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Rockport is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. The
population was 7,767 at the 2000 census. Rockport is located
approximately 35 miles northeast of Boston at the tip of the Cape
Ann peninsula. It is directly east of Gloucester, Massachusetts and
surrounded on three sides by the Atlantic Ocean.

Notable residents

Singer/songwriter Paula Cole (b. 1968) was born and raised in
Rockport.

American painter Otis Cook (1900-1980) lived much of his adult life in
Rockport.

The Egyptian-born composer Halim El-Dabh (b. 1921) made Rockport
his home in the mid-1960s.

The dancer and choreographer Ina Hahn lives in Rockport, where her
performing arts center, called Windhover, is located.

Pixar's writer/director Andrew Stanton (b. 1965) is a native of Rockport.

Boston School landscape painter and teacher William Lester Stevens
(1888-1969) was born, lived, and worked in Rockport.

David Robinson, the drummer for The Cars and the Modern Lovers,
currently resides in Rockport.

Documentary filmmaker (David Wittkower) (b. 1960) was raised in
Rockport.