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 (born 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 (born 1971),^[3] actor, comedian and author
Ritchie Blackmore (born 1945),^[4] musician, former resident
John Byrum (born 1947), motion picture director, screenwriter, and producer, long-time resident of West Redding
Diana Canova (born 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 (born 1946), musician with Hall & Oates, lived on Topstone Road
Jascha Heifetz (1901–1987),^[9] violinist, lived on Sanfordtown Road in the 1940s
Matt Hoverman (born 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 (born 1947), musician, professor and writer^[13]
Hope Lange (1933–2003),^[14] Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-nominated actress
Jack Lawrence (1912–2009), composer inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975^[15]
Barry Levinson (born 1942),^[16] Academy Award-winning film director
Enoch Light (1905–1978),^[17] composer, musician, music label executive and sound technician
Meat Loaf (1947–2022), rock singer, Joel Barlow High School softball coach during the 1990s^[18]
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]
Fred Newman (born 1952),^[21] actor, voice actor, composer, and sound effects artist, current resident
Colleen Zenk Pinter (born 1953),^[22] actress; spouse of Mark Pinter
Mark Pinter (born 1950),^[22] actor; spouse of Colleen Zenk Pinter
Derek Piotr (born 1991), composer and vocalist^[23]
Andy Powell (born 1950), guitarist and only constant member of British progressive rock group Wishbone Ash, has lived in Redding since 1991
Elliot Scheiner (born 1947), engineer and five-time Grammy Award-winning producer; spouse of actress Diana Canova^[5]
Karen Kopins Shaw (born 1961), actress in films; winner of Miss Connecticut pageant in 1977^[24]
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 (born 1944), Grammy-winning record producer, lived in town in the 1980s
Mary Travers (1936–2009),^[25] of the Peter, Paul and Mary group
Guinevere Van Seenus (born 1977), model, photographer and jewelry designer
Marcy Walker (born 1961), actress, lived in West Redding during the mid-1990s^[26]
Maura West (born 1972),^[27] daytime Emmy Award-winning actress on As the World Turns
Frank Whaley (born 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 (born 1930),^[30] Oscar nominee for Lenny, resident since 2001
Ann Beattie (born 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 (born 1942),^[39] children's author and illustrator, lived in West Redding in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s
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
Jane and Michael Stern (both born 1946), of West Redding,^[43] write the "Roadfood" column for Gourmet magazine; authors of Roadfood and other books
Ruth Stout^[44] (1884–1980), writer about organic gardening
Anne Parrish Titzell (1888–1957), children's book author,^[45] lived on Peaceable Street
Ada Josephine Todd (1858–1904), author and educator^[46]
Alvin Toffler (1928–2016), 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^[47]
Tasha Tudor (1915–2008),^[48] 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^[49]

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^[50]
Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877–1952),^[51] 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^[52]
Gill Fox (1915–2004), two-time Pulitzer Prize-nominated cartoonist^[53]
Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876–1973), artist; with husband Archer Huntington, gave land to create Collis P. Huntington State Park^[54]
Robert Natkin (1930–2010), abstract expressionist^[55]
Edward Steichen (1879–1973), artist and photographer, lived on Topstone (Topstone Park was his property)^[56]

People in government and politics

Stephen Barlow (1779–1845), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 1827-29, born in Redding^[57]
Dudley S. Gregory (1800–1874), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey 1847-49, born in Redding^[58]
Ebenezer J. Hill (1845–1917), Connecticut member of the United States House of Representatives from 1895 to 1913^[59]
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 (born 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,^[60] retired to Meadow Ridge^[61]
Frank M. Hawks (1897–1938), aviator who made the fourth-ever nonstop coast-to-coast flight in the United States in 1929,^[62] lived in town
Alfred Winslow Jones (1900–1989), hedge fund manager, lived on Poverty Hollow Road^[63]
Alex Kroll, inductee of the College Football Hall of Fame^[64] and Advertising Hall of Fame,^[65] lived in town^[66]
Lawrence Kudlow (born 1947), host of Kudlow and Company television program, current resident^[67]
Gerald M. Loeb (1899–1974),^[68] 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^[69]
Christopher McCormick, CEO of L.L. Bean^[70]
Lauren S. McCready (1915–2007), a founder of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy^[71]
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),^[72] 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^[73]
Lucien M. Underwood (1853–1907), founding member of the New York Botanical Society^[74]
Chickens Warrups, established a Native American village on land that eventually became part of Redding^[75]

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