List of people from Darien, Connecticut

This is a list of people from Darien, Connecticut, including current and past residents and others associated with Darien, Connecticut. The list is categorized by area in which each person is best known, in alphabetical order within each category:

Actors, musicians, and others in entertainment

• Mitchel Blummer - film director of productions such as Seldom Sunday, and The Perfectionist
• Kate Bosworth - actress
• Alex Breckenridge - actress
• Eliza Clark - child actress in films and soap operas, grew up in town (sister of Spencer Treat Clark).
• Spencer Treat Clark - (b. 1987), an American child actor in films such as The Gladiator and Mystic River, grew up in town (brother of Eliza Clark).
• Clint Conley - musician in the band Mission of Burma
• Topher Grace - actor
• Garett Maggart - actor
• Alex Michel - cast member on The Bachelor
• Moby - musician, grew up partly in Darien
• Gerry Mulligan - jazz musician
• Roberta Palmer-Poretta - soprano and former Miss Ohio
• Anna Poretta - television writer
• Frank Poretta II - actor and operatic singer
• Frank Poretta III - international opera tenor
• Matthew Poretta - actor (most famously tv's Robin Hood in the 1990's)
• Christopher Plummer - actor, former resident (now lives in Weston, Connecticut)
• Chloë Sevigny - actress
• Gus Van Sant - film director

Authors, writers, journalists, photojournalists

• Erskine Caldwell - late author, lived in town with Margaret Bourke-White, left her the house when they divorced.
• Margaret Bourke-White - late photojournalist, lived in town first with author Erskine Caldwell, then in the same home on Point O'Woods South after their divorce.
• Anne Morrow Lindbergh - late author, wife of Charles Lindbergh
• Robert Newton Peck - author (now lives in Florida)
• Joanna Scott - novelist, grew up in town
• Louise Hall Tharp - late author of Tory Hole, set in Darien

Government, military

• Ethan Allen Brown (1776-1852), Ohio governor, U.S. Senator, diplomat, was born on the Fourth of July in town.
• Leslie Groves - military head of the Manhattan Project, afterward lived in town
• Christopher Shays - Republican congressman representing Connecticut's Fourth District; born in Darien (now a Bridgeport resident)

Business

• Andrew Carnegie - steel magnate and philanthropist, vacationed for several summers at what became the Convent of the Sacred Heart on Long Neck.
• Harold McGraw III, president and CEO of McGraw-Hill book publishing company, chairman (as of 2006) of the Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs of "leading" U.S. companies.

Sports

• Brian Cashman - New York Yankees General Manager
• Eddie Lopat (1918-1992), major league baseball pitcher, died in town.
• Ryan Shannon - professional NHL ice hockey player for the Anaheim Ducks

Artists

• Vincent Colyer (1825-1888) - artist and humanitarian, lived on Contentment Island

Others

• Alex Kelly - convicted rapist who earlier fled the country to escape charges CNN.com: "Alex Kelly found guilty of rape"
• Charles Lindbergh - late aviator, husband of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, lived on Tokeneke Trail