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The following is a list of notable people who were born, raised, or a resident of the U.S. state of Connecticut, with place of birth or residence when known.
Actors, producers, and directors
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- Christopher Abbott ( Greenwich)
- Bruce Altman ( New Haven)
- Lauren Ambrose ( New Haven)
- Tony Amendola ( New Haven)
- Brad Anderson ( Madison)
- John Ashton ( Enfield)
- William Atherton ( Orange)
- Valerie Azlynn ( New London)
- Kevin Bacon ( Sharon)
- Roger Bart ( Norwalk)
- David Alan Basche ( Hartford)
- Ryan Michelle Bathe ( Stamford)
- Anne Baxter ( Easton)
- Graham Beckel ( Old Lyme)
- Ed Begley ( Hartford)
- Richard Belzer ( Bridgeport)
- Polly Bergen ( Southbury)
- John Billingsley ( Weston)
- Michael Ian Black ( Redding)
- Linda Blair ( Westport)
- Roberts Blossom ( New Haven)
- Ernest Borgnine ( Hamden)
- Kate Bosworth ( Darien)
- Jesse Bradford ( Norwalk)
- Jonathan Brandis ( Danbury)
- Alexandra Breckenridge ( Darien)
- Amy Brenneman ( Glastonbury)
- Brooke Brodack ( Putnam)
- Chris Bruno ( Milford)
- Dylan Bruno ( Milford)
- Gary Burghoff ( Bristol)
- Brooke Burke ( Hartford)
- John Byrum ( Redding)
- Mary Cadorette ( East Hartford)
- Mike Cahill ( New Haven)
- David Canary ( Wilton)
- Katherine Cannon ( Hartford)
- Art Carney ( Westbrook)
- D. J. Caruso ( Norwalk)
- Adriana Caselotti ( Bridgeport)
- Marilyn Chambers ( Westport)
- Joe Cipriano ( Oakville)
- Spencer Treat Clark ( Darien)
- Glenn Close ( Greenwich)
- Martha Coolidge ( New Haven)
- Daniel Cosgrove ( New Haven)
- D.J. Cotrona ( Wallingford)
- Bob Crane ( Waterbury)
- Jane Curtin ( Sharon)
- Dan Curtis ( Bridgeport)
- Paul Dano ( Wilton)
- Jules Dassin ( Middletown)
- Jeff Davis ( Milford)
- Dana Delany ( Stamford)
- Brian Dennehy ( Bridgeport)
- Jenna Dewan ( Hartford)
- George DiCenzo ( New Haven)
- Allie DiMeco ( Waterbury)
- Troy Duffy ( Hartford)
- Charles H. Eglee ( New Haven)
- Jill Eikenberry ( New Haven)
- Abby Elliott ( Wilton)
- Linda Evans ( Hartford)
- Mark Famiglietti ( Clinton)
- Michael J. Fox ( Sharon)
- Kevin Foxe ( Enfield)
- Will Friedle ( Hartford)
- Paul Fusco ( New Haven)
- Catherine Gardner ( Waterbury)
- Marcus Giamatti ( New Haven)
- Paul Giamatti ( New Haven)
- Cynthia Gibb ( Westport)
- William Gillette ( Hartford)
- Grant Goodeve ( Middlebury)
- Topher Grace ( Darien)
- David Marshall Grant ( Westport)
- Luke Greenfield ( Westport)
- Shelley Hack ( Greenwich)
- June Havoc ( Wilton)
- Sterling Hayden ( Wilton)
- Glenne Headly ( New London)
- Jessica Hecht ( Bloomfield)
- Kevin Heffernan ( West Haven)
- Katherine Heigl ( New Canaan)
- Lillian Hellman ( New Milford)
- Katharine Hepburn ( Hartford)
- Linda Hunt ( Westport)
- Allison Janney ( Lakeville)
- Arline Judge ( Bridgeport)
- Adam Kaufman ( New Canaan)
- Elia Kazan ( Newtown)
- Lisa Robin Kelly ( Southington)
- Ted Knight ( Terryville)
- David LaChapelle ( Fairfield)
- Lisa Lampanelli ( Trumbull)
- Hope Lange ( Redding)
- Eriq La Salle ( Hartford)
- Matt Lauer ( Greenwich)
- Adam LaVorgna ( North Branford)
- Norman Lear ( New Haven)
- Denis Leary ( Roxbury)
- David Letterman ( New Canaan)
- Barry Levinson ( Redding) [1]
- Paul Lieberstein ( Westport)
- Mark Linn-Baker ( Wethersfield)
- Christopher Lloyd ( Stamford)
- Michelle Lombardo ( Glastonbury)
- Justin Long ( Fairfield)
- Billy Lush ( New Haven)
- Seth MacFarlane ( Kent)
- Fredric March ( New Milford)
- Pamela Sue Martin ( Westport)
- Dylan McDermott ( Waterbury)
- Biff McGuire ( New Haven)
- Stephanie McMahon ( Weston)
- Jesse Metcalfe ( New London)
- Steve Miner ( Westport)
- Robert Mitchum ( Bridgeport)
- Gretchen Mol ( Deep River)
- Marilyn Monroe ( Weston and Roxbury)
- Sheri Moon ( Plainville)
- Jonathan Mostow ( Woodbridge)
- Michael G. Moye ( New Haven)
- Marty Munsch ( Greenwich)
- George Murphy ( New Haven)
- Ellen Muth ( Milford)
- David Naughton ( Hartford)
- James Naughton ( Middletown)
- Kevin Nealon ( Bridgeport)
- Paul Newman ( Westport)
- Becki Newton ( New Haven)
- Tom Noonan ( Greenwich)
- Fred Norris ( Willimantic)
- Nolan North ( New Haven)
- Ron Palillo ( Cheshire)
- Joe Pantoliano ( Wilton)
- Don Pardo ( Norwich)
- Dean Parisot ( Wilton)
- Paul Perri ( New Haven)
- Bijou Phillips ( Greenwich)
- Jacob Pitts ( Weston)
- Tracy Pollan ( Sharon)
- Anthony Tyler Quinn ( New London)
- John Ratzenberger ( Bridgeport)
- Evan Rogers ( Mansfield)
- Christy Carlson Romano ( Milford)
- Anika Noni Rose ( Bloomfield)
- Sherrie Rose ( Hartford)
- Matt Ross ( Greenwich)
- Rosalind Russell ( Waterbury)
- Meg Ryan ( Bethel and Fairfield)
- Peter Sarsgaard ( Fairfield)
- Michael Schur ( West Hartford)
- Annabella Sciorra ( Wethersfield)
- Kyra Sedgwick ( Sharon)
- Chloë Sevigny ( Darien)
- Louise Shaffer ( Woodbridge)
- Spec Shea ( Naugatuck)
- Micah Sloat ( Westport)
- Patricia Smith ( New Haven)
- Bill Smitrovich ( Bridgeport)
- Zack Snyder ( Greenwich)
- Raymond St. Jacques ( Hartford)
- David H. Steinberg ( West Hartford)
- Austin Stowell ( Kensington)
- Tara Subkoff ( Westport)
- Ed Sullivan ( Southbury)
- Larry Sullivan ( New Haven)
- Pawel Szajda ( Farmington)
- Lee Tergesen ( Ivoryton)
- Mark Tinker ( Stamford)
- Tony Todd ( Hartford)
- Jim True-Frost ( Greenwich)
- Tom Tryon ( Hartford)
- Raviv Ullman ( Fairfield)
- James Van Der Beek ( Cheshire)
- Gus Van Sant ( Darien)
- Diane Venora ( East Hartford)
- Jenna von Oÿ ( Stamford)
- Wende Wagner ( New London)
- Christopher Walken ( Wilton)
- Tonja Walker ( Easton)
- Deborah Walley ( Bridgeport)
- Sam Waterston ( Sharon)
- Michael Weatherly ( Fairfield)
- Bruce Weitz ( Norwalk)
- Titus Welliver ( New Haven)
- Michael Jai White ( Bridgeport)
- Treat Williams ( Norwalk)
- Fay Wolf ( Fairfield)
- Joanne Woodward ( Westport)
- Kari Wührer ( Brookfield)
- Madeline Zima ( New Haven)
Athletes
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- Brad Ausmus ( Cheshire)
- John Bagley ( Bridgeport)
- Jeff Bagwell ( Killingworth)
- Chris Baker ( Windsor)
- Vin Baker ( Old Saybrook)
- Matt Barnes ( Bethel)
- Semyon Belits-Geiman ( Stamford)
- Keith Bennett, American-Israeli basketball player ( Stamford)
- James Blake ( Fairfield)
- Steve Blass ( Canaan)
- Andy Bloom ( Stamford)
- Nick Bonino ( Farmington)
- Craig Breslow ( New Haven)
- Scott Burrell ( Hamden)
- Donn Cabral ( Glastonbury)
- Marcus Camby ( South Windsor)
- Walter Camp ( New Britain)
- Dave Campo ( Groton)
- Howard Cann ( Bridgeport)
- Jack Capuano ( Kent)
- Jesse Carlson ( New Britain)
- Julie Chu ( Fairfield)
- Aaron Civale ( East Windsor)
- Chris Clark ( South Windsor)
- Jaidon Codrington ( Bridgeport)
- Roger Connor ( Waterbury)
- Marcus Cooper ( Bloomfield)
- Brock Coyle ( Norwalk)
- Carmen Cozza ( Orange)
- Dan Cramer ( Stamford)
- Tommy Cross ( Simsbury)
- Jerome Cunningham ( Waterbury)
- Rajai Davis ( Norwich)
- Chad Dawson ( New Haven)
- Brian Dayett ( New London)
- Ryan Delaire ( Bloomfield)
- Chris Denorfia ( Bristol)
- John DiBartolomeo ( Westport)
- Rob Dibble ( Southington)
- Walt Dropo ( Moosup)
- Andre Drummond ( Middletown)
- Chris Drury ( Trumbull)
- Vladimir Ducasse ( Stamford)
- Marcus Easley ( Bridgeport)
- David Efianayi ( Manchester)
- Johnny Egan ( Hartford)
- Dwight Freeney ( Bloomfield)
- Kevin Gilbride ( New Haven)
- Ryan Gomes ( Waterbury)
- Jesse Hahn ( Norwich)
- Ron Hainsey ( Bolton)
- Dorothy Hamill ( Greenwich)
- Matt Harvey ( Groton)
- Anttaj Hawthorne ( Hamden)
- Doug Henry ( Torrington)
- J. J. Henry ( Fairfield)
- Aaron Hernandez ( Bristol)
- Jared Hughes ( Stamford)
- John Jenkins ( Meriden)
- Caitlyn Jenner ( Newtown)
- Jay Johnstone ( Manchester)
- Byron Jones ( New Britain)
- Tebucky Jones ( New Britain)
- Tyrique Jones
- Joan Joyce ( Waterbury)
- Terrance Knighton ( Hartford)
- Paul Konerko ( Norwich)
- Niko Koutouvides ( Plainville)
- Brian Leetch ( Cheshire)
- Ivan Lendl ( Goshen) [2]
- Dominic Leone ( Norwich)
- Kristine Lilly ( Wilton)
- Floyd Little ( New Haven)
- Rebecca Lobo ( Hartford)
- Joey Logano ( Middletown)
- Cliff Louis ( Stamford)
- Rick Mahorn ( Hartford)
- Wes Matthews ( Bridgeport)
- Dick McAuliffe ( Farmington)
- John McDonald ( New London)
- Mike McGuirl ( Hartford, CT)
- Paul Menhart ( Mystic)
- Johnny Moore ( Waterbury)
- George morris, equestrian( New York City, New Canaan)
- Charlie Morton ( Redding)
- Calvin Murphy ( Norwalk)
- Phil Murphy ( New London)
- Jerry Nadeau ( Danbury)
- Charles Nagy ( Fairfield)
- Nick Newell ( Milford)
- Mary Anne O'Connor ( Fairfield)
- Lamar Odom ( New Britain)
- Mike Olt ( Branford)
- Dan Orlovsky ( Shelton)
- Jim O'Rourke ( Bridgeport)
- Max Pacioretty ( New Canaan)
- Paul Pasqualoni ( Cheshire)
- Carl Pavano ( Southington)
- Eli Pemberton
- Willie Pep ( Middletown)
- Jimmy Piersall ( Waterbury)
- Nick Pietrosante ( Derby)
- A. J. Pollock ( Hebron)
- Ryan Preece ( Berlin)
- Jonathan Quick ( Milford)
- Randy Rasmussen ( Wilton)
- David Reed ( New Britain)
- Jordan Reed ( New Britain)
- Charlie Reiter ( Westport)
- Jamey Richard ( Weston)
- Andy Robustelli ( Stamford)
- Bill Rodgers (athlete) ( Hartford)
- Bill Romanowski ( Vernon)
- Maxie Rosenbloom ( Leonard Bridge)
- Bob Schaefer ( Putnam)
- Evan Scribner ( New Milford)
- Julius Seligson ( Westport) [3]
- Dan Shannon ( Bridgeport)
- Scott Sharp ( Norwalk)
- Jimmy Shea ( West Hartford)
- Jeff Simmons ( Hartford)
- Dan Sileo ( Stamford)
- Charles Smith ( Bridgeport)
- Chris Smith ( Bridgeport)
- Kieran Smith ( Ridgefield) [4]
- Will Solomon, basketball player ( Hartford)
- Tony Sparano ( West Haven)
- Jack Spellman ( Middletown)
- Amari Spievey ( Middletown)
- George Springer ( New Britain)
- Ken Strong ( West Haven)
- John Sullivan ( Greenwich)
- Glover Teixeira ( Danbury)
- Tim Teufel ( Greenwich)
- Tom Thibodeau ( New Britain)
- Donald Thomas ( New Haven)
- Marcus Tracy ( Newtown)
- Triple H ( Weston)
- Dick Tuckey ( Naugatuck)
- Will Tye ( Middletown)
- Bobby Valentine ( Stamford)
- Stephen Valiquette ( Orange)
- Mo Vaughn ( Norwalk)
- Dave Wallace ( Waterbury)
- Björn Werner ( Salisbury)
- Jordan Williams ( Torrington)
- Ron Wotus ( Hartford)
- Steve Young ( Greenwich)
- Josh Zeid ( New Haven)
Authors, artists, and educators
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- Christopher Andersen ( Washington)
- Jacob M. Appel ( Branford)
- Harriet Pritchard Arnold ( Killingly)
- Rosecrans Baldwin ( Darien)
- Edward C. Banfield ( Bloomfield)
- Joel Barlow ( Redding)
- Dan Beard ( Redding)
- A. Scott Berg ( Norwalk)
- Mary C. Billings ( Litchfield)
- Joseph Payne Brennan ( Bridgeport and New Haven)
- Thom Brooks ( Guilford)
- Emily S. Bouton ( New Canaan)
- William F. Buckley Jr. ( New York City and Stamford)
- Candace Bushnell ( Glastonbury)
- Guido Calabresi ( New Haven)
- Al Capp ( New Haven)
- Marietta Stanley Case ( Thompson)
- Frances Manwaring Caulkins ( New London)
- Noah Charney ( New Haven)
- Lincoln Child ( Westport)
- Emma Shaw Colcleugh ( Thompson)
- Christopher Collier ( Orange)
- Suzanne Collins ( Hartford and Newtown)
- Kate Cordsen ( Essex)
- Nathan Daboll ( Groton)
- Mary Ann H. Dodd ( Hartford)
- Clay Dreslough ( Ashford)
- John Gregory Dunne ( Hartford)
- Addie C. Strong Engle ( Manchester)
- Eleanor Estes ( West Haven)
- Mallory Factor ( Bridgeport)
- Howard Fast ( Redding)
- Harriet Ford ( Seymour)
- Edward Miner Gallaudet ( Hartford)
- Elizabeth Gilbert ( Waterbury)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman ( Hartford)
- Daniel Coit Gilman ( Norwich)
- Thyrza Nichols Goodeve ( Middlebury)
- Hanna Holborn Gray ( New Haven)
- Kate E. Griswold ( West Hartford)
- Anna Huntington ( Bethel)
- Chauncey Ives ( Hamden)
- Klaus Janson ( Bridgeport)
- Deane Keller ( New Haven)
- John Frederick Kensett ( Cheshire)
- Charles H. Kraft ( Waterbury)
- Larry Kramer ( Bridgeport)
- Madeleine L'Engle ( Goshen) [5]
- Loosey LaDuca ( Ansonia)
- Wally Lamb ( Mansfield)
- Annie Leibovitz ( Waterbury)
- Robert Ludlum ( Southport)
- Ira Levin ( Wilton)
- Sol LeWitt ( Hartford)
- Frank Luntz ( West Hartford)
- Elizabeth Eunice Smith Marcy ( East Hampton)
- E. Louisa Mather ( East Haddam)
- Jay McInerney ( Hartford)
- Eric Metaxas ( Danbury)
- Stephenie Meyer ( Hartford)
- Arthur Miller ( Roxbury)
- Emily Cheney Neville ( Manchester)
- Flannery O'Connor ( Redding)
- John Pekkanen ( Lyme)
- Derek Pell ( Weston)
- Jacques Pepin ( Madison)
- Sarah Phillips ( Wilton)
- Kenneth Pike ( Woodstock)
- Charles Ethan Porter ( Hartford)
- Delia Lyman Porter ( New Haven)
- Frederick Pratson ( Hartford)
- Annie Proulx ( Norwich)
- Luanne Rice ( New Britain)
- Mary A. Ripley ( Windham)
- Bill Roorbach ( New Canaan)
- Christopher Ross ( Westport)
- Philip Roth ( Warren)
- Acharya S ( Avon)
- Vincent Scully ( New Haven)
- George Selden ( Hartford)
- Richard Selzer ( North Branford)
- Maurice Sendak ( Ridgefield)
- Mark Shasha ( New London)
- Lurana W. Sheldon ( Hadlyme)
- Lydia Sigourney ( Hartford)
- T. O'Conor Sloane Jr. ( Westport)
- T. O'Conor Sloane III ( Westport)
- Dorothy Hope Smith ( Westport)
- Sarah Lanman Smith ( Norwich)
- Victoria Leigh Soto ( Bridgeport)
- Armstrong Sperry ( Stamford, New Canaan, and New Haven)
- Benjamin Spock ( New Haven)
- Edward Steichen ( Redding)
- Wallace Stevens ( Hartford)
- Lavinia Stoddard ( Guilford)
- Roger Stone ( Norwalk)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe ( Litchfield)
- Arthur Szyk ( New Canaan)
- Sarah Katherine Taylor ( Danielsonville)
- Laura M. Thurston ( Norfolk)
- Alton Tobey ( Middletown)
- Ada Josephine Todd ( Redding)
- Garry Trudeau ( Branford)
- Louisa Caroline Tuthill ( New Haven)
- Mark Twain ( Hartford and Redding)
- Mary E. Van Lennep ( Hartford)
- Ocean Vuong ( Hartford)
- Edward Lewis Wallant ( New Haven)
- Noah Webster (West Hartford parish, presently West Hartford)
- J. Alden Weir ( Ridgefield)
- Abigail Goodrich Whittelsey ( Ridgefield)
Business people, scientists, and inventors
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- George Akerlof ( New Haven)
- Moses Austin ( Durham)
- Edward C. Banfield ( Bloomfield)
- P.T. Barnum ( Bethel and Bridgeport)
- William Beaumont ( Lebanon)
- John Bello ( Plainville)
- Henry Alfred Bishop ( Bridgeport)
- Cornelius Scranton Bushnell ( Madison)
- David Bushnell ( Saybrook)
- Vint Cerf ( New Haven)
- Wesley A. Clark ( New Haven)
- Kenton Clarke ( Fairfield)
- Jared Cohen ( Weston)
- Samuel Colt ( Hartford)
- Carol Lynn Curchoe ( Manchester)
- Ray Dalio ( Greenwich/ Westport)
- Bern Dibner ( Wilton)
- Robert Epstein ( Hartford)
- James Farrell ( New Haven)
- John Fitch ( Hartford County)
- Anselm Franz ( Stratford)
- Josiah Willard Gibbs ( New Haven)
- Alfred G. Gilman ( New Haven)
- Charles Goodyear ( New Haven)
- James J. Greco ( Hamden)
- Robert N. Hall ( New Haven)
- Louis Harris ( New Haven)
- Arthur William Haydon ( Waterbury)
- Allan Hobson ( Hartford)
- Harvey Hubbell ( Bridgeport)
- Collis Potter Huntington ( Harwinton)
- James M. Hyde ( Mystic Bridge)
- Jeffrey R. Immelt ( New Canaan)
- Bradley S. Jacobs ( Greenwich)
- Betsey Johnson ( Wethersfield)
- Alfred Winslow Jones ( Redding)
- Edward Calvin Kendall ( South Norwalk)
- Mary Dixon Kies ( South Killingly)
- George E. Kimball ( New Britain)
- Stephen Cole Kleene ( Hartford)
- Edwin H. Land ( Bridgeport)
- Henry Lee ( Orange)
- Albert L. Lehninger ( Bridgeport)
- Allen Cleveland Lewis ( Sterling)
- Alvin Liberman ( Mansfield)
- Saunders Mac Lane ( Taftville)
- John C. Malone ( Milford)
- John Martin ( Old Lyme)
- Barbara McClintock ( Hartford)
- Stephanie McMahon ( Hartford)
- Sean McManus ( Fairfield)
- Daniel J. Mitchell ( Wilton)
- Samuel Augustus Mitchell ( Bristol)
- Samuel Morey ( Hebron)
- J. P. Morgan ( Hartford)
- Roy Neuberger ( Bridgeport)
- Victor Niederhoffer ( Weston)
- Frederick Law Olmsted ( Hartford)
- Ken Olsen ( Stratford)
- Eliphalet Remington ( Suffield)
- Stephen S. Roach ( New Canaan)
- Peter Schiff ( New Haven)
- Joseph Earl Sheffield ( Southport)
- Igor Sikorsky ( Stratford, Trumbull and Easton)
- Benjamin Silliman ( Trumbull and New Haven)
- Chip Skowron, ( Greenwich)
- Alfred P. Sloan ( New Haven)
- George Smith ( Norwalk)
- Christopher Spencer ( Manchester)
- Roger Wolcott Sperry ( Hartford)
- Frank J. Sprague ( Milford)
- Frederick Stanley ( New Britain)
- John William Sterling ( Stratford)
- Martha Stewart ( Westport)
- Francis Sumner ( Pomfret)
- Eli Terry ( East Windsor)
- Seth Thomas ( Wolcott)
- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck ( Middletown)
- William H. Welch ( Norfolk)
- Warren L. Wheaton ( Pomfret)
- Nathaniel Wheeler ( Bridgeport)
- Dana White ( Manchester)
- Gustave Whitehead ( Bridgeport)
- Eli Whitney ( New Haven)
- Oliver Fisher Winchester ( New Haven)
- Arthur Williams Wright ( Lebanon)
- Robert Charles Wright ( Southport)
- Steve Wynn ( New Haven)
Journalists and commentators
- Joseph Alsop ( Avon)
- Stewart Alsop ( Avon)
- Julie Banderas ( Hartford)
- Wayne Barrett ( New Britain)
- Chris Berman ( Greenwich and Cheshire)
- Thom Brooks ( Guilford)
- Chris Cillizza ( Marlborough)
- Rita Cosby ( Greenwich)
- Ann Coulter ( New Canaan)
- Ross Douthat ( New Haven)
- Charles Dow ( Sterling)
- Dick Ebersol ( Torrington)
- Kelly Evans ( Hartford)
- Frank Fixaris ( Torrington)
- Brendan Gill ( Hartford)
- Linda Greenhouse ( Hamden)
- Burton J. Hendrick ( New Haven)
- Don Imus ( Westport)
- Laura Ingraham ( Glastonbury)
- Larry Kudlow ( Redding)
- Kenny Mayne ( Bethel)
- Leigh Montville ( New Haven)
- Dick Morris ( Redding)
- Tim Murnane ( Naugatuck)
- Candace Owens ( Stamford)
- Dan Patrick ( Milford)
- Steve Phillips ( Wilton)
- Molly Qerim ( New Haven)
- Lonnie Quinn ( Cheshire)
- Joan Rivers ( New Milford)
- Andy Rooney ( Norwalk)
- David Sirota ( New Haven)
- James Surowiecki ( Meriden)
- Ida Tarbell ( Easton)
- Sabrina Tavernise ( Hartford)
- Liz Trotta ( New Haven)
- Trey Wingo ( Greenwich)
- Sid Yudain ( New Canaan)
Military figures
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- Ethan Allen ( Litchfield)
- Benedict Arnold ( Norwich)
- Daniel Bissell ( East Windsor)
- John Brown ( Torrington)
- Thomas L. Brown II ( Danbury)
- Daniel C. Burbank ( Manchester)
- John Butler ( New London)
- Tedford H. Cann ( Bridgeport)
- Benjamin Delahauf Foulois ( Washington)
- Walter S. Gorka ( Windsor Locks)
- Nathan Hale ( Coventry)
- David Hawley ( Bridgeport)
- Isaac Hull ( Derby)
- David Humphreys ( Derby)
- Raymond Jacobs ( Bridgeport)
- Everett F. Larson ( Stamford)
- Ezra Lee ( Lyme)
- John Levitow ( Hartford)
- Henry A. Mucci ( Bridgeport)
- Robert J. Papp Jr. ( Norwich)
- Samuel Holden Parsons ( Lyme)
- Israel Putnam ( Brooklyn)
- Gold Selleck Silliman ( Fairfield)
- Robert Stethem ( Waterbury)
- Benjamin Tallmadge ( Litchfield)
- John Trumbull ( Lebanon)
- James Wadsworth ( Durham)
- Philip C. Wehle ( Westport)
- Irving Wiltsie ( Hartford)
- David Wooster ( Stratford)
Musicians, singers, and composers
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- Marian Anderson ( Danbury)
- Apathy (rapper) ( Willimantic)
- Timothy Archambault ( Willimantic)
- Veronica Ballestrini ( Waterford)
- Mark Berman ( New Haven)
- Kath Bloom ( New Haven)
- Michael Bolton ( New Haven)
- Dave Brubeck ( Wilton)
- Igor Buketoff ( Hartford)
- Gary Burr ( Meriden)
- Ray Cappo ( Danbury)
- Karen Carpenter ( New Haven)
- Richard Carpenter ( New Haven)
- Chris Carrabba ( West Hartford)
- Cassie ( New London)
- Javier Colon ( Stratford)
- Rivers Cuomo ( Storrs)
- Julia DeMato ( Brookfield)
- Dirt E. Dutch ( Danbury)
- José Feliciano ( Westport)
- Joe Flood ( Portland)
- Nick Fradiani ( Guilford)
- Chris Frantz ( Fairfield)
- Sawyer Fredericks ( Newtown)
- Stan Freeman ( Waterbury)
- Daryl Hall ( Redding)
- Hatebreed ( Bridgeport)
- Jascha Heifetz ( Redding)
- Grayson Hugh ( Danbury)
- Charles Ives ( Danbury)
- Bernard Jackson ( Stamford)
- Ben Kopec ( Derby)
- Meat Loaf ( Redding)
- John Mayer ( Fairfield)
- Peter McCann ( Bridgeport)
- Mark McGrath ( Hartford)
- Dom McLennon ( Hartford)
- Brad Mehldau ( West Hartford)
- Syesha Mercado ( Bridgeport)
- Moby ( Darien)
- Jimmy Monaghan ( Danbury)
- Thurston Moore ( Bethel)
- Alfred Newman ( New Haven)
- Liz Phair ( New Haven)
- Gene Pitney ( Hartford)
- Keith Richards ( Weston)
- Dawn Robinson ( New London)
- Nile Rodgers ( Westport)
- Diana Ross ( Greenwich)
- Emily Saliers ( New Haven)
- John Scofield ( Wilton)
- Horace Silver ( Norwalk)
- Ronnie Spector ( Brookfield)
- Steve Stevens ( Hartford)
- Seth Swirsky ( New Haven)
- Mary Travers ( Redding) [6]
- Cassie Ventura ( New London)
- Franco Ventriglia ( Fairfield)
- Vinnie Vincent ( Bridgeport)
- Chris Webby ( Norwalk)
- Robert Wendel ( Bridgeport)
- Tina Weymouth ( Fairfield)
- Brian Yale ( Orange)
Politicians and statesmen
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- Dean Acheson ( Middletown)
- Abraham Baldwin ( Guilford)
- Roger Sherman Baldwin ( New Haven)
- Ebenezer Bassett ( Derby)
- Donald Berwick ( Moodus)
- Cofer Black ( Stamford)
- George H. W. Bush ( Greenwich)
- George W. Bush ( New Haven)
- Prescott Bush ( Greenwich)
- Elinor Carbone ( Torrington)
- Orlow W. Chapman ( Ellington)
- Anthony Comstock ( New Canaan)
- Joe Courtney ( Hartford)
- Silas Deane ( Groton)
- Robert E. De Forest ( Bridgeport)
- Rosa DeLauro ( New Haven)
- Christopher Dodd ( Willimantic)
- Peter H. Dominick ( Stamford)
- Oliver Ellsworth ( Windsor)
- Anna Eshoo ( New Britain)
- John Fabrizi ( Bridgeport)
- Gary Franks ( Waterbury)
- Porter J. Goss ( Waterbury)
- Ella T. Grasso ( Windsor Locks)
- Galusha A. Grow ( Ashford)
- Lyman Hall ( Wallingford)
- Hope Hicks ( Greenwich)
- Titus Hosmer ( Middletown)
- Samuel Huntington ( Windham)
- Robert A. Hurley ( Bridgeport)
- William Samuel Johnson ( Stratford)
- Ethel Skakel Kennedy ( Greenwich)
- Henry Kissinger ( Kent)
- John Larson ( East Hartford)
- Scooter Libby ( New Haven)
- Joe Lieberman ( Stamford)
- Clare Boothe Luce ( Ridgefield)
- Dannel Malloy ( Stamford)
- Robert Moses ( New Haven)
- Constance Motley ( New Haven)
- Ralph Nader ( Winsted)
- Frederick Walker Pitkin ( Manchester)
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. ( New Haven)
- Abraham A. Ribicoff ( New Britain)
- Pete Rouse ( New Haven)
- John G. Rowland ( Waterbury)
- Christopher Shays ( Bridgeport)
- Roger Sherman ( New Haven and New Milford)
- Samuel Simons ( Bridgeport)
- Joseph Spencer ( East Haddam)
- Kathleen Kennedy Townsend ( Greenwich)
- Jonathan Trumbull ( Lebanon)
- Jonathan Trumbull Jr. ( Lebanon)
- Lyman Trumbull ( Colchester)
- Donald Verrilli Jr. ( Wilton)
- Morrison Waite ( Lyme)
- Mark Warner ( Vernon)
- Gideon Welles ( Glastonbury)
- William Williams ( Lebanon)
- Oliver Wolcott ( Windsor)
- Oliver Wolcott Jr. ( Litchfield)
- Richard Woodbury ( New Haven)
Religious and spiritual figures
- Ebenezer Baldwin ( Norwich)
- Henry Ward Beecher ( Litchfield)
- Lyman Beecher ( New Haven)
- Aaron Burr Sr. ( Fairfield)
- Blackleach Burritt ( Huntington)
- Horace Bushnell ( Litchfield)
- Henry Sloane Coffin ( Lakeville)
- Jonathan Edwards (East Windsor)
- Charles Grandison Finney (Warren)
- Gordon Hall ( Tolland)
- Michael J. McGivney ( New Haven)
- Kenneth Pike ( Woodstock)
- Henry Weston Smith ( Ellington)
- Ed & Lorraine Warren ( Monroe)
- Wilford Woodruff ( Farmington)
- John Zaffis ( Stratford)
YouTube celebrities
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- Jack Baran ( Fairfield)
- Eugenia Cooney ( Greenwich)
- Charli D'Amelio ( Norwalk)
- Dixie D'Amelio ( Norwalk)
- Anthony Fantano ( Wolcott)
- Casey Neistat ( Ledyard)
- Daymon Patterson ( New Britain)
Other figures
- Ruth Maxon Adams ( New Haven)
- Erin Brady ( East Hampton)
- Keith Carlos ( Bridgeport)
- John Carpenter ( Hamden)
- Scott Conant ( Waterbury)
- Lydia Hearst ( Wilton)
- Helen Keller ( Easton)
- Ruth Madoff ( New York City, Old Greenwich)
- Anthony Megale ( Stamford)
See also
- List of people from Bridgeport, Connecticut
- List of people from Brookfield, Connecticut
- List of people from Darien, Connecticut
- List of people from Greenwich, Connecticut
- List of people from Hartford, Connecticut
- List of people from New Canaan, Connecticut
- List of people from New Haven, Connecticut
- List of people from Norwalk, Connecticut
- List of people from Redding, Connecticut
- List of people from Ridgefield, Connecticut
- List of people from Stamford, Connecticut
- List of people from Westport, Connecticut
References
- ^ Barry Levinson at IMDb. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
- ^ "In Litchfield County, a $25 Million Explosion". The New York Times. June 17, 2005. Retrieved May 22, 2014.
- ^ "Julius Seligson". October 14, 1987 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ Barker, Sean (June 13, 2021). "Ridgefield swimmer Kieran Smith qualifies for Olympics in 400 freestyle". Connecticut Post. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
- ^ "Madeleine L'Engle". Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame. Retrieved May 22, 2014.
- ^ "Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary Dies at 72". The New York Times. August 16, 2009. Retrieved April 29, 2014.