Biographical Records
Notable People from Connecticut
2,282 notable figures born in Connecticut, showing page 18 of 46, ranked by historical prominence.
Grant Tinker
1925 – 2016
television producer
Paula Jean Welden
1928
Roger Averill
1809 – 1883
politicianlawyer
George D. Prentice
1802 – 1870
newspaper editoreditorjournalist
Erasmus D. Peck
1808 – 1876
politician
Ralph Thomas Walker
1889 – 1973
architect
William R. Cotter
1926 – 1981
politician
Elizur Wright
1804 – 1885
actuarymathematiciantranslator
Alexander H. Holley
1804 – 1887
governorpolitician
Irwin Schiff
1928 – 2015
activisttax protesterpolitician
John Wilkinson
1920 – 2002
audio engineer
Leni Lynn
1923 – 2010
film actoractor
James Y. Smith
1809 – 1876
governorpoliticianmayor
David Hill
1809 – 1850
politician
James Wright Gordon
1809 – 1853
juristgovernorpolitician
Marguerite Caetani
1880 – 1963
literary criticpatron of the artsart collector
Jules Cowles
1877 – 1943
actor
Francis Patrick Garvan
1875 – 1937
art collectorjuristlawyer
Edward FitzGerald
1871 – 1931
mountaineer
Alphonse Chapanis
1917 – 2002
psychologistengineer
Ela Collins
1786 – 1848
politicianlawyer
David Miles
1871 – 1915
silent film actorfilm director
Annie Trumbull Slosson
1838 – 1926
scientific collectorshort story writerentomologist
Edith Dimock
1876 – 1955
painterartist
James Watson Robbins
1801 – 1879
botanistphysician
Samuel Ingham
1793 – 1881
politicianlawyerjudge
Lucy Say
1800 – 1886
scientific illustratorbotanical collectorpainter
Arthur Hoops
1870 – 1916
film actorstage actoractor
Mary Rutherfurd Jay
1872 – 1953
horticulturistlandscape architectarchitect
Sherlock James Andrews
1801 – 1880
politicianlawyerjudge
Jack Cohen
1933 – 2019
non-fiction writerscience fiction writerbiologist
Samuel Augustus Bridges
1802 – 1884
politicianlawyer
Silvio Bedini
1917 – 2007
historian of sciencelibrarianhistorian
Thomas R. Gold
1764 – 1827
politicianlawyer
Levi Warner
1831 – 1911
politicianlawyer
Joe Connor
1874 – 1957
baseball player
Melio Bettina
1916 – 1996
boxer
Eli Whitney Blake, Jr.
1836 – 1895
university teacherphysicist
Elisha Perkins
1741 – 1799
physician
John H. Trumbull
1873 – 1961
governorpolitician
Amasa Junius Parker
1807 – 1890
juristpoliticianlawyer
Edward C. Banfield
1916 – 1999
political scientist
Charles H. Grosvenor
1833 – 1917
military officerjuristpolitician
Christopher Miner Spencer
1833 – 1922
inventor
John Crowell
1801 – 1883
politicianlawyer
Frederick William Lord
1800 – 1860
politician
Gus Bivona
1915 – 1996
jazz musiciansaxophonist
William E. Dodge
1805 – 1883
politician
John Henry Hubbard
1804 – 1872
politicianlawyer
John Denison Champlin, Jr.
1834 – 1915
literary editorjournalistwriter