List of people from Redding, Connecticut
People associated with Redding, Connecticut listed in the area they are best known:
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.
- 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, rock singer, with his wife, stepdaughter Pearl Aday and daughter, Amanda Aday. He was the Joel Barlow High School softball coach while his daughters attended the school during the 1990s.[2]
- 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, lived in town in the 1980s.
Authors and other writers
- Joel Barlow, poet and diplomat, born in Redding.
- Julian Barry, Oscar nominee for Lenny, resident since 2001.
- John Byrum, motion picture director, screenwriter, and producer, is a long-time resident of West Redding.
- Hume Cronyn, actor, lived with his wife, Jessica Tandy, on Stepney Road in the 1940s and 1950s.
- 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 of Robert 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.[3] lived on Peaceable Street.
- Alvin Toffler, author of "Future Shock", lived on Mountain Road.
- 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.
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]
- Katherine Sophie Dreier, late artist and patron of the arts who helped found the Museum of Modern Art, lived on Marchant road in 1912.
- Hal Foster, Prince Valiant cartoonist.
- Gilbert T. Fox (1915–2004), two-time Pulitzer Prize-nominated cartoonist.
- Anna Hyatt Huntington, artist.
- Edward Steichen, artist/photographer, lived on Topstone (Topstone Park was his property).
- Robert Natkin, (1930–2010), abstract expressionist.
People in government and politics
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, hedge fund manager, 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.
See also
Notes
- ^ a b [1] Web page titled, "Redding, Connecticut's Famous People," part of "History of Redding.com" Web site, accessed September 1, 2006
- ^ Spillane, Sean, "Meat Loaf: Not done yet and back in Connecticut for Mohegan Sun concert", article, "Go" entertainment supplement, The Advocate of Stamford, Connecticut (also in The News-Times of Danbury, Connecticut Post of Bridgeport and Greenwich Time newspapers), July 8, 2010
- ^ Gilbert, Alma, Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe, Philip Wilson Publishers (2005), ISBN 0-85667-601-2 p. 34
- ^ [2]TIME magazine, February 18, 1929