| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Delia Bacon |
Author |
2-Feb-1811 |
2-Sep-1859 |
Shakespeare-Bacon conspiracist |
| Simeon E. Baldwin |
Politician |
5-Feb-1840 |
30-Jan-1927 |
Governor of Connecticut, 1911-15 |
| Lyman Beecher |
Religion |
12-Oct-1775 |
10-Jan-1863 |
American Presbyterian preacher |
| Kingman Brewster, Jr. |
Educator |
17-Jun-1919 |
8-Nov-1988 |
President of Yale, 1963-77 |
| Walter Camp |
Football |
7-Apr-1859 |
14-Mar-1925 |
Father of American football |
| Timothy Dwight |
Educator |
14-May-1752 |
11-Jan-1817 |
President of Yale, 1795-1817 |
| Bart Giamatti |
Baseball |
4-Apr-1938 |
1-Sep-1989 |
Baseball Commissioner, 1989 |
| J. Willard Gibbs |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1839 |
28-Apr-1903 |
Elementary Principles in Statistical Mathematics |
| Charles Goodyear |
Inventor |
29-Dec-1800 |
1-Jul-1860 |
Invented rubber vulcanization process |
| Ross Granville Harrison |
Zoologist |
13-Jan-1870 |
30-Sep-1959 |
Embryology and tissue culture techniques |
| Lars Onsager |
Chemist |
27-Nov-1903 |
5-Oct-1976 |
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics |
| Roger Sherman |
Politician |
19-Apr-1721 |
23-Jul-1793 |
Architect of the Connecticut Compromise |
| Noah Webster |
Lexicographer |
16-Oct-1758 |
28-May-1843 |
Webster's Dictionary |
| Eli Whitney |
Inventor |
8-Dec-1765 |
8-Jan-1825 |
Inventor of the cotton gin |
