Biographical Records
Notable People from Connecticut
2,282 notable figures born in Connecticut, showing page 17 of 46, ranked by historical prominence.
Prince Saunders
1775 – 1839
authordiplomatteacher
James O'Donnell
1840 – 1915
politician
Chester D. Hubbard
1814 – 1891
politician
Mimi Benzell
1922 – 1970
stage actortelevision actoropera singer
Oliver Phelps
1749 – 1809
politicianjudge
Mary A. Swift
1812 – 1875
physicistwriter
John Castellani
1926 – 2021
basketball coach
Richard D. Hubbard
1818 – 1884
juristgovernorpolitician
William T. Minor
1815 – 1889
juristgovernorpolitician
Marcus H. Holcomb
1844 – 1932
juristgovernorpolitician
Ebenezer J. Hill
1845 – 1917
politician
Conrad Gozzo
1922 – 1964
trumpeter
Simeon B. Chittenden
1814 – 1889
politician
Frank Fasi
1920 – 2010
military officerpolitician
Abel Huntington
1777 – 1858
politician
Joseph Gilbert Totten
1788 – 1864
conchologistmilitary officer
Donn Trenner
1927 – 2020
jazz musicianmusic arrangerbandleader
Ida Bailey Allen
1885 – 1973
radio personalitychefdietitian
Bernadotte Perrin
1847 – 1920
classical philologistuniversity teacher
Alexander McCormick Sturm
1923 – 1951
children's writerwriter
Edward Lewis Wallant
1926 – 1962
writerscreenwriter
Chester Lyman
1814 – 1890
educatorsurveyorphysicist
Alfred A. Burnham
1819 – 1879
politicianlawyer
Manasseh Cutler
1742 – 1823
botanistbotanical collectorclergyman
Sidney Dean
1818 – 1901
editorpolitician
Ralph Thomas Walker
1889 – 1973
architect
Sophia Fowler Gallaudet
1798 – 1877
educator
Marguerite Caetani
1880 – 1963
literary criticpatron of the artsart collector
Winthrop Chandler
1747 – 1790
painter
John A. Gurley
1813 – 1863
journalistpolitician
Paula Jean Welden
1928
Grant Tinker
1925 – 2016
television producer
Chauncey Ives
1810 – 1894
sculptor
William R. Cotter
1926 – 1981
politician
Leni Lynn
1923 – 2010
film actoractor
Alfred Ely
1815 – 1892
juristpoliticianlawyer
Alfred A. Hart
1816 – 1908
painterphotographer
Anson Dickinson
1779 – 1852
painter
Mary Rutherfurd Jay
1872 – 1953
horticulturistlandscape architectarchitect
John Wilkinson
1920 – 2002
audio engineer
David Miles
1871 – 1915
silent film actorfilm director
Francis Patrick Garvan
1875 – 1937
art collectorjuristlawyer
Jules Cowles
1877 – 1943
actor
John Haberle
1856 – 1933
painter
Irwin Schiff
1928 – 2015
activisttax protesterpolitician
Jack Cohen
1933 – 2019
non-fiction writerscience fiction writerbiologist
Edith Dimock
1876 – 1955
painterartist
Arthur Hoops
1870 – 1916
film actorstage actoractor
Edward FitzGerald
1871 – 1931
mountaineer
Annie Trumbull Slosson
1838 – 1926
scientific collectorshort story writerentomologist