| Famous Nutmeggers
name accomplishment
(birthplace or principal residence)
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Dean Acheson Secretary of State under President Harry Truman
and Pultizer Prize-winning historian (Middletown)
Amos Bronson Alcott philosopher (Wolcott)
Ethan Allen Revolutionary War commander (Litchfield)
Joseph Alsop syndicated columnist (Avon)
Stewart Alsop syndicated columnist
(Avon)
Benedict Arnold Revolutionary War
general (Norwich)
P.T. Barnum showman and circus owner (Bethel)
William Beaumont surgeon--first to study human
digestion (Lebanon)
Henry Ward Beecher leader of abolition and woman suffrage
movements (Litchfield)
Lyman Beecher abolitionist (New Haven)
Jerry Bock Broadway composer (New Haven)
Ernest Borgnine Academy Award-winning actor
(Hamden)
Crane Brinton historian (Winsted)
John Brown abolitionist (Torrington)
Gary Burghoff Emmy Award-winning television
actor (Bristol)
George Walker Bush 43rd President of the United
States (New Haven)
David Bushnell inventor of the first submarine (Saybrook)
Walter Camp father of
American football (New Britain)
Al Capp cartoonist (New Haven)
Karen Carpenter singer (New Haven)
Richard Carpenter singer (New Haven)
Frederick Edwin Church painter
(Hartford)
Glenn Close film actress (Greenwich)
Samuel Colt industrialist and inventor of the Colt revolver
(Hartford)
Silas Deane first
American diplomat (Groton)
John Gregory Dunne novelist (Hartford)
Jonathan Edwards
theologian (East Windsor)
John F. Enders microbiologist (West
Hartford)
Eileen Farrell
operatic soprano (Willimantic)
John Fitch inventor of the first steamboat to carry
passenger (Hartford County)
Josiah Gibbs
physicist--founder of thermodynamics and statistical
mechanics (New Haven)
Charles Goodyear inventor of vulcanized rubber (New Haven)
Ella T. Grasso first woman elected
Governor of a state on her own merit (Windsor Locks)
Nathan Hale Revolutionary War hero (Coventry)
Fitz-Greene Halleck poet (Guilford)
William Torrey Harris
philosopher-educator (Killingly)
Katharine Hepburn four-time Academy
Award-winning actress (Hartford)
Isaac Hull naval commander during the
War of 1812 (Derby)
William Hull general in the War of 1812
(Derby)
Charles Edward Ives
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer (Danbury)
Edward C. Kendall
Nobel Prize-winning chemist (South Norwalk)
Ted Knight Emmy Award-winning television
actor (Terryville)
Edwin Land inventor of the instant camera (Bridgeport)
Hope Lange television actress (Redding Ridge)
Norman Lear television producer and director
(New Haven)
John Ledyard explorer (Groton)
Harriet Mulford Lothrop children's novelist (New
Haven)
Robert Mitchum film
and television actor (Bridgeport)
John Pierpont Morgan banker and philanthropist (Hartford)
Calvin Murphy basketball player
(Norwalk)
Ralph Nader consumer
advocate (Winsted)
Frederick Law Olmstead
landscape architect (Hartford)
Nathaniel Palmer first
man to sight Antarctica (Stonington)
Gene Pitney composer and singer (Hartford)
Rosa Ponselle operatic soprano (Meriden)
Sarah Porter founder of Miss Porter's
School for Girls (Farmington)
Adam Clayton Powell,
Jr. Congressman (New
Haven)
Eliphalet Remington
rifle manufacturer (Suffield)
Abraham Ribicoff U.S. Senator (New Britain)
Bill Rodgers marathon runner (Hartford)
Harold Rome Broadway composer (Hartford)
George W. Scranton
iron manufacturer (Madison)
William Scranton United Nations ambassador
(Madison)
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. president of General Motors
(New Haven)
Benjamin Spock pediatrician and author of Common
Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (New Haven)
Harriet Beecher Stowe novelist (Litchfield)
Grant Tinker
television producer and network executive (Stamford)
John Trumbull painter (Lebanon)
Jonathan Trumbull first Governor of
Connecticut (Lebanon)
Thomas Tryon novelist (Hartford)
Bobby Valentine major
league baseball manager (Stamford)
John Van Vleck Nobel Prize-winning physicist
(Middletown)
Noah Webster lexicographer (West Hartford)
Eleazar Wheelock founder of Dartmouth College
(Windham)
Emma Willard founder of the Emma Willard
School (Berlin)
Sloan Wilson novelist (Norwalk)
Oliver Wolcott signer of the Declaration
of Independence (Windsor)
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