Religion
- Francis Ellingwood Abbot, philosopher and theologian
- Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), spiritual teacher
- Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Unitarian and Transcendentalist
- Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam leader
- Edward Everett Hale, religious leader
- John Harvard, clergyman and namesake of Harvard University
- Bernard Francis Law, archbishop and cardinal
- Cotton Mather, minister
- Increase Mather, minister
- Dwight Lyman Moody, evangelist
- Edmund Sears, Unitarian parish minister who penned "It Came upon the Midnight Clear" in 1849.
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