List of people from Bennington, Vermont
Encyclopedia
The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Bennington, Vermont.
Artists and entertainers
- Pamela BlairPamela BlairPamela Blair , known as Pam, is an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for originating the role of "Val" in the musical A Chorus Line and several appearances on American soap operas.-Early life and career:...
, actress, singer and dancer. - Beatrice BoeppleBeatrice BoeppleBeatrice Boepple is an American actress, perhaps best known for her role as Amanda Krueger in the 1989 horror movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child...
, actress. - Henry BrantHenry BrantHenry Dreyfuss Brant was a Canadian-born American composer. An expert orchestrator with a flair for experimentation, many of Brant's works featured spatialization techniques.- Biography :...
, composer. - Carleton CarpenterCarleton CarpenterCarleton Carpenter is an American movie/television/stage actor, a magician, author and songwriter....
, actor. - Helen FrankenthalerHelen FrankenthalerHelen Frankenthaler is an American abstract expressionist painter. She is a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work in six decades she has spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work...
, painter. - Robert FrostRobert FrostRobert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...
, poet. - Cynthia GibbCynthia GibbCynthia Gibb is an American actress and former model who has starred in film and on television. She is 5'-2" tall.-Biography:...
, actress and former model. - Milford GravesMilford GravesMilford Graves is an American jazz drummer and percussionist, most noteworthy for his early avant-garde contributions in the early 1960s with Paul Bley and the New York Art Quartet...
, free jazz drummer, percussion musician. - Stanley Edgar HymanStanley Edgar HymanStanley Edgar Hyman was a literary critic who wrote primarily about critical methods: the distinct strategies critics use in approaching literary texts. Though most likely to be remembered today as the husband of writer Shirley Jackson, he was influential for the development of literary theory in...
, literary critic. - Shirley JacksonShirley JacksonShirley Jackson was an American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years...
, author. - Jamaica KincaidJamaica KincaidJamaica Kincaid is a Caribbean novelist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in the city of St. John's on the island of Antigua in the nation of Antigua and Barbuda...
, novelist. - Ray MagliozziRay MagliozziRaymond F. "Clack Tappet" Magliozzi is a co-host of NPR's winning weekly radio show, Car Talk. They are known as "Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers"...
, co-host of NPR's weekly radio show, Car TalkCar TalkCar Talk is a radio talk show broadcast weekly on National Public Radio stations throughout the United States and elsewhere. Its subjects are automobiles and repair, and it often takes humorous turns...
. - Jules OlitskiJules OlitskiJules Olitski was an American abstract painter, printmaker, and sculptor.-Early life:Olitski was born Jevel Demikovski in Snovsk, in the Russian SFSR , a few months after his father, a commissar, was executed by the Russian government...
, painter. - Mary OliverMary OliverMary Oliver is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's [America's] best-selling poet".-Early life:...
, poet. - Allen ShawnAllen ShawnAllen Shawn is an American composer, pianist, educator, and author who lives in Vermont.-His music:Among Shawn's available recordings are several of chamber music, a collection of piano music, and his Piano Concerto performed by Ursula Oppens with the Albany Symphony Orchestra under the direction...
, composer. - David SmithDavid Smith (sculptor)David Roland Smith was an American Abstract Expressionist sculptor and painter, best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures.-Biography:...
, sculptor.
Professionals
- Hiram BinghamHiram Bingham IHiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham I , was leader of the first group of Protestant missionaries to introduce Christianity to the Hawaiian islands.-Life:...
, missionary. - William L. BurkeWilliam L. BurkeWilliam Lionel Burke was an astronomy, astrophysics, and physics professor at UC Santa Cruz. He is also the author of Spacetime, Geometry, Cosmology , and of Applied differential geometry , a text expounding the virtues of differential forms over vector calculus for theoretical physics.Born in...
, professor. - James Fisk, Jr.James Fisk (financier)James Fisk, Jr. —known variously as "Big Jim," "Diamond Jim," and "Jubilee Jim"—was an American stock broker and corporate executive.-Early life and career:...
, financier. - Simon FraserSimon Fraser (explorer)Simon Fraser was a fur trader and an explorer who charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia. Fraser was employed by the Montreal-based North West Company. By 1805, he had been put in charge of all the company's operations west of the Rocky Mountains...
, fur trader and explorer. - Daniel Williams HarmonDaniel Williams HarmonDaniel Williams Harmon was a fur trader and diarist.Harmon was born in Bennington, Vermont on February 19, 1778, son of Daniel and Lucretia Harmon and died April 23, 1843, in Sault-au-Récollet , Lower Canada. He took as a common-law wife Elizabeth Laval or Duval Daniel Williams Harmon (February...
, fur trader and diarist. - Horace Chapin HenryHorace Chapin HenryHorace Chapin Henry was an early Seattle businessman and founder of the Henry Art Gallery.-Biography:He was born at the Henry House in Bennington, Vermont in October, 1844....
, businessman and art gallery founder. - Alfred Lebbeus LoomisAlfred Lebbeus LoomisAlfred Lebbeus Loomis was an American physician who served as president of the Association of American Physicians.- Life and work :...
, physician - Isaac G. PerryIsaac G. PerryIsaac Gale Perry , was a prolific New York State architect and builder. His works include New York State Inebriate Asylum, Monday Afternoon Club, Phelps Mansion and the First National Bank of Oxford.- Life and career :...
, architect - John F. WinslowJohn F. WinslowJohn Flack Winslow was a nineteenth century businessman and iron manufacturer who was the fifth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute....
, industrialist and college president.
Murderess
- Mary RogersMary Rogers (murderer)Mary Mabel Rogers was the last woman legally executed by Vermont. Rogers was hanged for the 1902 murder of her husband, Marcus Rogers.-Marriage:...
, murderess. - Elizabeth Van ValkenburghElizabeth Van ValkenburghElizabeth van Valkenburgh was an early American murderer who was hanged for poisoning her husband.-Background:Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh was born in Bennington, Vermont...
, murderess.
Government
- Charles Dewey Day, judge.
- Hiland HallHiland HallHiland Hall was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Bennington, Vermont. He attended the common schools, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1819 and commenced practice in Bennington....
, congressman. - James Stuart HoldenJames Stuart HoldenJames Stuart Holden was a United States federal judge.Born in Bennington, Vermont, Holden received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1935 and an LL.B. from Albany Law School in 1938. He was in private practice in Bennington, Vermont from 1938 to 1941. He was in the United States Army Major,...
, judge. - Orsamus Cook MerrillOrsamus Cook MerrillOrsamus Cook Merrill was a U.S. Representative from Vermont.Born in Farmington, Connecticut, Merrill completed preparatory studies and moved to Bennington, Vermont, in 1791. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar...
, congressman. - Jesse O. NortonJesse O. NortonJesse Olds Norton was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born in Bennington, Vermont, Norton attended Bennington Academy was graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1835. Norton was a charter member of The Kappa Alpha Society and was awarded membership in Phi Beta Kappa...
, congressman. - Paul OffnerPaul OffnerPaul Offner was an educator, public health expert, and legislator.Born in Bennington, Vermont. Offner graduated from Amherst College in 1964. He received his masters and doctorate degrees from Princeton University. In 1974, Offner was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly from La Crosse, Wisconsin...
, Wisconsin State Legislature and educator. - Jonathan RobinsonJonathan RobinsonJonathan Robinson was an American jurist and politician from the state of Vermont.Robinson was born in Hardwick, Massachusetts. He moved with his family to Bennington, Vermont at the age of 5. Robinson did not enter politics until he was about 30 years old, when his brother, Moses Robinson became...
, senator. - Moses RobinsonMoses RobinsonMoses Robinson prominent Vermont political figure who served as governor during the Vermont Republic, and helped steward Vermont's transition to U.S. statehood. Not to be confused with the black dancer Moses J. Robinson from West Haven, Utah.Robinson was born in Hardwick, Massachusetts where he...
, senator and governor of Vermont. - Benjamin SwiftBenjamin SwiftBenjamin Swift was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator and lawyer from Vermont.Swift was born in Amenia, New York. He moved with his father to Bennington, Vermont at the age of 5. In 1809 he moved to St. Albans, Vermont and became an important lawyer, banker and farmer in that area...
, senator. - Isaac TichenorIsaac TichenorIsaac Tichenor was the third and fifth Governor of Vermont and also served as a jurist and a United States Senator.Tichenor was born in Newark, New Jersey...
, governor of Vermont, jurist and senator. - David S. WalbridgeDavid S. WalbridgeDavid Safford Walbridge was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Walbridge was born in Bennington, Vermont where he attended the common schools. He moved to New York in 1820 and engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits at Geneseo from 1820 to 1826 and at Jamestown from 1826 to 1842...
, congressman.
Sports
- Peter GravesPeter Graves (Announcer)Peter Graves is a noted television sportscaster and public address announcer specializing in Olympic, lifestyle and action sports. He is also the cross-country ski coach for Harvard University.-Early career:...
, announcer and coach. - Andrew NewellAndrew NewellAndrew "Andy" Newell is an American cross country skier who has been competing on the international level since 2001.- Career :...
, cross country skier.