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Famous Natives
People listed are almost always native to the state. We do (on occasion) include those that have either lived within a state for most of their adult life, or have made a significant contribution to the state in their personal endeavors. Dean Acheson politician Ethan Allen american revolutionary leader Lauren Ambrose actress Benedict Arnold V general continental army, traitor Moses Austin developer of lead industry Roger Sherman Baldwin politician Joel Barlow poet, politician P. T. Barnum showman, founder ringling bros, barnum & bailey circus Ed Begley actor Richard Belzer actor A. Scott Berg biographer, pulitzer prize winner Chris Berman sportscaster Henry Alfred Bishop railroad executive, politician Michael Bolton singer, songwriter Ernest Borgnine actor Jesse Bradford actor Jonathan Brandis actor Alex Breckenridge actress Amy Brenneman actress Brooke Brodack video producer John Brown abolitionist Daniel Burbank astronaut Gary Burghoff actor Aaron Burr, Sr. educator Scott Burrell basketball player George W. Bush former u. s. president Candace Bushnell author Marcus Camby basketball player Walter Camp sports writer, football coach Al Capp cartoonist Karen Carpenter singer Richard Carpenter musician Chris Carrabba singer Orlow W. Chapman politician Chris Clark hockey player Glenn Close actress Jaidon Codrington boxer Samuel Colt inventor, industrialist, founder colt's fire arms company Joe Courtney politician Bob Crane actor Paul Dano actor Rosa DeLauro politician Brian Dennehy actor Christopher Dodd politician Chris Drury hockey player Dominick Dunne journalist, author John Gregory Dunne author, screenwriter Oliver Ellsworth politician Anna Eshoo politician Linda Evans actress Eileen Farrell opera singer John Fitch inventor, bronzesmith Dwight Freeney football player William Gillette actor, playwright Ryan Gomes basketball player Charles Goodyear inventor vulcanized rubber Porter J. Goss politician Ella T. Grasso first woman governor of connecticut Galusha A. Grow politician Nathan Hale america's first spy, officer in american revolutionary war Robert N. Hall inventor Dorothy Hamill olympic medalist (born in illinois) Anttaj Hawthorne football player J. J. Henry golfer Katharine Hepburn actress David Humphreys revolutionary war colonel, author Collis Potter Huntington railroad magnate Samuel Huntington jurist, statesman Laura Ingraham radio host Charles Ives composer Jay Johnstone baseball player Mary Dixon Kies first woman to receive patent Ted Knight actor Charles H. Kraft anthropologist, linguist Edwin H. Land inventor, scientist John Larson politician Eriq LaSalle actor Annie Leibovitz photographer Sol LeWitt artist Joe Lieberman politician Kristine Lilly soccer player Justin Long actor Christopher Lloyd actor Seth MacFarlane comedian, screenwriter, producer John Mayer singer, songwriter Dylan McDermott actor Mark McGrath singer Robert Mitchum actor J. P. Morgan financier, banker, philanthropist Calvin Murphy basketball player Jerry Nadeau race car driver Ralph Nader author, political activist, politician David Naughton actor Kevin Nealon actor Emily Cheney Neville author Fred Norris radio personality, comedy writer Frederick Law Olmsted landscape architect Kenneth Olsen inventor, engineer Ron Palillo actor Willie Pep boxer Liz Phair singer, songwriter Jimmy Piersall baseball player Kenneth Lee Pike linguist, anthropologist Frederick Walker Pitkin politician Gene Pitney singer, songwriter Rosa Ponselle soprano Charles Ethan Porter artist Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. politician E. Annie Proulx author, pulitzer prize winner John Ratzenberger actor Abraham Ribicoff politician Christy Carlson Romano actress, singer Bill Romanowski football player John Rowland politician Rosalind Russell actress Meg Ryan actress Emily Saliers singer, songwriter, musician Chloë Sevigny actress Scott Sharp race car driver Chris Shays politician Jimmy Shea olympic medalist Spec Shea baseball player Joseph Earl Sheffield railroad magnate Jeff Simmons race car driver Christopher Miner Spencer inventor Armstrong Sperry author, illustrator Benjamin Spock pediatrician, author Harriett Beecher Stowe author, abolitionist Larry Sullivan actor Eli Terry clockmaker Alton Tobey artist Kathleen Kennedy Townsend poltician Jim True-Frost actor John Trumbull artist Jonathan Trumbull politician Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. politician Bobby Valentine baseball player James Van Der Beek actor Mo Vaughn baseball player Noah Webster lexicographer, author, spelling reformer Gideon Welles politician Eleazar Wheelock educator, founder dartmouth college Eli Whitney inventor cotton gin Treat Williams actor Oliver Wolcott politician Oliver Wolcott, Jr. politician Is someone missing from this list?
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