Forest (1845–1924), 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 David DeMille, physicist and Professor of Physics at University of Chicago. Ronald Duman (1954–2020), neuroscientist died in Guilford Joe Flood, musician and songwriter Nick Fradiani (born 1985), American Idol season 14 winner, born 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 (1696-1772), American colonial intellectual and educator; first president of King's College (now Columbia University) 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, Connecticut politician William Leete (–1683), Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, 1676 to 1683 Leonard C. Lewin (1916–1999), author of The Report from Iron Mountain Timothy Mellon, heir Frank Modell (1917–2016), cartoonist, died in Guilford Becki Newton, actress in Ugly Betty and How I Met Your Mother, grew up in Guilford and is a Guilford High School Alumna Aldo Parisot (1918–2018), Brazilian-born American cellist and cello teacher David Allen Sibley, ornithologist, author, and illustrator Lavinia Stoddard (1787–1820), poet, school founder Jennifer Westfeldt, actress and screenwriter known for Kissing Jessica Stein, born in Guilford Carl Zimmer, science writer See also References External links Town of Guilford official website Guilford Keeping Society Guilford Preservation Alliance Guilford Free Library Guilford Public Schools Guilford Chamber of Commerce Guilford, Connecticut at City-Data.com 1643 establishments in Connecticut Populated coastal places in Connecticut Populated places established in 1639 Towns in Connecticut Towns in New Haven County, Connecticut Towns in the New York metropolitan area