List of people from Vermont

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:

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
* Ben Affleck actor. Attended one semester at the University of Vermont [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E2DA1639F933A2575AC0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2] ]
* 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, editor of "Harper's Weekly"
* Ebenezer Allen
* Ethan Allen, commander of the Green Mountain Boys
* Fanny Allen after whom the hospital is named.
* Ira Allen
* Jerome Allen, author
* Trey Anastasio, vocals/guitar for Phish, a popular jam-band
* Piers Anthony, (pseudonym) science fiction author
* Lemuel H. Arnold, a Governor of Rhode Island
* Chester A. Arthur, twenty-first president of the United States
* Warren Austin, early U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
* Charlotte Ayanna, actress and the 1993 Miss Teen Vermont & Miss Teen USA.
* Mary Azarian, children's book illustrator

B

* Orville E. Babcock
* Maxine Bahns
* Arthur Scott Bailey
* Brad Baker
* David Ball - NFL football player
* Hosea Ballou, a father of American Universalism
* Bradley Barlow
* John Barrett
* John L. Barstow
* Daric Barton
* Lindon Wallace Bates
* Alison Bechdel
* Fernando C. Beaman
* Orson Bean, actor
* Johnny Behan
* Hiram Bell
* H. H. Bennett
* Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley, scientist and photographer
* Bill W., founder of AA
* Charles E. Billings
* Frederick H. Billings
* George Bliss
* Lou Blonger
* Aretas Blood
* Asa P. Blunt
* Tom Bodett
* Beatrice Boepple
* Chris Bohjalian, author
* Elmer Bowman
* Ezra Brainerd
* Richard Brewer (1852–1878); cowboy; born in St. Albans
* Francis Fisher Browne
* Orestes Brownson
* Pearl S. Buck, author
* T. Garry Buckley
* Ted Bundy (1946-1989); serial killer; born in Burlington
* James E. Burke
* Steven T. Byington

C

* John C. Caldwell
* Thomas Cale
* Delino Dexter Calvin
* Jim Cantore, Weather Channel meteorologist
* Jake Burton Carpenter, owner of Burton Snowboards, from Londonderry [cite book | author = Marquardt, Katy |title = King of the Hill in Snowboards| publisher = US News and World Report | date = September 29, 2008]
* 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
* William Sloane Coffin, Jr., a resident of Strafford
* Ben Cohen
* Zerah Colburn (1804-1840); math prodigy; born in Cabot
* Lui Collins
* Ray Collins
* Gardner Quincy Colton who pioneered the use of nitrous oxide (laughing gas) for dental procedures. From Georgia, Vermont
* 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

D

* Tim Daly, actor, producer, and director
* 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, one of Chicago Seven
* George Dewey, hero of Manila Bay and the only Admiral of the Navy ever appointed in America
* John Dewey, philosopher and educator
* Julia Caroline Dorr, author
* Stephen A. Douglas, U.S. Senator from Illinois, born in Brandon. Nominated for president 1860.
* A. E. Douglass, astronomer
* Norman Dubie, poet
* Jean Dubuc, baseball pitcher. Born in St. Johnsbury
* William Wade Dudley
* Chris Duffy, baseball player. Born in Brattleboro

E

* Horatio Earle, promoted "good roads" when the automobile was introduced
* John Eaton, US commissioner of education
* Dorman Bridgeman Eaton, instrumental in federal civil service reform
* Eddy Brothers
* George F. Edmunds
* Merritt A. Edson
* Chesselden Ellis
* George F. Emmons
* Jacob Estey
* Dominic Etli
* Jeremiah Evarts

F

* William Fairfield
* John Chipman Farrar
* Young Firpo
* Dorothy Canfield Fisher, writer
* Robert M. Fisher, abstract artist
* Carlton Fisk (b. 1947); former Major League Baseball Hall of Fame catcher; born in Bellows Falls
* James Fisk
* Irving Fiske
* William Charles Fitzgerald
* John Fitzpatrick
* Ed Flanagan, auditor of accounts & state senator
* Ralph Flanders
* Henry A. Fletcher
* George P. Foster
* Simon Fraser
* Martin Henry Freeman
* Ida May Fuller, first recipient of Social Security
* John Fusco, Hollywood movie writer/producer; wrote "Hidalgo" and "Young Guns"

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
* Isaac Goodnow, founder of Kansas State University and Manhattan, Kansas
* Walter W. Granger
* Lewis A. Grant
* Duane Graveline
* Milford Graves
* Peter Gray, psychologist
* Jerry Greenfield
* Theodore P. Greene
* Wallace M. Greene
* Josiah Grout
* Luis Guzmán, actor

H

* Paul Hackett
* 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, Major General during the Civil War
* 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
* Felicity Huffman, actor
* Richard Morris Hunt, architect
* William Morris Hunt
* Stanley Edgar Hyman

I

* James Monroe Ingalls
* John Irving, author

J

* Horatio Nelson Jackson
* William Henry Jackson
* Lindsey Jacobellis
* Jim Jeffords
* Milo Parker Jewett
* Andrew Johnson, skier
* Ernie Johnson
* Kenny Johnson, actor
* Luke S. Johnson
* Lyman E. Johnson
* Miranda July

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
* Christopher Kimball host of PBS tv show America's Test Kitchen
* Heber C. Kimball
* Jamaica Kincaid, novelist
* Carlene King Johnson, Miss USA 1955
* Rudyard Kipling, British author, resident of Brattleboro, during which time he wrote The Jungle Book
* M. Jane Kitchel
* Bill Koch
* James Kochalka
* Edward Koren, illustrator and cartoonist for the "The New Yorker"
* Madeleine M. Kunin, former Ambassador

L

* Walt Lanfranconi, baseball player from Barre
* Patrick Leahy
* John LeClair, first native born Vermonter to play in the National Hockey League
* Bill "Spaceman" Lee, Baseball Player [ [http://www.vermontguardian.com/local/042007/BillLee.shtml The Spaceman cometh: Bill Lee talks baseball ] ]
* Harry David Lee who developed Lee Jeans
* Brady Leisenring hockey player from Stowe
* Henry M. Leland, developed Cadillac and Lincoln. Born in Barton.
* Kevin Lepage NASCAR driver from Shelburne
* Aaron Lewis Band member from Rutland
* Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque (b. 1990); singer, actress; born in Brattleboro
* Sinclair Lewis, Nobel prize winning novelist, short story writer, and playwright.
* Ki Longfellow, novelist
* Alfred Lebbeus Loomis, president, Association of American Physicians
* Gustavus Loomis, breveted Brigadier General
* Horatio G. Loomis, one of the organizers of the Chicago Board of Trade
* Phillips Lord, creator of radio programs
* Will Lyman, television actor
* Lucius Lyon, helped charter the state of Michigan

M

* William H. Macy, actor and director
* David Mamet, playwright
* William Marks
* 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
* Alexander Kennedy Miller
* Frank Miller
* Susan Tolman Mills
* Graham Mink
* Anais Mitchell
* Amanda Mitteer
* Samuel Morey
* Justin Morgan
* Justin Smith Morrill, sponsor of the Land Grant College Act establishing "public ivies"
* George Sylvester Morris
* Levi P. Morton
* Joseph A. Mower
* Michael Moynihan
* Dennis Murphy

N

* Harvey Newcomb
* David H. Nichols
* Clarina I. H. Nichols
* John Humphrey Noyes

O

* Rachel Oakes Preston
* John O'Brien
* Franklin W. Olin
* Buster Olney
* Ebenezer J. Ormsbee
* Elisha Otis

P

* Grace Paley
* Alden Partridge
* Katherine Paterson
* Moses Pendleton, choreographer
* Elizabeth Perkins, actress
* 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
* Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, lived in Vermont for more than 30 years
* Harvey Putnam

Q

R

* Thomas E. G. Ransom
* Edward Rawson
* Edmund Rice
* Henry Mower Rice
* Linda Richards, America's first trained nurse, attended St. Johnsbury Academy
* Mark Richards
* Israel B. Richardson
* Benjamin S. Roberts
* Edward D. Robie
* Moses Robinson
* Theodore Robinson
* David McGregor Rogers
* Brian Rooney
* Thomas Rowley
* Homer Elihu Royce
* Carl Ruggles
* Rudolph Ruzicka, typeface designer and engraver

* Alvah Sabin
* Truman Henry Safford
* Matt Salinger
* 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
* Hyrum Smith
* J. Gregory Smith
* John Butler Smith
* Joseph Smith, Sr., father of Joseph Smith, Jr.
* Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805–1844); founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; born in Sharon
* Samuel Harrison Smith
* William Smith
* 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, conductor and pianist
* Allen Soule, actor - often has speaking parts in films by David Mamet, former Vermont State Historian, published author
* Ronald I. Spiers
* Martin St. Louis, NHL hockey player
* Michael A. Stackpole, Science Fiction/Fantasy author
* Henry Alexander Stafford, baseball player for the New York Giants [ [http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=1501&pid=13485 BIOPROJ.SABR.ORG :: The Baseball Biography Project ] ] [No relation to the governor]
* Robert Stafford, namesake of the Stafford Loan
* Timothy Steele
* Ralph Steiner
* Rockwell Stephens
* Nettie Stevens
* Thaddeus Stevens
* Charles B. Stoughton
* Edwin H. Stoughton
* F. Stewart Stranahan
* George Crockett Strong
* William Barstow Strong
* Willis Sweet

T

* Horace Austin Warner Tabor, one of the "Silver Kings"
* 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, painter, lives in Hartland.
* Andrew Tracy
* Joseph Tracy
* Maria von Trapp
* Tasha Tudor
* KT Tunstall, musician
* Fred Tuttle, senatorial candidate and star of the movie, "Man with a Plan"
* 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, sang vocals for George Clooney in film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

U

* Sharon Underwood
* Don A. J. Upham
* Samuel C. Upham

V

* Rudy Vallée
* James Van Ness
* Stewart Van Vliet
* William Freeman Vilas

W

* M. Emmet Walsh, actor
* James M. Warner, General in the Union Army
* Seth Warner
* Cephas Washburn
* Ebenezer Washburn
* Peter T. Washburn
* Charles W. Waterman
* Sterry R. Waterman
* Henry Wells
* Horatio Wells
* Brevet Major General William Wells, awarded Medal of Honor; born in Waterbury
* William Almon Wheeler, Vice-President of the United States attended UVM for two years
* Hilton Wick
* Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, for efforts to clear away and ban anti-personnel mines
* John Henry Williams
* Bill W. (Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous)
* James Wilson
* Steve Wisniewski
* George Woodard
* Urban A. Woodbury
* Edwin T. Woodward
* Dean Conant Worcester
* Samuel Worcester
* Jay Wright
* Silas Wright

Y

*Brigham Young (1801–1877); second prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; born in Whittingham

Z

*Daphne Zuniga

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