- Fernando Verdasco
Fernando Verdasco Carmona (born November 15, 1983 in Madrid) is a professional tennis player from Spain. Currently he is one of the best Spanish tennis players, and he plays well on all of the surfaces. Verdasco started playing tennis at four years old and got a full-time coach when he was eight. Verdasco considers his forehand his best shot, plays left-handed and has a double-handed backhand. - Rosa Delauro
Rosa DeLauro is a member of the United States House of Representatives. Holding the position since 1991, DeLauro represents Connecticut's 3rd congressional district. She is currently serving her ninth term. Before becoming a member of the House, DeLauro served as Executive Director of EMILY'S List, as well as serving as Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd . - Joseph Lieberman
I am a US Senator for the state of CT. I am a Democrat. My religion is Jewish. I am Married. I received my BA from Yale University. I received my JD from Yale University. I live in New Haven. I was born in Stamford, CT. For issues within my power to resolve, write me at "1 Constitution Plz., 7th Fl., Hartford, CT 06103". - Liz Phair
Liz Phair (born Elizabeth Clark Phair on April 17 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. - Ezra Stiles
The Rev. Ezra Stiles (November 29, 1727 - May 12, 1795) was a Congregational clergyman, theologian and president of Yale College from 1778 to 1795. Born the son of the Rev. Isaac Stiles in North Haven, Connecticut, Ezra Stiles graduated from Yale in 1746. He studied theology and was ordained in 1749, tutoring at Yale from that year until 1755. Resigning from the ministry, he studied law and practiced at New Haven from 1753 to 1755, … - John Davenport
John Davenport (April 9, 1597 - March 15, 1670) was a puritan clergyman and co-founder of the American colony of New Haven. Born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England to a wealthy family, Davenport was educated at Oxford University. His father was Henry Davenport (d. May 29, 1627), draper, alderman, and Mayor of Coventry, son of Edward Davenport, Mayor of Coventry (1551), and Margery Harford. His mother, Winifred Barnaby (1569 - April 12, 1597), … - Elena Bovina
Elena Bovina (born March 10, 1983, Moscow, Russia) is a Russian professional female tennis player. On April 4, 2005 Bovina reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 14. In June 2005, Bovina sustained a right shoulder injury, which forced her to withdraw from Wimbledon and summer hardcourt tournaments. She was scheduled to return to the tour in New Haven, where she was the defending champion. - Elihu Yale
Elihu Yale, (April 5, 1649 in Boston, Massachusetts, America - July 8, 1721 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales), was the first benefactor of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in the United States. - Martin Looney
Martin M. Looney is an American politician. Looney, a Democrat, has been a state senator from Connecticut since 1993. Since 2004, Looney has served as Majority Leader of the Senate. Looney, a resident of New Haven, represents the eastern half of the city as well as part of Hamden in the Connecticut Senate. Looney was born in New Haven and graduated from Fairfield University and received his J.D. from University of Connecticut School of Law. - Nathan Smith
Nathan Smith (January 8, 1770 - December 6, 1835) was a United States Senator from Connecticut, and was the brother of Nathaniel Smith and uncle of Truman Smith. He was born in Woodbury, Connecticut and received a modest education. He read law, and was admitted to the bar in 1792 and commenced the practice of his profession in New Haven. Smith was prosecuting attorney for New Haven County from 1817 to 1835, and was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1818. - Benjamin Silliman
Benjamin Silliman (8 August 1779 - 24 November 1864) was an American chemist, one of the first American professors of science (at Yale University), and the first to distill petroleum. - Toni Harp
Toni Nathaniel Harp is an American politician. Harp, a Democrat, has been a state senator from Connecticut since 1993. Harp, a resident of New Haven, represents the western half of the city as well as part of West Haven in the Connecticut Senate. Harp was born in San Francisco and graduated from Roosevelt University and received a M.Ed. from Yale University. Prior to being elected in the Connecticut Senate, … - Gayle Slossberg
Gayle Slossberg is an American politician. Slossberg, a Democrat, has been a state senator from Connecticut since 2005. Slossberg, a resident of Milford, represents the western suburbs of New Haven in the Connecticut Senate, including the towns of Milford, Orange, and West Haven. Slossberg was born and raised in Massachusetts, and graduated from Cornell University in 1987 and earned a law degree from New York University School of Law in 1990. - Henry Austin
Henry Austin (December 4, 1804-December 17, 1891) was a prominent and prolific American architect based in New Haven, Connecticut. He practiced for more than fifty years and designed many public buildings and homes primarily in the New Haven area. Austin was born in Mt. Carmel, Connecticut in 1804 and was the son of Daniel and Adah (Dorman) Austin. He first worked as a carpenter's apprentice and then began his career in architecture working for Ithiel Town. - Richard Carpenter
Richard Lynn Carpenter (b. October 15, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut) is a pop musician who is best known as one half of the brother/sister duo, the Carpenters, along with his sister, Karen Carpenter. - Josiah Willard Gibbs
Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 - April 28, 1903) was a preeminent American mathematical-engineer, theoretical physicist, and chemist noted for his famed 1876 publication of "On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances", a graphical analysis of multi-phase chemical systems, which laid the basis for a large part of modern-day science. Being one of the greatest American scientists of the nineteenth century, … - Mashona Washington
Mashona Washington (b. May 31 1976, in Flint, Michigan) is a professional tennis player from the United States. As a junior player, Washington won the US Indoor National 18s in 1992, and was a finalist at the US National Hardcourt 16s and US Indoor National 16s in 1991. She turned professional in 1995. After a slow start to her professional career, … - Noah Porter
Noah Porter (December 14, 1811 - March 14, 1892), American educationalist and philosophical writer, was born in Farmington, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1831, and was employed as a Congregational minister in Connecticut and Massachusetts, 1836 to 1846. He was elected professor of moral philosophy and metaphysics at Yale in 1846, and from 1871 to 1886 he was president of the college. - Ralph Ferrucci
Ralph Ferrucci was the Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Connecticut. Ferrucci ran for the seat currently occupied by Joe Lieberman, which Lieberman was reelected to in the 2006 election. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1972 and currently works as an independent truck driver, delivering cookies since 1991. In 2003, Ferrucci ran against John DeStefano, Jr. for mayor of New Haven under the "Guilty Party" banner, in what he saw as a one-party election. - Ben Allison
Ben Allison (c. 1966) is an American jazz double bassist and composer born in New Haven, Connecticut. He performs with the groups Peace Pipe, New Quartet, Medicine Wheel, the Kush Trio, and the Herbie Nichols Project (which he co-leads with pianist Frank Kimbrough). At the age of 25 he formed the Jazz Composers Collective, a New York City nonprofit organization, serving as that organization's Artistic Director and Composer-in-Residence. - Donald Kagan
Donald Kagan (born 1932) is a Yale historian specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He was Dean of Yale College from 1989-1992. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. Born into a Jewish family in Lithuania, Kagan grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where his family emigrated shortly after the death of his father. - Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley (14 September 1921-28 September 2005) was an African American civil rights activist, lawyer, judge, and state senator. She was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the ninth of twelve children. Her parents had immigrated from Nevis, in the Caribbean; her mother was the founder of the New Haven chapter of the NAACP. With financial help from a local philanthropist, Clarence Blakeslee, she initially attended Fisk University, … - William Nordhaus
William D. Nordhaus (born May 31, 1941 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is the Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. Nordhaus received his B.A. from Yale in 1963, and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1967. He has been a member of the faculty at Yale since 1967, and has also served as its Provost from 1986-88 and its Vice President for Finance and Administration from 1992-93. Among myriad honors, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, … - Mitch Harper
Mitchell V. "Mitch" Harper is an American politician from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Harper served as a Representative in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1978 to 1990. In 1992 he served as a presidential elector for Indiana. Harper, an attorney, edits the weblog Fort Wayne Observed. He is a native of New Haven, Indiana, and grew up living above the family funeral business founded by his great-grandfather, Edward, in 1889. - Daniel Coit Gilman
Daniel Coit Gilman was an American educator. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, Gilman graduated from Yale College in 1852 with a degree in geography. At Yale he was a classmate of Andrew Dickson White, who would later serve as first president of Cornell University. The two were members of the Skull and Bones secret society, and would remain close friends. After serving as attaché of the United States legation at St. Petersburg, Russia from 1853 to 1855, … - Mark Mulcahy
Mark Mulcahy is the former front-man for the New Haven, Connecticut-based band Miracle Legion in the 1980s to mid 1990s. The band earned modest renown, especially in their native New England region, but disbanded after a sad turn of events with their record label, Morgan Creek. Mark soon formed Polaris; a house band for the mid 1990s alternative television series "The Adventures of Pete & Pete" (1993-1996). - Horatio Parker
Horatio Parker (September 15, 1863-December 18, 1919) was an American composer and teacher. He was a central figure in musical life in New Haven, Connecticut in the late 19th century, and is also remembered as the teacher of Charles Ives. He was born in Auburndale, Massachusetts. After early study in the United States with George Whitefield Chadwick and others, he went to Europe, a common destination for a young American composer in the 1880s. - William Huntington Russell
William Huntington Russell William Huntington Russell (12 August 1809, Middletown, Connecticut - 19 May 1885, New Haven, Connecticut) was co-founder of Skull and Bones along with Alphonso Taft. He was a descendant of the most noted New England families, including Pierpont, Hooker, Bingham, and Willet. William was a cadet at the United States Military Academy, where he was taught under strict military discipline. - Gerry Hemingway
Gerry Hemingway (b. New Haven, Connecticut, 1955) is an American jazz composer and percussionist. He has performed with Anthony Davis, Leo Smith, George Lewis, Anthony Braxton, Ray Anderson, Mark Helias, Reggie Workman, Michael Moore, Oliver Lake, Marilyn Crispell, Don Byron, Cecil Taylor, and Cuong Vu. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in music composition, and was a student of Alan Dawson. - Christian Prince
Christian Haley Prince (1972?-17 February 1991) was a Yale student whose murder in New Haven highlighted racial and class tensions between town and gown. Prince, the son of Edward and Sally Prince of Chevy Chase, Maryland, was a fourth-generation Yale alumnus, a member of the class of 1993 in his sophomore year, in Pierson College. Having dined at Mory's and attended a party at Sterling-Sheffield-Strathcona Hall, … - Craig Breslow
MORE 2007 HIGHLIGHTS: Recorded at least one strikeout in 35 of his 49 games, including a season- high 5 punchouts in 2.0 innings on June 26 vs. Norfolk... Also fanned 4 batters in an outing on 5 occasions... Earned a save and a win in his 3rd and 4th appearances of the season, respectively (April 11 and 19), and then did not record another victory until August 21... Allowed one hit in 0.2 scoreless innings in the Triple-A All-Star Game on July 11 in Albuquerque, NM... - Eric Boguniecki
Eric Boguniecki (born May 6, 1975 in New Haven, Connecticut) is a professional ice hockey player. He plays as a centre. - Mel Bochner
Mel Bochner (born 1940) is an American conceptual artist. Mr. Bochner received his BFA in 1962 and honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 2005 from the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. He lives in New York City and is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Art at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. - Mia Doi Todd
Mia Doi Todd (born June 30 1975) is a musician from Los Angeles, California, USA. - Jack Arnold
Jack Arnold (October 14 1916 - March 17, 1992) was an American television and film director. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He directed a number of movies starting in 1950. The best known of these, the science fiction films "It Came from Outer Space", "Tarantula", "Creature from the Black Lagoon" and "The Incredible Shrinking Man", are noted for their atmospheric black-and-white cinematography and unusually sophisticated scripts. - Paul Darden
Paul "The Truth" Darden Jr. (born October 27, 1968) is an American professional poker player, rap music promoter, and night club owner from New Haven, Connecticut. - Derrick Rostagno
Derrick Rostagno (born October 25 1965, in Hollywood, California) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. Rostagno turned professional in 1986. He won one top-level singles title (at New Haven in 1990) and one tour doubles title (at Tampa in 1993). Rostagno's best performance at a Grand Slam event came at the 1988 U.S. Open, where he reached the quarterfinals before being defeated by Ivan Lendl. - César Pelli
César Pelli is a noted architect known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. His firm has its headquarters and employs about 100 architects in New Haven, Connecticut. He is known for his extensive use of curved facades and metallic elements in his designs. Pelli emigrated to the United States in 1952 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1964. After studying architecture at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, … - Craig Mello
Craig Cameron Mello (born October 18 1960 in New Haven, Connecticut) is one of the laureates of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Andrew Z. Fire, for the discovery of RNA interference. This research was conducted at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and published in 1998, where Mello is professor of Molecular Medicine. - Becki Newton
Becki Newton (born July 4, 1978 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American actress. Newton is currently a regular cast member of "Ugly Betty".
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