List of Sons and Daughters of the City of New Haven, Connecticut

This is a list of public figures that American US in the city of New Haven ( Connecticut ) were born. The list does not claim to be complete.

18th century

Jared Ingersoll (1749-1822), politician, Founding Father of the United States
Lyman Beecher (1775–1863), Presbyterian pastor and one of the leading representatives of the abstinence movement
John Wales (1783–1863), US Senator for Delaware
Henry Edwin Dwight (1797–1832), author and educator
Charles Goodyear (1800–1860), inventor of vulcanization

Andrew Hull Foote (1806–1863), United States Navy Rear Admiral during the American Civil War
George Whiting Flagg (1816-1897), painter
Theodore Winthrop (1828–1861), author and lawyer
William H. Yale (1831-1917), politician
Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903), physicist
Simeon Eben Baldwin (1840–1927), Connecticut Governor
Toby Edward Rosenthal (1848–1917), painter
George Appo (1856–1930), criminal
Russell Henry Chittenden (1856–1943), physiologist and chemist
John Haberle (1856–1933), painter
Mary Fairchild Low (1858-1946), painter
Timothy L. Woodruff (1858-1913), politician
Paul Wayland Bartlett (1865-1925), sculptor
William Edwin Haesche (1867–1929), composer
Burton J. Hendrick (1870-1949), author

Harry Myers
(1882-1938)

John Rand (1871-1940), actor
Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1871-1954), writer
Alfred P. Sloan (1875–1966), President of General Motors
Clifford Beers (1876–1943), founder of the American psychiatry reform
Harry Myers (1882–1938), actor, screenwriter and silent film director
Edwin Arthur Kraft (1883–1962), organist and composer
Joseph Farnham (1884-1931), screenwriter
Robert Moses (1888–1981), urban planner
Richard Donovan (1891–1970), composer, organist, conductor and music teacher
Michael Joseph Ready (1893–1957), Roman Catholic Bishop of Columbus
William Cameron Menzies (1896–1957), director, producer, screenwriter and film architect
Albert W. Cretella (1897–1979), politician
Quincy Porter (1897–1966), composer
Dewey Robinson (1898-1950), actor
Alfred Newman (1900–1970), composer, conductor and music director at 20th Century Fox
Barney Rapp (1900-1970), band leader

Blair Moody
(1902-1954)

Blair Moody (1902–1954), United States Senator for Michigan
George Murphy (1902–1992), actor and politician
Leo Tover (1902–1964), cameraman
Benjamin Spock (1903–1998), pediatrician and psychiatrist
Jennison Heaton (1904–1971), bobsleigh and skeleton rider
John Heaton (1908–1976), skeleton and bobsleigh driver
Adam Clayton Powell junior (1908–1972), politician and civil rights activist
Al Capp (1909–1979), comic book artist
Harold Devine (1909-1998), boxer
Walsh McDermott (1909-1981), medical doctor
Foster Furcolo (1911–1995), politician
John Francis Hackett (1911–1990), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Hartford
Emil Newman (1911–1984), film composer and conductor
Vincent Joseph Hines (1912–1990), Roman Catholic Bishop of Norwich
Philip Kapleau (1912-2004), Zen monk
Elliot Caplin (1913-2000), comic book author
Jonathan Brewster Bingham (1914–1986), politician
Bernard Wolfe (1915–1985), writer
Jack Arnold (1916–1992), film director
Ruth Berman Harris (1916-2013), harpist
Lionel Newman (1916–1989), film composer, music director and conductor
Les Elgart (1917–1995), jazz trumpeter
Buddy Morrow (1919-2010), jazz trombonist
Vincent Scully (1920–2017), art and architecture historian

Norman Lear
(born 1922)

Constance Baker Motley (1921–2005), first black federal judge in a US federal court
Bob Carter (1922-1993), jazz bassist
John S. Foster junior (born 1922), physicist
Norman Lear (born 1922), television writer and producer
Bernard F. Grabowski (1923–2019), politician
Lou Oles (1923-1967), jazz musician
Roberts Blossom (1924–2011), actor and poet
Sonny Berman (1925–1947), bebop jazz trumpeter
Paul MacCready (1925–2007), physicist, engineer and glider pilot
Stuart Griffing (born 1926), rower
Edward Lewis Wallant (1926–1962), writer
Wesley A. Clark (1927–2016), electrical engineer and computer designer
Donn Trenner (1927–2020), arranger and pianist of the swing era and modern jazz
Frank A. Barker (1928–1968), Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army
Jerry Bock (1928-2010), musical composer
Donald Brooks (1928-2005), fashion designer
Donald Hall (1928-2018), poet
Allen Stack (1928-1999), swimmer
Frank Dooley (born 1929), swimmer
Russell F. Doolittle (1931-2019), biochemist
Dominic Frontiere (1931-2017), composer
Joyce Mekeel (1931–1997), composer, harpsichordist and music teacher
Mary Louise Wilson (born 1931), actress
Pete Jolly (1932-2004), jazz pianist and accordionist
N. David Mermin (* 1935), theoretical physicist
Peter Anthony Rosazza (* 1935), Roman Catholic bishop
Tom Purdom (born 1936), science fiction author
George A. Akerlof (* 1940), professor of economics
George DiCenzo (1940-2010), actor

John Ruocco
(born 1952)

Tony Amendola (born 1951), actor
John Williamson (1951-1996), basketball player
Johannes von Dohnanyi (* 1952), German journalist and author
Edward Etzel (* 1952), marksman and professor of psychology
John Ruocco (* 1952), jazz clarinet and saxophonist
Josefina Benedetti (* 1953), Venezuelan composer
Michael Bolton (born 1953), pop musician
Paul Fusco (born 1953), actor
Michael Gregory Jackson (* 1953), jazz and rock musician
Lawrence Summers (* 1954), US Treasury Secretary and 27th President of Harvard University
Gerry Hemingway (* 1955), jazz drummer
Michiko Kakutani (* 1955), literary critic
Mark Hummel (* 1956), harmonica player
Rodney Jones (* 1956), jazz musician
John Bedford Lloyd (born 1956), actor
Ruth Ozeki (* 1956), Japanese-American author
Jeanne Flanagan (* 1957), rower
Richard Gray (* 1957), level designer in the computer game industry
Robby Ameen (* 1960), drummer
Craig Mello (* 1960), biochemist