List of Famous People From Vermont A-Z

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Below is a list of famous people from Vermont

List of Famous People From Vermont

“Dr. Bob” Smith, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
A. Atwater Kent
A. E. Douglass, astronomer
Aaron H. Cragin
Aaron Lewis, band member from Rutland
Albert Carrington
Alden Partridge
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
Alex Burnham Band; Burnham]
Alexander Kennedy Miller
Alexander O. Smith
Alexander Twilight, first African American to receive a college degree, and to be elected to public office in the United States
Alfred Lebbeus Loomis, president, Association of American Physicians
Alison Bechdel
Alphonso Taft
Alvah Sabin
Amanda Gilman
Amanda Mitteer
Anais Mitchell
Andre Burnham
Andrea Mead-Lawrence, first American to win two gold Olympic skiing medals
Andrew Johnson, skier
Andrew Neel
Andrew Tracy
Andrew Wheating, Middle distance track athlete for the University of Oregon and was a 2008 member of the U.S. Olympic team.
Anna Marsh
Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, lived in Vermont for more than 30 years
Archer Mayor
Aretas Blood
Arthur Chase
Arthur E. Scott
Arthur Scott Bailey
Asa P. Blunt
Barry M. Costello, US Vice admiral, native of Rutland
Beatrice Boepple, actress
Ben Affleck actor. Attended one semester at the University of Vermont
Ben Cohen
Benjamin S. Roberts
Bert Abbey
Beth Chamberlin
Bill “Spaceman” Lee, baseball player
Bill Haugland
Bill Koch
Bill McKibben, American environmentalist
Bill W.
Bill W., founder of AA
Birdie Tebbetts, Former All-Star MLB Catcher and Manager
Bob Keeshan
Brad Baker
Bradley Barlow
Brady Leisenring, hockey player from Stowe
Brian Rooney
Brigham Young
Buster Olney
Calvin Coolidge, thirtieth president of the United States
Carl Ruggles
Carlene King Johnson, Miss USA 1955
Carlene King Johnson, Miss USA 1955, first one from New England and only one ever from Vermont
Carlton Fisk
Cephas Washburn
Charles Augustus Aiken
Charles Kendall Adams
Charles Plympton Smith
Charles Shattuck Hill
Charles Snead Houston, Mountaineer, physician, scientist, and Peace Corps leader
Charles W. Waterman
Charlotte Ayanna, actress and the 1993 Miss Teen Vermont & Miss Teen USA.
Cherilee Taylor
Chesselden Ellis
Chester A. Arthur, twenty-first president of the United States
Chris Bohjalian, author
Chris Duffy, baseball player. Born in Brattleboro
Chris Hedges, journalist
Christopher Kimball host of PBS tv show America’s Test Kitchen
Clarina I. H. Nichols
Cynthia Gibb, actress born in Bennington
Cyrus Pringle
Dan Kiley
Dan Tyminski, sang vocals for George Clooney in film O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Daniel Chipman
Daric Barton
David Ball – NFL football player
David Dellinger, one of Chicago Seven
David Giancola
David H. Nichols
David Mamet, playwright
David McGregor Rogers
David Smith
Dean Conant Worcester
Delino Dexter Calvin
Dennis Murphy
Don A. J. Upham
Dorman Bridgeman Eaton, instrumental in federal civil service reform
Dorothy Canfield Fisher, writer
Dorothy Thompson
Douglas M. Costle
Duane Graveline
Ebenezer Allen
Ebenezer J. Ormsbee
Ebenezer Washburn
Ed Flanagan, auditor of accounts & state senator
Eddy Brothers
Edmund Rice, politician. Born in Waitsfield.
Edward D. Robie
Edward Koren, illustrator and cartoonist for The New Yorker
Edward Rawson
Edwin Eugene Bagley, composer of National Emblem and other marches
Edwin H. Stoughton
Edwin T. Woodward
Elisha Otis
Elizabeth Perkins, actress
Elmer Bowman
Elswyth Thane
Enoch Hale
Eric Schaeffer, film writer, director, and actor.
Ernest Thompson
Ernie Johnson
Ethan A. Hitchcock, Major General during the Civil War
Ethan Allen, commander of the Green Mountain Boys
Ezra Brainerd
F. Stewart Stranahan
Fanny Allen after whom the hospital is named.
Felicity Huffman, actor
Fernando C. Beaman
Forrest Burnham
Francis Fisher Browne
Frank Miller
Franklin W. Olin
Fred Tuttle, senatorial candidate and star of the movie, Man with a Plan
Frederick H. Billings
Frederick Holbrook
Frederick W. Adams
Gardner Quincy Colton who pioneered the use of nitrous oxide
George A. Converse
George Bliss
George Colvocoresses
George Crockett Strong
George Dallas Sherman
George Dewey, hero of Manila Bay and the only Admiral of the Navy ever appointed in America
George F. Edmunds
George F. Emmons
George P. Foster
George Partridge Colvocoresses
George Sylvester Morris
George Tooker, painter, lives in Hartland.
George Woodard
Grace Paley
Grace Potter, Front runner Grace Potter of the rock band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Graham Mink,
Gustavus Loomis, breveted Brigadier General
H. H. Bennett
Hannah Teter
Harrie B. Chase
Harry Bates Thayer
Harry David Lee, who developed Lee Jeans
Harvey Newcomb
Harvey Putnam
Hayden Carruth
Heber C. Kimball
Helen Bonchek Schneyer
Helen Hartness Flanders, collector of traditional ballads
Henry A. Fletcher
Henry Alexander Stafford, baseball player for the New York Giants
Henry M. Leland, developed Cadillac and Lincoln. Born in Barton.
Henry Mills Alden, editor of Harper’s Weekly
Henry Mower Rice
Henry T. Mayo, four-star admiral. Born in Burlington
Henry W. Keyes
Hiland Hall
Hilton Wick
Hiram Bell
Homer Elihu Royce
Horace Austin Warner Tabor, one of the “Silver Kings”
Horace Chase
Horace Greeley, newspaper editor, reformer and politician. Apprenticed in East Poultney
Horatio Earle, promoted “good roads” when the automobile was introduced
Horatio G. Loomis, one of the organizers of the Chicago Board of Trade
Horatio Nelson Jackson
Hosea Ballou, a father of American Universalism
Howard Dean, Democratic National Committee Chairman 2005-9
Hyrum Smith
Ida May Fuller, first recipient of Social Security
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, conductor and pianist
Ira Allen
Irving Fiske
Isaac Goodnow, founder of Kansas State University and Manhattan, Kansas
Israel B. Richardson
Ivan Albright
J. Gregory Smith
Jacob Estey
Jacob M. Howard
Jake Burton Carpenter, owner of Burton Snowboards, from Londonderry
Jamaica Kincaid, novelist
James E. Burke
James F. Howard, Jr.
James Fisk
James Hartness, machine tool entrepreneur
James Kochalka
James M. Warner, General in the Union Army
James Meacham
James Monroe Ingalls
James Van Ness
James Wilson
Jay Craven
Jay Wright
Jean Dubuc, baseball pitcher. Born in St. Johnsbury
Jeff Danziger, political cartoonist
Jeremiah Evarts
Jerome Allen, author
Jerry Greenfield
Jessica Comolli
Jim Cantore, Weather Channel meteorologist
Jim Jeffords
Joanna ‘JoJo’ Levesque
Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, for efforts to clear away and ban anti-personnel mines
Joe Perry, Lead guitarist for Aerosmith
John Barrett
John Butler Smith
John C. Caldwell
John C. Farrar
John Cotton Dana
John Deere, inventor of the steel plow and founder of agricultural equipment manufacturer Deere & Company
John Dewey, philosopher and educator
John Eaton, US commissioner of education
John Fitzpatrick
John Fusco, Hollywood movie writer/producer; wrote Hidalgo and Young Guns
John Henry Williams
John Humphrey Noyes
John Irving, author
John L. Barstow
John LeClair, first native born Vermonter to play in the National Hockey League
John Martin Thomas
John McCardell, Jr.
John Mellen Thurston
John O’Brien
John Putnam Chapin
John W. Phelps
Johnny Behan
Jon Fishman, Drummer/Vocals from the band Phish
Joseph A. Citro
Joseph A. Gilmore
Joseph A. Mower
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Joseph Smith, Sr., father of Joseph Smith, Jr.
Joseph Tracy
Josiah Grout
Joy Hakim
Julia Alvarez, author
Julia Caroline Dorr, author
Julian Scott, nineteenth century painter and muralist
Justin Morgan
Justin Smith Morrill, sponsor of the Land Grant College Act establishing “public ivies”
Katherine Paterson
Kelly Clark, Olympic gold medal winner, snowboarding 2002
Kenny Johnson, actor, played Lem on The Shield
Kevin Lepage, NASCAR driver from Shelburne
Ki Longfellow, novelist
KT Tunstall, musician
L. M. Shaw
Larry Gardner, Former MLB Third Baseman
Lemuel H. Arnold, a Governor of Rhode Island
Levi P. Morton
Lewis A. Grant
Linda Richards, America’s first trained nurse, attended St. Johnsbury Academy
Lindon Wallace Bates
Lindsey Jacobellis
Lou Blonger
Louise Glück, Pulitzer Prize winning poet
Louise Taylor
Lucien B. Caswell
Lucius E. Chittenden
Lucius Lyon, helped charter the State of Michigan
Lui Collins
Luis Guzmán, actor
Luke S. Johnson
Lyman E. Johnson
M. Emmet Walsh, actor
M. Jane Kitchel
Madeleine M. Kunin, former Ambassador
Margaret MacArthur, a musician and folk music archivist known as “Vermont’s Songcatcher”
Maria von Trapp
Mark Richards
Martin Henry Freeman
Martin St. Louis, NHL hockey player
Mary Azarian, woodcut artist, children’s book illustrator
Matt Salinger
Matthew H. Carpenter
Maxine Bahns
Merritt A. Edson
Michael A. Stackpole, Science Fiction/Fantasy author
Michael Moynihan
Mike Gordon, vocals/bassist from the band Phish
Milford Graves
Milo Parker Jewett
Miranda July
Moses Pendleton, choreographer
Moses Robinson
Nettie Stevens
Norman Dubie, poet
Norman Rockwell lived in Arlington
Oliver Cowdery
Orestes Brownson
Orson Bean, actor
Orville E. Babcock
Pamela Blair, actress
Patty Sheehan, professional golfer
Paul Hackett
Pearl S. Buck, author
Peter Gray, psychologist
Peter Schumann, founder and director of Bread and Puppet Theater
Peter T. Washburn
Philetus Sawyer
Philip Maxwell, physician and politician and the person for whom Chicago’s famous Maxwell Street was named
Phillips Lord, creator of radio programs
Phineas Gage
Piers Anthony,
Rachel Oakes Preston
Ralph Flanders
Ralph Steiner
Ray Collins
Richard A. Cody
Richard Brewer
Richard Morris Hunt, architect
Robert Cowdin
Robert Frost, poet
Robert M. Fisher, abstract artist
Robert Stafford, namesake of the Stafford Loan
Rockwell Stephens
Ronald I. Spiers
Ross Powers, Olympic gold medal winner, snowboarding, 2002
Royall Tyler, playwright and first Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
Rudolf Serkin
Rudolph Ruzicka, typeface designer and engraver
Rudy Vallée, singer. Born in Holland
Rudyard Kipling, British author, resident of Brattleboro, during which time he wrote The Jungle Book
Russell W. Porter
Sam Lloyd, Actor
Samual De Champlain
Samuel C. Upham
Samuel E. Pingree
Samuel Harrison Smith
Samuel Merrill
Samuel Morey
Samuel Worcester
Seth Warner
Sharon Underwood
Sherman Adams
Silas G. Pratt
Silas Wright
Simon Fraser
Sinclair Lewis, Nobel prize winning novelist, short story writer, and playwright.
Skiing Cochrans
Stanley Edgar Hyman
Stephen A. Douglas, U.S. Senator from Illinois, born in Brandon. Nominated for president 1860.
Stephen Alonzo Schoff
Stephen Huneck, artist
Stephen Thomas
Sterry R. Waterman
Steve Wisniewski
Steven James Howard
Steven T. Byington
Stewart Van Vliet
Susan Tolman Mills
Suzy Chaffee
Sylvester Churchill
T. Garry Buckley
Tasha Tudor
Ted Bundy
Thaddeus Stevens
Theodore P. Greene
Theodore Robinson
Thomas Cale
Thomas Chittenden
Thomas Davenport, inventor of the electric motor
Thomas E. G. Ransom
Thomas Jefferson Conant
Thomas O. Seaver
Thomas Rowley
Thomas Yamamoto, artist, lived and died in Plainfield
Tim Daly, actor, producer, and director
Timothy Steele
Tom Bodett
Tom Peters
Trey Anastasio, vocals/guitar for Phish, a popular jam-band
Tristan Honsinger
Truman Henry Safford
Truman Seymour
Urban A. Woodbury
Wallace M. Greene
Walt Lanfranconi, baseball player from Barre
Walter W. Granger
Warren Austin, early U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Welcome Chapman
Will Lyman, television actor
William Alanson Howard
William B. Castle
William Babcock Hazen
William Barstow Strong
William Bullock Clark
William Charles Fitzgerald
William Fairfield
William Farrar Smith
William Freeman Vilas
William Haile
William Henry Jackson
William Lamb Picknell, nineteenth century painter, member of the National Academy of Design
William Laurel Harris
William Marks
William Morris Hunt
William Rutherford Mead
William Sloane Coffin, Jr., a resident of Strafford
William Smith
William W. Henry
William Wade Dudley
Willis Sweet
Wilson ‘Snowflake’ Bentley, scientist and photographer
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