List of people from Redding, Connecticut
People associated with Redding, Connecticut, listed in the area they are best known:
Actors, musicians and entertainers
- Paul Avgerinos (1957-),[1] musician and electronic music composer
- Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990),[2] composer and conductor, lived on Fox Run Road in the 1950s
- Michael Ian Black (1971-),[3] actor, comedian and author
- Ritchie Blackmore (1945-),[4] musician, former resident
- John Byrum (1947-), motion picture director, screenwriter, and producer, long-time resident of West Redding
- Diana Canova (1953-),[5] actress; spouse of Grammy Award-winning producer Elliott Scheiner[6]
- Rachel Crothers (1979-1958), playwright and director[7]
- Hume Cronyn (1911-2003), Academy Award-nominated actor, lived with his wife, Jessica Tandy, on Stepney Road in the 1940s and 1950s
- Morton DaCosta (1914-1989), director and producer of films and Broadway shows[8]
- Daryl Hall (1946-), musician with Hall & Oates, lived on Topstone Road
- Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987),[9] violinist, lived on Sanfordtown Road in the 1940s
- Matt Hoverman (1968-), actor, playwright[10]
- Charles Ives (1874-1954), musician, composer[11]
- Igor Kipnis (1930-2002),[12] musician who died at his home in town
- John Kirkpatrick (1947-), musician, professor and writer[13]
- Karen Kopins Shaw (1961-), actress in films; winner of Miss Connecticut pageant in 1977[14]
- Hope Lange (1933-2003),[15] Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-nominated actress
- Jack Lawrence (1912-2009), composer inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975[16]
- Barry Levinson (1942-),[17] Academy Award-winning film director
- Enoch Light (1905-1978),[18] composer, musician, music label executive and sound technician
- Lori March Scourby (1923-2013), once known as the "first lady of daytime television" for her roles in soap operas[19]
- Carmen Mathews (1911-1995), actress, environment and philanthropist; created New Pond Farm preserve and camp for disadvantaged children[20]
- Meat Loaf (1947-), rock singer, Joel Barlow High School softball coach during the 1990s[21]
- Fred Newman (1952-),[22] actor, voice actor, composer, and sound effects artist, current resident
- Colleen Zenk Pinter (1953-),[23] actress; spouse of Mark Pinter
- Mark Pinter (1950-),[23] actor; spouse of Colleen Zenk Pinter
- Derek Piotr (1991-), composer and vocalist;[24]
- Elliot Scheiner (1947-), engineer and five-time Grammy Award-winning producer; spouse of actress Diana Canova[5]
- Jessica Tandy (1909-1994), Academy Award-winning actress, lived with her husband, Hume Cronyn (1911-2003), on Stepney Road in the 1940s and 1950s
- Russ Titelman (1944-), Grammy-winning record producer, lived in town in the 1980s
- Mary Travers (1936-2009),[25] of the Peter, Paul and Mary group
- Marcy Walker (1961-), actress, lived in West Redding during the mid-1990s[26]
- Maura West (1972-),[27] daytime Emmy Award-winning actress on As the World Turns
- Frank Whaley (1963-),[28] actor, director, and screenwriter who had roles in multiple films by Oliver Stone
Authors and other writers
- Joel Barlow (1754-1812),[29] poet and diplomat, born in Redding
- Julian Barry (1930-),[30] Oscar nominee for Lenny, resident since 2001
- Ann Beattie (1947-),[31] author of eight novels and short stories in The New Yorker and other publications
- Marcia Brown (1918-2015), children's book author and illustrator[32]
- Stuart Chase (1988-1985), author credited with coining the slogan "A New Deal" for Franklin D. Roosevelt, lived in Redding[33] from the 1930s until his death in 1985
- Les Daniels (1943-2011), author and noted historian on comic books[34]
- Howard Fast (1914-2003),[35] author, lived on Cross Highway in the 1980s
- Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985), translator, poet, mentor of Flannery O'Connor, lived on Seventy Acre Road[36]
- William Honan (1930-2014),[37] Pulitzer Prize-nominated author
- Eliot Janeway (1913-1993),[38] author and economist; spouse of Elizabeth Janeway and father of Michael Janeway
- Elizabeth Janeway (1913-2005),[38] novelist, spouse of Eliot Janeway and father of Michael Janeway
- Michael Janeway (1940-2014),[38] author and editor of The Boston Globe; son of Eliot and Elizabeth Janeway
- Holly Keller (1942-),[39] children's author and illustrator, lived in West Redding in the 70s, 80s, and 90s
- Phyllis Krasilovsky (1926-2014),[40] authored 20 books for children between 1950 and 1997
- Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970),[41] author and naturalist, lived on Limekiln Road in the 1940s
- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964),[36] novelist, wrote Wise Blood while a boarder at the home of Robert Fitzgerald and family on Seventy Acre Road (from 1949 to 1951)
- Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937),[42] writer, lived on Diamond Hill
- Anne Parrish Titzell (1888–1957), children's book author,[43] lived on Peaceable Street
- Jane and Michael Stern (both born 1946), of West Redding,[44] write the "Roadfood" column for Gourmet magazine; authors of Roadfood and other books
- Ruth Stout[45] (1884-1980), writer about organic gardening
- Alvin Toffler (1928-), author of Future Shock, lived on Mountain Road
- Aaron Louis Treadwell Ph.D. (1866–1947), college professor; author of The Cytogeny of Podarke obscura and other scientific books[46]
- Tasha Tudor (1915-2008),[47] children's author and artist, lived on Tudor Road
- Mark Twain (born Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910), lived in mansion dubbed "Stormfield" built on land located on present-day Mark Twain Lane from 1908 to 1910[48]
Artists, art experts and critics, cartoonists
- Dan Beard (1850-1941), illustrator and one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America; lived on Great Pasture[13]
- Rebecca Couch (1788-1863), painter[49]
- Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877-1952),[50] late artist and patron of the arts who helped found the Museum of Modern Art, lived on Marchant Road in 1912
- Hal Foster (1892-1982), Prince Valiant cartoonist[51]
- Gill Fox (1915-2004), two-time Pulitzer Prize-nominated cartoonist[52]
- Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973), artist; with husband Archer Huntington, gave land to create Collis P. Huntington State Park[53]
- Robert Natkin (1930-2010), abstract expressionist[54]
- Edward Steichen (1879-1973), artist and photographer, lived on Topstone (Topstone Park was his property)[55]
People in government and politics
- Stephen Barlow (1779-1845), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 1827-29, born in Redding[56]
- Dudley S. Gregory (1800-1874), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey 1847-49, born in Redding[57]
- Ebenezer J. Hill (1845-1917), Connecticut member of the United States House of Representatives from 1895 to 1913[58]
- David Lilienthal (1899-1981), scientist and director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the Tennessee Valley Authority, lived on Stepney Road
- Dick Morris (1946-), political consultant and author
- Walter White (1893–1955), former head (executive secretary) of NAACP, lived on Seventy Acres Road
Other
- Wendell Garner (1921-2008), Yale University researcher who made significant contributions to the cognitive revolution,[59] retired to Meadow Ridge[60]
- Frank M. Hawks (1897-1938), aviator who made the fourth-ever nonstop coast-to-coast flight in the United States in 1929,[61] lived in town
- Alfred Winslow Jones (1900-1989), hedge fund manager, lived on Poverty Hollow Road[62]
- Alex Kroll, inductee of the College Football Hall of Fame[63] and Advertising Hall of Fame,[64] lived in town[65]
- Lawrence Kudlow (1947-), host of Kudlow and Company television program, current resident[66]
- Gerald M. Loeb (1899-1974),[67] author and founding partner of brokerage E.F. Hutton
- Lee MacPhail (1917-2012), former Major League Baseball commissioner and inductee to the National Baseball Hall of Fame[68]
- Christopher McCormick, CEO of L.L. Bean[69]
- Lauren S. McCready (1915-2007), a founder of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy[70]
- Charlie Morton (born 1983), Major League Baseball pitcher; raised in Redding, attended Joel Barlow High School
- Arthur D. Nicholson, United States Army officer shot and killed by a Soviet sentry in 1985, while conducting intelligence activities in East Germany.
- Clementine Paddleford (1898-1967),[71] author and food critic who coined the term "hero" for the submarine sandwich
- Major General Samuel Holden Parsons (1737-1789), commander in the Continental Army under Gen. Israel Putnam, later chief judge of the Northwest Territory, lived on Black Rock Turnpike[72]
- Lucien M. Underwood (1853-1907), founding member of the New York Botanical Society[73]
- Chickens Warrups, established a Native American village on land that eventually became part of Redding[74]
See also
- List of people from Connecticut
- List of people from Bridgeport, Connecticut
- List of people from Brookfield, Connecticut
- List of people from Darien, Connecticut
- List of people from Greenwich, Connecticut
- List of people from Hartford, Connecticut
- List of people from New Canaan, Connecticut
- List of people from New Haven, Connecticut
- List of people from Norwalk, Connecticut
- List of people from Ridgefield, Connecticut
- List of people from Stamford, Connecticut
- List of people from Westport, Connecticut
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