Sandy Hook (Newtown) - Notable People

Notable People

• Luther Meade Blackman, Major during the Civil War, accused of forging the Bat Creek inscription, born in Sandy Hook, Newtown, in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
• James Brunot, promoter of the game Scrabble, resident of Newtown, Connecticut in the 1940s.
• Suzanne Collins, American television writer and author of The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games trilogy, resident of Newtown, Connecticut.
• William Hamilton Gibson, 19th century American illustrator, author, and naturalist, born in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
• Bruce Jenner, 1976 Summer Olympics decathlon gold medalist, attended Newtown High School in Newtown, Connecticut.
• Adam Lanza, perpetrator of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
• Molly Pearson, 20th century stage actress, lived in Sandy Hook, Connecticut at the time of her death in 1959.
• Albert Berger Rossdale, U.S. Representative from New York, lived in Sandy Hook, Connecticut in the early 1930s.
• Marcus Tracy, professional soccer player, grew up in Newtown, CT and attended Newtown High School.
• Mead Treadwell, 13th Lieutenant Governor of Alaska and former Chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, grew up in the Sandy Hook section of Newtown, Connecticut.
• Jenna von Oÿ, actress and singer, attended Newtown High School.
• Thelma Wood, American sculptor, lived in Sandy Hook, Connecticut in the 1930s.