Notable Residents
- Pamela Bustin, 1996 Olympic field hockey player
- Shirley May France, attempted to swim the English Channel in 1949 and 1950, achieving world-wide fame
- Greg Gagne, former major league baseball player and starting shortstop of the Minnesota Twins' who played on two world championship teams
- Clifford Milburn Holland, chief engineer and namesake of the Holland Tunnel in New York City
- Nancy Pimental, actress and screenwriter who wrote the script for the film The Sweetest Thing
- Stephen Rebello, writer and screenwriter known for such books as Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho and for the screenplay of a forthcoming (in 2009) movie based on that book.
- Jerry Remy, "The RemDawg", former major league baseball player for the California Angels and Boston Red Sox, and current Red Sox color commentator for NESN
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