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This list of people from Darien, Connecticut, includes current and past residents as well as others associated with Darien, Connecticut. The list is categorized by area in which each person is best known, in alphabetical order within each category:
Actors, musicians, and others in entertainment
Kate Bosworth, actress, starred as Lois Lane in film Superman Returns and as Sandra Dee in biopic Beyond the Sea
Eddie Bracken, film, Broadway, television and radio star with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Alexandra Breckenridge, actress
Rose Marie Brown, actress and Miss Virginia (1939)
Garrett Brown, film and TV actor, appeared in Uncle Buck, The O.C., Cold Case, CSI, The Practice and The Shield
Eliza Clark, child actress in films and soap operas, grew up in town (sister of Spencer Treat Clark)
Spencer Treat Clark (born 1987), child actor in films such as Gladiator and Mystic River, grew up in town (brother of Eliza Clark)
Clint Conley, musician in the band Mission of Burma
Tom Gammill, Emmy-winning television producer and writer of The Simpsons, Monk, Seinfeld, Futurama, It's Garry Shandling's Show, Late Night with David Letterman, Saturday Night Live
Topher Grace, actor, star of TV series That '70s Show and films such as Interstellar and Spider-Man 3
Frank La Forge, pianist and composer
Frank Latimore, actor, star of 1940s films such as 13 Rue Madeleine and Shock
Garett Maggart, actor
Alex Michel, cast member on The Bachelor
Moby, musician, grew up partly in Darien
Gerry Mulligan, Grammy Award-winning jazz musician and film music composer; died in Darien
Christopher Plummer, Oscar-winning actor, former resident
Chris Risola, American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the original lead guitarist for the glam metal band Steelheart
Chloë Sevigny, Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe award-winning actress
Steve-O, comedian; lived in Darien during his early years
Mark Tinker, multiple Emmy-winning television producer/director, St. Elsewhere, The White Shadow, NYPD Blue, Deadwood, John From Cincinnati
Gus Van Sant, director of films such as Good Will Hunting and Milk, attended Darien High School
Steve Wilkos, host of television's Steve Wilkos Show, resident
Paul Yates, artist, film director, born and raised in Darien
Authors, writers, journalists, photojournalists
Margaret Bourke-White, late photojournalist, lived in town first with author Erskine Caldwell, then in the same home on Point O'Woods South after their divorce
Erskine Caldwell, late author, lived in town with Margaret Bourke-White, left her the house when they divorced
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, late author, wife of Charles Lindbergh
Rob Morrison, former anchor of CBS 2 News This Morning and CBS 2 News At Noon, resident
Robert Newton Peck, author (now lives in Florida)
Scott Pelley, 60 Minutes correspondent and anchor of the CBS Evening News, resident
Joanna Scott, novelist, grew up in town
Louise Hall Tharp, biographer
Government, military
Ethan Allen Brown (1776–1852), Ohio governor, U.S. Senator, diplomat, was born on the Fourth of July in town
Leslie Groves, military head of the Manhattan Project, afterward lived in town
Stephen Mather, founder and first director of the National Park Service
Martha Peterson, former operations officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency
Christopher Shays, Republican congressman representing Connecticut's Fourth District, born in Darien and a 1964 graduate of Darien High School (now lives in the DC area)
Ralph E. Van Norstrand (1961), minority leader of the Connecticut General Assembly, 1979—1985; Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives, 1985—1987
Business
Glenn Britt (1949–2014), former CEO of Time Warner
Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and philanthropist, vacationed for several summers at what became the Convent of the Sacred Heart on Long Neck
Richard Chilton, billionaire, founder, chairman, and CEO of Chilton Investment Company
Andreas Halvorsen, billionaire, CEO and co-founder of Viking Global Investors
James B. Lee, Jr. (1952–2015), investment banker, former Vice Chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Harold McGraw III, chairman, president and CEO of McGraw-Hill book publishing company, chairman (as of 2006) of the Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs of "leading" U.S. companies
Walter E. Sachs (1884–1980), partner at Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Peter Schiff, founder of Euro Pacific capital, former economic advisor to Texas Congressman Ron Paul's 2008 bid for the presidency
Dennis Weatherstone, banker with J.P. Morgan & Co., moved to the area in 1971.
Sports
Brian Cashman, New York Yankees General Manager
James Ignatowich (born 2000), professional pickleball player
Hugh Jessiman (born 1984), professional hockey player
Spencer Knight (born 2001), ice hockey goaltender
Eddie Lopat (1918–1992), Major League Baseball pitcher, lived elsewhere, died at the home of his son in town
Michael Schwartz, Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame
Ryan Shannon, NHL player for Ottawa Senators, traded from Anaheim Ducks after they won the Stanley Cup in 2007
Artists
Vincent Colyer (1825–1888), artist and humanitarian, lived on Contentment Island
Gus Edson (1901–1966), cartoonist who drew The Gumps and Dondi
Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011), prominent second-generation abstract expressionist
Lurelle Guild (1898–1985), industrial designer
Walt Kelly (1913–1973), cartoonist who drew Pogo
John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872), luminist, second generation Hudson River School; lived on Contentment Island
Ruth Ray (1919–1977), artist who painted in a magical realist style
Others
Alex Kelly, convicted rapist who fled country to escape charges
Charles Lindbergh, iconic aviator, husband of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, lived on Tokeneke Trail
See also
List of people from Connecticut
List of people from Bridgeport, Connecticut
List of people from Brookfield, Connecticut
List of people from Greenwich, Connecticut
List of people from Hartford, 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
External links
Internet Movie Database web page for those born in Darien