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BRIDGEPORT
Most Famous People Born in Bridgeport, United States
- Notable people
- 321
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1937
- Most distinctive
- Baseball 10.2×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Bridgeport during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Bridgeport Is Known For
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Baseball is Bridgeport's biggest profession — 12% of all notables (37).
Bridgeport over-indexes on baseball — 10.2× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Bridgeport's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Robert Mitchum
1917 - 1997
John Mayer
Born 1977
Brian Dennehy
1938 - 2020
Edwin H. Land
1909 - 1991
Kevin Nealon
Born 1953
John Ratzenberger
Born 1947
Alexandra Breckenridge
Born 1982
Richard Belzer
Born 1944
Larry Kramer
1935 - 2020
Adriana Caselotti
1916 - 1997
Rebecca Solnit
Born 1961
Vinnie Vincent
Born 1952
Tony Musante
1936 - 2013
John Mitchum
1919 - 2001
Joseph C. Wilson
1949 - 2019
Dan Curtis
1927 - 2006
Angus MacLise
1938 - 1979
Ken Olsen
1926 - 2011
Bill Smitrovich
Born 1947
Albert L. Lehninger
1917 - 1986
Wilbur Scoville
1865 - 1942
William Higinbotham
1910 - 1994
Kurt Schrader
Born 1951
Julius Boros
1920 - 1994
General Tom Thumb
1838 - 1883
Monroe Beardsley
1915 - 1985
Roger MacBride Allen
Born 1957
Deborah Walley
1941 - 2001
Kyle Soller
Born 1983
Arline Judge
1912 - 1974
Roy Neuberger
1903 - 2010
John Todd Zimmer
1889 - 1957
Julie Chu
Born 1982
John DeFrancis
1911 - 2009
Theodore M. Pomeroy
1824 - 1905
Joe Berlinger
Born 1961
Charles Schnee
1916 - 1963
Turk Edwards
1907 - 1973
Sidney Wood
1911 - 2009
Robert Kowalski
Born 1941
Alyssa Naeher
Born 1988
B. P. Schulberg
1892 - 1957
Rob Dibble
Born 1964
Charles Smith (basketball, born 1965)
Born 1965
Edwin Smith (Egyptologist)
1822 - 1906
Jim O'Rourke (baseball)
1850 - 1919
Rick Sternbach
Born 1951
Chris Smith (basketball, born 1970)
Born 1970
Harry Porter
1882 - 1965
Joseph Henry Sharp
1859 - 1953
Theodore Judah
1826 - 1863
Jeffrey Lang
Born 1954
Marnie Weber
Born 1959
Courtney Alexander
Born 1977
Waldo P. Johnson
1817 - 1885
Charles Nagy
Born 1967
Neil Stubenhaus
Born 1953
Carl A. P. Ruck
Born 1935
John Bagley (basketball)
Born 1960
Harper Williams
Born 1971
Jeff Parker (musician)
Born 1967
Jane Hammond
Born 1950
Mike LeDonne
Born 1956
Matt Rollings
Born 1964
Art Baron
Born 1950
Michael Graziano
Born 1967
Colin Jones (American football)
Born 1987
Syesha Mercado
Born 1987
Clyde Pangborn
1895 - 1958
Robert A. W. Lowndes
1916 - 1998
Jerome Namias
1910 - 1997
Lisa Bufano
1972 - 2013
Dan Orlovsky
Born 1983
Michael Fleischer (mineralogist)
1908 - 1998
Chris Soule
Born 1973
Robert A. Hurley
1895 - 1968
Howard Cann
1895 - 1992
Jill Magid
Born 1973
Tiffany Weimer
Born 1983
Alfred Fones
1869 - 1938
Thomas B. Allen (author)
1929 - 2018
Paul Leka
1943 - 2011
Lilian Westcott Hale
1880 - 1963
Manya Makoski
Born 1984
John Garris
Born 1959
Big Bill Bissonnette
1937 - 2018
Frank Oleynick
Born 1955
Mary Anne O'Connor
Born 1953
Wayne Moore (swimmer)
1931 - 2015
Justin Quiles
Born 1990
James C. Shannon
1896 - 1980
Holly Solomon
1934 - 2002
Frankie Michaels
1955 - 2016
Eric Blau
1921 - 2009
Alfred Gilman Sr.
1908 - 1984
Jaidon Codrington
Born 1984
Melio Bettina
1916 - 1996
Angel Echevarria
1971 - 2020
Alfred Jolson
1928 - 1994
David H. Burr
1803 - 1875
Rob Roberge
Born 1966
Doremus Bennerman
Born 1972
Seth Bauer
Born 1959
Richard Delvy
1942 - 2010
Ronnie Bedford
1931 - 2014
Henry Mucci
1911 - 1997
Bill Kirchen
Born 1948
Gary Voce
Born 1965
Robert Pozen
Born 1946
Samuel Simons
1792 - 1847
Alex Joseph (American football)
Born 1988
Paul A. Catlin
1948 - 1995
William A. Sackett
1811 - 1895
Ferdinand Brucker
1858 - 1904
Nick Giaquinto
Born 1955
James Murren
Born 1961
Raymond C. Kelly
Born 1942
John O'Rourke (baseball)
1849 - 1911
Ed Warren
1926 - 2006
Isabel Irving
1871 - 1944
Samuel J. Tedesco
1915 - 2003
Kenneth Jennings
1925 - 2015
Esther Averill
1902 - 1992
Roland P. Falkner
1866 - 1940
Pete Zingoni
Born 1981
Ann Charters
Born 1936
John Adam Hugo
1873 - 1945
Mildred Ames
1919 - 1994
Jim Shepard
Born 1956
Lee Abbamonte
Born 1978
Belinda Laracuente
Born 1980
Maureen Howard
Born 1930
Carolyn Hax
Born 1966
Calvin O. Butts
Born 1949
Mallory Factor
Born 1950
Ed Bradley (American football)
Born 1950
Sally Haley
1908 - 2007
Victoria Leigh Soto
1985 - 2012
Perry DeAngelis
1963 - 2007
Mimi Benzell
1918 - 1970
Peter Nagy (artist)
Born 1959
Gil Turner
1933 - 1974
Allan Briggs
1873 - 1951
Anita Silvey
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Peter McCann
Born 1948
Jasper McLevy
1878 - 1962
Gary Howard Klar
Born 1947
Bonnie G. Smith
Born 1940
Pat Jordan (author)
Born 1941
Elise Reynolds
Born 1969
Jesse Hawley (merchant)
1773 - 1842
Joseph Dwight Strong
1853 - 1899
Henry Sherwood (congressman)
1813 - 1896
Joe Ochman
Born 1954
Lawrence F. Cafero
Born 1958
Mike Adam (host)
Born 1985
Brandon Stoddard
1937 - 2014
Joe Ganim
Born 1959
John Storrs (architect)
1920 - 2003
Clifford B. Wilson
1879 - 1943
Beth Norton
Born 1957
Keith Carlos
Born 1987
Matt Rinaldi
Born 1975
Dan Debicella
Born 1974
Robert A. Gross
Born 1945
Don Cook (journalist)
1920 - 1995
Boaz Cohen
1899 - 1968
Peter D. Eimas
1934 - 2005
Samuel Sanford
1849 - 1910
Bill Zavatsky
Born 1943
Chet Gladchuk
1917 - 1967
Graham Lusk
1866 - 1932
Pretzel Pezzullo
1910 - 1990
Gary Wagner (baseball)
Born 1940
Robert McQueeney
1919 - 2002
Brad Scioli
Born 1976
Jesse Richards
Born 1975
Ulysses S. Webb
1864 - 1947
Philip Nastu
Born 1955
Kiddo Davis
1902 - 1983
Josh Viola
Born 1983
Jessica Delfino
Born 1976
Deja Kreutzberg
Born 1982
F. Curtis Canfield
1903 - 1986
Jesse K. Dubois
1811 - 1876
Ed Wojna
Born 1960
Evan Centopani
Born 1982
Billy Lush (baseball)
1873 - 1951
Paul Popovich
Born 1940
Jim Sladky
1947 - 2017
Daymon Patterson
Born 1977
Bill White (shortstop)
1860 - 1924
John Laurence
Born 1939
Joseph Curiale
Born 1955
Jonathan Penner (writer)
Born 1941
John Adriani
1907 - 1988
Troy Alves
Born 1966
Carrie Bethel
1898 - 1974
Jessie Flaws
Born 1935
Emil Boures
Born 1960
William Doerner
Born 1949
Rich Whitney
Born 1955
S. K. Lauren
1893 - 1979
Laura Tătulescu
Born 1981
Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell
Born 1941
Michael Late Benedum
1869 - 1959
Kevin Belcher (offensive tackle)
1961 - 1997
Helen Hemphill
Born 1955
Bruce Rasmussen
Born 1961
Jeff Motuzas
Born 1971
Louis DiPalma
Born 1961
Dan Shannon
1865 - 1913
Bill Jobko
1935 - 2004
Joe Vancisin
Born 1922
John Jones (Medal of Honor)
1841 - 1907
Louis Gladstone
1927 - 2016
Dave Bike
Born 1946
Henry Gordon Wells
1879 - 1954
Ray Keating
1893 - 1963
John Hirschbeck
Born 1954
Robert C. Baltzell
1879 - 1950
Tedford H. Cann
1897 - 1963
Cotton Price
1918 - 2008
Nellie Charlie
1867 - 1965
Howard Baker (baseball)
1888 - 1964
Tom Gormley (American football)
1891 - 1951
Johnny Blatnik
1921 - 2004
Andrew Restrepo
Born 1970
Daniel Quirk
1982 - 2005
William McAndrew
1887 - 1943
Leonard Tose
1915 - 2003
Thomas W. Bucci
-
James Amann
Born 1956
Sean Sullivan (naval officer)
Born 1958
Mike L. Jones
Born 1966
Shannon James (gridiron football)
Born 1983
Leonard S. Paoletta
Born 1934
Arley Munson Hare
1871 - 1941
Tricky Nichols
1850 - 1897
Steve Banas
1907 - 1974
Dan Iassogna
Born 1969
Brian Nobili
Born 1976
Kurt Kepshire
Born 1959
Barbara McDermott
1912 - 2008
Mary C. Moran
Born 1933
John C. Mandanici
1918 - 1986
Corrin Stellakis
Born 1997
George Gunther
1919 - 2012
Florence Emery Jones
1892 - 1932
Walter Luckett
Born 1953
Deon Kipping
Born 1979
R. Tracy Seyfert
Born 1941
Tim Lindsey
Born 1983
George Sherwood (sculptor)
Born 1954
Esta Soler
Born 1947
Robert D. Scinto
Born 1947
Gus Curcio
Born 1951
Ayaz Memon
Born 1951
Francis Wade Hughes
1817 - 1885
Heather Daly-Donofrio
Born 1969
Ed Rowen
1857 - 1892
Dennis Konuszewski
Born 1971
J. Gerald Phelan
1893 - 1981
Jim Casciano
Born 1952
Fran Lynch
1945 - 2014
Robert H. W. Strang
1881 - 1982
Mary Pratt (baseball)
1918 - 2020
Tom Cornell
Born 1963
Doug Holmquist
1941 - 1988
Jerry Zigmont
Born 1958
Dave Graham (American football)
Born 1939
Louise Caselotti
1910 - 1999
Oscar E. Peck
1848 - 1906
Katherine August-deWilde
Born 1948
Jack Easton
1865 - 1903
Sidney Postol
1918 - 2014
Nancy Mudge
1929 - 2012
Benjamin P. Mead
1849 - 1913
J. Edward Caldwell
1927 - 2013
Robert L. Lieff
Born 1936
John Knowles Fitch
1880 - 1943
John Papa
Born 1940
Lucinda Moore
Born 1969
William Bradford Reynolds
Died 2019
James William Pearson
1895 - 1993
John MacKenzie (Medal of Honor)
1886 - 1933
Andrew G. Patrick
1907 - 1955
George Bryant (baseball)
1857 - 1907
Nelson B. Hatch
-
Kasi Kelly
Born 1981
Patricia McQueeney
1927 - 2005
Harold D. Toomey
1898 - 1953
Alan White (DJ)
Born 1941
John Michaels
1907 - 1996
Ernie Lush
1885 - 1937
Monique Marie Chouraeshkenazi
Born 1983
Edith Barney
1923 - 2010
Chris Pardal
Born 1972
Will Brazier
Born 1983
Beverly Mae Wilson
1946 - 2010