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Raymond Wallace Bolger (January 10, 1904 – January 15, 1987) was an American actor, dancer, singer, vaudevillian and stage performer (particularly musical theatre) who started in the silent-film era.
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James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. (September 3, 1929 – October 30, 2018) was an Irish-American organized crime boss and FBI informant who led the Winter Hill Gang in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Som ...
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James Augustine Healy (April 6, 1830 – August 5, 1900) was an American Roman Catholic priest and the second bishop of Portland, Maine; he was the first African-American Catholic priest (though it was not ...
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Louis R. Litif (December 5, 1934 – May 11, 1982), also known as Nicholas Noonan and Louis Woodward, was a Lebanese-American bookmaker from South Boston, Massachusetts. After running afoul of neighborhood ...
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John Joseph Connolly, Jr. (born August 1, 1940) is a former FBI agent who was convicted of racketeering, obstruction of justice and murder charges stemming from his relationship with James "Whitey" Bulger ...
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Frank Wallace (died December 22, 1931) was an Irish-American gangster from South Boston, who ran the Gustin Gang in Boston during the Prohibition in the United States.
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Kevin Weeks (born March 21, 1956) is an Irish-American former mobster and longtime friend and mob lieutenant to Whitey Bulger, the infamous boss of the Winter Hill Gang, a crime family based in the Winter ...
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Thomas Edward Linehan (June 28, 1904 – August 5, 1974) was an American jurist and politician who served as a justice on the South Boston Municipal Court and was a member of the Massachusetts House of ...
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Daniel Leo Monahan (December 13, 1926 – March 27, 2013) was an American sports journalist. He became a full-time journalist in 1950, and had a career which lasted 30 years combined with the Daily ...
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Paul Francis Evans, Jr. (born November 30, 1948) is an American law enforcement officer who served as Commissioner of the Boston Police Department from 1994 to 2003 and is the current Executive Vice P ...
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Kevin O'Neill (born 1948) is an Irish-American South Boston former bar owner and former associate of notorious Winter Hill Gang boss Whitey Bulger.
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Brian Noonan (born May 29, 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a retired American ice hockey right-winger. He played for the Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers, Vancouver Canucks, St. Louis Blues and ...
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Peggy Davis-Mullen (born 1960) was a member of the Boston City Council in Boston, Massachusetts, 1994-2001. She ran for mayor of Boston in 2001, against incumbent Thomas Menino; she lost, but is recognized ...
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John Joseph Ferruggio (July 6, 1925 – June 19, 2010) was an American in-flight director who led the evacuation of Pan Am Flight 93, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ...
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James M. Kelly (1940–January 9, 2007), of Boston, Massachusetts, served on the Boston City Council for 23 years, representing South Boston, the South End and Chinatown.
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Donald Killeen (September 14, 1923 – May 13, 1972) was an Irish-American mob boss who controlled criminal activity, primarily bookmaking, in South Boston, during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Patrick Joseph Nee (born December 22, 1944) is an Irish-American former mobster and republican sympathizer. A former member of the Mullen Gang and the Winter Hill Gang, he is a Vietnam War veteran, and ...
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John E. Kerrigan (October 1, 1908 – May 2, 1987) was the acting Mayor of Boston in 1945 after then-Mayor Maurice J. Tobin became Governor of Massachusetts.