List of people from Connecticut

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State flag of Connecticut

Location of Connecticut on the U.S. map

The following is a list of notable people born, raised, or resident in Connecticut, with place of birth or residence when known.

Actors, producers, and directors[]

Ernest Borgnine

Glenn Close

Paul Giamatti

Lillian Hellman

Katharine Hepburn

Christopher Lloyd

Seth MacFarlane

Robert Mitchum

Rosalind Russell

• 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)
• Camille Kostek (Killingworth)
• 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[]

Brad Ausmus

Walter Camp

John DiBartolomeo

Aaron Hernandez

Brian Leetch

Floyd Little

Joey Logano

George Springer

• 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 (born 1961), 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Paul Menhart (Mystic)
• Johnny Moore (Waterbury)
• George H. Morris (born 1938), equestrian
• 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)
• 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 (born 1988), soccer player (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)
• Jim Shea, Jr. (West Hartford)
• Jeff Simmons (Hartford)
• Dan Sileo (Stamford)
• Charles Smith (Bridgeport)
• Chris Smith (Bridgeport)
• Kieran Smith (Ridgefield)^[4]
• Will Solomon (born 1978), basketball player (Hartford)
• Tony Sparano (West Haven)
• 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)
• 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[]

Suzanne Collins

Stephenie Meyer

Arthur Miller

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mark Twain

Noah Webster

• Christopher Andersen (Washington)
• Jacob M. Appel (Branford)
• Rosecrans Baldwin (Darien)
• Edward C. Banfield (Bloomfield)
• Joel Barlow (Redding)
• Dan Beard (Redding)
• A. Scott Berg (Norwalk)
• Joseph Payne Brennan (Bridgeport and New Haven)
• Thom Brooks (Guilford)
• William F. Buckley, Jr. (New York City and Stamford)
• Candace Bushnell (Glastonbury)
• Guido Calabresi (New Haven)
• Al Capp (New Haven)
• Noah Charney (New Haven)
• Lincoln Child (Westport)
• Christopher Collier (Orange)
• Suzanne Collins (Hartford and Newtown)
• Kate Cordsen (Essex)
• Nathan Daboll (Groton)
• Clay Dreslough (Ashford)
• John Gregory Dunne (Hartford)
• Eleanor Estes (West Haven)
• Mallory Factor (Bridgeport)
• Howard Fast (Redding)
• Edward Miner Gallaudet (Hartford)
• Elizabeth Gilbert (Waterbury)
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Hartford)
• Daniel Coit Gilman (Norwich)
• Thyrza Nichols Goodeve (Middlebury)
• Hanna Holborn Gray (New Haven)
• 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]
• Wally Lamb (Mansfield)
• Annie Leibovitz (Waterbury)
• Robert Ludlum (Southport)
• Ira Levin (Wilton)
• Sol LeWitt (Hartford)
• Frank Luntz (West Hartford)
• 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)
• Frederick Pratson (Hartford)
• Annie Proulx (Norwich)
• Luanne Rice (New Britain)
• Bill Roorbach (New Canaan)
• Philip Roth (Warren)
• Acharya S (Avon)
• Vincent Scully (New Haven)
• George Selden (Hartford)
• Richard Selzer (North Branford)
• Maurice Sendak (Ridgefield)
• Mark Shasha (New London)
• Dorothy Hope Smith (Westport)
• Victoria Leigh Soto (Bridgeport)
• Armstrong Sperry (Stamford, New Canaan, and New Haven)
• Benjamin Spock (New Haven)
• Edward Steichen (Redding)
• Wallace Stevens (Hartford)
• Roger Stone (Norwalk)
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (Litchfield)
• Arthur Szyk (New Canaan)
• Alton Tobey (Middletown)
• Garry Trudeau (Branford)
• Mark Twain (Hartford and Redding)
• Edward Lewis Wallant (New Haven)
• Noah Webster (present-day West Hartford)
• J. Alden Weir (Ridgefield)

Business people, scientists, and inventors[]

P.T. Barnum

Samuel Colt

Charles Goodyear

J.P. Morgan

• 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)
• Peter Schiff (New Haven)
• Joseph Earl Sheffield (Southport)
• Igor Sikorsky (Stratford, Trumbull and Easton)
• Benjamin Silliman (Trumbull and New Haven)
• Chip Skowron, hedge fund portfolio manager convicted of insider trading (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[]

Chris Berman

Charles Dow

• 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[]

Ethan Allen

Benedict Arnold

John Brown

Nathan Hale

• 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[]

The Carpenters

John Mayer

• Marian Anderson (Danbury)
• Jaehyun
• 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 (Ansonia)
• 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[]

George H. W. Bush

George W. Bush

Joe Lieberman

Roger Sherman

Morrison Waite

• 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)
• 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[]

Casey Neistat

• Jack Baran (Fairfield)
• Eugenia Cooney (Greenwich)
• Anthony Fantano (Wolcott)
• Casey Neistat (Ledyard)
• Daymon Patterson (New Britain)
• Charli D'Amelio (Norwalk)

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 (born 1941), wife of Bernie Madoff
• Anthony Megale (1953–2015), mobster and former acting underboss of the Gambino crime family

See also[]

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