Talk:List of people from Connecticut

Conan O'Brien, Rob Zombie / Robert Bartleh Cummings, Renee Zellweger, Regis Philbin, Cyndi Lauper?

Conan O'Brien: Washington, CT

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005277/bio

Rob Zombie / Robert Bartleh Cummings: Woodbury, CT

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/rob-zombies-house-1/

Renee Zellweger: (Farmhouse) in CT

http://www.forbes.com/sites/zillow/2011/12/14/renee-zellweger-lists-connecticut-farmhouse/

Regis Philbin: Greenwich, CT

http://www.luxist.com/2008/10/10/regis-philbin-in-greenwich-estate-of-the-day/

Cyndi Lauper: Stamford, CT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Stamford,_Connecticut — Preceding unsigned comment added by Twillisjr (talk • contribs) 01:43, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Leonard Bernstein, Phil Donahue, Prudence Crandall, Johnny Depp, Justin Timberlake

Leonard Bernstein: Fox Run Road, Redding, CT

http://www.historyofredding.com/HRfamouspeople.htm

Phil Donahue: Westport, CT

http://www.ctliving.com/famouspeople/

Prudence Crandall: Canterbury, Connecticut

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudence_Crandall

Johnny Depp: Greenwich, CT

http://www.connecticutmag.com/Connecticut-Magazine/December-2010/Our-Famous-50-2011/

Justin Timberlake: Greenwich, CT

http://www.eonline.com/news/ask_the_answer_bitch/did_justin_timberlake_move_boring/139299

Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Harry Connick Jr?

I've been told that Dustin Hoffman is a resident of Roxbury, CT. Does he make the cut?

I'm also looking at Stamford, CT's Shippan Point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shippan_Point It appears to feature Faye Dunaway and Harry Connick Jr. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Twillisjr (talk • contribs) 23:54, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

TWillisJr — Preceding unsigned comment added by Twillisjr (talk • contribs) 23:48, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Glenn Beck, Steve Wilkos, and Judge Judy

Glenn Beck: New Canaan, CT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_New_Canaan,_Connecticut

Steve Wilkos: Stamford, CT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wilkos

Judy "Judge Judy" Sheindlin

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/item_8PejiYnlbZPj8zi0SKBTjO — Preceding unsigned comment added by Twillisjr (talk • contribs) 01:21, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Donald Trump, Mel Gibson, Jesse Camp, Ivan Lendl and Jackie Robinson?

Donald Trump and Ivana Trump Weekend Home in Greenwich, CT.

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20117102,00.html

Mel Gibson: "Tudor Estate" in Greenwich, CT

http://www.propgoluxury.com/EN/PropertyNews/Connecticut/45-Mel-Gbson-Mnsion-Geenwich.html

Jesse Camp: Granby, CT

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0131992/

Ivan Lendl: Greenwich, CT

http://homesoftherich.net/2008/07/ivan-lendls-connecticut-mansion.html

Jackie Robinson: Stamford, CT

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0131.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Twillisjr (talk • contribs) 00:34, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Birth locations

I replaced "Fairfield" with "Bridgeport" next to John Mayer's name because, although he was raised primarily in Fairfield, he was born in Bridgeport. Additionally, I should point out that I've never given Rivers Cuomo a birthplace because he consistently gives his home town as "Yogaville" in interviews, and that was just a commune located around Mansfield/Windham in the 60s-80s that he grew up on. However, since that's not an actual town and we don't know for sure which town he was actually born in, I'm not comfortable listing anything yet. Beginning 07:57, Aug 20, 2004 (UTC)

Fred Norris

Fred Norris from the Howard Stern show was born in Willimantic. I would like to add him to the list, but am unsure of what category he falls under. Antitext 05:48, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Proposal: Merge this list with List of famous residents of Connecticut

I propose to merge the List of famous residents of Connecticut with this list under this name. If a merger is done, this name should be the one used because it has become standard throughout Wikipedia and that makes it easier for some readers to find.

These two lists are slightly different. At the top of this one, we're told the list is of people born in the state, while the other one is of famous people who reside in it. I don't think it matters one way or the other to readers: They want to know about famous people who are in some way closely associated with a place. It would be nice if each item would note what the connection is (birth, residence, other) but not necessary. (It would be even nicer, and ultimately necessary, for the link of the person to the place to be footnoted.) Noroton 23:49, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Support. I created famous when there was a section getting out of hand on Connecticut. Unfortunately, I didn't know that this article existed. Cmprince 00:18, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Oppose/weak oppose. Living somewhere does not equal being from there, though your compromise could work if it clearly noted the difference. I'd actually propose simply eliminating the notable residents list entirely, since residency changes frequently among the "famous" and we're really not a phonebook or other directory. There is the additional issue of the definition of "fame" and how we could possibly narrow down or expand that list without having some concrete guidelines, which we don't. I would just pick some of the most noted from that list and include them in a small section of Connecticut (the article, that is), or add them to the articles of the towns in which they live, which is more common and makes more sense to me. Beginning 01:15, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Support. We could begin (as some other state lists do) with something like: This is a list of notable people who were born in or spent significant periods of their lives in the U.S. state of Connecticut. This would eliminate transients. Staib 00:13, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Business people & inventors

I modified the category "Business people & inventors" to add the word "scientists." The reason was that I wanted to add the forensic scientist Henry Lee, and he didn't seem to fit anywhere else. We may want to break out scientists separately, although some of the inventors are also businesspeople. But people like Dr Lee or Josiah Willard Gibbs are basically pure scientists. Dewey Finn (talk) 16:04, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion:

• Arthur-miller.jpg

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 14:08, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

I did my best to neaten up the page

I initially was just going to add Julie Chu to athletes because she should be on the list. I ended up spending a fair amount of time tidying up and making the style match as well as I could. Most people on the list were designated by the persons page title in double brackets, a space, and double brackets around link to town|name of town, in parentheses. For a few people, it was a link to their name in double brackets followed by (birth year), (description); some also had editorialized comments.

I removed editorializing where it was unnecessary (positive or negative), and tried to make list entries look more uniform when the description was relevant or there were other people by the same name with Wikipedia pages. For example:

Removing unnecessary editorializing:

Before {* Chip Skowron, hedge fund portfolio manager convicted of insider trading (Greenwich)}

After {* Chip Skowron, (Greenwich)}

Removing ambiguity (I kept "American-Israeli" as a disambiguation phrase because he played professionally in the US and Israel):

Before {* Keith Bennett (born 1961), American-Israeli basketball player (Stamford)}

After {* Keith Bennett, American-Israeli basketball player (Stamford)}

I also removed Jaehyun from musicians when looking for where in CT he lived since it wasn't listed; he spent ages 5-10 in CT and it doesn't appear relevant to his career.

Let me know if this looks good to everyone. I don't think we need comments on why someone is relevant enough to be on this list since it's a link to their page. IanH84 (talk) 21:23, 10 December 2023 (UTC)