List of people from New Haven, Connecticut

This is a list of notable natives and long-term residents of New Haven, Connecticut, in alphabetical order.



Academics and educators

 * Michael L.J. Apuzzo, academic neurosurgeon, surgical pioneer, editor, and educator
 * Walter Darby Bannard, abstract painter and University of Miami professor
 * Ida Barney, astronomer
 * Harold Bloom, literature scholar and professor
 * Edward Bouchet, physicist and first Black man to receive a Ph.D.
 * Raymond C. Bowen, president of LaGuardia Community College
 * Thom Brooks, political and legal philosopher
 * Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, educator and author
 * Timothy Dwight IV, president of Yale College
 * Joseph S. Fruton, biochemist and historian of science
 * Josiah Willard Gibbs, mathematical physicist
 * Ruth Wilson Gilmore, prison abolitionist and professor at The City University of New York
 * William Henry Goodyear, archeologist, art historian and museum curator
 * Arthur Twining Hadley, economist and president of Yale University
 * Geoffrey Hartman, literature scholar and emeritus professor
 * Stephen Kobasa, teacher, writer and Christian political activist
 * William Chester Minor, lexicographer and key contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary
 * John Nicholas Newman, mathematician
 * James Pierpont, founder of Yale College
 * David Pingree, professor of mathematics and classics
 * Michael Resnik, philosopher of mathematics
 * Vincent Scully, author and architecture professor, University of Miami and Yale University
 * Lawrence Summers, economist and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Harvard University president
 * Peter Vallentyne, professor of philosophy
 * Everard Mott Williams, scientist and educator

Actors and theater figures

 * Lauren Ambrose, actress
 * Tony Amendola, actor
 * Jack Arnold, film director
 * Jessica Blank, actor, playwright and novelist
 * Roberts Blossom, actor and poet
 * Ernest Borgnine, actor
 * Melanie Chartoff, actress
 * Martha Coolidge, film director
 * D.J. Cotrona, actor
 * Paul Fusco, puppeteer, actor and creator of ALF
 * Marcus Giamatti, actor
 * Paul Giamatti, actor
 * Norman Lear, television producer
 * Billy Lush, actor
 * Biff McGuire, actor
 * William Cameron Menzies, film production director and art director
 * Ebony Mystique, pornographic actress
 * Becki Newton, actress
 * Nolan North, voice actor
 * Ron Palillo, actor
 * George O. Petrie, actor
 * Thomas Sadoski, actor
 * Patricia Smith, actress
 * Jennifer von Mayrhauser, costume designer
 * Rafer Weigel, actor and sportscaster
 * Titus Welliver, actor
 * Madeline Zima, actress

Artists and architects

 * Peter Anton, artist and sculptor
 * Hezekiah Augur, sculptor and inventor
 * Henry Austin, architect
 * Paul Wayland Bartlett, sculptor
 * Al Capp, cartoonist
 * August Geiger, architect
 * John Haberle, painter
 * Patrick Earl Hammie, painter
 * Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome, painter
 * Nathaniel Jocelyn, painter
 * Damian Loeb, painter
 * Tala Madani, artist
 * Robert Moses, architect and urban planner
 * Samuel Peck, 19th-century photographer, businessperson
 * César Pelli, architect
 * Jesse Richards, artist and filmmaker
 * Rudi Stern, light artist
 * Sidney Mason Stone, architect
 * Ithiel Town, architect and civil engineer
 * Nicholas Watson, filmmaker and artist
 * Minna Weiss Zellner, artist and print maker

Athletes and athletics personnel

 * Michael Altieri, pro wrestler performing under the name Mikey Batts
 * Brad Ausmus (born 1969), American Major League Baseball catcher and manager
 * Frank Beisler, hockey player
 * Eric Boguniecki, hockey player
 * Albie Booth, football player
 * Craig Breslow, baseball pitcher and executive
 * Scott Burrell, basketball coach
 * Walter Camp, football inventor
 * Glenna Collett-Vare, golfer
 * Tommy Corcoran, baseball shortstop
 * Chad Dawson, boxer
 * Harold Devine, boxer
 * George Dixon, football running back
 * Gardner Dow, football player
 * Justin Duberman, hockey right winger
 * Ed Ellis, football offensive tackle
 * Adam Erne, hockey player
 * Ed Etzel, Olympic sports shooter gold medalist
 * Harrison Fitch, basketball player
 * Kevin Gilbride, football coach
 * Fred Goldsmith, baseball pitcher
 * Jason Grabowski, baseball player
 * Jim Greco, skateboarder
 * Adam Greenberg, baseball outfielder
 * Stu Griffing, rower
 * Anttaj Hawthorne, football defensive tackle
 * Jennison Heaton, bobsled racer
 * Nate Hobgood-Chittick, football defensive tackle
 * Richard Holliday, professional wrestler
 * Matt Hussey, hockey centre
 * Bill Hutchison, baseball pitcher
 * Bob Kuziel, football offensive lineman
 * Floyd Little, football running back
 * Brian Looney, baseball pitcher
 * Ted Lowry, boxer
 * Terrell Myers, basketball player
 * Mike Olt, baseball player
 * Ed Rapuano, umpire
 * Anthony Sagnella, football defensive tackle
 * Allen Stack, swimmer
 * Greg Stokes, basketball player
 * George Weiss, baseball executive
 * Sly Williams, basketball player
 * John Williamson, basketball player
 * Josh Zeid, American-Israeli baseball player

Business figures

 * Ted Bates, advertising executive
 * Sarah Boone, inventor
 * Wesley A. Clark, computer scientist and consultant
 * Charles Goodyear, inventor and industrialist
 * James J. Greco, businessman, was born in town
 * Clifford Grodd (1924–2010), president and chief executive of Paul Stuart
 * Paul MacCready, aeronautical engineer and inventor
 * Andrew Paulson, entrepreneur and media executive
 * Roberta Hoskie, real estate broker, writer, and media personality
 * Peter Schiff, investment broker, author, financial commentator and CEO of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.
 * Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., businessman and CEO of General Motors
 * Lucius Seymour Storrs, railway official
 * Eli Whitney, inventor and manufacturer
 * Steve Wynn, casino developer

Clergymen

 * Charles C. Baldwin, Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Air Force
 * Lyman Beecher, clergyman and abolitionist
 * Jonathan Edwards, pastor, theologian, missionary
 * William H. Ferris, author, minister and scholar
 * Michael J. McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus

Lawyers and jurists

 * Roger Sherman Baldwin, lawyer, Amistad case
 * Ellen Bree Burns, judge
 * Lubbie Harper Jr., judge
 * Maeve Kennedy McKean, lawyer and health official
 * Constance Baker Motley, civil rights activist, judge, and politician
 * Neil Thomas Proto, lawyer, teacher, lecturer, and author
 * Martin Karl Reidinger, judge
 * Thomas Thacher, lawyer

Military figures

 * Timothy I. Ahern, major general
 * Benedict Arnold, general who defected to the British
 * William P. Cronan, naval officer and Naval Governor of Guam
 * Nathan Hale, soldier and spy
 * Henry Leavenworth, brigadier general
 * Alfred Judson Force Moody, brigadier general
 * Allen L. Seaman, naval officer
 * Shabsa Mashkautsan, Russian Jewish World War II soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union

Musicians

 * Ben Allison, jazz double bass player
 * Sonny Berman, jazz trumpeter
 * Kath Bloom, singer-songwriter
 * Michael Bolton, singer-songwriter
 * Andrew Calhoun, folk singer, songwriter
 * Karen (1950–1983) and Richard Carpenter (born 1946), singers and musicians
 * Loren Mazzacane Connors, musician and artist
 * Susan DiBona, composer
 * Dominic Frontiere, composer
 * Anthony Geraci, blues and jazz pianist
 * Jay Greenberg, composer
 * Gerry Hemingway, jazz percussionist and composer
 * Charles Ives, composer
 * Michael Gregory Jackson, jazz guitarist
 * Jamey Jasta, singer and guitarist
 * Kris Jensen, singer and guitarist
 * Pete Jolly, jazz pianist and accordionist
 * Brooks Kerr, jazz pianist
 * Hilly Michaels, musician and drummer
 * Joe Morris, jazz guitarist
 * Buddy Morrow, trombonist and bandleader
 * Alfred Newman, Hollywood composer and conductor
 * Troy Oliver, musician, songwriter and producer
 * Liz Phair, singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * Stacy Phillips, bluegrass artist
 * Quincy Porter, composer and music teacher
 * Barney Rapp, bandleader and jazz musician
 * Kira Roessler, bassist of Black Flag
 * Emily Saliers, singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls
 * Christian Sands, jazz pianist
 * Tony Scherr, bassist and guitarist musician, singer-songwriter and record producer
 * Artie Shaw, bandleader
 * Stezo, rapper
 * Donn Trenner, jazz pianist and arranger
 * Jessica Grace Wing, theatrical composer
 * Barry Wood, singer and television producer

Politicians

 * Howard S. Baldwin, Arizona State Senator and businessman
 * Roger Sherman Baldwin, lawyer in the Amistad case, U.S. Senator and 17th governor of Connecticut
 * George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States
 * Charles R. Chapman, mayor of Hartford, Connecticut and served in both houses of the Connecticut legislature
 * Katherine Clark, Democratic House Whip and U.S. Congresswoman
 * William P. Cronan, naval officer and Naval Governor of Guam
 * John C. Daniels, mayor of New Haven
 * Rosa DeLauro, U.S. Congresswoman
 * John DeStefano Jr., mayor of New Haven
 * Biagio DiLieto, mayor of New Haven
 * Andy Dinniman, Pennsylvania State Senator
 * Jerome F. Donovan, U.S. Congressman for New York
 * Phineas C. Dummer, 6th mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey
 * Henry W. Edwards, 27th and 29th Governor of Connecticut
 * Foster Furcolo, U.S. Congressman and 60th governor of Massachusetts
 * Peter Franchot, 33rd Comptroller of Maryland
 * Henry Baldwin Harrison, 52nd governor of Connecticut
 * James Hillhouse, U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator for Connecticut
 * Thomas Hill Hubbard, U.S. Congressman for New York
 * Charles Roberts Ingersoll, U.S. Congressman and 47th governor of Connecticut
 * Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll, U.S. Congressman and mayor of New Haven
 * Joan R. Kemler, first woman to serve as Connecticut State Treasurer
 * Eleazer Kimberly, in 1696 became Secretary of Connecticut Colony; "the first male born in New Haven"
 * Richard C. Lee, mayor of New Haven
 * Joe Lieberman, Connecticut Attorney General, U.S. Senator, and 2000 U.S. vice presidential candidate
 * William D. Lindsley, U.S. Congressman for Ohio
 * Frank Logue, mayor of New Haven
 * Henry Meigs, U.S. Congressman for New York
 * Bruce Morrison, U.S. Congressman for Connecticut
 * George Lloyd Murphy, U.S. Senator for California and president of the Screen Actors Guild
 * Mary Mushinsky, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
 * Gamaliel Painter, Vermont state legislator
 * Henry E. Parker, Connecticut State Treasurer
 * James P. Pigott, U.S. Congressman for Connecticut
 * Adam Clayton Powell Jr., U.S. Congressman for New York City
 * Roger Sherman, first mayor of New Haven, signed the Declaration of Independence and Constitution
 * John Todd Trowbridge, member of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature and sea captain
 * Rick Tuttle, Los Angeles city controller
 * William H. Yale, 6th lieutenant governor of Minnesota

Writers

 * Joseph Payne Brennan, poet and short story writer
 * Hermann Broch, novelist
 * Noah Charney, novelist and art historian
 * William Cronon, environmental historian
 * Dorothy Deming, nurse and author
 * John Falsey, television writer and producer
 * Jeannine Hall Gailey, poet
 * William Heffernan, novelist
 * Burton J. Hendrick, journalist and writer
 * Mary Austin Holley, 19th-century travel writer
 * George W. Hotchkiss, 19th-century journalist, editor, historian, and lumber dealer
 * Andrew Kopkind, journalist
 * Leigh Montville, sportswriter and author
 * Ruth Ozeki, novelist
 * Themo H. Peel, author and illustrator
 * Delia Lyman Porter, author
 * Mark de Solla Price, author, journalist and activist
 * Margaret Sidney, children's author
 * Benjamin Spock, pediatrician and author
 * Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill (1799–1879), children's book author
 * Russell Wangersky, journalist and short story writer
 * Leonard Weisgard, children's author and illustrator
 * Bernard Wolfe, science fiction writer

Others

 * Matt Amodio, Jeopardy! champion
 * Michael Buckley, YouTube celebrity
 * Perry DeAngelis, co-founder and executive director of NESS, co-founder of podcast The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
 * Scott Fellows, television producer
 * Louis Harris, pollster
 * Bun Lai, sustainable sushi pioneer of Miya's
 * Mary Blair Moody, physician
 * Lucy Creemer Peckham, physician, poet
 * Frank Pepe, pizza chef
 * Madeline Triffon, sommelier