List of people from Vermont
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The following is a list of prominent people who were born in the U.S. state of Vermont, live in Vermont, or for whom Vermont is a significant part of their identity:
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[edit] A
- Bert Abbey (1869–1962); Major League baseball pitcher; born in Essex
- Charles Francis Adams (1876–1947); first owner of the Boston Bruins (1924–1925); born in Newport
- Charles Kendall Adams (1835–1902); educator and historian; born in Derby
- Frederick W. Adams (1786-1858); noted physician, author, violin maker; born in Pawlet
- Sherman Adams (1899-1986), politician, Chief of Staff for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, born in East Dover
- Charles Augustus Aiken (1827-1892); clergyman and academic; born in Manchester
- Ivan Albright (1897–1983); painter and artist; lived in Woodstock, Vermont
- Henry Mills Alden
- Harry L. Aldrich
- Ebenezer Allen
- Ethan Allen, commander of the Green Mountain Boys
- Fanny Allen
- Frances Allen
- Ira Allen
- Jerome Allen (author)
- Trey Anastasio, vocals/guitar for Phish, a popular jam-band
- Miles DeForest Andross, defender of the Alamo
- Lemuel H. Arnold, a Governor of Rhode Island
- Chester A. Arthur, twenty-first president of the United States
- Warren Robinson Austin, early U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
- Charlotte Ayanna, actress and the 1983 Miss Teen Vermont & Miss Teen USA.
- Mary Azarian
[edit] B
- Orville E. Babcock
- Jan Backus
- Maxine Bahns
- Arthur Scott Bailey
- Brad Baker
- David Ball (college football player)
- Hosea Ballou
- Bradley Barlow
- John Barrett (diplomat)
- John S. Barry
- John L. Barstow
- Daric Barton
- Lindon Wallace Bates
- Portus Baxter
- Fernando C. Beaman
- Johnny Behan
- Hiram Bell
- H. H. Bennett
- Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley, scientist and photographer
- Bill W.
- Charles E. Billings
- Frederick H. Billings
- George Bliss (Congressman)
- Lou Blonger
- Aretas Blood
- Asa P. Blunt
- Tom Bodett
- Beatrice Boepple
- Chris Bohjalian
- Elmer Bowman
- Ezra Brainerd
- Richard Brewer (1852–1878); cowboy; born in St. Albans
- Francis Fisher Browne
- Orestes Brownson
- Emily Bruce
- Pearl Buck, author
- T. Garry Buckley
- Ted Bundy (1946-1989); serial killer; born in Burlington
- James E. Burke
- Steven T. Byington
[edit] C
- John C. Caldwell
- Thomas Cale
- Delino Dexter Calvin
- Jim Cantore, Weather Channel meteorologist
- Matthew H. Carpenter
- Albert Carrington
- Hayden Carruth
- William B. Castle
- Lucien B. Caswell
- Suzy Chaffee
- Beth Chamberlin
- John Putnam Chapin
- Welcome Chapman
- Arthur Chase
- Harrie B. Chase
- Horace Chase
- Daniel Chipman
- Thomas Chittenden
- Lucius E. Chittenden
- Sylvester Churchill
- Joseph A. Citro
- Charles Edgar Clark
- Kelly Clark, Olympic gold medal winner, snowboarding 2002
- William Bullock Clark
- Skiing Cochrans
- Richard A. Cody
- Ben Cohen
- Zerah Colburn (1804-1840); math prodigy; born in Cabot
- Lui Collins
- Ray Collins (baseball player)
- George Colvocoresses
- George Partridge Colvocoresses
- Jessica Comolli
- Thomas Jefferson Conant
- George A. Converse
- Calvin Coolidge, thirtieth president of the United States
- Tara Correa-McMullen
- Barry M. Costello
- Douglas M. Costle
- Oliver Cowdery
- Robert Cowdin
- Samuel C. Crafts
- Aaron H. Cragin
- Jay Craven
[edit] D
- John Cotton Dana
- Jeff Danziger, political cartoonist
- Thomas Davenport, inventor of the electric motor
- Howard Dean, current Democratic National Committee Chairman
- John Deere, blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company - one of the largest agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world
- David Dellinger
- Davis Rich Dewey
- George Dewey, hero of Manila Bay and the only Admiral of the Navy ever appointed in America
- Joel Dewey
- John Dewey, philosopher and educator
- Charles Doolittle
- Julia Caroline Dorr
- Stephen A. Douglas, U.S. Senator from Illinois, born in Brandon
- A. E. Douglass
- Norman Dubie
- Jean Dubuc
- William Wade Dudley
- Chris Duffy
- Charles Durkee
[edit] E
- Horatio Earle
- John Eaton (General)
- Dorman Bridgeman Eaton
- Eddy Brothers
- George F. Edmunds
- Merritt A. Edson
- Chesselden Ellis
- George F. Emmons
- Jacob Estey
- Jeremiah Evarts
[edit] F
- William Fairfield
- John Chipman Farrar
- Young Firpo
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher, writer
- Carlton Fisk (b. 1947); former Major League Baseball Hall of Fame catcher; born in Bellows Falls, raised in Charlestown, New Hampshire
- James Fisk (financier)
- Irving Fiske
- William Charles Fitzgerald
- John Fitzpatrick (mayor of New Orleans)
- Ed Flanagan, auditor of accounts & state senator
- Ralph Flanders
- Henry A. Fletcher
- George P. Foster
- Simon Fraser (explorer)
- Martin Henry Freeman
- Ida May Fuller
- John Fusco, Hollywood movie writer/producer; wrote Hidalgo and Young Guns
[edit] G
- Phineas Gage
- Larry Gardner, Former MLB Third Baseman
- David Giancola (b. 1969), film director, born in Rutland, Vermont
- Cynthia Gibb
- Amanda Gilman
- Joseph A. Gilmore
- Louise Glück, Pulitzer Prize winning poet
- Liam Goldrick
- Walter W. Granger
- Lewis A. Grant
- Duane Graveline
- Milford Graves
- Peter Gray
- Jerry Greenfield
- Theodore P. Greene
- Wallace M. Greene
- Josiah Grout
- Luis Guzmán, actor
[edit] H
- Paul Hackett (football)
- William Haile
- Joy Hakim
- Enoch Hale
- Hiland Hall
- William Laurel Harris
- Bill Haugland
- William Babcock Hazen
- William W. Henry
- Charles Shattuck Hill
- Ethan A. Hitchcock (general)
- Frederick Holbrook
- Tristan Honsinger (b. 1949), jazz cello player, born in Burlington
- Charles Edward Hovey
- Jacob M. Howard
- Steven James Howard
- James F. Howard, Jr.
- William Alanson Howard
- Olivia Hubbard
- Felicity Huffman, actor
- Richard Morris Hunt, architect
- William Morris Hunt
- Stanley Edgar Hyman
[edit] I
- James Monroe Ingalls
- John Irving, author
[edit] J
- Horatio Nelson Jackson
- William Henry Jackson
- Lindsey Jacobellis
- James Jeffords
- Milo Parker Jewett
- Andrew Johnson (skier)
- Ernie Johnson (baseball pitcher)
- Luke S. Johnson
- Lyman E. Johnson
- Miranda July
[edit] K
- Bob Keeshan (1927–2004); "Captain Kangaroo"; lived last 14 years of his life in Vermont.
- A. Atwater Kent (1873-1949); inventor and radio maker; born in Burlington
- Henry W. Keyes
- Dan Kiley
- Heber C. Kimball
- Jamaica Kincaid, novelist
- Rudyard Kipling, British author, resident of Brattleboro, during which time he wrote The Jungle Book
- M. Jane Kitchel
- Bill Koch (skier)
- James Kochalka
- Edward Koren, illustrator and cartoonist for the The New Yorker
- Madeleine M. Kunin, former Governor
[edit] L
- Walt Lanfranconi
- Patrick Leahy
- John LeClair, first native born Vermonter to play in the National Hockey League
- Harry David Lee
- Brady Leisenring
- Henry M. Leland
- Kevin Lepage
- Aaron Lewis
- Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque (b. 1990); singer, actress; born in Brattleboro
- Barbour Lewis
- Sinclair Lewis
- Ki Longfellow, novelist
- Alfred Lebbeus Loomis
- Gustavus Loomis
- Horatio G. Loomis, one of the organizers of the Chicago Board of Trade
- Phillips Lord
- Will Lyman
- Lucius Lyon
[edit] M
- Stephen Mack
- William H. Macy, actor and director
- David Mamet, playwright
- Zophar M. Mansur
- William Marks (Mormonism)
- Anna Marsh
- Philip Maxwell, physician and politician and the person for whom Chicago's famous Maxwell Street was named
- Archer Mayor
- John McCardell, Jr.
- James Meacham
- William Rutherford Mead
- Andrea Mead-Lawrence, first American to win two gold Olympic skiing medals
- Samuel Merrill (Indiana)
- Alexander Kennedy Miller
- Frank Miller (comics)
- Susan Tolman Mills
- Graham Mink
- Anais Mitchell
- Amanda Mitteer
- Samuel Morey
- Justin Morgan
- Justin Morrill, sponsor of the Land Grant College Act establishing "public ivies"
- George Sylvester Morris
- Levi P. Morton
- Joseph A. Mower
- Michael Moynihan (journalist)
- Dennis Murphy (musician)
[edit] N
[edit] O
- Rachel Oakes Preston
- John O'Brien (filmmaker)
- Franklin W. Olin
- Buster Olney
- Ebenezer J. Ormsbee
- Elisha Otis
[edit] P
- Grace Paley
- Alden Partridge
- Katherine Paterson
- Moses Pendleton, choreographer
- Joe Perry, Lead guitarist for Aerosmith
- Tom Peters
- Charles E. Phelps
- John W. Phelps
- William Lamb Picknell, nineteenth century painter, member of the National Academy of Design
- Samuel E. Pingree
- Russell W. Porter
- Grace Potter, Front runner Grace Potter of the rock band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
- Ross Powers, Olympic gold medal winner, snowboarding, 2002
- Silas G. Pratt
- Cyrus Pringle
- Harvey Putnam
[edit] Q
[edit] R
- Thomas E. G. Ransom
- Edward Rawson
- Edmund Rice
- Henry Mower Rice
- Mark Richards (politician)
- Israel B. Richardson
- Benjamin S. Roberts
- Edward D. Robie
- Moses Robinson
- Theodore Robinson
- David McGregor Rogers
- Brian Rooney
- Thomas Rowley (poet)
- Homer Elihu Royce
- Carl Ruggles
- Rudolph Ruzicka, typeface designer and engraver
[edit] S
- Alvah Sabin
- Truman Henry Safford
- Matt Salinger
- Thomas M. Salmon
- Bernie Sanders
- Philetus Sawyer
- Eric Schaeffer, film writer, director, and actor.
- Helen Bonchek Schneyer
- Stephen Alonzo Schoff
- Peter Schumann, founder and director of Bread and Puppet Theater
- Arthur E. Scott
- Julian Scott, nineteenth century painter and muralist
- Thomas O. Seaver
- Rudolf Serkin
- Truman Seymour
- L. M. Shaw
- Patty Sheehan, professional golfer
- Charles H. Sheldon
- George Dallas Sherman
- Alexander O. Smith
- "Dr. Bob" Smith, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
- Charles Plympton Smith
- David Smith (sculptor)
- Hyrum Smith
- J. Gregory Smith
- John Butler Smith
- Joseph Smith, Sr.
- Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805–1844); founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; born in Sharon
- Samuel Harrison Smith
- William Smith (Latter Day Saints)
- William Farrar Smith
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian author, historian, and 1970 recipient of Nobel Prize for Literature, lived in Vermont to avoid persecution in Russia, returned to Russia after Perestroika
- Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Ronald I. Spiers
- Martin St. Louis, NHL hockey star
- Michael A. Stackpole, Science Fiction/Fantasy author
- Robert T. Stafford, governor, U.S. Senator and namesake of the Stafford Loan
- Timothy Steele
- Ralph Steiner
- Rockwell Stephens
- Nettie Maria Stevens
- Thaddeus Stevens
- Charles B. Stoughton
- Edwin H. Stoughton
- F. Stewart Stranahan
- George Crockett Strong
- William Barstow Strong
- Willis Sweet
[edit] T
- Horace Austin Warner Tabor
- Alphonso Taft
- Cherilee Taylor
- Louise Taylor
- Birdie Tebbetts, Former All-Star MLB Catcher and Manager
- Hannah Teter
- Elswyth Thane
- Harry Bates Thayer
- John Martin Thomas
- Stephen Thomas
- Dorothy Thompson
- Ernest Thompson
- John Thurston
- George Tooker
- Andrew Tracy
- Joseph Tracy
- Maria von Trapp
- Tasha Tudor
- KT Tunstall, musician
- Fred Tuttle
- Alexander Twilight, first African American to receive a college degree, and to be elected to public office in the United States
- Royall Tyler, playwright and first Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
- Dan Tyminski
[edit] U
[edit] V
[edit] W
- M. Emmet Walsh, actor
- James M. Warner
- Seth Warner
- Cephas Washburn
- Ebenezer Washburn
- Peter T. Washburn
- Charles W. Waterman
- Sterry R. Waterman
- Henry Wells
- Horatio Wells
- William Wells (general)
- Hilton Wick
- Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, for efforts to clear away and ban anti-personnel mines
- John Henry Williams (baseball)
- Bill W. (Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous)
- James Wilson (globe maker)
- Steve Wisniewski
- George Woodard
- Urban A. Woodbury
- Edwin T. Woodward
- Dean Conant Worcester
- Jay Wright (poet)
- Silas Wright
[edit] X
[edit] Y
- Brigham Young (1801–1877); second prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; born in Whittingham
[edit] Z
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