Notable Residents
- Jess Brallier, award-winning publisher, best-selling author, and web publisher
- John Doherty, Major League Baseball player
- Joshua Eaton, farmer who died in the Revolutionary War at the Battle of Saratoga; lived his entire civilian life in Reading
- Mark Erelli, folk musician
- William M. Fowler, U.S. naval historian, professor at Northeastern University and former director of the Massachusetts Historical Society
- Fred Foy, radio and television announcer for the Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, Sgt. Preston of the Yukon, and Dick Cavett shows
- John Hart (doctor), originally from Ipswich (born October 13, 1751); served as a Regimental Surgeon during the American Revolution
- Lennie Merullo, professional baseball player who played for the Chicago Cubs starting in 1941 and later moved on to be a professional baseball scout
- Moses Nichols, officer during the Revolutionary War
- Thomas Parker (deacon), founder of Reading
- Eddie Peabody, banjo player
- Chris Pizzotti, football quarterback at Reading Memorial High School and Harvard University, currently an undrafted free agent with the New York Jets
- Bill Russell, professional basketball player and coach
- Tom Silva, general contractor for This Old House on PBS
- Charles Stuart, murderer
- Jonathan Temple (1796–1866), Los Angeles, California, landowner, cattle rancher and politician, born in Reading
- Charles Austin Tweed, politician
- Brad Whitford, guitarist for Aerosmith, a member of the RMHS class of '70
- Walter F. MacConaway, biographer of explorer James Michael Prescott lived in Reading in the early 1970s.
- David Kruh, playwright and author of two books on Boston's Scollay Square
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