- P. T. Barnum
Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 - April 7, 1891), was an American showman who is best remembered for his entertaining hoaxes and for founding the circus that eventually became Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. "Barnum" is the title of an award winning Broadway musical based on P. T. Barnum's life and exploits. He is also represented in the Hollywood film "Gangs Of New York."
- John Mayer
John Clayton Mayer (born October 16, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Originally from Connecticut, he briefly attended Berklee College of Music before moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1998, where he refined his skills and began gaining a following. His first two studio albums, "Room for Squares" and "Heavier Things", both did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status.
- Chris Shays
Christopher H. Shays, usually known as Chris Shays (born October 18 1945), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1987, representing the 4th District of Connecticut, which includes 17 towns in Southwest Connecticut. He is the only House Republican left from New England. All the others were defeated in the 2006 midterm elections.
- John Ratzenberger
John Deszo Ratzenberger (born April 6 1947) is an American actor. Ratzenberger is perhaps best known for his role as "Clifford C. 'Cliff' Clavin, Jr." in the "Cheers" (1982) TV series.
- Robert Mitchum
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 - July 1, 1997) was an American film actor and singer. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the "film noir" style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and '60s.
- Brian Dennehy
Brian Dennehy (born July 9, 1938) is a two-time Tony Award-winning American actor who has appeared in movies, on television, and performed in live theater.
- Edwin H. Land
Edwin Herbert Land (May 12 1909 - March 1 1991) was an American scientist and inventor. Among other things, he invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, instant polaroid photography, and his retinex theory of color vision. At one time, it is said, he was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's richest scientist. However, there is no indication that Guinness has ever had a category for "richest scientist", …
- Richard Belzer
Richard Jay Belzer (born August 4, 1944 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an American stand up comedian, writer and actor, best known for his work as Det. John Munch, on "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit".
- Kevin Nealon
Kevin Nealon (born November 18, 1953 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an American comedian and actor best known for the characters he played on "Saturday Night Live" from 1986 to 1995, and his role on the series Weeds.
- Jin Hi Kim
Jin Hi Kim (born Incheon, South Korea, February 6, 1957) is a "geomungo" player and composer. She is known for introducing the "geomungo" (a Korean bass zither, also spelled "komungo") to the wider world through her contemporary chamber and orchestral compositions and large-scale multimedia pieces, as well as her extensive work in avant-garde and cross-cultural free improvisation.
- Rob Dibble
Robert Keith Dibble (born January 24, 1964 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. A promising young pitcher with a blazing fastball that often exceeded 99 MPH, he was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the first round of the 1983 amateur draft, and made his debut with the Reds on June 29, 1988. On June 4, 1989, Dibble struck out three batters on nine pitches in the eighth inning of a 5-3 win over the San Diego Padres.
- Joel Abbott
Joel Abbott (March 17, 1776 - November 19, 1826) was a United States Representative from Georgia. He was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut. He practiced as a physician. Born in Ridgefield, Connecticut in 1776, Abbott moved to Washington, Georgia, in 1826 and practiced medicine. He was member of the Washington, Georgia city council. He also served a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, 1799, 1802-1804, 1808, and 1811.
- 2 Much
2Much is an American all-boy R&B music group, founded and managed by music producer Chris Stokes and former B2K member Omarion back in 2002.
- Neal Ball
Cornelius "Neal" Ball (April 22, 1881 - October 15, 1957), the American baseball player, achieved fame on July 19, 1909 when he pulled off the first unassisted triple play in Major League baseball history in a game against the Boston Red Sox. "During the same game, he set another major league record for shortstops. His glove from that game is on exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame." Ball was born on April 22, 1881 in Grand Haven, Michigan and died on October 15, …
- Joseph Celli
Joseph Celli (b. March 19, 1944) is a U.S. musician and composer specializing in contemporary and improvised music for oboe and English horn. In addition, he plays the Yamaha WX7 MIDI breath controller, as well as double reed instruments from several Asian cultures, including the Korean hojok and piri and the Indian "mukha vina". Celli has conducted much work in the field of experimental music, both as a performer and presenter, and has worked with Jin Hi Kim, …
- John Hirschbeck
John Francis Hirschbeck (born September 7 1954 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an umpire in Major League Baseball who has worked in the American League from 1984 to 1999 and throughout both major leagues since 2000; he is currently a crew chief. On February 28, 2000, Hirschbeck was elected as the first president of the newly certified World Umpires Association. He wears uniform number 17, which was also his number when the leagues maintained separate umpiring staffs.
- Arline Judge
Arline Judge (February 21, 1912 - February 7, 1974) was an American actress who worked mostly in low-budget B pictures, but gained some fame for marrying eight times and divorcing eight times. Educated in a Catholic convent, Judge began her career as a dancer in an act for Jimmy Durante. After meeting director Wesley Ruggles on a train, she got her start in films with his help, then married him. Nicknamed "One-Take Sally," her film career spanned the 1930s and 1940s.
- William Samuel Johnson
William Samuel Johnson (October 7, 1727 - November 14, 1819) was a statesman and one of United States' Founding Fathers. Samuel Johnson was well educated, and his knowledge of the law led him to oppose taxation without representation as a violation of the colonists' rights as Englishmen, but his strong ties with Great Britain made renunciation of the King personally reprehensible. Torn by conflicting loyalties, he remained neutral during the Revolution, …
- Henry Mucci
Henry A. Mucci (1909-April 20, 1997) was a U.S. Army colonel and Ranger. He was famous for leading the raid that rescued survivors of the Bataan Death March during World War II. With only 120 Army Rangers, Mucci headed the January 1945 mission that freed 511 men from Cabanatuan Prison Camp despite being heavily outnumbered.
- Charles Sherwood Stratton
General Tom Thumb was the stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton, a midget who achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum. Stratton was a son of a Bridgeport, Connecticut, carpenter. He was born in Bridgeport, CT. Born to parents of medium height, he was ironically quite a large baby, weighing 9 pounds 2 ounces (4.14 kg) at birth. He developed and grew normally for the first six months of his life, …
- Dave Bike
Dave Bike is the current men's head basketball coach at Sacred Heart University. He led the Pioneers to a Division II national championship in 1986, and oversaw the transition of the program to the Division I level.
- Art Baron
Art Baron (b. January 5, 1950 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an American jazz trombonist. He also plays didgeridoo, conch shell, alto and bass recorder, and tuba. Baron is an alumnus of the Berklee College of Music. He joined the Duke Ellington band in August 1973, at the age of 23, during the last year Ellington led the band, and was the last trombonist Ellington ever hired. He leads "The Duke's Men," a band made up of Duke Ellington band alumni.
- Bill Smitrovich
Bill Smitrovich (b. May 16, 1947 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA) is an American actor.
- Henry Alfred Bishop
Henry Alfred Bishop (born December 4 1860, Bridgeport, Connecticut - d. 1934) was superintendent and vice-president of several Eastern railroads, as well as other corporations. He served in the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1886.
- Jasper McLevy
Jasper McLevy (1878-1962) was an American politician who served as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1933-1957. He was a member of the Socialist Party. Born in Bridgeport in 1878, McLevy worked first as a roofer. After reading Edward Bellamy's futuristic, utopian novel "Looking Backward", he became a socialist, and joined the Socialist Party. He began running for mayor under the Socialist banner in 1901 and became a perennial candidate for local office.
- Albert L. Lehninger
Albert Lester Lehninger was an American biochemist, and is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field of bioenergetics. He made fundamental contributions to the current understanding of metabolism at a molecular level. In 1950 he discovered with Eugene Kennedy that mitochondria are the site of oxidative phosphorylation in eukaryotes, which ushered in the modern study of energy transduction. He is the author of a number of classic texts, including: "Biochemistry, …
- John M. Fabrizi
John Michael Fabrizi (December 25, 1956-) is the mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut and a member of the U.S. Democratic Party. Fabrizi holds degrees from Southern Connecticut State University as well as the University of Bridgeport and has served in numerous public service capacities. He was assistant director of Bridgeport's adult education program, and was also a teacher of fifth and sixth graders.
- Mike Ledonne
Michael LeDonne (born 1956 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is a jazz pianist known for post-bop and hard bop. His parents ran a music store with his father also being a jazz guitarist. He played with his father at "gigs" from the age of ten. At 21 he graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music and moved to New York City. In 1988 he had his recording debut and joined Milt Jackson's Quartet.
- John O'Rourke
John W. O'Rourke (August 23, 1849 - June 23, 1911) was a 19th century baseball player. Between 1879 and 1883, he played in the National League with the Boston Red Caps (1879-1880) and in the American Association for the New York Metropolitans (1883). A center fielder, O'Rourke batted and threw left handed. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In a three-season career, O'Rourke posted a .295 batting average with 11 home runs and 98 RBI in 230 games.
- Patrick A. Pallotto
Patrick A. Pallotto (born 1921) of Bridgeport, Connecticut is a retired newspaper editor and volunteer. He is a former national president of Easter Seals. He has also served as the past president of the Bridgeport Host Lions Club in Connecticut, the oldest continuously operating Lions Club in New England. Patrick was the editor of the "Bridgeport Sunday Post" in Bridgeport from 1959 to 1988.
- Nick Giaquinto
Nicholas Albert Giaquinto (born April 4, 1955 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA) was an American football running back in the NFL for the Miami Dolphins and the Washington Redskins. He played college football for the University of Connecticut and the University of Bridgeport.
- Henry Alonzo House
Henry Alonzo House (b. April 23 1840 - d. December 18 1930) was an inventor who developed machinery and processes that have had a lasting impact on several industries.
- Lumidee
Lumidee Cedeño is a female American R&B singer, songwriter and rapper of Puerto Rican descent. She is best known as Lumidee.
- Ann Charters
Ann Charters was born on November 10, 1936 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
- Corey Boggs
I'm a tech support supervisor, I write a technical blog that is listed below and also post on my personal blog. When not doing this I'm usually at home tending to my saltwater fish tank and keeping my cats from jumping into my fish tank. It seems that I spend more time doing that then anything else, but thats life and it makes this fun.
- Gillian
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- John Bigica
I'm 22 years old, and live in naples. I like to play sports, go running, swimming, well pretty much I enjoy doing anything active. I enjoy going out with friends and just having a lot of fun. Meeting new people that I can talk and relate with is one reason why I use myspace. I am a firefighter/ Inspector at East Naples Fire Department. I have a wonderful dog who I love to spend all my time with. Two cats (Rambo & Minnie Mouse) who drive Joey crazy.
- Rina Patel
I guess you'll have to ask me yourself.
- Jason Wright
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- Esh
I am just a fun guy that has a few hobbies who likes to have as much fun as possible. I love to laugh! I love to travel. Other than that I go to work like most other people. I am an active member of the 501st Legion (Star Wars fan organization.) Its a bit geekie but we do all non profit events which is great and I get to dress up like a stormtrooper which is super fun. The kids and most adults love us. Its good to be a bad guy.