Editing Branford, Connecticut (section)

==Notable people==

* [[Jacob M. Appel]], novelist and bioethicist<ref>Appel, JM.  Phoning Home.  University of South Carolina Press, 2015</ref>
* [[Bob Barthelson]], major league baseball player<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B/Pbartb103.htm|title=Bob Barthelson|website=Retrosheet.org}}</ref>
* [[King Donovan]] (1918–1987), actor
* [[Skylar Dunn]], American actress
* [[Bob DuPuy]], president and chief operating officer of [[Major League Baseball]] (MLB)
* [[Selma Engel-Wijnberg]] (1922–2018), [[Holocaust]] survivor
* [[Todd English]], celebrity chef 
* [[Ron Glick]], soccer player
* Rutherford Hayes, grandfather of [[Rutherford B. Hayes|President Rutherford B. Hayes]], was born in Branford in 1756<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bouley |first=Jane |date=November 1, 2000 |title=Branford Enjoyed a Presidential Visit in 1880 |url=https://www.blackstonelibrary.org/archives758/files/original/d4c05a3d02d65259dbe98df86fcece24.pdf |url-status=live |work=Branford Review}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Ancestry of Rutherford Birchard Hayes |url=https://www.rbhayes.org/hayes/the-ancestry-of-rutherford-birchard-hayes/ |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Levi Jackson]], first African American captain of an Ivy League Football team during time at Yale
* [[Edward Kennedy, Jr.|Edward Kennedy Jr.]] (Ted), State Senator, son of United States Senator [[Ted Kennedy]]<ref>[http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2011/02/16/news/doc4d5c261ea2fdb168999909.txt Ted Kennedy Jr. of Branford won't run for Senate in '12] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915001331/http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2011/02/16/news/doc4d5c261ea2fdb168999909.txt |date=September 15, 2012 }}, ''[[New Haven Register]]'', February 16, 2011</ref>
* [[Henry Lee (forensic scientist)|Henry Lee]], [[forensic scientist]]
* [[Herman Lubinsky]], owner of [[Savoy Records]]
* [[Henry Ludington]], father of [[American Revolutionary War]] figure [[Sybil Ludington]]
* [[Beauty McGowan]], MLB baseball player
* [[Norodom Yuvaneath]], first born son of [[Norodom Sihanouk]] of [[Cambodia]]
* [[Mike Olt]], MLB baseball player 
* [[Henry Bradley Plant]], railroad magnate
* [[Ollie Sax]], MLB baseball player
* [[Joseph Stamler]] (1911–1988), [[New Jersey Superior Court]] judge and professor at [[Rutgers University]]<ref>Saxon, Wolfgang. [https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/23/nyregion/joseph-howard-stamler-86-influential-new-jersey-judge.html "Joseph Howard Stamler, 86, Influential New Jersey Judge"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 23, 1998. Accessed January 24, 2018. "Joseph Howard Stamler, a former Newark lawyer whose decisions had a wide impact in the seven years he was a New Jersey Superior Court judge, died on Friday at his home in Stony Creek, Conn. He was 86 and a former resident of Summit, N.J."</ref>
* [[Thomas Steitz]], 2009 [[Nobel laureate]] in chemistry<ref name=miptalk>{{cite web |url=http://www.miptalk.com/thomas-steitz/ |title=Thomas Steitz – A Nobel Profession Science |date=March 13, 2010 |publisher=Miptalk audio interview |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110401101355/http://www.miptalk.com/thomas-steitz/ |archive-date=April 1, 2011 }}</ref>
* [[Beverly Willis]] (1928–2023), pioneering American architect and designer of the [[San Francisco Ballet]] Building<ref>{{Cite book |last=Armstrong |first=Leslie |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11067149 |title=Space for dance : an architectural design guide |date=1984 |publisher=Pub. Center for Cultural Resources |others=Roger Morgan, Mike Lipske, National Endowment for the Arts. Design Arts Program, National Endowment for the Arts. Dance Program |isbn=0-89062-189-6 |location=New York |oclc=11067149}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Dunning |first=Jennifer |date=December 17, 1983 |title=SAN FRANCISCO BALLET OPENS NEW HEADQUARTERS |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/17/arts/san-francisco-ballet-opens-new-headquarters.html |access-date=February 9, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>