List of people from Hartford, Connecticut
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The following list of people from Hartford, Connecticut, includes people who were born in, lived in or are otherwise closely connected with the city:
Actors
- Robert Ames (1889–1931), stage and screen actor
- Ben Cooper, best known for western films and television appearances in the 1960s and 70s
- Jenna Dewan (born 1980), actress
- Linda Evans (born 1942), actress, best known for Dynasty
- Thomas Ian Griffith (born 1962), actor
- Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003), iconic Oscar-winning actress; buried in the Hepburn family plot in Cedar Hill Cemetery
- Elyse Knox (1917–2012), model and actress; wife of Tom Harmon and mother of Mark Harmon
- Eriq La Salle (born 1962), of the television show ER
- Charles Nelson Reilly (1931–2007), actor, director and TV personality
- Tony Todd, Broadway, film and television actor
Others in arts and entertainment
- Amy Brenneman (born 1964), actress, best known for the television series Judging Amy
- Brooke Burke (born 1971), television personality, model and dancer
- August Coppola, academic, film executive and father of Nicolas Cage
- Ann Corio (1914–1999), burlesque star
- Totie Fields (1930–1978), comedian
- Michael C. FitzGerald (born 1953), art historian and Picasso scholar at Trinity College in Hartford
- Kathleen Kucka, abstract painter
- Norman Lear (born 1922), television producer
- Stephanie McMahon, businesswoman, professional wrestling personality
- Ken Ober, host of Remote Control
- Ken Richters (born 1955), stage actor, playwright, and voice actor, known for impersonations of Mark Twain
- Phil Tonken (1919–2000), announcer at New York station WOR-AM-TV
- Wavy Gravy, hippie icon
- Kim Zolciak (born 1978), star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, country music singer
Scientists
- Barbara McClintock (born 1902), cytogeneticist, awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Sports broadcasters
- Steve Berthiaume, ESPN anchor
- Mike Crispino, sportscaster for WVIT and WRCH, and ESPN
- Jason Jackson, hosted a local sports radio show on ESPN Radio
- Charley Steiner, Los Angeles Dodgers sportscaster
Musicians
- Igor Buketoff (1915–2001), conductor
- Kurt Carr, gospel music composer and performer
- Fates Warning, progressive metal band formed in 1982
- Charles Flores (1970–2012), jazz bassist and member of the Michel Camilo Trio[1]
- Grayson Hugh, Singer-songwriter
- Natália Kelly, Singer
- Barbara Kolb (born 1939), composer
- Mark McGrath (born 1968), lead singer of Sugar Ray
- Jackie McLean (1931–2006), jazz alto saxophonist and educator[2]
- Notch, R&B, dancehall and Reggaeton artist
- Gene Pitney (1940–2006), Singer
- Jeff Porcaro (1954–1992), Mike Porcaro (born 1955) and Steve Porcaro (born 1957), of the rock band Toto
- Joe Porcaro American jazz drummer and father of Jeff and Steve Porcaro
- Sophie Tucker (1884–1966), "last of the red-hot mamas," singer and comedian
- Doobie Powell American gospel musician and pastor
Writers
- Steven Anzovin, non-fiction writer best known for his Famous First Facts book series
- Bill Branon, novelist
- Oliver Butterworth (1915–1990), children's author and educator
- Suzanne Collins (born 1962), author of the Hunger Games trilogy
- Lyn Crost (born 1915), World War II correspondent
- Dominick Dunne (1925–2009) and John Gregory Dunne (1932–2003), writers
- Austin Gary, novelist
- William Gillette (1853–1937), actor, director, famed for playing Sherlock Holmes on stage
- Stephenie Meyer (born 1973), author of Twilight series novels
- Jim Murray (1919–1998), Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist of the Los Angeles Times
- Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), poet; insurance executive
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896), author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, settled in Hartford during the 1870s; her Nook Farm[3] home is open to the public and adjoins Mark Twain's
- Mark Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835–1910), iconic author, the Mark Twain House is a national historic site; 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, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Mary E. Van Lennep (1821–1844), missionary, school founder, memoirist
Government and politics
- Parmenio Adams (1776–1832), United States Congressman; born in Hartford[4]
- James J. Barbour (1869–1946), Illinois lawyer and state legislator, was born in Hartford[5]
- L. Paul Bremer (born 1941), ex-administrator of US-occupied Iraq and foreign service officer
- Charles R. Chapman, mayor of Hartford, served in both houses of Connecticut legislature[6]
- Horace S. Cooley, Illinois Secretary of State
- William A. DiBella, Majority Leader of the Connecticut State Senate
- Frank Fasi, mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii
- Elizabeth Bartlett Grannis (1840–1926), suffragist, social reformer, editor
- Frank A. Hooker, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court[7]
- Thomas Hooker, founder of Connecticut
- Bruce Hyer, Green Party of Canada Member of Parliament
- A. Lucille Matarese, Connecticut state legislator and Roman Catholic Benedictine nun
- Edward Ralph May (1819–1852), only delegate to 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
- Maria W. Stewart Abolitionist
- Thomas A. Sullivan, Wisconsin State Assemblyman
Sports
- Michael Adams (born 1963), NBA player
- Marcus Camby (born 1974), NBA player
- John Carney (born 1964), NFL placekicker
- Andre Drummond (born 1993), NBA player for the Detroit Pistons
- Jayson Durocher (born 1974), MLB player for the Milwaukee Brewers
- Johnny Egan (born 1939), NBA player
- Mickey Fallon (born 1898), NFL player
- Dwight Freeney (born 1980), NFL player
- Craig Janney (born 1968), NHL player
- Rick Mahorn (born 1958), NBA player
- Eric Mangini (born 1971), head coach of Cleveland Browns and New York Jets
- Cliff Olander (born 1955), American player of gridiron football
- Steve Potts (born 1967), former West Ham United footballer, current U21 coach
- Ryan Preece (born 1990), NASCAR driver
- Eugene Robinson (born 1963), NFL player
- John Sullivan (born 1961), NFL player
- Roderick G. (Rod) Taylor (born 1943), Olympic skier[8]
Other
- A. Everett "Chick" Austin (1900–1957), arts innovator and director of the Wadsworth Atheneum
- Julie Banderas (born 1973), Emmy Award-winning, American television news anchor
- Reverend Horace Bushnell (1802–1876), Hartford civic champion
- Samuel Colt (1814–1862), firearm inventor
- John H. Griebel (1901–1969), Marine Corps General
- George Keller (1842–1935), architect, noted for Hartford's Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch and Hartford Union Station
- Stephen Cole Kleene (1909–1994), mathematician
- J.P. Morgan (1837–1913), financier and industrialist
- Joseph B. Murdock (1851–1931), US Navy Rear Admiral
- Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), urban planner, noted for many of the New York City parks and Stanford University's campus
- Colonel Albert A. Pope (1843–1909), Manufacturer of Pope Manufacturing Company automobiles and bicycles
- Colonel Sherwood C. Spring (born 1944), United States Army Colonel, test pilot and astronaut
- Griffin Alexander Stedman (1838-1864), Union Army Colonel
- Alfred Terry (1827–1890), Union army general
- Robert O. Tyler (1831–1874), Union army general
- Donald M. Weller (1908–1985), Marine Corps General and pioneer in Naval gunfire support
- Theodore Wirth (1863–1949), horticulturalist and park planner
- Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, convicted kidnapper, serial killer, child molester and suspects cannibal
- Amos Whitney (1832–1920), mechanical engineer, inventor and co-founder of Pratt & Whitney company
See also
- List of people from Connecticut
- List of people from Bridgeport, Connecticut
- List of people from Brookfield, Connecticut
- List of people from Darien, Connecticut
- List of people from Greenwich, Connecticut
- List of people from New Canaan, Connecticut
- List of people from New Haven, 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
Notes
- ^ "Charles Flores Dead: Grammy-Winning Jazz Bassist Passes Away From Throat Cancer at Age 41". Spinner. 2012-08-27. Retrieved 2012-09-21.
- ^ Dixon, Ken, "Music Hall of Fame proposed for state ", article in Connecticut Post in Bridgeport, Connecticut, April 26, 2007 ("Other famous state residents include the late jazz saxophonist Jackie McLean of Hartford")
- ^ "Stowe's Hartford Neighborhood, Nook Farm". Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. Archived from the original on 2017-07-04. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
- ^ Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who. 1963.
- ^ 'Illinois Blue Book 1941-1942,'Biographical Sketch of James J. Barbour, pg. 126-127
- ^ "OBITUARY SKETCH OF CHARLES R. CHAPMAN". Connecticut State Library. Archived from the original on October 18, 2012. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
- ^ Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society - Frank Hooker
- ^ The Republican-American: Roderick G. Taylor, former U.S. Olympic ski team member Archived 2014-07-25 at archive.today: retrieved July 17, 2014
