Statistics for Famous People Born in Massachusetts

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Description	Famous Person	Birth City	% Correct
2nd president	John Adams	Quincy	81%
6th president	John Quincy Adams	Quincy	81%
Children's author of The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs & Ham, etc.	Dr. Seuss	Springfield	74%
Founding Father on $100 bill	Benjamin Franklin	Boston	72%
Author and poet of The Raven	Edgar Allan Poe	Boston	70%
35th president	John F. Kennedy	Brookline	70%
Founding Father with large signature	John Hancock	Quincy	69%
41st president	George H. W. Bush	Milton	67%
Man who planted many apple trees	Johnny Appleseed	Leominster	65%
Actor of Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron and Jason Bourne	Matt Damon	Cambridge	63%
Inventor of the cotton gin	Eli Whitney	Westborough	57%
Actor as Spock on Star Trek	Leonard Nimoy	Boston	56%
Actor of The Departed and Ted	Mark Wahlberg	Dorchester	56%
Patriot known for Midnight Ride	Paul Revere	Boston	56%
Actor as Captain America	Chris Evans	Boston	52%
Actress of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill	Uma Thurman	Boston	52%
Academy award winning actor of Manchester by the Sea	Casey Affleck	Fairmouth	50%
Actor as Chandler on Friends	Matthew Perry	Williamstown	48%
Actress of Thelma & Louise and Stuart Little	Geena Davis	Wareham	46%
Actor as Joey on Friends	Matt LeBlanc	Newton	46%
Actor of Despicable Me, Horton Hears a Who and Over the Hedge	Steve Carell	Concord	44%
Host of a TBS late night show	Conan O'Brien	Brookline	39%
Original host of The View and 20/20	Barbara Walters	Boston	37%
WWE star since 1999, voice of Ferdinand	John Cena	West Newbury	37%
Actor of Sausage Party and Fight Club	Edward Norton	Boston	31%
Actress best known as Joy in Inside Out	Amy Poehler	Newton	30%
Actor as Grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka	Jack Albertson	Malden	20%
Actor as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz	Jack Haley	Boston	20%
Puppeteer of both Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch	Caroll Spinney	Waltham	19%
Actress of The Lego Movie and The Hunger Games	Elizabeth Banks	Pittsfield	19%
Actress best known as Disgust in Inside Out	Mindy Kaling	Cambridge	19%
Actor/comedian of a bug's life and Ice Age	Denis Leary	Worcester	17%
Actor as the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz	Ray Bolger	Dorchester	17%
Host of his live show on Food Network	Emeril Lagasse	Fall River	15%
Actor of Miracle and Guardians of the Galaxy	Kurt Russell	Springfield	15%
Autistic inventor of the hug box device	Temple Grandin	Boston	13%
Actress of Finding Nemo, Over the Hedge and Minions	Allison Janney	Boston	11%
Director of Finding Nemo and WALL-E	Andrew Stanton	Rockport	11%
Actress of a bug's life and The Muppet Movie	Madeline Kahn	Boston	6%