List of people from Hartford, Connecticut

List of people from Hartford, Connecticut

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

*Linda Evans, (b. 1942) actress of Dynasty fame was born in Hartford.

*Eriq La Salle, (b. 1962), of the television show "ER" was born and raised in Hartford.

*Katharine Hepburn, (1907–2003), 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.

*Charles Nelson Reilly, (1931-2007), actor.

Others in the arts and entertainment industry

*Amy Brenneman, (b. 1964), grew up in Glastonbury. She adapted the experiences of her mother, a Connecticut Superior Court judge in Hartford, into the television series "Judging Amy".

*Kurt Carr, gospel music composer and performer

*Ann Corio, (1914–1999), burlesque star, was from Hartford.

*Fates Warning, progressive metal band formed in 1982.

*Totie Fields, (1930–1978), comedian, born and raised in Hartford.

*Barbara Kolb, (b. 1939), composer

*Norman Lear, (b. 1922), renowned television producer, went to Weaver High School in Hartford.

*Mark McGrath, (b. 1968), lead singer of Sugar Ray was born in Hartford.

*Jackie McLean, (1931-2006), jazz alto saxophonist and educator [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")]

*Jeff Porcaro, (1954–1992), Steve Porcaro, (b. 1957), Mike Porcaro of the rock band Toto were born in Hartford. Lived early years in South Windsor before moving to Los Angeles. Father Joe Porcaro is well known as a session and drum instructor.

*Phil Tonken (1919-2000), longtime staff announcer at New York station WOR-AM-TV, was born in Hartford.

*Sophie Tucker, (1884–1966), "last of the red-hot mamas," singer and comedienne, was born and raised in Hartford.

*Stephanie McMahon, daughter of the Owner of Wwe.

*Wavy Gravy, Hippie went to Hall High School.

Authors, writers

*Oliver Butterworth, (1915–1990), children's author and educator.

*Dominick Dunne (b. 1925) and John Gregory Dunne, (1932-2003), famous writers, were born in Hartford and grew up in West Hartford.

*Jim Murray, (1919–1998), longtime sports columnist of the Los Angeles Times was born and raised in Hartford.

*Wallace Stevens, (1879–1955), the poet, was an insurance executive in Hartford.

*Harriet Beecher Stowe, (1811–1896), 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), moved to Hartford in 1874 and lived in Hartford 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".

*William Gillette (1853-1937), actor, stage-write, and Director. Famous for playing Sherlock Holmes

Government and politics

*Parmenio Adams, (1776–1832), United States Congressman, was born in Hartfordcite book | title = Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896 | publisher = Marquis Who's Who | location = Chicago | date = 1963] .
*L. Paul Bremer, (b. 1941), ex-Administrator of US-occupied Iraq and foreign service officer.
*Thomas Hooker, founder of Connecticut

ports

*Marcus Camby, (b. 1974), NBA player

*Johnny Egan, (b. 1939) NBA player

*Michael Adams, (b. 1963) NBA player

*Rick Mahorn, (b. 1958) NBA player

*Eugene Robinson, (b. 1963) NFL player

*Eric Mangini, (b. 1971) Head Coach, NY Jets

*John Carney, (b. 1964) NFL placekicker

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.

*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), the architect, lived in Hartford until his death. He 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), American financier, industrialist and savior of the 1907 panic.

*Frederick Law Olmsted, (1822–1903), the 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.

*Alfred Terry, (1827-1890), Union army general.

*Cornelius J. Vanderbilt (1830–1882) disowned son of The Commodore, Cornelius Vanderbilt, died shortly after completing his estate (demolished) at West Hill (now part of West Hartford).

*Theodore Wirth (1863–1949) Horticulturalist and park planner

*Samuel Colt (1814-1862) Inventor

ee 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

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/ Internet Movie DataBase]


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