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:
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
- Eric Aho, painter
- 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, 18th Century soldier
- Ethan Allen, commander of the Green Mountain Boys
- Fanny Allen, nun, daughter of Ethan Allen; hospital bears her name
- Ira Allen, one of Vermont's founders, brother of Ethan Allen
- Jerome Allen, author
- Julia Alvarez, author
- Trey Anastasio, vocals/guitar for Phish
- Piers Anthony (pseudonym), science-fiction author
- Lemuel H. Arnold, Governor of Rhode Island 1831-33
- Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States, born in Fairfield
- Warren Austin, early U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
- Charlotte Ayanna, actress, 1993 Miss Teen USA
- Mary Azarian, woodcut artist, children's book illustrator
B
- Orville E. Babcock, Civil War general
- Edwin Eugene Bagley, composer of National Emblem and other marches
- Maxine Bahns, actress
- Arthur Scott Bailey, author of children's books
- Brad Baker, baseball pitcher
- Hosea Ballou, a father of American Universalism
- Bradley Barlow, politician
- John Barrett, diplomat
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- Daric Barton, baseball player
- Lindon Wallace Bates, civil engineer
- Alison Bechdel, cartoonist
- Fernando C. Beaman, politician
- Orson Bean, actor
- Johnny Behan, 19th Century sheriff of Tombstone, Arizona
- Hiram Bell, politician
- H. H. Bennett, photographer
- Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley, scientist and photographer
- Bill W., founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
- Charles E. Billings, inventor
- Frederick H. Billings, railroad president
- Stephen Bissette, comic book artist
- Pamela Blair, actress
- George Bliss, politician
- Lou Blonger, saloon owner, con man
- Aretas Blood, locomotive manufacturer
- Asa P. Blunt, Civil War general
- Tom Bodett, spokesman for Motel 6
- Beatrice Boepple, actress
- Chris Bohjalian, author
- Andrew Bowen, actor
- Elmer Bowman, baseball player
- Keegan Bradley, golfer, 2011 PGA Champion, grew up in Woodstock
- Ezra Brainerd, college president
- L. Paul Bremer, with Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraq, 2003–04
- Richard M. Brewer (1852–1878); cowboy; born in St. Albans
- Francis Fisher Browne, editor, poet
- Orestes Brownson, activist
- Pearl S. Buck, author
- Ted Bundy (1946–1989); serial killer; born in Burlington
- James E. Burke, former CEO of Johnson & Johnson
- Alex Burnham, of The Burnham Brothers Band
- Andre Burnham, of The Burnham Brothers Band
- Forrest Burnham, of The Burnham Brothers Band
- Steven T. Byington, anarchist
C
- John C. Caldwell, Civil War general
- Thomas Cale, teacher and politician
- Delino Dexter Calvin, Canada politician
- Jim Cantore, Weather Channel meteorologist
- Jake Burton Carpenter, owner of Burton Snowboards, from Londonderry[1]
- Matthew H. Carpenter, Wisconsin politician
- Albert Carrington, clergyman
- Hayden Carruth, poet and critic
- Neko Case, singer[2]
- William B. Castle, former mayor of Cleveland
- Lucien B. Caswell, politician
- Suzy Chaffee, skier, "Suzy Chapstick"
- Beth Chamberlin, fitness coach
- John Putnam Chapin, 19th Century mayor of Chicago
- Welcome Chapman, Mormon leader
- Arthur Chase, fraternity founder
- Harrie B. Chase, judge
- Horace Chase, former mayor of Milwaukee
- Daniel Chipman, politician
- Thomas Chittenden, first Governor of Vermont
- Lucius E. Chittenden, politician in Abe Lincoln administration
- Stoyan Christowe, writer, publicist and journalist.
- Sylvester Churchill, soldier and journalist
- Joseph A. Citro, author
- Charles Edgar Clark, admiral during Spanish–American War
- Kelly Clark, Olympic gold medalist, snowboarding 2002
- William Bullock Clark, geologist
- Skiing Cochrans, ski racers
- Richard A. Cody, U.S. Army general
- William Sloane Coffin, Jr., clergyman, a resident of Strafford
- Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's
- Zerah Colburn (1804–1840); math prodigy; born in Cabot
- Lui Collins, singer-songwriter
- Ray Collins, baseball player
- Gardner Quincy Colton, pioneered use of nitrous oxide (laughing gas) for dental procedures; from Georgia, Vermont
- George Colvocoresses, Civil War naval officer
- George Partridge Colvocoresses, admiral
- Jessica Comolli, Miss Vermont USA 2007
- Thomas Jefferson Conant, Biblical scholar
- George A. Converse, admiral
- Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States, born in Plymouth Notch
- Barry M. Costello, US Vice admiral, native of Rutland
- Douglas M. Costle, environmentalist
- Oliver Cowdery, religious leader
- Robert Cowdin, Civil War colonel
- Aaron H. Cragin, US representative and senator
- Donald J. Cram, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
- Jay Craven, film director, professor
D
- Tim Daly, actor, producer, and director
- John Cotton Dana, museum director, librarian
- Jeff Danziger, political cartoonist
- Thomas Davenport, inventor of the electric motor
- Howard Dean, Governor of Vermont 1991-2003, Democratic National Committee chairman 2005-09
- John Deere, inventor of steel plow, founder of agricultural equipment manufacturer Deere & Company
- David Dellinger, one of Chicago Seven
- George Dewey, hero of Manila Bay, 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, politician
- 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
- Scot Eaton, comic book artist
- Eddy Brothers, psychics
- George F. Edmunds, senator
- Merritt A. Edson, decorated U.S. Marine officer
- Chesselden Ellis, politician
- George F. Emmons, admiral
- Jacob Estey, organ manufacturer
- Jeremiah Evarts, missionary and reformer
F
- Franklin Fairbanks, political figure, philanthropist, co-founder of Rollins College, former president of Fairbanks Scales
- William Fairfield, Canada politician
- John C. Farrar, book publisher
- Thomas Green Fessenden, early American writer
- Young Firpo, boxer
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher, writer
- Robert M. Fisher, abstract artist
- Jon Fishman, drummer, vocalist from the band Phish
- Carlton Fisk, Baseball Hall of Fame catcher; born in Bellows Falls
- James Fisk, financier
- Irving Fiske, playwright
- William Charles Fitzgerald, naval officer
- John Fitzpatrick, former mayor of New Orleans
- Ed Flanagan, auditor of accounts and state senator
- Helen Hartness Flanders, collector of traditional ballads
- Ralph Flanders, industrialist and senator
- Henry A. Fletcher, Civil War soldier, politician
- George P. Foster, Civil War general
- Simon Fraser, fur trader, Canada explorer
- Martin Henry Freeman, college president
- Robert Frost, iconic poet
- Ida May Fuller, first recipient of Social Security
- John Fusco, film producer, screenwriter of Hidalgo and Young Guns
G
- Phineas Gage, railroad man, medical test patient
- Larry Gardner, baseball player
- David Giancola, film director, born in Rutland
- Cynthia Gibb, actress, born in Bennington
- Amanda Gilman, Miss Vermont USA 2006
- Joseph A. Gilmore, Governor of New Hampshire 1863-65
- 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, paleontologist
- Lewis A. Grant, Civil War soldier
- Duane Graveline, astronaut
- Milford Graves, drummer
- Peter Gray, psychologist
- Horace Greeley, newspaper editor, reformer, politician; apprenticed in East Poultney
- Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
- Theodore P. Greene, admiral during Civil War
- Wallace M. Greene, U.S. Marine general
- Josiah Grout, Canadian-born politician
- Luis Guzmán, actor
H
- Paul Hackett, football coach
- William Haile, politician
- Joy Hakim, author
- Enoch Hale, Revolutionary War officer
- William Laurel Harris, muralist
- James Hartness, machine tool entrepreneur
- Bill Haugland, Canada television journalist
- William Babcock Hazen, Civil War general
- Chris Hedges, journalist
- William W. Henry, Civil War colonel
- Charles Shattuck Hill, educator
- John A. Hill, co-founder of McGraw-Hill
- Ethan A. Hitchcock, Major General during the Civil War
- Edward Hoagland, essayist, taught at Bennington College; retired to Sutton
- Christopher "Hoagie" Hogan Future founder of "Hoagies Hoagies".
- Tristan Honsinger, 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, educator, Civil War general
- Jacob M. Howard, 19th Century politician
- Steven James Howard, politician
- James F. Howard, Jr., professor of medicine
- William Alanson Howard, politician
- Felicity Huffman, actress
- Stephen Huneck, artist
- Richard Morris Hunt, architect
- William Morris Hunt, painter
- Stanley Edgar Hyman, literary critic
I
- James Monroe Ingalls, ballistics expert
- John Irving, author
J
- Horatio Nelson Jackson, auto pioneer
- William Henry Jackson, painter
- Lindsey Jacobellis, snowboarder
- Jim Jeffords, politician
- Milo Parker Jewett, educator
- Andrew Johnson, skier
- Carlene King Johnson, Miss USA 1955, first from New England, only one from Vermont[3]
- Ernie Johnson, baseball pitcher
- Kenny Johnson, actor, played Lem on The Shield
- Luke S. Johnson, religious leader
- Lyman E. Johnson, religious leader
- Miranda July, screenwriter and actress
K
- Bob Keeshan (1927–2004), TV personality "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, politician
- Dan Kiley, landscape architect
- Christopher Kimball, host of PBS television's America's Test Kitchen
- Heber C. Kimball, religious leader
- Jamaica Kincaid, novelist
- Carlene King Johnson, Miss USA 1955
- Rudyard Kipling, British author, resident of Brattleboro when he wrote The Jungle Book
- M. Jane Kitchel, politician
- Bill Koch, skier, Olympic silver medalist
- James Kochalka, comic book artist
- Edward Koren, illustrator and cartoonist for The New Yorker
- Madeleine M. Kunin, ambassador
L
- Walt Lanfranconi, baseball player, from Barre
- Shane Lavalette, photographer, publisher and editor of Lavalette, and director of Light Work, a non-profit photography organization[4][5]
- John LeClair, first native born Vermonter to play in the National Hockey League
- Bill "Spaceman" Lee, baseball pitcher[6]
- Harry David Lee, developer of Lee Jeans
- Brady Leisenring, hockey player, from Stowe
- Henry M. Leland, developed Cadillac and Lincoln automobiles, born in Barton
- Melissa Leo, Oscar-winning actress, resided in Putney[7]
- 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 author, had 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, an organizer of the Chicago Board of Trade
- Phillips Lord, creator of radio programs
- Will Lyman, actor
- Lucius Lyon, helped charter the State of Michigan
M
- David Mamet, playwright, screenwriter, film director
- William Marks, religious leader
- Anna Marsh, philanthropist
- John Martin, businessman
- Philip Maxwell, physician and politician, for whom Chicago's famous Maxwell Street was named
- Henry T. Mayo, four-star admiral, born in Burlington
- Archer Mayor, author
- Margaret MacArthur, musician, folk music archivist known as "Vermont's Songcatcher"
- John McCardell, Jr., educator
- Bill McKibben, environmentalist
- James Meacham, politician
- William Rutherford Mead, architect
- Andrea Mead-Lawrence, first American to win two gold Olympic skiing medals
- Samuel Merrill, Indiana politician
- Alexander Kennedy Miller, proponent of Autogyro
- Frank Miller, creator of comic books, graphic novels
- Susan Tolman Mills, educator
- Graham Mink, hockey player
- Anais Mitchell, singer
- Amanda Mitteer, former Miss Vermont USA
- Samuel Morey, inventor
- Justin Morgan, horse breeder
- Justin Smith Morrill, sponsor of Land Grant College Act establishing "public ivies"
- George Sylvester Morris, educator
- Levi P. Morton, former Vice President of United States and governor of New York
- Joseph A. Mower
- Michael Moynihan, journalist
- Nico Muhly, classical music composer
- Dennis Murphy, musician
N
- Andrew Neel, filmmaker
- Harvey Newcomb, clergyman
- David H. Nichols, Colorado sheriff, politician
- Clarina I. H. Nichols, reformer
- John Humphrey Noyes, socialist
O
- Rachel Oakes Preston, religious leader
- John O'Brien, filmmaker
- Franklin W. Olin, manufacturer
- Buster Olney, sportswriter
- Darcy Olsen, president of Goldwater Institute
- Ebenezer J. Ormsbee, politician
- Elisha Otis, founder of Otis Elevator Company
P
- Morgan Page, music producer
- Grace Paley, poet
- Jay Parini, writer
- Alden Partridge, educator, West Point superintendent
- Katherine Paterson, author of children's books
- Moses Pendleton, choreographer
- Elizabeth Perkins, actress
- Joe Perry, lead guitarist for Aerosmith
- Tom Peters, business writer
- Charles E. Phelps, Civil War colonel, politician
- John W. Phelps, Civil War general, presidential candidate
- William Lamb Picknell, 19th Century painter, member of National Academy of Design
- Samuel E. Pingree, Civil War officer, politician
- Russell W. Porter, explorer, artist
- Grace Potter, of rock band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
- Ross Powers, snowboarder, 2002 Olympics gold medalist
- Silas G. Pratt, composer
- Cyrus Pringle, botanist
- Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, lived in Vermont for more than 30 years
- Harvey Putnam, New York politician
R
- Thomas E. G. Ransom, Civil War general, surveyor
- Edward Rawson, Atlanta businessman
- Edmund Rice, politician, born in Waitsfield
- Henry Mower Rice, Minnesota politician
- Linda Richards, America's first trained nurse, attended St. Johnsbury Academy
- Mark Richards, U.S. congressman,
- Israel B. Richardson, Civil War officer
- Benjamin S. Roberts, Civil War officer
- Edward D. Robie, Civil War officer
- Moses Robinson, governor of Vermont pre-statehood
- Theodore Robinson, painter
- Norman Rockwell, artist, lived in Arlington
- David McGregor Rogers, Canada politician
- Brian Rooney, convicted murderer
- Thomas Rowley, poet
- Homer Elihu Royce, politician, jurist
- Carl Ruggles, composer
- Rudolph Ruzicka, typeface designer and engraver
S
- Alvah Sabin, minister, politician
- Truman Henry Safford, mathematics whiz
- Matt Salinger, actor, son of J.D. Salinger
- Philetus Sawyer, Wisconsin politician
- Eric Schaeffer, screenwriter, director, actor
- Helen Bonchek Schneyer, folk musician
- Stephen Alonzo Schoff, engraver
- Peter Schumann, founder and director of Bread and Puppet Theater
- Arthur E. Scott, photographer
- Julian Scott, 19th Century painter and muralist
- Thomas O. Seaver, Civil War officer
- Rudolf Serkin, classical pianist
- Truman Seymour, Civil War officer
- L. M. Shaw, governor of Iowa, presidential candidate
- Patty Sheehan, golfer, winner of 35 LPGA tournaments
- Charles H. Sheldon, 19th Century governor of South Dakota
- George Dallas Sherman, military bandleader
- Alexander O. Smith, author, Japanese translator
- "Dr. Bob" Smith, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
- Charles Plympton Smith, banker, politician
- David Smith, sculptor
- Hyrum Smith, religious leader
- J. Gregory Smith, railroad executive, politician
- John Butler Smith, manufacturer, politician
- Joseph Smith, Sr., father of Joseph Smith, Jr.
- Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805–1844), founder of Latter Day Saint movement; born in Sharon
- Samuel Harrison Smith, of Latter Day Saints
- William Smith, of Latter Day Saints
- William Farrar Smith, Civil War officer
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian author, historian, 1970 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, diplomat, ambassador
- Ken Squier, NASCAR commentator and announcer, founder and owner of Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre and co-founder of American Canadian Tour racing series, llives in Stowe.
- Martin St. Louis, NHL hockey player
- Michael A. Stackpole, science fiction and fantasy author
- Henry Alexander Stafford, baseball player for New York Giants[8][9]
- Robert Stafford, namesake of the Stafford Loan
- Timothy Steele, poet
- Ralph Steiner, photographer, filmmaker
- Rockwell Stephens, writer, ski instructor
- Nettie Stevens, genetecist
- Thaddeus Stevens, 19th Century Pennsylvania politician
- Charles B. Stoughton, Civil War officer
- Edwin H. Stoughton, Civil War officer
- F. Stewart Stranahan, Civil War officer
- George Crockett Strong, Civil War officer
- William Barstow Strong, railroad president
- Willis Sweet, Idaho politician
T
- Horace Austin Warner Tabor, prospector, one of the "Silver Kings"
- Alphonso Taft, politician, Attorney General, Secretary of War under Ulysses S. Grant
- Cherilee Taylor, actress
- Louise Taylor, singer-songwriter
- Birdie Tebbetts, baseball player and manager
- Hannah Teter, snowboarder, 2006 Olympic gold medalist
- Elswyth Thane, romance novelist
- Harry Bates Thayer, president and chairman of A,T&T
- John Martin Thomas, university president
- Stephen Thomas, Civil War officer
- Tim Thomas, professional hockey player, played for UVM
- Dorothy Thompson, journalist and radio broadcaster
- Ernest Thompson, writer of On Golden Pond
- John Mellen Thurston, Nebraska senator
- George Tooker, painter, lives in Hartland
- Andrew Tracy, politician
- Joseph Tracy, minister, historian
- Maria von Trapp, stepmother to Von Trapp family singers, The Sound of Music
- Tasha Tudor, author of children's books
- KT Tunstall, musician
- Fred Tuttle, senatorial candidate, star of film 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?
U
- Sharon Underwood
- Don A. J. Upham, Wisconsin politician
- Samuel C. Upham, journalist, counterfeiter
V
- Rudy Vallée, singer and actor, born in Holland
- James Van Ness, 19th Century mayor of San Francisco
- Stewart Van Vliet, Civil War officer
- Rick Veitch, comic book artist
- William Freeman Vilas, politician
W
- James M. Warner, Civil War general
- Seth Warner, Revolutionary War officer
- Cephas Washburn, missionary, educator
- Ebenezer Washburn, Canada politician
- Charles W. Waterman, Colorado senator
- Sterry R. Waterman, judge
- Henry Wells, businessman, co-founded American Express and Wells Fargo[10]
- Andrew Wheating, middle distance track athlete for University of Oregon, 2008 Olympian
- William Almon Wheeler, Vice President of the United States, attended UVM for two years
- Hilton Wick, politician
- Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, for efforts to clear away and ban anti-personnel mines
- John Henry Williams, baseball player, son of Ted Williams
- Bill W. (Bill Wilson), co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
- James Wilson, globe maker
- Steve Wisniewski, football player
- Brian Wood, illustrator
- George Woodard, dairy farmer, actor
- Edwin T. Woodward, Civil War officer
- Dean Conant Worcester, zoologist, authority on the Philippines
- Samuel Worcester, missionary
- Jay Wright, poet
- Silas Wright, politician
Y
- Brigham Young (1801–1877); second prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; born in Whitingham
- Thomas Yamamoto, artist, lived and died in Plainfield
Z
- Daphne Zuniga, actress[11]
- Barry Zorthian, chief spokesperson for the U. S. government in Saigon, Vietnam 1964-1968; once worked in St. Johnsbury
References
- ↑ Marquardt, Katy (September 29, 2008). King of the Hill in Snowboards. U.S. News and World Report.
- ↑ Hallenbeck, Brent (June 29, 2014). "Neighbors with Neko". Burlington Free Press (Burlington, Vermont). pp. 1D. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
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- ↑ http://www.shanelavalette.com/bio
- ↑ http://petapixel.com/2013/06/06/interview-with-shane-lavalette-the-new-director-of-light-work/
- ↑ The Spaceman cometh: Bill Lee talks baseball
- ↑ Vermonter Nominated. Burlington Free Press. January 23, 2009.
- ↑ BIOPROJ.SABR.ORG :: The Baseball Biography Project
- ↑ No relation to the governor
- ↑ "Wells, Henry". Reference for Business.com. Retrieved 2014-08-02.
- ↑ "Beautiful People's Daphne Zuniga: Facing Her Fears and Ready to Fall in Love". MyersBizNet. Retrieved 2014-08-02.
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