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Top 10 Famous people from Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and the Long Island Sound to the south. It is known as the “Constitution State”, the “Nutmeg State”, the “Provisions State”, and the “Land of Steady Habits”. Its capital is Hartford.

The word 鈥淐onnecticut鈥� is an anglicized spelling of the Algonquian word 鈥渜uinnitukqut,鈥� roughly meaning 鈥渁t the long tidal river.鈥� Before they were famous, many popular people started out in the State of Connecticut, below is a list of top 10 famous people from Connecticut;

1. George W. Bush

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George Walker Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut. He is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Bush family and Republican Party, he became the first person since Benjamin Harrison in 1888 to be elected president despite having lost the nationwide popular vote.

George W. Bush is remembered for leading his country鈥檚 response to the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 and initiated the Iraq War in 2003. Bush also signed the Patriot Act into law created the Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security, which was officially established in November 2002.

Following the January 2009 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, Bush left office and returned to Texas, where he has maintained a low national profile. In 2010, Bush released a memoir, 鈥淒ecision Points鈥�.

2. Edwin Alexandra Bouchet

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Edward Alexander Bouchet was born on September 15, 1852, in New Haven, Connecticut. He was an American physicist and educator. He was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from any American university, completing his dissertation in physics at Yale in 1876.

After earning his PhD, Bouchet was unable to find a university teaching or research facility position due to racial discrimination. He moved to Philadelphia in 1876 and took a position at the Institute for Colored Youth (now Cheyney University of Pennsylvania), where he taught physics and chemistry for the next 26 years. He resigned in 1902.

The American Physical Society (APS Physics) confers the Edward A. Bouchet Award on some of the nation’s outstanding physicists for their contribution to physics. In 2005, Yale and Howard University founded the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society in his name.

Upon retirement, Bouchet moved back to New Haven. He died there in his childhood home at 94 Bradley Street in 1918 after a six-week illness caused by high blood pressure.

3. Benedict Arnold

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Benedict Arnold was born on 14^th January 1741 in Norwich, Connecticut. He was an American military officer who served during the Revolutionary War. Arnold was hailed as one of the Continental Army鈥檚 greatest fighting generals before defecting to the British side of the conflict in 1780. After which his name became synonymous with treason and betrayal.

General George Washington had given him his fullest trust and had placed him in command of West Point in New York. Arnold was planning to surrender the fort there to British forces, but the plot was discovered in September 1780, whereupon he fled to the British lines. In the later part of the conflict, Arnold was commissioned as a brigadier general in the British Army, and placed in command of the American Legion. He led the British army in battle against the soldiers whom he had once commanded.

He died on 14 June 1801, at the age of 60.

4. J. P. Morgan

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John Pierpont Morgan was born on April 17, 1837, in Hartford. He was an American financier and banker who was a major driving force behind the United States’ industrialization. He is one of the world’s wealthiest and most successful businessmen. Worldwide renown as the man who twice bailed out the U.S. Treasury in the late 1800s.

He dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age. As the head of the banking firm that ultimately became known as J.P. Morgan and Co. a predecessor of the modern-day financial giant JPMorgan Chase, he was the driving force behind the wave of industrial consolidation in the United States spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Morgan died while traveling abroad on March 31, 1913, just shy of his 76th birthday.

5. Christopher Allen Lloyd

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Christopher Allen Lloyd was born on October 22, 1938, in Stamford, Connecticut. He is an American Film and voice actor known for portraying Dr. Emmett “Doc” Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy (1985鈥�1990) and Jim Ignatowski in the comedy series Taxi (1978鈥�1983).

He has won two 鈥楶rimetime Emmy Awards鈥� in his career. He won the first one for 鈥極utstanding Actor in a Comedy series鈥� for his role in the comedy series 鈥楾axi鈥� in 1982-83. He won the second one for 鈥極utstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series鈥� for his role in the series 鈥楻oad to Avonlea鈥� in 1992. Lloyd has also been nominated for two 鈥楧aytime Emmy Awards鈥� for his voice role in the animated series 鈥楥yberchase鈥�.

6. Noah Webster

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Noah Webster Jr. was born on October 16, 1758, in West Hartford, Connecticut. He was an American lexicographer known for his American Spelling Book (1783) and his American Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol. (1828; 2nd ed., 1840).

Webster’s name has become synonymous with “dictionary” in the United States, especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language. He has been called the “Father of American Scholarship and Education”. His “Blue-backed Speller” books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read.

He also made useful contributions as a teacher, grammarian, journalist, essayist, lecturer, and lobbyist.

Webster died in 1843, while working on a second volume of his dictionary.

7. Barbara McClintock

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Barbara McClintock was born June 16, 1902, in Hartford, Connecticut. She was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of mobile genetic elements.

In addition to her work on chromosomes and transposable elements, McClintock also speculated that it is possible to inherit changes in gene activity that are not caused by alterations in DNA. She proposed this idea more than 40 years before this concept 鈥� now known as epigenetics 鈥� was formally studied.

McClintock died on September 2, 1992, at the age of 90.

8. John Mayer

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John Clayton Mayer was born October 16, 1977, in Fairfield County, Connecticut. He is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist known for his soulful vocals, guitar skills and artistic pursuit of classy pop-rock songs.

John Mayer has won seven 鈥楪rammy Awards鈥� from 19 nominations. He collected a 鈥楪rammy Award鈥� for 鈥楤est Male Pop Vocal Performance鈥� for his single 鈥榊our Body Is a Wonderland鈥� from the album 鈥楻oom for Squares鈥� in 2003. His album 鈥楥ontinuum鈥� also earned him a 鈥楪rammy Award鈥� for 鈥楤est Pop Vocal Album.鈥� He received two 鈥楪rammy Awards鈥� for 鈥楧aughters鈥� under the 鈥楽ong of the Year鈥� and 鈥楤est Male Pop Vocal Performance鈥� categories in 2005.

9. Seth MacFarlane

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Seth Woodbury MacFarlane was born October 26, 1973, in Kent, Connecticut. He is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, film director, singer, and animator who is best known as the creator of the television series Family Guy (1999鈥損resent).

MacFarlane’s accolades include; in 2000, he won the 鈥楶rimetime Emmy Award鈥� for 鈥極utstanding Voice鈥� for 鈥楩amily Guy.鈥� In 2002, he won the 鈥楶rimetime Emmy Award鈥� for 鈥極utstanding Music and Lyrics鈥� for 鈥榊ou鈥檝e Got a Lot to See鈥� from 鈥楩amily Guy.鈥� In 2013, he won the 鈥楶eople鈥檚 Choice Award鈥� under the 鈥楩avorite Movie鈥� category for 鈥楾ed.鈥� In 2013, Seth MacFarlane also won the 鈥楥ritics鈥� Choice Award for 鈥楤est Reality Series鈥� for his work in 鈥楥osmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.鈥�

10. Suzzanne Collins

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Suzanne Collins was born August 10, 1962, in Hartford, Connecticut. She is an American television writer and author, best known for the book series The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games.

Collins accolades include; In 2004, she received the ‘Children’s Novel Award’, from the ‘New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association’ (‘NAIBA’), for the bestseller, ‘The Underland Chronicles’. The ‘Association for Library Service to Children’ (‘ALSC’), a part of the ‘American Library Association’ presented her with an award for ‘Notable Children’s Recording’, in 2006. In 2008, ‘The Hunger Games’ was announced as the ‘Best Young Adult Book’ by the ‘KIRKUS Review’ magazine. The same year, the ‘CYBIL Award’ for ‘Fantasy and Science Fiction’ was presented to Collins for the aforementioned book. Two years later, she received the ‘Georgia Peach Book Awards for Teen Readers’, and this was followed by the ‘California Young Reader Medal’ in 2011.