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.

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)^[2]
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)^[3]
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)^[4]
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)

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)^[5]
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)

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)
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)

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)^[7]
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)

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)

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Barry Levinson at IMDb. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
[2]
"In Litchfield County, a $25 Million Explosion". The New York Times. June 17, 2005. Retrieved May 22, 2014.
[3]
"Julius Seligson". October 14, 1987 – via NYTimes.com.
[4]
Barker, Sean (June 13, 2021). "Ridgefield swimmer Kieran Smith qualifies for Olympics in 400 freestyle". Connecticut Post. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
[5]
"Madeleine L'Engle". Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame. Retrieved May 22, 2014.
[6]
"Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary Dies at 72". The New York Times. August 16, 2009. Retrieved April 29, 2014.
[7]
"CLARK, Ezra, Jr". Congress.gov. Retrieved October 27, 2024.

[1] [1]
Barry Levinson at IMDb. Retrieved May 14, 2014.

[2] [2]
"In Litchfield County, a $25 Million Explosion". The New York Times. June 17, 2005. Retrieved May 22, 2014.

[3] [3]
"Julius Seligson". October 14, 1987 – via NYTimes.com.

[4] [4]
Barker, Sean (June 13, 2021). "Ridgefield swimmer Kieran Smith qualifies for Olympics in 400 freestyle". Connecticut Post. Retrieved July 20, 2021.

[5] [5]
"Madeleine L'Engle". Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame. Retrieved May 22, 2014.

[6] [6]
"Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary Dies at 72". The New York Times. August 16, 2009. Retrieved April 29, 2014.

[7] [7]
"CLARK, Ezra, Jr". Congress.gov. Retrieved October 27, 2024.

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