List of people from Greenwich, Connecticut

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This is a list of people who have lived in or been associated with Greenwich, Connecticut now or in the past and are well known beyond the town.

They are listed based on the area in which person is best known (in alphabetical order within each category):

Actors, directors, producers[]

Mel Gibson, actor, director, and producer
Ron Howard, actor, director, and producer
  • Bill Boggs, actor, author and journalist[1]
  • Scooter Braun, music producer and talent manager
  • Glenn Close, actress
  • Terry Crews, actor
  • Johnny Doran, actor
  • Henry Fonda (1905–1982), actor
  • Jane Fonda, actress
  • Peter Fonda (1940–2019), actor
  • Mel Gibson, actor, director, producer[2][better source needed]
  • Shelley Hack (born 1947), actress
  • Bob Haymes (1923–1989), actor and composer
  • Gabriela Dias, actress, producer, writer, humanitarian
  • Bryce Dallas Howard (born 1981), actress; daughter of filmmaker Ron Howard
  • Ron Howard, actor and director
  • Leatrice Joy (1893–1985), silent film actress
  • Tom Kuntz (born 1972), commercial and music video director
  • Joseph E. Levine (1905–1987), film producer and distributor
  • Rod Lurie (born 1962), director and screenwriter
  • Mary Tyler Moore (1936–2017), actress[3]
  • Bert Parks (1914–1992), actor, television personality
  • Bijou Phillips, actress, singer and model
  • Linda Purl (born 1955), actress and singer
  • Elisabeth Röhm (born 1973), actress[4]
  • Kelly Rohrbach (born 1990), model and actress[5]
  • Madeleine Sackler (born 1983), director, producer, and editor
  • Adam Sandler, actor, director, producer, television personality[citation needed]
  • Rick Schroder (born 1970), actor
  • George C. Scott (1927–1999), actor
  • Zack Snyder (born 1966), film director
  • Heather Thomas (born 1957), actress and screenwriter
  • Dyanne Thorne (1936–2020), actress, model and ordained minister
  • Justin Zackham, director and screenwriter; writer of The Bucket List

Musicians, models, other entertainers[]

Roger Glover, musician
Regis Philbin, TV host
  • Tom Bergeron, host of America's Funniest Home Videos and Dancing With the Stars;[6]
  • Victor Borge (1909–2000), pianist and comedian
  • A. Whitney Brown, writer and comedian[7]
  • Eugenia Cooney, YouTuber and influencer[8]
  • Alice Cooper, singer-songwriter and actor
  • Wilhelmina Cooper (1940–1980), supermodel
  • Gary Dell'Abate (born 1961), radio personality known as "Baba Booey"; producer at The Howard Stern Show[9]
  • Tommy Dorsey (1905–1956), trombonist and bandleader in the Big Band era[10]
  • Clyde Fitch (1865–1909), dramatist
  • Stephan Galfas, Grammy Award-nominated record producer
  • Kathie Lee Gifford, television personality, wife of the late Frank Gifford
  • Roger Glover (born 1945), bass guitarist for Deep Purple, songwriter and record producer
  • Cynthia Gregory, prima ballerina
  • Bob Haymes (1923–1989), actor and composer
  • Ray Henderson (1896–1970), songwriter
  • Erich Kunzel (1935–2009), conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra;
  • Rodney Leinhardt (born 1970), professional wrestler[citation needed]
  • Jana Mashonee, Native American singer-songwriter
  • Michael Matijevic, lead singer of Steelheart
  • Stefano Miceli (born 1975), conductor and pianist
  • Tom Noonan (born 1951), actor, director, playwright
  • Jack Paar (1918–2004), host of The Tonight Show
  • Regis Philbin (1931–2020), television personality
  • Francesca Roberto, operatic soprano[11]
  • Diana Ross, singer and actress
  • Stephanie Seymour, model; wife of Peter M. Brant, publishing mogul
  • Judy Sheindlin, television personality and producer[12]
  • Hana Soukupova, model; wife of Drew Aaron, paper magnate and entrepreneur; restored Greenwich's North Court estate
  • Wanda Sykes, comedian and actress,
  • Montel Williams, television personality[13]
  • Caroline Polachek, singer

Sports[]

Jim Brown at the 1st FIFA World Cup in 1930
George Brown, ASL All-Star

Authors, writers[]

Truman Capote in 1959
  • Taylor Caldwell (1900–1985), novelist
  • Truman Capote (1924–1984), writer
  • Caroline B. Cooney (born 1947), horror and mystery author
  • A. J. Cronin (1896–1981), Scottish author
  • Frederick Exley (1929–1992), author
  • Howard Fast (1914–2003), author; and had an editorial column in The Greenwich Time
  • Jonathan Fast (born 1948), author and social work educator
  • James F. Fixx (1932–1984), author
  • Thomas Flanagan (1923–2002), writer, university professor
  • Carl Higbie, decorated Navy SEAL and author
  • John Jakes (born 1932), novelist
  • D. J. Machale, author of the Pendragon series
  • R. A. Montgomery (1936–2014), author
  • Evan Osnos (born 1976), journalist and author
  • Lawrence Riley (1896–1974), playwright and screenwriter
  • Mark Salzman (born 1959), author
  • Anya Seton (1904–1990), author of historical romances
  • Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989), non-fiction author

Artists, architects, designers, cartoonists[]

  • Edgar de Evia (1910–2003), photographer, artist and author
  • Robert Denning (1927–2005), interior designer
  • Tony DiPreta (1921–2010), comic book and comic strip artist
  • Steve Giovinco (born 1961), photographer[19]
  • Tommy Hilfiger (born 1951), fashion designer[12]
  • Bai Ji Kong (1932–2018), contemporary painter originally from China[20]
  • Ranan Lurie (born 1932), editorial cartoonist and journalist
  • Robert Motherwell (1915–1991), abstract expressionist
  • John Cullen Murphy (1919–2004), comic artist
  • Leonard Ochtman (1854–1935), his wife Mina Fonda Ochtman (1862–1924), artists and part of the Cos Cob Art Colony
  • Edward Clark Potter (1857–1923), sculptor, designed the lions in front of the New York Public Library
  • John von Bergen (born 1971), sculptor
  • Mort Walker (1923–2018), cartoonist; creator of Beetle Bailey

Famous guests at the Bush-Holley House[]

Government[]

Expert vote-counter Boss Tweed, by Thomas Nast
Homer Stille Cummings
  • Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Senator, state Attorney General
  • George H. W. Bush (1924–2018), 41st President of the United States
  • George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
  • Prescott Bush (1895–1972), U.S. Senator; father of George H.W. Bush
  • Chris Coons, U.S. Senator of Delaware
  • Homer Stille Cummings (1870–1956), U.S. Attorney General, 1933–1939 and Stamford mayor
  • Mary Harrison McKee (1858–1930), daughter of President Benjamin Harrison and Caroline Harrison, great-granddaughter of President and Major General William Henry Harrison, Acting First Lady of the United States 1892–1893
  • Russell Benjamin Harrison (1854–1936), diplomat, member of the Indiana House of Representatives and Indiana Senate, son of President Benjamin Harrison and Caroline Harrison, great-grandson of President and Major General William Henry Harrison, father of U.S. Representative William Henry Harrison II
  • Hope Hicks (born 1988), White House Director of Strategic Communications
  • Jim Himes, U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 4th congressional district
  • Ned Lamont, 89th Governor of Connecticut
  • Samuel A. Lewis (1831–1913), politician and philanthropist
  • Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987), congresswoman, ambassador, playwright
  • Michael L. Morano (1915–2000), businessman and politician
  • Jennifer Psaki, Assistant to the President of the United States and the White House Communications Director
  • Craig Roberts Stapleton, U.S. ambassador
  • David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget[21]
  • Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, member of the Kennedy political family; Lt. Governor of Maryland
  • William M. "Boss" Tweed (1823–1878), famously corrupt New York City official
  • Thomas Watson Jr. (1914–1993), IBM President and 16th United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union
  • Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (born 1931), Connecticut Governor, U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative

Judges and lawyers[]

Business[]

Journalists, sportscasters[]

Other[]

  • Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy (1966–1999), wife of John F. Kennedy Jr.
  • Colonel Raynal Bolling (1877–1918), first U.S. officer to be killed in combat in World War I
  • Blackleach Burritt (1744–1794), noted clergyman during the American Revolution
  • Douglas Campbell (1896–1990), first American World War I aviator flying in an American unit to achieve the status of ace
  • Michael Fossel (born 1950), professor of clinical medicine at Michigan State University
  • Bill Gold (1921–2018), graphic designer
  • G. Lauder Greenway (1904–1981), Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Association; patron of the arts
  • James Greenway (1903-1989), curator, Museum of Comparative Zoology, ornithologist, Lt. Commander U.S. Navy
  • Kara Hultgreen (1965–1994), lieutenant in the U.S. Navy; first female naval carrier-based fighter pilot
  • Barry Klarberg (born 1961), manager for athletes and entertainers
  • Martha Moxley (1960–1975), high-profile murder victim
  • Farah Pahlavi, Iranian empress
  • Hubert Scott-Paine (1891–1954), British-American aircraft and boat designer, including PT boats
  • Katherine E. Price, American philanthropist and Papal countess
  • Ernest Thompson Seton (1860–1946), author, helped found the Boy Scouts of America
  • Mickey Sherman, criminal-defense attorney
  • Polly Lauder Tunney (1907–2008), philanthropist, wife of World Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney;
  • Cornelius Wendell Wickersham (1885–1968), U.S. Army officer, lawyer, and author

See also[]

References[]

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