List of personalities of the city of Hartford, Connecticut
The following is a list of personalities of the city Hartford (Connecticut) in the United States .
Personalities
Well-known people have lived in Hartford :
- Jackie McLean (1931-2006), jazz musician
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), writer
- Mark Twain (1835-1910), writer
- Horace Wells (1815–1848), dentist and pioneer of modern anesthesia
The Hartford Wits also met here regularly at the end of the 18th century under the aegis of Timothy Dwight IV.
sons and daughters of the town
To 1900
- Jeremiah Wadsworth (1743-1804), politician
- John Mattocks (1777-1847), politician
- Samuel Colt (1814–1862), inventor of the first working firearm with a rotating cylinder
- Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), landscape painter
- John Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), entrepreneur and banker
- William Gedney Bunce (1840-1916), painter
- John Fiske (1842–1901), philosopher and historian
- William Gillette (1853–1937), actor and playwright
- E. Hart Fenn (1856-1939), politician
- Robert Vonnoh (1858–1933), painter and art teacher
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), feminist author
- Arthur Leslie Wheeler (1871–1932), classical philologist
- Edith May Aab (1875–1963), singer and vocal teacher
- Frederick Buckley Newell (1890–1979), Methodist theologian and bishop
- William A. Purtell (1897–1978), politician
- Stan King (1900-1949), jazz musician
1901 to 1950
- Barbara McClintock (1902–1992), geneticist and Nobel Prize winner
- Robert Emmett Dolan (1906–1972), film composer, conductor and film producer
- Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003), actress
- Harold Rome (1908–1993), composer and lyricist
- Fred J. Doocy (1913-2017), politician
- Louis Nye (1913–2005), comedian and actor
- Roger Sperry (1913–1994), neurobiologist and Nobel Prize winner
- Joseph F. Ryter (1914–1978), politician
- Daniel Alpert (1917–2015), physicist
- Howard Ensign Evans (1919-2002), entomologist
- Bernard Bailyn (1922-2020), historian
- David Allyn (1923–2012), pop and jazz singer
- Edwin H. May (1924–2002), politician
- Walter Bolden (1925–2002), jazz drummer, arranger and composer
- William R. Cotter (1926–1981), politician
- Tom Tryon (1926–1991), actor and writer
- Sol LeWitt (1928–2007), Minimal Art artist
- Larry Collins (1929-2005), writer
- Emil Richards (1932–2019), jazz percussionist
- Ben Cooper (1933-2020), actor
- Allan Hobson (* 1933), psychiatry professor
- Barbara B. Kennelly (* 1936), politician
- Eunice Groark (1938–2018), politician
- Robert H. Steele (* 1938), politician
- Daniel Z. Freedman (* 1939), theoretical physicist
- Barbara Kolb (* 1939), composer
- Gene Pitney (1940-2006), singer and songwriter
- Paul R. Schimmel (* 1940), biochemist and biophysicist
- Paul Bremer (* 1941), diplomat and government official
- Bobby Gordon (1941-2013), jazz clarinetist
- Linda Evans (born 1942), actress
- Jonathan D. Kramer (1942–2004), composer, musicologist and music teacher
- Christie Albert Macaluso (* 1945), Roman Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop emeritus in Hartford
- Preston Trombly (* 1945), composer and visual artist
- Tony DiCicco (1948–2017), football player and coach
- Paul Flaherty (* 1948), jazz saxophonist
- Robert Parry (1949-2018), investigative journalist
From 1951
- Philip-Lorca diCorcia (* 1951), photographer
- David Naughton (born 1951), actor and singer
- Seth P. Waxman (* 1951), lawyer and politician
- David Caron (1952–2018), lawyer and university professor
- Diane Venora (born 1952), actress
- Joe Courtney (born 1953), politician
- Elizabeth May (* 1954), Canadian environmental activist, lawyer and politician
- Jeff Porcaro (1954–1992), drummer in the rock band Toto
- Mike Porcaro (1955–2015), bassist in the rock band Toto
- Donald Baechler (born 1956), artist
- Peter Perfido (* 1956), jazz drummer
- John Posey (born 1956), actor
- Steve Porcaro (* 1957), musician and music producer
- Timothy Patrick Murphy (1959–1988), actor
- Eriq La Salle (* 1962), actor, director, producer and screenwriter
- Eugene Robinson (born 1963), American football player
- David Alan Basche (* 1968), film and stage actor
- Mark McGrath (* 1968), musician in the rock band Sugar Ray
- Jennifer McMahon (* 1968), thriller writer
- Jim Shea (* 1968), athlete and Olympic champion in skeleton
- Troy Duffy (* 1971), actor and musician
- Stephenie Meyer (* 1973), writer
- Marcus Camby (* 1974), Houston Rockets NBA player
- Stephanie McMahon (* 1976), entrepreneur
- Jeff Simmons (* 1976), racing driver
- Jenna Dewan (* 1980), dancer and actress
- Dezron Douglas (* 1981), jazz musician
- Dwight Freeney (born 1980), American football player
- Luques Curtis (* 1983), jazz musician
- Ryan St. Onge (born 1983), freestyle skier
- Jared Jordan (born 1984), basketball player
- Nick Bonino (* 1988), ice hockey player
- Jonathan Barber (* ≈1990), jazz musician
- Matt Dwonszyk (* ≈1990), jazz musician
Web links
Commons : People of Hartford, Connecticut - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files
