List of people from New Haven, Connecticut

This is a list of notable natives and long-term residents of New Haven, Connecticut , in alphabetical order.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

New Haven, seen from East Rock

Academics and educators

Vincent Scully

Lawrence Summers

• Michael L.J. Apuzzo, academic neurosurgeon, surgical pioneer, editor, and educator
• Walter Darby Bannard, abstract painter and University of Miami professor
• Ida Barney, astronomer
• Harold Bloom, literature scholar and professor
• Edward Bouchet, physicist and first Black man to receive a Ph.D.
• Raymond C. Bowen, president of LaGuardia Community College
• Thom Brooks, political and legal philosopher
• Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, educator and author
• Timothy Dwight IV, president of Yale College
• Joseph S. Fruton, biochemist and historian of science
• Josiah Willard Gibbs, mathematical physicist
• Ruth Wilson Gilmore, prison abolitionist and professor at The City University of New York
• William Henry Goodyear, archeologist, art historian and museum curator
• Arthur Twining Hadley, economist and president of Yale University
• Geoffrey Hartman, literature scholar and emeritus professor
• Stephen Kobasa, teacher, writer and Christian political activist
• William Chester Minor, lexicographer and key contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary
• John Nicholas Newman, mathematician
• James Pierpont, founder of Yale College
• David Pingree, professor of mathematics and classics
• Michael Resnik, philosopher of mathematics
• Vincent Scully, author and architecture professor, University of Miami and Yale University
• Lawrence Summers, economist and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Harvard University president
• Peter Vallentyne, professor of philosophy
• Everard Mott Williams, scientist and educator

Actors and theater figures

Paul Giamatti

• Lauren Ambrose, actress
• Tony Amendola, actor
• Jack Arnold, film director
• Jessica Blank, actor, playwright and novelist
• Roberts Blossom, actor and poet
• Ernest Borgnine, actor
• Melanie Chartoff, actress
• Martha Coolidge, film director
• D.J. Cotrona, actor
• Paul Fusco, puppeteer, actor and creator of ALF
• Marcus Giamatti, actor
• Paul Giamatti, actor
• Norman Lear, television producer
• Billy Lush, actor
• Biff McGuire, actor
• William Cameron Menzies, film production director and art director
• Becki Newton, actress
• Nolan North, voice actor
• Ron Palillo, actor
• George O. Petrie, actor
• Thomas Sadoski, actor
• Patricia Smith, actress
• Jennifer von Mayrhauser, costume designer
• Rafer Weigel, actor and sportscaster
• Titus Welliver, actor
• Madeline Zima, actress
• D. J. Cotrona, actor

Artists and architects

Robert Moses

• Peter Anton, artist and sculptor
• Hezekiah Augur, sculptor and inventor
• Henry Austin, architect
• Paul Wayland Bartlett, sculptor
• Al Capp, cartoonist ^[1]
• August Geiger, architect
• John Haberle, painter
• Patrick Earl Hammie, painter
• Nathaniel Jocelyn, painter
• Damian Loeb, painter
• Tala Madani, artist
• Robert Moses, architect and urban planner
• Samuel Peck, 19th-century photographer, businessperson
• César Pelli, architect
• Jesse Richards, artist and filmmaker
• Rudi Stern, light artist
• Sidney Mason Stone, architect
• Ithiel Town, architect and civil engineer
• Nicholas Watson, filmmaker and artist
• Minna Weiss Zellner, artist and print maker ^[2]

Athletes and athletics personnel

Brad Ausmus

Craig Breslow

Josh Zeid

• Michael Altieri, pro wrestler performing under the name Mikey Batts
• Brad Ausmus (born 1969), American Major League Baseball catcher and manager
• Frank Beisler, hockey player
• Eric Boguniecki, hockey player
• Albie Booth, football player
• Craig Breslow, baseball pitcher and executive
• Scott Burrell, basketball coach
• Walter Camp, football inventor
• Glenna Collett-Vare, golfer
• Tommy Corcoran, baseball shortstop ^[3]
• Chad Dawson, boxer
• Harold Devine, boxer
• George Dixon, football running back
• Gardner Dow, football player
• Justin Duberman, hockey right winger
• Ed Ellis, football offensive tackle ^[4]
• Adam Erne, hockey player
• Ed Etzel, Olympic sports shooter gold medalist
• Harrison Fitch, basketball player
• Kevin Gilbride, football coach
• Fred Goldsmith, baseball pitcher ^[5]
• Jason Grabowski, baseball player ^[6]
• Jim Greco, skateboarder ^[7]
• Adam Greenberg, baseball outfielder ^[8]
• Stu Griffing, rower
• Anttaj Hawthorne, football defensive tackle ^[9]
• Jennison Heaton, bobsled racer
• Nate Hobgood-Chittick, football defensive tackle ^[10]
• Richard Holliday, professional wrestler
• Matt Hussey, hockey centre
• Bill Hutchison, baseball pitcher ^[11]
• Bob Kuziel, football offensive lineman ^[12]
• Floyd Little, football running back ^[13]
• Brian Looney, baseball pitcher ^[14]
• Ted Lowry, boxer
• Terrell Myers, basketball player
• Mike Olt, baseball player ^[15]
• Ed Rapuano, umpire
• Anthony Sagnella, football defensive tackle ^[16]
• Allen Stack, swimmer
• Greg Stokes, basketball player
• George Weiss, baseball executive
• Sly Williams, basketball player
• John Williamson, basketball player
• Josh Zeid, American-Israeli baseball player ^[17]

Business figures

Eli Whitney

• Ted Bates, advertising executive
• Sarah Boone, inventor
• Wesley A. Clark, computer scientist and consultant
• Charles Goodyear, inventor and industrialist
• James J. Greco, businessman, was born in town
• Clifford Grodd (1924–2010), president and chief executive of Paul Stuart ^[18]
• Paul MacCready, aeronautical engineer and inventor
• Andrew Paulson, entrepreneur and media executive
• Roberta Hoskie, real estate broker, writer, and media personality
• Peter Schiff, investment broker, author, financial commentator and CEO of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.
• Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., businessman and CEO of General Motors
• Lucius Seymour Storrs, railway official
• Eli Whitney, inventor and manufacturer
• Steve Wynn, casino developer

Clergymen

• Charles C. Baldwin, Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Air Force
• Lyman Beecher, clergyman and abolitionist
• Jonathan Edwards, pastor, theologian, missionary
• William H. Ferris, author, minister and scholar
• Michael J. McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus

Lawyers and jurists

• Roger Sherman Baldwin, lawyer, Amistad case
• Ellen Bree Burns, judge
• Lubbie Harper Jr., judge
• Maeve Kennedy McKean, lawyer and health official
• Constance Baker Motley, civil rights activist, judge, and politician
• Neil Thomas Proto, lawyer, teacher, lecturer, and author
• Martin Karl Reidinger, judge
• Thomas Thacher, lawyer

Military figures

• Timothy I. Ahern, major general
• Benedict Arnold, general who defected to the British
• William P. Cronan, naval officer and Naval Governor of Guam
• Nathan Hale, soldier and spy
• Henry Leavenworth, brigadier general
• Alfred Judson Force Moody, brigadier general
• Allen L. Seaman, naval officer
• Shabsa Mashkautsan, Russian Jewish World War II soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union

Musicians

Michael Bolton

• Ben Allison, jazz double bass player
• Sonny Berman, jazz trumpeter
• Kath Bloom, singer-songwriter ^[19]
• Michael Bolton, singer-songwriter
• Andrew Calhoun, folk singer, songwriter
• Karen (1950–1983) and Richard Carpenter (born 1946), singers and musicians
• Loren Mazzacane Connors, musician and artist
• Susan DiBona, composer
• Dominic Frontiere, composer
• Anthony Geraci, blues and jazz pianist ^[20]
• Jay Greenberg, composer
• Gerry Hemingway, jazz percussionist and composer
• Charles Ives, composer
• Michael Gregory Jackson, jazz guitarist
• Jamey Jasta, singer and guitarist
• Kris Jensen, singer and guitarist
• Pete Jolly, jazz pianist and accordionist
• Brooks Kerr, jazz pianist
• Hilly Michaels, musician and drummer
• Joe Morris, jazz guitarist
• Buddy Morrow, trombonist and bandleader
• Alfred Newman, Hollywood composer and conductor
• Troy Oliver, musician, songwriter and producer
• Liz Phair, singer-songwriter and guitarist
• Stacy Phillips, bluegrass artist
• Quincy Porter, composer and music teacher
• Barney Rapp, bandleader and jazz musician
• Kira Roessler, bassist of Black Flag
• Emily Saliers, singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls
• Christian Sands, jazz pianist
• Tony Scherr, bassist and guitarist musician, singer-songwriter and record producer
• Artie Shaw, bandleader
• Stezo, rapper
• Donn Trenner, jazz pianist and arranger
• Jessica Grace Wing, theatrical composer
• Barry Wood, singer and television producer

Politicians

George W. Bush

• Katherine Clark, Democratic House Whip and U.S. Congresswoman
• Howard S. Baldwin, Arizona State Senator and businessman
• Roger Sherman Baldwin, lawyer in the Amistad case, U.S. Senator and 17th Governor of Connecticut
• George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
• Charles R. Chapman, mayor of Hartford, Connecticut and served in both houses of the Connecticut legislature ^[21]
• William P. Cronan, naval officer and Naval Governor of Guam
• John C. Daniels, mayor of New Haven
• Rosa DeLauro, U.S. Congresswoman
• John DeStefano Jr., mayor of New Haven
• Biagio DiLieto, mayor of New Haven
• Andy Dinniman, Pennsylvania State Senator
• Jerome F. Donovan, U.S. Congressman for New York
• Phineas C. Dummer, 6th mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey
• Henry W. Edwards, 27th and 29th Governor of Connecticut
• Foster Furcolo, U.S. Congressman and 60th Governor of Massachusetts
• Peter Franchot, 33rd Comptroller of Maryland
• Henry Baldwin Harrison, 52nd Governor of Connecticut
• James Hillhouse, U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator for Connecticut
• Thomas Hill Hubbard, U.S. Congressman for New York
• Charles Roberts Ingersoll, U.S. Congressman and 47th Governor of Connecticut
• Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll, U.S. Congressman and mayor of New Haven
• Joan R. Kemler, first woman to serve as Connecticut State Treasurer
• Eleazer Kimberly, in 1696 became Secretary of Connecticut Colony; "the first male born in New Haven"
• Richard C. Lee, mayor of New Haven
• Joe Lieberman, Connecticut Attorney General, U.S. Senator, and 2000 U.S. vice presidential candidate
• William D. Lindsley, U.S. Congressman for Ohio
• Frank Logue, mayor of New Haven
• Henry Meigs, U.S. Congressman for New York
• Bruce Morrison, U.S. Congressman for Connecticut
• George Lloyd Murphy, U.S. Senator for California and president of the Screen Actors Guild
• Mary Mushinsky, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
• Gamaliel Painter, Vermont state legislator
• Henry E. Parker, Connecticut State Treasurer
• James P. Pigott, U.S. Congressman for Connecticut
• Adam Clayton Powell Jr., U.S. Congressman for New York City
• Roger Sherman, first Mayor of New Haven, signed the Declaration of Independence and Constitution
• John Todd Trowbridge, member of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature and sea captain
• Rick Tuttle, Los Angeles city controller
• William H. Yale, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota

Writers

• Joseph Payne Brennan, poet and short story writer
• Hermann Broch, novelist
• Noah Charney, novelist and art historian
• William Cronon, environmental historian
• Dorothy Deming, nurse and author
• John Falsey, television writer and producer
• Jeannine Hall Gailey, poet
• William Heffernan, novelist
• Burton J. Hendrick, journalist and writer
• Mary Austin Holley, 19th-century travel writer
• George W. Hotchkiss, 19th-century journalist, editor, historian, and lumber dealer
• Andrew Kopkind, journalist
• Leigh Montville, sportswriter and author
• Ruth Ozeki, novelist
• Themo H. Peel, author and illustrator
• Delia Lyman Porter, author
• Mark de Solla Price, author, journalist and activist
• Margaret Sidney, children's author
• Benjamin Spock, pediatrician and author
• Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill (1799–1879), children's book author
• Russell Wangersky, journalist and short story writer
• Leonard Weisgard, children's author and illustrator
• Bernard Wolfe, science fiction writer

Others

• Matt Amodio, Jeopardy! champion
• Michael Buckley, YouTube celebrity
• Perry DeAngelis, co-founder and executive director of NESS, co-founder of podcast The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
• Scott Fellows, television producer
• Louis Harris, pollster
• Bun Lai, sustainable sushi pioneer of Miya's
• Mary Blair Moody, physician
• Lucy Creemer Peckham, physician, poet
• Frank Pepe, pizza chef
• Madeline Triffon, sommelier

See also

• List of Yale University people
• List of Hopkins School people
• List of mayors of New Haven, Connecticut
• List of people from Connecticut
• Category:Lists of people by Connecticut municipalities

References

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