Editing Glastonbury, Connecticut (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Amy Brenneman]], actress
* [[Bob Backlund]], professional wrestler
* [[Samuel J. Battle]], first Black police officer in the [[New York City Police Department|NYPD]], lived and worked in East Glastonbury in 1899 upon coming north from North Carolina<ref>Arthur Browne, ''One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York'', [[Beacon Press]], 2015.</ref>
* [[Candace Bushnell]], author, journalist and television producer<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dodge |first1=Annie |title='Sex and the City' Writer Candace Bushnell lists Victorian farmhouse in Connecticut for $1.4M |url=https://www.6sqft.com/sex-and-the-city-writer-candace-bushnell-lists-victorian-farmhouse-in-connecticut-for-1-4m/ |website=6sqft |publisher=CityRealty |access-date=January 23, 2022}}</ref>
* [[Zandra Flemister]], first African-American woman [[United States Secret Service]] agent
* [[William Hoyt (athlete)|William Hoyt]], gold medalist in the [[1896 Summer Olympics]]
* [[Laura Ingraham]], conservative television host
* [[Roy Nutt]], co-creator of [[Fortran]]
* [[Dan Barrett]], musician
* [[Helen Maria Roser]], nurse, nursing educator
* [[Smiths of Glastonbury]], family of five sisters active in 19th century women's suffrage and abolition movements
* [[Ocean Vuong]], poet, essayist, and novelist<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chow |first=Kat |date=June 4, 2019 |title=Going Home With Ocean Vuong |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/06/going-home-ocean-vuong-on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous/590938/ |access-date=December 26, 2022 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Gideon Welles]], Secretary of the Navy under Abraham Lincoln<ref name=hsg>{{cite web |url=http://town.glasct.org/hissoc/index.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=July 27, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814124326/http://town.glasct.org/hissoc/index.html |archive-date=August 14, 2007 }} Historical Society of Glastonbury</ref>
* [[Thomas Welles]], governor of Connecticut in 1658 and 1659<ref name=hsg/>
* [[Denny Zimmerman]], racing driver