List of people from Hartford, Connecticut

The following list of people from Hartford, Connecticut, includes people who were born in, lived in or are otherwise closely connected with the city:

Academia

 * August Coppola, academic, film executive and father of Nicolas Cage
 * Michael C. FitzGerald (born 1953), art historian and Picasso scholar at Trinity College in Hartford
 * Stephen Cole Kleene (1909–1994), mathematician and professor
 * Spencer Shaw (1916–2010), librarian and professor at the University of Washington

Art and architecture

 * A. Everett "Chick" Austin (1900–1957), arts innovator and director of the Wadsworth Atheneum
 * Nadine M. DeLawrence (1953–1992), African-American visual artist; born and raised in Hartford
 * George Keller (1842–1935), architect, noted for Hartford's Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch and Hartford Union Station
 * Kathleen Kucka, abstract painter
 * Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), landscape architect and urban planner, noted for many of the New York City parks and Stanford University's campus

Business

 * Samuel Colt (1814–1862), firearm inventor and industrialist
 * Austin Cornelius Dunham, businessman who was chief executive officer of Hartford Electric Light Company
 * J. P. Morgan (1837–1913), financier and industrialist
 * Albert A. Pope (1843–1909), Manufacturer of Pope Manufacturing Company automobiles and bicycles
 * Amos Whitney (1832–1920), mechanical engineer, inventor and co-founder of Pratt & Whitney company

Film and television

 * Robert Ames (1889–1931), stage and screen actor
 * Julie Banderas (born 1973), Emmy Award-winning, television news anchor
 * Ed Begley (1901–1970), actor
 * Amy Brenneman (born 1964), actress, best known for the television series Judging Amy
 * Christopher Briney (born 1998), actor, best known for Dalíland and The Summer I Turned Pretty
 * Brooke Burke (born 1971), television personality, model and dancer
 * Ben Cooper, best known for western films and television appearances in the 1960s and 1970s
 * Ann Corio (1914–1999), burlesque star
 * Jenna Dewan (born 1980), actress
 * Linda Evans (born 1942), actress, best known for Dynasty
 * Totie Fields (1930–1978), comedian
 * William Gillette (1853–1937), actor, director, famed for playing Sherlock Holmes on stage
 * Thomas Ian Griffith (born 1962), actor, martial artist, best known for playing Terry Silver in The Karate Kid Part III and Cobra Kai
 * Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003), Oscar-winning actress; buried in the Hepburn family plot in Cedar Hill Cemetery
 * Elyse Knox (1917–2012), model and actress; wife of Tom Harmon and mother of Mark Harmon
 * Eriq La Salle (born 1962), actor known for the television show ER
 * Norman Lear (1922–2023), television producer
 * Ken Ober, host of Remote Control
 * Charles Nelson Reilly (1931–2007), actor, director and TV personality
 * Ken Richters (born 1955), stage actor, playwright, and voice actor, known for impersonations of Mark Twain
 * Tony Todd, Broadway, film and television actor
 * Wavy Gravy, hippie icon, entertainer, and peace activist
 * Emily Wright (born 1980), songwriter, producer and engineer
 * Kim Zolciak (born 1978), star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, country music sing

Music

 * Igor Buketoff (1915–2001), conductor
 * Kurt Carr, gospel music composer and performer
 * Fates Warning, a progressive metal band formed in 1982
 * Charles Flores (1970–2012), jazz bassist and member of the Michel Camilo Trio
 * Grayson Hugh, singer-songwriter
 * Natália Kelly, singer
 * Barbara Kolb (born 1939), composer
 * Mark McGrath (born 1968), lead singer of Sugar Ray
 * Jackie McLean (1931–2006), jazz alto saxophonist and educator
 * Notch, R&B, dancehall and Reggaeton artist
 * Gene Pitney (1940–2006), singer
 * Jeff Porcaro (1954–1992), Mike Porcaro (1955–2015) and Steve Porcaro (born 1957), of the rock band Toto
 * Joe Porcaro, jazz drummer; father of Jeff and Steve Porcaro
 * Doobie Powell gospel musician and pastor
 * Sophie Tucker (1884–1966), "last of the red-hot mamas," singer and comedian

Radio

 * Jason Jackson, hosted a local sports radio show on ESPN Radio
 * Phil Tonken (1919–2000), announcer at New York station WOR-AM-TV

Law

 * Frank A. Hooker, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court



Literature and journalism

 * Steven Anzovin, non-fiction writer best known for his Famous First Facts book series
 * Bill Branon, novelist
 * Oliver Butterworth (1915–1990), children's author and educator
 * Suzanne Collins (born 1962), author of the Hunger Games trilogy
 * Lyn Crost (1915–1997), World War II correspondent
 * Tom Curry (1900–1976), pulp fiction writer
 * Mary Ann Hanmer Dodd (1813–1878), poet
 * Dominick Dunne (1925–2009), writer
 * John Gregory Dunne (1932–2003), writer
 * Austin Gary, novelist
 * Stephenie Meyer (born 1973), author of Twilight series novels
 * Jim Murray (1919–1998), Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist of the Los Angeles Times
 * Greensbury Washington Offley (1808–1896), slave narrative author and minister
 * Lydia Sigourney (1791-1865), poet
 * Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), poet; insurance executive
 * Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896), author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, settled in Hartford during the 1870s; her Nook Farm home is open to the public and adjoins Mark Twain's
 * Mark Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835–1910), author known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
 * Ocean Vuong (born 1988), poet and novelist, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Military

 * William Bryden (1880–1972), U.S. Army major general
 * John H. Griebel (1901–1969), Marine Corps General
 * Joseph B. Murdock (1851–1931), US Navy Rear Admiral
 * Colonel Sherwood C. Spring (born 1944), United States Army Colonel, test pilot and astronaut
 * Griffin Alexander Stedman (1838–1864), Union Army Colonel
 * Alfred Terry (1827–1890), Union army general
 * Robert O. Tyler (1831–1874), Union army general
 * Donald M. Weller (1908–1985), Marine Corps General and pioneer in Naval gunfire support

Politics

 * Parmenio Adams (1776–1832), United States Congressman; born in Hartford
 * James J. Barbour (1869–1946), Illinois lawyer and state legislator; born in Hartford
 * L. Paul Bremer (born 1941), ex-administrator of US-occupied Iraq and foreign service officer
 * Harold V. Camp (1935–2022), Connecticut lawyer, state legislator, and businessman
 * Charles R. Chapman, mayor of Hartford, served in both houses of Connecticut legislature
 * Horace S. Cooley, Illinois Secretary of State
 * William A. DiBella, Majority Leader of the Connecticut State Senate
 * Frank Fasi, mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii
 * George A. French, Minnesota state legislator and lawyer
 * Elizabeth Bartlett Grannis (1840–1926), suffragist, social reformer, editor
 * Thomas Hooker, founder of Connecticut
 * Bruce Hyer, Green Party of Canada Member of Parliament
 * Wilfred X. Johnson (1920–1972), first African American elected to the Connecticut General Assembly
 * A. Lucille Matarese, Connecticut state legislator and Roman Catholic Benedictine nun
 * Edward Ralph May (1819–1852), only delegate to the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850 to vote in favor of African American suffrage
 * Elizabeth May, former Sierra Club of Canada president and former leader of the Green Party of Canada
 * Alice Merritt (1876–1950), the first woman to serve in the Connecticut State Senate (1925–1929); represented Hartford
 * Rachel Taylor Milton, community activist and Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame inductee
 * Lewis Rome (1933–2015), Connecticut State Senate leader and Republican Party nominee in the 1982 Connecticut gubernatorial election
 * Maria W. Stewart, abolitionist
 * Thomas A. Sullivan, Wisconsin State Assemblyman
 * Elmer Watson, US Army officer and Connecticut State Senate majority leader

Religion

 * Horace Bushnell (1802–1876), Congregational minister and theologian
 * Mary E. Van Lennep (1821–1844), missionary, school founder, memoirist

Science and medicine

 * Barbara McClintock (1902–1992), cytogeneticist, awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * Frederick E. Olmsted (1872–1925), forester and one of the founders of American forestry
 * Alexander Rich (1925–2015), biologist and biophysicist
 * Paul Schimmel (b. 1940), biophysical chemist and translational medicine pioneer
 * Theodore Wirth (1863–1949), horticulturalist and park planner

Sports

 * Michael Adams (born 1963), NBA player
 * Steve Berthiaume, ESPN anchor
 * Nick Bonino (born 1988), NHL player
 * Marcus Camby (born 1974), NBA player
 * John Carney (born 1964), NFL placekicker
 * Mike Crispino, sportscaster for WVIT and WRCH, and ESPN
 * Andre Drummond (born 1993), NBA player for the Los Angeles Lakers
 * Jayson Durocher (born 1974), MLB player for the Milwaukee Brewers
 * Johnny Egan (1939–2022), NBA player
 * Dwight Freeney (born 1980), NFL player
 * Craig Janney (born 1968), NHL player
 * Tyrique Jones (born 1997), basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
 * Rick Mahorn (born 1958), NBA player
 * Eric Mangini (born 1971), head coach of Cleveland Browns and New York Jets
 * Mike McGuirl (born 1998), basketball player for Hapoel Haifa in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
 * Stephanie McMahon, businesswoman, professional wrestling personality
 * Cliff Olander (born 1955), player of gridiron football
 * Steve Potts (born 1967), former West Ham United footballer, current U21 coach
 * Ryan Preece (born 1990), NASCAR driver
 * Eugene Robinson (born 1963), NFL player
 * Will Solomon (born 1978), basketball player
 * Charley Steiner, Los Angeles Dodgers sportscaster
 * John Sullivan (born 1961), NFL player
 * Roderick G. (Rod) Taylor (1943–2014), Olympic skier
 * Tony Younger (born 1980), American-Israeli basketball player in the Israeli National League

Other

 * Nathaniel Bar-Jonah (1957–2008), convicted child molester and a suspected serial killer and cannibal
 * Howard Long (1905–1939), convicted murderer and child molester
 * Martha Bulloch Roosevelt (1835–1884), mother of president Theodore Roosevelt and grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt