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Category:People from New Haven, Connecticut

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The people listed below were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with New Haven, Connecticut.

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List of people from New Haven, Connecticut

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James Tinkham Babb

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Martha Minerva Franklin

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Molly Qerim

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Madeline Triffon

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Jeanne Vertefeuille

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Jan M. Ziolkowski

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New Haven, Connecticut [videos]

New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut, and is part of the New York metropolitan area. With a population of 129,779 as determined by the 2010 United States Census, it …

New Haven, Connecticut - Clockwise from top: Downtown, East Rock Park, summer festivities on the New Haven Green, shops along Upper State Street, Five Mile Point Lighthouse, Harkness Tower, and Connecticut Hall at Yale University

Clockwise from top: Downtown, East Rock Park, summer festivities on the New Haven Green, shops along Upper State Street, Five Mile Point Lighthouse, Harkness Tower, and Connecticut Hall at Yale University

New Haven as it appeared in a 1786 engraving

Isaac Doolittle [videos]

Isaac Doolittle was an early American inventor, engineer, manufacturer, militia officer, entrepreneur, printer, and brass, iron, and silver artisan. Doolittle was a watchmaker and clockmaker, known for making and selling at his shop in New Haven, Connecticut one …

Signature medallion from brass clock face of an Isaac Doolittle hall clock, c. 1770

Isaac Doolittle brass hall clock face, c. 1770s

Advertisement for Isaac Doolittle's bell foundry in New Haven Connecticut Journal, September 29, 1784

The Turtle submarine

Eli Whitney [videos]

Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. Whitney's invention made upland short cotton into a profitable crop …

Eli Whitney, painted by Samuel F. B. Morse, 1822. Yale University Art Gallery

Petition by Whitney to the selectmen of Westborough, Massachusetts, to run a public school, with sample of his penmanship

"First cotton gin" from Harpers Weekly. 1869 illustration depicting event of some 70 years earlier.

Cotton Gin Patent. It shows sawtooth gin blades, which were not part of Whitney's original patent.

David Atwater [videos]

David Atwater — History — Was a founder of the Colony of New Haven, Connecticut. Was the first of the New Haven Colony who was sworn a freeman of the United Colony.Born in 1615 Royton, Lenham, Kent, England son of John Atwater and Susan Narsin, came to North America June …

David Atwater - The Center Church plaque in memory of the people that founded the city of New Haven, who were also buried at the site some were moved to Grove St. Cemetery some remained in a crypt which contains the identified remains of about 137 people, and the likely remains of over 1,000 that are unidentified.

The Center Church plaque in memory of the people that founded the city of New Haven, who were also buried at the site some were moved to Grove St. Cemetery some remained in a crypt which contains the identified remains of about 137 people, and the likely remains of over 1,000 that are unidentified.

David Atwater's ancestral home in Royton, Lenham, Kent, England.

Joe Comfort (New Haven) [videos]

Joe Comfort is a homeless man living in New Haven, Connecticut. He has been described as a "street legend". He was featured in the Local Characters Trading Cards for New Haven, exhibited in 2005. He earns money doing odd jobs including raking leaves, window washing, and repairs. He has also …

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John Huggins [videos]

John Jerome Huggins, Jr. was an American activist. Huggins was the leader in the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Panther Party who was killed by black nationalist US Organization members on the University of California, Los Angeles campus in January …

LAPD officer views chalk outlines of the bodies of Huggins and Carter.

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Chauncey Jerome [videos]

Chauncey Jerome was an American clockmaker in the early 19th century. He made a fortune selling his clocks, and his business grew quickly. However, his company failed in 1856, and he died in poverty. — Early life — He was born in Canaan in 1793; Chauncey Jerome was the son of a …

Chauncey Jerome

A 19th-century Chauncey Jerome clock

Bun Lai [videos]

Bun Lai is an Asian American chef. He is a leader in the sustainable food movement. His family restaurant, Miya's in New Haven, Connecticut, is the first sustainable sushi restaurant in the world. His mother, a Congressional Award recipient for her contribution in sustainable …

Bun Lai harvesting seaweed on his restaurant's seaweed and shellfishing beds in Connecticut in 2015

Chef Bun Lai and conservation biologist, Dr. Joe Roman, hunting for invasive Asian shore crabs in Connecticut.

Sarah Winchester [videos]

Sarah Lockwood Winchester was an American heiress who amassed great wealth after the death of her husband, William Wirt Winchester. Her inheritance from his estate included $20 million as well as a 50% holding in the …

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The farmhouse in Los Altos

Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater [videos]

Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater was an American Presbyterian philosopher. — Life — He was born in Cedar Hill, New Haven, Connecticut. He started going to Yale University at the age of 14 in 1827 and graduated in 1831. He spent some time after graduating as the head …

Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater

Elisabeth Gilman [videos]

Elisabeth Coit Gilman was an American socialist and civil liberties advocate. — Early life — Elisabeth Coit Gilman was born in New Haven, Connecticut on December 25, 1867 to Daniel Coit Gilman and Mary Ketcham Gilman. Elisabeth was the second child, and …

Elisabeth Gilman, Baltimore, circa 1910

Cynthia M. Grund [videos]

Cynthia M. Grund is an American philosopher and educator who as of August 2016 is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Denmark where she is also Research Director for The Aesthetics of Music and Sound project. — Biography …

Cynthia M. Grund

Richard Mason Hancock [videos]

Richard Mason Hancock was a carpenter and shop foreman and civil rights activist in the American Northeast and Chicago. He was one of few African-American iron works shop foremen during his era. — Early life — Richard Mason Hancock was born on November 22, 1832 …

Hancock in 1890

Richard C. Lee [videos]

Richard Charles Lee was a Democrat and a longtime Mayor of New Haven and the youngest when he held the position in 1954 at age 37. Lee is best known for his leading role in urban redevelopment in the 1950s and …

Lee in 1961

Harvey Mansfield [videos]

Harvey Claflin Mansfield Jr. is an American political philosopher. He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1962. He has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships and has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center …

Mansfield in March 2017

Christopher J. Marut [videos]

Christopher J. Marut is an American diplomat who last served as Director of the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto embassy of the United States in Taiwan, from 2012 to 2015. He also served as acting consul general of the Consulate General of the United States, Hong Kong and Macau (also a de …

Official portrait

Sascha Meinrath [videos]

Sascha Meinrath, an Internet freedom activist holds the Palmer Chair in Telecommunications at Penn State University. He is the founder of X-Lab, a future-focused technology policy and innovation project, and promotes the "Internet in a Suitcase" effort to create ad hoc mesh wireless technologies …

Meinrath and Issa at Internet Defense League DC Launch

Laurence Pope [videos]

Laurence Everett Pope II is an American diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to Chad from 1993 to 1996 and former US Chargé d’Affaires to Libya. Pope held a number of senior posts in the Department of State. He was the Director for Northern Gulf Affairs …

Laurence Pope (second from right) at the burial service for Major Pope (his father), Arlington National Cemetery, September 15, 2009

Ariel Rios [videos]

Ariel Rios was an undercover special agent for the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, killed in the line of duty. He was a member of the Presidential anti-drug task force in South Florida. — Biography — Ariel Rios was born …

ATF Special Agent Ariel Rios

Elizabeth Selden Rogers [videos]

Elizabeth Selden White Rogers was a civic reformer working to improve the New York public schools, and to win suffrage for women in the state of New York and the nation. — Early life and education — She was born on July 23, 1868, in Astoria, Queens, New York …

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Timothy Shriver [videos]

Timothy Perry Shriver is Chairman of Special Olympics. — Early life and education — Timothy Shriver was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Sargent Shriver, a former United States Ambassador to France and the Democratic Party's vice-presidential candidate in 1972, and Eunice …

Timothy Shriver in March 2017

Josh Simpson (glass artist) [videos]

Josh Simpson is an American glass artist. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries around the world, and is held in the collections of museums such as the Corning Museum of Glass; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Renwick Gallery …

Josh Simpson

Jeanne Vertefeuille [videos]

Jeanne Vertefeuille was a CIA officer who participated in a small team that investigated and uncovered the actions of Aldrich Ames, a notorious Cold War spy. — Early Life — Born in New Haven, Connecticut on December 23, 1932, she earned a bachelor's degree …

Vertefeuille in the 1990s

David Wessel [videos]

David Meyer Wessel is an American journalist and writer. He has shared two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism. He is director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution and a contributing correspondent to The Wall Street Journal, where he …

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Emily D. West [videos]

Emily D. West, also known as Emily Morgan, is a folk heroine whose legendary activities during the Texas Revolution have come to be identified with the song "The Yellow Rose of Texas". — Biography — West was a free woman of color, of mixed race, or a "high yellow". She was born in …

The Emily Morgan Hotel, in downtown San Antonio, is named in honor of the Texas heroine

Michael John Williams [videos]

Michael John "Mike" Williams is an international relations scholar, former advisor for the Department of State, and former Congressional candidate for the 5th District of Connecticut. Williams is the author of numerous books focusing on foreign affairs. In 2006 he was …

Mike Williams with General Agoglia in Afghanistan

Battle of Poltava [videos]

The Battle of Poltava was the decisive victory of Peter I of Russia, also known as "the Great," over the Swedish forces under Field Marshal Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, in one of the battles of the Great Northern War. — It is widely believed by historians to have been the beginning of the …

The Battle of Poltava by Denis Martens the Younger (1726)

Orthodox church on the battlefield.

The Poltava Monument in Stockholm, Sweden.

The inscription on the monument in Stockholm: "To the fallen sons of the Fatherland" (Latin: "Filiis pro patria occisis").

Sapphire [videos]

Sapphire is a precious gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum, consisting of aluminium oxide with trace amounts of elements such as iron, titanium, chromium, copper, or magnesium. It is typically blue, but natural "fancy" sapphires also occur in yellow, purple, orange, and green …

The 423-carat (85 g) blue Logan Sapphire

An uncut, rough yellow sapphire found at the Spokane Sapphire Mine near Helena, Montana

Faceted padparadscha

Star sapphire

Amazon rainforest [videos]

The Amazon rainforest, also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon biome that covers most of …

Amazon rainforest, near Manaus, Brazil

Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest.

Members of an uncontacted tribe encountered in the Brazilian state of Acre in 2009.

Geoglyphs on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest, Acre.

Ferrari 250 GTO [videos]

The Ferrari 250 GTO is a GT car produced by Ferrari from 1962 to 1964 for homologation into the FIA's Group 3 Grand Touring Car category. It was powered by Ferrari's Tipo 168/62 Colombo V12 engine. — The "250" in its name denotes the displacement in cubic centimeters of each of its cylinders; "GTO" …

1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, chassis 3851GT

Rear view of 1962 250 GTO (chassis 4153GT)

Tipo 168/62 Colombo V12 engine

Four 250 GTOs and one 330 GTO (second to last car) at the 2012 Goodwood Revival

Jada Pinkett Smith [videos]

Jada Koren Pinkett Smith is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and businesswoman. — She began her acting career in 1990, with a guest appearance on the short-lived sitcom True Colors, and subsequently starred in the television series A Different World. She …

Pinkett Smith at the 2014 PaleyFest

Smith at the Million Woman March, 1998

Pinkett Smith in 2001

Pinkett Smith with her husband and children at the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Concert

History of Syria [videos]

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Female figurine, Syria, 5000 BCE. Ancient Orient Museum.

The Ancient city of Apamea, Syria, one of Syria's most important commercial centres and prospering cities in Hellenistic times

Roman Theater of Bosra

Empress Julia Domna

Getty Villa [videos]

The Getty Villa is one of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Located at the easterly end of the Malibu coast in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, the Getty Villa is an educational center and museum dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures …

The entrance to the Getty Villa sets the tone of entering an archaeological dig.

The inner peristyle

Aerial view of Getty Villa (building with red roof at center right) and surrounding area.

Victorious Youth, part of the museum's collection

Ancient Egypt [videos]

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in the place that is now the country Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC with the …

The pyramids of Giza are among the most recognizable symbols of the civilization of ancient Egypt.

A typical Naqada II jar decorated with gazelles. (Predynastic Period)

Early tomb painting from Nekhen, c. 3500 BC, Naqada, possibly Gerzeh, culture

Khafre Enthroned

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