Waltham, Massachusetts: Difference between revisions

* [[Sockington]] – leader of Socks Army, first feline to surpass 500,000 [[Twitter]] followers<ref name="TODAY">{{cite web|url=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30868712/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/|title=Twitter followers paw over feline|publisher=TODAY|accessdate=2009-08-18|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709003107/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30868712/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/|archivedate=2009-07-09}}</ref>

* [[Caroll Spinney]] – puppeteer; performed the roles of [[Big Bird]] and [[Oscar the Grouch]] on ''[[Sesame Street]]''.<ref>{{citation | title=How to get to Sesame Street: Meet Big Bird, Waltham's Caroll Spinney, at event honoring television's fine-feathered friend | newspaper=Dedham Transcript | first=Jennifer | last=Lord | date=November 3, 2004 | url=http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/arts/x1726971087 | accessdate=2012-01-29 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130516042615/http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/arts/x1726971087 | archivedate=May 16, 2013 }}</ref>

* [[Gordon S. Wood]] – recipient of the 1993 [[Pulitzer Prize]] for History<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bostonmeditationgroup.org/footsteps/Footsteps_2nd_ed.pdf|title=In the Footsteps of Paramahansa Yogananda|website=bostonmeditationgroup.org|accessdate=2 May 2018|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914173236/http://www.bostonmeditationgroup.org/footsteps/Footsteps_2nd_ed.pdf|archivedate=2017-09-14}}</ref>

* [[Franz Wright]] – [[Pulitzer Prize]]–winning poet<ref>{{citation | title=Waltham Pulitzer winner Wright pens new book of poetry | first=Chris | last=Bergeron | date=July 29, 2011 | newspaper=[[The MetroWest Daily News]] | url=http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/arts/x1158627658/Waltham-Pulitzer-winner-Wright-pens-new-book-of-poetry | accessdate=2012-01-29}}</ref>