List of people from Hartford, Connecticut

Mark Twain, photo taken three years before he moved to the city

The following list of people from Hartford, Connecticut, includes people who were born in, resided in or are otherwise closely connected with the city:

Actors

• Robert Ames (1889–1931) stage and screen actor, was born in Hartford
• Ben Cooper, best known for western films and television appearances in the 1960s and 70s.
• James DeBello (born 1980), actor
• Jenna Dewan (born 1980), actress
• Linda Evans (born 1942), actress, best known for Dynasty, was born in Hartford
• Thomas Ian Griffith (born 1962), first feature film was 1989's The Karate Kid, Part III
• Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003), iconic Oscar-winning actress, was born in Hartford and lived on both Hawthorne and Laurel Street. She is buried in the Hepburn family plot in Cedar Hill Cemetery in the city.
• Eriq La Salle (born 1962), of the television show ER, was born and raised in Hartford
• Charles Nelson Reilly (1931–2007), actor, director and TV personality
• Tony Todd, Broadway, film and television actor

Others in arts and entertainment

• Amy Brenneman (born 1964), actress, grew up in Glastonbury; adapted the experiences of her mother, a Connecticut Superior Court judge in Hartford, into the television series Judging Amy
• Brooke Burke (born 1971), television personality, model and dancer, was born in Hartford but moved to Arizona during her early childhood
• August Coppola, academic, film executive and father of Nicolas Cage
• Ann Corio (1914–1999), burlesque star, was from Hartford
• Totie Fields (1930–1978), comedian, born and raised in Hartford
• Michael C. FitzGerald (born 1953), art historian and Picasso scholar at Trinity College (Connecticut) in Hartford
• Kathleen Kucka, abstract painter
• Norman Lear (born 1922), television producer, went to Weaver High School in Hartford
• Phil Tonken (1919–2000), longtime staff announcer at New York station WOR-AM-TV, was born in Hartford
• Stephanie McMahon, daughter of the owner of WWE
• Ken Ober, host of Remote Control
• Ken Richters (born 1955), stage actor, playwright, and voice actor, known for impersonations of Mark Twain
• Wavy Gravy, hippie icon went to Hall High School.
• Kim Zolciak, (born 1978), is a star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta and a country music singer

Sophie Tucker, "last of the Red Hot Mamas" grew up in Hartford and first performed in her family's restaurant.

Sports broadcasters

• Michelle Beadle, NBC Sports broadcaster
• Steve Berthiaume, ESPN anchor, started his broadcasting career in Hartford
• Mike Crispino, sportscaster for WVIT and WRCH, and ESPN
• Jason Jackson, hosted a local sports radio show on ESPN Radio 1410 in 2003
• Charley Steiner, Los Angeles Dodgers sportscaster, broadcast for WPOP prior to working for ESPN

Musicians

• Hollywood Fergie, rapper, was born in Hartford
• Igor Buketoff (1915–2001), conductor, was born in Hartford
• Kurt Carr, gospel music composer and performer
• Charles Flores (1970-2012), jazz bassist and member of the Michel Camilo Trio^[1]
• Barbara Kolb (born 1939), composer
• Mark McGrath (born 1968), lead singer of Sugar Ray, was born in Hartford
• Jackie McLean (1931–2006), jazz alto saxophonist and educator^[2]
• Notch, R&B, dancehall and Reggaeton artist
• Gene Pitney (1940-2006), singer, was born in Hartford
• Jeff Porcaro (1954–1992), Mike Porcaro (born 1955) and Steve Porcaro (born 1957) of the rock band Toto were born in Hartford; father Joe Porcaro is well known as a session and drum instructor
• Sophie Tucker (1884–1966), "last of the red-hot mamas," singer and comedienne, was born and raised in Hartford
• Fates Warning, progressive metal band formed in 1982.
• Natália Kelly, Austrian singer who represented Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden

Authors, writers

• Bill Branon, novelist
• Oliver Butterworth (1915–1990), children's author and educator
• Suzanne Collins (born 1962), author of the Hunger Games trilogy, was born in Hartford
• Lyn Crost (born 1915), World War II correspondent
• Dominick Dunne (1925–2009) and John Gregory Dunne, (1932–2003), famous writers, were born in Hartford and grew up in West Hartford
• Austin Gary, novelist
• William Gillette (1853-1937), actor, director, famed for playing Sherlock Holmes on stage
• Stephenie Meyer (born 1973), author of Twilight series of best-selling novels, grew up in Arizona but was born in Hartford
• Jim Murray (1919–1998), Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist of the Los Angeles Times, was born and raised in Hartford
• Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), poet, was an insurance executive in Hartford
• Harriet Beecher Stowe(1811–1896), author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, originally from Litchfield, settled in Hartford during the 1870s; her Nook Farm home is open to the public and adjoins Mark Twain's.
• Mark Twain (1835–1910), iconic author, moved to Hartford in 1874 and lived in city for a number of years. The Mark Twain House is a national historic site. Twain, whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, wrote many of his most famous works in Hartford, including The Gilded Age, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Roughing It, and his most read and controversial, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Government and politics

• Parmenio Adams (1776–1832), United States Congressman, was born in Hartford^[3]
• L. Paul Bremer (born 1941), ex-administrator of US-occupied Iraq and foreign service officer
• Charles R. Chapman, mayor of Hartford, served in both houses of Connecticut legislature^[4]
• Horace S. Cooley, Illinois Secretary of State
• Frank Fasi, mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii
• Thomas Hooker, founder of Connecticut
• Bruce Hyer, Green Party of Canada Member of Parliament
• Edward Ralph May (1819 – c. 1852), only delegate to Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850 to vote in favor of African American suffrage
• Elizabeth May, former Sierra Club of Canada president and current leader of the Green Party of Canada

Sports

• Michael Adams (born 1963), NBA player
• Marcus Camby (born 1974), NBA player
• John Carney (born 1964), NFL placekicker
• Jayson Durocher (born 1974) MLB player for the Milwaukee Brewers
• Andre Drummond (born 1993), NBA player
• Johnny Egan (born 1939), NBA player
• Mickey Fallon (born 1898), NFL player
• Craig Janney (born 1968), NHL player
• Rick Mahorn (born 1958), NBA player
• Eric Mangini (born 1971), head coach of Cleveland Browns and New York Jets
• Eugene Robinson (born 1963), NFL player
• John Sullivan (born 1961), NFL player
• Roderick G. (Rod) Taylor (born 1943), Olympic skier^[5]

Other

• A. Everett "Chick" Austin, (1900–1957), collector, stage impresario, and arts innovator, director of the Wadsworth Atheneum, 1927–1944.
• Reverend Horace Bushnell (1802–1876), Hartford civic champion
• Samuel Colt (1814–1862), firearm inventor, born in Hartford
• Reverend Francis Goodwin (1839–1923), paterfamilias of the Goodwins, an original founding family of Hartford; chairman of the Hartford Parks Commission
• George Keller (1842–1935), architect, lived in Hartford until his death; designed the Soldier's and Sailor's Arch, the Hartford Train Station, and the Garfield Memorial in Cleveland, Ohio. His ashes, along with the ashes of his wife, Mary, are interred in turrets of the arch he designed.
• Stephen Cole Kleene (1909–1994), mathematician
• J.P. Morgan (1837–1913), famed financier, industrialist and savior of the 1907 panic
• Joseph B. Murdock (1851-1931), Navy rear admiral who served as commander-in-chief of the United States Asiatic Fleet and as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
• Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), renowned urban and suburban planner famous for many of the New York City parks and Stanford University's campus, was born, raised and educated in Hartford
• Colonel Albert A. Pope (1843–1909), veteran of Petersburg and manufacturer of the Columbia Bicycle and Pope-Hartford automobile
• Colonel Sherwood C. Spring (born 1944) United States Army Colonel, test pilot and astronaut
• Alfred Terry (1827–1890), Union army general
• Theodore Wirth (1863–1949) horticulturalist and park planner

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 Redding, Connecticut
• List of people from Ridgefield, Connecticut
• List of people from Stamford, Connecticut
• List of people from Westport, Connecticut

Notes

1. ↑ "Charles Flores Dead: Grammy-Winning Jazz Bassist Passes Away From Throat Cancer at Age 41". Spinner. 2012-08-27. Retrieved 2012-09-21. 
2. ↑ Dixon, Ken, "Music Hall of Fame proposed for state ", article in Connecticut Post in Bridgeport, Connecticut, April 26, 2007 ("Other famous state residents include the late jazz saxophonist Jackie McLean of Hartford")
3. ↑ Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1963. 
4. ↑ "OBITUARY SKETCH OF CHARLES R. CHAPMAN". Connecticut State Library. Retrieved October 10, 2012. 
5. ↑ The Republican-American: Roderick G. Taylor, former U.S. Olympic ski team member: retrieved July 17, 2014

External links

• Internet Movie DataBase