Actors, directors, producers

• Glenn Close
  Glenn Close
  Glenn Close is an American actress and singer of theatre and film, known for her roles as a femme fatale Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and singer of theatre and film, known for her roles as a femme fatale Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and...
  
   was born in town and attended Greenwich's Rosemary Hall.
• Terry Crews
  Terry Crews
  Terrence Alan "Terry" Crews is an American actor, comedian, voice artist and a former player in the National Football League....
  
  , actor and owner of property in Old Greenwich
• Mel Gibson
  Mel Gibson
  Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson, AO is an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia when he was 12 years old and later studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art.After appearing in...
  
  , actor, director and producer former owner of an estate in Greenwich.http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2010/07/mel-gibson-sells-connecticut-estate-home-cheap.html
• Shelley Hack
  Shelley Hack
  Shelley Marie Hack is an American supermodel, actress, producer, and political & media advisor. Hack is best remembered for her role as Tiffany Welles in the fourth season of the ABC Television Drama Charlie's Angels ; replacing the departing Kate Jackson...
  
   (born 1947), an actress, was born in town.
• Bryce Dallas Howard
  Bryce Dallas Howard
  Bryce Dallas Howard is an American film actress and daughter of director Ron Howard. She made her acting debut in her father's 1989 movie Parenthood and went on to have small roles in films and make stage appearances for the next several years...
  
   (born March 2, 1981), actress and daughter of actor/director Ron Howard, grew up in town and attended The Greenwich Country Day School.
• Ron Howard
  Ron Howard
  Ronald William "Ron" Howard is an American actor, director, and producer. He came to prominence as a child actor, playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later the teenaged Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for six years...
  
   lives in town.
• Leatrice Joy
  Leatrice Joy
  Leatrice Joy was an American actress most prolific during the early silent film era.-Early life and career:...
  
   (1893–1985) an American silent film actress lived in retirement in town.
• Joseph E. Levine
  Joseph E. Levine
  Joseph E. Levine was an American film producer.He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His Embassy Pictures Corporation was an independent studio and distributor responsible for such films as Hercules , The Carpetbaggers, Harlow, The Graduate, A Bridge Too Far and The Lion in Winter.Levine is famous...
  
   (1905–1987), a film producer and distributor, died in town.
• Rod Lurie
  Rod Lurie
  Rod Lurie is an Israeli-American director, screenwriter and former film critic.-Early life and career:The son of internationally syndicated cartoonist Ranan Lurie, he was born in Israel but moved to the United States at a young age, growing up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Honolulu,...
  
   (born 1962), a director, screenwriter, he is the son of editorial cartoonist Ranan Lurie and partly grew up in town.
• Mary Tyler Moore
  Mary Tyler Moore
  Mary Tyler Moore is an American actress, primarily known for her roles in television sitcoms. Moore is best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show , in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis, and for her earlier role as...
  
   moved to town in 2006 with her husband, Dr. Robert Levine
• Bijou Phillips
  Bijou Phillips
  Bijou Lilly Phillips is an American actress, model, and singer. Phillips began her career as a model but soon transitioned herself into acting and singing. When she was 13, she started as a model and became one of the youngest people to grace the cover of Interview Magazine and Italian Vogue....
  
  , actress/singer/model born in Greenwich
• Linda Purl
  Linda Purl
  Linda Purl is an American actress and singer, perhaps best known for portraying Ben Matlock's daughter Charlene Matlock in season one of Matlock.-Early life and education abroad:...
  
   (born 1955), an actress and singer born in town.
• Elisabeth Röhm
  Elisabeth Röhm
  Elisabeth Röhm is a German-born American television actress. She is known for playing Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn in the American TV series Law & Order, and as Detective Kate Lockley in the TV series Angel....
  
   (born 1973), actress, former resident.
• Rick Schroder
  Rick Schroder
  Richard Bartlett "Rick" Schroder, Jr. is an American actor and film director.He debuted in the 1979 hit film The Champ, going on to become a child star on the sitcom Silver Spoons...
  
  , actor, grew up in town.
• George C. Scott
  George C. Scott
  George Campbell Scott was an American stage and film actor, director and producer. He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, and as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's Dr...
  
  , actor, lived in Greenwich before his death.
• Zack Snyder
  Zack Snyder
  Zachary Edward "Zack" Snyder is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer. After making his feature film debut with the 2004 remake Dawn of the Dead, he gained wide recognition with the 2007 box office hit 300, adapted from writer-artist Frank Miller's Dark Horse Comics...
  
  , (born 1966) film director, grew up in town and attended Greenwich's Daycroft School.
• Heather Thomas
  Heather Thomas
  Heather Anne Thomas is an American actress, screenwriter, author and political activist, best known for her co-starring role as Jody Banks on the TV series The Fall Guy.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1957), actress and screenwriter, was born in town.
• Dyanne Thorne
  Dyanne Thorne
  Dyanne Thorne is an American actress, nude model for pin-up magazines, and former Las Vegas showgirl...
  
   (born 1932), an actress, model and now an ordained minister, was born in town.

Musicians, models, other entertainers

• Jason Arhndt
  Jason Arhndt
  Jason Ahrndt is a professional wrestler best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation as part of the three man team known as the Mean Street Posse, where he was known as Joey Abs...
  
   (born 1970), a professional wrestler ("Joey Abs") with a Southern accent who supposedly lives (or lived) in town.
• Tom Bergeron
  Tom Bergeron
  Tom Bergeron is an American television personality and game show host, best known as the host of the ABC reality series Dancing with the Stars and host of America's Funniest Home Videos . He was also host of Hollywood Squares and a fill-in host for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire...
  
  , host of America's Funniest Home Videos, Dancing With the Stars, is a town resident.
• Victor Borge
  Victor Borge
  Victor Borge ,born Børge Rosenbaum, was a Danish comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as The Clown Prince of Denmark,The Unmelancholy Dane,and The Great Dane.-Early life and career:...
  
  , lived in the Belle Haven section of town before his death.
• Wilhelmina Cooper
  Wilhelmina Cooper
  Wilhelmina Cooper was a model who began with Ford Models and, at the peak of her success, founded her own agency, Wilhelmina Models, in New York City in 1967.-Life:...
  
   (1940–March 1, 1980) was a supermodel. She had a home in Cos Cob and died at the age of 40 in Greenwich Hospital.
• Gary Dell'Abate
  Gary Dell'Abate
  Gary Patrick Angelo Dell'Abate , also known as "Baba Booey", is an American radio producer, known for being the executive producer of The Howard Stern Show. His autobiography, They Call Me Baba Booey, was released on November 2, 2010.-Early life and career:Dell'Abate was born in Uniondale, New...
  
   (born 1961), producer and on-air personality at The Howard Stern Show satellite radio program, lives in town.
• Tommy Dorsey
  Tommy Dorsey
  Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", due to his smooth-toned trombone playing. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey...
  
   (1905–1956) a jazz trombonist and band leader in the Big Band era who died in his home in town.
• Clyde Fitch
  Clyde Fitch
  Clyde Fitch was an American dramatist.-Biography:Born William Clyde Fitch at Elmira, New York, he wrote over 60 plays, 36 of them original, which varied from social comedies and farces to melodrama and historical dramas.As the only child to live to adulthood, his father, Captain William G...
  
   (1865–1909), dramatist.
• Stephan Galfas
  Stephan Galfas
  Stephan Galfas is a music producer, currently CEO of International Talent Organization, Inc. and Miss Molly Records.-Biography:Galfas is a producer, manager, promoter, mixer and recording engineer who has worked with many acts including Cher, The Allman Brothers Band, Meat Loaf, Stryper, Saxon, Dr...
  
  , Grammy nominated record producer.
• Peter Gasperino
  Peter Gasperino
  Peter Gasparino is an American former professional wrestler, better known simply as Pete Gas from his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation.-Professional wrestling career:...
  
   (born 1970) a professional wrestler ("Pete Gas") who supposedly lives (or lived) in town.
• Kathie Lee Gifford
  Kathie Lee Gifford
  Kathie Lee Gifford is an American television host, singer, songwriter and actress, best known for her 15-year run on the talk show Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, which she co-hosted with Regis Philbin...
  
  , TV personality, wife of Frank Gifford
  Frank Gifford
  Francis Newton "Frank" Gifford is a Hall of Fame former American football player and American sportscaster.-Early life:Gifford was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Lola Mae and Weldon Gifford, an oil driller....
  
  , lives in town.
• Roger Glover
  Roger Glover
  Roger David Glover is a Welsh bassist, songwriter, and record producer. Glover is best known as the bassist and lyricist for the hard rock band, Deep Purple.-Early career:...
  
   (born 1945), a bass guitarist and record producer, best known as songwriter and bassist for Deep Purple, lives in the Glenville section of town.
• Cynthia Gregory
  Cynthia Gregory
  Cynthia Kathleen Gregory is an American ballerina.-Career:Born in Los Angeles, Gregory’s parents encouraged her to take up dancing when she was five, hoping exercise would stem a history of childhood illnesses. By age six, she was en pointe...
  
  , prima ballerina, lived in town.
• Ray Henderson
  Ray Henderson
  Ray Henderson , was an American songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley...
  
   (1896–1970), songwriter, died in town.
• Jana
  Jana (Native American singer)
  Jana Mashonee is a singer, songwriter and actress. She is Lumbee and Tuscarora, originally from Robeson County, North Carolina, currently residing near New York City, in Greenwich, CT...
  
  , Native American singer/songwriter.
• Erich Kunzel
  Erich Kunzel
  Erich Kunzel, Jr. was an American orchestra conductor. Called the "Prince of Pops" by the Chicago Tribune, he performed with a number of leading pops and symphony orchestras, especially the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra , which he led for over 44 years.-Early life and career:Kunzel was born to...
  
   (1935–2009), the conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
  Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
  The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra is a pops orchestra based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, founded in 1977 out of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Its members are also the members of the Cincinnati Symphony, and the Pops is managed by the same administration...
  
  , grew up in town.

• Rodney Leinhardt
  Rodney Leinhardt
  Rodney Leinhardt is an American professional wrestler, better known simply as Rodney from his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation. He is currently working on the independent circuit as RodRageous.-Career:Leinhardt trained under Tom Prichard and debuted in 1998...
  
   (born 1970), a professional wrestler who supposedly lives (or lived) in town.
• Tom Noonan
  Tom Noonan
  Tom Noonan is an American actor and film writer-director.-Early life:Noonan was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, the son of Rosaleen and Tom Noonan, who worked as a dentist and jazz musician respectively...
  
   (born April 12, 1951) an actor and film writer-director born in town.
• Jack Paar
  Jack Paar
  Jack Harold Paar was an author, American radio and television comedian and talk show host, best known for his stint as host of The Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962...
  
   (1918–2004) host of television's The Tonight Show
  The Tonight Show
  The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show that has aired on NBC since 1954. It is the longest currently running regularly scheduled entertainment program in the United States, and the third longest-running show on NBC, after Meet the Press and Today.The Tonight Show has been hosted by...
  
  , died at his home in town.
• Regis Philbin
  Regis Philbin
  Regis Francis Xavier Philbin is an American media personality, actor and singer, known for hosting talk and game shows since the 1960s. Philbin is often called "the hardest working man in show business" and holds the Guinness World Record for the most time spent in front of a television camera...
  
  , television show host, lives in town.

• Stephanie Seymour
  Stephanie Seymour
  Stephanie Michelle Seymour is an American model and actress. Seymour has modeled for many notable fashion magazines and designers, and has been photographed by several well-known photographers including Herb Ritts, Richard Avedon, Gilles Bensimon, and Mario Testino.-Career:Born in San Diego,...
  
  , a model, and her husband Peter M. Brant
  Peter M. Brant
  Peter M. Brant is an American industrialist, businessman and entrepreneur, worth an estimated $2.4 billion. He is also a major art collector, movie producer, and avid horseman...
  
  , a publishing mogul.
• Judge Judy
  Judith Sheindlin
  Judith Sheindlin, better known as Judge Judy, is an American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author. Since 1996, Sheindlin has presided over her own syndicated courtroom show, Judge Judy, and is well known for her no-nonsense legal style and powerful personality, sharpness, and quick...
  
   Sheindlin, lives in town.
• Wanda Sykes
  Wanda Sykes
  Wanda Sykes is an American writer, stand-up comedian, actress, and voice artist. She earned the 1999 Emmy Award for her writing on The Chris Rock Show. In 2004 Entertainment Weekly named Sykes as one of the 25 funniest people in America...
  
  , comedian, lives in town.
• Montel Williams
  Montel Williams
  Montel Brian Anthony Williams is an American television personality, radio talk show host and actor. He is best known as host of the long-running The Montel Williams Show, and more recently as a spokesperson for the Partnership for Prescription Assistance...
  
   (talk-show host) is a former resident.
• Trey Wingo
  Trey Wingo
  Hal Chapman Wingo III or Trey Wingo is the co-host of ESPN's SportsCenter from time to time but is best known as host of NFL Live alongside football analysts Mark Schlereth, Merrill Hoge, Mike Golic, and Tom Jackson, among others...
  
   - ESPN host, grew up in town.
• Michael Matijevic
  Michael Matijevic
  Miljenko Matijevic, also known as Michael Matijevic is a rock vocalist best known as the lead singer of the American band Steelheart. He has cited Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin and David Coverdale of Whitesnake as his strongest influences...
  
   - Lead singer of hair metal band Steelheart
  Steelheart
  Steelheart is a glam metal band based in Norwalk, Connecticut. Formed in 1990, the band is fronted by vocalist Miljenko Matijevic.- Formation :...
  
  . He was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Sports

• Rolando Blackman
  Rolando Blackman
  Rolando Antonio Blackman is a retired professional basketball player. He was an All-Star who spent most of his career with the Dallas Mavericks...
  
  , NBA
  National Basketball Association
  The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
  
   player, lived in town.
• Bobby Bonilla
  Bobby Bonilla
  Roberto Martin Antonio "Bobby" Bonilla is a former player in Major League Baseball who played from 1986 to 2001. Known in his playing days as "Bobby Bo," Bonilla is of Puerto Rican descent.-Playing career:...
  
   (born 1963), former major league baseball player, lives in town.
• David Cone
  David Cone
  David Brian Cone is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. During a 17-year baseball career, he pitched from 1986-2003 for six different teams. Cone pitched the sixteenth perfect game in baseball history. He also set the MLB record for most years between 20-win seasons. He was a member of five...
  
  , major-league baseball player, lives in town.
• Carlos Delgado
  Carlos Delgado
  Carlos Juan Delgado Hernández is a retired Puerto Rican professional baseball player. With 473 home runs and 1,512 RBI, he holds the all-time home run and RBI records among Puerto Rican players....
  
  , New York Mets first baseman, has a home in Greenwich.
• Tony DeLuca
  Tony DeLuca
  Anthony Lawrence DeLuca is a former nose tackle in the National Football League. He was a member of the Green Bay Packers during the 1984 NFL season.-References:...
  
  , NFL player, born in Greenwich.
• Frank Gifford
  Frank Gifford
  Francis Newton "Frank" Gifford is a Hall of Fame former American football player and American sportscaster.-Early life:Gifford was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Lola Mae and Weldon Gifford, an oil driller....
  
  , NFL
  National Football League
  The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
  
   star and husband of Kathie Lee Gifford
  Kathie Lee Gifford
  Kathie Lee Gifford is an American television host, singer, songwriter and actress, best known for her 15-year run on the talk show Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, which she co-hosted with Regis Philbin...
  
  , lives in town.
• George Foster (born 1948), former major league baseball player, lives in town.
• Gail Goodrich
  Gail Goodrich
  Gail Charles Goodrich Jr. is a retired American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association . He is best-known for scoring a then record 42 points in the 1965 NCAA championship game vs. Michigan, and his part in the Los Angeles Lakers' 1971–72 season...
  
   (born 1943), former basketball player and a studio analyst for NBA TV
  NBA TV
  NBA TV is a television specialty channel that is dedicated to showcasing the sport of basketball in the United States. The network is financially backed by the National Basketball Association , which also uses NBA TV as a way of advertising their out of market package NBA League Pass, and partner...
  
  .
• Dorothy Hamill
  Dorothy Hamill
  Dorothy Stuart Hamill is an American figure skater. She is the 1976 Olympic champion in Ladies' Singles and 1976 World Champion.-Early life:...
  
   was born in town.
• Allan Houston
  Allan Houston
  Allan Wade Houston is a retired American professional basketball player for the NBA, and currently the Assistant General Manager for the New York Knicks. He was one of the top 3-point shooters in the NBA until a knee injury forced him to retire...
  
   (born 1971), NBA player, lives in town.
• Ralph Kiner
  Ralph Kiner
  Ralph McPherran Kiner is an American former Major League Baseball player and has been an announcer for the New York Mets since the team's inception. Though injuries forced his retirement from active play after 10 seasons, Kiner's tremendous slugging outpaced nearly all of his National League...
  
   (born 1922), former major league baseball player, owns a home in town.
• Ivan Lendl
  Ivan Lendl
  Ivan Lendl is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Lendl became a United States citizen. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s. He is considered to be one of the greatest tennis...
  
  , tennis star, lived in town.
• Skip Lockwood
  Skip Lockwood
  Claude Edward Lockwood Jr. is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He pitched for the Seattle Pilots , Milwaukee Brewers , California Angels , New York Mets and Boston Red Sox .-Third base:Lockwood attended Catholic Memorial High School in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, where...
  
   (born 1946), a former major league pitcher, formerly lived in town.
• Dave Maloney
  Dave Maloney
  David Wilfred Maloney is a former professional ice hockey defenceman who played eleven seasons in the National Hockey League from 1974–75 until 1984–85....
  
  , former New York Rangers Captain and current color commentator for MSG radio.
• Pedro Martínez
  Pedro Martínez
  Pedro Jaime Martínez is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He is an eight-time All-Star, three-time Cy Young Award winner, and 2004 World Series champion...
  
  , lives in Greenwich during the baseball season.
• Lee Mazzilli
  Lee Mazzilli
  Lee Louis Mazzilli, , is a former Major League Baseball player, coach, and manager. On December 11, 2006, he was hired as the lead studio analyst for SportsNet New York, the New York Mets' cable television network...
  
  , major league baseball player and coach, lives in town.
• Linda McMahon
  Linda McMahon
  Linda Marie McMahon is an American professional wrestling magnate and politician. She is notable for her career developing WWE with her husband Vince McMahon. She was in the company from 1980 to 2009. During this time, WWE grew from a small regional business in New York to a large multinational...
  
   former WWE CEO
• Shane McMahon
  Shane McMahon
  Shane Brandon McMahon is an American executive, currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of YOU On Demand. A former executive and professional wrestler for World Wrestling Entertainment , he is the son of WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon and former US Senate candidate Linda...
  
   Former WWE wrestler and executive, raised in Greenwich.
• Stephanie McMahon WWE executive
• Vince McMahon
  Vince McMahon
  Vincent Kennedy "Vince" McMahon is an American professional wrestling promoter, announcer, commentator, film producer, actor and former occasional professional wrestler. McMahon is the current Chairman, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee of professional wrestling promotion WWE...
  
   Chairman and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment
  World Wrestling Entertainment
  World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is an American publicly traded, privately controlled entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales...
  
  
• Markus Näslund
  Markus Näslund
  Sten Markus Näslund is a Swedish ice hockey general manager for Modo Hockey and a retired professional winger. He played in the National Hockey League for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Vancouver Canucks and New York Rangers, as well as in the Elitserien with Modo Hockey...
  
  , (New York Rangers
  New York Rangers
  The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York, USA. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the...
  
   forward), lives in town.
• Helen Resor (born 1985) ice hockey player who won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics, was born in town.
• Tom Seaver
  Tom Seaver
  George Thomas "Tom" Seaver , nicknamed "Tom Terrific" and "The Franchise", is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He pitched from 1967-1986 for four different teams in his career, but is noted primarily for his time with the New York Mets...
  
  , former Cy Young Award-winning pitcher and Baseball Hall of Fame inductee.
• John Sullivan (American football)
  John Sullivan (American football)
  John Sullivan is an American football center for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League...
  
  , NFL Center for the Minnesota Vikings, attended Greenwich High School.
• Craig Swan
  Craig Swan
  Craig Steven Swan was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1973 to 1984 for the New York Mets and California Angels. Swan's best season came in when he posted a 9-6 win–loss record and led the National League with an earned run average of 2.43. This was significant as the Mets were in the...
  
   (born 1950), New York Mets and California Angels pitcher, lives in town.
• Tim Teufel
  Tim Teufel
  Timothy Shawn Teufel is a former Major League Baseball second baseman, and currently the 3rd base coach for the New York Mets.Teufel was a member of the World Series champion New York Mets...
  
   (born July 7, 1958), former major league baseball player was born in town, attended St. Mary's High School.
• Mark Teixeira
  Mark Teixeira
  Mark Charles Teixeira , nicknamed "Tex" is an American Major League Baseball player for the New York Yankees. Mostly a first baseman, he has also played third base and in the outfield...
  
  , New York Yankees, recently bought a house in town.
• Triple H
  Triple H
  Paul Michael Levesque is an American professional wrestler, professional wrestling authority figure, WWE Executive Vice President of Talent and actor, better known by his ring name Triple H, an abbreviation of the ring name, Hunter Hearst Helmsley...
  
  , professional wrestler
• Donna de Varona
  Donna de Varona
  Donna Elizabeth de Varona is a former American swimmer of Mexican and Irish descent.-Swimming career:...
  
   (born 1947), Olympic gold medalist in swimming, lives in town.
• Fay Vincent
  Fay Vincent
  Francis Thomas "Fay" Vincent, Jr. is a former entertainment lawyer and sports executive who served as the eighth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from September 13, 1989 to September 7, 1992.-Early life and career:...
  
  , former commissioner of baseball (1989–1992), lived in town.
• Billy Wagner
  Billy Wagner
  William Edward Wagner , nicknamed "Billy the Kid", is a retired Major League Baseball relief pitcher. He pitched for the Houston Astros , the Philadelphia Phillies , the New York Mets , the Boston Red Sox , and the Atlanta Braves...
  
  , (Boston Red Sox
  Boston Red Sox
  The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...
  
   reliever), lives in town.
• Colin Wilson (ice hockey)
  Colin Wilson (ice hockey)
  Colin Wilson is a Canadian-American professional ice hockey player currently with the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:...
  
   (born 1989), born in Greenwich.
• Steve Young, NFL player, grew up in town.

Authors, writers

• Taylor Caldwell
  Taylor Caldwell
  Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback....
  
   (1900–1985), novelist, died in town.
• Truman Capote
  Truman Capote
  Truman Streckfus Persons , known as Truman Capote , was an American author, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and the true crime novel In Cold Blood , which he labeled a "nonfiction novel." At...
  
   (1924–1984), the future author moved to town with his family in 1939 and Truman attended Greenwich High School.
• Caroline B. Cooney
  Caroline B. Cooney
  Caroline B. Cooney is an American author of suspense, romance, horror and mystery books for young adults. She currently resides in Fort Mill, South Carolina....
  
   (born 1947), horror and mystery author, was born and raised in town.
• A. J. Cronin
  A. J. Cronin
  Archibald Joseph Cronin was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known works are Hatter's Castle, The Stars Look Down, The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom and The Green Years, all of which were adapted to film. He also created the Dr...
  
   (1896–1981), Scottish author, resided in town.
• Frederick Exley
  Frederick Exley
  Frederick E. "Fred" Exley, was an American novelist best known as the author of A Fan's Notes.-Biography:Early yearsFred Exley was born March 28, 1929, in Watertown, New York...
  
   (1929–1992), author, lived in town during the 1960s.
• Howard Fast
  Howard Fast
  Howard Melvin Fast was an American novelist and television writer. Fast also wrote under the pen names E. V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson.-Early life:Fast was born in New York City...
  
   (1914–2003), author, lived in town and had an editorial column in The Greenwich Time.
• Jonathan Fast
  Jonathan Fast
  Jonathan Fast is an American author and social work teacher.Fast was born in New York City. He attended Princeton University, and earned graduate degrees at Columbia University and Yeshiva University...
  
   (born 1948), an American author, social work educator and son of Howard Fast
  Howard Fast
  Howard Melvin Fast was an American novelist and television writer. Fast also wrote under the pen names E. V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson.-Early life:Fast was born in New York City...
  
  .
• John Jakes
  John Jakes
  John William Jakes is an American writer, best known for American historical fiction.-Early life and education:...
  
   (born 1932), a writer of numerous fiction best-sellers.
• Lawrence Riley
  Lawrence Riley
  Lawrence Riley was a successful American playwright and screenwriter. He gained fame in 1934 as the author of the Broadway hit Personal Appearance, which was turned by Mae West into the classic film Go West, Young Man , starring herself.-Biography:Riley was a Princeton University alumnus and a...
  
   (1896–1974), of Riverside, a playwright and screenwriter.
• Mark Salzman
  Mark Salzman
  Mark Joseph Salzman is an American writer. Salzman is best known for his 1986 memoir Iron & Silk, which describes his experiences living in China as an English teacher in the early 1980s....
  
   (born 1959), author, was born in town.
• Anya Seton
  Anya Seton
  Anya Seton was the pen name of Ann Seton, an American author of historical romances.-Biography:...
  
   (1904–1990), author of historical romances, died in town.

Artists, architects, designers, cartoonists

• Robert Denning
  Robert Denning
  Robert Denning was an American interior designer whose lush interpretations of French Victorian decor became an emblem of corporate raider tastes in the 1980s.-Early life:...
  
   (1927–2005), an interior designer, lived with Edgar de Evia
  Edgar de Evia
  Edgar Domingo Evia y Joutard, known professionally as Edgar de Evia , was a Mexican-born American photographer....
  
   in the 1950s at "Quiet Corner" at the former home of Clyde Fitch
  Clyde Fitch
  Clyde Fitch was an American dramatist.-Biography:Born William Clyde Fitch at Elmira, New York, he wrote over 60 plays, 36 of them original, which varied from social comedies and farces to melodrama and historical dramas.As the only child to live to adulthood, his father, Captain William G...
  
  .
• Tony DiPreta
  Tony DiPreta
  Anthony Lewis DiPreta , better known as Tony DiPreta, was an American comic book and comic strip artist active from the 1940s Golden Age of comic books...
  
   (born 1921), an American comic book and comic strip artist, lived in town.
• Edgar de Evia
  Edgar de Evia
  Edgar Domingo Evia y Joutard, known professionally as Edgar de Evia , was a Mexican-born American photographer....
  
   (1910–2003) photographer, artist and author. He owned "Quiet Corner" the former home of Clyde Fitch
  Clyde Fitch
  Clyde Fitch was an American dramatist.-Biography:Born William Clyde Fitch at Elmira, New York, he wrote over 60 plays, 36 of them original, which varied from social comedies and farces to melodrama and historical dramas.As the only child to live to adulthood, his father, Captain William G...
  
   on Hill Road in the 1950s.
• Tommy Hilfiger
  Tommy Hilfiger
  Thomas Jacob "Tommy" Hilfiger is an American fashion designer and founder of the premium lifestyle brand Tommy Hilfiger.-Early life:...
  
  , designer, lives in town.
• Ranan Lurie
  Ranan Lurie
  Ranan R. Lurie is an American Israeli editorial cartoonist and journalist. He is a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a member of the United Nation Correspondents Association, and the editor of Cartoon News magazine.Lurie became a naturalized citizen of the...
  
   (born 1932), editorial cartoonist and journalist, lives in town.
• Robert Motherwell
  Robert Motherwell
  Robert Motherwell American painter, printmaker and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School , which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston....
  
   (1915–1991), abstract expressionist, resided in Greenwich.
• John Cullen Murphy
  John Cullen Murphy
  John Cullen Murphy was an American illustrator best known for his three decades of work on the Prince Valiant comic strip....
  
   (1919–2004), comic artist, was born in town.
• Leonard Ochtman
  Leonard Ochtman
  Leonard Ochtman was an American Impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes. He was born in Zonnemaire, Netherlands as the son of a decorative painter. His family moved to Albany, New York in 1866. Starting at a young age, Ochtman worked as a draftsman at a wood-working firm in Albany...
  
   (1854–1935), his wife Mina Fonda Ochtman
  Mina Fonda Ochtman
  Mina Fonda Ochtman was the wife of the American painter Leonard Ochtman and a notable American Impressionist in her own right. She was a part of the Cos Cob Art Colony and lived in Greenwich, Connecticut. Their daughter, Dorothy Ochtman Del Mar, was also a painter of note.-References:*...
  
   (1862–1924) and daughter Dorothy Ochtman (1892–1971), were all notable American impressionists and part of the Cos Cob Art Colony
  Cos Cob Art Colony
  The Cos Cob Art Colony was a group of artists, many of them American Impressionists, who gathered in and around Cos Cob, a section of Greenwich, Connecticut, from about 1890 to about 1920....
  
  .
• Edward Clark Potter
  Edward Clark Potter
  Edward Clark Potter was an American sculptor best known for his equestrian and animal statues. His works include the "Fortitude" lion in front of the New York Public Library.-Early years:...
  
   (1857–1923) a sculptor and Greenwich native who designed the lions in front of the New York Public Library.

Famous guests at the Bush-Holley House

• Childe Hassam
  Childe Hassam
  Frederick Childe Hassam was a prolific American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American collectors, dealers, and museums...
  
  , artist
• John Henry Twachtman
  John Henry Twachtman
  John Henry Twachtman was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes, though his painting style varied widely through his career. Art historians consider Twachtman's style of American Impressionism to be among the more personal and experimental of his generation...
  
  , artist and town resident
• William Merritt Chase
  William Merritt Chase
  William Merritt Chase was an American painter known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons The New School for Design.- Early life and training :He was born in Williamsburg , Indiana, to the family...
  
  
• J. Alden Weir
  J. Alden Weir
  Julian Alden Weir was an American impressionist painter and member of the Cos Cob Art Colony near Greenwich, Connecticut...
  
  , artist
• Theodore Robinson
  Theodore Robinson
  Theodore Robinson was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes. He was one of the first American artists to take up impressionism in the late 1880s, visiting Giverny and developing a close friendship with Claude Monet...
  
  , artist
• Willa Cather
  Willa Cather
  Willa Seibert Cather was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours , a novel set during World War I...
  
  , novelist

Government

• Richard Blumenthal
  Richard Blumenthal
  Richard Blumenthal is the junior United States Senator from Connecticut and a member of the Democratic Party. Previously, he served as Attorney General of Connecticut....
  
  , US Senator, Former State Attorney General, lives in town.
• George H. W. Bush
  George H. W. Bush
  George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
  
  , 41st president of the United States, was raised in town, where he attended Greenwich Country Day School
  Greenwich Country Day School
  The Greenwich Country Day School is a co-educational, independent day school in Greenwich, Connecticut, founded in 1926. As of 2005, it has some 840 students from nursery to the 9th grade level....
  
  .
• George W. Bush
  George W. Bush
  George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
  
  , 43rd president of the United States was the 1st Connecticut-born President. He is the son of President George H.W. Bush and grandson of Senator Prescott Bush.
• Prescott Bush
  Prescott Bush
  Prescott Sheldon Bush was a Wall Street executive banker and a United States Senator, representing Connecticut from 1952 until January 1963. He was the father of George H. W. Bush and the grandfather of George W...
  
  , U.S. Senator and father of George H.W. Bush, lived in town.
• Homer Stille Cummings
  Homer Stille Cummings
  Homer Stille Cummings was a U.S. political figure who was United States Attorney General from 1933 to 1939. He also was elected mayor of Stamford, Connecticut, three times before, founding the legal firm of Cummings & Lockwood in 1909...
  
   (1870–1956), United States Attorney General from 1933 to 1939. In 1900, 1901, and 1904, Cummings was elected mayor of Stamford, and he helped found the Cummings & Lockwood law firm in 1909.
• Ned Lamont
  Ned Lamont
  Edward Miner "Ned" Lamont, Jr. is a businessman and heir and most recently an unsuccessful candidate for the 2010 Democratic nomination for Governor of Connecticut. On May 22, 2010, Lamont received more than fifteen percent of the vote at the state Democratic convention, and appeared on the...
  
  , unsuccessful Democratic nominee for United States Senate
  United States Senate
  The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
  
   in 2006, former member of Greenwich Board of selectmen
  Board of selectmen
  The board of selectmen is commonly the executive arm of the government of New England towns in the United States. The board typically consists of three or five members, with or without staggered terms.-History:...
  
  
• Clare Boothe Luce
  Clare Boothe Luce
  Clare Boothe Luce was an American playwright, editor, journalist, ambassador, socialite and U.S. Congresswoman, representing the state of Connecticut.-Early life:...
  
  , congresswoman, ambassador, playwright, was a resident in her youth.
• Jennifer Psaki
  Jennifer Psaki
  Jennifer Rene Psaki is the Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States and the Deputy White House Communications Director. A native of Greenwich, Connecticut, Psaki graduated from the College of William & Mary in 2000...
  
  , the Assistant to the President of the United States and the White House Communications Director
  White House Communications Director
  The White House Director of Communications, also known as Assistant to the President for Communications, is part of the senior staff of the President of the United States, and is responsible for developing and promoting the agenda of the President and leading its media campaign...
  
  
• Craig Roberts Stapleton
  Craig Roberts Stapleton
  Craig Roberts Stapleton is a former United States ambassador to France and the Czech Republic.-Biography:Stapleton was born in Kansas City, Missouri. His grandfather, Benjamin F. Stapleton, was a politician who served five terms as mayor of Denver. He received his secondary school education at...
  
   the United States ambassador to France. and former ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2001 to 2004.
• David Stockman
  David Stockman
  David Alan Stockman is a former U.S. politician and businessman, serving as a Republican U.S. Representative from the state of Michigan and as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget ....
  
  , director of the Office of Management and Budget during the Reagan administration, runs the Greenwich-based investment firm, Heartland Industrial Partners L.P., and lives in town.
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
  Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
  Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend , is an American attorney who was the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. She ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Maryland in 2002. In 2010 she became the chair of the non-profit American Bridge, an organization that will raise funds for Democratic...
  
  , part of the Kennedy political family, former Lt. Governor of Maryland.
• William M. "Boss" Tweed, famously corrupt New York City official in the nineteenth century, had a home in town and sailed his yacht from Greenwich.
• Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
  Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
  Lowell Palmer Weicker, Jr. is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the 85th Governor of Connecticut, and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for President in 1980...
  
   (born 1931), a former Governor of the state, U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative, lives in town.
• Jim Himes
  Jim Himes
  James A. "Jim" Himes is an American businessman and U.S. Representative for , serving since 2009. He is a member of the Democratic Party....
  
  , U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 4th congressional district, lives in town.
• Chris Coons, Current United States Senator from Delaware

Business

• Mark Madoff, son of Bernie Madoff, operator of the largest Ponzi scheme
  Ponzi scheme
  A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation...
  
   in history. Worked for the Madoff Family Foundation.
• Andrew Madoff, son of Bernie Madoff, operator of the largest Ponzi scheme
  Ponzi scheme
  A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation...
  
   in history. Works for the Madoff Family Foundation.
• Warren Anderson, former chairman of Union Carbide and CEO at the time of the Bhopal disaster
  Bhopal disaster
  The Bhopal disaster also known as Bhopal Gas Tragedy was a gas leak incident in India, considered one of the world's worst industrial catastrophes. It occurred on the night of December 2–3, 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India...
  
  .
• Mary Anselmo
  Mary Anselmo
  Mary Anselmo is the philanthropist widow of Reynold "Rene" Anselmo, the founder of PanAmSat, the first privately held satellite communications company in the United States. A resident of Greenwich, Connecticut, she was 79 years old as of March 2008....
  
  , billionaire widow of Reynold "Rene" Anselmo, founder of PanAmSat
  PanAmSat
  The former PanAmSat Corporation founded in 1984 by Reynold Anselmo, was a satellite service provider headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. It operated a fleet of communications satellites used by the entertainment industry, news agencies, internet service providers, government agencies, and...
  
  , one of the wealthiest people in the world.
• Reynold "Rene" Anselmo, founder of PanAmSat
  PanAmSat
  The former PanAmSat Corporation founded in 1984 by Reynold Anselmo, was a satellite service provider headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. It operated a fleet of communications satellites used by the entertainment industry, news agencies, internet service providers, government agencies, and...
  
   (d. 1995)
• Barton Biggs
  Barton Biggs
  Barton M. Biggs is a money manager running Traxis Partners, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund based in New York City. He formerly held the title of "chief global strategist" for Morgan Stanley and was with that firm for 30 years....
  
  , runs the Traxis hedge fund and lives in town.
• Steven Black
  Steven Black
  Steven "Steve" D. Black is the former Vice-Chairman of JP Morgan Chase & Co.. He previously served as the Co-Chief Executive Officer of JP Morgan, the investment banking subsidiary of JP Morgan Chase. He is a 1974 graduate of Duke University, and has served on the New York Development Council...
  
  , Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Investment Bank at JP Morgan Chase & Co., lives in town.
• Peter M. Brant
  Peter M. Brant
  Peter M. Brant is an American industrialist, businessman and entrepreneur, worth an estimated $2.4 billion. He is also a major art collector, movie producer, and avid horseman...
  
  , publisher of Warhol's Interview and the founder of the Greenwich Polo Club.
• Richard C. Breeden
  Richard C. Breeden
  Richard C. Breeden is a former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, hedge fund manager, and corporate chairman.-Early career:Breeden began his career practicing corporate and securities law in New York City...
  
  , former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, lives in town.
• Robert Burton, Sr.
  Robert Burton, Sr.
  Robert G. Burton, Sr., a printing industry executive with cost-cutting turnaround experience with major companies, is currently chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cenveo, Inc.-At Moore and Cenveo:...
  
   head of Burton Capital Management.
• Steven A. Cohen
  Steven A. Cohen
  Steven "Steve" A. Cohen is an American hedge fund manager. He is the founder of SAC Capital Advisors, a Stamford, Connecticut-based hedge fund focusing primarily on equity market strategies....
  
  , runs SAC Capital in Stamford, Connecticut.
• Brady Dougan
  Brady Dougan
  Brady W. Dougan is an American businessman. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse. Prior his current position, Dougan was Chief Executive Officer of Investment Banking and acting Chief Executive Officer Credit Suisse Americas .-Education:He has served on the Executive Board since...
  
   (born 1959) CEO of Credit Suisse First Boston; CEO-elect of Credit Suisse Group in Zurich (beginning May 2007); youngest CEO on Wall Street (2004).
• Ray Dalio
  Ray Dalio
  Ray Dalio is an American businessman and founder of Bridgewater Associates.-Early Life and Education:...
  
  ,resident, CEO Bridgewater Associates
  Bridgewater Associates
  Bridgewater Associates is an American investment management firm founded by Ray Dalio in 1975 and is reported to be the world's largest hedge fund company with $122 billion in assets under management. The company has 270 clients including pension funds, endowments, foundations, foreign governments...
  
  of Westport
• Robert Diamond
  Robert Diamond
  Robert Edward "Bob" Diamond, Jr. is an American banker, currently Group Chief Executive of British bank, Barclays Plc. He is also Chief Executive of Corporate & Investment Banking and Wealth Management, comprising Barclays Capital, Barclays Corporate and Barclays Bank...
  
   (born 1951) is a banker whom is President and CEO for investment banking at Barclays, formerly lived in town.
• Martin Frankel
  Martin Frankel
  Martin R. "Marty" Frankel is an American financial criminal who conducted a series of investment frauds in the late 20th century, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses...
  
   (born 1954), a former financier convicted in 2002 of insurance fraud, racketeering and money laundering, lived in town.
• Richard S. Fuld, Jr., CEO of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
• Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. KBE was chairman of the board and chief executive officer of IBM from April 1993 until 2002 when he retired as CEO in March and chairman in December. He is largely credited with turning around IBM's fortunes.He was formerly CEO of RJR Nabisco, and also held senior positions...
  
  , former CEO of IBM
  IBM
  International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
  
  .
• Vladimir Gusinsky
  Vladimir Gusinsky
  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gusinsky is a Russian media baron, is known as the founder of Media-Most holding that included Most Bank, the NTV channel, the newspaper Segodnya and magazines.-Life and career:Gusinsky was born in Moscow....
  
  , Russian media baron, has a house in Greenwich.
• Leona Helmsley
  Leona Helmsley
  Leona Mindy Roberts Helmsley was an American businesswoman and real estate entrepreneur. She was a flamboyant personality and had a reputation for tyrannical behavior that earned her the nickname Queen of Mean...
  
  , hotel owner, lived in town.
• Joseph Hirshhorn
  Joseph Hirshhorn
  ]Joseph Herman Hirshhorn was an entrepreneur, financier and art collector. Born in Mitau, Latvia, the twelfth of thirteen children, Hirshhorn emigrated to the United States with his widowed mother at the age of six....
  
  , mining tycoon and namesake of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft and is part of the...
  
   on the Mall in Washington, D.C.
• Paul Tudor Jones
  Paul Tudor Jones
  Paul Tudor Jones II , is the founder of Tudor Investment Corporation, which is the management company for his various private investment partnerships, also referred to as hedge funds. As of March 2011, he was estimated to have a net worth of USD 3.3 billion by Forbes Magazine and ranked as 336th...
  
  , runs Tudor Investments) and lives in the Belle Haven section of town.
• Mel Karmazin
  Mel Karmazin
  Melvin Alan "Mel" Karmazin is an American executive. He co-founded and was the president of Infinity Broadcasting and eventually became the president and chief executive officer of CBS. As of 2008, he is the CEO of Sirius XM Radio....
  
  , CEO of Sirius Satellite Radio
  Sirius Satellite Radio
  Sirius Satellite Radio is a satellite radio service operating in North America, owned by Sirius XM Radio.Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, Sirius was officially launched on July 1, 2002 and currently provides 69 streams of music and 65 streams of...
  
  .
• Donald M. Kendall
  Donald M. Kendall
  Donald Mcintosh Kendall is a former businessman, political adviser. He is a former CEO of Pepsi Cola and served as CEO of PepsiCo from 1971 to 1986....
  
  , former CEO of PepsiCo
  PepsiCo
  PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company...
  
  .
• Edward Lampert
  Edward Lampert
  Edward S. "Eddie" Lampert is an American businessman and investor. He is the chairman of Sears Holdings Corporation and founder, chairman, and CEO of ESL Investments. Until May, 2007 he was a director of AutoNation, Inc. He previously served as a director of AutoZone, Inc...
  
  , head of ESL Investments
  ESL Investments
  ESL Investments is a privately owned hedge fund based in Greenwich, Connecticut and estimated to be worth over $9 billion as of 2004. ESL Investments are not associated with ESL International, the stock market investment technology company. The fund is managed by Edward Lampert, who found it in...
  
   lives in town.
• William F. May
  William F. May
  William Frederick May was an American chemical engineer, businessman and co-founder of the Film Society of Lincoln Center....
  
  , chemical engineer ad former head of the American Can Company
  American Can Company
  The American Can Company was a manufacturer of tin cans. It was a member of the Tin Can Trust, that controlled a "large percentage of business in the United States in tin cans, containers, and packages of tin." It was formerly a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1959–1991, though...
  
   who co-founded the Film Society of Lincoln Center
  Film Society of Lincoln Center
  The Film Society of Lincoln Center based in New York City, United States, is one of the world's most prominent film presentation organizations. Founded in 1969 by three Lincoln Center executives - William F. May, Martin E. Segal and Schuyler G...
  
   in 1969.
• Charles Peter McColough
  Charles Peter McColough
  Charles Peter Philip Paul McColough was the joint creater, founder, and owner of the Xerox Corporation , and was a former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board at Xerox. He retired in the late 1980s, after serving over 14 years as CEO...
  
  , former Chairman and CEO of Xerox
  Xerox
  Xerox Corporation is an American multinational document management corporation that produced and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies...
  
  , lives in the Belle Haven section of town.
• Henry McKinnell
  Henry McKinnell
  Henry A. McKinnell, Jr. is the former chief executive officer and former chairman of the board of directors of Pfizer Inc. He is also a director of ExxonMobil and Moody's....
  
   (born 1943), former chief executive officer and current chairman of the board of directors of Pfizer
  Pfizer
  Pfizer, Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation. The company is based in New York City, New York with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut, United States...
  
   Inc., lives in town.
• Vince McMahon
  Vince McMahon
  Vincent Kennedy "Vince" McMahon is an American professional wrestling promoter, announcer, commentator, film producer, actor and former occasional professional wrestler. McMahon is the current Chairman, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee of professional wrestling promotion WWE...
  
  , World Wrestling Entertainment founder, chairman and CEO, and his wife, former WWE CEO Linda
  Linda McMahon
  Linda Marie McMahon is an American professional wrestling magnate and politician. She is notable for her career developing WWE with her husband Vince McMahon. She was in the company from 1980 to 2009. During this time, WWE grew from a small regional business in New York to a large multinational...
  
  
• John Meriwether
  John Meriwether
  John William Meriwether is an American hedge fund executive, seen as a pioneer of fixed income arbitrage.-Education:...
  
   (born 1947) runs JWM Partners, a Greenwich, Connecticut, hedge fund.
• Indra Nooyi
  Indra Nooyi
  Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi is an Indian-born American business executive. She is the current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo, the second largest food & beverage business in the world ....
  
  , CEO of PepsiCo
  PepsiCo
  PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company...
  
  
• Daniel Scotto
  Daniel Scotto
  Daniel "Dan" Scotto is an American financial analyst. In August 2001, as an analyst with BNP Paribas, Scotto downgraded Enron securities from "Buy" to "Neutral". He took this action four months before the Enron accounting scandal was revealed that led to the company's bankruptcy. Scotto claims...
  
  — Former Director of Research at Bear Stearns
  Bear Stearns
  The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. based in New York City, was a global investment bank and securities trading and brokerage, until its sale to JPMorgan Chase in 2008 during the global financial crisis and recession...
  
  , DLJ
  Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
  Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette or DLJ is a defunct U.S. investment bank founded by William H. Donaldson, Richard Jenrette and Dan Lufkin in 1959. Its businesses included securities underwriting; sales and trading; investment and merchant banking; financial advisory services; investment research;...
  
  , L.F. Rothschild
  L.F. Rothschild
  L.F. Rothschild was a merchant and investment banking firm based in the United States and founded in 1899. The firm collapsed following the 1987 stock market crash.-History:...
  
   and S&P
  Standard & Poor's
  Standard & Poor's is a United States-based financial services company. It is a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks and bonds. It is well known for its stock-market indices, the US-based S&P 500, the Australian S&P/ASX 200, the Canadian...
  
  , Institutional Investor.
• Alan Schwartz
  Alan Schwartz
  Alan D. Schwartz is an executive chairman of Guggenheim Partners, LLC, an investment banking firm based in Chicago and New York. He was the last CEO Bear Stearns before its acquisition by JPMorgan Chase & Co., having succeeded James E. Cayne who remained chairman.-History at Bear Stearns:Alan...
  
  , (born 1950), Former CEO of Bear Stearns
  Bear Stearns
  The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. based in New York City, was a global investment bank and securities trading and brokerage, until its sale to JPMorgan Chase in 2008 during the global financial crisis and recession...
  
  .
• Barry Sternlicht
  Barry Sternlicht
  -Barry Sternlicht:Barry Sternlicht is the founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Starwood Capital Group, the private investment firm focused on global real estate, energy, infrastructure and securities trading. He is also Chairman of Starwood Property Trust, now the largest commercial...
  
  - Founder of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
  Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
  Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is a hospitality ownership and management organization, headquartered in White Plains, New York. One of the world's largest hotel companies, it owns, operates, franchises and manages hotels, resorts, spas, residences, and vacation ownership properties...
  
  . Lives in town.
• John Sculley
  John Sculley
  John Sculley is an American businessman. Sculley was vice-president and president of PepsiCo , until he became CEO of Apple on April 8, 1983, a position he held until leaving in 1993...
  
  , former CEO of Apple Inc..
• Christopher A. Sinclair
  Christopher A. Sinclair
  Christopher A. Sinclair is an American businessman. He is the current Chairman of the Executive Committee of Mattel, Inc., the world's largest toy company. He is the former Chariman and CEO of Pepsi-Cola and the former executive chairman and CEO of Cambridge Solutions Ltd. the second largest...
  
  , former chairman and CEO of PepsiCo
  PepsiCo
  PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company...
  
  , lives in town.
• Sanford I. Weill
  Sanford I. Weill
  Sanford I. "Sandy" Weill is an American banker, financier and philanthropist. He is a former chief executive officer and chairman of Citigroup. He served in those positions until October 1, 2003, and April 18, 2006, respectively....
  
  , (born March 16, 1933), is a banker, financier, formerly chief executive officer and chairman of Citigroup.
• John Weinberg
  John Weinberg
  John Livingston Weinberg was an American banker and businessperson, running Goldman Sachs from 1976 to 1990.- Biography :...
  
  , former CEO of Goldman Sachs
  Goldman Sachs
  The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...
  
   lived in the town.

Journalists, sportscasters

• Chris Berman (born 1955) a Greenwich native who hosts and anchors various ESPN
  ESPN
  Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
  
   television programs.
• Rita Cosby
  Rita Cosby
  Rita Cosby is a television news anchor and correspondent, radio host, and best selling author. She is currently a Special Correspondent for the CBS syndicated program Inside Edition, specializing in interviewing newsmakers and political figures...
  
   (born 1964), a cable television news personality at MSNBC
  MSNBC
  MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
  
  , raised in town and a graduate of Greenwich High School
  Greenwich High School
  Greenwich High School is a four-year public high school in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. The school is part of the Greenwich Public Schools system and serves roughly 2,700 students....
  
  
• Bill Evans
  Bill Evans (meteorologist)
  Bill Evans is an American meteorologist for WABC-TV, the ABC affiliate in New York City.-Early career:Evans' broadcasting career began at the age of 13 in his hometown of Meridian, Mississippi on WDAL Radio and WTOK-TV...
  
  , WABC-TV
  WABC-TV
  WABC-TV, channel 7, is the flagship station of the Disney-owned American Broadcasting Company located in New York City. The station's studios and offices are located on the Upper West Side section of Manhattan, adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters, and its transmitter is atop the Empire State...
  
   weatherman, lives in town.
• Dan Hicks
  Dan Hicks (sportscaster)
  John Daniel "Dan" Hicks is an American sportscaster for NBC. His primary duties for the network include play-by-play commentary for golf, but he also does occasional play-by-play commentary for The AFL on NBC and Notre Dame football...
  
   (born 1962), NBC sportscaster, current resident
• Matt Lauer
  Matt Lauer
  Matthew Todd "Matt" Lauer . is an American television journalist best known as the host of NBC's The Today Show since 1997. He was previously a news anchor in New York and a local talk-show host in Boston, Philadelphia, Providence and Richmond...
  
   (born 1957), Today Show television host, graduated from Greenwich High School.
• Louis Rukeyser
  Louis Rukeyser
  Louis Richard "Lou" Rukeyser was an American financial journalist, columnist, and commentator, through print, radio, and television....
  
   (1933–2006), a business columnist, economic commentator, and television personality, lived in town.
• Lara Spencer
  Lara Spencer
  Lara Spencer is the lifestyle anchor for Good Morning America. She is also a correspondent for Nightline and ABC News. Previously, she was the host of the syndicated television newsmagazine The Insider and was a regular contributor to CBS's The Early Show...
  
  , host of The Insider television news magazine, lives in Riverside.
• Hannah Storm
  Hannah Storm
  Hannah Storm is an American television sports journalist, serving as co-anchor of ESPN's SportsCenter Monday–Thursday mornings, and is also host of the NBA Countdown pregame show on ABC as part of the network's NBA Sunday game coverage.-Early life and career:Storm was born in Oak Park, Illinois,...
  
   of the CBS television program "The Early Show
  The Early Show
  The Early Show is an American television morning news talk show broadcast by CBS from New York City. The program airs live from 7 to 9 a.m. Eastern Time Monday through Friday; most affiliates in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones air the show on tape-delay from 7 to 9 a.m. local time. ...
  
  " lives in town.

Other

• Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
  Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
  Carolyn Jeanne Bessette-Kennedy was the wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr., the son of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.-Early life:...
  
   (1966–1999), wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr.
  John F. Kennedy, Jr.
  John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. , often referred to as John F. Kennedy, Jr., JFK Jr., John Jr. or John-John, was an American socialite, magazine publisher, lawyer, and pilot. The elder son of U.S. President John F...
  
  
• Lauren Bessette (1964–1999), sister-in-law in John F. Kennedy, Jr.
• Colonel
  Colonel (United States)
  In the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, colonel is a senior field grade military officer rank just above the rank of lieutenant colonel and just below the rank of brigadier general...
  
   Raynal Bolling
  Raynal Bolling
  Colonel Raynal Cawthorne Bolling was the first high-ranking U.S. officer to be killed in combat in World War I. He laid the foundation for the United States Army Air Service in the American Expeditionary Force...
  
   (1877–1918), a town resident and the first high-ranking U.S. officer to be killed in combat in World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
  .
• Douglas Campbell
  Douglas Campbell (aviator)
  Douglas Campbell was an American aviator and World War I flying ace. He was the first American aviator flying in an American unit to achieve the status of ace.-Early life:...
  
   (1896–1990) the first American World War I aviator flying in an American unit to achieve the status of ace died in town.
• Roy Cohn
  Roy Cohn
  Roy Marcus Cohn was an American attorney who became famous during Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations into Communist activity in the United States during the Second Red Scare. Cohn gained special prominence during the Army–McCarthy hearings. He was also an important member of the U.S...
  
   (1927–1986), a lawyer made famous as an aide to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy
  Joseph McCarthy
  Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957...
  
  , had one of his homes in town.
• Blackleach Burritt
  Blackleach Burritt
  Blackleach Burritt was a preacher during the American Revolutionary War. During the American War of Independence, he was incarcerated in the Sugar House Prison-Early life and ancestors:...
  
  , noted clergyman in the American Revolution.
• Michael Fossel
  Michael Fossel
  Michael B. Fossel, M.D., Ph.D. is a professor of clinical medicine at Michigan State University and editor of the Journal Of Anti-Ageing Medicine who is best known for his views on telomerase therapy as a possible treatment for cellular senescence...
  
   (born 1950), a professor of clinical medicine at Michigan State University was born in town.
• Kara Hultgreen
  Kara Hultgreen
  Kara Spears Hultgreen , was a Lieutenant in the United States Navy, and the first female naval carrier-based fighter pilot. She was killed just months after she was certified for combat, when her F-14 Tomcat crashed into the sea on final approach to...
  
   (1965–1994), a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, was the first female naval carrier-based fighter pilot.
• Farah Pahlavi
  Farah Pahlavi
  Farah Pahlavi is the former Queen and Empress of Iran. She is the widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, and only Empress of modern Iran...
  
  , former Iranian empress, previously had a residence in town.
• Hubert Scott-Paine
  Hubert Scott-Paine
  Hubert Scott-Paine was a British aircraft and boat designer, record-breaking power boat racer, entrepreneur, inventor, and sponsor of the winning entry in the 1922 Schneider Trophy.-Early life:...
  
   (1891–1954) a British-American aircraft and boat designer and record-breaking power boat racer who helped invent and promote the PT boats, died in town.
• Ernest Thompson Seton
  Ernest Thompson Seton
  Ernest Thompson Seton was a Scots-Canadian who became a noted author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians, and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America . Seton also influenced Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting...
  
   (1860–1946) a noted author, helped found the Boy Scouts of America, in part at his estate in Cos Cob.
• Mickey Sherman
  Mickey Sherman
  Michael "Mickey" Sherman, a criminal-defense attorney who has represented some famous clients, often appeared as a legal analyst on cable television talk shows. In June 2010, Sherman plead guilty for failing to pay more than $1.1 million in federal taxes....
  
  , a criminal-defense attorney is a town native and resident.
• Bill Gold
  Bill Gold
  Bill Gold is an American graphic designer best known for thousands of movie poster designs.His first film poster was for Yankee Doodle Dandy , and his most recent work was for J...
  
   (born 1921) is an American graphic designer who lives in Old Greenwich.

See also

• List of people from Connecticut
• List of people from Bridgeport, Connecticut
• List of people from Darien, Connecticut
• List of people from New Canaan, Connecticut
• List of people from New Haven, Connecticut
• List of people from Norwalk, Connecticut
• List of people from Redding, Connecticut
• List of people from Stamford, Connecticut
• List of people from Westport, Connecticut

External links

• Internet Movie Database Web site
• http://www.amazoninstitute.com