Yard, added September 4, 1986 Notable people Jill Abramson, former executive editor of The New York Times Brad Anderson (born 1964), film director Jack Beebe (1925–2015), NASCAR team owner Sally Benson, writer of Meet Me in St. Louis Elizabeth Bentley, Soviet spy Mac Bohonnon, Olympic skier John Brent (1938–1985), comedian Cornelius Bushnell, financier for the ironclad ship USS Monitor and a railroad pioneer and investor Jim Calhoun (born 1942), head coach of 3-time NCAA champion Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team Thomas Chittenden, founder of independent Vermont Republic and first Governor of the state of Vermont Douglas Clayton, global frontier investment pioneer Ranulf Compton (1878–1974), congressman Duo Dickinson (born 1955), architect Zachary Donohue, figure skater Jack Driscoll (born 1997), NFL player for the Philadelphia Eagles Frank Duryea, inventor and builder of first American gasoline-powered automobile Peter Hastings Falk, expert on American art David Dudley Field I (1781–1867), Congregational clergyman John Gunther, author of Death Be Not Proud and Inside Europe Arnold Jackson, Olympic track gold medalist and World War I brigadier general in British army Edwin D. Kilbourne, developer of influenza vaccines Charles Kullman, tenor with Metropolitan Opera Kiley McKinnon (born 1995), world champion skier Rob Moroso, NASCAR driver John-Michael Parker, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives Westbrook Pegler, journalist, anti-New Deal columnist Jacques Pépin, celebrity chef Joseph A. Scranton (1838–1908), congressman Streeter Seidell, comedian, writer, actor, and TV host Edgar Snow, journalist, author, and Cold War-era China expert Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer Grover Whalen, politician and public relations professional known as "Mr. New York" John Willard, U.S. Marshal for Vermont, husband of Emma Willard Wheeler Williams (1897–1972), sculptor Laurence Witten, antiquarian collector and dealer who sold the Vinland map—later found to be a forgery—to Yale University Sister city Madison, New Jersey, United States References External links Town of Madison official website E.C. Scranton Memorial Library Madison Historical Society Madison Chamber of Commerce Madison Exchange Club Madison Rotary Club North Madison Volunteer Fire Company Towns in New Haven County, Connecticut Towns in the New York metropolitan area Towns in Connecticut Populated coastal places in Connecticut