This is a list of notable natives and long-term residents of New Haven, Connecticut, in alphabetical order.

Academics and educators

• Michael L.J. Apuzzo, academic neurosurgeon, surgical pioneer, editor, and educator
• Walter Darby Bannard, abstract painter and University of Miami professor
• Ida Barney, astronomer
• Harold Bloom, literature scholar and professor
• Edward Bouchet, physicist and first Black man to receive a Ph.D.
• Raymond C. Bowen, president of LaGuardia Community College
• Thom Brooks, political and legal philosopher
• Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, educator and author
• Timothy Dwight IV, president of Yale College
• Joseph S. Fruton, biochemist and historian of science
• Josiah Willard Gibbs, mathematical physicist
• Ruth Wilson Gilmore, prison abolitionist and professor at The City University of New York
• William Henry Goodyear, archeologist, art historian and museum curator
• Arthur Twining Hadley, economist and president of Yale University
• Geoffrey Hartman, literature scholar and emeritus professor
• Stephen Kobasa, teacher, writer and Christian political activist
• William Chester Minor, lexicographer and key contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary
• John Nicholas Newman, mathematician
• James Pierpont, founder of Yale College
• David Pingree, professor of mathematics and classics
• Michael Resnik, philosopher of mathematics
• Vincent Scully, author and architecture professor, University of Miami and Yale University
• Lawrence Summers, economist and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Harvard University president
• Peter Vallentyne, professor of philosophy
• Everard Mott Williams, scientist and educator

Actors and theater figures

• Lauren Ambrose, actress
• Tony Amendola, actor
• Jack Arnold, film director
• Jessica Blank, actor, playwright and novelist
• Roberts Blossom, actor and poet
• Ernest Borgnine, actor
• Melanie Chartoff, actress
• Martha Coolidge, film director
• D.J. Cotrona, actor
• Paul Fusco, puppeteer, actor and creator of ALF
• Marcus Giamatti, actor
• Paul Giamatti, actor
• Norman Lear, television producer
• Billy Lush, actor
• Biff McGuire, actor
• William Cameron Menzies, film production director and art director
• Becki Newton, actress
• Nolan North, voice actor
• Ron Palillo, actor
• George O. Petrie, actor
• Thomas Sadoski, actor
• Patricia Smith, actress
• Jennifer von Mayrhauser, costume designer
• Rafer Weigel, actor and sportscaster
• Titus Welliver, actor
• Madeline Zima, actress
• D. J. Cotrona, actor

Artists and architects

• Peter Anton, artist and sculptor
• Hezekiah Augur, sculptor and inventor
• Henry Austin, architect
• Paul Wayland Bartlett, sculptor
• Al Capp, cartoonist^[1]
• August Geiger, architect
• John Haberle, painter
• Patrick Earl Hammie, painter
• Nathaniel Jocelyn, painter
• Damian Loeb, painter
• Tala Madani, artist
• Robert Moses, architect and urban planner
• Samuel Peck, 19th-century photographer, businessperson
• César Pelli, architect
• Jesse Richards, artist and filmmaker
• Rudi Stern, light artist
• Sidney Mason Stone, architect
• Ithiel Town, architect and civil engineer
• Nicholas Watson, filmmaker and artist
• Minna Weiss Zellner, artist and print maker^[2]

Athletes and athletics personnel

• Michael Altieri, pro wrestler performing under the name Mikey Batts
• Brad Ausmus (born 1969), American Major League Baseball catcher and manager
• Frank Beisler, hockey player
• Eric Boguniecki, hockey player
• Albie Booth, football player
• Craig Breslow, baseball pitcher and executive
• Scott Burrell, basketball coach
• Walter Camp, football inventor
• Glenna Collett-Vare, golfer
• Tommy Corcoran, baseball shortstop^[3]
• Chad Dawson, boxer
• Harold Devine, boxer
• George Dixon, football running back
• Gardner Dow, football player
• Justin Duberman, hockey right winger
• Ed Ellis, football offensive tackle^[4]
• Adam Erne, hockey player
• Ed Etzel, Olympic sports shooter gold medalist
• Harrison Fitch, basketball player
• Kevin Gilbride, football coach
• Fred Goldsmith, baseball pitcher^[5]
• Jason Grabowski, baseball player^[6]
• Jim Greco, skateboarder^[7]
• Adam Greenberg, baseball outfielder^[8]
• Stu Griffing, rower
• Anttaj Hawthorne, football defensive tackle^[9]
• Jennison Heaton, bobsled racer
• Nate Hobgood-Chittick, football defensive tackle^[10]
• Richard Holliday, professional wrestler
• Matt Hussey, hockey centre
• Bill Hutchison, baseball pitcher^[11]
• Bob Kuziel, football offensive lineman^[12]
• Floyd Little, football running back^[13]
• Brian Looney, baseball pitcher^[14]
• Ted Lowry, boxer
• Terrell Myers, basketball player
• Mike Olt, baseball player^[15]
• Ed Rapuano, umpire
• Anthony Sagnella, football defensive tackle^[16]
• Allen Stack, swimmer
• Greg Stokes, basketball player
• George Weiss, baseball executive
• Sly Williams, basketball player
• John Williamson, basketball player
• Josh Zeid, American-Israeli baseball player^[17]

Business figures

• Ted Bates, advertising executive
• Sarah Boone, inventor
• Wesley A. Clark, computer scientist and consultant
• Charles Goodyear, inventor and industrialist
• James J. Greco, businessman, was born in town
• Clifford Grodd (1924–2010), president and chief executive of Paul Stuart^[18]
• Paul MacCready, aeronautical engineer and inventor
• Andrew Paulson, entrepreneur and media executive
• Roberta Hoskie, real estate broker, writer, and media personality
• Peter Schiff, investment broker, author, financial commentator and CEO of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.
• Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., businessman and CEO of General Motors
• Lucius Seymour Storrs, railway official
• Eli Whitney, inventor and manufacturer
• Steve Wynn, casino developer

Clergymen

• Charles C. Baldwin, Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Air Force
• Lyman Beecher, clergyman and abolitionist
• Jonathan Edwards, pastor, theologian, missionary
• William H. Ferris, author, minister and scholar
• Michael J. McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus

Lawyers and jurists

• Roger Sherman Baldwin, lawyer, Amistad case
• Ellen Bree Burns, judge
• Lubbie Harper Jr., judge
• Maeve Kennedy McKean, lawyer and health official
• Constance Baker Motley, civil rights activist, judge, and politician
• Neil Thomas Proto, lawyer, teacher, lecturer, and author
• Martin Karl Reidinger, judge
• Thomas Thacher, lawyer

Military figures

• Timothy I. Ahern, major general
• Benedict Arnold, general who defected to the British
• William P. Cronan, naval officer and Naval Governor of Guam
• Nathan Hale, soldier and spy
• Henry Leavenworth, brigadier general
• Alfred Judson Force Moody, brigadier general
• Allen L. Seaman, naval officer
• Shabsa Mashkautsan, Russian Jewish World War II soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union

Musicians

• Ben Allison, jazz double bass player
• Sonny Berman, jazz trumpeter
• Kath Bloom, singer-songwriter^[19]
• Michael Bolton, singer-songwriter
• Andrew Calhoun, folk singer, songwriter
• Karen (1950–1983) and Richard Carpenter (born 1946), singers and musicians
• Loren Mazzacane Connors, musician and artist
• Susan DiBona, composer
• Dominic Frontiere, composer
• Anthony Geraci, blues and jazz pianist^[20]
• Jay Greenberg, composer
• Gerry Hemingway, jazz percussionist and composer
• Charles Ives, composer
• Michael Gregory Jackson, jazz guitarist
• Jamey Jasta, singer and guitarist
• Kris Jensen, singer and guitarist
• Pete Jolly, jazz pianist and accordionist
• Brooks Kerr, jazz pianist
• Hilly Michaels, musician and drummer
• Joe Morris, jazz guitarist
• Buddy Morrow, trombonist and bandleader
• Alfred Newman, Hollywood composer and conductor
• Troy Oliver, musician, songwriter and producer
• Liz Phair, singer-songwriter and guitarist
• Stacy Phillips, bluegrass artist
• Quincy Porter, composer and music teacher
• Barney Rapp, bandleader and jazz musician
• Kira Roessler, bassist of Black Flag
• Emily Saliers, singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls
• Christian Sands, jazz pianist
• Tony Scherr, bassist and guitarist musician, singer-songwriter and record producer
• Artie Shaw, bandleader
• Stezo, rapper
• Donn Trenner, jazz pianist and arranger
• Jessica Grace Wing, theatrical composer
• Barry Wood, singer and television producer

Politicians

• Katherine Clark, Democratic House Whip and U.S. Congresswoman
• Howard S. Baldwin, Arizona State Senator and businessman
• Roger Sherman Baldwin, lawyer in the Amistad case, U.S. Senator and 17th Governor of Connecticut
• George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
• Charles R. Chapman, mayor of Hartford, Connecticut and served in both houses of the Connecticut legislature^[21]
• William P. Cronan, naval officer and Naval Governor of Guam
• John C. Daniels, mayor of New Haven
• Rosa DeLauro, U.S. Congresswoman
• John DeStefano Jr., mayor of New Haven
• Biagio DiLieto, mayor of New Haven
• Andy Dinniman, Pennsylvania State Senator
• Jerome F. Donovan, U.S. Congressman for New York
• Phineas C. Dummer, 6th mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey
• Henry W. Edwards, 27th and 29th Governor of Connecticut
• Foster Furcolo, U.S. Congressman and 60th Governor of Massachusetts
• Peter Franchot, 33rd Comptroller of Maryland
• Henry Baldwin Harrison, 52nd Governor of Connecticut
• James Hillhouse, U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator for Connecticut
• Thomas Hill Hubbard, U.S. Congressman for New York
• Charles Roberts Ingersoll, U.S. Congressman and 47th Governor of Connecticut
• Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll, U.S. Congressman and mayor of New Haven
• Joan R. Kemler, first woman to serve as Connecticut State Treasurer
• Eleazer Kimberly, in 1696 became Secretary of Connecticut Colony; "the first male born in New Haven"
• Richard C. Lee, mayor of New Haven
• Joe Lieberman, Connecticut Attorney General, U.S. Senator, and 2000 U.S. vice presidential candidate
• William D. Lindsley, U.S. Congressman for Ohio
• Frank Logue, mayor of New Haven
• Henry Meigs, U.S. Congressman for New York
• Bruce Morrison, U.S. Congressman for Connecticut
• George Lloyd Murphy, U.S. Senator for California and president of the Screen Actors Guild
• Mary Mushinsky, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
• Gamaliel Painter, Vermont state legislator
• Henry E. Parker, Connecticut State Treasurer
• James P. Pigott, U.S. Congressman for Connecticut
• Adam Clayton Powell Jr., U.S. Congressman for New York City
• Roger Sherman, first Mayor of New Haven, signed the Declaration of Independence and Constitution
• John Todd Trowbridge, member of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature and sea captain
• Rick Tuttle, Los Angeles city controller
• William H. Yale, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota

Writers

• Joseph Payne Brennan, poet and short story writer
• Hermann Broch, novelist
• Noah Charney, novelist and art historian
• William Cronon, environmental historian
• Dorothy Deming, nurse and author
• John Falsey, television writer and producer
• Jeannine Hall Gailey, poet
• William Heffernan, novelist
• Burton J. Hendrick, journalist and writer
• Mary Austin Holley, 19th-century travel writer
• George W. Hotchkiss, 19th-century journalist, editor, historian, and lumber dealer
• Andrew Kopkind, journalist
• Leigh Montville, sportswriter and author
• Ruth Ozeki, novelist
• Themo H. Peel, author and illustrator
• Delia Lyman Porter, author
• Mark de Solla Price, author, journalist and activist
• Margaret Sidney, children's author
• Benjamin Spock, pediatrician and author
• Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill (1799–1879), children's book author
• Russell Wangersky, journalist and short story writer
• Leonard Weisgard, children's author and illustrator
• Bernard Wolfe, science fiction writer

Others

• Matt Amodio, Jeopardy! champion
• Michael Buckley, YouTube celebrity
• Perry DeAngelis, co-founder and executive director of NESS, co-founder of podcast The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
• Scott Fellows, television producer
• Louis Harris, pollster
• Bun Lai, sustainable sushi pioneer of Miya's
• Mary Blair Moody, physician
• Frank Pepe, pizza chef
• Madeline Triffon, sommelier