List of Famous People from Connecticut

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Below is a list of famous people that were born in Connecticut.

List of Famous Actors, producers and directors from Connecticut

Lauren Ambrose
Tony Amendola
Brad Anderson
John Ashton
William Atherton
Kevin Bacon
Roger Bart
Anne Baxter
Graham Beckel
Ed Begley
Richard Belzer
Polly Bergen
John Billingsley
Michael Ian Black
Linda Blair
Ernest Borgnine
Kate Bosworth
Jesse Bradford
Jonathan Brandis
Alex Breckenridge
Amy Brenneman
Brooke Brodack
Chris Bruno
Dylan Bruno
Gary Burghoff
David Canary
Art Carney
D. J. Caruso
Marilyn Chambers
Joe Cipriano
Spencer Treat Clark
Glenn Close
Martha Coolidge
Daniel Cosgrove
Bob Crane
Paul Dano
Jules Dassin
Bette Davis
Jeff Davis
Brian Dennehy
George DiCenzo
Allie DiMeco
Troy Duffy
Charles H. Eglee
Abby Elliott
Linda Evans
Mark Famiglietti
Michael J. Fox
Will Friedle
Paul Fusco
Catherine Gardner
Marcus Giamatti
Paul Giamatti
Cynthia Gibb
William Gillette
Grant Goodeve
Topher Grace
David Marshall Grant
Shelley Hack
June Havoc
Sterling Hayden
Glenne Headly
Jessica Hecht
Katherine Heigl
Lillian Hellman
Katharine Hepburn
Linda Hunt
Allison Janney
Arline Judge
Adam Kaufman
Elia Kazan
Ted Knight
David LaChapelle
Lisa Lampanelli
Hope Lange
Eriq La Salle
Norman Lear
David Letterman
Justin Long
Christopher Lloyd
Michelle Lombardo
Billy Lush
Seth MacFarlane
Frederic March
Pamela Sue Martin
Dylan McDermott
Biff McGuire
Stephanie McMahon
Robert Mitchum
Marilyn Monroe
Jonathan Mostow
Ellen Muth
David Naughton
James Naughton
Kevin Navayne
Kevin Nealon
Paul Newman
Becki Newton
Fred Norris
Ron Palillo
Joe Pantoliano
Dean Parisot
Tracy Pollan
Anthony Tyler Quinn
John Ratzenberger
Christy Carlson Romano
Sherrie Rose
Rosalind Russell
Meg Ryan
Peter Sarsgaard
Annabella Sciorra
Kyra Sedgwick
Chloë Sevigny
Louise Shaffer
Spec Shea
Micah Sloat
Bill Smitrovich
Zack Snyder
Ed Sullivan
Larry Sullivan
Lee Tergesen
Mark Tinker
Tony Todd
Jim True-Frost
Tom Tryon
Raviv Ullman
James Van Der Beek
Gus Van Sant
Diane Venora
Christopher Walken
Deborah Walley
Sam Waterston
Bruce Weitz
Titus Welliver
Michael Jai White
Treat Williams
Joanne Woodward
Kari Wührer
Madeline Zima

List of Famous Athletes from Connecticut

Brad Ausmus
John Bagley
Jeff Bagwell
Vin Baker
James Blake
Steve Blass
Craig Breslow
Scott Burrell
Marcus Camby
Walter Camp
Dave Campo
Howard Cann
Jesse Carlson
Chris Clark
Carmen Cozza
Jaidon Codrington
Roger Connor
Rajai Davis
Chad Dawson
Brian Dayett
Walt Dropo
Chris Drury
Vladimir Ducasse
Johnny Egan
Dwight Freeney
Kevin Gilbride
Ryan Gomes
Ron Hainsey
Dorothy Hamill
Anttaj Hawthorne
JJ Henry
Aaron Hernandez
Bruce Jenner
Jay Johnstone
Tebucky Jones
Triple H
Joan Joyce
Terrance Knighton
Paul Konerko
Brian Leetch
Kristine Lilly
Floyd Little
Rebecca Lobo
Joey Logano
Cliff Louis
Rick Mahorn
Wes Matthews
Dick McAuliffe
John McDonald
Calvin Murphy
Johnny Moore
Jerry Nadeau
Charles Nagy
Dan Orlovsky
Jim O’Rourke
Paul Pasqualoni
Carl Pavano
Willie Pep
Jimmy Piersall
Nick Pietrosante
Randy Rasmussen
Jamey Richard
Andy Robustelli
Bill Romanowski
Bob Schaefer
Dan Shannon
Scott Sharp
Jim Shea, Jr.
Jeff Simmons
Charles Smith
John Sullivan
Tim Teufel
Mike Tyson
Bobby Valentine
Stephen Valiquette
Mo Vaughn
Ron Wotus
Steve Young

List of Famous Authors, artists and educators from Connecticut

Christopher Andersen
Jacob M. Appel
Joel Barlow
A. Scott Berg
Joseph Payne Brennan
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Candace Bushnell
Guido Calabresi
Al Capp
Echo Chernik
Christopher Collier
Suzanne Collins
John Gregory Dunne
Eleanor Estes
Edward Miner Gallaudet
Elizabeth Gilbert
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Daniel Coit Gilman
Hanna Holborn Gray
John Frederick Kensett
Charles H. Kraft
Larry Kramer
Wally Lamb
Annie Leibovitz
Ira Levin
Sol LeWitt
Jay McInerney
Stephenie Meyer
Arthur Miller
Emily Cheney Neville
Flannery O’Connor
Jacques Pepin
Kenneth Pike
Charles Ethan Porter
E. Annie Proulx
Luanne Rice
Philip Roth
Vincent Scully
Armstrong Sperry
Wallace Stevens
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Mark Shasha
Arthur Szyk
Alton Tobey
Mark Twain
Noah Webster

List of Famous Business people, scientists and inventors from Connecticut

Jefferson F Allen
Moses Austin
P.T. Barnum
Henry Alfred Bishop
Cornelius Scranton Bushnell
David Bushnell
Vint Cerf
Samuel Colt
Ray Dalio
Bern Dibner
John Fitch
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Charles Goodyear
James J. Greco
Louis Harris
Collis Potter Huntington
Jeffrey R. Immelt
Mary Dixon Kies
Edwin H. Land
Henry Lee
Albert L. Lehninger
Barbara McClintock
Daniel J. Mitchell
J. P. Morgan
Roy Neuberger
Victor Niederhoffer
Frederick Law Olmsted
Ken Olsen
Joseph Earl Sheffield
Igor Sikorsky
Benjamin Silliman
Alfred P. Sloan
Christopher Spencer
Roger Wolcott Sperry
Frank J. Sprague
John William Sterling
Martha Stewart
Eli Terry
Seth Thomas
Nathaniel Wheeler
Dana White
Eli Whitney
Oliver Fisher Winchester
Robert Charles Wright

List of Famous Journalists and commentators from Connecticut

Joseph Alsop
Stewart Alsop
Chris Berman
Rita Cosby
Ann Coulter
Ross Douthat
Frank Fixaris
Linda Greenhouse
Burton J. Hendrick
Laura Ingraham
Kenny Mayne
Dan Patrick
Joan Rivers
Andy Rooney
James Surowiecki
Liz Trotta

List of Famous Military figures from Connecticut

Ethan Allen
Benedict Arnold
Daniel Bissell
John Brown
Daniel C. Burbank
John Butler
Tedford H. Cann
Benjamin Delahauf Foulois
Nathan Hale
Isaac Hull
David Humphreys
Raymond Jacobs
Ezra Lee
Henry A. Mucci
Israel Putnam
Gold Selleck Silliman
Robert Stethem
John Trumbull
James Wadsworth
Philip C. Wehle
David Wooster

List of Famous Musicians from Connecticut

50 Cent
Marian Anderson
Apathy
Timothy Archambault
Mark Berman
Kath Bloom
Michael Bolton
Dave Brubeck
Igor Buketoff
Karen Carpenter
Richard Carpenter
Cassie
Chris Carrabba
Rivers Cuomo
Julia DeMato
Dirt E. Dutch
José Feliciano
Hatebreed
Charles Ives
Ben Kopec
Meat Loaf
John Mayer
Brad Mehldau
Mark McGrath
Syesha Mercado
Moby
Thurston Moore
Liz Phair
Gene Pitney
Dawn Robinson
Nile Rodgers
Diana Ross
Emily Saliers
John Scofield
Katie Stevens
Steve Stevens
Seth Swirsky
Brian Yale

List of Famous Politicians and statesmen from Connecticut

Dean Acheson
Abraham Baldwin
Roger Sherman Baldwin
Ebenezer Bassett
George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush
Prescott Bush
Orlow W. Chapman
Anthony Comstock
Joe Courtney
Silas Deane
Robert De Forest
Rosa DeLauro
Christopher Dodd
Oliver Ellsworth
Anna Eshoo
John Fabrizi
Gary Franks
Porter J. Goss
Ella T. Grasso
Galusha A. Grow
Lyman Hall
Titus Hosmer
Samuel Huntington
Robert A. Hurley
William Samuel Johnson
John Larson
Joe Lieberman
Claire Booth Luce
Robert Moses
Steven Mullins
Ralph Nader
Frederick Walker Pitkin
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Abraham A. Ribicoff
Pete Rouse
John G. Rowland
Christopher Shays
Roger Sherman
Samuel Simons
Joseph Spencer
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Jonathan Trumbull
Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.
Lyman Trumbull
Morrison Waite
Mark Warner
Gideon Welles
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
Oliver Wolcott Jr.

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