List of people from Brattleboro, Vermont

See also: Category:People from Brattleboro, Vermont

The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Artists and entertainers

• Sam Amidon, folk artist
• Tony Barrand, musician
• Saul Bellow, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature ^[1]
• H. H. Bennett, photographer
• Thomas Chubbuck, engraver and designer of the "Brattleboro stamp"
• Douglas Cox, violin maker
• Ely Culbertson, contract bridge player and promoter ^[2]
• Doveman (real name Thomas Bartlett), musician
• Jacob Estey, reed organ maker
• Karen Hesse, children's author
• Leavitt Hunt, photography pioneer and attorney
• Richard Morris Hunt, architect
• 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 "JoJo" 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
• Patrick Schneeweis, folk-punk artist
• King Tuff, musician
• Royall Tyler, playwright ^[3]
• Kit Watkins, musician
• Claude Williamson, musician
• Stu Williamson, musician

Bands

• Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains
• Thus Love
• Witch (American band)

Military

• Theodore P. Greene, U.S. Navy rear admiral ^[4]
• George Bradley Kellogg, Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard, Lieutenant Colonel of the 1st Vermont Cavalry Regiment in the American Civil War ^[5]
• John W. Phelps, brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and later a minor party candidate for president ^[6]

Politics

• Becca Balint, U.S. Congresswoman, President pro tempore of the Vermont Senate ^[7]
• F. Elliott Barber, Jr., Vermont Attorney General ^[8]
• Herbert G. Barber, Vermont Attorney General ^[9]
• John S. Burgess, lieutenant governor of Vermont ^[10]
• Arthur P. Carpenter, US Marshal for Vermont ^[11]
• Willard H. Chandler, Wisconsin state senator ^[12]
• Harrie B. Chase, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, brother of Paul A. Chase ^[13]
• Paul A. Chase, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, brother of Harrie B. Chase ^{[14] [15]}
• Ezra Clark, Jr., U.S. congressman ^[16]
• James Elliot, U.S. congressman ^[17]
• Clarke C. Fitts, Vermont Attorney General ^[18]
• Levi K. Fuller, 44th Governor of Vermont ^[19]
• Ernest Willard Gibson, U.S. Senator ^[20]
• Ernest W. Gibson Jr., Governor of Vermont ^[21]
• Ernest W. Gibson III, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court ^[22]
• Abram A. Hammond, 12th Governor of Indiana ^[23]
• Broughton Harris, Vermont newspaper editor and businessman; one of the Runaway Officials of 1851 as Secretary of the Utah Territory ^[24]
• Christian Hansen Jr., U.S. Marshal for Vermont and member of the Vermont House of Representatives ^[25]
• Kittredge Haskins, U.S. congressman ^[26]
• Mark Higley, Vermont state legislator
• Frederick Holbrook, 27th Governor of Vermont ^[27]
• Frank E. Howe, lieutenant governor of Vermont ^[28]
• George Howe, State's Attorney of Windham County, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, member of the Vermont Senate ^[29]
• Jonathan Hunt, bank president and congressman ^[30]
• Daniel Kellogg, U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont and Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court ^[31]
• Samuel Knight, chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court ^[32]
• James Loren Martin, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont ^[33]
• John Humphrey Noyes, utopian socialist, free love advocate, and founder of the Oneida Community ^[34]
• Samuel E. Perkins, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court ^[35]
• Harvey Putnam, U.S. congressman ^[36]
• Peter Shumlin, 81st Governor of Vermont ^[37]
• Micah Townshend, Secretary of State of Vermont ^[38]
• Sharon Treat, member of the Maine House of Representatives and Maine Senate ^[39]
• James Manning Tyler, U.S. congressman ^[40]
• Eleazer L. Waterman, Judge of the Vermont Superior Court ^[41]
• Miro Weinberger, mayor of Burlington, Vermont ^[42]
• Hoyt Henry Wheeler, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont ^[43]

Philanthropist

• Ronald Read, philanthropist, investor, janitor, and gas station attendant who received media coverage after his death in 2014 due to bequeathing US$1.2 million to Brooks Memorial Library and $4.8 million to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital.

Professionals

• Emma Bailey, first American woman auctioneer
• Walter J. Bigelow, editor at the Brattleboro Reformer , former mayor of Burlington, Vermont ^[44]
• Dr. Charles Chapin, U.S. Marshal for Vermont ^[45]
• Alonzo Church, college president ^[46]
• William Bullock Clark, geologist
• Donald J. Cram, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, grew up in Brattleboro ^[47]
• Charles N. Davenport, attorney, Democratic Party leader, founder of the Brattleboro Reformer ^[48]
• James Fisk, financier
• Charles Christopher Frost, botanist
• Edwin Brant Frost, astronomer
• Ida May Fuller, first recipient of Social Security check
• John Holbrook, publisher and businessman
• Richard Morris Hunt, architect
• Leif K-Brooks, computer programmer and web designer
• William Rutherford Mead, architect
• James L. Oakes, judge
• Herbert Reiner Jr., diplomat
• 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 ^[49]
• Chris Duffy, center fielder and first baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Brewers, and Philadelphia Phillies ^[50]
• James Galanes, Olympic cross-country skier ^[51]
• Ernie Johnson, pitcher for the Boston Braves/Milwaukee Braves and Baltimore Orioles ^[52]
• Bill Koch, cross-country skier, Olympic silver medalist, World championship bronze medalist, World cup winner ^{[53] [54]}
• Joe Shield, quarterback for the Green Bay Packers ^[55]
• George Schildmiller, college baseball, basketball, and football player and college football coach ^[56]

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