Terry Deitz (born 1959), reality TV contestant, resides in Simsbury Rachel Sennott (born 1995), actor, graduate of Simsbury High School Sigourney Weaver (born 1949), actor, attended Ethel Walker School in Simsbury Abbey LeVine, (born 1972), producer for ABC News "20/20" grew up in Simsbury Politicians Parmenio Adams (1776–1832), former US Congressman Levi Barber (1777–1833), U.S. Representative from Ohio Lucius Israel Barber (1806–1889), Wisconsin Territory politician George McLean (1857–1932), U.S. senator and Simsbury resident who founded the McLean Game Refuge in town Alice Merritt (1876–1950), first woman to serve in the Connecticut State Senate (1925–1929); born in Simsbury Elisha Phelps (1779–1847), congressman from Connecticut Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946), first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905–1910), Governor of Pennsylvania (1923–1927, 1931–1935), born in Simsbury Others James Adams (1783–1843), lawyer and early convert to Mormonism Sherri Browning Erwin (1968–present), author and current resident Justin Foley (born June 16, 1976, in Simsbury), is an American musician, best known as the drummer of the metalcore band, Killswitch Engage Sarah Pratt McLean Greene (1856–1935), novelist, born in Simsbury Samuel Higley (1687–1737), reputed to have coined the first copper coins ("Higley coppers") in the colonial United States Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), worked on a tobacco plantation in Simsbury during the summers of 1944 and 1947 to earn money for college Franz Von Holzhausen, car designer at Tesla, grew up in Simsbury Jennifer Weiner (born 1970), author Carl Nichols, (born 1970), United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, grew up in Simsbury Sister cities Wittmund, Lower Saxony, Germany See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford County, Connecticut Notes References External links Town of Simsbury official website Towns in Hartford County, Connecticut Towns in Connecticut Greater Hartford 1670 establishments in Connecticut