# List of people from Connecticut

The following is a list of notable people who were born, raised, or a resident of the U.S. state of Connecticut, with place of birth or residence when known.

## Actors, producers, and directors

* Christopher Abbott (Greenwich)
* Bruce Altman (New Haven)
* Lauren Ambrose (New Haven)
* Tony Amendola (New Haven)
* Brad Anderson (Madison)
* John Ashton (Enfield)
* William Atherton (Orange)
* Valerie Azlynn (New London)
* Kevin Bacon (Sharon)
* Roger Bart (Norwalk)
* David Alan Basche (Hartford)
* Ryan Michelle Bathe (Stamford)
* Anne Baxter (Easton)
* Graham Beckel (Old Lyme)
* Ed Begley (Hartford)
* Richard Belzer (Bridgeport)
* Polly Bergen (Southbury)
* John Billingsley (Weston)
* Michael Ian Black (Redding)
* Linda Blair (Westport)
* Roberts Blossom (New Haven)
* Ernest Borgnine (Hamden)
* Kate Bosworth (Darien)
* Jesse Bradford (Norwalk)
* Jonathan Brandis (Danbury)
* Alexandra Breckenridge (Darien)
* Amy Brenneman (Glastonbury)
* Brooke Brodack (Putnam)
* Chris Bruno (Milford)
* Dylan Bruno (Milford)
* Gary Burghoff (Bristol)
* Brooke Burke (Hartford)
* John Byrum (Redding)
* Mary Cadorette (East Hartford)
* Mike Cahill (New Haven)
* David Canary (Wilton)
* Katherine Cannon (Hartford)
* Art Carney (Westbrook)
* D. J. Caruso (Norwalk)
* Adriana Caselotti (Bridgeport)
* Marilyn Chambers (Westport)
* Joe Cipriano (Oakville)
* Spencer Treat Clark (Darien)
* Glenn Close (Greenwich)
* Martha Coolidge (New Haven)
* Daniel Cosgrove (New Haven)
* D.J. Cotrona (Wallingford)
* Bob Crane (Waterbury)
* Jane Curtin (Sharon)
* Dan Curtis (Bridgeport)
* Paul Dano (Wilton)
* Jules Dassin (Middletown)
* Jeff Davis (Milford)
* Dana Delany (Stamford)
* Brian Dennehy (Bridgeport)
* Jenna Dewan (Hartford)
* George DiCenzo (New Haven)
* Allie DiMeco (Waterbury)
* Troy Duffy (Hartford)
* Charles H. Eglee (New Haven)
* Jill Eikenberry (New Haven)
* Abby Elliott (Wilton)
* Linda Evans (Hartford)
* Mark Famiglietti (Clinton)
* Michael J. Fox (Sharon)
* Kevin Foxe (Enfield)
* Will Friedle (Hartford)
* Paul Fusco (New Haven)
* Catherine Gardner (Waterbury)
* Marcus Giamatti (New Haven)
* Paul Giamatti (New Haven)
* Cynthia Gibb (Westport)
* William Gillette (Hartford)
* Grant Goodeve (Middlebury)
* Topher Grace (Darien)
* David Marshall Grant (Westport)
* Luke Greenfield (Westport)
* Shelley Hack (Greenwich)
* June Havoc (Wilton)
* Sterling Hayden (Wilton)
* Glenne Headly (New London)
* Jessica Hecht (Bloomfield)
* Kevin Heffernan (West Haven)
* Katherine Heigl (New Canaan)
* Lillian Hellman (New Milford)
* Katharine Hepburn (Hartford)
* Linda Hunt (Westport)
* Allison Janney (Lakeville)
* Arline Judge (Bridgeport)
* Adam Kaufman (New Canaan)
* Elia Kazan (Newtown)
* Lisa Robin Kelly (Southington)
* Ted Knight (Terryville)
* David LaChapelle (Fairfield)
* Lisa Lampanelli (Trumbull)
* Hope Lange (Redding)
* Eriq La Salle (Hartford)
* Matt Lauer (Greenwich)
* Adam LaVorgna (North Branford)
* Norman Lear (New Haven)
* Denis Leary (Roxbury)
* David Letterman (New Canaan)
* Barry Levinson (Redding)
* Paul Lieberstein (Westport)
* Mark Linn-Baker (Wethersfield)
* Christopher Lloyd (Stamford)
* Michelle Lombardo (Glastonbury)
* Justin Long (Fairfield)
* Billy Lush (New Haven)
* Seth MacFarlane (Kent)
* Fredric March (New Milford)
* Pamela Sue Martin (Westport)
* Dylan McDermott (Waterbury)
* Biff McGuire (New Haven)
* Stephanie McMahon (Weston)
* Jesse Metcalfe (New London)
* Steve Miner (Westport)
* Robert Mitchum (Bridgeport)
* Gretchen Mol (Deep River)
* Marilyn Monroe (Weston and Roxbury)
* Sheri Moon (Plainville)
* Jonathan Mostow (Woodbridge)
* Michael G. Moye (New Haven)
* Marty Munsch (Greenwich)
* George Murphy (New Haven)
* Ellen Muth (Milford)
* David Naughton (Hartford)
* James Naughton (Middletown)
* Kevin Nealon (Bridgeport)
* Paul Newman (Westport)
* Becki Newton (New Haven)
* Tom Noonan (Greenwich)
* Fred Norris (Willimantic)
* Nolan North (New Haven)
* Ron Palillo (Cheshire)
* Joe Pantoliano (Wilton)
* Don Pardo (Norwich)
* Dean Parisot (Wilton)
* Paul Perri (New Haven)
* Bijou Phillips (Greenwich)
* Jacob Pitts (Weston)
* Tracy Pollan (Sharon)
* Anthony Tyler Quinn (New London)
* John Ratzenberger (Bridgeport)
* Evan Rogers (Mansfield)
* Christy Carlson Romano (Milford)
* Anika Noni Rose (Bloomfield)
* Sherrie Rose (Hartford)
* Matt Ross (Greenwich)
* Rosalind Russell (Waterbury)
* Meg Ryan (Bethel and Fairfield)
* Peter Sarsgaard (Fairfield)
* Michael Schur (West Hartford)
* Annabella Sciorra (Wethersfield)
* Kyra Sedgwick (Sharon)
* Chloë Sevigny (Darien)
* Louise Shaffer (Woodbridge)
* Spec Shea (Naugatuck)
* Micah Sloat (Westport)
* Patricia Smith (New Haven)
* Bill Smitrovich (Bridgeport)
* Zack Snyder (Greenwich)
* Raymond St. Jacques (Hartford)
* David H. Steinberg (West Hartford)
* Austin Stowell (Kensington)
* Tara Subkoff (Westport)
* Ed Sullivan (Southbury)
* Larry Sullivan (New Haven)
* Pawel Szajda (Farmington)
* Lee Tergesen (Ivoryton)
* Mark Tinker (Stamford)
* Tony Todd (Hartford)
* Jim True-Frost (Greenwich)
* Tom Tryon (Hartford)
* Raviv Ullman (Fairfield)
* James Van Der Beek (Cheshire)
* Gus Van Sant (Darien)
* Diane Venora (East Hartford)
* Jenna von Oÿ (Stamford)
* Wende Wagner (New London)
* Christopher Walken (Wilton)
* Tonja Walker (Easton)
* Deborah Walley (Bridgeport)
* Sam Waterston (Sharon)
* Michael Weatherly (Fairfield)
* Bruce Weitz (Norwalk)
* Titus Welliver (New Haven)
* Michael Jai White (Bridgeport) and (New Haven)
* Treat Williams (Norwalk)
* Fay Wolf (Fairfield)
* Joanne Woodward (Westport)
* Kari Wührer (Brookfield)
* Madeline Zima (New Haven)

## Athletes

* Brad Ausmus (Cheshire)
* John Bagley (Bridgeport)
* Jeff Bagwell (Killingworth)
* Chris Baker (Windsor)
* Vin Baker (Old Saybrook)
* Matt Barnes (Bethel)
* Semyon Belits-Geiman (Stamford)
* Keith Bennett, American-Israeli basketball player (Stamford)
* James Blake (Fairfield)
* Steve Blass (Canaan)
* Andy Bloom (Stamford)
* Nick Bonino (Farmington)
* Craig Breslow (New Haven)
* Scott Burrell (Hamden)
* Donn Cabral (Glastonbury)
* Marcus Camby (South Windsor)
* Walter Camp (New Britain)
* Dave Campo (Groton)
* Howard Cann (Bridgeport)
* Jack Capuano (Kent)
* Jesse Carlson (New Britain)
* Julie Chu (Fairfield)
* Aaron Civale (East Windsor)
* Chris Clark (South Windsor)
* Jaidon Codrington (Bridgeport)
* Roger Connor (Waterbury)
* Marcus Cooper (Bloomfield)
* Brock Coyle (Norwalk)
* Carmen Cozza (Orange)
* Dan Cramer (Stamford)
* Tommy Cross (Simsbury)
* Jerome Cunningham (Waterbury)
* Rajai Davis (Norwich)
* Chad Dawson (New Haven)
* Brian Dayett (New London)
* Ryan Delaire (Bloomfield)
* Chris Denorfia (Bristol)
* John DiBartolomeo (Westport)
* Rob Dibble (Southington)
* Walt Dropo (Moosup)
* Andre Drummond (Middletown)
* Chris Drury (Trumbull)
* Ted Drury (Trumbull)
* Vladimir Ducasse (Stamford)
* Marcus Easley (Bridgeport)
* David Efianayi (Manchester)
* Johnny Egan (Hartford)
* Dwight Freeney (Bloomfield)
* Kevin Gilbride (New Haven)
* Mike Gminski (Monroe)
* Ryan Gomes (Waterbury)
* Jesse Hahn (Norwich)
* Ron Hainsey (Bolton)
* Dorothy Hamill (Greenwich)
* Matt Harvey (Groton)
* Anttaj Hawthorne (Hamden)
* Doug Henry (Torrington)
* J. J. Henry (Fairfield)
* Aaron Hernandez (Bristol)
* Jared Hughes (Stamford)
* John Jenkins (Meriden)
* Caitlyn Jenner (Newtown)
* Jay Johnstone (Manchester)
* Byron Jones (New Britain)
* Tebucky Jones (New Britain)
* Tyrique Jones
* Joan Joyce (Waterbury)
* Terrance Knighton (Hartford)
* Paul Konerko (Norwich)
* Niko Koutouvides (Plainville)
* Brian Leetch (Cheshire)
* Ivan Lendl (Goshen)
* Dominic Leone (Norwich)
* Kristine Lilly (Wilton)
* Floyd Little (New Haven)
* Rebecca Lobo (Hartford)
* Joey Logano (Middletown)
* Cliff Louis (Stamford)
* Rick Mahorn (Hartford)
* Wes Matthews (Bridgeport)
* Dick McAuliffe (Farmington)
* John McDonald (New London)
* Mike McGuirl (Hartford, CT)
* Paul Menhart (Mystic)
* Johnny Moore (Waterbury)
* George morris, equestrian(New York City, New Canaan)
* Charlie Morton (Redding)
* Calvin Murphy (Norwalk)
* Phil Murphy (New London)
* Jerry Nadeau (Danbury)
* Charles Nagy (Fairfield)
* Nick Newell (Milford)
* Mary Anne O'Connor (Fairfield)
* Lamar Odom (New Britain)
* Mike Olt (Branford)
* Dan Orlovsky (Shelton)
* Jim O'Rourke (Bridgeport)
* Max Pacioretty (New Canaan)
* Paul Pasqualoni (Cheshire)
* Carl Pavano (Southington)
* Eli Pemberton
* Willie Pep (Middletown)
* Jimmy Piersall (Waterbury)
* Nick Pietrosante (Derby)
* A. J. Pollock (Hebron)
* Ryan Preece (Berlin)
* Jonathan Quick (Milford)
* Randy Rasmussen (Wilton)
* David Reed (New Britain)
* Jordan Reed (New Britain)
* Charlie Reiter (Westport)
* Jamey Richard (Weston)
* Andy Robustelli (Stamford)
* Bill Rodgers (athlete) (Hartford)
* Bill Romanowski (Vernon)
* Maxie Rosenbloom (Leonard Bridge)
* Bob Schaefer (Putnam)
* Evan Scribner (New Milford)
* Julius Seligson (Westport)
* Dan Shannon (Bridgeport)
* Scott Sharp (Norwalk)
* Jimmy Shea (West Hartford)
* Jeff Simmons (Hartford)
* Dan Sileo (Stamford)
* Bob Skoronski (Ansonia)
* Charles Smith (Bridgeport)
* Chris Smith (Bridgeport)
* Kieran Smith (Ridgefield)
* Will Solomon, basketball player (Hartford)
* Tony Sparano (West Haven)
* Jack Spellman (Middletown)
* Amari Spievey (Middletown)
* George Springer (New Britain)
* Ken Strong (West Haven)
* John Sullivan (Greenwich)
* Glover Teixeira (Danbury)
* Tim Teufel (Greenwich)
* Tom Thibodeau (New Britain)
* Donald Thomas (New Haven)
* Marcus Tracy (Newtown)
* Triple H (Weston)
* Dick Tuckey (Naugatuck)
* Will Tye (Middletown)
* Bobby Valentine (Stamford)
* Stephen Valiquette (Orange)
* Mo Vaughn (Norwalk)
* Dave Wallace (Waterbury)
* Björn Werner (Salisbury)
* Jordan Williams (Torrington)
* Ron Wotus (Hartford)
* Steve Young (Greenwich)
* Josh Zeid (New Haven)

## Authors, artists, and educators

* Christopher Andersen (Washington)
* Jacob M. Appel (Branford)
* Harriet Pritchard Arnold (Killingly)
* Rosecrans Baldwin (Darien)
* Edward C. Banfield (Bloomfield)
* Joel Barlow (Redding)
* Dan Beard (Redding)
* A. Scott Berg (Norwalk)
* Mary C. Billings (Litchfield)
* Joseph Payne Brennan (Bridgeport and New Haven)
* Thom Brooks (Guilford)
* Emily S. Bouton (New Canaan)
* William F. Buckley Jr. (New York City and Stamford)
* Candace Bushnell (Glastonbury)
* Guido Calabresi (New Haven)
* Al Capp (New Haven)
* Marietta Stanley Case (Thompson)
* Frances Manwaring Caulkins (New London)
* Noah Charney (New Haven)
* Lincoln Child (Westport)
* Emma Shaw Colcleugh (Thompson)
* Christopher Collier (Orange)
* Suzanne Collins (Hartford and Newtown)
* Kate Cordsen (Essex)
* Nathan Daboll (Groton)
* Mary Ann H. Dodd (Hartford)
* Clay Dreslough (Ashford)
* John Gregory Dunne (Hartford)
* Addie C. Strong Engle (Manchester)
* Eleanor Estes (West Haven)
* Mallory Factor (Bridgeport)
* Howard Fast (Redding)
* Harriet Ford (Seymour)
* Edward Miner Gallaudet (Hartford)
* Elizabeth Gilbert (Waterbury)
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Hartford)
* Daniel Coit Gilman (Norwich)
* Thyrza Nichols Goodeve (Middlebury)
* Hanna Holborn Gray (New Haven)
* Kate E. Griswold (West Hartford)
* Anna Huntington (Bethel)
* Chauncey Ives (Hamden)
* Klaus Janson (Bridgeport)
* Deane Keller (New Haven)
* John Frederick Kensett (Cheshire)
* Charles H. Kraft (Waterbury)
* Larry Kramer (Bridgeport)
* Madeleine L'Engle (Goshen)
* Loosey LaDuca (Ansonia)
* Wally Lamb (Mansfield)
* Annie Leibovitz (Waterbury)
* Robert Ludlum (Southport)
* Ira Levin (Wilton)
* Sol LeWitt (Hartford)
* Frank Luntz (West Hartford)
* Elizabeth Eunice Smith Marcy (East Hampton)
* E. Louisa Mather (East Haddam)
* Jay McInerney (Hartford)
* Eric Metaxas (Danbury)
* Stephenie Meyer (Hartford)
* Arthur Miller (Roxbury)
* Emily Cheney Neville (Manchester)
* Flannery O'Connor (Redding)
* John Pekkanen (Lyme)
* Derek Pell (Weston)
* Jacques Pepin (Madison)
* Sarah Phillips (Wilton)
* Kenneth Pike (Woodstock)
* Charles Ethan Porter (Hartford)
* Delia Lyman Porter (New Haven)
* Frederick Pratson (Hartford)
* Annie Proulx (Norwich)
* Luanne Rice (New Britain)
* Mary A. Ripley (Windham)
* Bill Roorbach (New Canaan)
* Christopher Ross (Westport)
* Philip Roth (Warren)
* Acharya S (Avon)
* Vincent Scully (New Haven)
* George Selden (Hartford)
* Richard Selzer (North Branford)
* Maurice Sendak (Ridgefield)
* Mark Shasha (New London)
* Lurana W. Sheldon (Hadlyme)
* Lydia Sigourney (Hartford)
* T. O'Conor Sloane Jr. (Westport)
* T. O'Conor Sloane III (Westport)
* Dorothy Hope Smith (Westport)
* Sarah Lanman Smith (Norwich)
* Victoria Leigh Soto (Bridgeport)
* Armstrong Sperry (Stamford, New Canaan, and New Haven)
* Benjamin Spock (New Haven)
* Edward Steichen (Redding)
* Wallace Stevens (Hartford)
* Lavinia Stoddard (Guilford)
* Roger Stone (Norwalk)
* Harriet Beecher Stowe (Litchfield)
* Arthur Szyk (New Canaan)
* Sarah Katherine Taylor (Danielsonville)
* Laura M. Thurston (Norfolk)
* Alton Tobey (Middletown)
* Ada Josephine Todd (Redding)
* Sergio Troncoso (Kent)
* Garry Trudeau (Branford)
* Louisa Caroline Tuthill (New Haven)
* Mark Twain (Hartford and Redding)
* Mary E. Van Lennep (Hartford)
* Ocean Vuong (Hartford)
* Edward Lewis Wallant (New Haven)
* Noah Webster (West Hartford parish, presently West Hartford)
* J. Alden Weir (Ridgefield)
* Abigail Goodrich Whittelsey (Ridgefield)
* Walter Wick (Hartford)

## Business people, scientists, and inventors

* George Akerlof (New Haven)
* Moses Austin (Durham)
* Edward C. Banfield (Bloomfield)
* P.T. Barnum (Bethel and Bridgeport)
* William Beaumont (Lebanon)
* John Bello (Plainville)
* Henry Alfred Bishop (Bridgeport)
* Cornelius Scranton Bushnell (Madison)
* David Bushnell (Saybrook)
* Vint Cerf (New Haven)
* Wesley A. Clark (New Haven)
* Kenton Clarke (Fairfield)
* Jared Cohen (Weston)
* Samuel Colt (Hartford)
* Carol Lynn Curchoe (Manchester)
* Ray Dalio (Greenwich/Westport)
* Bern Dibner (Wilton)
* Robert Epstein (Hartford)
* James Farrell (New Haven)
* John Fitch (Hartford County)
* Anselm Franz (Stratford)
* Josiah Willard Gibbs (New Haven)
* Alfred G. Gilman (New Haven)
* Charles Goodyear (New Haven)
* James J. Greco (Hamden)
* Robert N. Hall (New Haven)
* Louis Harris (New Haven)
* Arthur William Haydon (Waterbury)
* Allan Hobson (Hartford)
* Harvey Hubbell (Bridgeport)
* Collis Potter Huntington (Harwinton)
* James M. Hyde (Mystic Bridge)
* Jeffrey R. Immelt (New Canaan)
* Bradley S. Jacobs (Greenwich)
* Betsey Johnson (Wethersfield)
* Alfred Winslow Jones (Redding)
* Edward Calvin Kendall (South Norwalk)
* Mary Dixon Kies (South Killingly)
* George E. Kimball (New Britain)
* Stephen Cole Kleene (Hartford)
* Edwin H. Land (Bridgeport)
* Henry Lee (Orange)
* Albert L. Lehninger (Bridgeport)
* Allen Cleveland Lewis (Sterling)
* Alvin Liberman (Mansfield)
* Saunders Mac Lane (Taftville)
* John C. Malone (Milford)
* John Martin (Old Lyme)
* Barbara McClintock (Hartford)
* Stephanie McMahon (Hartford)
* Sean McManus (Fairfield)
* Daniel J. Mitchell (Wilton)
* Samuel Augustus Mitchell (Bristol)
* Samuel Morey (Hebron)
* J. P. Morgan (Hartford)
* Roy Neuberger (Bridgeport)
* Victor Niederhoffer (Weston)
* Frederick Law Olmsted (Hartford)
* Ken Olsen (Stratford)
* Eliphalet Remington (Suffield)
* Stephen S. Roach (New Canaan)
* Peter Schiff (New Haven)
* Joseph Earl Sheffield (Southport)
* Igor Sikorsky (Stratford, Trumbull and Easton)
* Benjamin Silliman (Trumbull and New Haven)
* Chip Skowron, (Greenwich)
* Alfred P. Sloan (New Haven)
* George Smith (Norwalk)
* Christopher Spencer (Manchester)
* Roger Wolcott Sperry (Hartford)
* Frank J. Sprague (Milford)
* Frederick Stanley (New Britain)
* John William Sterling (Stratford)
* Martha Stewart (Westport)
* Francis Sumner (Pomfret)
* Eli Terry (East Windsor)
* Seth Thomas (Wolcott)
* Whitney Tilson
* John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (Middletown)
* William H. Welch (Norfolk)
* Warren L. Wheaton (Pomfret)
* Nathaniel Wheeler (Bridgeport)
* Dana White (Manchester)
* Gustave Whitehead (Bridgeport)
* Eli Whitney (New Haven)
* Oliver Fisher Winchester (New Haven)
* Arthur Williams Wright (Lebanon)
* Robert Charles Wright (Southport)
* Steve Wynn (New Haven)

## Journalists and commentators

* Joseph Alsop (Avon)
* Stewart Alsop (Avon)
* Julie Banderas (Hartford)
* Wayne Barrett (New Britain)
* Chris Berman (Greenwich and Cheshire)
* Thom Brooks (Guilford)
* Chris Cillizza (Marlborough)
* Rita Cosby (Greenwich)
* Ann Coulter (New Canaan)
* Ross Douthat (New Haven)
* Charles Dow (Sterling)
* Dick Ebersol (Torrington)
* Kelly Evans (Hartford)
* Frank Fixaris (Torrington)
* Brendan Gill (Hartford)
* Linda Greenhouse (Hamden)
* Burton J. Hendrick (New Haven)
* Don Imus (Westport)
* Laura Ingraham (Glastonbury)
* Larry Kudlow (Redding)
* Kenny Mayne (Bethel)
* Leigh Montville (New Haven)
* Dick Morris (Redding)
* Tim Murnane (Naugatuck)
* Candace Owens (Stamford)
* Dan Patrick (Milford)
* Steve Phillips (Wilton)
* Molly Qerim (New Haven)
* Lonnie Quinn (Cheshire)
* Joan Rivers (New Milford)
* Andy Rooney (Norwalk)
* David Sirota (New Haven)
* James Surowiecki (Meriden)
* Ida Tarbell (Easton)
* Sabrina Tavernise (Hartford)
* Liz Trotta (New Haven)
* Trey Wingo (Greenwich)
* Sid Yudain (New Canaan)

## Military figures

* Ethan Allen (Litchfield)
* Benedict Arnold (Norwich)
* Daniel Bissell (East Windsor)
* John Brown (Torrington)
* Thomas L. Brown II (Danbury)
* Daniel C. Burbank (Manchester)
* John Butler (New London)
* Tedford H. Cann (Bridgeport)
* Benjamin Delahauf Foulois (Washington)
* Walter S. Gorka (Windsor Locks)
* Nathan Hale (Coventry)
* David Hawley (Bridgeport)
* Isaac Hull (Derby)
* David Humphreys (Derby)
* Raymond Jacobs (Bridgeport)
* Everett F. Larson (Stamford)
* Ezra Lee (Lyme)
* John Levitow (Hartford)
* Henry A. Mucci (Bridgeport)
* Robert J. Papp Jr. (Norwich)
* Samuel Holden Parsons (Lyme)
* Israel Putnam (Brooklyn)
* Gold Selleck Silliman (Fairfield)
* Robert Stethem (Waterbury)
* Benjamin Tallmadge (Litchfield)
* John Trumbull (Lebanon)
* James Wadsworth (Durham)
* Philip C. Wehle (Westport)
* Irving Wiltsie (Hartford)
* David Wooster (Stratford)

## Musicians, singers, and composers

* Marian Anderson (Danbury)
* Apathy (rapper) (Willimantic)
* Timothy Archambault (Willimantic)
* Veronica Ballestrini (Waterford)
* Mark Berman (New Haven)
* Kath Bloom (New Haven)
* Michael Bolton (New Haven)
* Dave Brubeck (Wilton)
* Igor Buketoff (Hartford)
* Gary Burr (Meriden)
* Ray Cappo (Danbury)
* Karen Carpenter (New Haven)
* Richard Carpenter (New Haven)
* Chris Carrabba (West Hartford)
* Javier Colon (Stratford)
* Rivers Cuomo (Storrs)
* Julia DeMato (Brookfield)
* Dirt E. Dutch (Danbury)
* José Feliciano (Westport)
* Joe Flood (Portland)
* Nick Fradiani (Guilford)
* Chris Frantz (Fairfield)
* Sawyer Fredericks (Newtown)
* Stan Freeman (Waterbury)
* Daryl Hall (Redding)
* Hatebreed (Bridgeport)
* Jascha Heifetz (Redding)
* Grayson Hugh (Danbury)
* Charles Ives (Danbury)
* Bernard Jackson (Stamford)
* Ben Kopec (Derby)
* Meat Loaf (Redding)
* John Mayer (Fairfield)
* Peter McCann (Bridgeport)
* Mark McGrath (Hartford)
* Dom McLennon (Hartford)
* Brad Mehldau (West Hartford)
* Syesha Mercado (Bridgeport)
* Moby (Darien)
* Jimmy Monaghan (Danbury)
* Thurston Moore (Bethel)
* Alfred Newman (New Haven)
* Liz Phair (New Haven)
* Gene Pitney (Hartford)
* Keith Richards (Weston)
* Dawn Robinson (New London)
* Nile Rodgers (Westport)
* Diana Ross (Greenwich)
* Emily Saliers (New Haven)
* John Scofield (Wilton)
* Horace Silver (Norwalk)
* Ronnie Spector (Brookfield)
* Steve Stevens (Hartford)
* Seth Swirsky (New Haven)
* Mary Travers (Redding)
* Carter Vail (Wilton)
* Cassie Ventura (New London)
* Franco Ventriglia (Fairfield)
* Vinnie Vincent (Bridgeport)
* Chris Webby (Norwalk)
* Robert Wendel (Bridgeport)
* Tina Weymouth (Fairfield)
* Brian Yale (Orange)

## Politicians and statesmen

* Dean Acheson (Middletown)
* Solomon Flagg Alderman (East Granby)
* Abraham Baldwin (Guilford)
* Roger Sherman Baldwin (New Haven)
* Ebenezer Bassett (Derby)
* Donald Berwick (Moodus)
* Cofer Black (Stamford)
* George H. W. Bush (Greenwich)
* George W. Bush (New Haven)
* Prescott Bush (Greenwich)
* Elinor Carbone (Torrington)
* Orlow W. Chapman (Ellington)
* Ezra Clark Jr. (Hartford)
* Anthony Comstock (New Canaan)
* Joe Courtney (Hartford)
* Silas Deane (Groton)
* Robert E. De Forest (Bridgeport)
* Walter Forward (East Granby)
* Rosa DeLauro (New Haven)
* Christopher Dodd (Willimantic)
* Peter H. Dominick (Stamford)
* Oliver Ellsworth (Windsor)
* Anna Eshoo (New Britain)
* John Fabrizi (Bridgeport)
* Gary Franks (Waterbury)
* Porter J. Goss (Waterbury)
* Ella T. Grasso (Windsor Locks)
* Galusha A. Grow (Ashford)
* Lyman Hall (Wallingford)
* Hope Hicks (Greenwich)
* Titus Hosmer (Middletown)
* Samuel Huntington (Windham)
* Robert A. Hurley (Bridgeport)
* William Samuel Johnson (Stratford)
* Ethel Skakel Kennedy (Greenwich)
* Henry Kissinger (Kent)
* John Larson (East Hartford)
* Scooter Libby (New Haven)
* Joe Lieberman (Stamford)
* Clare Boothe Luce (Ridgefield)
* Dannel Malloy (Stamford)
* Robert Moses (New Haven)
* Constance Motley (New Haven)
* Ralph Nader (Winsted)
* Frederick Walker Pitkin (Manchester)
* Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (New Haven)
* Abraham A. Ribicoff (New Britain)
* Pete Rouse (New Haven)
* John G. Rowland (Waterbury)
* Christopher Shays (Bridgeport)
* Roger Sherman (New Haven and New Milford)
* Samuel Simons (Bridgeport)
* Joseph Spencer (East Haddam)
* Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (Greenwich)
* Jonathan Trumbull (Lebanon)
* Jonathan Trumbull Jr. (Lebanon)
* Lyman Trumbull (Colchester)
* Donald Verrilli Jr. (Wilton)
* Morrison Waite (Lyme)
* Mark Warner (Vernon)
* Gideon Welles (Glastonbury)
* William Williams (Lebanon)
* Oliver Wolcott (Windsor)
* Oliver Wolcott Jr. (Litchfield)
* Richard Woodbury (New Haven)

## Religious and spiritual figures

* Ebenezer Baldwin (Norwich)
* Henry Ward Beecher (Litchfield)
* Lyman Beecher (New Haven)
* Aaron Burr Sr. (Fairfield)
* Blackleach Burritt (Huntington)
* Horace Bushnell (Litchfield)
* Henry Sloane Coffin (Lakeville)
* Jonathan Edwards (East Windsor)
* Charles Grandison Finney (Warren)
* Gordon Hall (Tolland)
* Lucia Ruggles Holman (Brookfield)
* Michael J. McGivney (New Haven)
* Kenneth Pike (Woodstock)
* Henry Weston Smith (Ellington)
* Ed & Lorraine Warren (Monroe)
* Wilford Woodruff (Avon)
* John Zaffis (Stratford)

## YouTube celebrities

* Jack Baran (Fairfield)
* Eugenia Cooney (Greenwich)
* Charli D'Amelio (Norwalk)
* Dixie D'Amelio (Norwalk)
* Anthony Fantano (Wolcott)
* Casey Neistat (Ledyard)
* Daymon Patterson (New Britain)

## Other figures

* Ruth Maxon Adams (New Haven)
* Erin Brady (East Hampton)
* Keith Carlos (Bridgeport)
* John Carpenter (Hamden)
* Scott Conant (Waterbury)
* Lydia Hearst (Wilton)
* Helen Keller (Easton)
* Ruth Madoff (New York City, Old Greenwich)
* Anthony Megale (Stamford)
* Marion Wiesel (1931–2025) (Greenwich)