List of people from Connecticut
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The following is a list of notable people born, raised or resident in Connecticut, with place of birth or residence(when known):
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[edit] Actors, producers & directors
- Lauren Ambrose (New Haven)
- Ed Begley (Hartford)
- Richard Belzer (Bridgeport)
- John Billingsley (Weston)
- Ernest Borgnine (Hamden)
- Jesse Bradford (Norwalk)
- Jonathan Brandis (Danbury)
- Alex Breckenridge (Darien)
- Amy Brenneman (Glastonbury)
- Brooke Brodack (Putnam)
- Gary Burghoff (Bristol)
- David Canary (Wilton)
- Marilyn Chambers (Westport)
- Glenn Close (Greenwich)
- Bob Crane (Waterbury)
- Paul Dano (Wilton)
- Brian Dennehy (Bridgeport)
- Allie DiMeco (Waterbury)
- Linda Evans (Hartford)
- Mark Famiglietti (Clinton)
- William Gillette (Hartford)
- Katherine Heigl (New Canaan)
- Katharine Hepburn (Hartford)
- Ted Knight (Terryville)
- Eriq La Salle (Hartford)
- Justin Long (Fairfield)
- Christopher Lloyd (Stamford)
- Seth MacFarlane (Kent)
- Dylan McDermott (Waterbury)
- Stephanie McMahon (Hartford)
- Robert Mitchum (Bridgeport)
- Ellen Muth (Milford)
- David Naughton (Hartford)
- Kevin Nealon (Bridgeport)
- Paul Newman (Westport)
- Fred Norris (Willimantic)
- Ron Palillo (Cheshire)
- Joe Pantoliano (Wilton)
- Christy Carlson Romano (Milford)
- John Ratzenberger (Bridgeport)
- Rosalind Russell (Waterbury)
- Meg Ryan (Fairfield)
- Annabella Sciorra (Wethersfield)
- Chloe Sevigny (Darien)
- Larry Sullivan (New Haven)
- Jim True-Frost (Greenwich)
- James Van Der Beek (Cheshire)
- Christopher Walken (Wilton)
- Treat Williams (Norwalk)
- Joanne Woodward (Westport)
- Spec Shea (Naugatuck)
[edit] Athletes
- Brian Dayett (New London)
- James Blake (Fairfield)
- Scott Burrell (Hamden)
- Marcus Camby (Hartford)
- Walter Camp (New Britain)
- Chris Clark (Manchester)
- Jaidon Codrington (Bridgeport)
- Chris Drury (Trumbull)
- Dwight Freeney (Hartford)
- Ryan Gomes (Waterbury)
- Anttaj Hawthorne (Hamden)
- JJ Henry (Fairfield)
- Jay Johnstone (Manchester)
- Tebucky Jones (New Britain)
- Kristine Lilly (Wilton)
- Calvin Murphy (Norwalk)
- Jerry Nadeau (Danbury)
- Willie Pep (Middletown)
- Jimmy Piersall (Waterbury)
- Randy Rasmussen (Wilton)
- Bill Romanowski (Vernon)
- Scott Sharp (Norwalk)
- Jim Shea, Jr. (West Hartford)
- Jeff Simmons (Hartford)
- Bobby Valentine (Stamford)
- Mo Vaughn (Norwalk)
- Steve Young (Greenwich)
[edit] Authors, artists & biographers
- Joel Barlow (Redding)
- A. Scott Berg (Norwalk)
- Joseph Payne Brennan (Bridgeport and New Haven)
- William F. Buckley, Jr. (New York City and Stamford)
- Candace Bushnell (Glastonbury)
- Al Capp (New Haven)
- Echo Chernik (Ellington)
- Suzanne Collins
- John Gregory Dunne (Hartford)
- Charles H. Kraft
- Ira Levin (Wilton)
- Sol Lewitt (Hartford)
- Kenneth Pike (Woodstock)
- Charles Ethan Porter (Hartford)
- E. Annie Proulx (Norwich)
- Emily Cheney Neville (Manchester)
- Armstrong Sperry (Stamford, New Canaan, and New Haven)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (Litchfield)
- Dr. Benjamin Spock (New Haven)
- Arthur Szyk (New Canaan)
- Alton Tobey (Middletown)
- Noah Webster (present-day West Hartford)
[edit] Business people & inventors
- Jefferson F Allen (Westport)
- Moses Austin (Durham)
- P.T. Barnum (Bethel)
- Henry Alfred Bishop (Bridgeport)
- David Bushnell (Saybrook)
- Samuel Colt (Hartford)
- Ray Dalio (Greenwich/Westport
- Bern Dibner (Wilton)
- John Fitch (Hartford County)
- Josiah Willard Gibbs (New Haven)
- Charles Goodyear (New Haven)
- James J. Greco (Cheshire)
- Collis Potter Huntington (Harwinton)
- Jeffrey R. Immelt (New Canaan)
- Mary Dixon Kies (South Killingly)
- J. P. Morgan (Hartford)
- Victor Niederhoffer (Weston)
- Frederick Law Olmsted (Hartford)
- Joseph Earl Sheffield (Southport)
- Igor Sikorsky (Stratford)
- Alfred P. Sloan (New Haven)
- Christopher Spencer (Manchester)
- Martha Stewart (Westport)
- Nathaniel Wheeler (Bridgeport)
- Eli Whitney (New Haven)
- Robert Charles Wright (Southport)
- Eli Terry (East Windsor)
- Dana White (Manchester)
- Oliver Fisher Winchester (New Haven)
[edit] Journalists & commentators
- Chris Berman (Greenwich and Cheshire)
- Ann Coulter (New Canaan)
- Laura Ingraham (Glastonbury)
- Kenny Mayne (Bethel)
- Dan Patrick (Milford)
- Andy Rooney (Norwalk)
- Joan Rivers ([New Preston, Connecticut|New Preston]])
[edit] Military figures
- Ethan Allen (Litchfield)
- Benedict Arnold (Norwich)
- John Brown (Torrington)
- Daniel C. Burbank (Manchester)
- John Butler (New London)
- Nathan Hale (Coventry)
- David Humphreys (Derby)
- John Trumbull (Lebanon)
- James Wadsworth (Durham)
[edit] Musicians
- Mark Berman (New Haven)
- Michael Bolton (New Haven)
- Dave Brubeck (Wilton)
- Karen Carpenter (New Haven)
- Richard Carpenter (New Haven)
- Cassie (New London)
- Chris Carrabba (Hartford)
- Rivers Cuomo
- Julia DeMato (Brookfield)
- Jose Feliciano (Westport)
- Charles Edward Ives (Danbury)
- John Mayer (Fairfield)
- Syesha Mercado (Bridgeport)
- Mark McGrath (Hartford)
- Moby (Darien)
- Thurston Moore (Bethel)
- Liz Phair (New Haven)
- Gene Pitney (Hartford)
- Dawn Robinson (New London)
- Nile Rodgers (Westport)
- Emily Saliers (New Haven)
- John Scofield (Wilton)
- Steve Stevens (Hartford)
[edit] Politicians & statesmen
- Dean Acheson (Middletown)
- Roger Sherman Baldwin (New Haven)
- George W. Bush (New Haven)
- Orlow W. Chapman (Ellington)
- Joe Courtney (Hartford)
- Rosa DeLauro (New Haven)
- Christopher Dodd (Willimantic)
- Anna Eshoo (New Britain)
- Porter J. Goss (Waterbury)
- Ella T. Grasso (Windsor Locks)
- Galusha A. Grow (Ashford)
- Samuel Huntingon (Windham)
- John Larson (East Hartford)
- Joe Lieberman (Stamford)
- Ralph Nader (Winsted)
- Frederick Walker Pitkin (Manchester)
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (New Haven)
- Abraham A. Ribicoff (New Britain)
- John G. Rowland (Waterbury)
- Chris Shays (Stamford)
- Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (Greenwich)
- Jonathan Trumbull (Lebanon)
- Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. (Lebanon)
- Gideon Welles (Glastonbury)
- Oliver Wolcott (Windsor)
- Oliver Wolcott Jr. (Litchfield)
[edit] Religious and spiritual figures
- Aaron Burr, Sr. (Fairfield)
- Dave Considine (West Haven)
- Kenneth Pike (Woodstock)
- Henry Weston Smith (Ellington)
- Ed & Lorraine Warren (Monroe)[citation needed]
- John Zaffis (Stratford)
[edit] See also
- List of people from Bridgeport, 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 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
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