Lexington, Massachusetts

Lexington is a town located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 30,355.

Celebrities from Lexington

• Henry Abraham -- Nobel Peace Prize, current resident
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee -- Inventor of the World Wide Web, current resident
• Noam Chomsky -- world famous professor of linguistics at MIT and left wing author, current resident
• Rachel Dratch -- member of the cast of Saturday Night Live, graduate of Lexington High School
• Raef LaFrentz -- forward/center for the Boston Celtics
• Fred Fitzgerald -- Olympic Athlete
• Nomar Garciaparra -- Gold Glove-winning shortstop for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs, former resident
• Mia Hamm -- Member of the United States women's national soccer team 17 times, former resident
• Salvador Luria -- Nobel Prize in Medicine, former resident
• Mario Molina -- Nobel Prize in Physics, current resident
• Eugene Mirman -- comedian, graduate of Lexington High School
• Joseph Nye -- political analyst, author of Soft power
• Amanda Palmer -- vocalist and pianist, of the band the Dresden Dolls grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, and attended Lexington High School
• Charles Ponzi -- Infamous con man, former resident
• Clifford Shull -- Nobel Prize in Physics, former resident
• Abigail Thernstrom -- Member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, current resident
• Edward Osborne Wilson -- famous entomologist, current resident
• Rollie Massimino -- Lead Villanova Wildcats to an improbable basketball national championship in 1985, former Lexington High School teacher and coach
• Dennis Johnson -- guard for the Boston Celtics, former resident
• Ethan Zohn -- Winner of , graduate of Lexington High School