Notable Clintonians

Left to right: Sydney Schanberg, "Sliding" Billy Hamilton, Agnes Moorehead, Matthew Connelly, Carroll Gibbons

Clarence Brown

Born in Clinton and became a famous Hollywood director. His films include The Yearling, National Velvet, Anna Christie, and Angels in the Outfield. Read more...

Teresa Cafarelli

A Clinton High School class of 1918 graduate and the first female native Italian graduate of CHS. Anthony DeFrancisci, a sculptor and medalist whom she later married, designed the 1920 half dollar and the 1921 Peace Dollar using Teresa as the model for the image of Miss Liberty. Read more...

Joseph Casey

A Clinton High School Class of 1917 graduate, he was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1934 - at the time the youngest member of Congress. Read more...

Matthew Connelly

A Clinton High School Class of 1925 graduate, he was President Harry Truman's personal secretary and assistant. Read more...

Thomas Farragher

As a high school student, Thomas Farragher was riveted by the Watergate story. Now his investigative reporting has earned him journalism’s top prize. Read more...

Tim Fortugno

Timothy Shawn Fortugno (born August 20, 1962, in Clinton, Massachusetts) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He is an alumnus of the Vanguard University of Southern California. Signed by the Seattle Mariners as an amateur free agent in 1986, Fortugno would make his Major League Baseball debut with the California Angels on July 20, 1992, and appear in his final game on July 26, 1995. Read more...

Carroll Gibbons

A band leader for thirty years at the Hotel Savoy in London, England. He wrote a number of songs including "Garden in the Rain". Read more...

Joseph L. Gormley

Joseph Leo Gormley was the chief of chemistry and toxicology for the FBI. He spent more than thirty three years with the FBI, investigating some of the agency's most famous cases, including the Great Brinks Robbery in 1950 and the 1964 murders of three young civil rights workers, which became known as the "Mississippi Burning" case. Read more...

"Sliding" Billy Hamilton

One of the greatest baseball players in modern history - he ended his career with 937 stolen bases and is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Read more...

Mal Kittridge

Malachi Jedidiah Kittridge [or Kittredge] (October 12, 1869 - June 23, 1928) was a catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Colts (1890-97), Louisville Colonels (1898-99), Washington Senators (NL) (1899), Boston Beaneaters (1901-03), Washington Senators (AL) (1903-06) and Cleveland Naps (1906). Kittridge batted and threw righ handed. He was born in Clinton, Massachusetts. Read more...

Agnes Moorehead

Born in Clinton and was an award-winning actress in both movies and television perhaps best known for her role as Endora on TV's "Bewitched". Read more...

Dick Morley

Dick Morley is known as the "father" of the PLC since he was involved with the production of the first programmable logic controller (PLC) for GM, the Modicon, at Bedford and Associates in 1968. Read more... (PDF, 92k)

Francis O'Malley

A Clinton High School Class of 1926 graduate, he spent forty-two years as a professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and had a profound influence on his students. Read more...

Philip Philbin

A Clinton High School Class of 1916 graduate who served a total of fourteen terms in the U.S. Congress, as did his classmate, George Donovan. Read more...

Jimmy Ryan

James Edward "Jimmy" Ryan (February 11, 1863 - October 26, 1923), nicknamed "Pony", was an American center fielder in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Stockings/Colts/Orphans (1885-89, 1891-1900) in the National League, Chicago Pirates (1890) in the Players League, and Washington Senators {1902-03) in the American League. Read more...

Sydney Schanberg

A Clinton High School Class of 1951 graduate, he won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his coverage of the fall of Phnom Penh. The popular movie, The Killing Fields, is the story of his friendship with his Cambodian assistant, Dith Pran. Read more...

David Walsh

A Clinton High School Class of 1890 graduate who became governor of Massachusetts in 1913 and our senator in 1918. Read more...

Scott Young

Clinton's pride of the National Hockey League was a key player on the ice during Boston University's Beanpot tournament, the US Olympic Hockey Team (twice), and with the Pittsburgh Penguins Stanley Cup champs. His first Olympic jersey is on display at the Holder Memorial. Read more...