Editing Guilford, Connecticut (section)

== Notable people ==
* [[Wilfred Armster|Wilfred J. O. Armster.]] (1938–2019), architect
* [[Humbert Allen Astredo]] (1929–2016), American stage, film, and television actor best known for the numerous roles he performed on the daytime Gothic horror soap opera ''[[Dark Shadows]]'', most notably that of the warlock Nicholas Blair 
* [[Abraham Baldwin]] (1754–1807), minister, [[Patriot (American Revolution)|patriot]], politician, and [[Founding Fathers of the United States|founding father]]<ref name="gaenc">[http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.com/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2710 "Abraham Baldwin (1754–1807)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318064622/http://www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.com/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2710 |date=March 18, 2012 }}, ''New Georgia Encyclopedia'' (January 6, 2009), Retrieved on July 21, 2013</ref>
* [[Robert E. De Forest|Robert Elliott De Forest]] (1845–1924), [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] member of the [[United States House of Representatives]], mayor of [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]], member of the [[Connecticut Senate]] and [[Connecticut House of Representatives]], born in Guilford
* [[Ronald Duman]] (1954–2020), neuroscientist died in Guilford
* [[Moses Gunn]] (1929–1993), American actor, resided in Guilford since the 1970s
* [[Fitz-Greene Halleck]] (1790–1867), American poet and author
* [[Samuel Johnson (American educator)|Samuel Johnson]] (1696-1772), American colonial intellectual and educator; first president of King's College (now [[Columbia University]])  
* [[Samuel Johnson Jr.|Samuel Johnson Jun'r]] (1757–1836), schoolmaster and teacher of Fitz-Greene Halleck; as the compiler of ''A School Dictionary'' (1798), the first American lexicographer
* [[Edward Ruggles Landon]] (1813–1883), Connecticut politician
* [[William Leete]] ({{circa|1612}}–1683), Guilford town clerk, justice of the peace, Governor of the [[New Haven Colony]] (1661-1665), and Governor of the [[Colony of Connecticut]] (1676-1683)
* [[Leonard C. Lewin]] (1916–1999), author of ''[[The Report from Iron Mountain]]''
* [[Frank Modell]] (1917–2016), cartoonist, died in Guilford<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/business/media/frank-modell-longtime-new-yorker-cartoonist-dies-at-98.html?_r=0|title=Frank Modell, Longtime New Yorker Cartoonist, Dies at 98|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 29, 2016|last1=Roberts|first1=Sam}}</ref>
* [[Aldo Parisot]] (1918–2018), Brazilian-born American cellist and cello teacher 
* [[Lavinia Stoddard]] (1787–1820), poet, school founder
* [[Shaumpishuh]] (d. 1686), sachem of Menunkatuck
* [[Henry Whitfield (minister)|Henry Whitfield]] (c.1590-c.1657), Guilford founder and Puritan minister

===Living===
* [[Peter Halley]] (b. 1953), American artist
* [[Jeffrey Ambroziak]], cartographer, inventor, and attorney
* [[Jamie Arentzen]] (b. 1970), American guitarist, musician; member of various rock bands including Sky Heroes, American Hi-Fi, Dream Club
* [[Thom Brooks]], political and legal philosopher
* [[Benjamin Chan]], American scientist at [[Yale University]]
* [[Mickey Curry]], Drummer for Bryan Adams
* [[David DeMille]], physicist and Professor of [[Physics]] at [[University of Chicago]].
* [[Joe Flood (musician)|Joe Flood]], musician and songwriter
* [[Nick Fradiani]] (b. 1985), ''[[American Idol]]'' season 14 winner, born in Guilford
* [[Timothy Mellon]], heir
* [[Becki Newton]], actress in ''Ugly Betty'' and ''How I Met Your Mother,'' grew up in Guilford and is a Guilford High School Alumna<ref>{{Cite web|title=Becki Newton|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1182048/|access-date=August 15, 2021|website=IMDb}}</ref>
* [[David Allen Sibley]], ornithologist, author, and illustrator
* [[Jennifer Westfeldt]], actress and screenwriter known for ''[[Kissing Jessica Stein]]'', born in Guilford<ref name="westfeldtbio">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922724/bio |title=Jennifer Westfeldt biography at IMDB|publisher=IMDB.com|access-date=May 26, 2015}}</ref>
* [[Carl Zimmer]], science writer