List of people from Connecticut
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The following is a list of notable people born in Connecticut, with place of birth (when known):
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[edit] Actors, producers & directors
- Ed Begley (Hartford)
- Richard Belzer (Bridgeport)
- Ernest Borgnine (Hamden)
- Jonathan Brandis (Danbury)
- Amy Brenneman (Glastonbury)
- Gary Burghoff (Bristol)
- Glenn Close (Greenwich)
- Bob Crane (Waterbury)
- Paul Dano (Wilton)
- Brian Dennehy (Bridgeport)
- Linda Evans (Hartford)
- William Gillette (Hartford)
- Katharine Hepburn (Hartford)
- Ted Knight (Terryville)
- Eriq La Salle (Hartford)
- Christopher Lloyd (Stamford)
- Seth MacFarlane (Kent)
- Dylan McDermott (Waterbury)
- Stephanie McMahon-Levesque (Hartford)
- Robert Mitchum (Bridgeport)
- David Naughton (Hartford)
- Kevin Nealon (Bridgeport)
- Ron Palillo (Cheshire)
- John Ratzenberger (Bridgeport)
- Rosalind Russell (Waterbury)
- Meg Ryan (Fairfield)
- Annabella Sciorra (Wethersfield)
- James Van Der Beek (Cheshire)
[edit] Athletes
- Marcus Camby (Hartford)
- Walter Camp (New Britain)
- Christopher "Chris" Drury (Trumbull)
- Dwight Freeney (Hartford)
- Willie Pep (Hartford)
- Jimmy Piersall (Waterbury)
- Bill Romanowski (Vernon)
- Jim Shea, Jr. (West Hartford)
- Bobby Valentine (Stamford)
- Mo Vaughn (Norwalk)
- Steve Young (Greenwich)
[edit] Authors, artists & biographers
- Joel Barlow (Redding)
- A. Scott Berg (Norwalk, Connecticut)
- Candace Bushnell (Glastonbury)
- Al Capp (New Haven)
- L E Cooper (Southport, Connecticut)
- John Gregory Dunne (Hartford)
- Charles H. Kraft
- E. Annie Proulx (Norwich)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (Litchfield)
- Dr. Benjamin Spock (New Haven)
- Alton Tobey (Middletown)
- Noah Webster (present-day West Hartford)
[edit] Business people & inventors
- Jefferson F Allen (Westport)[citation needed]
- P.T. Barnum (Bethel)
- Henry Alfred Bishop (Bridgeport)
- Samuel Colt (Hartford)
- John Fitch (Hartford County)
- Charles Goodyear (New Haven)
- Collis Potter Huntington (Harwinton)
- Mary Dixon Kies (South Killingly)
- J. P. Morgan (Hartford)
- Frederick Law Olmsted (Hartford)
- Alfred P. Sloan (New Haven)
- Nathaniel Wheeler (Bridgeport)[citation needed]
- Robert Charles Wright (Southport)[citation needed]
- Eli Terry (East Windsor)
[edit] Journalists & commentators
- Chris Berman (Greenwich)
- Ann Coulter (New Canaan)
- Laura Ingraham (Glastonbury)
- Kenny Mayne (Bethel)
[edit] Military figures
- Ethan Allen (Litchfield)
- Benedict Arnold (Norwich)
- John Brown (Torrington)
- John Butler (New London)
- Nathan Hale (Coventry)
- David Humphreys (Derby)
- John Trumbull (Lebanon)
[edit] Musicians
- Michael Bolton (New Haven)
- Karen Carpenter (New Haven)
- Richard Carpenter (New Haven)
- Chris Carrabba (Hartford)
- Rivers Cuomo
- Julia DeMato (Brookfield)
- Charles Edward Ives (Danbury)
- John Mayer (Bridgeport)
- Mark McGrath (Hartford)
- Thurston Moore (Bethel)
- Liz Phair (New Haven)
- Gene Pitney (Hartford)
- Emily Saliers (New Haven)
- Steve Stevens (Hartford)
- Thurston Moore (Bethel)
[edit] Politicians & statesmen
- Dean Acheson (Middletown)
- Roger Sherman Baldwin (New Haven)
- George W. Bush (New Haven)
- Rosa DeLauro (New Haven)
- Christopher Dodd (Willimantic)
- Anna Eshoo (New Britain)
- Porter J. Goss (Waterbury)
- Ella T. Grasso (Windsor Locks)
- Samuel Huntingon (Windham)
- John Larson (East Hartford)
- Joe Lieberman (Stamford)
- Ralph Nader (Winsted)
- 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 demonologists
[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 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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