• Source: List of people from Hartford, Connecticut

The following list includes people who were born in, lived in or are otherwise closely connected with Hartford, Connecticut.




Academia


August Coppola, academic, film executive and father of Nicolas Cage
Michael C. FitzGerald (born 1953), art historian and Picasso scholar at Trinity College in Hartford
Stephen Cole Kleene (1909–1994), mathematician and professor
Spencer Shaw (1916–2010), librarian and professor at the University of Washington




Art and architecture


A. Everett "Chick" Austin (1900–1957), arts innovator and director of the Wadsworth Atheneum
Nadine M. DeLawrence (1953–1992), African-American visual artist; born and raised in Hartford
George Keller (1842–1935), architect, noted for Hartford's Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch and Hartford Union Station
Kathleen Kucka, abstract painter
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), landscape architect and urban planner, noted for many of the New York City parks and Stanford University's campus




Business


Samuel Colt (1814–1862), firearm inventor and industrialist
Austin Cornelius Dunham, businessman who was chief executive officer of Hartford Electric Light Company
J. P. Morgan (1837–1913), financier and industrialist
Albert A. Pope (1843–1909), Manufacturer of Pope Manufacturing Company automobiles and bicycles
Amos Whitney (1832–1920), mechanical engineer, inventor and co-founder of Pratt & Whitney company




Entertainment






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Robert Ames (1889–1931), stage and screen actor
Julie Banderas (born 1973), Emmy Award-winning, television news anchor
Ed Begley (1901–1970), actor
Amy Brenneman (born 1964), actress, best known for the television series Judging Amy
Christopher Briney (born 1998), actor, best known for Dalíland and The Summer I Turned Pretty
Brooke Burke (born 1971), television personality, model and dancer
Ben Cooper, best known for western films and television appearances in the 1960s and 1970s
Ann Corio (1914–1999), burlesque star
Jenna Dewan (born 1980), actress
Linda Evans (born 1942), actress, best known for Dynasty
Totie Fields (1930–1978), comedian
William Gillette (1853–1937), actor, director, famed for playing Sherlock Holmes on stage
Thomas Ian Griffith (born 1962), actor, martial artist, best known for playing Terry Silver in The Karate Kid Part III and Cobra Kai
Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003), 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), actor known for the television show ER
Norman Lear (1922–2023), television producer
Ken Ober, host of Remote Control
Charles Nelson Reilly (1931–2007), actor, director and TV personality
Ken Richters (born 1955), stage actor, playwright, and voice actor, known for impersonations of Mark Twain
Tony Todd, Broadway, film and television actor
Wavy Gravy, hippie icon, entertainer, and peace activist
Emily Wright (born 1980), songwriter, producer and engineer
Kim Zolciak (born 1978), star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, country music sing




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Igor Buketoff (1915–2001), conductor
Kurt Carr, gospel music composer and performer
Fates Warning, a progressive metal band formed in 1982
Charles Flores (1970–2012), jazz bassist and member of the Michel Camilo Trio
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
Notch, R&B, dancehall and Reggaeton artist
Gene Pitney (1940–2006), singer
Jeff Porcaro (1954–1992), Mike Porcaro (1955–2015) and Steve Porcaro (born 1957), of the rock band Toto
Joe Porcaro, jazz drummer; father of Jeff and Steve Porcaro
Doobie Powell gospel musician and pastor
Sophie Tucker (1884–1966), "last of the red-hot mamas," singer and comedian




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Jason Jackson, hosted a local sports radio show on ESPN Radio
Phil Tonken (1919–2000), announcer at New York station WOR-AM-TV




Law


Frank A. Hooker, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court




Literature and journalism


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 (1915–1997), World War II correspondent
Tom Curry (1900–1976), pulp fiction writer
Mary Ann Hanmer Dodd (1813–1878), poet
Dominick Dunne (1925–2009), writer
John Gregory Dunne (1932–2003), writer
Austin Gary, novelist
Stephenie Meyer (born 1973), author of Twilight series novels
Jim Murray (1919–1998), Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist of the Los Angeles Times
Greensbury Washington Offley (1808–1896), slave narrative author and minister
Lydia Sigourney (1791-1865), poet
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 home is open to the public and adjoins Mark Twain's
Mark Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835–1910), author known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ocean Vuong (born 1988), poet and novelist, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous




Military


William Bryden (1880–1972), U.S. Army major general
John H. Griebel (1901–1969), Marine Corps General
Joseph B. Murdock (1851–1931), US Navy Rear Admiral
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




Politics


Parmenio Adams (1776–1832), United States congressman; born in Hartford
James J. Barbour (1869–1946), Illinois lawyer and state legislator; born in Hartford
L. Paul Bremer (born 1941), ex-administrator of US-occupied Iraq and foreign service officer
Harold V. Camp (1935–2022), Connecticut lawyer, state legislator, and businessman
Charles R. Chapman, mayor of Hartford, served in both houses of Connecticut legislature
Ezra Clark Jr. (1813–1896), US representative
Horace S. Cooley, Illinois Secretary of State
William A. DiBella, Majority Leader of the Connecticut State Senate
Frank Fasi, mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii
George A. French, Minnesota state legislator and lawyer
Elizabeth Bartlett Grannis (1840–1926), suffragist, social reformer, editor
Thomas Hooker, founder of Connecticut
Bruce Hyer, Green Party of Canada Member of Parliament
Wilfred X. Johnson (1920–1972), first African American elected to the Connecticut General Assembly
A. Lucille Matarese, Connecticut state legislator and Roman Catholic Benedictine nun
Edward Ralph May (1819–1852), 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 former leader of the Green Party of Canada
Alice Merritt (1876–1950), the first woman to serve in the Connecticut State Senate (1925–1929); represented Hartford
Rachel Taylor Milton, community activist and Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame inductee
Chris Murphy (born 1973), U.S. senator, U.S. congressman
Lewis Rome (1933–2015), Connecticut State Senate leader and Republican Party nominee in the 1982 Connecticut gubernatorial election
Maria W. Stewart, abolitionist
Thomas A. Sullivan, Wisconsin State Assemblyman
Elmer Watson, US Army officer and Connecticut State Senate majority leader




Religion


Horace Bushnell (1802–1876), Congregational minister and theologian
Mary E. Van Lennep (1821–1844), missionary, school founder, memoirist




Science and medicine


Barbara McClintock (1902–1992), cytogeneticist, awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Frederick E. Olmsted (1872–1925), forester and one of the founders of American forestry
Alexander Rich (1925–2015), biologist and biophysicist
Paul Schimmel (b. 1940), biophysical chemist and translational medicine pioneer
Theodore Wirth (1863–1949), horticulturalist and park planner




Sports


Michael Adams (born 1963), NBA player
Steve Berthiaume, ESPN anchor
Nick Bonino (born 1988), NHL player
Marcus Camby (born 1974), NBA player
John Carney (born 1964), NFL placekicker
Mike Crispino, sportscaster for WVIT and WRCH, and ESPN
Andre Drummond (born 1993), NBA player for the Los Angeles Lakers
Jayson Durocher (born 1974), MLB player for the Milwaukee Brewers
Johnny Egan (1939–2022), NBA player
Dwight Freeney (born 1980), NFL player
Craig Janney (born 1968), NHL player
Tyrique Jones (born 1997), basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Rick Mahorn (born 1958), NBA player
Eric Mangini (born 1971), head coach of Cleveland Browns and New York Jets
Mike McGuirl (born 1998), basketball player for Hapoel Haifa in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Stephanie McMahon, businesswoman, professional wrestling personality
Cliff Olander (born 1955), 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
Will Solomon (born 1978), basketball player
Charley Steiner, Los Angeles Dodgers sportscaster
John Sullivan (born 1961), NFL player
Roderick G. (Rod) Taylor (1943–2014), Olympic skier
Tony Younger (born 1980), American-Israeli basketball player in the Israeli National League




Other


Nathaniel Bar-Jonah (1957–2008), convicted child molester and a suspected serial killer and cannibal
Howard Long (1905–1939), convicted murderer and child molester
Martha Bulloch Roosevelt (1835–1884), mother of president Theodore Roosevelt and grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt




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




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