List of people from Brattleboro, Vermont
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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Artists and entertainers
- Will Ackerman, music producer and guitarist
- Sam Amidon, folk artist
- Tony Barrand, musician
- Saul Bellow, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature.[1][2]
- H. H. Bennett, photographer
- Douglas Cox, violin maker
- Ely Culbertson, contract bridge player and promoter[3]
- Jacob Estey, reed organ maker
- Karen Hesse, children's author
- Leavitt Hunt, photography pioneer and attorney
- William Morris Hunt, painter
- Wolf Kahn, painter
- Rudyard Kipling, British author, wrote The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, "Mandalay" and Gunga Din while residing there; later received the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Joanna Noëlle Levesque, singer and actor
- Ki Longfellow, novelist, playwright and screenwriter
- Leslie William Miller, artistic subject
- Blanche Honegger Moyse, choral conductor
- Marcel Moyse, flute player
- Bing Russell, actor, baseball player and executive, father of Kurt Russell
- Pat The Bunny Schneeweis, folk-punk artist
- King Tuff, musician
- Royall Tyler, playwright[citation needed]
- Kit Watkins, musician
- Claude Williamson, musician
- Stu Williamson, musician
Bands
Military
- Theodore P. Greene, US Navy rear admiral
- George Bradley Kellogg, Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard, Lieutenant Colonel of the 1st Vermont Cavalry Regiment in the American Civil War[4]
Politics
- Herbert G. Barber, Vermont Attorney General[5]
- Willard H. Chandler, Wisconsin state senator
- Ezra Clark, Jr., US congressman[6]
- James Elliot, US congressman[7]
- Clarke C. Fitts, Vermont Attorney General[8]
- Levi K. Fuller, 44th governor of Vermont[9]
- Ernest Willard Gibson, United States Senator
- Ernest W. Gibson, Jr., Governor of Vermont
- Abram A. Hammond, 12th governor of Indiana[10]
- Broughton Harris, Vermont newspaper editor and businessman; one of the Runaway Officials of 1851 as Secretary of the Utah Territory[11]
- Kittredge Haskins, US congressman[12]
- Frederick Holbrook, 27th governor of Vermont[13]
- Jonathan Hunt, bank president and congressman[14]
- Daniel Kellogg, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont and Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court[15]
- John Humphrey Noyes, utopian socialist, free love advocate, and founder of the Oneida Community
- Harvey Putnam, US congressman[16]
- Peter Shumlin, 81st governor of Vermont[17]
- Sharon Treat, state representative for Maine's 79th District
- James Manning Tyler, US congressman[18]
Professionals
- Alonzo S. Church, college president[19]
- William Bullock Clark, geologist
- James Fisk, financier
- Charles Christopher Frost, botanist
- Edwin Brant Frost, astronomer
- Ida May Fuller, first recipient of Social Security check
- Richard Morris Hunt, architect
- William Rutherford Mead, architect
- James L. Oakes, judge
- Samuel Stearns, astronomer and doctor
- William Willard, school founder
- Jody Williams, teacher, aid worker, anti-land mines activist, and Nobel laureate
Sports
- Brad Baker, minor league baseball player[20]
- Chris Duffy, center fielder and first baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Brewers, and Philadelphia Phillies[21]
- James Galanes, Olympic cross-country skier[22]
- Ernie Johnson, pitcher for the Boston Braves/Milwaukee Braves and Baltimore Orioles[23]
- Bill Koch, Olympic ski racer, silver and bronze medalist[24]
- Joe Shield, quarterback for the Green Bay Packers[25]
References
- ^ Saul Bellow at Find a Grave, retrieved December 23, 2013
- ^ Stephanie Greene, Vermont Public Radio, Samll Town, Big Names, September 30, 2013
- ^ Ely Culbertson, Contract Bridge Complete, 1936, page xviii
- ^ Lyman Simpson Hayes, History of the Town of Rockingham, Vermont, 1907, page 691
- ^ Fifield, James Clark (1918). The American Bar: Contemporary Lawyers of the United States and Canada. Minneapolis, MN: James C. Fifield Company. p. 670.
- ^ "CLARK, Ezra, Jr., (1813 - 1896)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "ELLIOT, James, (1775 - 1839)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "Funeral of Clarke C. Fitts". Vermont Phoenix. Brattleboro, Vermont. December 29, 1916. p. 7.
- ^ "Funeral of Ex Governor Fuller of Vermont". Boston Evening Transcript. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "Indiana Governor Abram Adams Hammond". National Governors Association. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ Jacob G. Ullery, Men of Vermont Illustrated, 1894, page 182
- ^ "HASKINS, Kittredge, (1836 - 1916)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "Vermont Governor Frederick Holbrook". National Governors Association. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "HUNT, Jonathan, (1787 - 1832)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ Hiram Carleton, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont, Volume 1, 1903, page 286
- ^ "PUTNAM, Harvey, (1793 - 1855)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "Governor Peter E. Shumlin's Biography". Project Vote Smart. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "TYLER, James Manning, (1835 - 1926)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ White, James Terry (1899). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. J.T. White,. p. 180.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ "Brad Baker". Baseball-Reference.Com. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "Chris Duffy". Baseball-Reference.Com. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "Jim Galanes". SR/Olympic Sports. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "Ernie Johnson". Baseball-Reference.Com. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "Bill Koch". SR/Olympic Sports. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "Joe Shield". Pro-Football-Reference.Com. Retrieved October 24, 2012.