Weymouth's Most Famous Citizens

Athletes, a president’s wife, actors and sportscasters all have ties to the town of Weymouth.

United States President John Adam’s wife, Abigail Adams is from Weymouth.  Comcast Sports broadcaster Bob Neumeier lives in Weymouth and one of the most well known drug dealers, “Boston George", subject of the 2001 film "Blow,"  grew up in Weymouth.

With Hollywood celebrity Mark Wahlberg visiting the South Shore last night, it got Patch thinking: who is the most prominent Weymouth citizen of all time?

Let us know in the comments.  Also let us know if you have ever seen any around town?

Here is a list of notable Weymouth residents that either once lived in Weymouth or currently live in Weymouth.  This list was compiled by wikipedia.org:

• Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams^[20]
• Chris Bagley, soccer player
• James L. Bates, a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War
• Robert Beavers, experimental filmmaker
• Tobin Bell, actor, most known for his role as Jigsaw in the movie Saw
• Rodney Butcher, professional golfer
• Marcy Carsey, influential American television writer/producer
• Rob and Nate Corddry, correspondents for The Daily Show
• Charlie Coyle, hockey player
• William Cranch, an American judge and the second reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Dick Donovan, professional baseball player
• Hal Holbrook, Academy Award-nominated actor
• Mark Holden, professional hockey goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens and Winnipeg Jets
• Newland H. Holmes, politician who served as President of the Massachusetts Senate from 1957-1958.
• Dan Howley, Major League Baseball manager with the St. Louis Browns and the Cincinnati Reds
• Elden H. Johnson, United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his actions in World War II.
• George Jung, aka "Boston George", subject of the 2001 film Blow, highly successful member of the Medellín Drug Cartel
• Tim Karalexis, professional soccer player
• Pete Kendall, professional football player
• Gilbert N. Lewis, physical chemist
• Dave Lindstrom, former professional football player for Kansas City Chiefs
• George Little, U.S. Naval Officer, two destroyers have been named USS Little in his honor.
• Charles G. Long, the second Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps. He was a recipient of the Marine Corps Brevet Medal.
• Allan R. McKinnon, former politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts State Senate from 1970–1984, Deputy Secretary of Transportation from 1985–1988, and Chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority from 1988–1996
• Patrick V. McNamara, Democratic United States Senator (1955–1966) from Michigan.
• Joe Mulligan, Major League Baseball pitcher who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1934 season
• Bob Neumeier, sportscaster for NBC Sports
• Warren G. Phillips, Inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame in 2010.
• Richard Robbins, Academy Award-nominated film score composer
• Bobby Sheehan, former professional hockey player from 1969–1983
• Mark Shields, political pundit and liberal commentator
• Ralph Talbot, the first United States Marine Corps aviator to be awarded the Medal of Honor — for "exceptionally meritorious service and extraordinary heroism" while attached to Squadron C, U.S. 1st Marine Aviation Force, in France during World War I.
• Albert Tirrell, first person acquitted of murder in the United States using the sleepwalking defense
• Thomas A. Watson, assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone
• Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, lived in Weymouth briefly as a child when his father was a minister at the Weymouth Unitarian Universalist Church
• David Wyman, author of several books on the responses of the United States to Nazi Germany's persecution of and programs to exterminate Jews
• Paul Zukauskas, professional football player, Cleveland Browns