List of people from Redding, Connecticut
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[edit] Actors, musicians and entertainers
- Paul Avgerinos, musician and electronic music composer
- Leonard Bernstein, composer and conductor, lived on Fox Run Road in the 1950s.
- Michael Ian Black, actor/comedian, currently resides there with his wife and two children.
- Ritchie Blackmore, of Deep Purple rock band. Former resident.
- Diana Canova, actress in the Soap television program and voice of Daphney in the original Scooby Doo cartoon *Amy Chludzinski, Actress best known for her role in the 1987 low budget cult horror film "Cannibal Campout" is a current resident
- Daryl Hall, musician with Hall & Oates, lived on Topstone Road.
- Jascha Heifetz, violinist who lived on Sanfordtown Road in the 1940s
- Charles Ives, musician
- Igor Kipnis (1930-2002), musician who died at his home in town.
- John Kirkpatrick, musician, professor and writer[1]
- Hope Lange, actress
- Barry Levinson, film director, current resident
- Enoch Light, musician
- Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday), rock singer, Joel Barlow High School softball coach while his daughters attended the school during the 1990's
- Carmen Mathews (1914-1995), actress, lived on "Umpawaug/Marchant...New Pond Farm," died in Redding.
- Fred Newman (actor), American actor, voice actor, composer, and sound effects artist, current resident
- Mark Pinter actor and husband of Colleen Zenk Pinter
- Colleen Zenk Pinter, actress and wife of Mark Pinter
- Elliot Scheiner, engineer and five-time Grammy Award-winning producer
- Jessica Tandy, actress, lived with her husband, Hume Cronyn, on Stepney Road in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Mary Travers, of the Peter, Paul and Mary group
- Russ Titelman, a Grammy-winning record producer for Eric Clapton, David Sanborn and Steve Winwood, among others, lived in town in the 1980s.
[edit] Authors and other writers
- Joel Barlow, poet and diplomat, born in Redding
- Hume Cronyn, actor, lived with his wife, Jessica Tandy, on Stepney Road in the 1940s and 1950s (they later moved to Easton, Connecticut)
- Michael C. Erlanger, writer, lived in Redding Center
- Howard Fast, author, lived on Cross Highway in the 1980s.
- Robert Fitzgerald, translator, poet, mentor of Flannery O'Connor, lived on Seventy Acre Road.
- Elizabeth Janeway, author
- Joseph Wood Krutch author and naturalist, lived on Limekiln Road in the 1940s.
- Jane and Michael Stern of West Redding, write the "Roadfood" column for Gourmet magazine (also authors of Roadfood and other books).
- Flannery O'Connor, novelist, wrote Wise Blood while a border at the home ofRobert Fitzgerald and family on Seventy Acre Road (from 1949 to 1951).
- Albert Bigelow Paine, writer, lived on Diamond Hill
- Ruth Stout (1884-1980), writer about organic gardening
- Anne Parrish Titzell (1888-1957), children's book author, cousin of Maxfield Parish[2] lived on Peaceable Street.
- Mark Twain lived (on present-day Mark Twain Lane) and owned property in town until his death in 1910
- Tasha Tudor, children's author and artist, lived on Tudor Road.
[edit] Artists, art experts and critics, cartoonists
- Dan Beard, illustrator and one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America, lived on Great Pasture.[1]
- Rosamond Bernier, art lecturer and author, wife of New York Times chief art critic John Russell,[3] lived on Poverty Hollow Road from 1970s to 2002.
- Katherine Sophie Dreier, late artist and patron of the arts who helped found the Museum of Modern Art, lived on Marchant road in 1912 (later moved to Long Ridge Road in Danbury)
- Hal Foster, Prince Valiant cartoonist
- Gilbert T. Fox (1915-2004), two-time Pulitzer Prize-nominated cartoonist
- William E. Hill (1886-1962), cartoonist
- Anna Hyatt Huntington, artist
- Harry Mace, cartoonist
- John Russell, author, chief art critic for The New York Times, and husband of Rosamond Bernier, lived on Poverty Hollow Road.
- Edward Steichen, artist/photographer, lived on Topstone (Topstone Park was his property)
[edit] People in government and politics
- Stuart Chase, economist, philosopher and political activist who worked for Franklin Delano Roosevelt (who took the name of Chase's book, "A New Deal" for his political program), lived on Redding Road from the 1930s to 1980s.
- Elsie Hill, (20s to 30s, suffragette, lived on Seventy Acres Road in the 1920s and 1930s
- David Lilienthal, scientist and director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Tennessee Valley Authority, lived on Stepney Road.
- Dick Morris, political consultant and author
- Walter White (1893-1955), former head (executive secretary) of NAACP, lived on Seventy Acres Road.
[edit] Other
- Frank M. Hawks, aviator who made the fourth-ever nonstop coast-to-coast flight in the United States in 1929,[4] lived in town
- Alfred Winslow Jones, called "the father of the hedge fund industry," lived on Poverty Hollow Road
- Lawrence Kudlow, host of Kudlow and Company television program, current resident
- Major General Samuel Holden Parsons, commander in the Continental Army under Gen. Israel Putnam, later chief judge of the Northwest Territory, lived on Black Rock Turnpike
- Orville Schell, civil Liberties lawyer
- Lee MacPhail, former MLB commissioner and Hall of Famer.
[edit] See also
- List of people from Connecticut
- 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 Ridgefield, Connecticut
- List of people from Stamford, Connecticut
- List of people from Westport, Connecticut
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b [1]Web page titled, "Redding, Connecticut's Famous People," part of "History of Redding.com" Web site, accessed September 1, 2006
- ^ Gilbert, Alma, Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe, Philip Wilson Publishers (2005), ISBN 0-85667-601-2 p. 34
- ^ [2]Rosamond Bernier biography page for lecturer's bureau, Web site of American Enterprise Institute, accessed September 1, 2006
- ^ [3]TIME magazine, February 18, 1929
