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Redding,
Connecticut has been the home of many famous individuals over
the years. I'm sure that there are more than I have listed
here but at this time these are the individuals I know of.
Please feel free to contact me if you know of others.
Follow
the links for further information on Joel Barlow, Anna Hyatt
Huntington, Charles Ives, Edward Steichen and Redding's most
famous former resident- Mark Twain:
- Paul Avgerinos
(Musician)
- Joel
Barlow (Poet/Politician)
- Dan Beard
(Illustrator, one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America.
Lived on Great Pasture)
- Rosamond
Bernier (70s to '02 - Art lecturer, author...lived on
Poverty Hollow Road)
- Leonard Bernstein
(50's - Musician, composer...lived on Fox Run Road)
- Georgie Brush
(60's - Painter..lived on Redding Ridge)
- Diana Canova
(was an actress in the TV show Soap and the voice of Daphney
in the original Scooby Doo cartoon.)
- Stuart Chase
(30s to 80s. Economist & philosopher, activist. Worked for
FDR and his book "A New Deal" was the term adopted by FDR...lived
on Redding Road)
- Katherine
Drier (20s, 30s, She was a patron of the modern art
movement in the U.S. She formed the Societe Anonyme and
organized the International Exhibition of Modern Art in
Brooklyn in 1926 with Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. She was
also a key player in founding the Museum of Modern Art in
New York City...lived on Marchant Rd in 1912 and later moved
across the Danbury line on Long Ridge Rd)
- Michael C.
Erlanger (Writer. Lived in Redding Center)
- Howard Fast
(famous auther of The Crossing and Citizen Tom Paine. Lived
on Cross Highway in the 1980-1990)
- Varian Fry
(the American
Schindler, later in life taught at Joel Barlow High
School)
- Robert S.
Fitzgerald (Fitzgerald is widely known as one of the
most poetic translators into the English language, best
known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin. He published
translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid
and Sophocles' Oedipus plays ....lived on Seventy Acres
Road, 1940's - 1960's)
- Hal Foster
(Cartoonist-Prince Valiant)
- Gilbert Fox
(Pulitzer Prize-Nominated Cartoonist)
- George Giusti
(Graphic designer, Illustrator. Lived on Chalburn Road)
- Pierre Guerlain
of Guerlain perfumes (Owned a division of a paper company
- artist papers, specialty papers, that printmakers used.)
- Elizabeth
Janeway (Author)
- Daryl Hall
(Musician-Hall & Oates. Lived on Topstone Rd.)
- Frank M.
Hawks (Famous Aviator. Lived off Route 107 "Hawk's
Nest")
- Jascha Heifetz
(40s - Violinist...lived on Sanfordtown Rd)
- Elsie Hill
(20s to 30s, Women's Suffragette...lived on Seventy Acres
Road)
- William E.
Hill (Cartoonist)
- Anna
Hyatt Huntington (Artist)
- Charles
Ives (Musician)
- Alfred Winslow
Jones (Known as the father of the hedge fund industry.
Created the Wall Street "hedge fund." ...lived on Poverty
Hollow Rd)
- Igor Kipnis
(Musician)
- John Kirkpatrick
(Musician/Professor/Writer)
- Larry Kudlow
recently moved to Redding. He has his own TV show Kudlow
and Company and is a syndicated columnist.
- Joseph Wood
Krutch (40s. Author and Naturalist...lived on Limekiln
Rd)
- Jack Lawrence
(Songwriter)
- Hope Lange
(Actress)
- Barry Levinson
(Writer, Producer, Director)
- Enoch Light
(Musician)
- David Lilienthal
(50s - Scientist, Director of the Atomic Energy Commission,
Director of Tennessee Valley Authority...lived on Stepney
Rd)
- Walther
Luttgen (1910's-20's) Partner at international banking
firm, August Belmont & Company; Director of the Illinois
Central Railroad Company, the Transatlantic Trust Company
and the Rapid Transit Construction Company.; Luttgen Place
in New Jersey is named for him
- Harry Mace
- Cartoonist - freelance, AMY (syndicated panel)
- Carmen Mathews
(Actress. Lived on Umpawaug/Marchant...New
Pond Farm)
- Meatloaf
a.k.a. Marvin Lee Aday (Musician. Lived on Orchard Drive)
- John G. Mitchell
(Editor-in-Chief of Sierra Club Books, Field Editor and
Writer for Audubon Magazine, Environmental Editor National
Geographic)
- Joseph S.
Montgomery (Founder of Cannondale Bicycles, Peaceable
St., Fox Run Rd., Umpawaug Rd., Granite Ridge)
- Dick Morris
(White House Aide/Political Advisor)
- Fred Otnes
(Artist, Illustrator. Lived on Chalburn Road)
- Albert Bigelow
Paine (Writer. Lived on Diamond Hill)
- Major General
Samuel Holden Parsons (1778-1782. Commander under Gen.
Israel Putnam . He first proposed the idea of a Continental
Congress in 1774. Appointed first Chief Judge to Northwest
Territory (Ohio)...lived on Black Rock Tpke)
- John Russell
(70s to '02 - NY Times art critic and author...lived on
Poverty Hollow Road)
- Elliot Scheiner
(5 Time grammy Award Winning Producer/Engineer)
- Edward
Steichen (Artist-Photographer) Lived on Topstone...actually
Topstone Park was his property)
- Orville Schell
(Civil Liberties lawyer, First Amendment defender)
- Jane and
Michael Stern (Writers/Food Critics)
- Ruth Stout
- Writer (organic gardening)
- Hume Cronyn
& Jessica Tandy (40s to 50s - Stage and film actors
...lived on Stepney Road)
- Russ Titelman
(lived in Redding in the 1980s. He is a grammy winning record
producer for Eric Clapton, David Sanborn, Steve Winwood.)
- Anne Parrish
Titzell (Writer...lived on Peaceable St)
- Tasha Tudor
(10s to 30s. Childrens' author and artist...lived on Tudor
Rd)
- Mary Travers
(Musician-Peter, Paul, Mary. Lives on Limekiln Rd.)
- Mark
Twain (Writer) Mark Twain Lane, "Stormfield"
- Walter White
(40s to 50s, Head of NAACP...lived on Seventy Acres Rd)
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