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

James Gould was a jurist and an early professor at the Litchfield Law School.

Samuel Kirkland was a Presbyterian minister and missionary among the Oneida and Tuscarora peoples of present-day central New York State.

Mary Philips was an American stage and film actress.

Henry Leavitt Ellsworth was a Yale-educated attorney who became the first Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office, where he encouraged innovation by inventors Samuel F.B. Morse and Samuel Colt. Ellsworth also served as the second president of the Aetna Insurance Company, and was a major donor to Yale College, a commissioner to Indian tribes on the western frontier, and the founder of what became the United States Department of Agriculture.

John Gregory Dunne was an American novelist, screenwriter and literary critic.

Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop was an American newspaper columnist and political analyst.

Margaret Arline Judge was an American actress singer who worked mostly in low-budget B movies, but gained some fame for habitually marrying.

Ping Wu is an American television and film actor.

Hannah Arnold was the mother of British Brigadier General Benedict Arnold (1741–1801).

Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years.