List of famous people born in Connecticut, with place of birth (when known):

Actors, producers & directors

• Ed Begley (Hartford)
• Richard Belzer (Bridgeport)
• Ernest Borgnine (Hamden)
• Jonathan Brandis (Danbury)
• Amy Brenneman (New London)
• Gary Burghoff (Bristol)
• Glenn Close (Greenwich)
• Bob Crane (Waterbury)
• Brian Dennehy (Bridgeport)
• Linda Evans (Hartford)
• William Gillette (Hartford)
• Katharine Hepburn (Hartford)
• Ted Knight (Terryville)
• Eriq La Salle (Hartford)
• Christopher Lloyd (Stamford)
• Seth MacFarlane (Kent)
• Dylan McDermott (Waterbury)
• Stephanie McMahon (Hartford)
• Robert Mitchum (Bridgeport)
• David Naughton (Hartford)
• Ron Palillo (Cheshire)
• John Ratzenberger (Bridgeport)
• Meg Ryan (Fairfield)
• Annabella Sciorra (Wethersfield)
• James Van Der Beek (Cheshire)

Athletes

• Marcus Camby (Hartford)
• Walter Camp (New Britain)
• Dwight Freeney (Hartford)
• Willie Pep (Hartford)
• Jimmy Piersall (Waterbury)
• Bill Romanowski (Vernon)
• Jim Shea, Jr. (West Hartford)
• Bobby Valentine (Stamford)
• Mo Vaughn (Norwich)
• Steve Young (Greenwich)

Authors & artists

• Joel Barlow (Redding)
• Candace Bushnell (Glastonbury)
• Al Capp (New Haven)
• L E Cooper (Southport, Connecticut )
• John Gregory Dunne (Hartford)
• Charles H. Kraft
• E. Annie Proulx (Norwich)
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (Litchfield)
• Dr. Benjamin Spock (New Haven)
• Noah Webster (present-day West Hartford)

Business people & inventors

• P.T. Barnum circus founder (Bethel)
• Alfred Bishop railroad founder (Bridgeport, Connecticut
• Samuel Colt firearm inventor, mfger (Hartford)
• John Fitch (Hartford County)
• Charles Goodyear (New Haven)
• Collis Potter Huntington (Harwinton)
• Mary Dixon Kies (South Killingly)
• J. P. Morgan (Hartford)
• Frederick Law Olmsted (Hartford)
• Alfred P. Sloan General Motors ceo (New Haven)
• Howard Sosin financial executive (Southport, Connecticut 90
• Nathaniel Wheeler mfg founder (Bridgeport, Connecticut)
• Robert C Wheeler NBC chairman ceo (Southport, Connecticut )
• Eli Terry (East Windsor)

Journalists & commentators

• Chris Berman (Greenwich)
• Ann Coulter (New Canaan)
• Laura Ingraham (Glastonbury)

Military figures

• Ethan Allen (Litchfield)
• Benedict Arnold (Norwich)
• John Brown (Torrington)
• John Butler (New London)
• Nathan Hale (Coventry)
• David Humphreys (Derby)
• John Trumbull (Lebanon)

Musicians

• Michael Bolton (New Haven)
• Karen Carpenter (New Haven)
• Richard Carpenter (New Haven)
• Chris Carrabba (Hartford)
• Rivers Cuomo
• Charles Edward Ives (Danbury)
• John Mayer (Bridgeport)
• Mark McGrath (Hartford)
• Liz Phair (New Haven)
• Gene Pitney (Hartford)
• Emily Saliers (New Haven)
• Steve Stevens (Hartford)

Politicians & statesmen

• Dean Acheson (Middletown)
• Roger Sherman Baldwin (New Haven)
• George W. Bush (New Haven)
• Rosa DeLauro (New Haven)
• Christopher Dodd (Willimantic)
• Anna Eshoo (New Britain)
• Porter J. Goss (Waterbury)
• Ella T. Grasso (Windsor Locks)
• Samuel Huntingon (Windham)
• John Larson (Hartford)
• Joe Lieberman (Stamford)
• Ralph Nader (Winsted)
• Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (New Haven)
• Abraham A. Ribicoff (New Britain)
• John G. Rowland (Waterbury)
• Chris Shays (Stamford)
• Jonathan Trumbull (Lebanon)
• Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. (Lebanon)
• Gideon Welles (Glastonbury)
• Oliver Wolcott (Windsor)
• Oliver Wolcott Jr. (Litchfield)

Scientists, mathmeticians & researchers

• Robert Gallo (Waterbury)
• Josiah Willard Gibbs (New Haven)
• Stephen Cole Kleene (Hartford)