People associated with Redding, Connecticut, listed in the area they are best known:
Actors, musicians and entertainers
Paul Avgerinos (born 1957), musician and electronic music composer
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), composer and conductor, lived on Fox Run Road in the 1950s Michael Ian Black (born 1971), actor, comedian and author Ritchie Blackmore (born 1945), musician, former resident John Byrum (born 1947), motion picture director, screenwriter, and producer, long-time resident of West Redding Diana Canova (born 1953), actress; spouse of Grammy Award-winning producer Elliott Scheiner Rachel Crothers (1979–1958), playwright and director Hume Cronyn (1911–2003), Academy Award-nominated actor, lived with his wife, Jessica Tandy, on Stepney Road in the 1940s and 1950s Morton DaCosta (1914–1989), director and producer of films and Broadway shows Daryl Hall (born 1946), musician with Hall & Oates, lived on Topstone Road Jascha Heifetz (1901–1987), violinist, lived on Sanfordtown Road in the 1940s Matt Hoverman (born 1968), actor, playwright Charles Ives (1874–1954), musician, composer Igor Kipnis (1930–2002), musician who died at his home in town John Kirkpatrick (born 1947), musician, professor and writer Hope Lange (1933–2003), Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-nominated actress Jack Lawrence (1912–2009), composer inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975 Barry Levinson (born 1942), Academy Award-winning film director Enoch Light (1905–1978), composer, musician, music label executive and sound technician Meat Loaf (1947–2022), rock singer, Joel Barlow High School softball coach during the 1990s Lori March Scourby (1923–2013), once known as the "first lady of daytime television" for her roles in soap operas Carmen Mathews (1911–1995), actress, environment and philanthropist; created New Pond Farm preserve and camp for disadvantaged children Fred Newman (born 1952), actor, voice actor, composer, and sound effects artist, current resident Colleen Zenk Pinter (born 1953), actress; spouse of Mark Pinter Mark Pinter (born 1950), actor; spouse of Colleen Zenk Pinter Derek Piotr (born 1991), composer and vocalist Andy Powell (born 1950), guitarist and only constant member of British progressive rock group Wishbone Ash, has lived in Redding since 1991 Elliot Scheiner (born 1947), engineer and five-time Grammy Award-winning producer; spouse of actress Diana Canova Karen Kopins Shaw (born 1961), actress in films; winner of Miss Connecticut pageant in 1977 Jessica Tandy (1909–1994), Academy Award-winning actress, lived with her husband, Hume Cronyn (1911–2003), on Stepney Road in the 1940s and 1950s Russ Titelman (born 1944), Grammy-winning record producer, lived in town in the 1980s Mary Travers (1936–2009), of the Peter, Paul and Mary group Guinevere Van Seenus (born 1977), model, photographer and jewelry designer Marcy Walker (born 1961), actress, lived in West Redding during the mid-1990s Maura West (born 1972), daytime Emmy Award-winning actress on As the World Turns Frank Whaley (born 1963), actor, director, and screenwriter who had roles in multiple films by Oliver Stone