List of Famous people born in Connecticut, United States of America
John Rand
John Rand was an American actor who started his film career in the 1910s, and most notably supported Charles Chaplin in over 20 of his subjects.
Frank Hinman Pierpont
Frank Hinman Pierpont was an American engineer and typeface designer. He worked primarily in England for the Monotype Corporation of Britain.
Thomas S. Savage
Thomas Staughton Savage was an American Protestant clergyman, missionary, physician and naturalist.
Lafayette S. Foster
Lafayette Sabine Foster was a nineteenth-century American politician and lawyer from Connecticut. He served in the United States Senate from 1855 to 1867 and was a judge on the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1870 to 1876.
Hal K. Dawson
Hal K. Dawson was an American actor.
Elisha M. Pease
Elisha Marshall Pease was a Texas politician. He served as the fifth and 13th governor of Texas.
Joseph Farnham
Joseph White Farnham was an American playwright, film writer, and film editor of the silent movie era in the early 1930s. He was also a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Jonathan O. Moseley
Jonathan Ogden Moseley was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut. He was born in East Haddam, Connecticut, the only child of Thomas Moseley, a physician, and Phebe Ogden. He graduated from Yale College in 1780, studied law, was admitted to the bar and began practice in East Haddam.
John Hubbard Tweedy
John Hubbard Tweedy was a delegate to the United States Congress from Wisconsin Territory from March 1847 to May 1848 being elected from the Whig Party. He was also the Whig Party nominee in first Wisconsin gubernatorial election, where he lost to Nelson Dewey.
Harry Porter
Harry Franklin Porter was a high jumper from the United States of America. He was a member of the Irish American Athletic Club, and won gold in the High Jump in the 1908 Summer Olympics at a mark of 6'3". He graduated from Cornell University.