Editing Storrs, Connecticut (section)

==Notable people==
*[[Regina Barreca]], humorist and UConn professor of English literature and feminist theory
*[[Audrey P. Beck]], college professor and Connecticut state legislator
*[[Rivers Cuomo]], lead singer/guitarist of the [[alternative rock]] band [[Weezer]], grew up in Storrs and attended the local secondary school, [[E. O. Smith High School|E.O. Smith High School]]
*[[Cheo Hodari Coker]], television writer and producer for ''[[Luke Cage (TV series)|Luke Cage]]'', ''[[Ray Donovan]]'', and ''[[Southland (TV series)|Southland]]''
*[[Wally Lamb]], best-selling author of the books ''She's Come Undone'' and ''I Know This Much Is True''. Both were selected for [[Oprah's Book Club]].
*[[Dan Orlovsky]], ESPN college football and NFL analyst, former quarterback for the Detroit Lions
*[[Tim Page (music critic)|Tim Page]], Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic and biographer of [[Dawn Powell]]
*[[Jonathan Pelto]], American politician
*[[Samuel Pickering]], professor at the University of Connecticut, inspiration for the character Mr. Keating in the film ''[[Dead Poets Society]]''
*[[Dom Sigillo]], retired [[American football]] player, played for the [[Chicago Bears]] and [[Detroit Lions]].
*[[Charles and Augustus Storrs]], brothers, business partners, benefactors and co-founders of the [[University of Connecticut]]
*[[Peter Tork]] (''ne'' Peter Halsten Thorkelson), member of [[The Monkees]]. He attended E.O. Smith High School; he was class of 1959 and made the class of 2005 commencement speech.
*[[Wendy O. Williams]], lead singer for the 1970s and 1980s [[punk rock]] band the [[Plasmatics]], lived in town from 1991 until her death in 1998