List of people from Montpelier, Vermont
The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Montpelier, Vermont.
Artists and authors
- Frederick W. Adams, physician and author
- Michael Arnowitt, classical and jazz pianist
- Jessica Comolli, beauty queen
- Kathryn Davis, novelist
- Garrett Graff, editor and educator
- Rob Mermin, founder of Circus Smirkus
- Frank Miller, comic book writer and artist
- Anais Mitchell, singer-songwriter
- Arthur E. Scott, photo-historian of US senate
- Samuel C. Upham, journalist and counterfeiter
- Thomas Waterman Wood, painter
- Eric Zencey, novelist and essayist
Military
- Richard A. Cody, general, 31st Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army
- Hannibal Day, Union Army brigadier general
- George Dewey, US Navy admiral
- William Charles Fitzgerald, US Navy lieutenant
- James Stevens Peck, American Civil War officer who later served as Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard
Politicians
- George W. Cate, US congressman
- Augustine Clarke, Anti-Masonic Party leader and Vermont State Treasurer
- Mary Hooper, state representative
- Vincent Illuzzi, state senator
- Patrick Leahy, US senator, President pro tempore of the United States Senate
- Lucas Miltiades Miller, US congressman from Wisconsin
- John A. Page, Vermont State Treasurer
- Asahel Peck, 35th governor of Vermont
- Samuel Prentiss, US senator
- John Mellen Thurston, US senator
- William Upham, US senator
- Eliakim Persons Walton, US congressman
- Charles W. Willard, US congressman
Law and judiciary
- Marilyn Skoglund, Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, notable for becoming attorney and judge without attending law school.
Sports
- Jim Laird, running back for several NFL teams