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 or lived in Vermont, or for whom Vermont is a significant part of their identity:
- 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[1]
- Charles Augustus Aiken (1827–1892); clergyman and academic; born in Manchester
- George Aiken, (1892 – 1984), Governor and US senator from Putney
- 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
- Julia Alvarez, 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, woodcut artist, children's book illustrator
- Orville E. Babcock
- Edwin Eugene Bagley, composer of National Emblem and other marches
- 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
- Stephen Bissette
- Pamela Blair, actress
- George Bliss
- Lou Blonger
- Aretas Blood
- Asa P. Blunt
- Tom Bodett
- Beatrice Boepple, actress
- Chris Bohjalian, author
- Andrew Bowen, actor[citation needed]
- Elmer Bowman
- Keegan Bradley, 2011 PGA Champion, grew up in Woodstock
- Ezra Brainerd
- L. Paul Bremer, Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraq, 2003-4
- Richard M. 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
- Alex Burnham, The Burnham Brothers Band
- Andre Burnham, The Burnham Brothers Band
- Forrest Burnham, The Burnham Brothers Band
- Steven T. Byington
- John C. Caldwell
- Thomas Cale
- Delino Dexter Calvin
- Jim Cantore, Weather Channel meteorologist
- Jake Burton Carpenter, owner of Burton Snowboards, from Londonderry[2]
- 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,Born in Bradford Vermont, Admiral during Spanish-American War
- 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
- Barry M. Costello, US Vice admiral, native of Rutland
- Douglas M. Costle
- Oliver Cowdery
- Robert Cowdin
- Aaron H. Cragin
- Jay Craven
- Tim Daly, actor, producer, and director
- John Cotton Dana
- Jeff Danziger, political cartoonist
- Thomas Davenport, inventor of the electric motor
- Howard Dean, Democratic National Committee Chairman 2005-9
- John Deere, inventor of the steel plow and founder of agricultural equipment manufacturer Deere & Company
- 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
- Phineas Gage
- Larry Gardner, Former MLB Third Baseman
- David Giancola (b. 1969), film director, born in Rutland, Vermont
- Cynthia Gibb, actress born in Bennington
- Amanda Gilman
- Joseph A. Gilmore
- Louise Glück, Pulitzer Prize winning poet
- Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, writer
- Isaac Goodnow, founder of Kansas State University and Manhattan, Kansas
- Mike Gordon, vocals/bassist from the band Phish
- Walter W. Granger
- Lewis A. Grant
- Duane Graveline
- Milford Graves
- Peter Gray, psychologist
- Horace Greeley, newspaper editor, reformer and politician. Apprenticed in East Poultney
- Jerry Greenfield
- Theodore P. Greene
- Wallace M. Greene
- Josiah Grout
- Luis Guzmán, actor
- Paul Hackett
- William Haile
- Joy Hakim
- Enoch Hale
- Hiland Hall
- William Laurel Harris
- James Hartness, machine tool entrepreneur
- Bill Haugland
- William Babcock Hazen
- Chris Hedges, journalist
- William W. Henry
- Charles Shattuck Hill
- Ethan A. Hitchcock, Major General during the Civil War
- Edward Hoagland, essayist, taught at Bennington College. Retired to Sutton
- Frederick Holbrook
- Tristan Honsinger (b. 1949), jazz cello player, born in Burlington
- Samuel Hopkins, holder of first American patent, for pearl and potash process, 1790.
- Charles Snead Houston, Mountaineer, physician, scientist, and Peace Corps leader
- Charles Edward Hovey
- Jacob M. Howard
- Steven James Howard
- James F. Howard, Jr.
- William Alanson Howard
- Felicity Huffman, actor
- Stephen Huneck, artist
- Richard Morris Hunt, architect
- William Morris Hunt
- Stanley Edgar Hyman
- Walt Lanfranconi, baseball player from Barre
- John LeClair, first native born Vermonter to play in the National Hockey League
- Bill "Spaceman" Lee, baseball player[4]
- Harry David Lee, who developed Lee Jeans
- Brady Leisenring, hockey player from Stowe
- Henry M. Leland, developed Cadillac and Lincoln. Born in Barton.
- Melissa Leo, actress. Resided in Putney.[5]
- Kevin Lepage, NASCAR driver from Shelburne
- Aaron Lewis, band member from Rutland
- Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque (b. 1990); singer, actress; born in Brattleboro
- Sinclair Lewis (1885 – 1951), Nobel prize winning writer with home in Barnard
- Sam Lloyd, actor (Scrubs) born in Weston
- 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
- 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
- Patty Sheehan,Professional Golfer, which has won 6 major championships and 35 tour victories
- 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 Latter Day Saint movement; 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
- 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[6][7]
- 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
- 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
- Tim Thomas, professional hockey player who played for UVM
- Dorothy Thompson
- Ernest Thompson
- John Mellen 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, one of the earliest American playwrights.
- Dan Tyminski, sang vocals for George Clooney in film O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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