?pageNumber=23 |url-access=subscription |access-date=February 23, 2021 |website=Times Machine |publisher=The New York Times |page=23 |language=en |archive-date=February 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229073645/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/11/24/84439333.html?pageNumber=23 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Francis John Higginson]] (1843–1931), rear admiral in U.S. Navy, raised in Deerfield
* [[Irwin Rose]] (1926–2015), biologist, Nobel prizewinner, died in Deerfield
* [[George Sheldon (preservationist)|George Sheldon]] (1818–1916), Deerfield town historian and justice of the peace; leader of one of the first preservation societies in the United States
* [[Jennie Maria Arms Sheldon]] (1852–1938), curator of Deerfield's Memorial Hall Museum
* [[Lucy Terry]] ({{circa|1730}}–1821), African-American poet, slave in Deerfield
* [[John Williams (bishop of Connecticut)|John Williams]] (1817–1899), Episcopal bishop, born in Deerfield