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

Hezekiah Augur was an early American sculptor and inventor. He was a self-taught sculptor and, unlike many other 19th-century American sculptors, did not travel to Europe, but spent his entire career in New Haven.

Gen. Moses Cleaveland was a lawyer, politician, soldier, and surveyor from Connecticut who founded the city of Cleveland, Ohio, while surveying the Connecticut Western Reserve in 1796.

Gideon Granger was an early American politician and lawyer. He was the father of fellow Postmaster General and U.S. Representative Francis Granger.

Edmund Fanning was an American explorer and sea captain, known as the "Pathfinder of the Pacific."

Abraham Baldwin was an American minister, Patriot, politician, and Founding Father. Born and raised in Connecticut, he was a 1772 graduate of Yale College. After the Revolutionary War, Baldwin became a lawyer. He moved to the U.S. state of Georgia in the mid-1780s and founded the University of Georgia. Abraham Baldwin was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati of the State of Connecticut.

Mary Cecilia Rogers was an American murder victim whose story became a national sensation.

Leo Tover, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer, twice nominated for Academy Awards for his work on The Heiress (1949) and Hold Back the Dawn (1941). His other credits include the silent version of The Great Gatsby as well as The Day the Earth Stood Still and Payment on Demand, both released in 1951.

John William Sterling was a founding partner of Shearman & Sterling LLP and major benefactor to Yale University.

Clarence Crane Brinton was an American historian of France, as well as an historian of ideas. His most famous work, The Anatomy of Revolution (1938) likened the dynamics of revolutionary movements to the progress of fever.

Benjamin Huntington was an eighteenth-century American lawyer, jurist and politician from Connecticut and served as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives during the First United States Congress.