List of people from Connecticut

The following is a list of notable people born, raised or resident in Connecticut, with place of birth or residence(when known):

Actors, producers & directors

*Lauren Ambrose (New Haven)
*Kevin Bacon (Sharon)
*Ed Begley (Hartford)
*Richard Belzer (Bridgeport)
*John Billingsley (Weston)
*Ernest Borgnine (Hamden)
*Jesse Bradford (Norwalk)
*Jonathan Brandis (Danbury)
*Alex Breckenridge (Darien)
*Amy Brenneman (Glastonbury)
*Brooke Brodack (Putnam)
*Gary Burghoff (Bristol)
*David Canary (Wilton)
*Marilyn Chambers (Westport)
*Glenn Close (Greenwich)
*Bob Crane (Waterbury)
*Paul Dano (Wilton)
*Brian Dennehy (Woodstock)
*Allie DiMeco (Waterbury)
*Matt Durning (Branford)
*Linda Evans (Hartford)
*Mark Famiglietti (Clinton)
*Michael J. Fox (Sharon)
*Paul Giamatti (New Haven)
*William Gillette (Hartford)
*Katherine Heigl (New Canaan)
*Katharine Hepburn (Hartford)
*Elia Kazan (Newtown)
*Ted Knight (Terryville)
*David LaChapelle (Fairfield)
*Eriq La Salle (Hartford)
*David Letterman (New Canaan)
*Justin Long (Fairfield)
*Christopher Lloyd (Stamford)
*Seth MacFarlane (Kent)
*Dylan McDermott (Waterbury)
*Stephanie McMahon (Hartford)
*Robert Mitchum (Bridgeport)
*Ellen Muth (Milford)
*David Naughton (Hartford)
*Kevin Nealon (Bridgeport)
*Paul Newman (Westport)
*Fred Norris (Willimantic)
*Ron Palillo (Cheshire)
*Joe Pantoliano (Wilton)
*Tracy Pollan (Sharon)
*Christy Carlson Romano (Milford)
*John Ratzenberger (Bridgeport)
*Rosalind Russell (Waterbury)
*Meg Ryan (Fairfield)
*Annabella Sciorra (Wethersfield)
*Kyra Sedgwick (Sharon)
*Chloe Sevigny (Darien) *Meryl Streep
*Curious Chris Spencer (Storrs, Connecticut)
*Larry Sullivan (New Haven)
*Jim True-Frost (Greenwich)
*James Van Der Beek (Cheshire)
*Christopher Walken (Wilton)
*Treat Williams (Norwalk)
*Joanne Woodward (Westport)
*Spec Shea (Naugatuck)
*Ian Ziering (Orange)

Athletes

*Brian Dayett (New London)
*James Blake (Fairfield)
*Scott Burrell (Hamden)
*Marcus Camby (Hartford)
*Walter Camp (New Britain)
* Chris Clark (Manchester)
*Jaidon Codrington (Bridgeport)
*Chris Drury (Trumbull)
*Dwight Freeney (Bloomfield)
*Ryan Gomes (Waterbury)
*Anttaj Hawthorne (Hamden)
*JJ Henry (Fairfield)
*Bruce Jenner (Newtown)
*Jay Johnstone (Manchester)
*Tebucky Jones (New Britain)
*Kristine Lilly (Wilton)
*Joey Logano (Middletown)
*Rick Mahorn (Hartford)
*Calvin Murphy (Norwalk)
*Jerry Nadeau (Danbury)
*Willie Pep (Middletown)
*Jimmy Piersall (Waterbury)
*Randy Rasmussen (Wilton)
*Andy Robustelli (Stamford)
*Bill Romanowski (Vernon)
*Scott Sharp (Norwalk)
*Jim Shea, Jr. (West Hartford)
*Jeff Simmons (Hartford)
*Mike Tyson (Farmington)
*Bobby Valentine (Stamford)
*Mo Vaughn (Norwalk)
*Steve Young (Greenwich)

Authors, artists & biographers

*Joel Barlow (Redding)
*A. Scott Berg (Norwalk)
*Joseph Payne Brennan (Bridgeport and New Haven)
*William F. Buckley, Jr. (New York City and Stamford)
*Candace Bushnell (Glastonbury)
*Al Capp (New Haven)
*Echo Chernik (Ellington)
*Suzanne Collins
*John Gregory Dunne (Hartford)
*Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Hartford)
*John Frederick Kensett (Cheshire)
*Charles H. Kraft
*Ira Levin (Wilton)
*Sol Lewitt (Hartford)
*Arthur Miller (Roxbury)
*Emily Cheney Neville (Manchester)
*Kenneth Pike (Woodstock)
*Charles Ethan Porter (Hartford)
*E. Annie Proulx (Norwich)
*Philip Roth (Warren)
*Armstrong Sperry (Stamford, New Canaan, and New Haven)
*Harriet Beecher Stowe (Litchfield)
*Dr. Benjamin Spock (New Haven)
*Arthur Szyk (New Canaan)
*Alton Tobey (Middletown)
*Mark Twain (Hartford and Redding)
*Noah Webster (present-day West Hartford)

Business people & inventors

*Jefferson F Allen (Westport)
*Moses Austin (Durham)
*P.T. Barnum (Bethel)
*Henry Alfred Bishop (Bridgeport)
*David Bushnell (Saybrook)
*Samuel Colt (Hartford)
*Ray Dalio (Greenwich/Westport
*Bern Dibner (Wilton)
*John Fitch (Hartford County)
*Josiah Willard Gibbs (New Haven)
*Charles Goodyear (New Haven)
*James J. Greco (Cheshire)
*Collis Potter Huntington (Harwinton)
*Jeffrey R. Immelt (New Canaan)
*Mary Dixon Kies (South Killingly)
*J. P. Morgan (Hartford)
*Victor Niederhoffer (Weston)
*Frederick Law Olmsted (Hartford)
*Joseph Earl Sheffield (Southport)
*Igor Sikorsky (Stratford)
*Alfred P. Sloan (New Haven)
*Christopher Spencer (Manchester)
*Martha Stewart (Westport)
*Nathaniel Wheeler (Bridgeport)
*Eli Whitney (New Haven)
*Robert Charles Wright (Southport)
*Eli Terry (East Windsor)
*Dana White (Manchester)
*Oliver Fisher Winchester (New Haven)

Journalists & commentators

*Chris Berman (Greenwich and Cheshire)
*Ann Coulter (New Canaan)
*Laura Ingraham (Glastonbury)
*Kenny Mayne (Bethel)
*Dan Patrick (Milford)
*Andy Rooney (Norwalk)
*Joan Rivers (New Preston)

Military figures

*Ethan Allen (Litchfield)
*Benedict Arnold (Norwich)
*John Brown (Torrington)
*Daniel C. Burbank (Manchester)
*John Butler (New London)
*Nathan Hale (Coventry)
*David Humphreys (Derby)
*John Trumbull (Lebanon)
*James Wadsworth (Durham)

Musicians

*50 Cent (Farmington)
*Mark Berman (New Haven)
*Michael Bolton (New Haven)
*Dave Brubeck (Wilton)
*Karen Carpenter (New Haven)
*Richard Carpenter (New Haven)
*Cassie (New London)
*Chris Carrabba (Hartford)
*Rivers Cuomo (Storrs)
*Julia DeMato (Brookfield)
*Jose Feliciano (Westport)
*Charles Edward Ives (Danbury)
*John Mayer (Fairfield)
*Syesha Mercado (Bridgeport)
*Mark McGrath (Hartford)
*Moby (Darien)
*Thurston Moore (Bethel)
*Liz Phair (New Haven)
*Gene Pitney (Hartford)
*Dawn Robinson (New London)
*Nile Rodgers (Westport)
*Emily Saliers (New Haven)
*John Scofield (Wilton)
*Steve Stevens (Hartford)

Politicians & statesmen

*Dean Acheson (Middletown)
*Roger Sherman Baldwin (New Haven)
*George W. Bush (New Haven)
*Orlow W. Chapman (Ellington)
*Joe Courtney (Hartford)
*Rosa DeLauro (New Haven)
*Christopher Dodd (Willimantic)
*Anna Eshoo (New Britain)
*Porter J. Goss (Waterbury)
*Ella T. Grasso (Windsor Locks)
*Galusha A. Grow (Ashford)
*Samuel Huntingon (Windham)
*John Larson (East Hartford)
*Joe Lieberman (Stamford)
*Ralph Nader (Winsted)
*Frederick Walker Pitkin (Manchester)
*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)

Religious and spiritual figures

*Aaron Burr, Sr. (Fairfield)
*Dave Considine (West Haven)
*Jonathan Edwards (East Windsor)
*Kenneth Pike (Woodstock)
*Henry Weston Smith (Ellington)
*Ed & Lorraine Warren (Monroe)Fact|date=June 2007
*John Zaffis (Stratford)

ee also

*List of people from Bridgeport, Connecticut
*List of people from Darien, Connecticut
*List of people from Greenwich, Connecticut
*List of people from Hartford, 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