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.
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