List of people from Connecticut

The following is a list of notable people born, raised, or resident in Connecticut, with place of birth or residence when known.

Actors, producers, and directors

 * Jung Jae Hyun/ Jaehyun (Greenwich, Connecticut)
 * Christopher Abbott (Greenwich)
 * Bruce Altman (New Haven)
 * Lauren Ambrose (New Haven)
 * Tony Amendola (New Haven)
 * Brad Anderson (Madison)
 * John Ashton (Enfield)
 * William Atherton (Orange)
 * Valerie Azlynn (New London)
 * Kevin Bacon (Sharon)
 * Roger Bart (Norwalk)
 * David Alan Basche (Hartford)
 * Ryan Michelle Bathe (Stamford)
 * Anne Baxter (Easton)
 * Graham Beckel (Old Lyme)
 * Ed Begley (Hartford)
 * Richard Belzer (Bridgeport)
 * Polly Bergen (Southbury)
 * John Billingsley (Weston)
 * Michael Ian Black (Redding)
 * Linda Blair (Westport)
 * Roberts Blossom (New Haven)
 * Ernest Borgnine (Hamden)
 * Kate Bosworth (Darien)
 * Jesse Bradford (Norwalk)
 * Jonathan Brandis (Danbury)
 * Alexandra Breckenridge (Darien)
 * Amy Brenneman (Glastonbury)
 * Brooke Brodack (Putnam)
 * Chris Bruno (Milford)
 * Dylan Bruno (Milford)
 * Gary Burghoff (Bristol)
 * Brooke Burke (Hartford)
 * John Byrum (Redding)
 * Mary Cadorette (East Hartford)
 * Mike Cahill (New Haven)
 * David Canary (Wilton)
 * Katherine Cannon (Hartford)
 * Art Carney (Westbrook)
 * D. J. Caruso (Norwalk)
 * Adriana Caselotti (Bridgeport)
 * Marilyn Chambers (Westport)
 * Joe Cipriano (Oakville)
 * Spencer Treat Clark (Darien)
 * Glenn Close (Greenwich)
 * Martha Coolidge (New Haven)
 * Daniel Cosgrove (New Haven)
 * D.J. Cotrona (Wallingford)
 * Bob Crane (Waterbury)
 * Jane Curtin (Sharon)
 * Dan Curtis (Bridgeport)
 * Paul Dano (Wilton)
 * Jules Dassin (Middletown)
 * Jeff Davis (Milford)
 * Dana Delany (Stamford)
 * Brian Dennehy (Bridgeport)
 * Jenna Dewan (Hartford)
 * George DiCenzo (New Haven)
 * Allie DiMeco (Waterbury)
 * Troy Duffy (Hartford)
 * Charles H. Eglee (New Haven)
 * Jill Eikenberry (New Haven)
 * Abby Elliott (Wilton)
 * Linda Evans (Hartford)
 * Mark Famiglietti (Clinton)
 * Michael J. Fox (Sharon)
 * Kevin Foxe (Enfield)
 * Will Friedle (Hartford)
 * Paul Fusco (New Haven)
 * Catherine Gardner (Waterbury)
 * Marcus Giamatti (New Haven)
 * Paul Giamatti (New Haven)
 * Cynthia Gibb (Westport)
 * William Gillette (Hartford)
 * Grant Goodeve (Middlebury)
 * Topher Grace (Darien)
 * David Marshall Grant (Westport)
 * Luke Greenfield (Westport)
 * Shelley Hack (Greenwich)
 * June Havoc (Wilton)
 * Sterling Hayden (Wilton)
 * Glenne Headly (New London)
 * Jessica Hecht (Bloomfield)
 * Kevin Heffernan (West Haven)
 * Katherine Heigl (New Canaan)
 * Lillian Hellman (New Milford)
 * Katharine Hepburn (Hartford)
 * Linda Hunt (Westport)
 * Allison Janney (Lakeville)
 * Arline Judge (Bridgeport)
 * Adam Kaufman (New Canaan)
 * Camille Kostek (Killingworth)
 * Elia Kazan (Newtown)
 * Lisa Robin Kelly (Southington)
 * Ted Knight (Terryville)
 * David LaChapelle (Fairfield)
 * Lisa Lampanelli (Trumbull)
 * Hope Lange (Redding)
 * Eriq La Salle (Hartford)
 * Matt Lauer (Greenwich)
 * Adam LaVorgna (North Branford)
 * Norman Lear (New Haven)
 * Denis Leary (Roxbury)
 * David Letterman (New Canaan)
 * Barry Levinson (Redding)
 * Paul Lieberstein (Westport)
 * Mark Linn-Baker (Wethersfield)
 * Christopher Lloyd (Stamford)
 * Michelle Lombardo (Glastonbury)
 * Justin Long (Fairfield)
 * Billy Lush (New Haven)
 * Seth MacFarlane (Kent)
 * Fredric March (New Milford)
 * Pamela Sue Martin (Westport)
 * Dylan McDermott (Waterbury)
 * Biff McGuire (New Haven)
 * Stephanie McMahon (Weston)
 * Jesse Metcalfe (New London)
 * Steve Miner (Westport)
 * Robert Mitchum (Bridgeport)
 * Gretchen Mol (Deep River)
 * Marilyn Monroe (Weston and Roxbury)
 * Sheri Moon (Plainville, Connecticut)
 * Jonathan Mostow (Woodbridge)
 * Michael G. Moye (New Haven)
 * Marty Munsch (Greenwich)
 * George Murphy (New Haven)
 * Ellen Muth (Milford)
 * David Naughton (Hartford)
 * James Naughton (Middletown)
 * Kevin Nealon (Bridgeport)
 * Paul Newman (Westport)
 * Becki Newton (New Haven)
 * Tom Noonan (Greenwich)
 * Fred Norris (Willimantic)
 * Nolan North (New Haven)
 * Ron Palillo (Cheshire)
 * Joe Pantoliano (Wilton)
 * Don Pardo (Norwich)
 * Dean Parisot (Wilton)
 * Paul Perri (New Haven)
 * Bijou Phillips (Greenwich)
 * Jacob Pitts (Weston)
 * Tracy Pollan (Sharon)
 * Anthony Tyler Quinn (New London)
 * John Ratzenberger (Bridgeport)
 * Evan Rogers (Mansfield)
 * Christy Carlson Romano (Milford)
 * Sherrie Rose (Hartford)
 * Matt Ross (Greenwich)
 * Rosalind Russell (Waterbury)
 * Meg Ryan (Bethel and Fairfield)
 * Peter Sarsgaard (Fairfield)
 * Michael Schur (West Hartford)
 * Annabella Sciorra (Wethersfield)
 * Kyra Sedgwick (Sharon)
 * Chloë Sevigny (Darien)
 * Louise Shaffer (Woodbridge)
 * Spec Shea (Naugatuck)
 * Micah Sloat (Westport)
 * Patricia Smith (New Haven)
 * Bill Smitrovich (Bridgeport)
 * Zack Snyder (Greenwich)
 * Raymond St. Jacques (Hartford)
 * David H. Steinberg (West Hartford)
 * Austin Stowell (Kensington)
 * Tara Subkoff (Westport)
 * Ed Sullivan (Southbury)
 * Larry Sullivan (New Haven)
 * Pawel Szajda (Farmington)
 * Lee Tergesen (Ivoryton)
 * Mark Tinker (Stamford)
 * Tony Todd (Hartford)
 * Jim True-Frost (Greenwich)
 * Tom Tryon (Hartford)
 * Raviv Ullman (Fairfield)
 * James Van Der Beek (Cheshire)
 * Gus Van Sant (Darien)
 * Diane Venora (East Hartford)
 * Jenna von Oÿ (Stamford)
 * Wende Wagner (New London)
 * Christopher Walken (Wilton)
 * Tonja Walker (Easton)
 * Deborah Walley (Bridgeport)
 * Sam Waterston (Sharon)
 * Michael Weatherly (Fairfield)
 * Bruce Weitz (Norwalk)
 * Titus Welliver (New Haven)
 * Michael Jai White (Bridgeport)
 * Treat Williams (Norwalk)
 * Fay Wolf (Fairfield)
 * Joanne Woodward (Westport)
 * Kari Wührer (Brookfield)
 * Madeline Zima (New Haven)

Athletes

 * Brad Ausmus (Cheshire)
 * John Bagley (Bridgeport)
 * Jeff Bagwell (Killingworth)
 * Chris Baker (Windsor)
 * Vin Baker (Old Saybrook)
 * Matt Barnes (Bethel)
 * Semyon Belits-Geiman (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)
 * 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)
 * Rob Dibble (Southington)
 * Walt Dropo (Moosup)
 * Andre Drummond (Middletown)
 * Chris Drury (Trumbull)
 * Vladimir Ducasse (Stamford)
 * Marcus Easley (Bridgeport)
 * Johnny Egan (Hartford)
 * Dwight Freeney (Bloomfield)
 * Kevin Gilbride (New Haven)
 * Ryan Gomes (Waterbury)
 * Jesse Hahn (Norwich)
 * Ron Hainsey (Bolton)
 * Dorothy Hamill (Greenwich)
 * Matt Harvey (Groton)
 * Anttaj Hawthorne (Hamden)
 * 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)
 * Joan Joyce (Waterbury)
 * Terrance Knighton (Hartford)
 * Paul Konerko (Norwich)
 * Niko Koutouvides (Plainville)
 * Brian Leetch (Cheshire)
 * Ivan Lendl (Goshen)
 * 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)
 * Johnny Moore (Waterbury)
 * 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)
 * Willie Pep (Middletown)
 * Jimmy Piersall (Waterbury)
 * Nick Pietrosante (Derby)
 * A. J. Pollock (Hebron)
 * Jonathan Quick (Milford)
 * Randy Rasmussen (Wilton)
 * David Reed (New Britain)
 * Jordan Reed (New Britain)
 * Charlie Reiter (born 1988), soccer player (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)
 * Dan Shannon (Bridgeport)
 * Scott Sharp (Norwalk)
 * Jim Shea, Jr. (West Hartford)
 * Jeff Simmons (Hartford)
 * Dan Sileo (Stamford)
 * Charles Smith (Bridgeport)
 * Chris Smith (Bridgeport)
 * Tony Sparano (West Haven)
 * 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)
 * 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)

Authors, artists, and educators

 * Christopher Andersen (Washington)
 * Jacob M. Appel (Branford)
 * Rosecrans Baldwin (Darien)
 * Edward C. Banfield (Bloomfield)
 * Joel Barlow (Redding)
 * Dan Beard (Redding)
 * A. Scott Berg (Norwalk)
 * Joseph Payne Brennan (Bridgeport and New Haven)
 * Thom Brooks (Guilford)
 * William F. Buckley, Jr. (New York City and Stamford)
 * Candace Bushnell (Glastonbury)
 * Guido Calabresi (New Haven)
 * Al Capp (New Haven)
 * Noah Charney (New Haven)
 * Lincoln Child (Westport)
 * Christopher Collier (Orange)
 * Suzanne Collins (Hartford and Newtown)
 * Kate Cordsen (Essex)
 * Nathan Daboll (Groton)
 * Clay Dreslough (Ashford)
 * John Gregory Dunne (Hartford)
 * Eleanor Estes (West Haven)
 * Mallory Factor (Bridgeport)
 * Howard Fast (Redding)
 * Edward Miner Gallaudet (Hartford)
 * Elizabeth Gilbert (Waterbury)
 * Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Hartford)
 * Daniel Coit Gilman (Norwich)
 * Thyrza Nichols Goodeve (Middlebury)
 * Hanna Holborn Gray (New Haven)
 * 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)
 * Wally Lamb (Mansfield)
 * Annie Leibovitz (Waterbury)
 * Robert Ludlum (Southport)
 * Ira Levin (Wilton)
 * Sol LeWitt (Hartford)
 * Frank Luntz (West Hartford)
 * 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)
 * Frederick Pratson (Hartford)
 * Annie Proulx (Norwich)
 * Luanne Rice (New Britain)
 * Bill Roorbach (New Canaan)
 * Philip Roth (Warren)
 * Acharya S (Avon)
 * Vincent Scully (New Haven)
 * George Selden (Hartford)
 * Richard Selzer (North Branford)
 * Maurice Sendak (Ridgefield)
 * Mark Shasha (New London)
 * Dorothy Hope Smith (Westport)
 * Victoria Leigh Soto (Bridgeport)
 * Armstrong Sperry (Stamford, New Canaan, and New Haven)
 * Benjamin Spock (New Haven)
 * Edward Steichen (Redding)
 * Wallace Stevens (Hartford)
 * Roger Stone (Norwalk)
 * Harriet Beecher Stowe (Litchfield)
 * Arthur Szyk (New Canaan)
 * Alton Tobey (Middletown)
 * Garry Trudeau (Branford)
 * Mark Twain (Hartford and Redding)
 * Edward Lewis Wallant (New Haven)
 * Noah Webster (present-day West Hartford)
 * J. Alden Weir (Ridgefield)

Business people, scientists, and inventors

 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * Peter Schiff (New Haven)
 * Joseph Earl Sheffield (Southport)
 * Igor Sikorsky (Stratford, Trumbull and Easton)
 * Benjamin Silliman (Trumbull and New Haven)
 * Chip Skowron, hedge fund portfolio manager convicted of insider trading (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)

Journalists and commentators

 * Anthony Fantano
 * Joseph Alsop (Avon)
 * Stewart Alsop (Avon)
 * Julie Banderas (Hartford)
 * Wayne Barrett (New Britain)
 * Chris Berman (Greenwich and Cheshire)
 * Thom Brooks (Guilford)
 * Chris Cillizza (Marlborough)
 * Rita Cosby (Greenwich)
 * Ann Coulter (New Canaan)
 * Ross Douthat (New Haven)
 * Charles Dow (Sterling)
 * Dick Ebersol (Torrington)
 * Kelly Evans (Hartford)
 * Frank Fixaris (Torrington)
 * Brendan Gill (Hartford)
 * Linda Greenhouse (Hamden)
 * Burton J. Hendrick (New Haven)
 * Don Imus (Westport)
 * Laura Ingraham (Glastonbury)
 * Larry Kudlow (Redding)
 * Kenny Mayne (Bethel)
 * Leigh Montville (New Haven)
 * Dick Morris (Redding)
 * Tim Murnane (Naugatuck)
 * Dan Patrick (Milford)
 * Steve Phillips (Wilton)
 * Molly Qerim (New Haven)
 * Lonnie Quinn (Cheshire)
 * Joan Rivers (New Milford)
 * Andy Rooney (Norwalk)
 * David Sirota (New Haven)
 * James Surowiecki (Meriden)
 * Ida Tarbell (Easton)
 * Sabrina Tavernise (Hartford)
 * Liz Trotta (New Haven)
 * Trey Wingo (Greenwich)
 * Sid Yudain (New Canaan)

Military figures

 * Ethan Allen (Litchfield)
 * Benedict Arnold (Norwich)
 * Daniel Bissell (East Windsor)
 * John Brown (Torrington)
 * Thomas L. Brown II (Danbury)
 * Daniel C. Burbank (Manchester)
 * John Butler (New London)
 * Tedford H. Cann (Bridgeport)
 * Benjamin Delahauf Foulois (Washington)
 * Walter S. Gorka (Windsor Locks)
 * Nathan Hale (Coventry)
 * David Hawley (Bridgeport)
 * Isaac Hull (Derby)
 * David Humphreys (Derby)
 * Raymond Jacobs (Bridgeport)
 * Everett F. Larson (Stamford)
 * Ezra Lee (Lyme)
 * John Levitow (Hartford)
 * Henry A. Mucci (Bridgeport)
 * Robert J. Papp, Jr. (Norwich)
 * Samuel Holden Parsons (Lyme)
 * Israel Putnam (Brooklyn)
 * Gold Selleck Silliman (Fairfield)
 * Robert Stethem (Waterbury)
 * John Trumbull (Lebanon)
 * James Wadsworth (Durham)
 * Philip C. Wehle (Westport)
 * Irving Wiltsie (Hartford)
 * David Wooster (Stratford)

Musicians, singers, and composers

 * Marian Anderson (Danbury)
 * Apathy (rapper) (Willimantic)
 * Timothy Archambault (Willimantic)
 * Veronica Ballestrini (Waterford)
 * Mark Berman (New Haven)
 * Kath Bloom (New Haven)
 * Michael Bolton (New Haven)
 * Dave Brubeck (Wilton)
 * Igor Buketoff (Hartford)
 * Gary Burr (Meriden)
 * Ray Cappo (Danbury)
 * Karen Carpenter (New Haven)
 * Richard Carpenter (New Haven)
 * Chris Carrabba (West Hartford)
 * Cassie (New London)
 * Javier Colon (Stratford)
 * Rivers Cuomo (Storrs)
 * Julia DeMato (Brookfield)
 * Dirt E. Dutch (Danbury)
 * José Feliciano (Westport)
 * Joe Flood (Portland)
 * Nick Fradiani (Guilford)
 * Chris Frantz (Fairfield)
 * Sawyer Fredericks (Newtown)
 * Stan Freeman (Waterbury)
 * Daryl Hall (Redding)
 * Hatebreed (Bridgeport)
 * Jascha Heifetz (Redding)
 * Grayson Hugh (Danbury)
 * Charles Ives (Danbury)
 * Bernard Jackson (Stamford)
 * Jaehyun Jung (singer)
 * Ben Kopec (Ansonia)
 * Meat Loaf (Redding)
 * John Mayer (Fairfield)
 * Peter McCann (Bridgeport)
 * Mark McGrath (Hartford)
 * Brad Mehldau (West Hartford)
 * Syesha Mercado (Bridgeport)
 * Moby (Darien)
 * Jimmy Monaghan (Danbury)
 * Thurston Moore (Bethel)
 * Alfred Newman (New Haven)
 * Liz Phair (New Haven)
 * Gene Pitney (Hartford)
 * Keith Richards (Weston)
 * Dawn Robinson (New London)
 * Nile Rodgers (Westport)
 * Diana Ross (Greenwich)
 * Emily Saliers (New Haven)
 * John Scofield (Wilton)
 * Horace Silver (Norwalk)
 * Ronnie Spector (Brookfield)
 * Steve Stevens (Hartford)
 * Seth Swirsky (New Haven)
 * Mary Travers (Redding)
 * Cassie Ventura (New London)
 * Franco Ventriglia (Fairfield)
 * Vinnie Vincent (Bridgeport)
 * Chris Webby (Norwalk)
 * Robert Wendel (Bridgeport)
 * Tina Weymouth (Fairfield)
 * Brian Yale (Orange)

Politicians and statesmen

 * Dean Acheson (Middletown)
 * 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)
 * Anthony Comstock (New Canaan)
 * Joe Courtney (Hartford)
 * Silas Deane (Groton)
 * Robert E. De Forest (Bridgeport)
 * 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)
 * 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)

Religious and spiritual figures

 * Ebenezer Baldwin (Norwich)
 * Henry Ward Beecher (Litchfield)
 * Lyman Beecher (New Haven)
 * Aaron Burr, Sr. (Fairfield)
 * Blackleach Burritt (Huntington)
 * Horace Bushnell (Litchfield)
 * Henry Sloane Coffin (Lakeville)
 * Jonathan Edwards (East Windsor)
 * Charles Grandison Finney (Warren)
 * Gordon Hall (Tolland)
 * Michael J. McGivney (New Haven)
 * Kenneth Pike (Woodstock)
 * Henry Weston Smith (Ellington)
 * Ed & Lorraine Warren (Monroe)
 * Wilford Woodruff (Farmington)
 * John Zaffis (Stratford)

YouTube celebrities

 * Casey Neistat (Ledyard)
 * Daymon Patterson (New Britain)
 * Anthony Fantano (Wolcott)
 * Jack Baran (Fairfield)

Other figures

 * Ruth Maxon Adams (New Haven)
 * Erin Brady (East Hampton)
 * Gordon Caplan (Greenwich)
 * Keith Carlos (Bridgeport)
 * John Carpenter (Hamden)
 * Scott Conant (Waterbury)
 * Lydia Hearst (Wilton)
 * Helen Keller (Easton)
 * Ruth Madoff (born 1941), wife of Bernie Madoff