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

John Fusco is an American screenwriter, producer, and television series creator born in Prospect, Connecticut. His screenplays include Crossroads, Young Guns, Young Guns II, Thunderheart, Hidalgo, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and The Highwaymen. He is also the creator of the Netflix series Marco Polo. Fusco is also a blues musician and a prose fiction author.

Peter Buell Porter was an American lawyer, soldier and politician who served as United States Secretary of War from 1828 to 1829.

Townshend Stith Brandegee was an American botanist. He was an authority on the flora of Baja California and the Channel Islands.

Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. was an American business executive in the automotive industry. He was a long-time president, chairman and CEO of General Motors Corporation. Sloan, first as a senior executive and later as the head of the organization, helped GM grow from the 1920s through the 1950s, decades when concepts such as the annual model change, brand architecture, industrial engineering, automotive design (styling), and planned obsolescence transformed the industry, and when the industry changed lifestyles and the built environment in America and throughout the world.

Richard Michael Sternbach is an illustrator who is best known for his space illustrations and his work on the Star Trek television series.

Wally Lamb is an American author known as the writer of the novels She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, both of which were selected for Oprah's Book Club. He was the director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy in Norwich from 1989 to 1998 and has taught Creative Writing in the English Department at the University of Connecticut.

Louise Platt (1915–2003) was an American theater, film, and TV actress.

Jennifer Jean "Jenna" von Oÿ is an American actress, singer, songwriter and author. She played the role of Six LeMeure in the NBC sitcom Blossom and Stevie Van Lowe in the UPN sitcom The Parkers, the spin-off series of Moesha.

Stephen Russell, also nicknamed "Slug", is an American computer scientist most famous for creating Spacewar!, well known for being the first widely distributed video game.

William Cameron Menzies was an American film production designer and art director as well as a film director and producer during a career spanning five decades. He earned acclaim for his work in silent film, and later pioneered the use of color in film for dramatic effect.