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), 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
• Charles Ives (1874-1954), musician, composer^[10]
• Igor Kipnis (1930-2002),^[11] musician who died at his home in town
• John Kirkpatrick (1947-), musician, professor and writer^[12]
• Karen Kopins Shaw (1961-), actress in films; winner of Miss Connecticut pageant in 1977^[13]
• Hope Lange (1933-2003),^[14] actress
• Jack Lawrence (1912-2009), composer inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975^[15]
• Barry Levinson (1942-),^[16] Academy Award-winning film director
• Enoch Light (1905-1978),^[17] 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^[18]
• Carmen Mathews (1911-1995), actress, environment and philanthropist; created New Pond Farm preserve and camp for disadvantaged children^[19]
• Meat Loaf (1947-), rock singer, Joel Barlow High School softball coach during the 1990s^[20]
• Fred Newman (1952-),^[21] actor, voice actor, composer, and sound effects artist, current resident
• Colleen Zenk Pinter (1953-),^[22] actress; spouse of Mark Pinter
• Mark Pinter (1950-),^[22] actor; spouse of Colleen Zenk Pinter
• Elliot Scheiner (1947-), engineer and five-time Grammy Award-winning producer; spouse of actress Diana Canova^[5]
• Jessica Tandy (1909-1994), 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),^[23] of the Peter, Paul and Mary group
• Marcy Walker (1961-), actress, lived in West Redding during the mid-1990s^[24]
• Maura West (1972-),^[25] daytime Emmy Award-winning actress on As the World Turns
• Frank Whaley (1963-),^[26] actor, director, and screenwriter who had roles in multiple films by Oliver Stone

Authors and other writers

• Joel Barlow (1754-1812),^[27] poet and diplomat, born in Redding
• Julian Barry (1930-),^[28] Oscar nominee for Lenny, resident since 2001
• Ann Beattie (1947-),^[29] author of eight novels and short stories in The New Yorker and other publications
• Marcia Brown (1918-2015), children's book author and illustrator^[30]
• Stuart Chase (1988-1985), author credited with coining the slogan "A New Deal" for Franklin D. Roosevelt, lived in Redding^[31] from the 1930s until his death in 1985
• Les Daniels (1943-2011), author and noted historian on comic books^[32]
• Howard Fast (1914-2003),^[33] author, lived on Cross Highway in the 1980s
• Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985), translator, poet, mentor of Flannery O'Connor, lived on Seventy Acre Road^[34]
• William Honan (1930-2014),^[35] Pulitzer Prize-nominated author
• Eliot Janeway (1913-1993),^[36] author and economist; spouse of Elizabeth Janeway and father of Michael Janeway
• Elizabeth Janeway (1913-2005),^[36] novelist, spouse of Eliot Janeway and father of Michael Janeway
• Michael Janeway (1940-2014),^[36] author and editor of The Boston Globe; son of Eliot and Elizabeth Janeway
• Holly Keller (1942-),^[37] children's author and illustrator, lived in West Redding in the 70s, 80s, and 90s
• Phyllis Krasilovsky (1926-2014),^[38] authored 20 books for children between 1950 and 1997
• Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970),^[39] author and naturalist, lived on Limekiln Road in the 1940s
• Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964),^[34] 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),^[40] writer, lived on Diamond Hill
• Anne Parrish Titzell (1888–1957), children's book author,^[41] lived on Peaceable Street
• Jane and Michael Stern (both born 1946), of West Redding,^[42] write the "Roadfood" column for Gourmet magazine; authors of Roadfood and other books
• Ruth Stout^[43] (1884-1980), writer about organic gardening
• Alvin Toffler (1928-), author of Future Shock, lived on Mountain Road
• Tasha Tudor (1915-2008),^[44] children's author and artist, lived on Tudor Road
• Aaron Louis Treadwell Ph.D. (1866–1947), college professor and author of The Cytogeny of Podarke obscura and other scientific books ^[45]
• 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^[46]

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^[12]
• Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877-1952),^[47] 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^[48]
• Gill Fox (1915-2004), two-time Pulitzer Prize-nominated cartoonist^[49]
• Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973), artist; with husband Archer Huntington, gave land to create Collis P. Huntington State Park^[50]
• Robert Natkin (1930-2010), abstract expressionist^[51]
• Edward Steichen (1879-1973), artist and photographer, lived on Topstone (Topstone Park was his property)^[52]

People in government and politics

• Stephen Barlow (1779-1845), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 1827-29, born in Redding^[53]
• Dudley S. Gregory (1800-1874), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey 1847-49, born in Redding^[54]
• Ebenezer J. Hill (1845-1917), Connecticut member of the United States House of Representatives from 1895 to 1913^[55]
• 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

• Drew Esocoff, NBC Sports director and 10-time Emmy winner, directed Sunday Night Football for NBC and Monday Night Football for ABC^[56]
• Wendell Garner (1921-2008), Yale University researcher who made significant contributions to the cognitive revolution,^[57] retired to Meadow Ridge^[58]
• Frank M. Hawks (1897-1938), aviator who made the fourth-ever nonstop coast-to-coast flight in the United States in 1929,^[59] lived in town
• Alfred Winslow Jones (1900-1989), hedge fund manager, lived on Poverty Hollow Road^[60]
• Alex Kroll, inductee of the College Football Hall of Fame^[61] and Advertising Hall of Fame,^[62] lived in town^[63]
• Lawrence Kudlow (1947-), host of Kudlow and Company television program, current resident^[64]
• Gerald M. Loeb (1899-1974),^[65] 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^[66]
• Christopher McCormick, CEO of L.L. Bean^[67]
• Lauren S. McCready (1915-2007), a founder of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy^[68]
• Clementine Paddleford (1898-1967),^[69] 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^[70]
• Orville Schell Jr., community and human rights activist^[71]
• Lucien M. Underwood (1853-1907), founding member of the New York Botanical Society^[72]
• Chickens Warrups, established a Native American village on land that eventually became part of Redding^[73]

See also

• List of people from Connecticut
• List of people from Bridgeport, Connecticut
• List of people from Darien, Connecticut
• List of people from Greenwich, 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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