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Famous Nutmeggers
Famous People that resided or were
born in Connecticut
Connecticut Overview
Connecticut State Parks
Connecticut Trivia
Art
Annie Leibovitz photographer,
Waterbury
Athletics & Sports
Dorothy Hamill
(1956 - ) Olympic gold medallist and
professional ice skater with the Ice
Capades; grew up in
Riverside.
Authors
Samuel Clemens (Mark
Twain) (1835 - 1910) Author of
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn;
lived in Hartford.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
(1811 - 1896) Author of
Uncle Tom’s Cabin;
born in Litchfield.
Noah Webster (1758 -
1843) Author of the first
dictionary
published in 1807; from West Hartford.
Business
& Finance
Collis Potter Huntington financier,
Harwinton
John Pierpont Morgan financier,
Hartford
Frederick Law Olmsted landscape
designer, Hartford
Education
Henry Ward Beecher clergyman,
Litchfield
Prudence Crandell
educator and reformer;
Entertainment
Eileen Farrell soprano, Willimantic
Katharine Hepburn
(1907 - ) Famous actress who won four
Academy Awards for best actress; born in
Hartford.
Charles Ives composer, Danbury
Rosa Ponselle soprano, Meriden
Phineas T. Barnum
(1810 - 1891) One founder of the
Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey
Circus; born in Bethel.
Historic
Benedict Arnold (1741
- 1801) A captain of the Colonial Army
turned British spy. He is famous for
burning down the town of New London;
since then, his name has meant
“traitor;” born in Norwich.
Inventors
Samuel Colt (1814 -
1862) Inventor and founder of the Colt
firearm company; born in Hartford.
Charles Goodyear
(1800 - 1860) Inventor of vulcanized
rubber; born in New Haven.
Robert N. Hall inventor, New Haven
Mary Kies, The first
woman to receive a US patent, received
on May 15th, 1809 for a
method of weaving straw with silk; from
South Killingly.
Edwin H. Land inventor
Kenneth H. Olsen inventor, Stratford
Medicine
Benjamin Spock pediatrician,
New Haven
Military
Ethan Allan American Revolutionary
soldier, Litchfield
Nathan Hale (1755
-1776) A martyr soldier of the American
Revolution; born in Coventry.
Politics
John Brown abolitionist,
Torrington
Ella Grasso (1919 -
1981) The first woman to be elected
governor of a state; born in Windsor
Locks.
Oliver Ellsworth jurist, Windsor
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
congressman, New Haven
Morris R. Waite
jurist;
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