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 Streets; buried in the Hepburn family plot in Cedar Hill Cemetery in the city
Elyse Knox (1917–2012), model and actress, wife of Tom Harmon and mother of Mark Harmon, was born in Hartford
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
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
Phil Tonken (1919–2000), longtime staff announcer at New York station WOR-AM-TV, was born in Hartford
Sophie Tucker, "last of the Red Hot Mamas" grew up in Hartford and first performed in her family's restaurant
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

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

Igor Buketoff (1915–2001), conductor, was born in Hartford
Kurt Carr, gospel music composer and performer
Fates Warning, progressive metal band formed in 1982
Charles Flores (1970-2012), jazz bassist and member of the Michel Camilo Trio^[1]
Natália Kelly, Austrian singer who represented Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden
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

Authors, writers

Steven Anzovin, American non-fiction writer best known for his Famous First Facts book series.
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 (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (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; 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
Frank A. Hooker, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court^[5]
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
Thomas A. Sullivan, Wisconsin State Assemblyman

Sports

Michael Adams (born 1963), NBA player
Marcus Camby (born 1974), NBA player
John Carney (born 1964), NFL placekicker
Andre Drummond (born 1993), NBA player for the Detroit Pistons
Jayson Durocher (born 1974) MLB player for the Milwaukee Brewers
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
Cliff Olander (born 1955), American player of gridiron football
Steve Potts (born 1967), former West Ham United footballer, current U21 coach
Eugene Robinson (born 1963), NFL player
John Sullivan (born 1961), NFL player
Roderick G. (Rod) Taylor (born 1943), Olympic skier^[6]

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

Notes

↑ "Charles Flores Dead: Grammy-Winning Jazz Bassist Passes Away From Throat Cancer at Age 41". Spinner. 2012-08-27. Retrieved 2012-09-21.
↑ 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")
↑ Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1963.
↑ "OBITUARY SKETCH OF CHARLES R. CHAPMAN". Connecticut State Library. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
↑ Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society-Frank Hooker
↑ The Republican-American: Roderick G. Taylor, former U.S. Olympic ski team member: retrieved July 17, 2014

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