page_title: New London, Connecticut
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: New London, Connecticut / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, Connecticut
context_page_description: New London is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States, located at the mouth of the Thames River in New London County, Connecticut. It was one of the world's three busiest whaling ports for several decades beginning in the early 19th century, along with Nantucket and New Bedford, Massachusetts. The wealth that whaling brought into the city furnished the capital to fund much of the city's present architecture. The city subsequently became home to other shipping and manufacturing industries, but it has gradually lost most of its industrial heart.
  New London is home to the United States Coast Guard Academy, Connecticut College, Mitchell College, and The Williams School. The Coast Guard Station New London and New London Harbor is home port to the Coast Guard Cutter Chinook and the Coast Guard's tall ship Eagle. The city had a population of 27,620 at the 2010 census. The Norwich–New London metropolitan area includes 21 towns and 274,055 people.
context_section_description: Eliphalet Adams (1677–1753), clergyman
  Theresa Andrews (born 1962), winner of two Olympic gold medals
  Peter C. Assersen (1839–1906), Rear Admiral in the United States Navy
  James Avery (1620–1700), politician and military commander
  Nathan Belcher (1813–1891), congressman
  Augustus Brandegee (1828–1904), judge, congressman, abolitionist
  Frank B. Brandegee (1864–1924), congressman and senator
  Amy Brenneman (born 1964), actress
  Valerie Azlynn (born 1980), actress
  Henry Burbeck (1754–1848), brigadier general
  Daniel Burrows (1756–1858), congressman
  John Button (soldier) (1772–1861), Canadian soldier and settler
  Frances Manwaring Caulkins (1795–1869), historian, genealogist, author
  Thomas Humphrey Cushing (1755–1822), brigadier general in the War of 1812 and collector of customs
  Harry Daghlian (1921–1945), physicist at Los Alamos National Lab, first person to die as a result of a criticality accident
  AJ Dillon (born 1998), American football running back
  David Dorfman (born 1955), choreographer
  Richard Douglass (1746–1828), cooper and soldier
  Doug DuBose (born 1964), NFL player
  Kris Dunn (born 1994), point guard for the Chicago Bulls
  Larry Elgart (born 1922), musician
  John Ellis (born 1948), baseball player
  Elsie Ferguson (1883–1961), stage and film actress
  Richard P. Freeman (1869–1944), congressman
  L. Patrick Gray (1916–2005), lawyer and Watergate figure
  Nathan Hale (1755–1776), schoolmaster and patriot
  Doc Hammer (born 1967), multimedium artist and co-creator of the Venture Brothers
  Matt Harvey (born 1989), MLB pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds
  Glenne Headly (1955–2017), actress
  Barkley L. Hendricks (born 1945), painter
  Linda Jaivin (born 1955), Australian author
  Sarah Kemble Knight (1666–1727), diarist, teacher and businesswoman
  Madeline Kripke (1943–2020), book collector
  John Law (1796–1873), congressman
  Bryan F. Mahan (1856–1923), congressman
  Richard Mansfield (1857–1907), actor
  John McCain (1936–2018), senator and Republican presidential nominee (lived in New London as a child when his father, John S. McCain, Jr., worked at the naval submarine base)
  Thomas Minor (1608–1690), founder and early New England diarist
  Casey Neistat (born 1981), filmmaker
  James R Newby ( born 1844) was a Civil War veteran who served in the first regiment of volunteer African Americans in the United States and a 19th-century African-American missionary to present-day Nigeria, Cameroon, and Liberia.
  James O'Neill (1847–1920), actor, father of Eugene O'Neill
  Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953), playwright
  Walter Palmer (1585–1661), founder
  Elias Perkins (1767–1845), congressman
  Mary Philips (1901–1975), actress
  Edward Clark Potter (1857–1923), sculptor
  Renee Prahar (1879–1962), sculptor
  Art Quimby (1933–2010), basketball player
  Jordan Reed (born 1990), tight end for the Washington Redskins
  Tim Riordan (born 1960), gridiron football player
  Dawn Robinson (born 1965), singer
  Dudley Saltonstall (1738–1796), naval officer
  "Magic Dick" Salwitz (born 1945), musician
  Thomas R. Sargent III (1914–2010), Vice Admiral in the United States Coast Guard
  Samuel Seabury (1729–1796), bishop
  Benjamin Stark (1820–1898), senator
  Dana Suesse (1909–1987), composer, songwriter, musician
  Ron Suresha, author and editor
  Flora M. Vare, (1874–1962), Pennsylvania State Senator from 1925 to 1928
  Cassie Ventura (born 1986), singer
  John T. Wait (1811–1899), former U.S. Representative for Connecticut
  Thomas M. Waller (1839–1924), Mayor of New London and 51st Governor of Connecticut
  Mary Way (1769–1833), portrait miniaturist
  John Winthrop the Younger (1606–1676), statesman and founder
  Tyson Wheeler (born 1975), former Denver Nuggets basketball player
  Abisha Woodward (1752–1809), early American lighthouse builder
caption: Lyman Allyn Art Museum, designed by Charles A. Platt
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