Founded 1636 as Newtown, name changed the following year to Hartford.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Lucine Amara |
Singer |
1-Mar-1924 |
|
Operatic soprano, NY Metropolitan Opera |
| Bernard Bailyn |
Historian |
9-Sep-1922 |
|
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution |
| Ed Begley, Sr. |
Actor |
25-Mar-1901 |
28-Apr-1970 |
Juror #10 in 12 Angry Men |
| David M. Borden |
Judge |
4-Aug-1937 |
|
Justice, CT Supreme Court, 1990-2007 |
| L. Paul Bremer |
Government |
30-Sep-1941 |
|
Director of the Iraq Provisional Authority |
| Brooke Burke |
TV Personality |
8-Sep-1971 |
|
Co-Host, Dancing with the Stars |
| Katherine Cannon |
Actor |
6-Sep-1953 |
|
Mae Woodward on Father Murphy |
| Frederic Edwin Church |
Painter |
4-May-1826 |
7-Apr-1900 |
American landscape painter |
| Sanford Cloud, Jr. |
Business |
27-Nov-1944 |
|
President of NCCJ, 1994-2004 |
| Larry Collins |
Author |
14-Sep-1929 |
20-Jun-2005 |
Is Paris Burning? |
| Suzanne Collins |
Novelist |
11-Aug-1962 |
|
The Hunger Games |
| Samuel Colt |
Inventor |
19-Jul-1814 |
10-Jan-1862 |
Invented the revolver |
| Ben Cooper |
Actor |
30-Sep-1933 |
|
The Last Command |
| William R. Cotter |
Politician |
18-Jul-1926 |
8-Sep-1981 |
Congressman from Connecticut, 1971-81 |
| James DeBello |
Actor |
9-Jun-1980 |
|
Cabin Fever |
| Jenna Dewan |
Actor |
3-Dec-1980 |
|
Tamara |
| Dominick Dunne |
Novelist |
29-Oct-1925 |
26-Aug-2009 |
High society novelist, true crime writer |
| John Gregory Dunne |
Novelist |
25-May-1932 |
30-Dec-2003 |
True Confessions |
| Thomas O. Enders |
Diplomat |
28-Nov-1932 |
17-Mar-1996 |
US Ambassador to Canada, Spain |
| Linda Evans |
Actor |
18-Nov-1942 |
|
Dynasty |
| Frank Fenton |
Actor |
9-Apr-1906 |
24-Jul-1957 |
Isle of Forgotten Sins |
| John Fiske |
Historian |
30-Mar-1842 |
4-Jul-1901 |
Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy |
| Will Friedle |
Actor |
11-Aug-1976 |
|
Eric Matthews on Boy Meets World |
| William Gillette |
Actor |
24-Jul-1853 |
29-Apr-1937 |
Portrayed Sherlock Holmes on the stage |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
Activist |
3-Jul-1860 |
17-Aug-1935 |
Women and Economics |
| Thomas Ian Griffith |
Actor |
18-Mar-1962 |
|
Hollow Point |
| Peter W. Hall |
Judge |
9-Nov-1948 |
|
2nd Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Katharine Hepburn |
Actor |
12-May-1907 |
29-Jun-2003 |
The Philadelphia Story |
| Katharine Houghton |
Actor |
10-Mar-1945 |
|
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
| Jane Kean |
Actor |
10-Apr-1924 |
26-Nov-2013 |
Trixie Norton on The Jackie Gleason Show |
| Barbara Kennelly |
Politician |
10-Jul-1936 |
|
Congresswoman from Connecticut, 1982-99 |
| Robert Kent |
Actor |
3-Dec-1908 |
4-May-1955 |
The Phantom Creeps |
| Elyse Knox |
Actor |
14-Dec-1917 |
16-Feb-2012 |
The Mummy's Tomb |
| Eriq La Salle |
Actor |
23-Jul-1962 |
|
ER |
| John Larson |
Politician |
22-Jul-1948 |
|
Congressman, Connecticut 1st |
| Eric Mangini |
Football |
19-Jan-1971 |
|
Head Coach, Cleveland Browns |
| Barbara McClintock |
Scientist |
16-Jun-1902 |
2-Sep-1992 |
Discovered transposable genes |
| Mark McGrath |
Musician |
15-Mar-1968 |
|
Frontman for Sugar Ray |
| Jay McInerney |
Novelist |
13-Jan-1955 |
|
Bright Lights, Big City |
| Stephanie McMahon |
Wrestling |
24-Sep-1976 |
|
VP Creative Writing of WWE |
| Gary Merrill |
Actor |
2-Aug-1915 |
5-Mar-1990 |
All About Eve |
| Stephenie Meyer |
Novelist |
24-Dec-1973 |
|
Author of Twilight series |
| J. Pierpont Morgan |
Business |
17-Apr-1837 |
31-Mar-1913 |
Railroad financier, J. P. Morgan & Co. |
| Timothy Patrick Murphy |
Actor |
3-Nov-1959 |
6-Dec-1988 |
Dallas |
| David Naughton |
Actor |
13-Feb-1951 |
|
An American Werewolf in London |
| Louis Nye |
Actor |
1-May-1913 |
9-Oct-2005 |
Sonny Drysdale on Beverly Hillbillies |
| William A. O'Neill |
Politician |
11-Aug-1930 |
24-Nov-2007 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1980-91 |
| Michael O'Shea |
Actor |
17-Mar-1906 |
4-Dec-1973 |
It's a Great Life |
| Frederick Law Olmsted |
Landscape Architect |
26-Apr-1822 |
28-Aug-1903 |
Designed New York's Central Park |
| Richard N. Palmer |
Judge |
27-May-1950 |
|
Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court |
| Harold Rome |
Composer |
27-May-1908 |
26-Oct-1993 |
I Can Get It for You Wholesale |
| Barry R. Schaller |
Judge |
23-Nov-1938 |
|
Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court |
| Roger W. Sperry |
Scientist |
20-Aug-1913 |
17-Apr-1994 |
"Split brain" hemispheric neurophysiology |
| Raymond St. Jacques |
Actor |
1-Mar-1930 |
27-Aug-1990 |
Cotton Comes to Harlem |
| Tom Tryon |
Novelist |
14-Jan-1926 |
4-Sep-1991 |
The Other |
| Diane Venora |
Actor |
10-Aug-1952 |
|
Bird |
| Seth P. Waxman |
Government |
28-Nov-1951 |
|
US Solicitor General, 1997-2001 |
| Edward Bennett Williams |
Attorney |
31-May-1920 |
13-Aug-1988 |
Washington Superlawyer |
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Horace Bushnell |
Religion |
14-Apr-1802 |
17-Feb-1876 |
Nature and the Supernatural |
| Samuel Colt |
Inventor |
19-Jul-1814 |
10-Jan-1862 |
Invented the revolver |
| King Donovan |
Actor |
25-Jan-1918 |
30-Jun-1987 |
Character actor husband of Imogene Coca |
| Horton Foote |
Playwright |
14-Mar-1916 |
4-Mar-2009 |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
| William Gillette |
Actor |
24-Jul-1853 |
29-Apr-1937 |
Portrayed Sherlock Holmes on the stage |
| Ella T. Grasso |
Politician |
10-May-1919 |
5-Feb-1981 |
First woman elected governor of Connecticut |
| Harry J. Gray |
Business |
18-Nov-1919 |
8-Jul-2009 |
CEO of United Technologies, 1972-86 |
| Thomas Hooker |
Religion |
7-Jul-1586 |
7-Jul-1647 |
American colonial Puritan leader |
| Everett J. Lake |
Politician |
8-Feb-1871 |
16-Sep-1948 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1921-23 |
| George L. Lilley |
Politician |
3-Aug-1859 |
21-Apr-1909 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1909 |
| James L. McConaughy |
Politician |
21-Oct-1887 |
7-Mar-1948 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1947-48 |
| Joseph Morgan |
Business |
4-Jan-1780 |
23-Jul-1847 |
Patriarch of the Morgan family of millionaires |
| Junius Spencer Morgan |
Business |
14-Apr-1813 |
8-Apr-1890 |
J. S. Morgan and Company |
| Francis A. Pratt |
Business |
15-Feb-1827 |
10-Feb-1902 |
Co-Founder of Pratt & Whitney |
| Henry Roberts |
Politician |
22-Jun-1853 |
1-May-1929 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1905-07 |
| Wallace Stevens |
Poet |
2-Oct-1879 |
2-Aug-1955 |
Harmonium |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Novelist |
14-Jun-1811 |
1-Jul-1896 |
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| John H. Trumbull |
Politician |
4-Mar-1873 |
21-May-1961 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1925-31 |
| Charles Dudley Warner |
Author |
12-Sep-1829 |
20-Oct-1900 |
Harper's editorialist |
| Henry Clay Work |
Composer |
1-Oct-1832 |
8-Jun-1884 |
Marching Through Georgia |
