List of Famous people born in Connecticut, United States of America
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend is an American attorney who was the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. She ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Maryland in 2002.
Linda Purl
Linda Purl is an American actress and singer, known for her roles as Ashley on Happy Days, Sheila Munroe in the 1982 horror film Visiting Hours, Pam Beesly's mother Helene in The Office, and Ben Matlock's daughter Charlene Matlock for the first season of the television series Matlock.
Lisa Robin Kelly
Lisa Robin Kelly was an American actress. She was best known for her role as Laurie Forman on the TV series That '70s Show.
Sarah Winchester
Sarah Lockwood Winchester was an American heiress who amassed great wealth after the death of her husband, William Wirt Winchester. Her inheritance from his estate included $20 million as well as a 50% holding in the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, which made her one of the wealthiest women in the world at the time. She is best known for using her vast fortune to continue construction on the Winchester mansion in San Jose, California, for 38 years. Popular legends, which began during her lifetime, held that she was convinced she was cursed, and the only way to alleviate it was to add on to her California home. Since her death, the sprawling Winchester Mystery House has become a popular tourist attraction, known for its staircases that lead to nowhere and its many winding corridors and doors leading to walls, or big falls.
Lydia Hearst-Shaw
Lydia Marie Hearst-Shaw is an American fashion model, actress, and lifestyle blogger. She is a great-granddaughter of newspaper publisher and politician William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951) and a daughter of the author and actress Patty Hearst.
Scooter Libby
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is an American lawyer and former adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney.
Monk Dubiel
Walter John "Monk" Dubiel was an American professional baseball right-handed pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, and Chicago Cubs. He stood 6 feet (1.83 m) tall and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg).
Larry Kramer
Laurence David Kramer was an American playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and LGBT rights activist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to London where he worked with United Artists. There he wrote the screenplay for the film Women in Love (1969) and received an Academy Award nomination for his work.
Jim Cantore
James D. Cantore is an American meteorologist. He is best known as an on-air personality for The Weather Channel.
John Carpenter
John Carpenter is an American game show contestant and Internal Revenue Service agent. He is the tenth highest-earning American game show contestant of all time. Carpenter is best known for becoming the first top-prize winner on the United States version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and the first top-prize winner in the history of the franchise. He held the record for the largest single win in United States game show history, until it was broken by Rahim Oberholtzer who won $1.12 million on another U.S. quiz show, Twenty One. Carpenter was also the first top-prize winner among all international versions of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? series.