List of people from Hartford, Connecticut

Mark Twain, photo taken three years before he moved to the city

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

• Robert Ames, (1889–1931) stage and screen actor who was born in Hartford.
• Ben Cooper, best known for western films and television appearances in the 1960s & 70s.
• James DeBello (b. 1980), actor.
• Jenna Dewan (b. 1980), actress
• Linda Evans, (b. 1942) actress of Dynasty fame was born in Hartford.
• Thomas Ian Griffith (b. 1962) first feature film was the 1989 movie The Karate Kid, Part III
• 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.
• Eriq La Salle, (b. 1962), of the television show ER was born and raised in Hartford.
• Charles Nelson Reilly, (1931–2007), actor.
• Tony Todd, broadway, film and television 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.
• Brooke Burke (b. 1971), television personality, model and dancer, was born in Hartford but moved to Arizona during her early childhood.
• August Coppola, academic, film executive and (father of Nicolas Cage).
• Ann Corio (1914–1999), burlesque star, was from Hartford.
• Totie Fields (1930–1978), comedian, born and raised in Hartford.
• Michael C. FitzGerald (b. 1953), art historian and Picasso scholar at Trinity College (Connecticut) in Hartford
• Norman Lear (b. 1922), television producer, went to Weaver High School in Hartford.
• Phil Tonken (1919–2000), longtime staff announcer at New York station WOR-AM-TV, was born in Hartford.
• Stephanie McMahon, daughter of the Owner of WWE.
• Ken Ober, host of Remote Control.
• Wavy Gravy, hippie icon went to Hall High School.
• Kim Zolciak, (b. 1978), is a star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta and a country music singer.

Sports broadcasters

• Steve Berthiaume, ESPN anchor started his broadcasting career in Hartford.
• Mike Crispino, sportscaster for WVIT and WRCH, and ESPN.
• Jason Jackson hosted a local sports radio show on ESPNRadio 1410 in 2003.
• Charley Steiner broadcast for WPOP prior to working for ESPN.

Musicians

• Igor Buketoff (1915–2001), conductor, was born in Hartford.
• Kurt Carr, gospel music composer and performer
• Fates Warning, progressive metal band formed in 1982.
• Barbara Kolb (b. 1939), composer
• Notch; R&B, Dancehall and Reggaeton artist.
• Mark McGrath (b. 1968), lead singer of Sugar Ray was born in Hartford.
• Jackie McLean (1931–2006), jazz alto saxophonist and educator
• Jeff Porcaro (1954–1992), Mike Porcaro (b. 1955) and Steve Porcaro (b. 1957) of the rock band Toto were born in Hartford. Father Joe Porcaro is well known as a session and drum instructor.
• Sophie Tucker, (1884–1966), "last of the red-hot mamas," singer and comedienne, was born and raised in Hartford.

Authors, writers

• Bill Branon, novelist
• Oliver Butterworth, (1915–1990), children's author and educator.
• Dominick Dunne (1925–2009) 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
• Stephenie Meyer, (b. 1973) in Hartford, CT. Grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, with five siblings, Young Adult author, best known for writing the vampire love story "Twilight (novel)" and the "Twilight (series) that sold over 42 million copies worldwide as of 2008.

Government and politics

• Parmenio Adams, (1776–1832), United States Congressman, was born in Hartford.
• L. Paul Bremer, (b. 1941), ex-Administrator of US-occupied Iraq and foreign service officer.
• Frank Fasi, Mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii
• Thomas Hooker, founder of Connecticut
• Edward Ralph May, (1819-1852?), the only delegate to the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850 to vote in favor of African American suffrage.
• Elizabeth May, former Sierra Club of Canada president and current leader of the Green Party of Canada

Sports

• Michael Adams, (b. 1963) NBA player
• Jeff Bagwell, MLB first baseman, attended the University of Hartford.
• Vin Baker, NBA forward, attended the University of Hartford.
• Marcus Camby, (b. 1974), NBA player
• John Carney, (b. 1964) NFL placekicker
• Jayson Durocher (b. 1974), MLB player for the Milwaukee Brewers
• Johnny Egan, (b. 1939) NBA player
• Mickey Fallon (b. 1898), NFL player
• Craig Janney (b. 1968), NHL player
• Rick Mahorn, (b. 1958) NBA player
• Eric Mangini, (b. 1971) former head coach Cleveland Browns, former head coach of the New York Jets
• John Sullivan (b. 1961), NFL player
• Eugene Robinson, (b. 1963) NFL player

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.
• Samuel Colt (1814–1862) Inventor
• 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.
• Colonel Sherwood C. Spring (b. 1944) United States Army Colonel, test pilot and astronaut
• 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

See 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

External links

• Internet Movie DataBase