Waban ( – ) was the first Native American to convert to Christianity in Massachusetts. Waban may also refer to: Waban, Massachusetts, a village of Newton, Massachusetts Waban (MBTA station), a transit station in the Waban section of Newton, Massachusetts USS Waban (1880), a United States Navy steamer in commission from 1898 to 1919 , a Design 1015 ship built for the United States Shipping Board in 1919 Lake Waban, a lake overlooked by Wellesley College in Massachusetts