List of Famous people born in Connecticut, United States of America

Ellen Muth

Ellen Anna Muth
First Name Ellen
Last Name Muth
Born on March 6, 1981 (age 45)
Height 159 cm | 5'3

Ellen Muth is an American actress from Milford, Connecticut, best known for her role as Georgia "George" Lass in Showtime's series Dead Like Me.

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Henry Ward Beecher

First Name Henry
Last Name Beecher
Died on March 8, 1887

Henry Ward Beecher was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial. His rhetorical focus on Christ's love has influenced mainstream Christianity to this day.

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Michael Graziano

First Name Michael
Last Name Graziano
Born on May 22, 1967 (age 59)

Michael Steven Anthony Graziano is an American scientist and novelist who is currently a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. His scientific research focuses on the brain basis of awareness. He has proposed the "attention schema" theory, an explanation of how, and for what adaptive advantage, brains attribute the property of awareness to themselves. His previous work focused on how the cerebral cortex monitors the space around the body and controls movement within that space. Notably he has suggested that the classical map of the body in motor cortex, the homunculus, is not correct and is better described as a map of complex actions that make up the behavioral repertoire. His publications on this topic have had a widespread impact among neuroscientists but have also generated controversy. His novels rely partly on his background in psychology and are known for surrealism or magic realism. Graziano also composes music including symphonies and string quartets. He is an avid practitioner of ventriloquism and uses a puppet orangutan "Kevin" as sidekick.

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Oliver Wolcott

First Name Oliver
Last Name Wolcott
Born on January 11, 1760
Died on June 1, 1833 (aged 73)

Oliver Wolcott Jr. was the second United States Secretary of the Treasury, a judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit, and the 24th Governor of Connecticut.

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Alfred Newman

First Name Alfred
Born on March 17, 1901
Died on February 17, 1970 (aged 68)

Alfred Newman was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated 45 times, contributing to the extended Newman family being the most Academy Award-nominated family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories.

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Lyman Beecher

First Name Lyman
Last Name Beecher
Died on January 10, 1863

Lyman Beecher was a Presbyterian minister, American Temperance Society co-founder and leader, and the father of 13 children, many of whom became noted figures, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, Edward Beecher, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Catharine Beecher, and Thomas K. Beecher.

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Becki Newton

Rebecca Sara Newton
First Name Becki
Born on July 4, 1978 (age 47)
Height 159 cm | 5'3

Rebecca Sara Newton Diamantopoulos is an American actress, known for her roles as Amanda Tanen on Ugly Betty and Quinn Garvey on How I Met Your Mother.

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Jonathan Edwards

First Name Jonathan
Last Name Edwards
Died on March 22, 1758

Jonathan Edwards was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist Protestant theologian. Edwards is widely regarded as one of America's most important and original philosophical theologians. Edwards' theological work is broad in scope, but rooted in the pedobaptist Puritan heritage as exemplified in the Westminster and Savoy Confessions of Faith. Recent studies have emphasized how thoroughly Edwards grounded his life's work on conceptions of beauty, harmony, and ethical fittingness, and how central The Enlightenment was to his mindset. Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening, and oversaw some of the first revivals in 1733–35 at his church in Northampton, Massachusetts. His theological work gave rise to a distinct school of theology known as the New England theology.

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Oliver Wolcott

First Name Oliver
Last Name Wolcott
Born on November 20, 1726
Died on December 1, 1797 (aged 71)

Oliver Wolcott Sr. was an American politician. He was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and also of the Articles of Confederation as a representative of Connecticut and the nineteenth Governor of Connecticut. He was a major general for the Connecticut Militia in the Revolutionary War serving under George Washington.

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Greg Stafford

Francis Gregory Stafford
First Name Greg
Last Name Stafford
Born on February 9, 1948
Died on October 10, 2018 (aged 70)

Francis Gregory Stafford, usually known as Greg Stafford, was an American game designer, publisher, and practitioner of shamanism.

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