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Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...
, live or lived in Vermont, or for whom Vermont is a significant part of their identity:
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- Bert AbbeyBert AbbeyBert Wood Abbey was a Major League baseball pitcher. He was born in Essex, VT.-Baseball debut:Abbey first began playing baseball as a freshman in college when he recruited fellow students to form the University of Vermont's Catamounts team...
(1869–1962); Major League baseball pitcher; born in EssexEssex, VermontEssex is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. The population was 19,587 at the 2010 census.By population, Essex is the largest town in Vermont, and the second-largest municipality .-Government:... - Charles Francis Adams (1876–1947); first owner of the Boston BruinsBoston BruinsThe Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the...
(1924–1925); born in NewportNewport (town), VermontNewport is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,511 at the 2000 census. The town is referred to by the United States Postal Service and the media as Newport Center, the name of the main settlement of the town.-Town:... - Charles Kendall Adams (1835–1902); educator and historian; born in DerbyDerby, VermontDerby is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. The population was 4,604 at the 2000 census. The town contains four unincorporated villages: Beebe Plain, Clyde Pond, Lake Salem and North Derby; and two incorporated villages: Derby Center and Derby Line...
- Frederick W. AdamsFrederick W. AdamsFrederick Whiting Adams was a noted physician, author, and violin maker.-Biography:He was born in Pawlet, Vermont in 1786, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1822....
(1786–1858); noted physician, author, violin maker; born in PawletPawlet, VermontPawlet is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,477 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which 0.02% is water.Pawlet is a rural farming town... - Sherman AdamsSherman AdamsLlewelyn Sherman Adams was an American politician, best known as White House Chief of Staff for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the culmination of a relatively short political career that also included a stint as Governor of New Hampshire...
(1899–1986), politician, Chief of Staff for President Dwight D. EisenhowerDwight D. EisenhowerDwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
, born in East DoverDover, VermontDover is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,410 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 35.3 square miles , all land... - Ben AffleckBen AffleckBenjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt , better known as Ben Affleck, is an American actor, film director, writer, and producer. He became known with his performances in Kevin Smith's films such as Mallrats and Chasing Amy...
actor. Attended one semester at the University of VermontUniversity of VermontThe University of Vermont comprises seven undergraduate schools, an honors college, a graduate college, and a college of medicine. The Honors College does not offer its own degrees; students in the Honors College concurrently enroll in one of the university's seven undergraduate colleges or... - Charles Augustus AikenCharles Augustus Aiken-Biography:He was born in Manchester, Vermont in 1827 to John Aiken and Harriet Adams Aiken. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1846, and went on to Andover Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1853. He married Sarah Noyes on October 17, 1854, and was ordained a pastor of the...
(1827–1892); clergyman and academic; born in ManchesterManchester (town), VermontManchester is a town in, and one of two shire towns of, Bennington County, Vermont, United States. The population was 4,180 at the 2000 census.... - George AikenGeorge AikenGeorge David Aiken was an American politician from Vermont. A Republican, he served as the 64th Governor of Vermont from 1937 to 1941 and as a U.S. Senator from 1941 to 1975...
, (1892 – 1984), Governor and US senator from Putney - Ivan AlbrightIvan AlbrightIvan Le Lorraine Albright was an American magic realist painter and artist, most renowned for his self-portraits, character studies, and still lifes.-Youth:...
(1897–1983); painter and artist; lived in Woodstock, Vermont - Henry Mills AldenHenry Mills AldenHenry Mills Alden was an American author and editor of Harper's Magazine for fifty years—from 1869 until 1919.-Biography:...
, editor of Harper's Weekly - Ebenezer AllenEbenezer AllenEbenezer Allen was an American soldier, pioneer, and member of the Vermont General Assembly. He was born in Northampton, Massachusetts on 17 October 1743. His parents were Samuel Allen and Hannah Miller ....
- Ethan AllenEthan AllenEthan Allen was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of the U.S...
, commander of the Green Mountain BoysGreen Mountain BoysThe Green Mountain Boys were a militia organization first established in the 1760s in the territory between the British provinces of New York and New Hampshire, known as the New Hampshire Grants... - Fanny AllenFanny AllenFrances Margaret Allen was the first New England woman to become a Catholic nun. The daughter of Revolutionary War General Ethan Allen, she converted to Catholicism and entered the convent of the Religious Hospitallers of St...
after whom the hospital is named. - Ira AllenIra AllenIra Allen was one of the founders of Vermont, and leaders of the Green Mountain Boys; and was the brother of Ethan Allen.-Biography:...
- Jerome AllenJerome Allen (author)Jerome Allen was an American educator and author, born in Westminster, Vermont. He graduated at Amherst College in 1851, then presided over several institutions in the Western United States from 1851 to 1885.Professor Allen's publications include:...
, author - Julia AlvarezJulia ÁlvarezJulia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involvement in a political rebellion forced her family to flee the country.Alvarez rose to...
, author - Trey AnastasioTrey AnastasioTrey Anastasio is an American guitarist, composer, and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish...
, vocals/guitar for PhishPhishPhish is an American rock band noted for its musical improvisation, extended jams, and exploration of music across genres. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 , the band's four members – Trey Anastasio , Mike Gordon , Jon Fishman , and Page McConnell Phish is an American rock band...
, a popular jam-band
- Piers AnthonyPiers AnthonyPiers Anthony Dillingham Jacob is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best...
, (pseudonym) science fiction author - Lemuel H. ArnoldLemuel H. ArnoldLemuel Hastings Arnold was the 12th Governor of the State of Rhode Island, as well as a U.S. Congressman.He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont to Dr. Jonathan & Cynthia Arnold....
, a Governor of Rhode Island - Chester A. ArthurChester A. ArthurChester Alan Arthur was the 21st President of the United States . Becoming President after the assassination of President James A. Garfield, Arthur struggled to overcome suspicions of his beginnings as a politician from the New York City Republican machine, succeeding at that task by embracing...
, twenty-first president of the United States - Warren AustinWarren AustinWarren Robinson Austin was an American politician and statesman; among other roles, he served as Senator from Vermont....
, early U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations - Charlotte AyannaCharlotte AyannaCharlotte Ayanna is an American actress and former Miss Teen USA.-Early life:Ayanna was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, but moved to Vermont at an early age. She had a troubled childhood, spending thirteen years in foster homes after her mother, Emma, was judged to be mentally unfit to look after...
, actress and the 1993 Miss Teen Vermont & Miss Teen USAMiss Teen USAMiss Teen USA is a beauty pageant run by the Miss Universe Organization for girls aged 14–19. The reigning titleholder is Danielle Doty of Texas....
. - Mary AzarianMary AzarianMary Azarian is an American woodcut artist and children's book illustrator. In 1999 she won the Caldecott Medal for her book, Snowflake Bentley, a picture book of the life of Wilson Bentley....
, woodcut artist, children's book illustrator
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- Orville E. BabcockOrville E. BabcockOrville Elias Babcock was an American Civil War General in the Union Army. Immediately upon graduating third in his class as United States Military Academy in 1861, Babcock would go onto serve efficiently in the Corps of Engineers throughout the Civil War and was promoted to Brevet Brigadier...
- Edwin Eugene BagleyEdwin Eugene BagleyEdwin Eugene Bagley was born in Craftsbury, Vermont on May 29, 1857 and died in Keene, New Hampshire on January 29, 1922. He is famous for composing the National Emblem....
, composer of National Emblem and other marches - Maxine BahnsMaxine BahnsMaxine Lee Bahns is an American actress, triathlete and model. She is best known for her role as Star in the 2000 film Cutaway.-Early life:...
- Arthur Scott BaileyArthur Scott BaileyArthur Scott Bailey was the author of more than forty children's books. He was born on November 15, 1877, in St. Albans, Vermont, United States, the second child of Winfield Scott Bailey and Harriet Sarah Goodhue . Winfield Bailey owned a dry goods shop that was stated to be "one of the most...
- Brad BakerBrad BakerBradley Donald Baker is a former Minor League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher. Baker threw a fastball which consistently hit 90 mph, an above-average change and an average curve.- High school :...
- David BallDavid Ball (wide receiver)David Ball is a professional wide receiver for the Erie Explosion of the Ultimate Indoor Football League. He was signed by the Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent in 2007...
- NFL football player
- Hosea BallouHosea BallouHosea Ballou was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer.-Biography:Hosea Ballou was born in Richmond, New Hampshire, to a family of Huguenot origin...
, a father of American Universalism - Bradley BarlowBradley BarlowBradley Barlow was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Fairfield, Vermont. He attended the common schools and then engaged in mercantile pursuits in Philadelphia until 1858, when he moved to St...
- John BarrettJohn Barrett (diplomat)John Barrett was a United States diplomat and one of the most influential early directors general of the Pan American Union. On his death, the New York Times commented that he had "done more than any other person of his generation to promote closer relations among the American...
- John L. BarstowJohn L. BarstowJohn Lester Barstow was a teacher, farmer, politician, and soldier.Barstow was born in Shelburne, Vermont, the son of Heman and Lorain Barstow. After teaching in a local school starting at the age of 15, he moved west to Detroit, but returned in 1857 to help his aging parents with the farm...
- Daric BartonDaric BartonDaric William Barton nicknamed "D.B.", is a Major League Baseball first baseman who plays for the Oakland Athletics....
- Lindon Wallace BatesLindon Wallace BatesLindon Wallace Bates was an American civil engineer, born at Marshfield, Vt., and educated at Yale College. After the completion of engineering studies he was appointed assistant engineer for the Northern Pacific and Oregon Pacific railways, and subsequently was contracting engineer or manager of...
- Alison BechdelAlison BechdelAlison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her graphic memoir Fun Home.-Early life:...
- Fernando C. BeamanFernando C. BeamanFernando Cortez Beaman was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan during and after the American Civil War....
- Orson BeanOrson BeanOrson Bean is an American film, television, and Broadway actor. He appeared frequently on televised game shows in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including being a long-time panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth....
, actor - Johnny BehanJohnny BehanJohn Harris Behan was from April, 1881 to November, 1882 sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona Territory. Behan was appointed the first sheriff of the newly-created county in February, 1881. The mining boomtown of Tombstone was the new county seat and Behan's headquarters...
- Hiram BellHiram BellHiram Bell was a U.S. Representative from the Ohio's Third Congressional District of Ohio.Bell was born in Salem , Vermont, and attended the public schools of his native town. In 1826, his parents moved the family to Hamilton, Ohio. There he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1829, when he...
- H. H. BennettH. H. BennettHenry Hamilton Bennett was a photographer famous for his pictures of the Dells of the Wisconsin River and surrounding region taken between 1865 and 1908. The popularity of his photographs helped turn the city of Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin into a major tourist destination.-Early life:H. H...
- Wilson 'Snowflake' BentleyWilson BentleyWilson Alwyn "Snowflake" Bentley , born in Jericho, Vermont, United States is one of the first known photographers of snowflakes. He perfected a process of catching flakes on black velvet in such a way that their images could be captured before they either melted or sublimed.-Biography:Bentley was...
, scientist and photographer - Bill W.Bill W.William Griffith Wilson , also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous , an international mutual aid fellowship with over two million members belonging to 100,800 groups of alcoholics helping other alcoholics achieve and maintain sobriety...
, founder of AA - Charles E. BillingsCharles E. BillingsCharles Ethan Billings was an American inventor.He was born in Weathersfield, Vermont, the son of Ethan F. and Clarissa M. Billings...
- Frederick H. BillingsFrederick H. BillingsFrederick Billings was an American lawyer and financier. From 1879 to 1881 he was President of the Northern Pacific Railway....
- Stephen BissetteStephen R. BissetteStephen R. Bissette is an American comics artist, editor, and publisher with a focus on the horror genre. He is best known for working with writer Alan Moore and inker John Totleben on the DC comic Swamp Thing in the 1980s....
- 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 - George BlissGeorge Bliss (Congressman)George Bliss was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio.Bliss was born in Jericho, Vermont. He attended Granville College. Moved to Ohio in 1832, studied law with David Kellogg Cartter, was admitted to the bar in 1841 and became Cartter's law partner in Akron, Ohio.Bliss...
- Lou BlongerLou BlongerLou Blonger , born Louis Herbert Belonger, was a Wild West saloonkeeper, gambling-house owner, and mine speculator, but is best known as the kingpin of an extensive ring of confidence tricksters that operated for more than 25 years in Denver, Colorado...
- Aretas BloodAretas BloodAretas Blood played an important role in the manufacture of early American railroad steam locomotives.Blood was born in Weathersfield, Vermont. At the age of 17, as railroads began to be built in the United States, he was apprenticed as a blacksmith...
- Asa P. BluntAsa P. BluntAsa Peabody Blunt was a draughtsman and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Tom BodettTom BodettThomas Edward "Tom" Bodett is an American author, voice actor and radio host. He is also the current spokesman for the hotel chain Motel 6, whose commercials end with the phrase, "I'm Tom Bodett for Motel 6, and we'll leave the light on for ya."-Career:...
- 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 - Chris BohjalianChris BohjalianChristopher Aram Bohjalian, who goes by the pen name Chris Bohjalian, is an American novelist. Bohjalian is the author of 14 novels, including New York Times bestsellers Midwives, "Secrets of Eden," The Law of Similars, Before You Know Kindness, The Double Bind and Skeletons at the Feast...
, author - Andrew BowenAndrew BowenAndrew Bowen is an American comic actor. Bowen is known most for his appearances on the sketch comedy series MADtv.-Biography:...
, actor - Elmer BowmanElmer BowmanElmari Wilhelm Bowman was a Major League Baseball player for the Washington Senators in August 1920. The 23-year-old rookie made two pinch-hitting appearances for the Senators and did not play in the field, so his position is not known.Both of Bowman's appearances took place on the road...
- Keegan BradleyKeegan BradleyKeegan Bradley is an American professional golfer who is a rookie on the PGA Tour. He has won two tour events, most notably the 2011 PGA Championship...
, skier, grew up in Woodstock - Ezra BrainerdEzra BrainerdEzra Brainerd was president of Middlebury College from 1885 until 1908.Born in St. Albans, Vermont, Brainerd was a graduate of the college in 1864. Brainerd assumed the presidency at a time when the college was recovering from an extended period of hardship...
- L. Paul BremerL. Paul BremerLewis Paul "Jerry" Bremer III is an American diplomat. He is most notable for being the U.S. Administrator to Iraq charged with overseeing the country's occupation after the 2003 invasion. In his role as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, he reported primarily to the U.S. Secretary of...
, Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraq, 2003-4 - Richard BrewerRichard BrewerRichard M. "Dick" Brewer , was an American cowboy and outlaw. He was the first leader of what historically is referred to as Billy the Kid's band, although Billy never led them.-Early life:...
(1852–1878); cowboy; born in St. AlbansSt. Albans (town), VermontSt. Albans is a town in Franklin County, Vermont. The population was 6,392 at the 2010 census. The town completely surrounds the city of St. Albans, which was separated from the town and incorporated in 1902. References to "St. Albans" prior to this date generally refer to the town center, which... - Francis Fisher BrowneFrancis Fisher Browne-Biography:Browne was born in South Halifax, Vermont. After his high school education, Browne enlisted in the Forty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteers ....
- Orestes BrownsonOrestes BrownsonOrestes Augustus Brownson was a New England intellectual and activist, preacher, labor organizer, and noted Catholic convert and writer...
- Pearl S. BuckPearl S. BuckPearl Sydenstricker Buck also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu , was an American writer who spent most of her time until 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932...
, author - T. Garry BuckleyT. Garry BuckleyThomas Garry Buckley was the 72nd Lieutenant Governor of Vermont. He was elected lieutenant governor in 1976 without winning a majority of the vote. He finished second in the general election, but under Vermont law, since neither candidate received a majority, the Vermont General Assembly was...
- Ted BundyTed BundyTheodore Robert "Ted" Bundy was an American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women during the 1970s, and possibly earlier...
(1946–1989); serial killer; born in BurlingtonBurlington, VermontBurlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal.... - James E. BurkeJames E. BurkeJames E. Burke was the chief executive officer of Johnson & Johnson from 1976 to 1989, a company for which he worked forty years.-Early life:...
- Alex Burnham, The Burnham Brothers Band
- Andre Burnham, The Burnham Brothers Band
- Forrest Burnham, The Burnham Brothers Band
- Steven T. ByingtonSteven T. ByingtonSteven Tracy Byington was a noted intellectual, translator, and American individualist anarchist. He was born in Westford, Vermont, and later moved to Ballardvale section of Andover, Massachusetts. A one-time proponent of Georgism, he converted to individualist anarchism after associating with...
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- Brad "Spider" Caldwell, Penn St Football Equipment Manager
- John C. CaldwellJohn C. CaldwellJohn Curtis Caldwell was a teacher, a Union general in the American Civil War, and an American diplomat.-Early life:Caldwell was born in Lowell, Vermont...
- Samuel de ChamplainSamuel de ChamplainSamuel de Champlain , "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He founded New France and Quebec City on July 3, 1608....
- Thomas CaleThomas CaleThomas Cale was a delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the District of Alaska. He was born in Underhill, Vermont in Chittenden County. He attended the district schools and Bell Academy at Underhill Flats, Vermont. In 1866, he moved to Fort Edward, New York in Washington County...
- Delino Dexter CalvinDelino Dexter CalvinDelino Dexter Calvin was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Frontenac in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative member from 1868 to 1875 and from 1877 to 1883....
- Zach Campbell, multi-instrumentalist
- Jim CantoreJim CantoreJames D. Cantore is an American meteorologist. He is best known as an on-air personality for The Weather Channel.- Career :...
, Weather Channel meteorologist - Jake Burton CarpenterJake Burton CarpenterJake Burton Carpenter , also known as Jake Burton, is an American snowboarder and founder of Burton Snowboards. He grew up in Cedarhurst, New York.- Biography :...
, owner of Burton SnowboardsBurton (Snowsports)Burton Snowboards is a manufacturer of snowboards. Founded by Jake Burton Carpenter in 1977, the company specializes in a product line aimed at snowboarders: snowboards, bindings, boots, outerwear, and accessories....
, from Londonderry - Matthew H. CarpenterMatthew H. CarpenterMatthew Hale Carpenter , was a member of the Republican Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1869–1875 and again from 1879 - 1881....
- Albert CarringtonAlbert CarringtonAlbert Carrington born in Royalton, Vermont, was an apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and First Presidency in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He was ordained as an apostle on July 3, 1870.Carrington served in the Utah Territorial Legislature in 1869...
- Hayden CarruthHayden CarruthHayden Carruth was an American poet and literary critic. He taught at Syracuse University.-Life:Hayden Carruth grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut, and was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Chicago. He lived in Johnson, Vermont for many years...
- William B. CastleWilliam B. CastleWilliam Bainbridge Castle was an American politician of the Whig Party who served as the 11th and final mayor of Ohio City from 1853 to 1854 and the 14th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1855 and 1856....
- Lucien B. CaswellLucien B. CaswellLucien Bonaparte Caswell was an American politician.Born in Swanton, Vermont, he moved with his family to frontier Wisconsin in 1836 and settled along the Rock River, just south of Lake Koshkonong. Caswell attended Milton Academy and Beloit College, studying law...
- Suzy ChaffeeSuzy ChaffeeSuzanne "Suzy" Chaffee is a former Olympic alpine ski racer and actress. Following her racing career, she modelled in New York with Ford Models and then became the pre-eminent freestyle ballet skier of the early 1970s...
- Beth ChamberlinBeth ChamberlinBeth Chamberlin is a American actress and fitness coach.-Film and television roles:She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Beth Raines Spaulding LeMay Winslow Spaulding Bauer Spaulding on Guiding Light. She was the second actress to portray the role and initially portrayed Beth for a two...
- John Putnam ChapinJohn Putnam ChapinJohn Putnam Chapin served as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the Whig Party....
- Welcome ChapmanWelcome ChapmanWelcome Chapman was an early Mormon leader born in Readsboro, Vermont. Chapman was the leader of the Mormon settlers in Manti, Utah, from 1854 to 1862, and helped broker peace between the settlers and Chief Wakara's tribe....
- Arthur ChaseArthur ChaseArthur Chase was the co-founder of Theta Chi Fraternity. He was born in Bellows Falls, Vermont and entered Norwich University in 1852 where he roomed with a young cadet named George Dewey who later became famous as an Admiral. Chase was 20 years old when he assisted his distant cousin Frederick...
- Harrie B. ChaseHarrie B. ChaseHarrie Brigham Chase was a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.A native and resident of Vermont, Chase attended Dartmouth College, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. He also attended Boston University School of Law. He was a state's attorney of...
- Horace ChaseHorace ChaseHorace B. Chase was an American politician who served as mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Chase was born in Vermont, on Christmas Day of 1810 and lived near Derby, Vermont. One of Milwaukee's pioneers, he first arrived in Milwaukee in December 1834, left for Chicago, and returned to settle in...
- Daniel ChipmanDaniel ChipmanDaniel Chipman was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Salisbury, Connecticut. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1788. He studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced in Rutland, Vermont 1790–1794. In addition, he was a member of the state constitutional...
- Thomas ChittendenThomas ChittendenThomas Chittenden was an important figure in the founding of Vermont.Chittenden was born in East Guilford, Connecticut and moved to Vermont in 1774, where he founded the town of Williston. During the American Revolution, Chittenden was a member of a committee empowered to negotiate with the...
- Lucius E. ChittendenLucius E. ChittendenLucius Eugene Chittenden was a Vermont author, banker, lawyer, politician and peace advocate who served as Register of the Treasury during the Lincoln administration.-Early life:...
- Sylvester ChurchillSylvester ChurchillSylvester Churchill was an American journalist and Regular Army officer.-Early life:Churchill was born in Woodstock, Vermont, the son of Joseph and Sarah Churchill...
- Joseph A. CitroJoseph A. CitroJoseph A. Citro is a Vermont author and folklorist. Occasionally referred as the "Bard of the Bizarre" or "the Ghost-Master General", he has extensively researched and documented the folklore, hauntings, ghost stories, paranormal activity and occult happenings of New England.Interested in horror...
- Charles Edgar ClarkCharles Edgar ClarkRear Admiral Charles Edgar Clark was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War and the Spanish–American War.-Biography:...
,Born in Bradford Vermont, AdmiralAdmiral (United States)In the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard and the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, admiral is a four-star flag officer rank, with the pay grade of O-10. Admiral ranks above vice admiral and below Fleet Admiral in the Navy; the Coast Guard and the Public Health...
during Spanish-American WarSpanish-American WarThe Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence... - Kelly ClarkKelly ClarkKelly Clark is a snowboarder born in the village of West Dover in the town of Dover, Vermont. She has been snowboarding since she was 8 years old, and began competing in 1999...
, Olympic gold medal winner, snowboarding 2002 - William Bullock ClarkWilliam Bullock ClarkWilliam Bullock Clark, Ph. D., LL.D , was an American geologist.He was born at Brattleboro, Vermont, and educated at Amherst College and in Munich...
- Skiing CochransSkiing CochransThe Skiing Cochrans are a family of alpine ski racers from Richmond, Vermont. The Cochrans were a dominant force on the U.S. Ski Team in the late 1960s and early 1970s....
- Richard A. CodyRichard A. CodyRichard A. Cody is a retired United States Army general who served as the 31st Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army from June 24, 2004 to July 31, 2008. He retired from the Army on August 1, 2008.-Early life and career:...
- William Sloane CoffinWilliam Sloane CoffinWilliam Sloane Coffin, Jr. was an American liberal Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist. He was ordained in the Presbyterian church and later received ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ....
, Jr., a resident of Strafford - Ben Cohen
- Zerah ColburnZerah Colburn (math prodigy)Zerah Colburn was a child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator.-Biography:He was born in Cabot, Vermont in 1804 and educated at Westminster School in London. He was thought to be mentally retarded until the age of seven. However, after six weeks of schooling his...
(1804–1840); math prodigy; born in Cabot - Lui CollinsLui CollinsLui Collins is a contemporary folk singer-songwriter. She attended the University of Connecticut and played her first gigs as a student there. She began touring in the mid-1970s as part of a duo with Horace Williams, Jr.. Her first two albums consisted of cover songs, after which she moved on to...
- Ray Collins
- Gardner Quincy ColtonGardner Quincy ColtonGardner Quincy Colton was an American showman, lecturer, and former medical student who pioneered the use of nitrous oxide in dentistry....
who pioneered the use of nitrous oxideNitrous oxideNitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas or sweet air, is a chemical compound with the formula . It is an oxide of nitrogen. At room temperature, it is a colorless non-flammable gas, with a slightly sweet odor and taste. It is used in surgery and dentistry for its anesthetic and analgesic...
(laughing gas) for dental procedures. From Georgia, VermontGeorgia, VermontGeorgia is a town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States. The population was 4,375 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 45.2 square miles , of which, 39.5 square miles of it is land and 5.7 square miles of it ... - George ColvocoressesGeorge ColvocoressesGeorge Musalas "Colvos" Colvocoresses was a United States Navy officer who commanded the USS Saratoga during the American Civil War. From 1838 up until 1842, he served in the United States Exploring Expedition, better known as the Wilkes Expedition, which explored large regions of the Pacific Ocean...
- George Partridge ColvocoressesGeorge Partridge ColvocoressesGeorge Partridge Colvocoresses was a United States Navy rear admiral. He was the son of Captain George M. Colvocoresses, the adopted son of Captain Alden Partridge, founder of Norwich University in Vermont. George P...
- Jessica ComolliJessica ComolliJessica May Comolli is a beauty queen from Montpelier, Vermont who competed in the Miss USA pageant in 2007.Comolli won the Miss Vermont USA 2007 title in a state pageant held in Burlington, Vermont on November 5, 2006. She had previously placed first runner-up to Amanda Gilman in the 2006 event...
- Thomas Jefferson ConantThomas Jefferson ConantThomas Jefferson Conant , American Biblical scholar, was born at Brandon, Vermont.Graduating from Middlebury College in 1823, he became tutor in the Columbian University, Washington D.C...
- George A. ConverseGeorge A. ConverseGeorge Albert Converse was a rear admiral in the United States Navy, who was noted for his contributions to naval engineering...
- Calvin CoolidgeCalvin CoolidgeJohn Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...
, thirtieth president of the United States - Barry M. CostelloBarry M. CostelloVice Admiral Barry M. Costello was the Commander, US Third Fleet of the United States Navy , May 2005 - May 2007.-Biography:He is native of Rutland, Vermont. He attended College of the Holy Cross and was commissioned an Ensign through the NROTC Program in 1973...
, US Vice admiral, native of Rutland - Douglas M. CostleDouglas M. CostleDouglas Michael Costle was one of the architects of the United States Environmental Protection Agency , and he served President Jimmy Carter as EPA Administrator from 1977 to 1981.- Early life and education :...
- Oliver CowderyOliver CowderyOliver H. P. Cowdery was, with Joseph Smith, Jr., an important participant in the formative period of the Latter Day Saint movement between 1829 and 1836, becoming one of the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon's golden plates, one of the first Latter Day Saint apostles, and the Second Elder of...
- Robert CowdinRobert CowdinRobert Cowdin was a businessman, a field officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a local politician in Massachusetts. Cowdin was colonel of the 1st Massachusetts Infantry and served in several major battles early in the war...
- Aaron H. CraginAaron H. CraginAaron Harrison Cragin was a United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Weston, Vermont, he completed preparatory studies, studied law, was admitted to the bar in Albany, New York in 1847 and commenced practice in Lebanon, New Hampshire...
- Jay CravenJay CravenJay Craven is a Vermont film director, screenwriter and professor of film studies at Marlboro College.Jay Craven is known for creating award winning films on modest budgets, adopting all of the novels of author Howard Frank Mosher to film...
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- Tim Daly, actor, producer, and director
- John Cotton DanaJohn Cotton DanaJohn Cotton Dana was an American librarian and museum director whose main objective was to make the library relevant to the daily lives of the citizens and to promote the benefits of reading...
- Jeff DanzigerJeff DanzigerJeff Danziger is a syndicated political cartoonist and author.Danziger served in the United States Army from 1967 until 1971. An intelligence officer and linguist during the Vietnam War, he was awarded the Bronze Star and Air Medal in 1970...
, political cartoonist - Thomas Davenport, inventor of the electric motor
- Howard DeanHoward DeanHoward Brush Dean III is an American politician and physician from Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. Although his U.S...
, Democratic National Committee Chairman 2005-9 - John Deere, inventor of the steel plow and founder of agricultural equipment manufacturer Deere & Company
- David DellingerDavid DellingerDavid T. Dellinger , was an influential American radical, a pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change.-Chicago Seven:...
, one of Chicago SevenChicago SevenThe Chicago Seven were seven defendants—Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner—charged with conspiracy, inciting to riot, and other charges related to protests that took place in Chicago, Illinois on the occasion of the 1968...
- George DeweyGeorge DeweyGeorge Dewey was an admiral of the United States Navy. He is best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War...
, hero of Manila BayBattle of Manila Bay (1898)The Battle of Manila Bay took place on 1 May 1898, during the Spanish-American War. The American Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey engaged and destroyed the Spanish Pacific Squadron under Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarón...
and the only Admiral of the Navy ever appointed in America
- John DeweyJohn DeweyJohn Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology...
, philosopher and educator
- Julia Caroline DorrJulia Caroline DorrJulia Caroline Dorr was an American author who published both prose and poetry. She was born at Charleston, South Carolina, but moved early in her life to New York City, then to Rutland, Vermont. There she married Hon. Seneca R. Dorr. Her earliest published writings appeared in 1848...
, author - Stephen A. DouglasStephen A. DouglasStephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Northern Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860. He lost to the Republican Party's candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom he had defeated two years earlier in a Senate contest following a famed...
, U.S. Senator from Illinois, born in Brandon. Nominated for president 1860. - A. E. DouglassA. E. DouglassA. E. Douglass was an American astronomer. He discovered a correlation between tree rings and the sunspot cycle....
, astronomer - Norman DubieNorman DubieNorman Dubie is an American poet.-Life:He is the author of more than eighteen books, often assuming historical personae in his works...
, poet - Jean DubucJean DubucJean Joseph Octave "Chauncey" Dubuc was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played with the Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, and New York Giants during his nine year career. Dubuc had an overall record of 85–76 with a 3.04 ERA.-Early life and amateur career:Born in St. Johnsbury,...
, baseball pitcher. Born in St. Johnsbury - William Wade DudleyWilliam Wade DudleyWilliam Wade Dudley , born in Weathersfield Bow, Vermont, started life as a soldier in the American Civil War, then became a lawyer, a government official and a Republican campaigner.-Background:William Wade Dudley was the son of Rev...
- Chris Duffy, baseball player. Born in Brattleboro
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- Horatio EarleHoratio EarleHoratio Sawyer Earle is known as the "Father of Good Roads" or simply Horatio "Good Roads" Earle.-Early life:Earle was born February 14, 1855 on a farm in Mount Holly, Vermont. He married Agnes Lincoln in 1874 and they had a son, Romeo Horatio Earle in 1878...
, promoted "good roads" when the automobile was introduced - John EatonJohn Eaton (General)For other people named John Eaton, see John Eaton .John Eaton, Jr. was a U.S. Commissioner of Education and a brevet brigadier general during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
, US commissioner of education - Dorman Bridgeman Eaton, instrumental in federal civil service reform
- Eddy BrothersEddy BrothersThe Eddy Brothers refers to William Eddy and Horatio Eddy, popular Spiritualist mediums of the 1870s.-History:During the 1870s, the Eddy brothers held seances in Chittenden, Vermont, claiming to materialize spirits of the dead including drowned sailors, Native Americans, and soldiers who died in...
- George F. EdmundsGeorge F. EdmundsGeorge Franklin Edmunds was a Republican U.S. Senator from Vermont from 1866 to 1891.Born in Richmond, Vermont, Edmunds attended common schools and was privately tutored as a child. After being admitted to the bar in 1849, he started a law practice in Burlington, Vermont...
- Merritt A. EdsonMerritt A. EdsonMajor General Merritt Austin Edson , known as "Red Mike", was a general in the United States Marine Corps. Among the decorations he received was the Medal of Honor, two Navy Crosses, the Silver Star, and two Legions of Merit...
- Chesselden EllisChesselden EllisChesselden Ellis was a United States Representative from New York. Born in New Windsor, Vermont, he completed preparatory studies and was graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1823. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced practice in Waterford, New York...
- George F. EmmonsGeorge F. EmmonsGeorge Foster Emmons was a rear admiral of the United States Navy, who served in the early to mid 19th century.-Biography:Born in Clarendon, Vermont, Emmons began his distinguished career as a midshipman on 1 April 1828...
- Jacob EsteyJacob EsteyJacob Estey was the founder of Estey Organ.-Biography:He was born in 1814 in Hinsdale, New Hampshire and ran away from an orphanage to Worcester, Massachusetts, where he learned the plumbing trade. He arrived in Brattleboro, Vermont in 1835 at age 21 to work in a plumbing shop which he soon bought...
- Jeremiah EvartsJeremiah EvartsJeremiah F. Evarts was a Christian missionary, reformer, and activist for the rights of American Indians in the United States, and a leading opponent of the Indian removal policy of the United States government.-Early years:...
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- William FairfieldWilliam FairfieldWilliam Fairfield was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Pawlet, Vermont in 1769 or 1770, the son of William Fairfield, a farmer. His father fought with Edward Jessup's loyalist forces and moved with his family to Machiche in Quebec in 1779...
- John C. Farrar
- Thomas Green FessendenThomas Green FessendenThomas Green Fessenden was an author and editor who worked in England and the United States.-Biography:...
, one of the earliest American writers - Young FirpoYoung FirpoYoung Firpo was a professional light-heavyweight boxer. He was a popular fighter in the Pacific Northwest during the 1920s and 1930s, particularly in Portland, Oregon...
- Dorothy Canfield FisherDorothy Canfield FisherDorothy Canfield Fisher was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early decades of the twentieth century. She was named by Eleanor Roosevelt as one of the ten most influential women in the United States...
, writer - Robert M. FisherRobert M. FisherRobert Miles Fisher , was an American abstract artist in oils, watercolor, charcoal, and welded sculpture.-Biography:...
, abstract artist - Jon FishmanJon FishmanJon Fishman is an American drummer best known for his work with the band Phish. He is credited with co-writing 19 Phish originals, 8 of them as a solo credit....
, Drummer/Vocals from the band PhishPhishPhish is an American rock band noted for its musical improvisation, extended jams, and exploration of music across genres. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 , the band's four members – Trey Anastasio , Mike Gordon , Jon Fishman , and Page McConnell Phish is an American rock band... - Carlton FiskCarlton FiskCarlton Ernest Fisk , nicknamed "Pudge" or "The Commander", is a former Major League Baseball catcher. During a 24-year baseball career, he played for both the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox .Fisk was known by the nickname "Pudge" due to his 6'2", 220 lb frame...
(b. 1947); former Major League Baseball Hall of Fame catcher; born in Bellows FallsBellows Falls, VermontBellows Falls is an incorporated village located in the town of Rockingham in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The population was 3,165 at the 2000 census... - James FiskJames 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:...
- Irving FiskeIrving FiskeIrving Fiske born Irving Fishman in Brooklyn, New York, was a playwright, inventor, freelance writer, and speaker...
- William Charles FitzgeraldWilliam Charles FitzgeraldWilliam "Bill" C. Fitzgerald was a United States Navy officer who was killed in action during the Vietnam War, while serving as an advisor to the Republic of Vietnam Navy...
- John FitzpatrickJohn Fitzpatrick (mayor of New Orleans)John Fitzpatrick was an Irish-American mayor of New Orleans from April 25, 1892 to April 27, 1896.-External links:*...
- Ed Flanagan, auditor of accounts & state senator
- Helen Hartness FlandersHelen Hartness FlandersHelen Hartness Flanders , a native of the U.S. state of Vermont, was an internationally recognized ballad collector and an authority on the folk music found in New England and the British Isles...
, collector of traditional ballads - Ralph FlandersRalph FlandersRalph Edward Flanders was an American mechanical engineer, industrialist and Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Vermont. He grew up on subsistence farms in Vermont and Rhode Island, became an apprentice first as a machinist, then as a draftsman, before training as a mechanical engineer...
- Henry A. FletcherHenry A. FletcherHenry Addison Fletcher was an American Civil War veteran, a farmer and a U.S. politician of the Republican Party.-Roots:...
- George P. FosterGeorge P. FosterGeorge Perkins Foster was a school teacher, general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and then a United States Marshal.-Early life and career:...
- 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...
- Martin Henry FreemanMartin Henry FreemanMartin Henry Freeman was the first Black president of an American college, as well as later serving as president of Liberia College....
- 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 - Ida May FullerIda May FullerIda May Fuller was the first American to receive a monthly benefit Social Security check. She received the check, amounting to $22.54, on January 31, 1940.Fuller was born on a farm outside Ludlow, Vermont...
, first recipient of Social Security - John FuscoJohn FuscoJohn Fusco is an American screenwriter born in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. His screenplays include Crossroads, Young Guns, Young Guns II, Thunderheart, Hidalgo, and the Oscar-nominatedSpirit: Stallion of the Cimarron...
, Hollywood movie writer/producer; wrote HidalgoHidalgo (film)Hidalgo is a 2004 film based on the legend of the American distance rider Frank Hopkins and his mustang Hidalgo, and recounts Hopkins' racing his horse in Arabia in 1891 against Bedouin riding pure-blooded Arabian horses. The movie was written by John Fusco and directed by Joe Johnston...
and Young GunsYoung GunsYoung Guns is a 1988 action/western film, directed by Christopher Cain and written by John Fusco. The film was the first to be produced by Morgan Creek Productions...
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- Phineas GagePhineas GagePhineas P. Gage was an American railroad construction foreman now remembered for his improbablesurvival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and...
- Larry GardnerLarry GardnerWilliam Lawrence "Larry" Gardner was a third baseman in Major League Baseball. From 1908 through 1924, Gardner played for the Boston Red Sox , Philadelphia Athletics, and Cleveland Indians . He batted left-handed and threw right-handed...
, Former MLB Third Baseman - David GiancolaDavid GiancolaDavid Giancola , is a Vermont based American filmmaker. Born in Rutland, Vermont and graduate of Mount St. Joseph's Academy in 1987, he has directed eight films as of October 2006...
(b. 1969), film director, born in Rutland, Vermont - 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 born in Bennington - Amanda GilmanAmanda GilmanAmanda Gilman is a beauty queen from Danville, Vermont who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.Gilman won the Miss Vermont USA 2006 title in a state pageant held in late 2005...
- Joseph A. GilmoreJoseph A. GilmoreJoseph Albree Gilmore was an American railroad superintendent from Concord, New Hampshire. He was a member of the New Hampshire state senate, and was its president in 1859. Born in 1811 in Weston, Vermont, he served two terms as Governor during the Civil War...
- Louise GlückLouise GlückLouise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet of Hungarian Jewish heritage. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000....
, Pulitzer Prize winning poet - Isaac GoodnowIsaac GoodnowIsaac Tichenor Goodnow was an abolitionist and co-founder of Kansas State University and Manhattan, Kansas. Goodnow was also elected to the Kansas House of Representatives and as Superintendent of Public Instruction for the state, and is known as "the father of formal education in Kansas."-...
, founder of Kansas State UniversityKansas State UniversityKansas State University, commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States...
and Manhattan, KansasManhattan, KansasManhattan is a city located in the northeastern part of the state of Kansas in the United States, at the junction of the Kansas River and Big Blue River. It is the county seat of Riley County and the city extends into Pottawatomie County. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 52,281... - Mike GordonMike GordonMike Gordon is a bass guitar player and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish. Gordon is also an accomplished banjo player, and is proficient at piano, guitar, harmonica and percussion...
, vocals/bassist from the band PhishPhishPhish is an American rock band noted for its musical improvisation, extended jams, and exploration of music across genres. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 , the band's four members – Trey Anastasio , Mike Gordon , Jon Fishman , and Page McConnell Phish is an American rock band... - Walter W. GrangerWalter W. GrangerWalter Willis Granger was an American vertebrate paleontologist who participated in important fossil explorations in the United States, Egypt, China and Mongolia.-Early life and career:...
- Lewis A. GrantLewis A. GrantLewis Addison Grant was a teacher, lawyer, soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and later Assistant U.S. Secretary of War...
- Duane GravelineDuane GravelineDuane Edgar Graveline is an American physician and former NASA astronaut. He was one of the six scientists selected in 1965, in NASA's fourth group of astronauts, for the Apollo program. He is most famous for being immersed in water for seven days as part of his zero gravity deconditioning...
- 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...
- Peter Gray, psychologist
- Horace GreeleyHorace GreeleyHorace Greeley was an American newspaper editor, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, a politician, and an outspoken opponent of slavery...
, newspaper editor, reformer and politician. Apprenticed in East Poultney - Jerry GreenfieldJerry GreenfieldJerry Greenfield is a co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc.Throughout his childhood, Greenfield lived in New York, on Long Island. In 1969, he enrolled at Oberlin College, where he followed a pre-med curriculum before graduating in 1973...
- Theodore P. GreeneTheodore P. GreeneTheodore Phinney Greene , was a rear admiral of the United States Navy, who fought on the side of the Union during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Wallace M. GreeneWallace M. GreeneGeneral Wallace Martin Greene, Jr. was a four-star United States Marine Corps general who served as the 23rd Commandant of the Marine Corps from January 1, 1964 to December 31, 1967...
- Josiah GroutJosiah GroutJosiah Grout, Jr. was an American lawyer and politician in the US state of Vermont.Born in Quebec, Canada to Vermonter parents, he served in the American Civil War as a Union Army officer before entering the legal profession after the war...
- Luis GuzmánLuis GuzmánLuis Guzmán is an actor from Puerto Rico. He is known for his character work. For much of his career, he has played roles largely as sidekicks, thugs, or policemen....
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- Paul Hackett
- William HaileWilliam HaileWilliam Haile was an American merchant, manufacturer and politician from Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Born in 1807 in Putney, Vermont, he served in both houses of the New Hampshire legislature and as Governor of the state...
- Joy HakimJoy HakimJoy Hakim is an American author who has written a ten-volume history of the United States, A History of US, and Freedom: A History of US , all published by Oxford University Press...
- Enoch HaleEnoch HaleEnoch Hale was born in Rowley, Massachusetts on November 28, 1733. He and his brother Nathan Hale would move to Rindge, New Hampshire as young men. During the French and Indian War Enoch Hale served in the New Hampshire Provincial Regiment in 1755 and 1757-1758...
- 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....
- William Laurel HarrisWilliam Laurel HarrisWilliam Laurel Harris was an American muralist, educator, editor and arts organizer.Harris was member Municipal Art Society , the Architectural League of New York , The National Mural Painters Society, and The Fine Arts Federation; he also founded the Art Centre with Katherine...
- James HartnessJames HartnessJames Hartness was an American inventor; a mechanical engineer; an entrepreneur who mentored other inventors to develop their machine tool products and create a thriving industrial center in southeastern Vermont; an amateur astronomer who fostered the construction of telescopes by amateurs in his...
, machine tool entrepreneur - Bill HauglandBill HauglandBill Haugland was a television news anchorman for CFCF-TV in Montreal, Quebec.A native of Montreal, Haugland studied at Ryerson University and Concordia University...
- William Babcock HazenWilliam Babcock HazenWilliam Babcock Hazen was a career United States Army officer who served in the Indian Wars, as a Union general in the American Civil War, and as Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army...
- Chris HedgesChris HedgesChristopher Lynn Hedges is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies...
, journalist - William W. HenryWilliam W. HenryWilliam Wirt Henry was a manufacturer and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for gallantry in action.-Early life:...
- Charles Shattuck HillCharles Shattuck HillCharles Shattuck Hill, C.E. was an American editor, born at Fairfield, Vermont. He received his degree in civil engineering in 1888. He served on the editorial staff of the Engineering News until 1906; then he became editor of Engineering and Contracting...
- Ethan A. HitchcockEthan A. Hitchcock (general)Ethan Allen Hitchcock was a career United States Army officer and author who had War Department assignments in Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War, in which he served as a major general.-Early life:...
, Major General during the Civil War - Edward HoaglandEdward HoaglandEdward Hoagland is an author best known for his nature and travel writing.-Life:...
, essayist, taught at Bennington College. Retired to Sutton - Frederick HolbrookFrederick HolbrookFrederick Holbrook was an agriculturist, politician, and the 27th Governor of Vermont.-Early life:Holbrook was born in East Windsor, Connecticut, son of John and Sara Holbrook. He attended Berkshire Gymnasium, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for two years, then visited Europe in 1833...
- Tristan HonsingerTristan HonsingerTristan Honsinger is a cello player active in free jazz and free improvisation. He is perhaps best known for his long-running collaboration with free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor and guitarist Derek Bailey....
(b. 1949), jazz cello player, born in BurlingtonBurlington, VermontBurlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal.... - Samuel HopkinsSamuel Hopkins (inventor)Samuel Hopkins was an American inventor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Pittsford, Vermont. On July 31, 1790, he was granted the first U.S. patent, under the new U.S. patent statute just signed into law by President Washington on April 10, 1790...
, holder of first American patent, for pearl and potash process, 1790. - Charles Snead HoustonCharles Snead Houston-References:-External links:* - Daily Telegraph obituary* Independent obituary, 1 October 2009.-Notes:...
, Mountaineer, physician, scientist, and Peace Corps leader - Charles Edward HoveyCharles Edward HoveyCharles Edward Hovey was an educator, college president, pension lobbyist and a brevet major general in the United States Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
- Jacob M. HowardJacob M. HowardJacob Merritt Howard was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan during and after the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Steven James HowardSteven Howard (politician)Steven James Howard is an American politician from the state of Vermont. He represented parts of the city of Rutland in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1993 to 2011, except for three terms between 1999 and 2005...
- James F. Howard, Jr.James F. Howard, Jr.James Francis Howard, Jr. is a Professor of Neurology and Medicine at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.-Early life and education:Howard was born 1948-05-03 in Bellows Falls, Vermont, U.S.. He received a BA in 1970 and a M.D...
- William Alanson HowardWilliam Alanson HowardWilliam Alanson Howard served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from March 4, 1855 to March 3, 1859 and from May 15, 1860 to March 3, 1861. Howard was the Governor of the Dakota Territory from 1878 to 1880.-Biography:William Howard was born at Hinesburg,...
- Felicity HuffmanFelicity HuffmanFelicity Kendall Huffman is an American film, stage, and television actress. She is known for her role as executive producer Dana Whitaker on the ABC television show Sports Night , which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination, and as hectic supermom Lynette Scavo on the ABC show Desperate...
, actor - Stephen HuneckStephen HuneckStephen Huneck was an American wood carving artist, furniture maker, painter, and author. Most of his artwork is composed of carvings of dogs. In addition to carvings, Huneck also wrote several children's books, the main character of which was his black Labrador Retriever, Sally...
, artist - Richard Morris HuntRichard Morris HuntRichard Morris Hunt was an American architect of the nineteenth century and a preeminent figure in the history of American architecture...
, architect - William Morris HuntWilliam Morris HuntWilliam Morris Hunt , American painter, was born at Brattleboro, Vermont to Jane Maria Hunt and Hon. Jonathan Hunt, who raised one of the preeminent families in American art...
- 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...
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- Horatio Nelson JacksonHoratio Nelson JacksonHoratio Nelson Jackson was a physician and automobile pioneer. In 1903, he and driving partner Sewall K. Crocker became the first people to drive an automobile across the United States.-Early life and medical career:...
- William Henry JacksonWilliam Henry JacksonWilliam Henry Jackson was an American painter, Civil War, geological survey photographer and an explorer famous for his images of the American West...
- Lindsey JacobellisLindsey JacobellisLindsey Jacobellis is an American snowboarder from Stratton, Vermont.At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Jacobellis won the silver medal in Women's Snowboard Cross's Olympics debut...
- Jim JeffordsJim JeffordsJames Merrill "Jim" Jeffords is a former U.S. Senator from Vermont. He served as a Republican until 2001, when he left the party to become an independent. He retired from the Senate in 2006.-Background:...
- Milo Parker JewettMilo Parker JewettMilo Parker Jewett was a U.S. educator, born at St. Johnsbury, VermontJewett was a graduate of Dartmouth College and Andover Theological Seminary...
- Andrew JohnsonAndrew Johnson (skier)Andrew Johnson is a cross-country skier from the United States. He was born and raised in Greensboro, Vermont, and is a member of the U.S. 2006 Olympic Cross-Country Ski Team. He has been a Junior National Champ, an Overall "Supertour Champ," and a 3-Time All American...
, skier
- Carlene King JohnsonCarlene King JohnsonCarlene King Johnson Drake was Miss USA 1955.After winning the Miss Vermont USA crown, Johnson, from Rutland, Vermont went on to become Vermont's only representative to achieve the title of Miss USA. Previously, she was Miss Vermont 1953.Johnson was born to Dr. Norman & Katherine King Johnson....
, Miss USA 1955, first one from New England and only one ever from Vermont - Ernie JohnsonErnie Johnson (pitcher)Ernest Thorwald Johnson was a Major League Baseball pitcher. The 6'4", 195 lb. right-hander was signed by the Boston Braves as an amateur free agent before the season. He played for the Boston Braves , Milwaukee Braves , and Baltimore Orioles .-Playing career:After serving three years in the U.S...
- Kenny JohnsonKenny JohnsonKenneth "Kenny" Johnson is an American actor well known for his portrayal of Detective Curtis Lemansky on the American drama The Shield and Detective "Ham" Dewey on Saving Grace.- Early career :...
, actor, played LemCurtis LemanskyCurtis Lemansky, more commonly known as "Lem" or "Lemonhead", is a fictional police detective on the FX original drama The Shield, played by actor Kenny Johnson.-Personal life:Little is known about Lemansky's personal life...
on The ShieldThe ShieldThe Shield is an American television drama series starring Michael Chiklis which premiered on March 12, 2002 on FX in the United States and concluded on November 25, 2008 after seven seasons... - Luke S. JohnsonLuke S. JohnsonLuke Samuel Johnson was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from 1835 to 1838. He served in the Quorum with his younger brother, Lyman E. Johnson and Orson Hyde, his brother-in-law.Johnson was born November 3, 1807, in Pomfret,...
- Lyman E. JohnsonLyman E. JohnsonLyman Eugene Johnson was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He broke with Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon during the 1837-38 period when schism divided the early Church...
- Miranda JulyMiranda JulyMiranda July is a performing artist, writer, actress and film director. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July," which can be traced to a character from a "girlzine" Miranda created with high school friend Johanna Fateman, called Snarla.- Background :Miranda...
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- Bob KeeshanBob KeeshanRobert James "Bob" Keeshan was an American television producer and actor. He is most notable as the title character of the children's television program Captain Kangaroo, which became an icon for millions of people during its 30-year run from 1955 to 1984.Keeshan also played the original...
(1927–2004); "Captain Kangaroo"; lived last 14 years of his life in Vermont. - A. Atwater KentA. Atwater KentArthur Atwater Kent, Sr. was an inventor and prominent radio manufacturer based in Philadelphia, usa. In 1921, he patented the modern form of the automobile ignition coil.-Biography:...
(1873–1949); inventor and radio maker; born in BurlingtonBurlington, VermontBurlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal.... - Henry W. KeyesHenry W. KeyesHenry Wilder Keyes was an American farmer, banker, and Republican politician from Haverhill, New Hampshire. Born in 1863 in Newbury, Vermont, he was raised in New Hampshire. His father was a prominent New England farmer, merchant, and railroad investor. Keyes graduated from Harvard with a B.A...
- Dan KileyDan KileyDaniel Urban Kiley was a noted American landscape architect in the modernist style.- Life and career :Kiley was born in Boston, Massachusetts...
- Christopher KimballChristopher KimballChristopher Kimball is an American chef, editor, publisher, and radio/TV personality.- Education and career :Kimball was born and raised in Westchester County, New York. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and then Columbia University with a degree in Primitive Art. After graduating from...
host of PBS tv show America's Test Kitchen - Heber C. KimballHeber C. KimballHeber Chase Kimball was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement. He served as one of the original twelve apostles in the early Latter Day Saint church, and as first counselor to Brigham Young in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his...
- 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 - Carlene King JohnsonCarlene King JohnsonCarlene King Johnson Drake was Miss USA 1955.After winning the Miss Vermont USA crown, Johnson, from Rutland, Vermont went on to become Vermont's only representative to achieve the title of Miss USA. Previously, she was Miss Vermont 1953.Johnson was born to Dr. Norman & Katherine King Johnson....
, Miss USA 1955 - Rudyard KiplingRudyard KiplingJoseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...
, British author, resident of BrattleboroBrattleboro, VermontBrattleboro, originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States, located in the southeast corner of the state, along the state line with New Hampshire. The population was 12,046 at the 2010 census...
, during which time he wrote The Jungle BookThe Jungle BookThe Jungle Book is a collection of stories by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–4. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six... - M. Jane KitchelM. Jane KitchelM. Jane Kitchel is a Democratic member of the Vermont State Senate, representing the Caledonia senate district.Jane Kitchel was elected to the Vermont State Senate in 2004 and reelected in 2006.-Biography:...
- Bill KochBill Koch (skier)Bill Koch is an American ski racer and the first world-class cross-country skier from the United States.A native of Brattleboro, Vermont, he is a graduate of the nearby The Putney School in Putney, Vermont. He originally competed in the NIS in the Nordic combined, but later switched to cross...
- James KochalkaJames KochalkaJames Kochalka is an American comic book artist and writer, and rock musician. His comics are noted for their blending of the real and the surreal...
- Edward KorenThe New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, illustrator and cartoonist for The New YorkerThe New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast... - Madeleine M. KuninMadeleine M. KuninMadeleine May Kunin is a Swiss-American diplomat and politician. She was the 77th Governor of Vermont from 1985 until 1991, as a member of the Democratic Party. She also served as United States Ambassador to Switzerland from 1996 to 1999. She was Vermont's first and, to date, only female governor...
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- Walt LanfranconiWalt LanfranconiWalter Oswald Lanfranconi was a Major League Baseball pitcher. The 155 lb. right-hander played for the Chicago Cubs and Boston Braves...
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- John LeClairJohn LeClairJohn Clark LeClair is an American former professional ice hockey left winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, and Pittsburgh Penguins...
, first native born Vermonter to play in the National Hockey League - Bill "Spaceman" LeeBill Lee (left-handed pitcher)William Francis Lee III , nicknamed "Spaceman", is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Boston Red Sox from - and the Montreal Expos from -...
, baseball player - Harry David LeeHarry David LeeHenry David Lee was the founder of the HD Lee Mercantile Company, inventors of Lee Jeans.He was born in 1849 in Vermont and attended school in South Tunbridge, he moved to Galion, Ohio, in 1862 where he worked as an hotel clerk and parlayed livery and real estate investments into the purchase of...
, who developed Lee Jeans - Brady LeisenringBrady LeisenringBrady Leisenring is an American professional ice hockey player currently with ESV Kaufbeuren of the German 2nd Bundesliga.-Playing career:...
, hockey player from Stowe - Henry M. LelandHenry M. LelandHenry Martyn Leland was a machinist, inventor, engineer and automotive entrepreneur who founded the two premier American luxury marques, Cadillac and Lincoln. Retrieved December 30, 2008....
, developed Cadillac and Lincoln. Born in Barton. - Melissa LeoMelissa LeoMelissa Chessington Leo , is an American actress. After appearing on several television shows and films in the late '80s, her breakthrough role came in 1993 as Det. Sgt. Kay Howard on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street for the show's first five seasons from 1993 – 1997...
, actress. Resided in Putney. - Kevin LepageKevin LepageKevin Lepage is a NASCAR driver. He currently drives the #52 car, for Jimmy Means Racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Lepage is the only NASCAR driver from Vermont to qualify for the Daytona 500.-Early career:...
, NASCAR driver from Shelburne - Aaron LewisAaron LewisAaron Lewis, , is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and founding member of the rock group Staind, with whom he has released seven studio albums. He has since ventured into country music with his debut solo album, Town Line...
, band member from Rutland - Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque (b. 1990); singer, actress; born in BrattleboroBrattleboro, VermontBrattleboro, originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States, located in the southeast corner of the state, along the state line with New Hampshire. The population was 12,046 at the 2010 census...
- Sinclair LewisSinclair LewisHarry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of...
(1885 – 1951), Nobel prize winning writer with home in Barnard - Sam LloydSam LloydSam Lloyd may refer to:*Samuel T. Lloyd III, dean of Washington National Cathedral*Sam Lloyd, recurring guest character on several television shows including Scrubs and Desperate Housewives-See also:...
, actor (Scrubs) born in Weston - Ki LongfellowKi LongfellowKi Longfellow is an American novelist, playwright, theatrical producer, theater director and entrepreneur. In Britain, as the widow of Vivian Stanshall, she is well known as the guardian of his artistic heritage, but elsewhere she is best known for her own work, especially the novel The Secret...
, novelist - Alfred Lebbeus LoomisAlfred Lebbeus LoomisAlfred Lebbeus Loomis was an American physician who served as president of the Association of American Physicians.- Life and work :...
, president, Association of American Physicians - Gustavus LoomisGustavus LoomisGustavus Loomis was an United States Army officer who served during the War of 1812, Seminole Wars and the American Civil War. He was the oldest soldier to serve in the Civil War.-Biography:...
, breveted Brigadier General - Horatio G. LoomisHoratio G. LoomisLoomis was a native of Vermont who came to Chicago as a pioneer settler in 1834. A grocer by trade, Loomis also was an entrepreneur who became involved in many business fields, including commodities trading....
, one of the organizers of the Chicago Board of Trade - Phillips LordPhillips LordPhillips Haynes Lord was an American radio program writer, creator, producer and narrator as well as a motion picture actor, best known for the Gang Busters radio program that was broadcast from 1935 to 1957.-Early life:...
, creator of radio programs - Will LymanWill LymanWilliam Lyman is an American voice-over artist and actor, perhaps best known for his polished, resonant voice that has narrated the PBS series Frontline since its second season in 1984. Lyman has made a successful career in television and theater...
, television actor - Lucius LyonLucius LyonLucius Lyon was a U.S. statesman from the state of Michigan. He was born in Shelburne, Vermont, where he received a common school education and studied engineering and surveying...
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- David MametDavid MametDavid Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director.Best known as a playwright, Mamet won a Pulitzer Prize and received a Tony nomination for Glengarry Glen Ross . He also received a Tony nomination for Speed-the-Plow . As a screenwriter, he received Oscar...
, playwright
- William Marks
- Anna MarshAnna MarshAnna Marsh established the Vermont Asylum of the Insane in 1834.-Biography:Marsh was born and raised in Hinsdale, New Hampshire. She was the widow of physician Perley Marsh....
- John MartinJohn Martin (businessman)John Martin of Peacham, Vermont was an American steamboat captain and businessman in Minneapolis, Minnesota involved in lumber and flour milling. In 1891, Martin led a merger of six mills to create Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company, at the time the world's second largest flour milling...
- Philip MaxwellPhilip MaxwellBorn in Vermont in 1799, Maxwell moved to New York State where he became a doctor and politician, and was elected to the New York Legislature. He also was a physician for the United States Army, where he served with General Zachary Taylor. A military transfer brought him to Chicago, Illinois, which...
, physician and politician and the person for whom Chicago's famous Maxwell Street was named - Henry T. MayoHenry T. MayoHenry Thomas Mayo was an admiral of the United States Navy.Mayo was born in Burlington, Vermont, 8 December 1856. Upon graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1876 he experienced a variety of naval duties including coastal survey...
, four-star admiral. Born in Burlington - Archer MayorArcher MayorArcher Mayor is the author of the Joe Gunther detective series. Archer is a Yale graduate and lives in Newfane, Vermont, USA.Before turning to popular fiction, Mayor held several jobs, both in the US and in France, working as an editor, researcher for Time–Life books, photography and journalist...
- Margaret MacArthurMargaret MacArthurMargaret MacArthur was an American singer and player of the Appalachian dulcimer.Margaret Crowl was born in Chicago. As a youngster, she moved around with her family - in California, Louisiana, and Arizona. She remembered that at the age of five she heard cowboys on the timber crew singing folk...
, a musician and folk music archivist known as "Vermont's Songcatcher" - John McCardell, Jr.John McCardell, Jr.John Malcolm McCardell, Jr. is the Vice Chancellor of The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and the president emeritus and a professor of history at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. He retired as president in June, 2004, after serving thirteen years as the fifteenth...
- Bill McKibbenBill McKibbenWilliam Ernest "Bill" McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College...
, American environmentalist - James MeachamJames MeachamJames Meacham was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Rutland, Vermont. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1832 and taught in the seminary at Castleton, Vermont. In addition, he attended the local academy at St. Albans, Vermont and attended Andover Theological...
- William Rutherford MeadWilliam Rutherford MeadWilliam Rutherford Mead was an American architect, and was the "Center of the Office" of McKim, Mead, and White, a noted Gilded Age architectural firm. The firm's other two founding partners were Charles Follen McKim , and Stanford White .-Life and career:Mead was born in Brattleboro, Vermont...
- Andrea Mead-LawrenceAndrea Mead-LawrenceAndrea Mead Lawrence was an American alpine ski racer. She competed in three Winter Olympics and was the first American alpine skier to win two Olympic gold medals.-Skiing career:...
, first American to win two gold Olympic skiing medals - Samuel MerrillSamuel Merrill (Indiana)Samuel Merrill was an early leading citizen of the U.S. state of Indiana.-Biography:Samuel was born in 1792 in Peacham, Vermont, the second son of Jesse and Priscilla Merrill. He attended Dartmouth College for one year before moving to Pennsylvania to study law with his older brother James. In...
- Alexander Kennedy MillerAlexander Kennedy MillerAlexander Kennedy Miller , also known as A. K. Miller, was an eccentric recluse who operated Miller's Flying Service in 1930, in Montclair, New Jersey, USA. Miller provided mail and other delivery services by means of an autogyro, as well as listing "Expert Automobile Repairing" and "Aeroplanes...
- Frank MillerFrank Miller (comics)Frank Miller is an American comic book artist, writer and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300...
- Susan Tolman MillsSusan Tolman MillsSusan Tolman Mills was the co-founder of Mills College .-Background:...
- Graham MinkGraham MinkGraham Mink is an American ice hockey Winger currently playing for the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League.-Playing career:...
, - Anais MitchellAnais MitchellAnaïs Mitchell is an American singer-songwriter.-Early life:Anaïs Mitchell grew up on a farm in Addison County, Vermont and attended Middlebury College. Her father is a novelist and a retired college professor....
- Amanda MitteerAmanda MitteerAmanda Lee Mitteer is a beauty queen from Brattleboro, Vermont who has competed in the Miss USA pageant. She was born to Brian & Dana Drennan Mitteer....
- Samuel MoreySamuel MoreySamuel Morey was an American inventor, who worked on early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents.-Early life:...
- Justin MorganJustin MorganJustin Morgan was a U.S. horse breeder and composer.He was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, and by 1788 had settled in Vermont. In addition to being a horse breeder and farmer, he was a teacher of singing; in that capacity he traveled considerably throughout the northeastern states...
- Justin Smith MorrillJustin Smith MorrillJustin Smith Morrill was a Representative and a Senator from Vermont, most widely remembered today for the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act that established federal funding for establishing many of the United States' public colleges and universities...
, sponsor of the Land Grant College Act establishing "public ivies" - George Sylvester MorrisGeorge Sylvester MorrisGeorge Sylvester Morris was an American educator and philosophical writer, born in Norwich, Vermont. He was the son of a well known abolitionist and temperance man...
- Levi P. MortonLevi P. MortonLevi Parsons Morton was a Representative from New York and the 22nd Vice President of the United States . He also later served as the 31st Governor of New York.-Biography:...
- Joseph A. MowerJoseph A. MowerJoseph Anthony Mower was a Union general during the American Civil War. He was a competent officer and well respected by his troops and fellow officers to whom he was known as "Fighting Joe". William T. Sherman said of Mower, "he's the boldest young officer we have".-Biography:Mower was born in...
- Michael MoynihanMichael Moynihan (journalist)Michael Moynihan is an American journalist, publisher and musician. He is best known for co-writing the book Lords of Chaos, about black metal....
- Dennis MurphyDennis Murphy (musician)Dennis Murphy was a composer, musician, instrument maker, artist, and playwright.Dennis Murphy was one of the fathers of American gamelan . Lou Harrison credits Murphy as being the first North American to build gamelan instruments...
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- Andrew NeelAndrew NeelAndrew Neel is an American filmmaker. He was born in Vermont in 1978.Neel co-founded SeeThink Productions together with Ethan Palmer, Luke Meyer and Tom Davis in 2001 after graduating from Columbia College with a BA in film studies...
- Harvey NewcombHarvey NewcombHarvey Newcomb was an American clergyman and writer.He was born in Thetford, Vermont. He removed to western New York in 1818, engaged in teaching for eight years, and from 1826 till 1831 edited several journals, of which the last was the Christian Herald.For the ten following years he was engaged...
- David H. NicholsDavid H. NicholsDavid Hopkinson Nichols was the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, United States, serving from 1893 to 1895 under Davis Hanson Waite....
- Clarina I. H. NicholsClarina I. H. NicholsClarina Irene Howard Nichols was a journalist, lobbyist and public speaker involved in all three of the major reform movements of the mid-19th century: temperance, abolition, and the women's movement that emerged largely out of the ranks of the first two...
- John Humphrey NoyesJohn Humphrey NoyesJohn Humphrey Noyes was an American utopian socialist. He founded the Oneida Community in 1848. He coined the term "free love".-Early activism:...
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- Rachel Oakes PrestonRachel Oakes PrestonRachel Oakes Preston was a Seventh Day Baptist who persuaded a group of Adventist Millerites to accept Saturday, instead of Sunday, as Sabbath. This Sabbatarian group organized as the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1863.Born in Vernon, Vermont, Rachel, daughter of Sylvanus Harris, first joined...
- John O'BrienJohn O'Brien (filmmaker)John O'Brien is an American film director, sheep farmer, Justice of the Peace and former campaign manager.O'Brien is the director of the Tunbridge Trilogy, three films that focus on the rural life of Tunbridge, Vermont...
- Franklin W. OlinFranklin W. OlinFranklin Walter Olin was the founder of the Olin Corporation.He was born in Woodford, Vermont and his father built mills and waterwheels. He studied civil engineering at Cornell University, where he also played baseball; he would play as an outfielder in the American Association for two seasons...
- Buster OlneyBuster OlneyRobert Stanbury "Buster" Olney III is a columnist for ESPN: The Magazine, ESPN.com, and covered the New York Giants and New York Yankees for The New York Times. He is also a regular analyst for the ESPN's Baseball Tonight...
- Darcy OlsenDarcy A. OlsenDarcy A. Olsen is the president and chief executive officer of the Goldwater Institute. Phoenix-based media have cited Olsen’s leadership, which has resulted in major policy reforms including private school scholarships for foster children, more transparency in government and legal cases...
- Ebenezer J. OrmsbeeEbenezer J. OrmsbeeEbenezer Jolls Ormsbee was a teacher, a lawyer, a U.S. politician of the Republican Party, and an American Civil War veteran.-Early life:Ormsbee was born in Shoreham, Vermont, the son of John Mason and Polly Ormsbee...
- Elisha OtisElisha OtisElisha Graves Otis was an American industrialist, founder of the Otis Elevator Company, and inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails. He worked on this device while living in Yonkers, New York in 1852, and had a finished product in...
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- Grace PaleyGrace PaleyGrace Paley was an American-Jewish short story writer, poet, and political activist.-Biography:Grace Paley was born in the Bronx to Isaac and Manya Ridnyik Goodside, who anglicized the family name from Gutseit on immigrating from Ukraine. Her father was a doctor. The family spoke Russian and...
- Alden PartridgeAlden PartridgeAlden Partridge, was an American author, legislator, officer, surveyor, an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and a controversial pioneer in U.S...
- Katherine PatersonKatherine PatersonKatherine Paterson is an American author of children's novels. She wrote Bridge to Terabithia and has received several of the major international awards for children's literature.- Early life:...
- Moses PendletonMoses PendletonMoses Pendleton is a choreographer, dancer and the artistic director of MOMIX. MOMIX is a dance company that he formed in 1981 as an offshoot of the ground-breaking Pilobolus, which he had co-founded while a senior at Dartmouth College in 1971. He remained a full-time member with the company...
, choreographer - Elizabeth PerkinsElizabeth PerkinsElizabeth Ann Perkins is an American actress. Her film roles have included Big, The Flintstones, Miracle on 34th Street, About Last Night..., and Avalon...
, actress - Joe PerryJoe Perry (musician)Anthony Joseph "Joe" Perry is the lead guitarist, backing and occasional lead vocalist, and contributing songwriter for the rock band Aerosmith. He is influenced by many rock artists especially The Rolling Stones and The Beatles...
, Lead guitarist for AerosmithAerosmithAerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many... - Tom PetersTom PetersThomas J. "Tom" Peters is an American writer on business management practices, best-known for In Search of Excellence .-Life and career:Peters was born in Baltimore, Maryland...
- Charles E. PhelpsCharles E. PhelpsCharles Edward Phelps was a colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War, later received a brevet as a brigadier general of volunteers, served as a city councilman, a U.S. Congressman from the third district of Maryland, and received the Medal of Honor...
- John W. PhelpsJohn W. PhelpsJohn Wolcott Phelps , was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, an author, an ardent abolitionist and presidential candidate.-Soldier and abolitionist:...
- William Lamb PicknellWilliam Lamb PicknellWilliam Lamb Picknell was a United States painter of landscapes, coastal views, and figure genres, known for his rapid painting style...
, nineteenth century painter, member of the National Academy of DesignNational Academy of DesignThe National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, founded in New York City as the National Academy of Design – known simply as the "National Academy" – is an honorary association of American artists founded in 1825 by Samuel F. B. Morse, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E... - Samuel E. PingreeSamuel E. PingreeSamuel Everett Pingree was a lawyer, a U.S. politician of the Republican Party, and an American Civil War veteran who received the Medal of Honor.-Early life:...
- Russell W. PorterRussell W. PorterRussell Williams Porter was an American artist, engineer, amateur astronomer and explorer. He was a pioneer in the field of “cutaway illustration" and is sometimes referred to as the "founder" or one of the "founders" of amateur telescope making."-Biography:Russell W...
- Grace PotterGrace Potter and the NocturnalsGrace Potter and the Nocturnals is an American rock band from Waitsfield, Vermont.-Career:Grace Potter and the Nocturnals' lead vocalist is multi-instrumentalist Grace Potter, who attended St. Lawrence University for two years before pursuing music professionally...
, Front runner Grace Potter of the rock band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Ross PowersRoss PowersRoss Powers , is an American world champion halfpipe snowboarder from South Londonderry, Vermont. Though he originally rode at Stratton Mountain, Vermont, his home mountain is now Okemo, VT. Ross helps with the design of the Superpipe and also helped design the RossCross Family Terrain Park. Ross...
, Olympic gold medal winner, snowboarding, 2002 - Silas G. PrattSilas G. PrattSilas Gamaliel Pratt was an American composer. A native of Addison, Vermont, he worked in Chicago, New York, and Pittsburgh, in addition to studies and travels in Germany. Between 1868 and 1871, he studied under Theodor Kullak, among others, but he suffered a wrist injury during a lesson, which...
- Cyrus PringleCyrus PringleCyrus Guernsey Pringle was an American botanist who spent a career of 35 years cataloguing the plants of North America, especially Mexico...
- Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, lived in Vermont for more than 30 years
- Harvey PutnamHarvey PutnamHarvey Putnam was a United States House of Representative from New York. Born in Brattleboro, Vermont, he attended the common schools, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1816 and commenced practice in Attica, New York in 1817...
- Patty SheehanPatty SheehanPatty Sheehan is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1980 and won six major championships and 35 LPGA Tour events in all. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame....
,Professional Golfer, which has won 6 major championships and 35 tour victories
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- Thomas E. G. RansomThomas E. G. RansomThomas Edwin Greenfield Ransom was a surveyor, civil engineer, real estate speculator, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
- Edward Rawson
- Edmund Rice, politician. Born in Waitsfield.
- Henry Mower Rice
- Linda RichardsLinda RichardsLinda Richards was the first professionally trained American nurse. She established nursing training programs in the United States and Japan, and created the first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients.-Early life:...
, America's first trained nurse, attended St. Johnsbury Academy - Mark RichardsMark Richards (politician)Mark Richards was a Vermont politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives.Born in Waterbury, Connecticut on July 15, 1760, Richards received limited schooling. He enlisted during the American Revolutionary War in 1776 and settled in Boston after the Revolution...
- Israel B. RichardsonIsrael B. RichardsonIsrael Bush Richardson was a United States Army officer during the Mexican-American War and American Civil War, where he was a major general in the Union Army...
- Benjamin S. RobertsBenjamin S. RobertsBenjamin Stone Roberts was an American lawyer, civil engineer, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Edward D. RobieEdward D. RobieEdward Dunham Robie , was a naval engineer, inventor, and Union naval officer during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:Robie was born in Burlington, Vermont, the son of Jacob and Louisa Robie...
- 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...
- Theodore RobinsonTheodore RobinsonTheodore Robinson was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes. He was one of the first American artists to take up impressionism in the late 1880s, visiting Giverny and developing a close friendship with Claude Monet...
- Norman RockwellNorman RockwellNorman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening...
lived in Arlington - David McGregor RogersDavid McGregor RogersDavid McGregor Rogers was a farmer and Member of the 2nd Parliament of Upper Canada.He was born in Londonderry, Vermont in 1772 the 3rd son and 2nd David born to Capt. James Rogers and Margaret McGregor, the first David died at age 4 in 1766. Named after his great grandfather Rev...
- Brian Rooney
- Thomas RowleyThomas Rowley (poet)Thomas Rowley was a famous poet of Vermont, known both as the spokesman for Ethan Allen and dubbed “The Bard of the Green Mountains.” During his lifetime and before the American Revolution, his poetry gained the reputation with the catchphrase of "Setting the Hills on Fire."-Biography:Thomas...
- Homer Elihu RoyceHomer Elihu RoyceHomer Elihu Royce was an American lawyer, politician and jurist.-Early life:Royce was born in Berkshire, Vermont, the son of Elihu Marvin and Sophronia Royce. He was educated in the district schools and at academies in St. Albans and Enosburgh. He studied law with Thomas Childs, was admitted to...
- Carl RugglesCarl RugglesCharles "Carl" Sprague Ruggles was an American composer of the American Five group. He wrote finely crafted pieces using "dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music...
- Rudolph RuzickaRudolph RuzickaRudolph Ruzicka prominent Czech-born American wood engraver, etcher, illustrator, typeface designer, and book designer. Ruzicka designed typefaces and wood engraving illustrations for Daniel Berkeley Updike's Merrymount Press, and was a designer for, and consultant to, the Mergenthaler Linotype...
, typeface designer and engraver
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- Alvah SabinAlvah SabinAlvah Sabin was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Georgia, Vermont. He attended the common schools and Burlington College. He was also a member of the Vermont militia and served during the War of 1812...
- Truman Henry SaffordTruman Henry SaffordTruman Henry Safford was an American calculating prodigy. In later life he was an observatory director.He was born in Royalton, Vermont, USA on 6 January, 1836. At an early age he attracted public attention by his remarkable calculation powers. At the age of nine, a local priest asked him to...
- Matt SalingerMatt SalingerMatthew Salinger is an American actor. He is the son of author J. D. Salinger and psychologist Claire Douglas.-Career:...
- Philetus SawyerPhiletus SawyerPhiletus Sawyer was an American politician of the Republican Party who represented Wisconsin in both houses of Congress. Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is named for him....
- Eric SchaefferEric SchaefferEric Schaeffer is an American actor, writer and director.-Early life and education:He was born in New York City, New York....
, film writer, director, and actor. - Helen Bonchek SchneyerHelen Bonchek SchneyerHelen Bonchek Schneyer was an American folk musician. She was raised Jewish in New York City. While a student at Columbia University, she was introduced to American folk music. She also sang Baptist spirituals.Over a sixty year career, Schneyer worked with such influential artists as Pete Seeger...
- Stephen Alonzo SchoffStephen Alonzo SchoffStephen Alonzo Schoff was an American engraver and etcher in New York and Boston.-Biography:Stephen Alonzo Schoff was born in Danville, Vermont, January 16, 1818, and grew up in Newburyport, Massachusetts...
- Peter SchumannPeter SchumannPeter Schumann is the founder and director of the Bread & Puppet Theater. Born in Silesia, he was a sculptor and dancer in Germany before moving to the United States in 1961. In 1963 he founded Bread & Puppet in New York City, and in 1970 moved to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, eventually...
, founder and director of Bread and Puppet TheaterBread and Puppet TheaterThe Bread and Puppet Theater is a politically radical puppet theater, active since the 1960s, currently based in Glover, Vermont... - Arthur E. ScottArthur E. ScottArthur E. "Scotty" Scott was the United States Senate's first photo-historian. He was a professional photographer in Washington, D.C. from 1934 to 1976.-Early life and career:...
- Julian ScottJulian ScottJulian A. Scott , he was born in Johnson, Vermont, and served as a Union Army drummer during the American Civil War where he received America's highest military decoration the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Lee's Mills; he was also an American painter and Civil War...
, nineteenth century painter and muralist - Thomas O. SeaverThomas O. SeaverThomas Orville Seaver rose to the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War and received the Medal of Honor, America's highest military decoration, for his actions at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House...
- Rudolf SerkinRudolf SerkinRudolf Serkin , was a Bohemian-born pianist.-Life and early career:Serkin was born in Eger, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire to a Russian-Jewish family....
- Truman SeymourTruman SeymourTruman Seymour was an a career soldier and an accomplished painter. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of major general. He commanded the Union troops at the Battle of Olustee, the largest Civil War battle fought in Florida.-Early life and career:Seymour...
- L. M. ShawL. M. ShawLeslie Mortier Shaw was an American businessman, lawyer and politician.-Biography:Born in Morristown, Vermont, he became a lawyer and banker, and in 1898 became the 17th Governor of Iowa, serving until 1902. He then became United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Theodore Roosevelt...
- Patty SheehanPatty SheehanPatty Sheehan is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1980 and won six major championships and 35 LPGA Tour events in all. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame....
, professional golfer - Charles H. SheldonCharles H. SheldonCharles Henry Sheldon was the second Governor of South Dakota.-Biography:Charles Henry Sheldon was born in Lamoille County, Vermont, the third of four children of Gresham and Mary Sheldon. After the death of his father in 1844, Sheldon worked as a farm laborer from the ages of twelve to...
- George Dallas ShermanGeorge Dallas ShermanGeorge Dallas Sherman was born in Richmond, Vermont on August 23, 1844 to Hathaway and Relief Sherman. In 1858, at the age of 14, he joined the Richmond Cornet Band and soon became its leader. He left this band in 1864 to join the 9th Vermont Infantry as a musician during the American Civil War....
- Alexander O. SmithAlexander O. SmithAlexander O. Smith is a professional English/Japanese translator and author. While his output covers many areas such as adaptation of Japanese novels, manga, song lyrics, anime scripts and various academic works, he is best known for his software localizations of Japanese video games...
- "Dr. Bob" SmithBob Smith (doctor)Robert Holbrook Smith was an American physician and surgeon who co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous with Bill Wilson, more commonly known as Bill W. He was also known as Dr. Bob. He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where he was raised, to Susan A. Holbrook and Walter Perrin Smith...
, co-founder of Alcoholics AnonymousAlcoholics AnonymousAlcoholics Anonymous is an international mutual aid movement which says its "primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety." Now claiming more than 2 million members, AA was founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio... - Charles Plympton SmithCharles Plympton SmithCharles Plympton Smith is a banker and Republican politician from the U.S. state of Vermont who served in the Vermont House of Representatives. The son of banker and state senator Frederick Plympton Smith, he received a B.A...
- 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:...
- Hyrum SmithHyrum SmithHyrum Smith was an American religious leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement. He was the older brother of the movement's founder, Joseph Smith, Jr....
- J. Gregory SmithJ. Gregory SmithJohn Gregory Smith , railroad tycoon, politician, war-time governor of VermontSmith was born in St. Albans, Vermont, son of John and Maria Smith. The elder Smith was a pioneer railroad builder in Vermont, and a leading lawyer and public man of his generation...
- John Butler SmithJohn Butler SmithJohn Butler Smith was an American manufacturer and Republican politician from Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Born in 1838 in Saxtons River, Vermont, he served New Hampshire as a member of the Governor's Council, and as Governor. Smith Memorial Congregational Church, U.C.C in the town is named for...
- Joseph Smith, Sr.Joseph Smith, Sr.Joseph Smith, Sr. was the father of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Joseph Sr. was also one of the Eight Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, which Mormons believe was translated by Joseph Jr. from the Golden Plates. In 1833 Joseph Sr...
, father of Joseph Smith, Jr. - Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805–1844); founder of the Latter Day Saint movementLatter Day Saint movementThe Latter Day Saint movement is a group of independent churches tracing their origin to a Christian primitivist movement founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. in the late 1820s. Collectively, these churches have over 14 million members...
; born in SharonSharon, VermontSharon is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. It had a population of 1,411 at the 2000 census. The town is home to The Sharon Academy.-History:... - Samuel Harrison Smith
- William Smith
- William Farrar SmithWilliam Farrar SmithWilliam Farrar Smith , was a civil engineer, a member of the New York City police commission, and Union general in the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was aRussian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his often-suppressed writings, he helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of...
, Russian author, historian, and 1970 recipient of Nobel Prize for Literature, lived in Vermont to avoid persecution in RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, returned to Russia after PerestroikaPerestroikaPerestroika was a political movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during 1980s, widely associated with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev... - Ignat SolzhenitsynIgnat SolzhenitsynIgnat Aleksandrovich Solzhenitsyn is a Russian-American conductor and pianist who is the conductor laureate of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the principal guest conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.-Career:...
, conductor and pianist - Ronald I. SpiersRonald I. SpiersRonald Ian “Ron” Spiers was a former career diplomat and United States Ambassador.-Early life and military career:Spiers was born in Orange, New Jersey July 9, 1925 but grew up in Peru, London, Paris and Brussels. During World War II, he served as an Ensign in the United States Navy in the war's...
- Martin St. LouisMartin St. LouisMartin St. Louis is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger and alternate captain currently playing for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
, NHL hockey player - Michael A. StackpoleMichael A. StackpoleMichael A. Stackpole is a science fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and Battletech books. He was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, but raised in Vermont...
, Science Fiction/Fantasy author - Henry Alexander StaffordHeinie StaffordHenry Alexander "Heinie" Stafford was an American Major League Baseball player who played a single game for the New York Giants in .-Tufts University :...
, baseball player for the New York GiantsNew York GiantsThe New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League... - Robert StaffordRobert StaffordRobert Theodore Stafford was an American politician from Vermont. In his lengthy career, he served as the 71st Governor of Vermont, a United States Representative, and a U.S. Senator...
, namesake of the Stafford LoanStafford loanA Stafford Loan is a student loan offered to eligible students enrolled in accredited American institutions of higher education to help finance their education... - Timothy SteeleTimothy SteeleTimothy Steele is an American poet and academic. Born in Burlington, Vermont, in 1948, he is a professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles. Some of Steele's early verse appeared in X. J. Kennedy's Counter/Measures in the early seventies. He went on to become a figure in the...
- Ralph SteinerRalph SteinerRalph Steiner was an American photographer, pioneer documentarian and a key figure among avant-garde filmmakers in the 1930s.-Biography:...
- Rockwell StephensRockwell StephensRockwell Rittenhouse Stephens was a journalist, author and ski instructor. He was an early member of the National Ski Patrol, joining in 1938, receiving member No...
- Nettie StevensNettie StevensNettie Maria Stevens was an early American geneticist. She and Edmund Beecher Wilson were the first researchers to describe the chromosomal basis of sex....
- Thaddeus StevensThaddeus StevensThaddeus Stevens , of Pennsylvania, was a Republican leader and one of the most powerful members of the United States House of Representatives...
- Charles B. StoughtonCharles B. StoughtonCharles Bradley Stoughton was an officer and regimental commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
- Edwin H. StoughtonEdwin H. StoughtonEdwin Henry Stoughton , was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a lawyer.-Early life:Stoughton was born in Chester, Vermont, the son of Henry Evander and Laura Stoughton....
- F. Stewart StranahanF. Stewart StranahanFarrand Stewart Stranahan was an American Civil War veteran, a railroad executive, a banker, and a U.S. politician of the Republican Party.-Early life:...
- George Crockett StrongGeorge Crockett StrongGeorge Crockett Strong was a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War.-Biography:Strong was born in Stockbridge, Vermont, and attended Williston Seminary but left after 1851. He attended Union College, but left for the U.S. Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1857...
- William Barstow Strong
- Willis SweetWillis SweetWillis Sweet was the first United States Representative from Idaho. Sweet served as a Republican in the House from 1890 to 1895, representing the state at-large....
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- Horace Austin Warner TaborHorace Austin Warner TaborHorace Austin Warner Tabor , also known as The Bonanza King of Leadville, was an American prospector, businessman, and politician. His life is the subject of Douglas Moore's opera, The Ballad of Baby Doe....
, one of the "Silver Kings" - Alphonso TaftAlphonso TaftAlphonso Taft was the Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant and the founder of an American political dynasty. He was the father of U.S...
- Cherilee TaylorCherilee TaylorCherilee Taylor is a TV and movie actress who has been a series regular on the Canadian soap opera Paradise Falls. She moved to Toronto, Ontario, as a young child....
- Louise TaylorLouise TaylorLouise Taylor is an American folk singer-songwriter from Brattleboro, Vermont. An older brother gave her a guitar when she was twelve and at age 15 she left home, hitchhiking and busking her way around the United States...
- Birdie TebbettsBirdie TebbettsGeorge Robert "Birdie" Tebbetts was an American professional baseball player, manager, scout and front office executive. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians from to...
, Former All-Star MLB Catcher and Manager - Hannah TeterHannah TeterHannah Teter is an American snowboarder from Belmont, Vermont. She is an Olympic champion, having won the gold medal in halfpipe at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy. She also won bronze at the 2005 FIS World Championships at Whistler, British Columbia, and has six World Cup victories...
- Elswyth ThaneElswyth ThaneHelen Elswyth Thane Ricker Beebe was an American romance novelist. Born in Burlington, Iowa, she was the daughter of a local teacher and high school principal." The family moved to New York City in 1918, and "Helen Ricker" changed her name to "Elswyth Thane"...
- Harry Bates ThayerHarry Bates ThayerHarry Bates Thayer , U.S. was an electrical and telephone businessman. He designed an electrical punched card machine in 1887 at Dartmouth College....
- John Martin Thomas
- Stephen ThomasStephen ThomasStephen Thomas , manufacturer, politician, jurist, and Union Army officer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for gallantry.-Early life:...
- Tim ThomasTim Thomas (ice hockey)Timothy James Thomas, Jr. is an American professional ice hockey goaltender with the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League . Raised in Davison, MI, Thomas played college hockey for the University of Vermont for four years, from 1993–1997, during which he was drafted 217th overall by the...
, professional hockey player who played for UVM - Dorothy ThompsonDorothy ThompsonDorothy Thompson was an American journalist and radio broadcaster, who in 1939 was recognized by Time magazine as the second most influential women in America next to Eleanor Roosevelt...
- Ernest Thompson
- John Mellen Thurston
- George TookerGeorge TookerGeorge Clair Tooker, Jr. was a figurative painter whose works are associated with the Magic realism and Social realism movements...
, painter, lives in Hartland. - Andrew TracyAndrew TracyAndrew Tracy was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Hartford, Vermont. He attended Royalton and Randolph Academies, and also Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire for two years. He taught school, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in...
- Joseph TracyJoseph TracyJoseph Tracy was a Protestant Christian minister, newspaper editor, historian and leading figure in the American Colonization Society of the early to mid-19th century. He is noted as a typical figure of the New England Renaissance....
- Maria von TrappMaria von TrappMaria Augusta von Trapp , also known as Baroness Maria von Trapp, was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers...
- Tasha Tudor
- KT TunstallKT TunstallKate Victoria "KT" Tunstall is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist from St Andrews, Scotland. She broke into the public eye with a 2004 live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later... with Jools Holland...
, musician - Fred TuttleFred TuttleFrederick Herman "Fred" Tuttle was an American dairy farmer, film actor and one-time candidate for the U.S. Senate from the state of Vermont. He was born in Tunbridge, Vermont, and lived there all his life, except for his service in the United States Army during World War II.Tuttle left high...
, senatorial candidate and star of the movie, Man with a PlanMan with a PlanMan With A Plan was an independently produced docudrama released in 1996, starring dairy farmer and actor Fred Tuttle. Since its release, it has remained a local cult classic in Vermont.- External links :* *... - Alexander TwilightAlexander TwilightAlexander Lucius Twilight , born free in Vermont, was the first black person known to have earned a bachelor's degree from an American college or university upon graduating Middlebury College in 1823. An educator, minister and politician, he was licensed as a Congregational preacher, and worked in...
, first African American to receive a college degree, and to be elected to public office in the United States - Royall TylerRoyall TylerRoyall Tyler , American jurist and playwright who wrote The Contrast in 1787 and published The Algerine Captive in 1797. He wrote several legal tracts, six plays, a musical drama, two long poems, a semifictional travel narrative, The Yankey in London , and essays...
, one of the earliest American playwrights. - Dan TyminskiDan TyminskiDaniel John "Dan" Tyminski is a bluegrass composer, vocalist, and instrumentalist. He is a member of the band Alison Krauss and Union Station and has released two solo albums, Carry Me Across the Mountain , on the Doobie Shea Records label, and Wheels , on the Rounder Records label.He is best...
, sang vocals for George ClooneyGeorge ClooneyGeorge Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award...
in film O Brother, Where Art Thou?O Brother, Where Art Thou?O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 comedy film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning. Set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression, the film's story is a modern satire loosely...
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- Rudy ValléeRudy ValléeRudy Vallée was an American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer.-Early life:Born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse and Catherine Lynch Vallée...
, singer. Born in Holland - James Van NessJames Van NessJames Van Ness was the seventh mayor of San Francisco, USA from 1855 to 1856.He was the son of Dutch-American Vermont Governor Cornelius Van Ness and father-in-law of future San Francisco mayor Frank McCoppin. Prior to being mayor, he had been a lawyer in the U.S. South and then a San Francisco...
- Stewart Van VlietStewart Van VlietStewart Leonard Van Vliet , was a United States Army officer who fought on the side of the Union during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- William Freeman VilasWilliam Freeman VilasWilliam Freeman Vilas was a member of the Democratic Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1891 to 1897. He was a prominent Bourbon Democrat....
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- M. Emmet WalshM. Emmet WalshMichael Emmet Walsh is an American actor who has appeared in over 100 film and television productions.-Life and career:Walsh was born in Ogdensburg, New York, the son of Agnes Kathrine and Harry Maurice Walsh, Sr., a customs agent...
, actor - James M. WarnerJames M. WarnerJames Meech Warner was a New England manufacturer and a brevet brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
, General in the Union Army - Seth WarnerSeth WarnerSeth Warner was born in Roxbury, Connecticut. In 1763, he removed with his father to Bennington in what was then known as the New Hampshire Grants. He established there as a huntsman....
- Cephas WashburnCephas WashburnCephas Washburn was a noted Christian missionary and educator who worked with the Cherokee of northwest Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. He is often referred to as "The Apostle to the Cherokees" and "Builder of Presbyterianism in Arkansas"....
- Ebenezer WashburnEbenezer WashburnSgt. Ebenezer Washburn, Esq., J.P., U.E. was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts in 1756 and settled on a farm in what is now Rutland, Vermont. In 1777, he joined Major-General John Burgoyne's troops...
- Peter T. WashburnPeter T. WashburnPeter Thacher Washburn was a lawyer, politician and Adjutant and Inspector General of the State of Vermont during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Charles W. WatermanCharles W. WatermanCharles Winfield Waterman was a United States Senator from Colorado. Born in Waitsfield, Washington County, Vermont, he attended the rural schools and St. Johnsbury Academy. He graduated from the University of Vermont at Burlington in 1885, and taught school in Connecticut and also at Fort Dodge,...
- Sterry R. WatermanSterry R. WatermanSterry Robinson Waterman was a lawyer and federal judge from Vermont.Waterman graduated Dartmouth College and "read law" before being admitted to practice. He practiced law in St. Johnsbury, Vermont for many years and also served as general counsel of the Vermont Unemployment Compensation...
- Andrew WheatingAndrew WheatingAndrew "Andy" Wheating is an American middle-distance track athlete. Wheating competed for the United States in the men's 800 m at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. He is a professional runner for Nike.-Personal:...
, Middle distance track athlete for the University of Oregon and was a 2008 member of the U.S. Olympic team.
U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...
of Vermont
Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...
, live or lived in Vermont, or for whom Vermont is a significant part of their identity:
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- Bert AbbeyBert AbbeyBert Wood Abbey was a Major League baseball pitcher. He was born in Essex, VT.-Baseball debut:Abbey first began playing baseball as a freshman in college when he recruited fellow students to form the University of Vermont's Catamounts team...
(1869–1962); Major League baseball pitcher; born in EssexEssex, VermontEssex is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. The population was 19,587 at the 2010 census.By population, Essex is the largest town in Vermont, and the second-largest municipality .-Government:... - Charles Francis Adams (1876–1947); first owner of the Boston BruinsBoston BruinsThe Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the...
(1924–1925); born in NewportNewport (town), VermontNewport is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,511 at the 2000 census. The town is referred to by the United States Postal Service and the media as Newport Center, the name of the main settlement of the town.-Town:... - Charles Kendall Adams (1835–1902); educator and historian; born in DerbyDerby, VermontDerby is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. The population was 4,604 at the 2000 census. The town contains four unincorporated villages: Beebe Plain, Clyde Pond, Lake Salem and North Derby; and two incorporated villages: Derby Center and Derby Line...
- Frederick W. AdamsFrederick W. AdamsFrederick Whiting Adams was a noted physician, author, and violin maker.-Biography:He was born in Pawlet, Vermont in 1786, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1822....
(1786–1858); noted physician, author, violin maker; born in PawletPawlet, VermontPawlet is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,477 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which 0.02% is water.Pawlet is a rural farming town... - Sherman AdamsSherman AdamsLlewelyn Sherman Adams was an American politician, best known as White House Chief of Staff for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the culmination of a relatively short political career that also included a stint as Governor of New Hampshire...
(1899–1986), politician, Chief of Staff for President Dwight D. EisenhowerDwight D. EisenhowerDwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
, born in East DoverDover, VermontDover is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,410 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 35.3 square miles , all land... - Ben AffleckBen AffleckBenjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt , better known as Ben Affleck, is an American actor, film director, writer, and producer. He became known with his performances in Kevin Smith's films such as Mallrats and Chasing Amy...
actor. Attended one semester at the University of VermontUniversity of VermontThe University of Vermont comprises seven undergraduate schools, an honors college, a graduate college, and a college of medicine. The Honors College does not offer its own degrees; students in the Honors College concurrently enroll in one of the university's seven undergraduate colleges or... - Charles Augustus AikenCharles Augustus Aiken-Biography:He was born in Manchester, Vermont in 1827 to John Aiken and Harriet Adams Aiken. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1846, and went on to Andover Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1853. He married Sarah Noyes on October 17, 1854, and was ordained a pastor of the...
(1827–1892); clergyman and academic; born in ManchesterManchester (town), VermontManchester is a town in, and one of two shire towns of, Bennington County, Vermont, United States. The population was 4,180 at the 2000 census.... - George AikenGeorge AikenGeorge David Aiken was an American politician from Vermont. A Republican, he served as the 64th Governor of Vermont from 1937 to 1941 and as a U.S. Senator from 1941 to 1975...
, (1892 – 1984), Governor and US senator from Putney - Ivan AlbrightIvan AlbrightIvan Le Lorraine Albright was an American magic realist painter and artist, most renowned for his self-portraits, character studies, and still lifes.-Youth:...
(1897–1983); painter and artist; lived in Woodstock, Vermont - Henry Mills AldenHenry Mills AldenHenry Mills Alden was an American author and editor of Harper's Magazine for fifty years—from 1869 until 1919.-Biography:...
, editor of Harper's Weekly - Ebenezer AllenEbenezer AllenEbenezer Allen was an American soldier, pioneer, and member of the Vermont General Assembly. He was born in Northampton, Massachusetts on 17 October 1743. His parents were Samuel Allen and Hannah Miller ....
- Ethan AllenEthan AllenEthan Allen was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of the U.S...
, commander of the Green Mountain BoysGreen Mountain BoysThe Green Mountain Boys were a militia organization first established in the 1760s in the territory between the British provinces of New York and New Hampshire, known as the New Hampshire Grants... - Fanny AllenFanny AllenFrances Margaret Allen was the first New England woman to become a Catholic nun. The daughter of Revolutionary War General Ethan Allen, she converted to Catholicism and entered the convent of the Religious Hospitallers of St...
after whom the hospital is named. - Ira AllenIra AllenIra Allen was one of the founders of Vermont, and leaders of the Green Mountain Boys; and was the brother of Ethan Allen.-Biography:...
- Jerome AllenJerome Allen (author)Jerome Allen was an American educator and author, born in Westminster, Vermont. He graduated at Amherst College in 1851, then presided over several institutions in the Western United States from 1851 to 1885.Professor Allen's publications include:...
, author - Julia AlvarezJulia ÁlvarezJulia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involvement in a political rebellion forced her family to flee the country.Alvarez rose to...
, author - Trey AnastasioTrey AnastasioTrey Anastasio is an American guitarist, composer, and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish...
, vocals/guitar for PhishPhishPhish is an American rock band noted for its musical improvisation, extended jams, and exploration of music across genres. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 , the band's four members – Trey Anastasio , Mike Gordon , Jon Fishman , and Page McConnell Phish is an American rock band...
, a popular jam-band
- Piers AnthonyPiers AnthonyPiers Anthony Dillingham Jacob is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best...
, (pseudonym) science fiction author - Lemuel H. ArnoldLemuel H. ArnoldLemuel Hastings Arnold was the 12th Governor of the State of Rhode Island, as well as a U.S. Congressman.He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont to Dr. Jonathan & Cynthia Arnold....
, a Governor of Rhode Island - Chester A. ArthurChester A. ArthurChester Alan Arthur was the 21st President of the United States . Becoming President after the assassination of President James A. Garfield, Arthur struggled to overcome suspicions of his beginnings as a politician from the New York City Republican machine, succeeding at that task by embracing...
, twenty-first president of the United States - Warren AustinWarren AustinWarren Robinson Austin was an American politician and statesman; among other roles, he served as Senator from Vermont....
, early U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations - Charlotte AyannaCharlotte AyannaCharlotte Ayanna is an American actress and former Miss Teen USA.-Early life:Ayanna was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, but moved to Vermont at an early age. She had a troubled childhood, spending thirteen years in foster homes after her mother, Emma, was judged to be mentally unfit to look after...
, actress and the 1993 Miss Teen Vermont & Miss Teen USAMiss Teen USAMiss Teen USA is a beauty pageant run by the Miss Universe Organization for girls aged 14–19. The reigning titleholder is Danielle Doty of Texas....
. - Mary AzarianMary AzarianMary Azarian is an American woodcut artist and children's book illustrator. In 1999 she won the Caldecott Medal for her book, Snowflake Bentley, a picture book of the life of Wilson Bentley....
, woodcut artist, children's book illustrator
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- Orville E. BabcockOrville E. BabcockOrville Elias Babcock was an American Civil War General in the Union Army. Immediately upon graduating third in his class as United States Military Academy in 1861, Babcock would go onto serve efficiently in the Corps of Engineers throughout the Civil War and was promoted to Brevet Brigadier...
- Edwin Eugene BagleyEdwin Eugene BagleyEdwin Eugene Bagley was born in Craftsbury, Vermont on May 29, 1857 and died in Keene, New Hampshire on January 29, 1922. He is famous for composing the National Emblem....
, composer of National Emblem and other marches - Maxine BahnsMaxine BahnsMaxine Lee Bahns is an American actress, triathlete and model. She is best known for her role as Star in the 2000 film Cutaway.-Early life:...
- Arthur Scott BaileyArthur Scott BaileyArthur Scott Bailey was the author of more than forty children's books. He was born on November 15, 1877, in St. Albans, Vermont, United States, the second child of Winfield Scott Bailey and Harriet Sarah Goodhue . Winfield Bailey owned a dry goods shop that was stated to be "one of the most...
- Brad BakerBrad BakerBradley Donald Baker is a former Minor League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher. Baker threw a fastball which consistently hit 90 mph, an above-average change and an average curve.- High school :...
- David BallDavid Ball (wide receiver)David Ball is a professional wide receiver for the Erie Explosion of the Ultimate Indoor Football League. He was signed by the Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent in 2007...
- NFL football player
- Hosea BallouHosea BallouHosea Ballou was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer.-Biography:Hosea Ballou was born in Richmond, New Hampshire, to a family of Huguenot origin...
, a father of American Universalism - Bradley BarlowBradley BarlowBradley Barlow was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Fairfield, Vermont. He attended the common schools and then engaged in mercantile pursuits in Philadelphia until 1858, when he moved to St...
- John BarrettJohn Barrett (diplomat)John Barrett was a United States diplomat and one of the most influential early directors general of the Pan American Union. On his death, the New York Times commented that he had "done more than any other person of his generation to promote closer relations among the American...
- John L. BarstowJohn L. BarstowJohn Lester Barstow was a teacher, farmer, politician, and soldier.Barstow was born in Shelburne, Vermont, the son of Heman and Lorain Barstow. After teaching in a local school starting at the age of 15, he moved west to Detroit, but returned in 1857 to help his aging parents with the farm...
- Daric BartonDaric BartonDaric William Barton nicknamed "D.B.", is a Major League Baseball first baseman who plays for the Oakland Athletics....
- Lindon Wallace BatesLindon Wallace BatesLindon Wallace Bates was an American civil engineer, born at Marshfield, Vt., and educated at Yale College. After the completion of engineering studies he was appointed assistant engineer for the Northern Pacific and Oregon Pacific railways, and subsequently was contracting engineer or manager of...
- Alison BechdelAlison BechdelAlison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her graphic memoir Fun Home.-Early life:...
- Fernando C. BeamanFernando C. BeamanFernando Cortez Beaman was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan during and after the American Civil War....
- Orson BeanOrson BeanOrson Bean is an American film, television, and Broadway actor. He appeared frequently on televised game shows in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including being a long-time panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth....
, actor - Johnny BehanJohnny BehanJohn Harris Behan was from April, 1881 to November, 1882 sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona Territory. Behan was appointed the first sheriff of the newly-created county in February, 1881. The mining boomtown of Tombstone was the new county seat and Behan's headquarters...
- Hiram BellHiram BellHiram Bell was a U.S. Representative from the Ohio's Third Congressional District of Ohio.Bell was born in Salem , Vermont, and attended the public schools of his native town. In 1826, his parents moved the family to Hamilton, Ohio. There he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1829, when he...
- H. H. BennettH. H. BennettHenry Hamilton Bennett was a photographer famous for his pictures of the Dells of the Wisconsin River and surrounding region taken between 1865 and 1908. The popularity of his photographs helped turn the city of Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin into a major tourist destination.-Early life:H. H...
- Wilson 'Snowflake' BentleyWilson BentleyWilson Alwyn "Snowflake" Bentley , born in Jericho, Vermont, United States is one of the first known photographers of snowflakes. He perfected a process of catching flakes on black velvet in such a way that their images could be captured before they either melted or sublimed.-Biography:Bentley was...
, scientist and photographer - Bill W.Bill W.William Griffith Wilson , also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous , an international mutual aid fellowship with over two million members belonging to 100,800 groups of alcoholics helping other alcoholics achieve and maintain sobriety...
, founder of AA - Charles E. BillingsCharles E. BillingsCharles Ethan Billings was an American inventor.He was born in Weathersfield, Vermont, the son of Ethan F. and Clarissa M. Billings...
- Frederick H. BillingsFrederick H. BillingsFrederick Billings was an American lawyer and financier. From 1879 to 1881 he was President of the Northern Pacific Railway....
- Stephen BissetteStephen R. BissetteStephen R. Bissette is an American comics artist, editor, and publisher with a focus on the horror genre. He is best known for working with writer Alan Moore and inker John Totleben on the DC comic Swamp Thing in the 1980s....
- 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 - George BlissGeorge Bliss (Congressman)George Bliss was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio.Bliss was born in Jericho, Vermont. He attended Granville College. Moved to Ohio in 1832, studied law with David Kellogg Cartter, was admitted to the bar in 1841 and became Cartter's law partner in Akron, Ohio.Bliss...
- Lou BlongerLou BlongerLou Blonger , born Louis Herbert Belonger, was a Wild West saloonkeeper, gambling-house owner, and mine speculator, but is best known as the kingpin of an extensive ring of confidence tricksters that operated for more than 25 years in Denver, Colorado...
- Aretas BloodAretas BloodAretas Blood played an important role in the manufacture of early American railroad steam locomotives.Blood was born in Weathersfield, Vermont. At the age of 17, as railroads began to be built in the United States, he was apprenticed as a blacksmith...
- Asa P. BluntAsa P. BluntAsa Peabody Blunt was a draughtsman and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Tom BodettTom BodettThomas Edward "Tom" Bodett is an American author, voice actor and radio host. He is also the current spokesman for the hotel chain Motel 6, whose commercials end with the phrase, "I'm Tom Bodett for Motel 6, and we'll leave the light on for ya."-Career:...
- 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 - Chris BohjalianChris BohjalianChristopher Aram Bohjalian, who goes by the pen name Chris Bohjalian, is an American novelist. Bohjalian is the author of 14 novels, including New York Times bestsellers Midwives, "Secrets of Eden," The Law of Similars, Before You Know Kindness, The Double Bind and Skeletons at the Feast...
, author - Andrew BowenAndrew BowenAndrew Bowen is an American comic actor. Bowen is known most for his appearances on the sketch comedy series MADtv.-Biography:...
, actor - Elmer BowmanElmer BowmanElmari Wilhelm Bowman was a Major League Baseball player for the Washington Senators in August 1920. The 23-year-old rookie made two pinch-hitting appearances for the Senators and did not play in the field, so his position is not known.Both of Bowman's appearances took place on the road...
- Keegan BradleyKeegan BradleyKeegan Bradley is an American professional golfer who is a rookie on the PGA Tour. He has won two tour events, most notably the 2011 PGA Championship...
, skier, grew up in Woodstock - Ezra BrainerdEzra BrainerdEzra Brainerd was president of Middlebury College from 1885 until 1908.Born in St. Albans, Vermont, Brainerd was a graduate of the college in 1864. Brainerd assumed the presidency at a time when the college was recovering from an extended period of hardship...
- L. Paul BremerL. Paul BremerLewis Paul "Jerry" Bremer III is an American diplomat. He is most notable for being the U.S. Administrator to Iraq charged with overseeing the country's occupation after the 2003 invasion. In his role as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, he reported primarily to the U.S. Secretary of...
, Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraq, 2003-4 - Richard BrewerRichard BrewerRichard M. "Dick" Brewer , was an American cowboy and outlaw. He was the first leader of what historically is referred to as Billy the Kid's band, although Billy never led them.-Early life:...
(1852–1878); cowboy; born in St. AlbansSt. Albans (town), VermontSt. Albans is a town in Franklin County, Vermont. The population was 6,392 at the 2010 census. The town completely surrounds the city of St. Albans, which was separated from the town and incorporated in 1902. References to "St. Albans" prior to this date generally refer to the town center, which... - Francis Fisher BrowneFrancis Fisher Browne-Biography:Browne was born in South Halifax, Vermont. After his high school education, Browne enlisted in the Forty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteers ....
- Orestes BrownsonOrestes BrownsonOrestes Augustus Brownson was a New England intellectual and activist, preacher, labor organizer, and noted Catholic convert and writer...
- Pearl S. BuckPearl S. BuckPearl Sydenstricker Buck also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu , was an American writer who spent most of her time until 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932...
, author - T. Garry BuckleyT. Garry BuckleyThomas Garry Buckley was the 72nd Lieutenant Governor of Vermont. He was elected lieutenant governor in 1976 without winning a majority of the vote. He finished second in the general election, but under Vermont law, since neither candidate received a majority, the Vermont General Assembly was...
- Ted BundyTed BundyTheodore Robert "Ted" Bundy was an American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women during the 1970s, and possibly earlier...
(1946–1989); serial killer; born in BurlingtonBurlington, VermontBurlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal.... - James E. BurkeJames E. BurkeJames E. Burke was the chief executive officer of Johnson & Johnson from 1976 to 1989, a company for which he worked forty years.-Early life:...
- Alex Burnham, The Burnham Brothers Band
- Andre Burnham, The Burnham Brothers Band
- Forrest Burnham, The Burnham Brothers Band
- Steven T. ByingtonSteven T. ByingtonSteven Tracy Byington was a noted intellectual, translator, and American individualist anarchist. He was born in Westford, Vermont, and later moved to Ballardvale section of Andover, Massachusetts. A one-time proponent of Georgism, he converted to individualist anarchism after associating with...
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- Brad "Spider" Caldwell, Penn St Football Equipment Manager
- John C. CaldwellJohn C. CaldwellJohn Curtis Caldwell was a teacher, a Union general in the American Civil War, and an American diplomat.-Early life:Caldwell was born in Lowell, Vermont...
- Samuel de ChamplainSamuel de ChamplainSamuel de Champlain , "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He founded New France and Quebec City on July 3, 1608....
- Thomas CaleThomas CaleThomas Cale was a delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the District of Alaska. He was born in Underhill, Vermont in Chittenden County. He attended the district schools and Bell Academy at Underhill Flats, Vermont. In 1866, he moved to Fort Edward, New York in Washington County...
- Delino Dexter CalvinDelino Dexter CalvinDelino Dexter Calvin was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Frontenac in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative member from 1868 to 1875 and from 1877 to 1883....
- Zach Campbell, multi-instrumentalist
- Jim CantoreJim CantoreJames D. Cantore is an American meteorologist. He is best known as an on-air personality for The Weather Channel.- Career :...
, Weather Channel meteorologist - Jake Burton CarpenterJake Burton CarpenterJake Burton Carpenter , also known as Jake Burton, is an American snowboarder and founder of Burton Snowboards. He grew up in Cedarhurst, New York.- Biography :...
, owner of Burton SnowboardsBurton (Snowsports)Burton Snowboards is a manufacturer of snowboards. Founded by Jake Burton Carpenter in 1977, the company specializes in a product line aimed at snowboarders: snowboards, bindings, boots, outerwear, and accessories....
, from Londonderry - Matthew H. CarpenterMatthew H. CarpenterMatthew Hale Carpenter , was a member of the Republican Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1869–1875 and again from 1879 - 1881....
- Albert CarringtonAlbert CarringtonAlbert Carrington born in Royalton, Vermont, was an apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and First Presidency in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He was ordained as an apostle on July 3, 1870.Carrington served in the Utah Territorial Legislature in 1869...
- Hayden CarruthHayden CarruthHayden Carruth was an American poet and literary critic. He taught at Syracuse University.-Life:Hayden Carruth grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut, and was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Chicago. He lived in Johnson, Vermont for many years...
- William B. CastleWilliam B. CastleWilliam Bainbridge Castle was an American politician of the Whig Party who served as the 11th and final mayor of Ohio City from 1853 to 1854 and the 14th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1855 and 1856....
- Lucien B. CaswellLucien B. CaswellLucien Bonaparte Caswell was an American politician.Born in Swanton, Vermont, he moved with his family to frontier Wisconsin in 1836 and settled along the Rock River, just south of Lake Koshkonong. Caswell attended Milton Academy and Beloit College, studying law...
- Suzy ChaffeeSuzy ChaffeeSuzanne "Suzy" Chaffee is a former Olympic alpine ski racer and actress. Following her racing career, she modelled in New York with Ford Models and then became the pre-eminent freestyle ballet skier of the early 1970s...
- Beth ChamberlinBeth ChamberlinBeth Chamberlin is a American actress and fitness coach.-Film and television roles:She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Beth Raines Spaulding LeMay Winslow Spaulding Bauer Spaulding on Guiding Light. She was the second actress to portray the role and initially portrayed Beth for a two...
- John Putnam ChapinJohn Putnam ChapinJohn Putnam Chapin served as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the Whig Party....
- Welcome ChapmanWelcome ChapmanWelcome Chapman was an early Mormon leader born in Readsboro, Vermont. Chapman was the leader of the Mormon settlers in Manti, Utah, from 1854 to 1862, and helped broker peace between the settlers and Chief Wakara's tribe....
- Arthur ChaseArthur ChaseArthur Chase was the co-founder of Theta Chi Fraternity. He was born in Bellows Falls, Vermont and entered Norwich University in 1852 where he roomed with a young cadet named George Dewey who later became famous as an Admiral. Chase was 20 years old when he assisted his distant cousin Frederick...
- Harrie B. ChaseHarrie B. ChaseHarrie Brigham Chase was a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.A native and resident of Vermont, Chase attended Dartmouth College, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. He also attended Boston University School of Law. He was a state's attorney of...
- Horace ChaseHorace ChaseHorace B. Chase was an American politician who served as mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Chase was born in Vermont, on Christmas Day of 1810 and lived near Derby, Vermont. One of Milwaukee's pioneers, he first arrived in Milwaukee in December 1834, left for Chicago, and returned to settle in...
- Daniel ChipmanDaniel ChipmanDaniel Chipman was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Salisbury, Connecticut. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1788. He studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced in Rutland, Vermont 1790–1794. In addition, he was a member of the state constitutional...
- Thomas ChittendenThomas ChittendenThomas Chittenden was an important figure in the founding of Vermont.Chittenden was born in East Guilford, Connecticut and moved to Vermont in 1774, where he founded the town of Williston. During the American Revolution, Chittenden was a member of a committee empowered to negotiate with the...
- Lucius E. ChittendenLucius E. ChittendenLucius Eugene Chittenden was a Vermont author, banker, lawyer, politician and peace advocate who served as Register of the Treasury during the Lincoln administration.-Early life:...
- Sylvester ChurchillSylvester ChurchillSylvester Churchill was an American journalist and Regular Army officer.-Early life:Churchill was born in Woodstock, Vermont, the son of Joseph and Sarah Churchill...
- Joseph A. CitroJoseph A. CitroJoseph A. Citro is a Vermont author and folklorist. Occasionally referred as the "Bard of the Bizarre" or "the Ghost-Master General", he has extensively researched and documented the folklore, hauntings, ghost stories, paranormal activity and occult happenings of New England.Interested in horror...
- Charles Edgar ClarkCharles Edgar ClarkRear Admiral Charles Edgar Clark was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War and the Spanish–American War.-Biography:...
,Born in Bradford Vermont, AdmiralAdmiral (United States)In the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard and the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, admiral is a four-star flag officer rank, with the pay grade of O-10. Admiral ranks above vice admiral and below Fleet Admiral in the Navy; the Coast Guard and the Public Health...
during Spanish-American WarSpanish-American WarThe Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence... - Kelly ClarkKelly ClarkKelly Clark is a snowboarder born in the village of West Dover in the town of Dover, Vermont. She has been snowboarding since she was 8 years old, and began competing in 1999...
, Olympic gold medal winner, snowboarding 2002 - William Bullock ClarkWilliam Bullock ClarkWilliam Bullock Clark, Ph. D., LL.D , was an American geologist.He was born at Brattleboro, Vermont, and educated at Amherst College and in Munich...
- Skiing CochransSkiing CochransThe Skiing Cochrans are a family of alpine ski racers from Richmond, Vermont. The Cochrans were a dominant force on the U.S. Ski Team in the late 1960s and early 1970s....
- Richard A. CodyRichard A. CodyRichard A. Cody is a retired United States Army general who served as the 31st Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army from June 24, 2004 to July 31, 2008. He retired from the Army on August 1, 2008.-Early life and career:...
- William Sloane CoffinWilliam Sloane CoffinWilliam Sloane Coffin, Jr. was an American liberal Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist. He was ordained in the Presbyterian church and later received ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ....
, Jr., a resident of Strafford - Ben Cohen
- Zerah ColburnZerah Colburn (math prodigy)Zerah Colburn was a child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator.-Biography:He was born in Cabot, Vermont in 1804 and educated at Westminster School in London. He was thought to be mentally retarded until the age of seven. However, after six weeks of schooling his...
(1804–1840); math prodigy; born in Cabot - Lui CollinsLui CollinsLui Collins is a contemporary folk singer-songwriter. She attended the University of Connecticut and played her first gigs as a student there. She began touring in the mid-1970s as part of a duo with Horace Williams, Jr.. Her first two albums consisted of cover songs, after which she moved on to...
- Ray Collins
- Gardner Quincy ColtonGardner Quincy ColtonGardner Quincy Colton was an American showman, lecturer, and former medical student who pioneered the use of nitrous oxide in dentistry....
who pioneered the use of nitrous oxideNitrous oxideNitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas or sweet air, is a chemical compound with the formula . It is an oxide of nitrogen. At room temperature, it is a colorless non-flammable gas, with a slightly sweet odor and taste. It is used in surgery and dentistry for its anesthetic and analgesic...
(laughing gas) for dental procedures. From Georgia, VermontGeorgia, VermontGeorgia is a town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States. The population was 4,375 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 45.2 square miles , of which, 39.5 square miles of it is land and 5.7 square miles of it ... - George ColvocoressesGeorge ColvocoressesGeorge Musalas "Colvos" Colvocoresses was a United States Navy officer who commanded the USS Saratoga during the American Civil War. From 1838 up until 1842, he served in the United States Exploring Expedition, better known as the Wilkes Expedition, which explored large regions of the Pacific Ocean...
- George Partridge ColvocoressesGeorge Partridge ColvocoressesGeorge Partridge Colvocoresses was a United States Navy rear admiral. He was the son of Captain George M. Colvocoresses, the adopted son of Captain Alden Partridge, founder of Norwich University in Vermont. George P...
- Jessica ComolliJessica ComolliJessica May Comolli is a beauty queen from Montpelier, Vermont who competed in the Miss USA pageant in 2007.Comolli won the Miss Vermont USA 2007 title in a state pageant held in Burlington, Vermont on November 5, 2006. She had previously placed first runner-up to Amanda Gilman in the 2006 event...
- Thomas Jefferson ConantThomas Jefferson ConantThomas Jefferson Conant , American Biblical scholar, was born at Brandon, Vermont.Graduating from Middlebury College in 1823, he became tutor in the Columbian University, Washington D.C...
- George A. ConverseGeorge A. ConverseGeorge Albert Converse was a rear admiral in the United States Navy, who was noted for his contributions to naval engineering...
- Calvin CoolidgeCalvin CoolidgeJohn Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...
, thirtieth president of the United States - Barry M. CostelloBarry M. CostelloVice Admiral Barry M. Costello was the Commander, US Third Fleet of the United States Navy , May 2005 - May 2007.-Biography:He is native of Rutland, Vermont. He attended College of the Holy Cross and was commissioned an Ensign through the NROTC Program in 1973...
, US Vice admiral, native of Rutland - Douglas M. CostleDouglas M. CostleDouglas Michael Costle was one of the architects of the United States Environmental Protection Agency , and he served President Jimmy Carter as EPA Administrator from 1977 to 1981.- Early life and education :...
- Oliver CowderyOliver CowderyOliver H. P. Cowdery was, with Joseph Smith, Jr., an important participant in the formative period of the Latter Day Saint movement between 1829 and 1836, becoming one of the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon's golden plates, one of the first Latter Day Saint apostles, and the Second Elder of...
- Robert CowdinRobert CowdinRobert Cowdin was a businessman, a field officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a local politician in Massachusetts. Cowdin was colonel of the 1st Massachusetts Infantry and served in several major battles early in the war...
- Aaron H. CraginAaron H. CraginAaron Harrison Cragin was a United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Weston, Vermont, he completed preparatory studies, studied law, was admitted to the bar in Albany, New York in 1847 and commenced practice in Lebanon, New Hampshire...
- Jay CravenJay CravenJay Craven is a Vermont film director, screenwriter and professor of film studies at Marlboro College.Jay Craven is known for creating award winning films on modest budgets, adopting all of the novels of author Howard Frank Mosher to film...
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- Tim Daly, actor, producer, and director
- John Cotton DanaJohn Cotton DanaJohn Cotton Dana was an American librarian and museum director whose main objective was to make the library relevant to the daily lives of the citizens and to promote the benefits of reading...
- Jeff DanzigerJeff DanzigerJeff Danziger is a syndicated political cartoonist and author.Danziger served in the United States Army from 1967 until 1971. An intelligence officer and linguist during the Vietnam War, he was awarded the Bronze Star and Air Medal in 1970...
, political cartoonist - Thomas Davenport, inventor of the electric motor
- Howard DeanHoward DeanHoward Brush Dean III is an American politician and physician from Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. Although his U.S...
, Democratic National Committee Chairman 2005-9 - John Deere, inventor of the steel plow and founder of agricultural equipment manufacturer Deere & Company
- David DellingerDavid DellingerDavid T. Dellinger , was an influential American radical, a pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change.-Chicago Seven:...
, one of Chicago SevenChicago SevenThe Chicago Seven were seven defendants—Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner—charged with conspiracy, inciting to riot, and other charges related to protests that took place in Chicago, Illinois on the occasion of the 1968...
- George DeweyGeorge DeweyGeorge Dewey was an admiral of the United States Navy. He is best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War...
, hero of Manila BayBattle of Manila Bay (1898)The Battle of Manila Bay took place on 1 May 1898, during the Spanish-American War. The American Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey engaged and destroyed the Spanish Pacific Squadron under Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarón...
and the only Admiral of the Navy ever appointed in America
- John DeweyJohn DeweyJohn Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology...
, philosopher and educator
- Julia Caroline DorrJulia Caroline DorrJulia Caroline Dorr was an American author who published both prose and poetry. She was born at Charleston, South Carolina, but moved early in her life to New York City, then to Rutland, Vermont. There she married Hon. Seneca R. Dorr. Her earliest published writings appeared in 1848...
, author - Stephen A. DouglasStephen A. DouglasStephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Northern Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860. He lost to the Republican Party's candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom he had defeated two years earlier in a Senate contest following a famed...
, U.S. Senator from Illinois, born in Brandon. Nominated for president 1860. - A. E. DouglassA. E. DouglassA. E. Douglass was an American astronomer. He discovered a correlation between tree rings and the sunspot cycle....
, astronomer - Norman DubieNorman DubieNorman Dubie is an American poet.-Life:He is the author of more than eighteen books, often assuming historical personae in his works...
, poet - Jean DubucJean DubucJean Joseph Octave "Chauncey" Dubuc was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played with the Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, and New York Giants during his nine year career. Dubuc had an overall record of 85–76 with a 3.04 ERA.-Early life and amateur career:Born in St. Johnsbury,...
, baseball pitcher. Born in St. Johnsbury - William Wade DudleyWilliam Wade DudleyWilliam Wade Dudley , born in Weathersfield Bow, Vermont, started life as a soldier in the American Civil War, then became a lawyer, a government official and a Republican campaigner.-Background:William Wade Dudley was the son of Rev...
- Chris Duffy, baseball player. Born in Brattleboro
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- Horatio EarleHoratio EarleHoratio Sawyer Earle is known as the "Father of Good Roads" or simply Horatio "Good Roads" Earle.-Early life:Earle was born February 14, 1855 on a farm in Mount Holly, Vermont. He married Agnes Lincoln in 1874 and they had a son, Romeo Horatio Earle in 1878...
, promoted "good roads" when the automobile was introduced - John EatonJohn Eaton (General)For other people named John Eaton, see John Eaton .John Eaton, Jr. was a U.S. Commissioner of Education and a brevet brigadier general during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
, US commissioner of education - Dorman Bridgeman Eaton, instrumental in federal civil service reform
- Eddy BrothersEddy BrothersThe Eddy Brothers refers to William Eddy and Horatio Eddy, popular Spiritualist mediums of the 1870s.-History:During the 1870s, the Eddy brothers held seances in Chittenden, Vermont, claiming to materialize spirits of the dead including drowned sailors, Native Americans, and soldiers who died in...
- George F. EdmundsGeorge F. EdmundsGeorge Franklin Edmunds was a Republican U.S. Senator from Vermont from 1866 to 1891.Born in Richmond, Vermont, Edmunds attended common schools and was privately tutored as a child. After being admitted to the bar in 1849, he started a law practice in Burlington, Vermont...
- Merritt A. EdsonMerritt A. EdsonMajor General Merritt Austin Edson , known as "Red Mike", was a general in the United States Marine Corps. Among the decorations he received was the Medal of Honor, two Navy Crosses, the Silver Star, and two Legions of Merit...
- Chesselden EllisChesselden EllisChesselden Ellis was a United States Representative from New York. Born in New Windsor, Vermont, he completed preparatory studies and was graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1823. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced practice in Waterford, New York...
- George F. EmmonsGeorge F. EmmonsGeorge Foster Emmons was a rear admiral of the United States Navy, who served in the early to mid 19th century.-Biography:Born in Clarendon, Vermont, Emmons began his distinguished career as a midshipman on 1 April 1828...
- Jacob EsteyJacob EsteyJacob Estey was the founder of Estey Organ.-Biography:He was born in 1814 in Hinsdale, New Hampshire and ran away from an orphanage to Worcester, Massachusetts, where he learned the plumbing trade. He arrived in Brattleboro, Vermont in 1835 at age 21 to work in a plumbing shop which he soon bought...
- Jeremiah EvartsJeremiah EvartsJeremiah F. Evarts was a Christian missionary, reformer, and activist for the rights of American Indians in the United States, and a leading opponent of the Indian removal policy of the United States government.-Early years:...
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- William FairfieldWilliam FairfieldWilliam Fairfield was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Pawlet, Vermont in 1769 or 1770, the son of William Fairfield, a farmer. His father fought with Edward Jessup's loyalist forces and moved with his family to Machiche in Quebec in 1779...
- John C. Farrar
- Thomas Green FessendenThomas Green FessendenThomas Green Fessenden was an author and editor who worked in England and the United States.-Biography:...
, one of the earliest American writers - Young FirpoYoung FirpoYoung Firpo was a professional light-heavyweight boxer. He was a popular fighter in the Pacific Northwest during the 1920s and 1930s, particularly in Portland, Oregon...
- Dorothy Canfield FisherDorothy Canfield FisherDorothy Canfield Fisher was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early decades of the twentieth century. She was named by Eleanor Roosevelt as one of the ten most influential women in the United States...
, writer - Robert M. FisherRobert M. FisherRobert Miles Fisher , was an American abstract artist in oils, watercolor, charcoal, and welded sculpture.-Biography:...
, abstract artist - Jon FishmanJon FishmanJon Fishman is an American drummer best known for his work with the band Phish. He is credited with co-writing 19 Phish originals, 8 of them as a solo credit....
, Drummer/Vocals from the band PhishPhishPhish is an American rock band noted for its musical improvisation, extended jams, and exploration of music across genres. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 , the band's four members – Trey Anastasio , Mike Gordon , Jon Fishman , and Page McConnell Phish is an American rock band... - Carlton FiskCarlton FiskCarlton Ernest Fisk , nicknamed "Pudge" or "The Commander", is a former Major League Baseball catcher. During a 24-year baseball career, he played for both the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox .Fisk was known by the nickname "Pudge" due to his 6'2", 220 lb frame...
(b. 1947); former Major League Baseball Hall of Fame catcher; born in Bellows FallsBellows Falls, VermontBellows Falls is an incorporated village located in the town of Rockingham in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The population was 3,165 at the 2000 census... - James FiskJames 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:...
- Irving FiskeIrving FiskeIrving Fiske born Irving Fishman in Brooklyn, New York, was a playwright, inventor, freelance writer, and speaker...
- William Charles FitzgeraldWilliam Charles FitzgeraldWilliam "Bill" C. Fitzgerald was a United States Navy officer who was killed in action during the Vietnam War, while serving as an advisor to the Republic of Vietnam Navy...
- John FitzpatrickJohn Fitzpatrick (mayor of New Orleans)John Fitzpatrick was an Irish-American mayor of New Orleans from April 25, 1892 to April 27, 1896.-External links:*...
- Ed Flanagan, auditor of accounts & state senator
- Helen Hartness FlandersHelen Hartness FlandersHelen Hartness Flanders , a native of the U.S. state of Vermont, was an internationally recognized ballad collector and an authority on the folk music found in New England and the British Isles...
, collector of traditional ballads - Ralph FlandersRalph FlandersRalph Edward Flanders was an American mechanical engineer, industrialist and Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Vermont. He grew up on subsistence farms in Vermont and Rhode Island, became an apprentice first as a machinist, then as a draftsman, before training as a mechanical engineer...
- Henry A. FletcherHenry A. FletcherHenry Addison Fletcher was an American Civil War veteran, a farmer and a U.S. politician of the Republican Party.-Roots:...
- George P. FosterGeorge P. FosterGeorge Perkins Foster was a school teacher, general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and then a United States Marshal.-Early life and career:...
- 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...
- Martin Henry FreemanMartin Henry FreemanMartin Henry Freeman was the first Black president of an American college, as well as later serving as president of Liberia College....
- 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 - Ida May FullerIda May FullerIda May Fuller was the first American to receive a monthly benefit Social Security check. She received the check, amounting to $22.54, on January 31, 1940.Fuller was born on a farm outside Ludlow, Vermont...
, first recipient of Social Security - John FuscoJohn FuscoJohn Fusco is an American screenwriter born in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. His screenplays include Crossroads, Young Guns, Young Guns II, Thunderheart, Hidalgo, and the Oscar-nominatedSpirit: Stallion of the Cimarron...
, Hollywood movie writer/producer; wrote HidalgoHidalgo (film)Hidalgo is a 2004 film based on the legend of the American distance rider Frank Hopkins and his mustang Hidalgo, and recounts Hopkins' racing his horse in Arabia in 1891 against Bedouin riding pure-blooded Arabian horses. The movie was written by John Fusco and directed by Joe Johnston...
and Young GunsYoung GunsYoung Guns is a 1988 action/western film, directed by Christopher Cain and written by John Fusco. The film was the first to be produced by Morgan Creek Productions...
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- Phineas GagePhineas GagePhineas P. Gage was an American railroad construction foreman now remembered for his improbablesurvival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and...
- Larry GardnerLarry GardnerWilliam Lawrence "Larry" Gardner was a third baseman in Major League Baseball. From 1908 through 1924, Gardner played for the Boston Red Sox , Philadelphia Athletics, and Cleveland Indians . He batted left-handed and threw right-handed...
, Former MLB Third Baseman - David GiancolaDavid GiancolaDavid Giancola , is a Vermont based American filmmaker. Born in Rutland, Vermont and graduate of Mount St. Joseph's Academy in 1987, he has directed eight films as of October 2006...
(b. 1969), film director, born in Rutland, Vermont - 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 born in Bennington - Amanda GilmanAmanda GilmanAmanda Gilman is a beauty queen from Danville, Vermont who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.Gilman won the Miss Vermont USA 2006 title in a state pageant held in late 2005...
- Joseph A. GilmoreJoseph A. GilmoreJoseph Albree Gilmore was an American railroad superintendent from Concord, New Hampshire. He was a member of the New Hampshire state senate, and was its president in 1859. Born in 1811 in Weston, Vermont, he served two terms as Governor during the Civil War...
- Louise GlückLouise GlückLouise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet of Hungarian Jewish heritage. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000....
, Pulitzer Prize winning poet - Isaac GoodnowIsaac GoodnowIsaac Tichenor Goodnow was an abolitionist and co-founder of Kansas State University and Manhattan, Kansas. Goodnow was also elected to the Kansas House of Representatives and as Superintendent of Public Instruction for the state, and is known as "the father of formal education in Kansas."-...
, founder of Kansas State UniversityKansas State UniversityKansas State University, commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States...
and Manhattan, KansasManhattan, KansasManhattan is a city located in the northeastern part of the state of Kansas in the United States, at the junction of the Kansas River and Big Blue River. It is the county seat of Riley County and the city extends into Pottawatomie County. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 52,281... - Mike GordonMike GordonMike Gordon is a bass guitar player and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish. Gordon is also an accomplished banjo player, and is proficient at piano, guitar, harmonica and percussion...
, vocals/bassist from the band PhishPhishPhish is an American rock band noted for its musical improvisation, extended jams, and exploration of music across genres. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 , the band's four members – Trey Anastasio , Mike Gordon , Jon Fishman , and Page McConnell Phish is an American rock band... - Walter W. GrangerWalter W. GrangerWalter Willis Granger was an American vertebrate paleontologist who participated in important fossil explorations in the United States, Egypt, China and Mongolia.-Early life and career:...
- Lewis A. GrantLewis A. GrantLewis Addison Grant was a teacher, lawyer, soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and later Assistant U.S. Secretary of War...
- Duane GravelineDuane GravelineDuane Edgar Graveline is an American physician and former NASA astronaut. He was one of the six scientists selected in 1965, in NASA's fourth group of astronauts, for the Apollo program. He is most famous for being immersed in water for seven days as part of his zero gravity deconditioning...
- 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...
- Peter Gray, psychologist
- Horace GreeleyHorace GreeleyHorace Greeley was an American newspaper editor, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, a politician, and an outspoken opponent of slavery...
, newspaper editor, reformer and politician. Apprenticed in East Poultney - Jerry GreenfieldJerry GreenfieldJerry Greenfield is a co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc.Throughout his childhood, Greenfield lived in New York, on Long Island. In 1969, he enrolled at Oberlin College, where he followed a pre-med curriculum before graduating in 1973...
- Theodore P. GreeneTheodore P. GreeneTheodore Phinney Greene , was a rear admiral of the United States Navy, who fought on the side of the Union during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Wallace M. GreeneWallace M. GreeneGeneral Wallace Martin Greene, Jr. was a four-star United States Marine Corps general who served as the 23rd Commandant of the Marine Corps from January 1, 1964 to December 31, 1967...
- Josiah GroutJosiah GroutJosiah Grout, Jr. was an American lawyer and politician in the US state of Vermont.Born in Quebec, Canada to Vermonter parents, he served in the American Civil War as a Union Army officer before entering the legal profession after the war...
- Luis GuzmánLuis GuzmánLuis Guzmán is an actor from Puerto Rico. He is known for his character work. For much of his career, he has played roles largely as sidekicks, thugs, or policemen....
, actor
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- Paul Hackett
- William HaileWilliam HaileWilliam Haile was an American merchant, manufacturer and politician from Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Born in 1807 in Putney, Vermont, he served in both houses of the New Hampshire legislature and as Governor of the state...
- Joy HakimJoy HakimJoy Hakim is an American author who has written a ten-volume history of the United States, A History of US, and Freedom: A History of US , all published by Oxford University Press...
- Enoch HaleEnoch HaleEnoch Hale was born in Rowley, Massachusetts on November 28, 1733. He and his brother Nathan Hale would move to Rindge, New Hampshire as young men. During the French and Indian War Enoch Hale served in the New Hampshire Provincial Regiment in 1755 and 1757-1758...
- 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....
- William Laurel HarrisWilliam Laurel HarrisWilliam Laurel Harris was an American muralist, educator, editor and arts organizer.Harris was member Municipal Art Society , the Architectural League of New York , The National Mural Painters Society, and The Fine Arts Federation; he also founded the Art Centre with Katherine...
- James HartnessJames HartnessJames Hartness was an American inventor; a mechanical engineer; an entrepreneur who mentored other inventors to develop their machine tool products and create a thriving industrial center in southeastern Vermont; an amateur astronomer who fostered the construction of telescopes by amateurs in his...
, machine tool entrepreneur - Bill HauglandBill HauglandBill Haugland was a television news anchorman for CFCF-TV in Montreal, Quebec.A native of Montreal, Haugland studied at Ryerson University and Concordia University...
- William Babcock HazenWilliam Babcock HazenWilliam Babcock Hazen was a career United States Army officer who served in the Indian Wars, as a Union general in the American Civil War, and as Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army...
- Chris HedgesChris HedgesChristopher Lynn Hedges is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies...
, journalist - William W. HenryWilliam W. HenryWilliam Wirt Henry was a manufacturer and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for gallantry in action.-Early life:...
- Charles Shattuck HillCharles Shattuck HillCharles Shattuck Hill, C.E. was an American editor, born at Fairfield, Vermont. He received his degree in civil engineering in 1888. He served on the editorial staff of the Engineering News until 1906; then he became editor of Engineering and Contracting...
- Ethan A. HitchcockEthan A. Hitchcock (general)Ethan Allen Hitchcock was a career United States Army officer and author who had War Department assignments in Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War, in which he served as a major general.-Early life:...
, Major General during the Civil War - Edward HoaglandEdward HoaglandEdward Hoagland is an author best known for his nature and travel writing.-Life:...
, essayist, taught at Bennington College. Retired to Sutton - Frederick HolbrookFrederick HolbrookFrederick Holbrook was an agriculturist, politician, and the 27th Governor of Vermont.-Early life:Holbrook was born in East Windsor, Connecticut, son of John and Sara Holbrook. He attended Berkshire Gymnasium, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for two years, then visited Europe in 1833...
- Tristan HonsingerTristan HonsingerTristan Honsinger is a cello player active in free jazz and free improvisation. He is perhaps best known for his long-running collaboration with free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor and guitarist Derek Bailey....
(b. 1949), jazz cello player, born in BurlingtonBurlington, VermontBurlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal.... - Samuel HopkinsSamuel Hopkins (inventor)Samuel Hopkins was an American inventor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Pittsford, Vermont. On July 31, 1790, he was granted the first U.S. patent, under the new U.S. patent statute just signed into law by President Washington on April 10, 1790...
, holder of first American patent, for pearl and potash process, 1790. - Charles Snead HoustonCharles Snead Houston-References:-External links:* - Daily Telegraph obituary* Independent obituary, 1 October 2009.-Notes:...
, Mountaineer, physician, scientist, and Peace Corps leader - Charles Edward HoveyCharles Edward HoveyCharles Edward Hovey was an educator, college president, pension lobbyist and a brevet major general in the United States Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
- Jacob M. HowardJacob M. HowardJacob Merritt Howard was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan during and after the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Steven James HowardSteven Howard (politician)Steven James Howard is an American politician from the state of Vermont. He represented parts of the city of Rutland in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1993 to 2011, except for three terms between 1999 and 2005...
- James F. Howard, Jr.James F. Howard, Jr.James Francis Howard, Jr. is a Professor of Neurology and Medicine at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.-Early life and education:Howard was born 1948-05-03 in Bellows Falls, Vermont, U.S.. He received a BA in 1970 and a M.D...
- William Alanson HowardWilliam Alanson HowardWilliam Alanson Howard served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from March 4, 1855 to March 3, 1859 and from May 15, 1860 to March 3, 1861. Howard was the Governor of the Dakota Territory from 1878 to 1880.-Biography:William Howard was born at Hinesburg,...
- Felicity HuffmanFelicity HuffmanFelicity Kendall Huffman is an American film, stage, and television actress. She is known for her role as executive producer Dana Whitaker on the ABC television show Sports Night , which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination, and as hectic supermom Lynette Scavo on the ABC show Desperate...
, actor - Stephen HuneckStephen HuneckStephen Huneck was an American wood carving artist, furniture maker, painter, and author. Most of his artwork is composed of carvings of dogs. In addition to carvings, Huneck also wrote several children's books, the main character of which was his black Labrador Retriever, Sally...
, artist - Richard Morris HuntRichard Morris HuntRichard Morris Hunt was an American architect of the nineteenth century and a preeminent figure in the history of American architecture...
, architect - William Morris HuntWilliam Morris HuntWilliam Morris Hunt , American painter, was born at Brattleboro, Vermont to Jane Maria Hunt and Hon. Jonathan Hunt, who raised one of the preeminent families in American art...
- 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...
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- Horatio Nelson JacksonHoratio Nelson JacksonHoratio Nelson Jackson was a physician and automobile pioneer. In 1903, he and driving partner Sewall K. Crocker became the first people to drive an automobile across the United States.-Early life and medical career:...
- William Henry JacksonWilliam Henry JacksonWilliam Henry Jackson was an American painter, Civil War, geological survey photographer and an explorer famous for his images of the American West...
- Lindsey JacobellisLindsey JacobellisLindsey Jacobellis is an American snowboarder from Stratton, Vermont.At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Jacobellis won the silver medal in Women's Snowboard Cross's Olympics debut...
- Jim JeffordsJim JeffordsJames Merrill "Jim" Jeffords is a former U.S. Senator from Vermont. He served as a Republican until 2001, when he left the party to become an independent. He retired from the Senate in 2006.-Background:...
- Milo Parker JewettMilo Parker JewettMilo Parker Jewett was a U.S. educator, born at St. Johnsbury, VermontJewett was a graduate of Dartmouth College and Andover Theological Seminary...
- Andrew JohnsonAndrew Johnson (skier)Andrew Johnson is a cross-country skier from the United States. He was born and raised in Greensboro, Vermont, and is a member of the U.S. 2006 Olympic Cross-Country Ski Team. He has been a Junior National Champ, an Overall "Supertour Champ," and a 3-Time All American...
, skier
Carlene King Johnson
Carlene King Johnson Drake was Miss USA 1955.After winning the Miss Vermont USA crown, Johnson, from Rutland, Vermont went on to become Vermont's only representative to achieve the title of Miss USA. Previously, she was Miss Vermont 1953.Johnson was born to Dr. Norman & Katherine King Johnson....
, Miss USA 1955, first one from New England and only one ever from Vermont
Ernie Johnson (pitcher)
Ernest Thorwald Johnson was a Major League Baseball pitcher. The 6'4", 195 lb. right-hander was signed by the Boston Braves as an amateur free agent before the season. He played for the Boston Braves , Milwaukee Braves , and Baltimore Orioles .-Playing career:After serving three years in the U.S...
Kenny Johnson
Kenneth "Kenny" Johnson is an American actor well known for his portrayal of Detective Curtis Lemansky on the American drama The Shield and Detective "Ham" Dewey on Saving Grace.- Early career :...
, actor, played Lem
Curtis Lemansky
Curtis Lemansky, more commonly known as "Lem" or "Lemonhead", is a fictional police detective on the FX original drama The Shield, played by actor Kenny Johnson.-Personal life:Little is known about Lemansky's personal life...
on The Shield
The Shield
The Shield is an American television drama series starring Michael Chiklis which premiered on March 12, 2002 on FX in the United States and concluded on November 25, 2008 after seven seasons...
Luke S. Johnson
Luke Samuel Johnson was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from 1835 to 1838. He served in the Quorum with his younger brother, Lyman E. Johnson and Orson Hyde, his brother-in-law.Johnson was born November 3, 1807, in Pomfret,...
Lyman E. Johnson
Lyman Eugene Johnson was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He broke with Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon during the 1837-38 period when schism divided the early Church...
Miranda July
Miranda July is a performing artist, writer, actress and film director. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July," which can be traced to a character from a "girlzine" Miranda created with high school friend Johanna Fateman, called Snarla.- Background :Miranda...
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- Bob KeeshanBob KeeshanRobert James "Bob" Keeshan was an American television producer and actor. He is most notable as the title character of the children's television program Captain Kangaroo, which became an icon for millions of people during its 30-year run from 1955 to 1984.Keeshan also played the original...
(1927–2004); "Captain Kangaroo"; lived last 14 years of his life in Vermont. - A. Atwater KentA. Atwater KentArthur Atwater Kent, Sr. was an inventor and prominent radio manufacturer based in Philadelphia, usa. In 1921, he patented the modern form of the automobile ignition coil.-Biography:...
(1873–1949); inventor and radio maker; born in BurlingtonBurlington, VermontBurlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal.... - Henry W. KeyesHenry W. KeyesHenry Wilder Keyes was an American farmer, banker, and Republican politician from Haverhill, New Hampshire. Born in 1863 in Newbury, Vermont, he was raised in New Hampshire. His father was a prominent New England farmer, merchant, and railroad investor. Keyes graduated from Harvard with a B.A...
- Dan KileyDan KileyDaniel Urban Kiley was a noted American landscape architect in the modernist style.- Life and career :Kiley was born in Boston, Massachusetts...
- Christopher KimballChristopher KimballChristopher Kimball is an American chef, editor, publisher, and radio/TV personality.- Education and career :Kimball was born and raised in Westchester County, New York. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and then Columbia University with a degree in Primitive Art. After graduating from...
host of PBS tv show America's Test Kitchen - Heber C. KimballHeber C. KimballHeber Chase Kimball was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement. He served as one of the original twelve apostles in the early Latter Day Saint church, and as first counselor to Brigham Young in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his...
- 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 - Carlene King JohnsonCarlene King JohnsonCarlene King Johnson Drake was Miss USA 1955.After winning the Miss Vermont USA crown, Johnson, from Rutland, Vermont went on to become Vermont's only representative to achieve the title of Miss USA. Previously, she was Miss Vermont 1953.Johnson was born to Dr. Norman & Katherine King Johnson....
, Miss USA 1955 - Rudyard KiplingRudyard KiplingJoseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...
, British author, resident of BrattleboroBrattleboro, VermontBrattleboro, originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States, located in the southeast corner of the state, along the state line with New Hampshire. The population was 12,046 at the 2010 census...
, during which time he wrote The Jungle BookThe Jungle BookThe Jungle Book is a collection of stories by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–4. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six... - M. Jane KitchelM. Jane KitchelM. Jane Kitchel is a Democratic member of the Vermont State Senate, representing the Caledonia senate district.Jane Kitchel was elected to the Vermont State Senate in 2004 and reelected in 2006.-Biography:...
- Bill KochBill Koch (skier)Bill Koch is an American ski racer and the first world-class cross-country skier from the United States.A native of Brattleboro, Vermont, he is a graduate of the nearby The Putney School in Putney, Vermont. He originally competed in the NIS in the Nordic combined, but later switched to cross...
- James KochalkaJames KochalkaJames Kochalka is an American comic book artist and writer, and rock musician. His comics are noted for their blending of the real and the surreal...
- Edward KorenThe New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, illustrator and cartoonist for The New YorkerThe New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast... - Madeleine M. KuninMadeleine M. KuninMadeleine May Kunin is a Swiss-American diplomat and politician. She was the 77th Governor of Vermont from 1985 until 1991, as a member of the Democratic Party. She also served as United States Ambassador to Switzerland from 1996 to 1999. She was Vermont's first and, to date, only female governor...
, former Ambassador
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- Walt LanfranconiWalt LanfranconiWalter Oswald Lanfranconi was a Major League Baseball pitcher. The 155 lb. right-hander played for the Chicago Cubs and Boston Braves...
, baseball player from Barre
- John LeClairJohn LeClairJohn Clark LeClair is an American former professional ice hockey left winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, and Pittsburgh Penguins...
, first native born Vermonter to play in the National Hockey League - Bill "Spaceman" LeeBill Lee (left-handed pitcher)William Francis Lee III , nicknamed "Spaceman", is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Boston Red Sox from - and the Montreal Expos from -...
, baseball player - Harry David LeeHarry David LeeHenry David Lee was the founder of the HD Lee Mercantile Company, inventors of Lee Jeans.He was born in 1849 in Vermont and attended school in South Tunbridge, he moved to Galion, Ohio, in 1862 where he worked as an hotel clerk and parlayed livery and real estate investments into the purchase of...
, who developed Lee Jeans - Brady LeisenringBrady LeisenringBrady Leisenring is an American professional ice hockey player currently with ESV Kaufbeuren of the German 2nd Bundesliga.-Playing career:...
, hockey player from Stowe - Henry M. LelandHenry M. LelandHenry Martyn Leland was a machinist, inventor, engineer and automotive entrepreneur who founded the two premier American luxury marques, Cadillac and Lincoln. Retrieved December 30, 2008....
, developed Cadillac and Lincoln. Born in Barton. - Melissa LeoMelissa LeoMelissa Chessington Leo , is an American actress. After appearing on several television shows and films in the late '80s, her breakthrough role came in 1993 as Det. Sgt. Kay Howard on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street for the show's first five seasons from 1993 – 1997...
, actress. Resided in Putney. - Kevin LepageKevin LepageKevin Lepage is a NASCAR driver. He currently drives the #52 car, for Jimmy Means Racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Lepage is the only NASCAR driver from Vermont to qualify for the Daytona 500.-Early career:...
, NASCAR driver from Shelburne - Aaron LewisAaron LewisAaron Lewis, , is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and founding member of the rock group Staind, with whom he has released seven studio albums. He has since ventured into country music with his debut solo album, Town Line...
, band member from Rutland - Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque (b. 1990); singer, actress; born in BrattleboroBrattleboro, VermontBrattleboro, originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States, located in the southeast corner of the state, along the state line with New Hampshire. The population was 12,046 at the 2010 census...
- Sinclair LewisSinclair LewisHarry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of...
(1885 – 1951), Nobel prize winning writer with home in Barnard - Sam LloydSam LloydSam Lloyd may refer to:*Samuel T. Lloyd III, dean of Washington National Cathedral*Sam Lloyd, recurring guest character on several television shows including Scrubs and Desperate Housewives-See also:...
, actor (Scrubs) born in Weston - Ki LongfellowKi LongfellowKi Longfellow is an American novelist, playwright, theatrical producer, theater director and entrepreneur. In Britain, as the widow of Vivian Stanshall, she is well known as the guardian of his artistic heritage, but elsewhere she is best known for her own work, especially the novel The Secret...
, novelist - Alfred Lebbeus LoomisAlfred Lebbeus LoomisAlfred Lebbeus Loomis was an American physician who served as president of the Association of American Physicians.- Life and work :...
, president, Association of American Physicians - Gustavus LoomisGustavus LoomisGustavus Loomis was an United States Army officer who served during the War of 1812, Seminole Wars and the American Civil War. He was the oldest soldier to serve in the Civil War.-Biography:...
, breveted Brigadier General - Horatio G. LoomisHoratio G. LoomisLoomis was a native of Vermont who came to Chicago as a pioneer settler in 1834. A grocer by trade, Loomis also was an entrepreneur who became involved in many business fields, including commodities trading....
, one of the organizers of the Chicago Board of Trade - Phillips LordPhillips LordPhillips Haynes Lord was an American radio program writer, creator, producer and narrator as well as a motion picture actor, best known for the Gang Busters radio program that was broadcast from 1935 to 1957.-Early life:...
, creator of radio programs - Will LymanWill LymanWilliam Lyman is an American voice-over artist and actor, perhaps best known for his polished, resonant voice that has narrated the PBS series Frontline since its second season in 1984. Lyman has made a successful career in television and theater...
, television actor - Lucius LyonLucius LyonLucius Lyon was a U.S. statesman from the state of Michigan. He was born in Shelburne, Vermont, where he received a common school education and studied engineering and surveying...
, helped charter the State of Michigan
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- David MametDavid MametDavid Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director.Best known as a playwright, Mamet won a Pulitzer Prize and received a Tony nomination for Glengarry Glen Ross . He also received a Tony nomination for Speed-the-Plow . As a screenwriter, he received Oscar...
, playwright
- William Marks
- Anna MarshAnna MarshAnna Marsh established the Vermont Asylum of the Insane in 1834.-Biography:Marsh was born and raised in Hinsdale, New Hampshire. She was the widow of physician Perley Marsh....
- John MartinJohn Martin (businessman)John Martin of Peacham, Vermont was an American steamboat captain and businessman in Minneapolis, Minnesota involved in lumber and flour milling. In 1891, Martin led a merger of six mills to create Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company, at the time the world's second largest flour milling...
- Philip MaxwellPhilip MaxwellBorn in Vermont in 1799, Maxwell moved to New York State where he became a doctor and politician, and was elected to the New York Legislature. He also was a physician for the United States Army, where he served with General Zachary Taylor. A military transfer brought him to Chicago, Illinois, which...
, physician and politician and the person for whom Chicago's famous Maxwell Street was named - Henry T. MayoHenry T. MayoHenry Thomas Mayo was an admiral of the United States Navy.Mayo was born in Burlington, Vermont, 8 December 1856. Upon graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1876 he experienced a variety of naval duties including coastal survey...
, four-star admiral. Born in Burlington - Archer MayorArcher MayorArcher Mayor is the author of the Joe Gunther detective series. Archer is a Yale graduate and lives in Newfane, Vermont, USA.Before turning to popular fiction, Mayor held several jobs, both in the US and in France, working as an editor, researcher for Time–Life books, photography and journalist...
- Margaret MacArthurMargaret MacArthurMargaret MacArthur was an American singer and player of the Appalachian dulcimer.Margaret Crowl was born in Chicago. As a youngster, she moved around with her family - in California, Louisiana, and Arizona. She remembered that at the age of five she heard cowboys on the timber crew singing folk...
, a musician and folk music archivist known as "Vermont's Songcatcher" - John McCardell, Jr.John McCardell, Jr.John Malcolm McCardell, Jr. is the Vice Chancellor of The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and the president emeritus and a professor of history at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. He retired as president in June, 2004, after serving thirteen years as the fifteenth...
- Bill McKibbenBill McKibbenWilliam Ernest "Bill" McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College...
, American environmentalist - James MeachamJames MeachamJames Meacham was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Rutland, Vermont. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1832 and taught in the seminary at Castleton, Vermont. In addition, he attended the local academy at St. Albans, Vermont and attended Andover Theological...
- William Rutherford MeadWilliam Rutherford MeadWilliam Rutherford Mead was an American architect, and was the "Center of the Office" of McKim, Mead, and White, a noted Gilded Age architectural firm. The firm's other two founding partners were Charles Follen McKim , and Stanford White .-Life and career:Mead was born in Brattleboro, Vermont...
- Andrea Mead-LawrenceAndrea Mead-LawrenceAndrea Mead Lawrence was an American alpine ski racer. She competed in three Winter Olympics and was the first American alpine skier to win two Olympic gold medals.-Skiing career:...
, first American to win two gold Olympic skiing medals - Samuel MerrillSamuel Merrill (Indiana)Samuel Merrill was an early leading citizen of the U.S. state of Indiana.-Biography:Samuel was born in 1792 in Peacham, Vermont, the second son of Jesse and Priscilla Merrill. He attended Dartmouth College for one year before moving to Pennsylvania to study law with his older brother James. In...
- Alexander Kennedy MillerAlexander Kennedy MillerAlexander Kennedy Miller , also known as A. K. Miller, was an eccentric recluse who operated Miller's Flying Service in 1930, in Montclair, New Jersey, USA. Miller provided mail and other delivery services by means of an autogyro, as well as listing "Expert Automobile Repairing" and "Aeroplanes...
- Frank MillerFrank Miller (comics)Frank Miller is an American comic book artist, writer and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300...
- Susan Tolman MillsSusan Tolman MillsSusan Tolman Mills was the co-founder of Mills College .-Background:...
- Graham MinkGraham MinkGraham Mink is an American ice hockey Winger currently playing for the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League.-Playing career:...
, - Anais MitchellAnais MitchellAnaïs Mitchell is an American singer-songwriter.-Early life:Anaïs Mitchell grew up on a farm in Addison County, Vermont and attended Middlebury College. Her father is a novelist and a retired college professor....
- Amanda MitteerAmanda MitteerAmanda Lee Mitteer is a beauty queen from Brattleboro, Vermont who has competed in the Miss USA pageant. She was born to Brian & Dana Drennan Mitteer....
- Samuel MoreySamuel MoreySamuel Morey was an American inventor, who worked on early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents.-Early life:...
- Justin MorganJustin MorganJustin Morgan was a U.S. horse breeder and composer.He was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, and by 1788 had settled in Vermont. In addition to being a horse breeder and farmer, he was a teacher of singing; in that capacity he traveled considerably throughout the northeastern states...
- Justin Smith MorrillJustin Smith MorrillJustin Smith Morrill was a Representative and a Senator from Vermont, most widely remembered today for the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act that established federal funding for establishing many of the United States' public colleges and universities...
, sponsor of the Land Grant College Act establishing "public ivies" - George Sylvester MorrisGeorge Sylvester MorrisGeorge Sylvester Morris was an American educator and philosophical writer, born in Norwich, Vermont. He was the son of a well known abolitionist and temperance man...
- Levi P. MortonLevi P. MortonLevi Parsons Morton was a Representative from New York and the 22nd Vice President of the United States . He also later served as the 31st Governor of New York.-Biography:...
- Joseph A. MowerJoseph A. MowerJoseph Anthony Mower was a Union general during the American Civil War. He was a competent officer and well respected by his troops and fellow officers to whom he was known as "Fighting Joe". William T. Sherman said of Mower, "he's the boldest young officer we have".-Biography:Mower was born in...
- Michael MoynihanMichael Moynihan (journalist)Michael Moynihan is an American journalist, publisher and musician. He is best known for co-writing the book Lords of Chaos, about black metal....
- Dennis MurphyDennis Murphy (musician)Dennis Murphy was a composer, musician, instrument maker, artist, and playwright.Dennis Murphy was one of the fathers of American gamelan . Lou Harrison credits Murphy as being the first North American to build gamelan instruments...
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- Andrew NeelAndrew NeelAndrew Neel is an American filmmaker. He was born in Vermont in 1978.Neel co-founded SeeThink Productions together with Ethan Palmer, Luke Meyer and Tom Davis in 2001 after graduating from Columbia College with a BA in film studies...
- Harvey NewcombHarvey NewcombHarvey Newcomb was an American clergyman and writer.He was born in Thetford, Vermont. He removed to western New York in 1818, engaged in teaching for eight years, and from 1826 till 1831 edited several journals, of which the last was the Christian Herald.For the ten following years he was engaged...
- David H. NicholsDavid H. NicholsDavid Hopkinson Nichols was the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, United States, serving from 1893 to 1895 under Davis Hanson Waite....
- Clarina I. H. NicholsClarina I. H. NicholsClarina Irene Howard Nichols was a journalist, lobbyist and public speaker involved in all three of the major reform movements of the mid-19th century: temperance, abolition, and the women's movement that emerged largely out of the ranks of the first two...
- John Humphrey NoyesJohn Humphrey NoyesJohn Humphrey Noyes was an American utopian socialist. He founded the Oneida Community in 1848. He coined the term "free love".-Early activism:...
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- Rachel Oakes PrestonRachel Oakes PrestonRachel Oakes Preston was a Seventh Day Baptist who persuaded a group of Adventist Millerites to accept Saturday, instead of Sunday, as Sabbath. This Sabbatarian group organized as the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1863.Born in Vernon, Vermont, Rachel, daughter of Sylvanus Harris, first joined...
- John O'BrienJohn O'Brien (filmmaker)John O'Brien is an American film director, sheep farmer, Justice of the Peace and former campaign manager.O'Brien is the director of the Tunbridge Trilogy, three films that focus on the rural life of Tunbridge, Vermont...
- Franklin W. OlinFranklin W. OlinFranklin Walter Olin was the founder of the Olin Corporation.He was born in Woodford, Vermont and his father built mills and waterwheels. He studied civil engineering at Cornell University, where he also played baseball; he would play as an outfielder in the American Association for two seasons...
- Buster OlneyBuster OlneyRobert Stanbury "Buster" Olney III is a columnist for ESPN: The Magazine, ESPN.com, and covered the New York Giants and New York Yankees for The New York Times. He is also a regular analyst for the ESPN's Baseball Tonight...
- Darcy OlsenDarcy A. OlsenDarcy A. Olsen is the president and chief executive officer of the Goldwater Institute. Phoenix-based media have cited Olsen’s leadership, which has resulted in major policy reforms including private school scholarships for foster children, more transparency in government and legal cases...
- Ebenezer J. OrmsbeeEbenezer J. OrmsbeeEbenezer Jolls Ormsbee was a teacher, a lawyer, a U.S. politician of the Republican Party, and an American Civil War veteran.-Early life:Ormsbee was born in Shoreham, Vermont, the son of John Mason and Polly Ormsbee...
- Elisha OtisElisha OtisElisha Graves Otis was an American industrialist, founder of the Otis Elevator Company, and inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails. He worked on this device while living in Yonkers, New York in 1852, and had a finished product in...
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- Grace PaleyGrace PaleyGrace Paley was an American-Jewish short story writer, poet, and political activist.-Biography:Grace Paley was born in the Bronx to Isaac and Manya Ridnyik Goodside, who anglicized the family name from Gutseit on immigrating from Ukraine. Her father was a doctor. The family spoke Russian and...
- Alden PartridgeAlden PartridgeAlden Partridge, was an American author, legislator, officer, surveyor, an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and a controversial pioneer in U.S...
- Katherine PatersonKatherine PatersonKatherine Paterson is an American author of children's novels. She wrote Bridge to Terabithia and has received several of the major international awards for children's literature.- Early life:...
- Moses PendletonMoses PendletonMoses Pendleton is a choreographer, dancer and the artistic director of MOMIX. MOMIX is a dance company that he formed in 1981 as an offshoot of the ground-breaking Pilobolus, which he had co-founded while a senior at Dartmouth College in 1971. He remained a full-time member with the company...
, choreographer - Elizabeth PerkinsElizabeth PerkinsElizabeth Ann Perkins is an American actress. Her film roles have included Big, The Flintstones, Miracle on 34th Street, About Last Night..., and Avalon...
, actress - Joe PerryJoe Perry (musician)Anthony Joseph "Joe" Perry is the lead guitarist, backing and occasional lead vocalist, and contributing songwriter for the rock band Aerosmith. He is influenced by many rock artists especially The Rolling Stones and The Beatles...
, Lead guitarist for AerosmithAerosmithAerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many... - Tom PetersTom PetersThomas J. "Tom" Peters is an American writer on business management practices, best-known for In Search of Excellence .-Life and career:Peters was born in Baltimore, Maryland...
- Charles E. PhelpsCharles E. PhelpsCharles Edward Phelps was a colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War, later received a brevet as a brigadier general of volunteers, served as a city councilman, a U.S. Congressman from the third district of Maryland, and received the Medal of Honor...
- John W. PhelpsJohn W. PhelpsJohn Wolcott Phelps , was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, an author, an ardent abolitionist and presidential candidate.-Soldier and abolitionist:...
- William Lamb PicknellWilliam Lamb PicknellWilliam Lamb Picknell was a United States painter of landscapes, coastal views, and figure genres, known for his rapid painting style...
, nineteenth century painter, member of the National Academy of DesignNational Academy of DesignThe National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, founded in New York City as the National Academy of Design – known simply as the "National Academy" – is an honorary association of American artists founded in 1825 by Samuel F. B. Morse, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E... - Samuel E. PingreeSamuel E. PingreeSamuel Everett Pingree was a lawyer, a U.S. politician of the Republican Party, and an American Civil War veteran who received the Medal of Honor.-Early life:...
- Russell W. PorterRussell W. PorterRussell Williams Porter was an American artist, engineer, amateur astronomer and explorer. He was a pioneer in the field of “cutaway illustration" and is sometimes referred to as the "founder" or one of the "founders" of amateur telescope making."-Biography:Russell W...
- Grace PotterGrace Potter and the NocturnalsGrace Potter and the Nocturnals is an American rock band from Waitsfield, Vermont.-Career:Grace Potter and the Nocturnals' lead vocalist is multi-instrumentalist Grace Potter, who attended St. Lawrence University for two years before pursuing music professionally...
, Front runner Grace Potter of the rock band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Ross PowersRoss PowersRoss Powers , is an American world champion halfpipe snowboarder from South Londonderry, Vermont. Though he originally rode at Stratton Mountain, Vermont, his home mountain is now Okemo, VT. Ross helps with the design of the Superpipe and also helped design the RossCross Family Terrain Park. Ross...
, Olympic gold medal winner, snowboarding, 2002 - Silas G. PrattSilas G. PrattSilas Gamaliel Pratt was an American composer. A native of Addison, Vermont, he worked in Chicago, New York, and Pittsburgh, in addition to studies and travels in Germany. Between 1868 and 1871, he studied under Theodor Kullak, among others, but he suffered a wrist injury during a lesson, which...
- Cyrus PringleCyrus PringleCyrus Guernsey Pringle was an American botanist who spent a career of 35 years cataloguing the plants of North America, especially Mexico...
- Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, lived in Vermont for more than 30 years
- Harvey PutnamHarvey PutnamHarvey Putnam was a United States House of Representative from New York. Born in Brattleboro, Vermont, he attended the common schools, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1816 and commenced practice in Attica, New York in 1817...
- Patty SheehanPatty SheehanPatty Sheehan is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1980 and won six major championships and 35 LPGA Tour events in all. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame....
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- Thomas E. G. RansomThomas E. G. RansomThomas Edwin Greenfield Ransom was a surveyor, civil engineer, real estate speculator, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
- Edward Rawson
- Edmund Rice, politician. Born in Waitsfield.
- Henry Mower Rice
- Linda RichardsLinda RichardsLinda Richards was the first professionally trained American nurse. She established nursing training programs in the United States and Japan, and created the first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients.-Early life:...
, America's first trained nurse, attended St. Johnsbury Academy - Mark RichardsMark Richards (politician)Mark Richards was a Vermont politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives.Born in Waterbury, Connecticut on July 15, 1760, Richards received limited schooling. He enlisted during the American Revolutionary War in 1776 and settled in Boston after the Revolution...
- Israel B. RichardsonIsrael B. RichardsonIsrael Bush Richardson was a United States Army officer during the Mexican-American War and American Civil War, where he was a major general in the Union Army...
- Benjamin S. RobertsBenjamin S. RobertsBenjamin Stone Roberts was an American lawyer, civil engineer, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Edward D. RobieEdward D. RobieEdward Dunham Robie , was a naval engineer, inventor, and Union naval officer during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:Robie was born in Burlington, Vermont, the son of Jacob and Louisa Robie...
- 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...
- Theodore RobinsonTheodore RobinsonTheodore Robinson was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes. He was one of the first American artists to take up impressionism in the late 1880s, visiting Giverny and developing a close friendship with Claude Monet...
- Norman RockwellNorman RockwellNorman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening...
lived in Arlington - David McGregor RogersDavid McGregor RogersDavid McGregor Rogers was a farmer and Member of the 2nd Parliament of Upper Canada.He was born in Londonderry, Vermont in 1772 the 3rd son and 2nd David born to Capt. James Rogers and Margaret McGregor, the first David died at age 4 in 1766. Named after his great grandfather Rev...
- Brian Rooney
- Thomas RowleyThomas Rowley (poet)Thomas Rowley was a famous poet of Vermont, known both as the spokesman for Ethan Allen and dubbed “The Bard of the Green Mountains.” During his lifetime and before the American Revolution, his poetry gained the reputation with the catchphrase of "Setting the Hills on Fire."-Biography:Thomas...
- Homer Elihu RoyceHomer Elihu RoyceHomer Elihu Royce was an American lawyer, politician and jurist.-Early life:Royce was born in Berkshire, Vermont, the son of Elihu Marvin and Sophronia Royce. He was educated in the district schools and at academies in St. Albans and Enosburgh. He studied law with Thomas Childs, was admitted to...
- Carl RugglesCarl RugglesCharles "Carl" Sprague Ruggles was an American composer of the American Five group. He wrote finely crafted pieces using "dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music...
- Rudolph RuzickaRudolph RuzickaRudolph Ruzicka prominent Czech-born American wood engraver, etcher, illustrator, typeface designer, and book designer. Ruzicka designed typefaces and wood engraving illustrations for Daniel Berkeley Updike's Merrymount Press, and was a designer for, and consultant to, the Mergenthaler Linotype...
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- Alvah SabinAlvah SabinAlvah Sabin was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Georgia, Vermont. He attended the common schools and Burlington College. He was also a member of the Vermont militia and served during the War of 1812...
- Truman Henry SaffordTruman Henry SaffordTruman Henry Safford was an American calculating prodigy. In later life he was an observatory director.He was born in Royalton, Vermont, USA on 6 January, 1836. At an early age he attracted public attention by his remarkable calculation powers. At the age of nine, a local priest asked him to...
- Matt SalingerMatt SalingerMatthew Salinger is an American actor. He is the son of author J. D. Salinger and psychologist Claire Douglas.-Career:...
- Philetus SawyerPhiletus SawyerPhiletus Sawyer was an American politician of the Republican Party who represented Wisconsin in both houses of Congress. Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is named for him....
- Eric SchaefferEric SchaefferEric Schaeffer is an American actor, writer and director.-Early life and education:He was born in New York City, New York....
, film writer, director, and actor. - Helen Bonchek SchneyerHelen Bonchek SchneyerHelen Bonchek Schneyer was an American folk musician. She was raised Jewish in New York City. While a student at Columbia University, she was introduced to American folk music. She also sang Baptist spirituals.Over a sixty year career, Schneyer worked with such influential artists as Pete Seeger...
- Stephen Alonzo SchoffStephen Alonzo SchoffStephen Alonzo Schoff was an American engraver and etcher in New York and Boston.-Biography:Stephen Alonzo Schoff was born in Danville, Vermont, January 16, 1818, and grew up in Newburyport, Massachusetts...
- Peter SchumannPeter SchumannPeter Schumann is the founder and director of the Bread & Puppet Theater. Born in Silesia, he was a sculptor and dancer in Germany before moving to the United States in 1961. In 1963 he founded Bread & Puppet in New York City, and in 1970 moved to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, eventually...
, founder and director of Bread and Puppet TheaterBread and Puppet TheaterThe Bread and Puppet Theater is a politically radical puppet theater, active since the 1960s, currently based in Glover, Vermont... - Arthur E. ScottArthur E. ScottArthur E. "Scotty" Scott was the United States Senate's first photo-historian. He was a professional photographer in Washington, D.C. from 1934 to 1976.-Early life and career:...
- Julian ScottJulian ScottJulian A. Scott , he was born in Johnson, Vermont, and served as a Union Army drummer during the American Civil War where he received America's highest military decoration the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Lee's Mills; he was also an American painter and Civil War...
, nineteenth century painter and muralist - Thomas O. SeaverThomas O. SeaverThomas Orville Seaver rose to the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War and received the Medal of Honor, America's highest military decoration, for his actions at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House...
- Rudolf SerkinRudolf SerkinRudolf Serkin , was a Bohemian-born pianist.-Life and early career:Serkin was born in Eger, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire to a Russian-Jewish family....
- Truman SeymourTruman SeymourTruman Seymour was an a career soldier and an accomplished painter. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of major general. He commanded the Union troops at the Battle of Olustee, the largest Civil War battle fought in Florida.-Early life and career:Seymour...
- L. M. ShawL. M. ShawLeslie Mortier Shaw was an American businessman, lawyer and politician.-Biography:Born in Morristown, Vermont, he became a lawyer and banker, and in 1898 became the 17th Governor of Iowa, serving until 1902. He then became United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Theodore Roosevelt...
- Patty SheehanPatty SheehanPatty Sheehan is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1980 and won six major championships and 35 LPGA Tour events in all. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame....
, professional golfer - Charles H. SheldonCharles H. SheldonCharles Henry Sheldon was the second Governor of South Dakota.-Biography:Charles Henry Sheldon was born in Lamoille County, Vermont, the third of four children of Gresham and Mary Sheldon. After the death of his father in 1844, Sheldon worked as a farm laborer from the ages of twelve to...
- George Dallas ShermanGeorge Dallas ShermanGeorge Dallas Sherman was born in Richmond, Vermont on August 23, 1844 to Hathaway and Relief Sherman. In 1858, at the age of 14, he joined the Richmond Cornet Band and soon became its leader. He left this band in 1864 to join the 9th Vermont Infantry as a musician during the American Civil War....
- Alexander O. SmithAlexander O. SmithAlexander O. Smith is a professional English/Japanese translator and author. While his output covers many areas such as adaptation of Japanese novels, manga, song lyrics, anime scripts and various academic works, he is best known for his software localizations of Japanese video games...
- "Dr. Bob" SmithBob Smith (doctor)Robert Holbrook Smith was an American physician and surgeon who co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous with Bill Wilson, more commonly known as Bill W. He was also known as Dr. Bob. He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where he was raised, to Susan A. Holbrook and Walter Perrin Smith...
, co-founder of Alcoholics AnonymousAlcoholics AnonymousAlcoholics Anonymous is an international mutual aid movement which says its "primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety." Now claiming more than 2 million members, AA was founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio... - Charles Plympton SmithCharles Plympton SmithCharles Plympton Smith is a banker and Republican politician from the U.S. state of Vermont who served in the Vermont House of Representatives. The son of banker and state senator Frederick Plympton Smith, he received a B.A...
- 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:...
- Hyrum SmithHyrum SmithHyrum Smith was an American religious leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement. He was the older brother of the movement's founder, Joseph Smith, Jr....
- J. Gregory SmithJ. Gregory SmithJohn Gregory Smith , railroad tycoon, politician, war-time governor of VermontSmith was born in St. Albans, Vermont, son of John and Maria Smith. The elder Smith was a pioneer railroad builder in Vermont, and a leading lawyer and public man of his generation...
- John Butler SmithJohn Butler SmithJohn Butler Smith was an American manufacturer and Republican politician from Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Born in 1838 in Saxtons River, Vermont, he served New Hampshire as a member of the Governor's Council, and as Governor. Smith Memorial Congregational Church, U.C.C in the town is named for...
- Joseph Smith, Sr.Joseph Smith, Sr.Joseph Smith, Sr. was the father of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Joseph Sr. was also one of the Eight Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, which Mormons believe was translated by Joseph Jr. from the Golden Plates. In 1833 Joseph Sr...
, father of Joseph Smith, Jr. - Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805–1844); founder of the Latter Day Saint movementLatter Day Saint movementThe Latter Day Saint movement is a group of independent churches tracing their origin to a Christian primitivist movement founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. in the late 1820s. Collectively, these churches have over 14 million members...
; born in SharonSharon, VermontSharon is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. It had a population of 1,411 at the 2000 census. The town is home to The Sharon Academy.-History:... - Samuel Harrison Smith
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- William Farrar SmithWilliam Farrar SmithWilliam Farrar Smith , was a civil engineer, a member of the New York City police commission, and Union general in the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was aRussian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his often-suppressed writings, he helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of...
, Russian author, historian, and 1970 recipient of Nobel Prize for Literature, lived in Vermont to avoid persecution in RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, returned to Russia after PerestroikaPerestroikaPerestroika was a political movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during 1980s, widely associated with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev... - Ignat SolzhenitsynIgnat SolzhenitsynIgnat Aleksandrovich Solzhenitsyn is a Russian-American conductor and pianist who is the conductor laureate of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the principal guest conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.-Career:...
, conductor and pianist - Ronald I. SpiersRonald I. SpiersRonald Ian “Ron” Spiers was a former career diplomat and United States Ambassador.-Early life and military career:Spiers was born in Orange, New Jersey July 9, 1925 but grew up in Peru, London, Paris and Brussels. During World War II, he served as an Ensign in the United States Navy in the war's...
- Martin St. LouisMartin St. LouisMartin St. Louis is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger and alternate captain currently playing for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
, NHL hockey player - Michael A. StackpoleMichael A. StackpoleMichael A. Stackpole is a science fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and Battletech books. He was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, but raised in Vermont...
, Science Fiction/Fantasy author - Henry Alexander StaffordHeinie StaffordHenry Alexander "Heinie" Stafford was an American Major League Baseball player who played a single game for the New York Giants in .-Tufts University :...
, baseball player for the New York GiantsNew York GiantsThe New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League... - Robert StaffordRobert StaffordRobert Theodore Stafford was an American politician from Vermont. In his lengthy career, he served as the 71st Governor of Vermont, a United States Representative, and a U.S. Senator...
, namesake of the Stafford LoanStafford loanA Stafford Loan is a student loan offered to eligible students enrolled in accredited American institutions of higher education to help finance their education... - Timothy SteeleTimothy SteeleTimothy Steele is an American poet and academic. Born in Burlington, Vermont, in 1948, he is a professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles. Some of Steele's early verse appeared in X. J. Kennedy's Counter/Measures in the early seventies. He went on to become a figure in the...
- Ralph SteinerRalph SteinerRalph Steiner was an American photographer, pioneer documentarian and a key figure among avant-garde filmmakers in the 1930s.-Biography:...
- Rockwell StephensRockwell StephensRockwell Rittenhouse Stephens was a journalist, author and ski instructor. He was an early member of the National Ski Patrol, joining in 1938, receiving member No...
- Nettie StevensNettie StevensNettie Maria Stevens was an early American geneticist. She and Edmund Beecher Wilson were the first researchers to describe the chromosomal basis of sex....
- Thaddeus StevensThaddeus StevensThaddeus Stevens , of Pennsylvania, was a Republican leader and one of the most powerful members of the United States House of Representatives...
- Charles B. StoughtonCharles B. StoughtonCharles Bradley Stoughton was an officer and regimental commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
- Edwin H. StoughtonEdwin H. StoughtonEdwin Henry Stoughton , was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a lawyer.-Early life:Stoughton was born in Chester, Vermont, the son of Henry Evander and Laura Stoughton....
- F. Stewart StranahanF. Stewart StranahanFarrand Stewart Stranahan was an American Civil War veteran, a railroad executive, a banker, and a U.S. politician of the Republican Party.-Early life:...
- George Crockett StrongGeorge Crockett StrongGeorge Crockett Strong was a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War.-Biography:Strong was born in Stockbridge, Vermont, and attended Williston Seminary but left after 1851. He attended Union College, but left for the U.S. Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1857...
- William Barstow Strong
- Willis SweetWillis SweetWillis Sweet was the first United States Representative from Idaho. Sweet served as a Republican in the House from 1890 to 1895, representing the state at-large....
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- Horace Austin Warner TaborHorace Austin Warner TaborHorace Austin Warner Tabor , also known as The Bonanza King of Leadville, was an American prospector, businessman, and politician. His life is the subject of Douglas Moore's opera, The Ballad of Baby Doe....
, one of the "Silver Kings" - Alphonso TaftAlphonso TaftAlphonso Taft was the Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant and the founder of an American political dynasty. He was the father of U.S...
- Cherilee TaylorCherilee TaylorCherilee Taylor is a TV and movie actress who has been a series regular on the Canadian soap opera Paradise Falls. She moved to Toronto, Ontario, as a young child....
- Louise TaylorLouise TaylorLouise Taylor is an American folk singer-songwriter from Brattleboro, Vermont. An older brother gave her a guitar when she was twelve and at age 15 she left home, hitchhiking and busking her way around the United States...
- Birdie TebbettsBirdie TebbettsGeorge Robert "Birdie" Tebbetts was an American professional baseball player, manager, scout and front office executive. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians from to...
, Former All-Star MLB Catcher and Manager - Hannah TeterHannah TeterHannah Teter is an American snowboarder from Belmont, Vermont. She is an Olympic champion, having won the gold medal in halfpipe at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy. She also won bronze at the 2005 FIS World Championships at Whistler, British Columbia, and has six World Cup victories...
- Elswyth ThaneElswyth ThaneHelen Elswyth Thane Ricker Beebe was an American romance novelist. Born in Burlington, Iowa, she was the daughter of a local teacher and high school principal." The family moved to New York City in 1918, and "Helen Ricker" changed her name to "Elswyth Thane"...
- Harry Bates ThayerHarry Bates ThayerHarry Bates Thayer , U.S. was an electrical and telephone businessman. He designed an electrical punched card machine in 1887 at Dartmouth College....
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- Stephen ThomasStephen ThomasStephen Thomas , manufacturer, politician, jurist, and Union Army officer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for gallantry.-Early life:...
- Tim ThomasTim Thomas (ice hockey)Timothy James Thomas, Jr. is an American professional ice hockey goaltender with the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League . Raised in Davison, MI, Thomas played college hockey for the University of Vermont for four years, from 1993–1997, during which he was drafted 217th overall by the...
, professional hockey player who played for UVM - Dorothy ThompsonDorothy ThompsonDorothy Thompson was an American journalist and radio broadcaster, who in 1939 was recognized by Time magazine as the second most influential women in America next to Eleanor Roosevelt...
- Ernest Thompson
- John Mellen Thurston
- George TookerGeorge TookerGeorge Clair Tooker, Jr. was a figurative painter whose works are associated with the Magic realism and Social realism movements...
, painter, lives in Hartland. - Andrew TracyAndrew TracyAndrew Tracy was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Hartford, Vermont. He attended Royalton and Randolph Academies, and also Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire for two years. He taught school, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in...
- Joseph TracyJoseph TracyJoseph Tracy was a Protestant Christian minister, newspaper editor, historian and leading figure in the American Colonization Society of the early to mid-19th century. He is noted as a typical figure of the New England Renaissance....
- Maria von TrappMaria von TrappMaria Augusta von Trapp , also known as Baroness Maria von Trapp, was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers...
- Tasha Tudor
- KT TunstallKT TunstallKate Victoria "KT" Tunstall is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist from St Andrews, Scotland. She broke into the public eye with a 2004 live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later... with Jools Holland...
, musician - Fred TuttleFred TuttleFrederick Herman "Fred" Tuttle was an American dairy farmer, film actor and one-time candidate for the U.S. Senate from the state of Vermont. He was born in Tunbridge, Vermont, and lived there all his life, except for his service in the United States Army during World War II.Tuttle left high...
, senatorial candidate and star of the movie, Man with a PlanMan with a PlanMan With A Plan was an independently produced docudrama released in 1996, starring dairy farmer and actor Fred Tuttle. Since its release, it has remained a local cult classic in Vermont.- External links :* *... - Alexander TwilightAlexander TwilightAlexander Lucius Twilight , born free in Vermont, was the first black person known to have earned a bachelor's degree from an American college or university upon graduating Middlebury College in 1823. An educator, minister and politician, he was licensed as a Congregational preacher, and worked in...
, first African American to receive a college degree, and to be elected to public office in the United States - Royall TylerRoyall TylerRoyall Tyler , American jurist and playwright who wrote The Contrast in 1787 and published The Algerine Captive in 1797. He wrote several legal tracts, six plays, a musical drama, two long poems, a semifictional travel narrative, The Yankey in London , and essays...
, one of the earliest American playwrights. - Dan TyminskiDan TyminskiDaniel John "Dan" Tyminski is a bluegrass composer, vocalist, and instrumentalist. He is a member of the band Alison Krauss and Union Station and has released two solo albums, Carry Me Across the Mountain , on the Doobie Shea Records label, and Wheels , on the Rounder Records label.He is best...
, sang vocals for George ClooneyGeorge ClooneyGeorge Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award...
in film O Brother, Where Art Thou?O Brother, Where Art Thou?O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 comedy film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning. Set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression, the film's story is a modern satire loosely...
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- Rudy ValléeRudy ValléeRudy Vallée was an American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer.-Early life:Born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse and Catherine Lynch Vallée...
, singer. Born in Holland - James Van NessJames Van NessJames Van Ness was the seventh mayor of San Francisco, USA from 1855 to 1856.He was the son of Dutch-American Vermont Governor Cornelius Van Ness and father-in-law of future San Francisco mayor Frank McCoppin. Prior to being mayor, he had been a lawyer in the U.S. South and then a San Francisco...
- Stewart Van VlietStewart Van VlietStewart Leonard Van Vliet , was a United States Army officer who fought on the side of the Union during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- William Freeman VilasWilliam Freeman VilasWilliam Freeman Vilas was a member of the Democratic Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1891 to 1897. He was a prominent Bourbon Democrat....
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- M. Emmet WalshM. Emmet WalshMichael Emmet Walsh is an American actor who has appeared in over 100 film and television productions.-Life and career:Walsh was born in Ogdensburg, New York, the son of Agnes Kathrine and Harry Maurice Walsh, Sr., a customs agent...
, actor - James M. WarnerJames M. WarnerJames Meech Warner was a New England manufacturer and a brevet brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
, General in the Union Army - Seth WarnerSeth WarnerSeth Warner was born in Roxbury, Connecticut. In 1763, he removed with his father to Bennington in what was then known as the New Hampshire Grants. He established there as a huntsman....
- Cephas WashburnCephas WashburnCephas Washburn was a noted Christian missionary and educator who worked with the Cherokee of northwest Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. He is often referred to as "The Apostle to the Cherokees" and "Builder of Presbyterianism in Arkansas"....
- Ebenezer WashburnEbenezer WashburnSgt. Ebenezer Washburn, Esq., J.P., U.E. was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts in 1756 and settled on a farm in what is now Rutland, Vermont. In 1777, he joined Major-General John Burgoyne's troops...
- Peter T. WashburnPeter T. WashburnPeter Thacher Washburn was a lawyer, politician and Adjutant and Inspector General of the State of Vermont during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Charles W. WatermanCharles W. WatermanCharles Winfield Waterman was a United States Senator from Colorado. Born in Waitsfield, Washington County, Vermont, he attended the rural schools and St. Johnsbury Academy. He graduated from the University of Vermont at Burlington in 1885, and taught school in Connecticut and also at Fort Dodge,...
- Sterry R. WatermanSterry R. WatermanSterry Robinson Waterman was a lawyer and federal judge from Vermont.Waterman graduated Dartmouth College and "read law" before being admitted to practice. He practiced law in St. Johnsbury, Vermont for many years and also served as general counsel of the Vermont Unemployment Compensation...
Andrew Wheating
Andrew "Andy" Wheating is an American middle-distance track athlete. Wheating competed for the United States in the men's 800 m at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. He is a professional runner for Nike.-Personal:...
, Middle distance track athlete for the University of Oregon and was a 2008 member of the U.S. Olympic team.
U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...
of Vermont
Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...
, live or lived in Vermont, or for whom Vermont is a significant part of their identity:
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- Bert AbbeyBert AbbeyBert Wood Abbey was a Major League baseball pitcher. He was born in Essex, VT.-Baseball debut:Abbey first began playing baseball as a freshman in college when he recruited fellow students to form the University of Vermont's Catamounts team...
(1869–1962); Major League baseball pitcher; born in EssexEssex, VermontEssex is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. The population was 19,587 at the 2010 census.By population, Essex is the largest town in Vermont, and the second-largest municipality .-Government:... - Charles Francis Adams (1876–1947); first owner of the Boston BruinsBoston BruinsThe Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the...
(1924–1925); born in NewportNewport (town), VermontNewport is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,511 at the 2000 census. The town is referred to by the United States Postal Service and the media as Newport Center, the name of the main settlement of the town.-Town:... - Charles Kendall Adams (1835–1902); educator and historian; born in DerbyDerby, VermontDerby is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. The population was 4,604 at the 2000 census. The town contains four unincorporated villages: Beebe Plain, Clyde Pond, Lake Salem and North Derby; and two incorporated villages: Derby Center and Derby Line...
- Frederick W. AdamsFrederick W. AdamsFrederick Whiting Adams was a noted physician, author, and violin maker.-Biography:He was born in Pawlet, Vermont in 1786, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1822....
(1786–1858); noted physician, author, violin maker; born in PawletPawlet, VermontPawlet is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,477 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which 0.02% is water.Pawlet is a rural farming town... - Sherman AdamsSherman AdamsLlewelyn Sherman Adams was an American politician, best known as White House Chief of Staff for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the culmination of a relatively short political career that also included a stint as Governor of New Hampshire...
(1899–1986), politician, Chief of Staff for President Dwight D. EisenhowerDwight D. EisenhowerDwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
, born in East DoverDover, VermontDover is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,410 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 35.3 square miles , all land... - Ben AffleckBen AffleckBenjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt , better known as Ben Affleck, is an American actor, film director, writer, and producer. He became known with his performances in Kevin Smith's films such as Mallrats and Chasing Amy...
actor. Attended one semester at the University of VermontUniversity of VermontThe University of Vermont comprises seven undergraduate schools, an honors college, a graduate college, and a college of medicine. The Honors College does not offer its own degrees; students in the Honors College concurrently enroll in one of the university's seven undergraduate colleges or... - Charles Augustus AikenCharles Augustus Aiken-Biography:He was born in Manchester, Vermont in 1827 to John Aiken and Harriet Adams Aiken. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1846, and went on to Andover Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1853. He married Sarah Noyes on October 17, 1854, and was ordained a pastor of the...
(1827–1892); clergyman and academic; born in ManchesterManchester (town), VermontManchester is a town in, and one of two shire towns of, Bennington County, Vermont, United States. The population was 4,180 at the 2000 census.... - George AikenGeorge AikenGeorge David Aiken was an American politician from Vermont. A Republican, he served as the 64th Governor of Vermont from 1937 to 1941 and as a U.S. Senator from 1941 to 1975...
, (1892 – 1984), Governor and US senator from Putney - Ivan AlbrightIvan AlbrightIvan Le Lorraine Albright was an American magic realist painter and artist, most renowned for his self-portraits, character studies, and still lifes.-Youth:...
(1897–1983); painter and artist; lived in Woodstock, Vermont - Henry Mills AldenHenry Mills AldenHenry Mills Alden was an American author and editor of Harper's Magazine for fifty years—from 1869 until 1919.-Biography:...
, editor of Harper's Weekly - Ebenezer AllenEbenezer AllenEbenezer Allen was an American soldier, pioneer, and member of the Vermont General Assembly. He was born in Northampton, Massachusetts on 17 October 1743. His parents were Samuel Allen and Hannah Miller ....
- Ethan AllenEthan AllenEthan Allen was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of the U.S...
, commander of the Green Mountain BoysGreen Mountain BoysThe Green Mountain Boys were a militia organization first established in the 1760s in the territory between the British provinces of New York and New Hampshire, known as the New Hampshire Grants... - Fanny AllenFanny AllenFrances Margaret Allen was the first New England woman to become a Catholic nun. The daughter of Revolutionary War General Ethan Allen, she converted to Catholicism and entered the convent of the Religious Hospitallers of St...
after whom the hospital is named. - Ira AllenIra AllenIra Allen was one of the founders of Vermont, and leaders of the Green Mountain Boys; and was the brother of Ethan Allen.-Biography:...
- Jerome AllenJerome Allen (author)Jerome Allen was an American educator and author, born in Westminster, Vermont. He graduated at Amherst College in 1851, then presided over several institutions in the Western United States from 1851 to 1885.Professor Allen's publications include:...
, author - Julia AlvarezJulia ÁlvarezJulia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involvement in a political rebellion forced her family to flee the country.Alvarez rose to...
, author - Trey AnastasioTrey AnastasioTrey Anastasio is an American guitarist, composer, and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish...
, vocals/guitar for PhishPhishPhish is an American rock band noted for its musical improvisation, extended jams, and exploration of music across genres. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 , the band's four members – Trey Anastasio , Mike Gordon , Jon Fishman , and Page McConnell Phish is an American rock band...
, a popular jam-band
- Piers AnthonyPiers AnthonyPiers Anthony Dillingham Jacob is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. He is most famous for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Best...
, (pseudonym) science fiction author - Lemuel H. ArnoldLemuel H. ArnoldLemuel Hastings Arnold was the 12th Governor of the State of Rhode Island, as well as a U.S. Congressman.He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont to Dr. Jonathan & Cynthia Arnold....
, a Governor of Rhode Island - Chester A. ArthurChester A. ArthurChester Alan Arthur was the 21st President of the United States . Becoming President after the assassination of President James A. Garfield, Arthur struggled to overcome suspicions of his beginnings as a politician from the New York City Republican machine, succeeding at that task by embracing...
, twenty-first president of the United States - Warren AustinWarren AustinWarren Robinson Austin was an American politician and statesman; among other roles, he served as Senator from Vermont....
, early U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations - Charlotte AyannaCharlotte AyannaCharlotte Ayanna is an American actress and former Miss Teen USA.-Early life:Ayanna was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, but moved to Vermont at an early age. She had a troubled childhood, spending thirteen years in foster homes after her mother, Emma, was judged to be mentally unfit to look after...
, actress and the 1993 Miss Teen Vermont & Miss Teen USAMiss Teen USAMiss Teen USA is a beauty pageant run by the Miss Universe Organization for girls aged 14–19. The reigning titleholder is Danielle Doty of Texas....
. - Mary AzarianMary AzarianMary Azarian is an American woodcut artist and children's book illustrator. In 1999 she won the Caldecott Medal for her book, Snowflake Bentley, a picture book of the life of Wilson Bentley....
, woodcut artist, children's book illustrator
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- Orville E. BabcockOrville E. BabcockOrville Elias Babcock was an American Civil War General in the Union Army. Immediately upon graduating third in his class as United States Military Academy in 1861, Babcock would go onto serve efficiently in the Corps of Engineers throughout the Civil War and was promoted to Brevet Brigadier...
- Edwin Eugene BagleyEdwin Eugene BagleyEdwin Eugene Bagley was born in Craftsbury, Vermont on May 29, 1857 and died in Keene, New Hampshire on January 29, 1922. He is famous for composing the National Emblem....
, composer of National Emblem and other marches - Maxine BahnsMaxine BahnsMaxine Lee Bahns is an American actress, triathlete and model. She is best known for her role as Star in the 2000 film Cutaway.-Early life:...
- Arthur Scott BaileyArthur Scott BaileyArthur Scott Bailey was the author of more than forty children's books. He was born on November 15, 1877, in St. Albans, Vermont, United States, the second child of Winfield Scott Bailey and Harriet Sarah Goodhue . Winfield Bailey owned a dry goods shop that was stated to be "one of the most...
- Brad BakerBrad BakerBradley Donald Baker is a former Minor League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher. Baker threw a fastball which consistently hit 90 mph, an above-average change and an average curve.- High school :...
- David BallDavid Ball (wide receiver)David Ball is a professional wide receiver for the Erie Explosion of the Ultimate Indoor Football League. He was signed by the Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent in 2007...
- NFL football player
- Hosea BallouHosea BallouHosea Ballou was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer.-Biography:Hosea Ballou was born in Richmond, New Hampshire, to a family of Huguenot origin...
, a father of American Universalism - Bradley BarlowBradley BarlowBradley Barlow was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Fairfield, Vermont. He attended the common schools and then engaged in mercantile pursuits in Philadelphia until 1858, when he moved to St...
- John BarrettJohn Barrett (diplomat)John Barrett was a United States diplomat and one of the most influential early directors general of the Pan American Union. On his death, the New York Times commented that he had "done more than any other person of his generation to promote closer relations among the American...
- John L. BarstowJohn L. BarstowJohn Lester Barstow was a teacher, farmer, politician, and soldier.Barstow was born in Shelburne, Vermont, the son of Heman and Lorain Barstow. After teaching in a local school starting at the age of 15, he moved west to Detroit, but returned in 1857 to help his aging parents with the farm...
- Daric BartonDaric BartonDaric William Barton nicknamed "D.B.", is a Major League Baseball first baseman who plays for the Oakland Athletics....
- Lindon Wallace BatesLindon Wallace BatesLindon Wallace Bates was an American civil engineer, born at Marshfield, Vt., and educated at Yale College. After the completion of engineering studies he was appointed assistant engineer for the Northern Pacific and Oregon Pacific railways, and subsequently was contracting engineer or manager of...
- Alison BechdelAlison BechdelAlison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her graphic memoir Fun Home.-Early life:...
- Fernando C. BeamanFernando C. BeamanFernando Cortez Beaman was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan during and after the American Civil War....
- Orson BeanOrson BeanOrson Bean is an American film, television, and Broadway actor. He appeared frequently on televised game shows in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including being a long-time panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth....
, actor - Johnny BehanJohnny BehanJohn Harris Behan was from April, 1881 to November, 1882 sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona Territory. Behan was appointed the first sheriff of the newly-created county in February, 1881. The mining boomtown of Tombstone was the new county seat and Behan's headquarters...
- Hiram BellHiram BellHiram Bell was a U.S. Representative from the Ohio's Third Congressional District of Ohio.Bell was born in Salem , Vermont, and attended the public schools of his native town. In 1826, his parents moved the family to Hamilton, Ohio. There he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1829, when he...
- H. H. BennettH. H. BennettHenry Hamilton Bennett was a photographer famous for his pictures of the Dells of the Wisconsin River and surrounding region taken between 1865 and 1908. The popularity of his photographs helped turn the city of Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin into a major tourist destination.-Early life:H. H...
- Wilson 'Snowflake' BentleyWilson BentleyWilson Alwyn "Snowflake" Bentley , born in Jericho, Vermont, United States is one of the first known photographers of snowflakes. He perfected a process of catching flakes on black velvet in such a way that their images could be captured before they either melted or sublimed.-Biography:Bentley was...
, scientist and photographer - Bill W.Bill W.William Griffith Wilson , also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous , an international mutual aid fellowship with over two million members belonging to 100,800 groups of alcoholics helping other alcoholics achieve and maintain sobriety...
, founder of AA - Charles E. BillingsCharles E. BillingsCharles Ethan Billings was an American inventor.He was born in Weathersfield, Vermont, the son of Ethan F. and Clarissa M. Billings...
- Frederick H. BillingsFrederick H. BillingsFrederick Billings was an American lawyer and financier. From 1879 to 1881 he was President of the Northern Pacific Railway....
- Stephen BissetteStephen R. BissetteStephen R. Bissette is an American comics artist, editor, and publisher with a focus on the horror genre. He is best known for working with writer Alan Moore and inker John Totleben on the DC comic Swamp Thing in the 1980s....
- 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 - George BlissGeorge Bliss (Congressman)George Bliss was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio.Bliss was born in Jericho, Vermont. He attended Granville College. Moved to Ohio in 1832, studied law with David Kellogg Cartter, was admitted to the bar in 1841 and became Cartter's law partner in Akron, Ohio.Bliss...
- Lou BlongerLou BlongerLou Blonger , born Louis Herbert Belonger, was a Wild West saloonkeeper, gambling-house owner, and mine speculator, but is best known as the kingpin of an extensive ring of confidence tricksters that operated for more than 25 years in Denver, Colorado...
- Aretas BloodAretas BloodAretas Blood played an important role in the manufacture of early American railroad steam locomotives.Blood was born in Weathersfield, Vermont. At the age of 17, as railroads began to be built in the United States, he was apprenticed as a blacksmith...
- Asa P. BluntAsa P. BluntAsa Peabody Blunt was a draughtsman and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Tom BodettTom BodettThomas Edward "Tom" Bodett is an American author, voice actor and radio host. He is also the current spokesman for the hotel chain Motel 6, whose commercials end with the phrase, "I'm Tom Bodett for Motel 6, and we'll leave the light on for ya."-Career:...
- 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 - Chris BohjalianChris BohjalianChristopher Aram Bohjalian, who goes by the pen name Chris Bohjalian, is an American novelist. Bohjalian is the author of 14 novels, including New York Times bestsellers Midwives, "Secrets of Eden," The Law of Similars, Before You Know Kindness, The Double Bind and Skeletons at the Feast...
, author - Andrew BowenAndrew BowenAndrew Bowen is an American comic actor. Bowen is known most for his appearances on the sketch comedy series MADtv.-Biography:...
, actor - Elmer BowmanElmer BowmanElmari Wilhelm Bowman was a Major League Baseball player for the Washington Senators in August 1920. The 23-year-old rookie made two pinch-hitting appearances for the Senators and did not play in the field, so his position is not known.Both of Bowman's appearances took place on the road...
- Keegan BradleyKeegan BradleyKeegan Bradley is an American professional golfer who is a rookie on the PGA Tour. He has won two tour events, most notably the 2011 PGA Championship...
, skier, grew up in Woodstock - Ezra BrainerdEzra BrainerdEzra Brainerd was president of Middlebury College from 1885 until 1908.Born in St. Albans, Vermont, Brainerd was a graduate of the college in 1864. Brainerd assumed the presidency at a time when the college was recovering from an extended period of hardship...
- L. Paul BremerL. Paul BremerLewis Paul "Jerry" Bremer III is an American diplomat. He is most notable for being the U.S. Administrator to Iraq charged with overseeing the country's occupation after the 2003 invasion. In his role as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, he reported primarily to the U.S. Secretary of...
, Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraq, 2003-4 - Richard BrewerRichard BrewerRichard M. "Dick" Brewer , was an American cowboy and outlaw. He was the first leader of what historically is referred to as Billy the Kid's band, although Billy never led them.-Early life:...
(1852–1878); cowboy; born in St. AlbansSt. Albans (town), VermontSt. Albans is a town in Franklin County, Vermont. The population was 6,392 at the 2010 census. The town completely surrounds the city of St. Albans, which was separated from the town and incorporated in 1902. References to "St. Albans" prior to this date generally refer to the town center, which... - Francis Fisher BrowneFrancis Fisher Browne-Biography:Browne was born in South Halifax, Vermont. After his high school education, Browne enlisted in the Forty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteers ....
- Orestes BrownsonOrestes BrownsonOrestes Augustus Brownson was a New England intellectual and activist, preacher, labor organizer, and noted Catholic convert and writer...
- Pearl S. BuckPearl S. BuckPearl Sydenstricker Buck also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu , was an American writer who spent most of her time until 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932...
, author - T. Garry BuckleyT. Garry BuckleyThomas Garry Buckley was the 72nd Lieutenant Governor of Vermont. He was elected lieutenant governor in 1976 without winning a majority of the vote. He finished second in the general election, but under Vermont law, since neither candidate received a majority, the Vermont General Assembly was...
- Ted BundyTed BundyTheodore Robert "Ted" Bundy was an American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women during the 1970s, and possibly earlier...
(1946–1989); serial killer; born in BurlingtonBurlington, VermontBurlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal.... - James E. BurkeJames E. BurkeJames E. Burke was the chief executive officer of Johnson & Johnson from 1976 to 1989, a company for which he worked forty years.-Early life:...
- Alex Burnham, The Burnham Brothers Band
- Andre Burnham, The Burnham Brothers Band
- Forrest Burnham, The Burnham Brothers Band
- Steven T. ByingtonSteven T. ByingtonSteven Tracy Byington was a noted intellectual, translator, and American individualist anarchist. He was born in Westford, Vermont, and later moved to Ballardvale section of Andover, Massachusetts. A one-time proponent of Georgism, he converted to individualist anarchism after associating with...
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- Brad "Spider" Caldwell, Penn St Football Equipment Manager
- John C. CaldwellJohn C. CaldwellJohn Curtis Caldwell was a teacher, a Union general in the American Civil War, and an American diplomat.-Early life:Caldwell was born in Lowell, Vermont...
- Samuel de ChamplainSamuel de ChamplainSamuel de Champlain , "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He founded New France and Quebec City on July 3, 1608....
- Thomas CaleThomas CaleThomas Cale was a delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the District of Alaska. He was born in Underhill, Vermont in Chittenden County. He attended the district schools and Bell Academy at Underhill Flats, Vermont. In 1866, he moved to Fort Edward, New York in Washington County...
- Delino Dexter CalvinDelino Dexter CalvinDelino Dexter Calvin was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Frontenac in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative member from 1868 to 1875 and from 1877 to 1883....
- Zach Campbell, multi-instrumentalist
- Jim CantoreJim CantoreJames D. Cantore is an American meteorologist. He is best known as an on-air personality for The Weather Channel.- Career :...
, Weather Channel meteorologist - Jake Burton CarpenterJake Burton CarpenterJake Burton Carpenter , also known as Jake Burton, is an American snowboarder and founder of Burton Snowboards. He grew up in Cedarhurst, New York.- Biography :...
, owner of Burton SnowboardsBurton (Snowsports)Burton Snowboards is a manufacturer of snowboards. Founded by Jake Burton Carpenter in 1977, the company specializes in a product line aimed at snowboarders: snowboards, bindings, boots, outerwear, and accessories....
, from Londonderry - Matthew H. CarpenterMatthew H. CarpenterMatthew Hale Carpenter , was a member of the Republican Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1869–1875 and again from 1879 - 1881....
- Albert CarringtonAlbert CarringtonAlbert Carrington born in Royalton, Vermont, was an apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and First Presidency in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He was ordained as an apostle on July 3, 1870.Carrington served in the Utah Territorial Legislature in 1869...
- Hayden CarruthHayden CarruthHayden Carruth was an American poet and literary critic. He taught at Syracuse University.-Life:Hayden Carruth grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut, and was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Chicago. He lived in Johnson, Vermont for many years...
- William B. CastleWilliam B. CastleWilliam Bainbridge Castle was an American politician of the Whig Party who served as the 11th and final mayor of Ohio City from 1853 to 1854 and the 14th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1855 and 1856....
- Lucien B. CaswellLucien B. CaswellLucien Bonaparte Caswell was an American politician.Born in Swanton, Vermont, he moved with his family to frontier Wisconsin in 1836 and settled along the Rock River, just south of Lake Koshkonong. Caswell attended Milton Academy and Beloit College, studying law...
- Suzy ChaffeeSuzy ChaffeeSuzanne "Suzy" Chaffee is a former Olympic alpine ski racer and actress. Following her racing career, she modelled in New York with Ford Models and then became the pre-eminent freestyle ballet skier of the early 1970s...
- Beth ChamberlinBeth ChamberlinBeth Chamberlin is a American actress and fitness coach.-Film and television roles:She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Beth Raines Spaulding LeMay Winslow Spaulding Bauer Spaulding on Guiding Light. She was the second actress to portray the role and initially portrayed Beth for a two...
- John Putnam ChapinJohn Putnam ChapinJohn Putnam Chapin served as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the Whig Party....
- Welcome ChapmanWelcome ChapmanWelcome Chapman was an early Mormon leader born in Readsboro, Vermont. Chapman was the leader of the Mormon settlers in Manti, Utah, from 1854 to 1862, and helped broker peace between the settlers and Chief Wakara's tribe....
- Arthur ChaseArthur ChaseArthur Chase was the co-founder of Theta Chi Fraternity. He was born in Bellows Falls, Vermont and entered Norwich University in 1852 where he roomed with a young cadet named George Dewey who later became famous as an Admiral. Chase was 20 years old when he assisted his distant cousin Frederick...
- Harrie B. ChaseHarrie B. ChaseHarrie Brigham Chase was a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.A native and resident of Vermont, Chase attended Dartmouth College, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. He also attended Boston University School of Law. He was a state's attorney of...
- Horace ChaseHorace ChaseHorace B. Chase was an American politician who served as mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Chase was born in Vermont, on Christmas Day of 1810 and lived near Derby, Vermont. One of Milwaukee's pioneers, he first arrived in Milwaukee in December 1834, left for Chicago, and returned to settle in...
- Daniel ChipmanDaniel ChipmanDaniel Chipman was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Salisbury, Connecticut. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1788. He studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced in Rutland, Vermont 1790–1794. In addition, he was a member of the state constitutional...
- Thomas ChittendenThomas ChittendenThomas Chittenden was an important figure in the founding of Vermont.Chittenden was born in East Guilford, Connecticut and moved to Vermont in 1774, where he founded the town of Williston. During the American Revolution, Chittenden was a member of a committee empowered to negotiate with the...
- Lucius E. ChittendenLucius E. ChittendenLucius Eugene Chittenden was a Vermont author, banker, lawyer, politician and peace advocate who served as Register of the Treasury during the Lincoln administration.-Early life:...
- Sylvester ChurchillSylvester ChurchillSylvester Churchill was an American journalist and Regular Army officer.-Early life:Churchill was born in Woodstock, Vermont, the son of Joseph and Sarah Churchill...
- Joseph A. CitroJoseph A. CitroJoseph A. Citro is a Vermont author and folklorist. Occasionally referred as the "Bard of the Bizarre" or "the Ghost-Master General", he has extensively researched and documented the folklore, hauntings, ghost stories, paranormal activity and occult happenings of New England.Interested in horror...
- Charles Edgar ClarkCharles Edgar ClarkRear Admiral Charles Edgar Clark was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War and the Spanish–American War.-Biography:...
,Born in Bradford Vermont, AdmiralAdmiral (United States)In the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard and the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, admiral is a four-star flag officer rank, with the pay grade of O-10. Admiral ranks above vice admiral and below Fleet Admiral in the Navy; the Coast Guard and the Public Health...
during Spanish-American WarSpanish-American WarThe Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence... - Kelly ClarkKelly ClarkKelly Clark is a snowboarder born in the village of West Dover in the town of Dover, Vermont. She has been snowboarding since she was 8 years old, and began competing in 1999...
, Olympic gold medal winner, snowboarding 2002 - William Bullock ClarkWilliam Bullock ClarkWilliam Bullock Clark, Ph. D., LL.D , was an American geologist.He was born at Brattleboro, Vermont, and educated at Amherst College and in Munich...
- Skiing CochransSkiing CochransThe Skiing Cochrans are a family of alpine ski racers from Richmond, Vermont. The Cochrans were a dominant force on the U.S. Ski Team in the late 1960s and early 1970s....
- Richard A. CodyRichard A. CodyRichard A. Cody is a retired United States Army general who served as the 31st Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army from June 24, 2004 to July 31, 2008. He retired from the Army on August 1, 2008.-Early life and career:...
- William Sloane CoffinWilliam Sloane CoffinWilliam Sloane Coffin, Jr. was an American liberal Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist. He was ordained in the Presbyterian church and later received ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ....
, Jr., a resident of Strafford - Ben Cohen
- Zerah ColburnZerah Colburn (math prodigy)Zerah Colburn was a child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator.-Biography:He was born in Cabot, Vermont in 1804 and educated at Westminster School in London. He was thought to be mentally retarded until the age of seven. However, after six weeks of schooling his...
(1804–1840); math prodigy; born in Cabot - Lui CollinsLui CollinsLui Collins is a contemporary folk singer-songwriter. She attended the University of Connecticut and played her first gigs as a student there. She began touring in the mid-1970s as part of a duo with Horace Williams, Jr.. Her first two albums consisted of cover songs, after which she moved on to...
- Ray Collins
- Gardner Quincy ColtonGardner Quincy ColtonGardner Quincy Colton was an American showman, lecturer, and former medical student who pioneered the use of nitrous oxide in dentistry....
who pioneered the use of nitrous oxideNitrous oxideNitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas or sweet air, is a chemical compound with the formula . It is an oxide of nitrogen. At room temperature, it is a colorless non-flammable gas, with a slightly sweet odor and taste. It is used in surgery and dentistry for its anesthetic and analgesic...
(laughing gas) for dental procedures. From Georgia, VermontGeorgia, VermontGeorgia is a town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States. The population was 4,375 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 45.2 square miles , of which, 39.5 square miles of it is land and 5.7 square miles of it ... - George ColvocoressesGeorge ColvocoressesGeorge Musalas "Colvos" Colvocoresses was a United States Navy officer who commanded the USS Saratoga during the American Civil War. From 1838 up until 1842, he served in the United States Exploring Expedition, better known as the Wilkes Expedition, which explored large regions of the Pacific Ocean...
- George Partridge ColvocoressesGeorge Partridge ColvocoressesGeorge Partridge Colvocoresses was a United States Navy rear admiral. He was the son of Captain George M. Colvocoresses, the adopted son of Captain Alden Partridge, founder of Norwich University in Vermont. George P...
- Jessica ComolliJessica ComolliJessica May Comolli is a beauty queen from Montpelier, Vermont who competed in the Miss USA pageant in 2007.Comolli won the Miss Vermont USA 2007 title in a state pageant held in Burlington, Vermont on November 5, 2006. She had previously placed first runner-up to Amanda Gilman in the 2006 event...
- Thomas Jefferson ConantThomas Jefferson ConantThomas Jefferson Conant , American Biblical scholar, was born at Brandon, Vermont.Graduating from Middlebury College in 1823, he became tutor in the Columbian University, Washington D.C...
- George A. ConverseGeorge A. ConverseGeorge Albert Converse was a rear admiral in the United States Navy, who was noted for his contributions to naval engineering...
- Calvin CoolidgeCalvin CoolidgeJohn Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...
, thirtieth president of the United States - Barry M. CostelloBarry M. CostelloVice Admiral Barry M. Costello was the Commander, US Third Fleet of the United States Navy , May 2005 - May 2007.-Biography:He is native of Rutland, Vermont. He attended College of the Holy Cross and was commissioned an Ensign through the NROTC Program in 1973...
, US Vice admiral, native of Rutland - Douglas M. CostleDouglas M. CostleDouglas Michael Costle was one of the architects of the United States Environmental Protection Agency , and he served President Jimmy Carter as EPA Administrator from 1977 to 1981.- Early life and education :...
- Oliver CowderyOliver CowderyOliver H. P. Cowdery was, with Joseph Smith, Jr., an important participant in the formative period of the Latter Day Saint movement between 1829 and 1836, becoming one of the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon's golden plates, one of the first Latter Day Saint apostles, and the Second Elder of...
- Robert CowdinRobert CowdinRobert Cowdin was a businessman, a field officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a local politician in Massachusetts. Cowdin was colonel of the 1st Massachusetts Infantry and served in several major battles early in the war...
- Aaron H. CraginAaron H. CraginAaron Harrison Cragin was a United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Weston, Vermont, he completed preparatory studies, studied law, was admitted to the bar in Albany, New York in 1847 and commenced practice in Lebanon, New Hampshire...
- Jay CravenJay CravenJay Craven is a Vermont film director, screenwriter and professor of film studies at Marlboro College.Jay Craven is known for creating award winning films on modest budgets, adopting all of the novels of author Howard Frank Mosher to film...
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- Tim Daly, actor, producer, and director
- John Cotton DanaJohn Cotton DanaJohn Cotton Dana was an American librarian and museum director whose main objective was to make the library relevant to the daily lives of the citizens and to promote the benefits of reading...
- Jeff DanzigerJeff DanzigerJeff Danziger is a syndicated political cartoonist and author.Danziger served in the United States Army from 1967 until 1971. An intelligence officer and linguist during the Vietnam War, he was awarded the Bronze Star and Air Medal in 1970...
, political cartoonist - Thomas Davenport, inventor of the electric motor
- Howard DeanHoward DeanHoward Brush Dean III is an American politician and physician from Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. Although his U.S...
, Democratic National Committee Chairman 2005-9 - John Deere, inventor of the steel plow and founder of agricultural equipment manufacturer Deere & Company
- David DellingerDavid DellingerDavid T. Dellinger , was an influential American radical, a pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change.-Chicago Seven:...
, one of Chicago SevenChicago SevenThe Chicago Seven were seven defendants—Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner—charged with conspiracy, inciting to riot, and other charges related to protests that took place in Chicago, Illinois on the occasion of the 1968...
- George DeweyGeorge DeweyGeorge Dewey was an admiral of the United States Navy. He is best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War...
, hero of Manila BayBattle of Manila Bay (1898)The Battle of Manila Bay took place on 1 May 1898, during the Spanish-American War. The American Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey engaged and destroyed the Spanish Pacific Squadron under Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarón...
and the only Admiral of the Navy ever appointed in America
- John DeweyJohn DeweyJohn Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology...
, philosopher and educator
- Julia Caroline DorrJulia Caroline DorrJulia Caroline Dorr was an American author who published both prose and poetry. She was born at Charleston, South Carolina, but moved early in her life to New York City, then to Rutland, Vermont. There she married Hon. Seneca R. Dorr. Her earliest published writings appeared in 1848...
, author - Stephen A. DouglasStephen A. DouglasStephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Northern Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860. He lost to the Republican Party's candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom he had defeated two years earlier in a Senate contest following a famed...
, U.S. Senator from Illinois, born in Brandon. Nominated for president 1860. - A. E. DouglassA. E. DouglassA. E. Douglass was an American astronomer. He discovered a correlation between tree rings and the sunspot cycle....
, astronomer - Norman DubieNorman DubieNorman Dubie is an American poet.-Life:He is the author of more than eighteen books, often assuming historical personae in his works...
, poet - Jean DubucJean DubucJean Joseph Octave "Chauncey" Dubuc was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played with the Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, and New York Giants during his nine year career. Dubuc had an overall record of 85–76 with a 3.04 ERA.-Early life and amateur career:Born in St. Johnsbury,...
, baseball pitcher. Born in St. Johnsbury - William Wade DudleyWilliam Wade DudleyWilliam Wade Dudley , born in Weathersfield Bow, Vermont, started life as a soldier in the American Civil War, then became a lawyer, a government official and a Republican campaigner.-Background:William Wade Dudley was the son of Rev...
- Chris Duffy, baseball player. Born in Brattleboro
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- Horatio EarleHoratio EarleHoratio Sawyer Earle is known as the "Father of Good Roads" or simply Horatio "Good Roads" Earle.-Early life:Earle was born February 14, 1855 on a farm in Mount Holly, Vermont. He married Agnes Lincoln in 1874 and they had a son, Romeo Horatio Earle in 1878...
, promoted "good roads" when the automobile was introduced - John EatonJohn Eaton (General)For other people named John Eaton, see John Eaton .John Eaton, Jr. was a U.S. Commissioner of Education and a brevet brigadier general during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
, US commissioner of education - Dorman Bridgeman Eaton, instrumental in federal civil service reform
- Eddy BrothersEddy BrothersThe Eddy Brothers refers to William Eddy and Horatio Eddy, popular Spiritualist mediums of the 1870s.-History:During the 1870s, the Eddy brothers held seances in Chittenden, Vermont, claiming to materialize spirits of the dead including drowned sailors, Native Americans, and soldiers who died in...
- George F. EdmundsGeorge F. EdmundsGeorge Franklin Edmunds was a Republican U.S. Senator from Vermont from 1866 to 1891.Born in Richmond, Vermont, Edmunds attended common schools and was privately tutored as a child. After being admitted to the bar in 1849, he started a law practice in Burlington, Vermont...
- Merritt A. EdsonMerritt A. EdsonMajor General Merritt Austin Edson , known as "Red Mike", was a general in the United States Marine Corps. Among the decorations he received was the Medal of Honor, two Navy Crosses, the Silver Star, and two Legions of Merit...
- Chesselden EllisChesselden EllisChesselden Ellis was a United States Representative from New York. Born in New Windsor, Vermont, he completed preparatory studies and was graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1823. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced practice in Waterford, New York...
- George F. EmmonsGeorge F. EmmonsGeorge Foster Emmons was a rear admiral of the United States Navy, who served in the early to mid 19th century.-Biography:Born in Clarendon, Vermont, Emmons began his distinguished career as a midshipman on 1 April 1828...
- Jacob EsteyJacob EsteyJacob Estey was the founder of Estey Organ.-Biography:He was born in 1814 in Hinsdale, New Hampshire and ran away from an orphanage to Worcester, Massachusetts, where he learned the plumbing trade. He arrived in Brattleboro, Vermont in 1835 at age 21 to work in a plumbing shop which he soon bought...
- Jeremiah EvartsJeremiah EvartsJeremiah F. Evarts was a Christian missionary, reformer, and activist for the rights of American Indians in the United States, and a leading opponent of the Indian removal policy of the United States government.-Early years:...
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- William FairfieldWilliam FairfieldWilliam Fairfield was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Pawlet, Vermont in 1769 or 1770, the son of William Fairfield, a farmer. His father fought with Edward Jessup's loyalist forces and moved with his family to Machiche in Quebec in 1779...
- John C. Farrar
- Thomas Green FessendenThomas Green FessendenThomas Green Fessenden was an author and editor who worked in England and the United States.-Biography:...
, one of the earliest American writers - Young FirpoYoung FirpoYoung Firpo was a professional light-heavyweight boxer. He was a popular fighter in the Pacific Northwest during the 1920s and 1930s, particularly in Portland, Oregon...
- Dorothy Canfield FisherDorothy Canfield FisherDorothy Canfield Fisher was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early decades of the twentieth century. She was named by Eleanor Roosevelt as one of the ten most influential women in the United States...
, writer - Robert M. FisherRobert M. FisherRobert Miles Fisher , was an American abstract artist in oils, watercolor, charcoal, and welded sculpture.-Biography:...
, abstract artist - Jon FishmanJon FishmanJon Fishman is an American drummer best known for his work with the band Phish. He is credited with co-writing 19 Phish originals, 8 of them as a solo credit....
, Drummer/Vocals from the band PhishPhishPhish is an American rock band noted for its musical improvisation, extended jams, and exploration of music across genres. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 , the band's four members – Trey Anastasio , Mike Gordon , Jon Fishman , and Page McConnell Phish is an American rock band... - Carlton FiskCarlton FiskCarlton Ernest Fisk , nicknamed "Pudge" or "The Commander", is a former Major League Baseball catcher. During a 24-year baseball career, he played for both the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox .Fisk was known by the nickname "Pudge" due to his 6'2", 220 lb frame...
(b. 1947); former Major League Baseball Hall of Fame catcher; born in Bellows FallsBellows Falls, VermontBellows Falls is an incorporated village located in the town of Rockingham in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The population was 3,165 at the 2000 census... - James FiskJames 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:...
- Irving FiskeIrving FiskeIrving Fiske born Irving Fishman in Brooklyn, New York, was a playwright, inventor, freelance writer, and speaker...
- William Charles FitzgeraldWilliam Charles FitzgeraldWilliam "Bill" C. Fitzgerald was a United States Navy officer who was killed in action during the Vietnam War, while serving as an advisor to the Republic of Vietnam Navy...
- John FitzpatrickJohn Fitzpatrick (mayor of New Orleans)John Fitzpatrick was an Irish-American mayor of New Orleans from April 25, 1892 to April 27, 1896.-External links:*...
- Ed Flanagan, auditor of accounts & state senator
- Helen Hartness FlandersHelen Hartness FlandersHelen Hartness Flanders , a native of the U.S. state of Vermont, was an internationally recognized ballad collector and an authority on the folk music found in New England and the British Isles...
, collector of traditional ballads - Ralph FlandersRalph FlandersRalph Edward Flanders was an American mechanical engineer, industrialist and Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Vermont. He grew up on subsistence farms in Vermont and Rhode Island, became an apprentice first as a machinist, then as a draftsman, before training as a mechanical engineer...
- Henry A. FletcherHenry A. FletcherHenry Addison Fletcher was an American Civil War veteran, a farmer and a U.S. politician of the Republican Party.-Roots:...
- George P. FosterGeorge P. FosterGeorge Perkins Foster was a school teacher, general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and then a United States Marshal.-Early life and career:...
- 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...
- Martin Henry FreemanMartin Henry FreemanMartin Henry Freeman was the first Black president of an American college, as well as later serving as president of Liberia College....
- 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 - Ida May FullerIda May FullerIda May Fuller was the first American to receive a monthly benefit Social Security check. She received the check, amounting to $22.54, on January 31, 1940.Fuller was born on a farm outside Ludlow, Vermont...
, first recipient of Social Security - John FuscoJohn FuscoJohn Fusco is an American screenwriter born in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA. His screenplays include Crossroads, Young Guns, Young Guns II, Thunderheart, Hidalgo, and the Oscar-nominatedSpirit: Stallion of the Cimarron...
, Hollywood movie writer/producer; wrote HidalgoHidalgo (film)Hidalgo is a 2004 film based on the legend of the American distance rider Frank Hopkins and his mustang Hidalgo, and recounts Hopkins' racing his horse in Arabia in 1891 against Bedouin riding pure-blooded Arabian horses. The movie was written by John Fusco and directed by Joe Johnston...
and Young GunsYoung GunsYoung Guns is a 1988 action/western film, directed by Christopher Cain and written by John Fusco. The film was the first to be produced by Morgan Creek Productions...
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- Phineas GagePhineas GagePhineas P. Gage was an American railroad construction foreman now remembered for his improbablesurvival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and...
- Larry GardnerLarry GardnerWilliam Lawrence "Larry" Gardner was a third baseman in Major League Baseball. From 1908 through 1924, Gardner played for the Boston Red Sox , Philadelphia Athletics, and Cleveland Indians . He batted left-handed and threw right-handed...
, Former MLB Third Baseman - David GiancolaDavid GiancolaDavid Giancola , is a Vermont based American filmmaker. Born in Rutland, Vermont and graduate of Mount St. Joseph's Academy in 1987, he has directed eight films as of October 2006...
(b. 1969), film director, born in Rutland, Vermont - 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 born in Bennington - Amanda GilmanAmanda GilmanAmanda Gilman is a beauty queen from Danville, Vermont who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.Gilman won the Miss Vermont USA 2006 title in a state pageant held in late 2005...
- Joseph A. GilmoreJoseph A. GilmoreJoseph Albree Gilmore was an American railroad superintendent from Concord, New Hampshire. He was a member of the New Hampshire state senate, and was its president in 1859. Born in 1811 in Weston, Vermont, he served two terms as Governor during the Civil War...
- Louise GlückLouise GlückLouise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet of Hungarian Jewish heritage. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000....
, Pulitzer Prize winning poet - Isaac GoodnowIsaac GoodnowIsaac Tichenor Goodnow was an abolitionist and co-founder of Kansas State University and Manhattan, Kansas. Goodnow was also elected to the Kansas House of Representatives and as Superintendent of Public Instruction for the state, and is known as "the father of formal education in Kansas."-...
, founder of Kansas State UniversityKansas State UniversityKansas State University, commonly shortened to K-State, is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas, in the United States...
and Manhattan, KansasManhattan, KansasManhattan is a city located in the northeastern part of the state of Kansas in the United States, at the junction of the Kansas River and Big Blue River. It is the county seat of Riley County and the city extends into Pottawatomie County. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 52,281... - Mike GordonMike GordonMike Gordon is a bass guitar player and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish. Gordon is also an accomplished banjo player, and is proficient at piano, guitar, harmonica and percussion...
, vocals/bassist from the band PhishPhishPhish is an American rock band noted for its musical improvisation, extended jams, and exploration of music across genres. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 , the band's four members – Trey Anastasio , Mike Gordon , Jon Fishman , and Page McConnell Phish is an American rock band... - Walter W. GrangerWalter W. GrangerWalter Willis Granger was an American vertebrate paleontologist who participated in important fossil explorations in the United States, Egypt, China and Mongolia.-Early life and career:...
- Lewis A. GrantLewis A. GrantLewis Addison Grant was a teacher, lawyer, soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and later Assistant U.S. Secretary of War...
- Duane GravelineDuane GravelineDuane Edgar Graveline is an American physician and former NASA astronaut. He was one of the six scientists selected in 1965, in NASA's fourth group of astronauts, for the Apollo program. He is most famous for being immersed in water for seven days as part of his zero gravity deconditioning...
- 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...
- Peter Gray, psychologist
- Horace GreeleyHorace GreeleyHorace Greeley was an American newspaper editor, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, a politician, and an outspoken opponent of slavery...
, newspaper editor, reformer and politician. Apprenticed in East Poultney - Jerry GreenfieldJerry GreenfieldJerry Greenfield is a co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc.Throughout his childhood, Greenfield lived in New York, on Long Island. In 1969, he enrolled at Oberlin College, where he followed a pre-med curriculum before graduating in 1973...
- Theodore P. GreeneTheodore P. GreeneTheodore Phinney Greene , was a rear admiral of the United States Navy, who fought on the side of the Union during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Wallace M. GreeneWallace M. GreeneGeneral Wallace Martin Greene, Jr. was a four-star United States Marine Corps general who served as the 23rd Commandant of the Marine Corps from January 1, 1964 to December 31, 1967...
- Josiah GroutJosiah GroutJosiah Grout, Jr. was an American lawyer and politician in the US state of Vermont.Born in Quebec, Canada to Vermonter parents, he served in the American Civil War as a Union Army officer before entering the legal profession after the war...
- Luis GuzmánLuis GuzmánLuis Guzmán is an actor from Puerto Rico. He is known for his character work. For much of his career, he has played roles largely as sidekicks, thugs, or policemen....
, actor
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- Paul Hackett
- William HaileWilliam HaileWilliam Haile was an American merchant, manufacturer and politician from Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Born in 1807 in Putney, Vermont, he served in both houses of the New Hampshire legislature and as Governor of the state...
- Joy HakimJoy HakimJoy Hakim is an American author who has written a ten-volume history of the United States, A History of US, and Freedom: A History of US , all published by Oxford University Press...
- Enoch HaleEnoch HaleEnoch Hale was born in Rowley, Massachusetts on November 28, 1733. He and his brother Nathan Hale would move to Rindge, New Hampshire as young men. During the French and Indian War Enoch Hale served in the New Hampshire Provincial Regiment in 1755 and 1757-1758...
- 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....
- William Laurel HarrisWilliam Laurel HarrisWilliam Laurel Harris was an American muralist, educator, editor and arts organizer.Harris was member Municipal Art Society , the Architectural League of New York , The National Mural Painters Society, and The Fine Arts Federation; he also founded the Art Centre with Katherine...
- James HartnessJames HartnessJames Hartness was an American inventor; a mechanical engineer; an entrepreneur who mentored other inventors to develop their machine tool products and create a thriving industrial center in southeastern Vermont; an amateur astronomer who fostered the construction of telescopes by amateurs in his...
, machine tool entrepreneur - Bill HauglandBill HauglandBill Haugland was a television news anchorman for CFCF-TV in Montreal, Quebec.A native of Montreal, Haugland studied at Ryerson University and Concordia University...
- William Babcock HazenWilliam Babcock HazenWilliam Babcock Hazen was a career United States Army officer who served in the Indian Wars, as a Union general in the American Civil War, and as Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army...
- Chris HedgesChris HedgesChristopher Lynn Hedges is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies...
, journalist - William W. HenryWilliam W. HenryWilliam Wirt Henry was a manufacturer and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for gallantry in action.-Early life:...
- Charles Shattuck HillCharles Shattuck HillCharles Shattuck Hill, C.E. was an American editor, born at Fairfield, Vermont. He received his degree in civil engineering in 1888. He served on the editorial staff of the Engineering News until 1906; then he became editor of Engineering and Contracting...
- Ethan A. HitchcockEthan A. Hitchcock (general)Ethan Allen Hitchcock was a career United States Army officer and author who had War Department assignments in Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War, in which he served as a major general.-Early life:...
, Major General during the Civil War - Edward HoaglandEdward HoaglandEdward Hoagland is an author best known for his nature and travel writing.-Life:...
, essayist, taught at Bennington College. Retired to Sutton - Frederick HolbrookFrederick HolbrookFrederick Holbrook was an agriculturist, politician, and the 27th Governor of Vermont.-Early life:Holbrook was born in East Windsor, Connecticut, son of John and Sara Holbrook. He attended Berkshire Gymnasium, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for two years, then visited Europe in 1833...
- Tristan HonsingerTristan HonsingerTristan Honsinger is a cello player active in free jazz and free improvisation. He is perhaps best known for his long-running collaboration with free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor and guitarist Derek Bailey....
(b. 1949), jazz cello player, born in BurlingtonBurlington, VermontBurlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal.... - Samuel HopkinsSamuel Hopkins (inventor)Samuel Hopkins was an American inventor from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Pittsford, Vermont. On July 31, 1790, he was granted the first U.S. patent, under the new U.S. patent statute just signed into law by President Washington on April 10, 1790...
, holder of first American patent, for pearl and potash process, 1790. - Charles Snead HoustonCharles Snead Houston-References:-External links:* - Daily Telegraph obituary* Independent obituary, 1 October 2009.-Notes:...
, Mountaineer, physician, scientist, and Peace Corps leader - Charles Edward HoveyCharles Edward HoveyCharles Edward Hovey was an educator, college president, pension lobbyist and a brevet major general in the United States Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
- Jacob M. HowardJacob M. HowardJacob Merritt Howard was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan during and after the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Steven James HowardSteven Howard (politician)Steven James Howard is an American politician from the state of Vermont. He represented parts of the city of Rutland in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1993 to 2011, except for three terms between 1999 and 2005...
- James F. Howard, Jr.James F. Howard, Jr.James Francis Howard, Jr. is a Professor of Neurology and Medicine at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.-Early life and education:Howard was born 1948-05-03 in Bellows Falls, Vermont, U.S.. He received a BA in 1970 and a M.D...
- William Alanson HowardWilliam Alanson HowardWilliam Alanson Howard served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan from March 4, 1855 to March 3, 1859 and from May 15, 1860 to March 3, 1861. Howard was the Governor of the Dakota Territory from 1878 to 1880.-Biography:William Howard was born at Hinesburg,...
- Felicity HuffmanFelicity HuffmanFelicity Kendall Huffman is an American film, stage, and television actress. She is known for her role as executive producer Dana Whitaker on the ABC television show Sports Night , which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination, and as hectic supermom Lynette Scavo on the ABC show Desperate...
, actor - Stephen HuneckStephen HuneckStephen Huneck was an American wood carving artist, furniture maker, painter, and author. Most of his artwork is composed of carvings of dogs. In addition to carvings, Huneck also wrote several children's books, the main character of which was his black Labrador Retriever, Sally...
, artist - Richard Morris HuntRichard Morris HuntRichard Morris Hunt was an American architect of the nineteenth century and a preeminent figure in the history of American architecture...
, architect - William Morris HuntWilliam Morris HuntWilliam Morris Hunt , American painter, was born at Brattleboro, Vermont to Jane Maria Hunt and Hon. Jonathan Hunt, who raised one of the preeminent families in American art...
- 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...
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- Horatio Nelson JacksonHoratio Nelson JacksonHoratio Nelson Jackson was a physician and automobile pioneer. In 1903, he and driving partner Sewall K. Crocker became the first people to drive an automobile across the United States.-Early life and medical career:...
- William Henry JacksonWilliam Henry JacksonWilliam Henry Jackson was an American painter, Civil War, geological survey photographer and an explorer famous for his images of the American West...
- Lindsey JacobellisLindsey JacobellisLindsey Jacobellis is an American snowboarder from Stratton, Vermont.At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Jacobellis won the silver medal in Women's Snowboard Cross's Olympics debut...
- Jim JeffordsJim JeffordsJames Merrill "Jim" Jeffords is a former U.S. Senator from Vermont. He served as a Republican until 2001, when he left the party to become an independent. He retired from the Senate in 2006.-Background:...
- Milo Parker JewettMilo Parker JewettMilo Parker Jewett was a U.S. educator, born at St. Johnsbury, VermontJewett was a graduate of Dartmouth College and Andover Theological Seminary...
- Andrew JohnsonAndrew Johnson (skier)Andrew Johnson is a cross-country skier from the United States. He was born and raised in Greensboro, Vermont, and is a member of the U.S. 2006 Olympic Cross-Country Ski Team. He has been a Junior National Champ, an Overall "Supertour Champ," and a 3-Time All American...
, skier
Carlene King Johnson
Carlene King Johnson Drake was Miss USA 1955.After winning the Miss Vermont USA crown, Johnson, from Rutland, Vermont went on to become Vermont's only representative to achieve the title of Miss USA. Previously, she was Miss Vermont 1953.Johnson was born to Dr. Norman & Katherine King Johnson....
, Miss USA 1955, first one from New England and only one ever from Vermont
Ernie Johnson (pitcher)
Ernest Thorwald Johnson was a Major League Baseball pitcher. The 6'4", 195 lb. right-hander was signed by the Boston Braves as an amateur free agent before the season. He played for the Boston Braves , Milwaukee Braves , and Baltimore Orioles .-Playing career:After serving three years in the U.S...
Kenny Johnson
Kenneth "Kenny" Johnson is an American actor well known for his portrayal of Detective Curtis Lemansky on the American drama The Shield and Detective "Ham" Dewey on Saving Grace.- Early career :...
, actor, played Lem
Curtis Lemansky
Curtis Lemansky, more commonly known as "Lem" or "Lemonhead", is a fictional police detective on the FX original drama The Shield, played by actor Kenny Johnson.-Personal life:Little is known about Lemansky's personal life...
on The Shield
The Shield
The Shield is an American television drama series starring Michael Chiklis which premiered on March 12, 2002 on FX in the United States and concluded on November 25, 2008 after seven seasons...
Luke S. Johnson
Luke Samuel Johnson was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from 1835 to 1838. He served in the Quorum with his younger brother, Lyman E. Johnson and Orson Hyde, his brother-in-law.Johnson was born November 3, 1807, in Pomfret,...
Lyman E. Johnson
Lyman Eugene Johnson was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He broke with Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon during the 1837-38 period when schism divided the early Church...
Miranda July
Miranda July is a performing artist, writer, actress and film director. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July," which can be traced to a character from a "girlzine" Miranda created with high school friend Johanna Fateman, called Snarla.- Background :Miranda...
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- Bob KeeshanBob KeeshanRobert James "Bob" Keeshan was an American television producer and actor. He is most notable as the title character of the children's television program Captain Kangaroo, which became an icon for millions of people during its 30-year run from 1955 to 1984.Keeshan also played the original...
(1927–2004); "Captain Kangaroo"; lived last 14 years of his life in Vermont. - A. Atwater KentA. Atwater KentArthur Atwater Kent, Sr. was an inventor and prominent radio manufacturer based in Philadelphia, usa. In 1921, he patented the modern form of the automobile ignition coil.-Biography:...
(1873–1949); inventor and radio maker; born in BurlingtonBurlington, VermontBurlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal.... - Henry W. KeyesHenry W. KeyesHenry Wilder Keyes was an American farmer, banker, and Republican politician from Haverhill, New Hampshire. Born in 1863 in Newbury, Vermont, he was raised in New Hampshire. His father was a prominent New England farmer, merchant, and railroad investor. Keyes graduated from Harvard with a B.A...
- Dan KileyDan KileyDaniel Urban Kiley was a noted American landscape architect in the modernist style.- Life and career :Kiley was born in Boston, Massachusetts...
- Christopher KimballChristopher KimballChristopher Kimball is an American chef, editor, publisher, and radio/TV personality.- Education and career :Kimball was born and raised in Westchester County, New York. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and then Columbia University with a degree in Primitive Art. After graduating from...
host of PBS tv show America's Test Kitchen - Heber C. KimballHeber C. KimballHeber Chase Kimball was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement. He served as one of the original twelve apostles in the early Latter Day Saint church, and as first counselor to Brigham Young in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his...
- 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 - Carlene King JohnsonCarlene King JohnsonCarlene King Johnson Drake was Miss USA 1955.After winning the Miss Vermont USA crown, Johnson, from Rutland, Vermont went on to become Vermont's only representative to achieve the title of Miss USA. Previously, she was Miss Vermont 1953.Johnson was born to Dr. Norman & Katherine King Johnson....
, Miss USA 1955 - Rudyard KiplingRudyard KiplingJoseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...
, British author, resident of BrattleboroBrattleboro, VermontBrattleboro, originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States, located in the southeast corner of the state, along the state line with New Hampshire. The population was 12,046 at the 2010 census...
, during which time he wrote The Jungle BookThe Jungle BookThe Jungle Book is a collection of stories by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–4. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six... - M. Jane KitchelM. Jane KitchelM. Jane Kitchel is a Democratic member of the Vermont State Senate, representing the Caledonia senate district.Jane Kitchel was elected to the Vermont State Senate in 2004 and reelected in 2006.-Biography:...
- Bill KochBill Koch (skier)Bill Koch is an American ski racer and the first world-class cross-country skier from the United States.A native of Brattleboro, Vermont, he is a graduate of the nearby The Putney School in Putney, Vermont. He originally competed in the NIS in the Nordic combined, but later switched to cross...
- James KochalkaJames KochalkaJames Kochalka is an American comic book artist and writer, and rock musician. His comics are noted for their blending of the real and the surreal...
- Edward KorenThe New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, illustrator and cartoonist for The New YorkerThe New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast... - Madeleine M. KuninMadeleine M. KuninMadeleine May Kunin is a Swiss-American diplomat and politician. She was the 77th Governor of Vermont from 1985 until 1991, as a member of the Democratic Party. She also served as United States Ambassador to Switzerland from 1996 to 1999. She was Vermont's first and, to date, only female governor...
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- Walt LanfranconiWalt LanfranconiWalter Oswald Lanfranconi was a Major League Baseball pitcher. The 155 lb. right-hander played for the Chicago Cubs and Boston Braves...
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- John LeClairJohn LeClairJohn Clark LeClair is an American former professional ice hockey left winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers, and Pittsburgh Penguins...
, first native born Vermonter to play in the National Hockey League - Bill "Spaceman" LeeBill Lee (left-handed pitcher)William Francis Lee III , nicknamed "Spaceman", is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Boston Red Sox from - and the Montreal Expos from -...
, baseball player - Harry David LeeHarry David LeeHenry David Lee was the founder of the HD Lee Mercantile Company, inventors of Lee Jeans.He was born in 1849 in Vermont and attended school in South Tunbridge, he moved to Galion, Ohio, in 1862 where he worked as an hotel clerk and parlayed livery and real estate investments into the purchase of...
, who developed Lee Jeans - Brady LeisenringBrady LeisenringBrady Leisenring is an American professional ice hockey player currently with ESV Kaufbeuren of the German 2nd Bundesliga.-Playing career:...
, hockey player from Stowe - Henry M. LelandHenry M. LelandHenry Martyn Leland was a machinist, inventor, engineer and automotive entrepreneur who founded the two premier American luxury marques, Cadillac and Lincoln. Retrieved December 30, 2008....
, developed Cadillac and Lincoln. Born in Barton. - Melissa LeoMelissa LeoMelissa Chessington Leo , is an American actress. After appearing on several television shows and films in the late '80s, her breakthrough role came in 1993 as Det. Sgt. Kay Howard on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street for the show's first five seasons from 1993 – 1997...
, actress. Resided in Putney. - Kevin LepageKevin LepageKevin Lepage is a NASCAR driver. He currently drives the #52 car, for Jimmy Means Racing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Lepage is the only NASCAR driver from Vermont to qualify for the Daytona 500.-Early career:...
, NASCAR driver from Shelburne - Aaron LewisAaron LewisAaron Lewis, , is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and founding member of the rock group Staind, with whom he has released seven studio albums. He has since ventured into country music with his debut solo album, Town Line...
, band member from Rutland - Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque (b. 1990); singer, actress; born in BrattleboroBrattleboro, VermontBrattleboro, originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States, located in the southeast corner of the state, along the state line with New Hampshire. The population was 12,046 at the 2010 census...
- Sinclair LewisSinclair LewisHarry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of...
(1885 – 1951), Nobel prize winning writer with home in Barnard - Sam LloydSam LloydSam Lloyd may refer to:*Samuel T. Lloyd III, dean of Washington National Cathedral*Sam Lloyd, recurring guest character on several television shows including Scrubs and Desperate Housewives-See also:...
, actor (Scrubs) born in Weston - Ki LongfellowKi LongfellowKi Longfellow is an American novelist, playwright, theatrical producer, theater director and entrepreneur. In Britain, as the widow of Vivian Stanshall, she is well known as the guardian of his artistic heritage, but elsewhere she is best known for her own work, especially the novel The Secret...
, novelist - Alfred Lebbeus LoomisAlfred Lebbeus LoomisAlfred Lebbeus Loomis was an American physician who served as president of the Association of American Physicians.- Life and work :...
, president, Association of American Physicians - Gustavus LoomisGustavus LoomisGustavus Loomis was an United States Army officer who served during the War of 1812, Seminole Wars and the American Civil War. He was the oldest soldier to serve in the Civil War.-Biography:...
, breveted Brigadier General - Horatio G. LoomisHoratio G. LoomisLoomis was a native of Vermont who came to Chicago as a pioneer settler in 1834. A grocer by trade, Loomis also was an entrepreneur who became involved in many business fields, including commodities trading....
, one of the organizers of the Chicago Board of Trade - Phillips LordPhillips LordPhillips Haynes Lord was an American radio program writer, creator, producer and narrator as well as a motion picture actor, best known for the Gang Busters radio program that was broadcast from 1935 to 1957.-Early life:...
, creator of radio programs - Will LymanWill LymanWilliam Lyman is an American voice-over artist and actor, perhaps best known for his polished, resonant voice that has narrated the PBS series Frontline since its second season in 1984. Lyman has made a successful career in television and theater...
, television actor - Lucius LyonLucius LyonLucius Lyon was a U.S. statesman from the state of Michigan. He was born in Shelburne, Vermont, where he received a common school education and studied engineering and surveying...
, helped charter the State of Michigan
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- David MametDavid MametDavid Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director.Best known as a playwright, Mamet won a Pulitzer Prize and received a Tony nomination for Glengarry Glen Ross . He also received a Tony nomination for Speed-the-Plow . As a screenwriter, he received Oscar...
, playwright
- William Marks
- Anna MarshAnna MarshAnna Marsh established the Vermont Asylum of the Insane in 1834.-Biography:Marsh was born and raised in Hinsdale, New Hampshire. She was the widow of physician Perley Marsh....
- John MartinJohn Martin (businessman)John Martin of Peacham, Vermont was an American steamboat captain and businessman in Minneapolis, Minnesota involved in lumber and flour milling. In 1891, Martin led a merger of six mills to create Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company, at the time the world's second largest flour milling...
- Philip MaxwellPhilip MaxwellBorn in Vermont in 1799, Maxwell moved to New York State where he became a doctor and politician, and was elected to the New York Legislature. He also was a physician for the United States Army, where he served with General Zachary Taylor. A military transfer brought him to Chicago, Illinois, which...
, physician and politician and the person for whom Chicago's famous Maxwell Street was named - Henry T. MayoHenry T. MayoHenry Thomas Mayo was an admiral of the United States Navy.Mayo was born in Burlington, Vermont, 8 December 1856. Upon graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1876 he experienced a variety of naval duties including coastal survey...
, four-star admiral. Born in Burlington - Archer MayorArcher MayorArcher Mayor is the author of the Joe Gunther detective series. Archer is a Yale graduate and lives in Newfane, Vermont, USA.Before turning to popular fiction, Mayor held several jobs, both in the US and in France, working as an editor, researcher for Time–Life books, photography and journalist...
- Margaret MacArthurMargaret MacArthurMargaret MacArthur was an American singer and player of the Appalachian dulcimer.Margaret Crowl was born in Chicago. As a youngster, she moved around with her family - in California, Louisiana, and Arizona. She remembered that at the age of five she heard cowboys on the timber crew singing folk...
, a musician and folk music archivist known as "Vermont's Songcatcher" - John McCardell, Jr.John McCardell, Jr.John Malcolm McCardell, Jr. is the Vice Chancellor of The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and the president emeritus and a professor of history at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. He retired as president in June, 2004, after serving thirteen years as the fifteenth...
- Bill McKibbenBill McKibbenWilliam Ernest "Bill" McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College...
, American environmentalist - James MeachamJames MeachamJames Meacham was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Rutland, Vermont. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1832 and taught in the seminary at Castleton, Vermont. In addition, he attended the local academy at St. Albans, Vermont and attended Andover Theological...
- William Rutherford MeadWilliam Rutherford MeadWilliam Rutherford Mead was an American architect, and was the "Center of the Office" of McKim, Mead, and White, a noted Gilded Age architectural firm. The firm's other two founding partners were Charles Follen McKim , and Stanford White .-Life and career:Mead was born in Brattleboro, Vermont...
- Andrea Mead-LawrenceAndrea Mead-LawrenceAndrea Mead Lawrence was an American alpine ski racer. She competed in three Winter Olympics and was the first American alpine skier to win two Olympic gold medals.-Skiing career:...
, first American to win two gold Olympic skiing medals - Samuel MerrillSamuel Merrill (Indiana)Samuel Merrill was an early leading citizen of the U.S. state of Indiana.-Biography:Samuel was born in 1792 in Peacham, Vermont, the second son of Jesse and Priscilla Merrill. He attended Dartmouth College for one year before moving to Pennsylvania to study law with his older brother James. In...
- Alexander Kennedy MillerAlexander Kennedy MillerAlexander Kennedy Miller , also known as A. K. Miller, was an eccentric recluse who operated Miller's Flying Service in 1930, in Montclair, New Jersey, USA. Miller provided mail and other delivery services by means of an autogyro, as well as listing "Expert Automobile Repairing" and "Aeroplanes...
- Frank MillerFrank Miller (comics)Frank Miller is an American comic book artist, writer and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300...
- Susan Tolman MillsSusan Tolman MillsSusan Tolman Mills was the co-founder of Mills College .-Background:...
- Graham MinkGraham MinkGraham Mink is an American ice hockey Winger currently playing for the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League.-Playing career:...
, - Anais MitchellAnais MitchellAnaïs Mitchell is an American singer-songwriter.-Early life:Anaïs Mitchell grew up on a farm in Addison County, Vermont and attended Middlebury College. Her father is a novelist and a retired college professor....
- Amanda MitteerAmanda MitteerAmanda Lee Mitteer is a beauty queen from Brattleboro, Vermont who has competed in the Miss USA pageant. She was born to Brian & Dana Drennan Mitteer....
- Samuel MoreySamuel MoreySamuel Morey was an American inventor, who worked on early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents.-Early life:...
- Justin MorganJustin MorganJustin Morgan was a U.S. horse breeder and composer.He was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, and by 1788 had settled in Vermont. In addition to being a horse breeder and farmer, he was a teacher of singing; in that capacity he traveled considerably throughout the northeastern states...
- Justin Smith MorrillJustin Smith MorrillJustin Smith Morrill was a Representative and a Senator from Vermont, most widely remembered today for the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act that established federal funding for establishing many of the United States' public colleges and universities...
, sponsor of the Land Grant College Act establishing "public ivies" - George Sylvester MorrisGeorge Sylvester MorrisGeorge Sylvester Morris was an American educator and philosophical writer, born in Norwich, Vermont. He was the son of a well known abolitionist and temperance man...
- Levi P. MortonLevi P. MortonLevi Parsons Morton was a Representative from New York and the 22nd Vice President of the United States . He also later served as the 31st Governor of New York.-Biography:...
- Joseph A. MowerJoseph A. MowerJoseph Anthony Mower was a Union general during the American Civil War. He was a competent officer and well respected by his troops and fellow officers to whom he was known as "Fighting Joe". William T. Sherman said of Mower, "he's the boldest young officer we have".-Biography:Mower was born in...
- Michael MoynihanMichael Moynihan (journalist)Michael Moynihan is an American journalist, publisher and musician. He is best known for co-writing the book Lords of Chaos, about black metal....
- Dennis MurphyDennis Murphy (musician)Dennis Murphy was a composer, musician, instrument maker, artist, and playwright.Dennis Murphy was one of the fathers of American gamelan . Lou Harrison credits Murphy as being the first North American to build gamelan instruments...
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- Andrew NeelAndrew NeelAndrew Neel is an American filmmaker. He was born in Vermont in 1978.Neel co-founded SeeThink Productions together with Ethan Palmer, Luke Meyer and Tom Davis in 2001 after graduating from Columbia College with a BA in film studies...
- Harvey NewcombHarvey NewcombHarvey Newcomb was an American clergyman and writer.He was born in Thetford, Vermont. He removed to western New York in 1818, engaged in teaching for eight years, and from 1826 till 1831 edited several journals, of which the last was the Christian Herald.For the ten following years he was engaged...
- David H. NicholsDavid H. NicholsDavid Hopkinson Nichols was the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, United States, serving from 1893 to 1895 under Davis Hanson Waite....
- Clarina I. H. NicholsClarina I. H. NicholsClarina Irene Howard Nichols was a journalist, lobbyist and public speaker involved in all three of the major reform movements of the mid-19th century: temperance, abolition, and the women's movement that emerged largely out of the ranks of the first two...
- John Humphrey NoyesJohn Humphrey NoyesJohn Humphrey Noyes was an American utopian socialist. He founded the Oneida Community in 1848. He coined the term "free love".-Early activism:...
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- Rachel Oakes PrestonRachel Oakes PrestonRachel Oakes Preston was a Seventh Day Baptist who persuaded a group of Adventist Millerites to accept Saturday, instead of Sunday, as Sabbath. This Sabbatarian group organized as the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1863.Born in Vernon, Vermont, Rachel, daughter of Sylvanus Harris, first joined...
- John O'BrienJohn O'Brien (filmmaker)John O'Brien is an American film director, sheep farmer, Justice of the Peace and former campaign manager.O'Brien is the director of the Tunbridge Trilogy, three films that focus on the rural life of Tunbridge, Vermont...
- Franklin W. OlinFranklin W. OlinFranklin Walter Olin was the founder of the Olin Corporation.He was born in Woodford, Vermont and his father built mills and waterwheels. He studied civil engineering at Cornell University, where he also played baseball; he would play as an outfielder in the American Association for two seasons...
- Buster OlneyBuster OlneyRobert Stanbury "Buster" Olney III is a columnist for ESPN: The Magazine, ESPN.com, and covered the New York Giants and New York Yankees for The New York Times. He is also a regular analyst for the ESPN's Baseball Tonight...
- Darcy OlsenDarcy A. OlsenDarcy A. Olsen is the president and chief executive officer of the Goldwater Institute. Phoenix-based media have cited Olsen’s leadership, which has resulted in major policy reforms including private school scholarships for foster children, more transparency in government and legal cases...
- Ebenezer J. OrmsbeeEbenezer J. OrmsbeeEbenezer Jolls Ormsbee was a teacher, a lawyer, a U.S. politician of the Republican Party, and an American Civil War veteran.-Early life:Ormsbee was born in Shoreham, Vermont, the son of John Mason and Polly Ormsbee...
- Elisha OtisElisha OtisElisha Graves Otis was an American industrialist, founder of the Otis Elevator Company, and inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails. He worked on this device while living in Yonkers, New York in 1852, and had a finished product in...
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- Grace PaleyGrace PaleyGrace Paley was an American-Jewish short story writer, poet, and political activist.-Biography:Grace Paley was born in the Bronx to Isaac and Manya Ridnyik Goodside, who anglicized the family name from Gutseit on immigrating from Ukraine. Her father was a doctor. The family spoke Russian and...
- Alden PartridgeAlden PartridgeAlden Partridge, was an American author, legislator, officer, surveyor, an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and a controversial pioneer in U.S...
- Katherine PatersonKatherine PatersonKatherine Paterson is an American author of children's novels. She wrote Bridge to Terabithia and has received several of the major international awards for children's literature.- Early life:...
- Moses PendletonMoses PendletonMoses Pendleton is a choreographer, dancer and the artistic director of MOMIX. MOMIX is a dance company that he formed in 1981 as an offshoot of the ground-breaking Pilobolus, which he had co-founded while a senior at Dartmouth College in 1971. He remained a full-time member with the company...
, choreographer - Elizabeth PerkinsElizabeth PerkinsElizabeth Ann Perkins is an American actress. Her film roles have included Big, The Flintstones, Miracle on 34th Street, About Last Night..., and Avalon...
, actress - Joe PerryJoe Perry (musician)Anthony Joseph "Joe" Perry is the lead guitarist, backing and occasional lead vocalist, and contributing songwriter for the rock band Aerosmith. He is influenced by many rock artists especially The Rolling Stones and The Beatles...
, Lead guitarist for AerosmithAerosmithAerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many... - Tom PetersTom PetersThomas J. "Tom" Peters is an American writer on business management practices, best-known for In Search of Excellence .-Life and career:Peters was born in Baltimore, Maryland...
- Charles E. PhelpsCharles E. PhelpsCharles Edward Phelps was a colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War, later received a brevet as a brigadier general of volunteers, served as a city councilman, a U.S. Congressman from the third district of Maryland, and received the Medal of Honor...
- John W. PhelpsJohn W. PhelpsJohn Wolcott Phelps , was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, an author, an ardent abolitionist and presidential candidate.-Soldier and abolitionist:...
- William Lamb PicknellWilliam Lamb PicknellWilliam Lamb Picknell was a United States painter of landscapes, coastal views, and figure genres, known for his rapid painting style...
, nineteenth century painter, member of the National Academy of DesignNational Academy of DesignThe National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, founded in New York City as the National Academy of Design – known simply as the "National Academy" – is an honorary association of American artists founded in 1825 by Samuel F. B. Morse, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E... - Samuel E. PingreeSamuel E. PingreeSamuel Everett Pingree was a lawyer, a U.S. politician of the Republican Party, and an American Civil War veteran who received the Medal of Honor.-Early life:...
- Russell W. PorterRussell W. PorterRussell Williams Porter was an American artist, engineer, amateur astronomer and explorer. He was a pioneer in the field of “cutaway illustration" and is sometimes referred to as the "founder" or one of the "founders" of amateur telescope making."-Biography:Russell W...
- Grace PotterGrace Potter and the NocturnalsGrace Potter and the Nocturnals is an American rock band from Waitsfield, Vermont.-Career:Grace Potter and the Nocturnals' lead vocalist is multi-instrumentalist Grace Potter, who attended St. Lawrence University for two years before pursuing music professionally...
, Front runner Grace Potter of the rock band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Ross PowersRoss PowersRoss Powers , is an American world champion halfpipe snowboarder from South Londonderry, Vermont. Though he originally rode at Stratton Mountain, Vermont, his home mountain is now Okemo, VT. Ross helps with the design of the Superpipe and also helped design the RossCross Family Terrain Park. Ross...
, Olympic gold medal winner, snowboarding, 2002 - Silas G. PrattSilas G. PrattSilas Gamaliel Pratt was an American composer. A native of Addison, Vermont, he worked in Chicago, New York, and Pittsburgh, in addition to studies and travels in Germany. Between 1868 and 1871, he studied under Theodor Kullak, among others, but he suffered a wrist injury during a lesson, which...
- Cyrus PringleCyrus PringleCyrus Guernsey Pringle was an American botanist who spent a career of 35 years cataloguing the plants of North America, especially Mexico...
- Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, lived in Vermont for more than 30 years
- Harvey PutnamHarvey PutnamHarvey Putnam was a United States House of Representative from New York. Born in Brattleboro, Vermont, he attended the common schools, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1816 and commenced practice in Attica, New York in 1817...
- Patty SheehanPatty SheehanPatty Sheehan is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1980 and won six major championships and 35 LPGA Tour events in all. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame....
,Professional Golfer, which has won 6 major championships and 35 tour victories
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- Thomas E. G. RansomThomas E. G. RansomThomas Edwin Greenfield Ransom was a surveyor, civil engineer, real estate speculator, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
- Edward Rawson
- Edmund Rice, politician. Born in Waitsfield.
- Henry Mower Rice
- Linda RichardsLinda RichardsLinda Richards was the first professionally trained American nurse. She established nursing training programs in the United States and Japan, and created the first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients.-Early life:...
, America's first trained nurse, attended St. Johnsbury Academy - Mark RichardsMark Richards (politician)Mark Richards was a Vermont politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives.Born in Waterbury, Connecticut on July 15, 1760, Richards received limited schooling. He enlisted during the American Revolutionary War in 1776 and settled in Boston after the Revolution...
- Israel B. RichardsonIsrael B. RichardsonIsrael Bush Richardson was a United States Army officer during the Mexican-American War and American Civil War, where he was a major general in the Union Army...
- Benjamin S. RobertsBenjamin S. RobertsBenjamin Stone Roberts was an American lawyer, civil engineer, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Edward D. RobieEdward D. RobieEdward Dunham Robie , was a naval engineer, inventor, and Union naval officer during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:Robie was born in Burlington, Vermont, the son of Jacob and Louisa Robie...
- 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...
- Theodore RobinsonTheodore RobinsonTheodore Robinson was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes. He was one of the first American artists to take up impressionism in the late 1880s, visiting Giverny and developing a close friendship with Claude Monet...
- Norman RockwellNorman RockwellNorman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening...
lived in Arlington - David McGregor RogersDavid McGregor RogersDavid McGregor Rogers was a farmer and Member of the 2nd Parliament of Upper Canada.He was born in Londonderry, Vermont in 1772 the 3rd son and 2nd David born to Capt. James Rogers and Margaret McGregor, the first David died at age 4 in 1766. Named after his great grandfather Rev...
- Brian Rooney
- Thomas RowleyThomas Rowley (poet)Thomas Rowley was a famous poet of Vermont, known both as the spokesman for Ethan Allen and dubbed “The Bard of the Green Mountains.” During his lifetime and before the American Revolution, his poetry gained the reputation with the catchphrase of "Setting the Hills on Fire."-Biography:Thomas...
- Homer Elihu RoyceHomer Elihu RoyceHomer Elihu Royce was an American lawyer, politician and jurist.-Early life:Royce was born in Berkshire, Vermont, the son of Elihu Marvin and Sophronia Royce. He was educated in the district schools and at academies in St. Albans and Enosburgh. He studied law with Thomas Childs, was admitted to...
- Carl RugglesCarl RugglesCharles "Carl" Sprague Ruggles was an American composer of the American Five group. He wrote finely crafted pieces using "dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music...
- Rudolph RuzickaRudolph RuzickaRudolph Ruzicka prominent Czech-born American wood engraver, etcher, illustrator, typeface designer, and book designer. Ruzicka designed typefaces and wood engraving illustrations for Daniel Berkeley Updike's Merrymount Press, and was a designer for, and consultant to, the Mergenthaler Linotype...
, typeface designer and engraver
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- Alvah SabinAlvah SabinAlvah Sabin was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Georgia, Vermont. He attended the common schools and Burlington College. He was also a member of the Vermont militia and served during the War of 1812...
- Truman Henry SaffordTruman Henry SaffordTruman Henry Safford was an American calculating prodigy. In later life he was an observatory director.He was born in Royalton, Vermont, USA on 6 January, 1836. At an early age he attracted public attention by his remarkable calculation powers. At the age of nine, a local priest asked him to...
- Matt SalingerMatt SalingerMatthew Salinger is an American actor. He is the son of author J. D. Salinger and psychologist Claire Douglas.-Career:...
- Philetus SawyerPhiletus SawyerPhiletus Sawyer was an American politician of the Republican Party who represented Wisconsin in both houses of Congress. Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is named for him....
- Eric SchaefferEric SchaefferEric Schaeffer is an American actor, writer and director.-Early life and education:He was born in New York City, New York....
, film writer, director, and actor. - Helen Bonchek SchneyerHelen Bonchek SchneyerHelen Bonchek Schneyer was an American folk musician. She was raised Jewish in New York City. While a student at Columbia University, she was introduced to American folk music. She also sang Baptist spirituals.Over a sixty year career, Schneyer worked with such influential artists as Pete Seeger...
- Stephen Alonzo SchoffStephen Alonzo SchoffStephen Alonzo Schoff was an American engraver and etcher in New York and Boston.-Biography:Stephen Alonzo Schoff was born in Danville, Vermont, January 16, 1818, and grew up in Newburyport, Massachusetts...
- Peter SchumannPeter SchumannPeter Schumann is the founder and director of the Bread & Puppet Theater. Born in Silesia, he was a sculptor and dancer in Germany before moving to the United States in 1961. In 1963 he founded Bread & Puppet in New York City, and in 1970 moved to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, eventually...
, founder and director of Bread and Puppet TheaterBread and Puppet TheaterThe Bread and Puppet Theater is a politically radical puppet theater, active since the 1960s, currently based in Glover, Vermont... - Arthur E. ScottArthur E. ScottArthur E. "Scotty" Scott was the United States Senate's first photo-historian. He was a professional photographer in Washington, D.C. from 1934 to 1976.-Early life and career:...
- Julian ScottJulian ScottJulian A. Scott , he was born in Johnson, Vermont, and served as a Union Army drummer during the American Civil War where he received America's highest military decoration the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Lee's Mills; he was also an American painter and Civil War...
, nineteenth century painter and muralist - Thomas O. SeaverThomas O. SeaverThomas Orville Seaver rose to the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War and received the Medal of Honor, America's highest military decoration, for his actions at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House...
- Rudolf SerkinRudolf SerkinRudolf Serkin , was a Bohemian-born pianist.-Life and early career:Serkin was born in Eger, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire to a Russian-Jewish family....
- Truman SeymourTruman SeymourTruman Seymour was an a career soldier and an accomplished painter. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of major general. He commanded the Union troops at the Battle of Olustee, the largest Civil War battle fought in Florida.-Early life and career:Seymour...
- L. M. ShawL. M. ShawLeslie Mortier Shaw was an American businessman, lawyer and politician.-Biography:Born in Morristown, Vermont, he became a lawyer and banker, and in 1898 became the 17th Governor of Iowa, serving until 1902. He then became United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Theodore Roosevelt...
- Patty SheehanPatty SheehanPatty Sheehan is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1980 and won six major championships and 35 LPGA Tour events in all. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame....
, professional golfer - Charles H. SheldonCharles H. SheldonCharles Henry Sheldon was the second Governor of South Dakota.-Biography:Charles Henry Sheldon was born in Lamoille County, Vermont, the third of four children of Gresham and Mary Sheldon. After the death of his father in 1844, Sheldon worked as a farm laborer from the ages of twelve to...
- George Dallas ShermanGeorge Dallas ShermanGeorge Dallas Sherman was born in Richmond, Vermont on August 23, 1844 to Hathaway and Relief Sherman. In 1858, at the age of 14, he joined the Richmond Cornet Band and soon became its leader. He left this band in 1864 to join the 9th Vermont Infantry as a musician during the American Civil War....
- Alexander O. SmithAlexander O. SmithAlexander O. Smith is a professional English/Japanese translator and author. While his output covers many areas such as adaptation of Japanese novels, manga, song lyrics, anime scripts and various academic works, he is best known for his software localizations of Japanese video games...
- "Dr. Bob" SmithBob Smith (doctor)Robert Holbrook Smith was an American physician and surgeon who co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous with Bill Wilson, more commonly known as Bill W. He was also known as Dr. Bob. He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where he was raised, to Susan A. Holbrook and Walter Perrin Smith...
, co-founder of Alcoholics AnonymousAlcoholics AnonymousAlcoholics Anonymous is an international mutual aid movement which says its "primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety." Now claiming more than 2 million members, AA was founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio... - Charles Plympton SmithCharles Plympton SmithCharles Plympton Smith is a banker and Republican politician from the U.S. state of Vermont who served in the Vermont House of Representatives. The son of banker and state senator Frederick Plympton Smith, he received a B.A...
- 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:...
- Hyrum SmithHyrum SmithHyrum Smith was an American religious leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement. He was the older brother of the movement's founder, Joseph Smith, Jr....
- J. Gregory SmithJ. Gregory SmithJohn Gregory Smith , railroad tycoon, politician, war-time governor of VermontSmith was born in St. Albans, Vermont, son of John and Maria Smith. The elder Smith was a pioneer railroad builder in Vermont, and a leading lawyer and public man of his generation...
- John Butler SmithJohn Butler SmithJohn Butler Smith was an American manufacturer and Republican politician from Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Born in 1838 in Saxtons River, Vermont, he served New Hampshire as a member of the Governor's Council, and as Governor. Smith Memorial Congregational Church, U.C.C in the town is named for...
- Joseph Smith, Sr.Joseph Smith, Sr.Joseph Smith, Sr. was the father of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Joseph Sr. was also one of the Eight Witnesses of the Book of Mormon, which Mormons believe was translated by Joseph Jr. from the Golden Plates. In 1833 Joseph Sr...
, father of Joseph Smith, Jr. - Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805–1844); founder of the Latter Day Saint movementLatter Day Saint movementThe Latter Day Saint movement is a group of independent churches tracing their origin to a Christian primitivist movement founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. in the late 1820s. Collectively, these churches have over 14 million members...
; born in SharonSharon, VermontSharon is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. It had a population of 1,411 at the 2000 census. The town is home to The Sharon Academy.-History:... - Samuel Harrison Smith
- William Smith
- William Farrar SmithWilliam Farrar SmithWilliam Farrar Smith , was a civil engineer, a member of the New York City police commission, and Union general in the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was aRussian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his often-suppressed writings, he helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of...
, Russian author, historian, and 1970 recipient of Nobel Prize for Literature, lived in Vermont to avoid persecution in RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, returned to Russia after PerestroikaPerestroikaPerestroika was a political movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during 1980s, widely associated with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev... - Ignat SolzhenitsynIgnat SolzhenitsynIgnat Aleksandrovich Solzhenitsyn is a Russian-American conductor and pianist who is the conductor laureate of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the principal guest conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.-Career:...
, conductor and pianist - Ronald I. SpiersRonald I. SpiersRonald Ian “Ron” Spiers was a former career diplomat and United States Ambassador.-Early life and military career:Spiers was born in Orange, New Jersey July 9, 1925 but grew up in Peru, London, Paris and Brussels. During World War II, he served as an Ensign in the United States Navy in the war's...
- Martin St. LouisMartin St. LouisMartin St. Louis is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger and alternate captain currently playing for the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
, NHL hockey player - Michael A. StackpoleMichael A. StackpoleMichael A. Stackpole is a science fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and Battletech books. He was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, but raised in Vermont...
, Science Fiction/Fantasy author - Henry Alexander StaffordHeinie StaffordHenry Alexander "Heinie" Stafford was an American Major League Baseball player who played a single game for the New York Giants in .-Tufts University :...
, baseball player for the New York GiantsNew York GiantsThe New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League... - Robert StaffordRobert StaffordRobert Theodore Stafford was an American politician from Vermont. In his lengthy career, he served as the 71st Governor of Vermont, a United States Representative, and a U.S. Senator...
, namesake of the Stafford LoanStafford loanA Stafford Loan is a student loan offered to eligible students enrolled in accredited American institutions of higher education to help finance their education... - Timothy SteeleTimothy SteeleTimothy Steele is an American poet and academic. Born in Burlington, Vermont, in 1948, he is a professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles. Some of Steele's early verse appeared in X. J. Kennedy's Counter/Measures in the early seventies. He went on to become a figure in the...
- Ralph SteinerRalph SteinerRalph Steiner was an American photographer, pioneer documentarian and a key figure among avant-garde filmmakers in the 1930s.-Biography:...
- Rockwell StephensRockwell StephensRockwell Rittenhouse Stephens was a journalist, author and ski instructor. He was an early member of the National Ski Patrol, joining in 1938, receiving member No...
- Nettie StevensNettie StevensNettie Maria Stevens was an early American geneticist. She and Edmund Beecher Wilson were the first researchers to describe the chromosomal basis of sex....
- Thaddeus StevensThaddeus StevensThaddeus Stevens , of Pennsylvania, was a Republican leader and one of the most powerful members of the United States House of Representatives...
- Charles B. StoughtonCharles B. StoughtonCharles Bradley Stoughton was an officer and regimental commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
- Edwin H. StoughtonEdwin H. StoughtonEdwin Henry Stoughton , was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a lawyer.-Early life:Stoughton was born in Chester, Vermont, the son of Henry Evander and Laura Stoughton....
- F. Stewart StranahanF. Stewart StranahanFarrand Stewart Stranahan was an American Civil War veteran, a railroad executive, a banker, and a U.S. politician of the Republican Party.-Early life:...
- George Crockett StrongGeorge Crockett StrongGeorge Crockett Strong was a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War.-Biography:Strong was born in Stockbridge, Vermont, and attended Williston Seminary but left after 1851. He attended Union College, but left for the U.S. Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1857...
- William Barstow Strong
- Willis SweetWillis SweetWillis Sweet was the first United States Representative from Idaho. Sweet served as a Republican in the House from 1890 to 1895, representing the state at-large....
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- Horace Austin Warner TaborHorace Austin Warner TaborHorace Austin Warner Tabor , also known as The Bonanza King of Leadville, was an American prospector, businessman, and politician. His life is the subject of Douglas Moore's opera, The Ballad of Baby Doe....
, one of the "Silver Kings" - Alphonso TaftAlphonso TaftAlphonso Taft was the Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant and the founder of an American political dynasty. He was the father of U.S...
- Cherilee TaylorCherilee TaylorCherilee Taylor is a TV and movie actress who has been a series regular on the Canadian soap opera Paradise Falls. She moved to Toronto, Ontario, as a young child....
- Louise TaylorLouise TaylorLouise Taylor is an American folk singer-songwriter from Brattleboro, Vermont. An older brother gave her a guitar when she was twelve and at age 15 she left home, hitchhiking and busking her way around the United States...
- Birdie TebbettsBirdie TebbettsGeorge Robert "Birdie" Tebbetts was an American professional baseball player, manager, scout and front office executive. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians from to...
, Former All-Star MLB Catcher and Manager - Hannah TeterHannah TeterHannah Teter is an American snowboarder from Belmont, Vermont. She is an Olympic champion, having won the gold medal in halfpipe at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy. She also won bronze at the 2005 FIS World Championships at Whistler, British Columbia, and has six World Cup victories...
- Elswyth ThaneElswyth ThaneHelen Elswyth Thane Ricker Beebe was an American romance novelist. Born in Burlington, Iowa, she was the daughter of a local teacher and high school principal." The family moved to New York City in 1918, and "Helen Ricker" changed her name to "Elswyth Thane"...
- Harry Bates ThayerHarry Bates ThayerHarry Bates Thayer , U.S. was an electrical and telephone businessman. He designed an electrical punched card machine in 1887 at Dartmouth College....
- John Martin Thomas
- Stephen ThomasStephen ThomasStephen Thomas , manufacturer, politician, jurist, and Union Army officer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for gallantry.-Early life:...
- Tim ThomasTim Thomas (ice hockey)Timothy James Thomas, Jr. is an American professional ice hockey goaltender with the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League . Raised in Davison, MI, Thomas played college hockey for the University of Vermont for four years, from 1993–1997, during which he was drafted 217th overall by the...
, professional hockey player who played for UVM - Dorothy ThompsonDorothy ThompsonDorothy Thompson was an American journalist and radio broadcaster, who in 1939 was recognized by Time magazine as the second most influential women in America next to Eleanor Roosevelt...
- Ernest Thompson
- John Mellen Thurston
- George TookerGeorge TookerGeorge Clair Tooker, Jr. was a figurative painter whose works are associated with the Magic realism and Social realism movements...
, painter, lives in Hartland. - Andrew TracyAndrew TracyAndrew Tracy was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Hartford, Vermont. He attended Royalton and Randolph Academies, and also Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire for two years. He taught school, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in...
- Joseph TracyJoseph TracyJoseph Tracy was a Protestant Christian minister, newspaper editor, historian and leading figure in the American Colonization Society of the early to mid-19th century. He is noted as a typical figure of the New England Renaissance....
- Maria von TrappMaria von TrappMaria Augusta von Trapp , also known as Baroness Maria von Trapp, was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers...
- Tasha Tudor
- KT TunstallKT TunstallKate Victoria "KT" Tunstall is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist from St Andrews, Scotland. She broke into the public eye with a 2004 live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later... with Jools Holland...
, musician - Fred TuttleFred TuttleFrederick Herman "Fred" Tuttle was an American dairy farmer, film actor and one-time candidate for the U.S. Senate from the state of Vermont. He was born in Tunbridge, Vermont, and lived there all his life, except for his service in the United States Army during World War II.Tuttle left high...
, senatorial candidate and star of the movie, Man with a PlanMan with a PlanMan With A Plan was an independently produced docudrama released in 1996, starring dairy farmer and actor Fred Tuttle. Since its release, it has remained a local cult classic in Vermont.- External links :* *... - Alexander TwilightAlexander TwilightAlexander Lucius Twilight , born free in Vermont, was the first black person known to have earned a bachelor's degree from an American college or university upon graduating Middlebury College in 1823. An educator, minister and politician, he was licensed as a Congregational preacher, and worked in...
, first African American to receive a college degree, and to be elected to public office in the United States - Royall TylerRoyall TylerRoyall Tyler , American jurist and playwright who wrote The Contrast in 1787 and published The Algerine Captive in 1797. He wrote several legal tracts, six plays, a musical drama, two long poems, a semifictional travel narrative, The Yankey in London , and essays...
, one of the earliest American playwrights. - Dan TyminskiDan TyminskiDaniel John "Dan" Tyminski is a bluegrass composer, vocalist, and instrumentalist. He is a member of the band Alison Krauss and Union Station and has released two solo albums, Carry Me Across the Mountain , on the Doobie Shea Records label, and Wheels , on the Rounder Records label.He is best...
, sang vocals for George ClooneyGeorge ClooneyGeorge Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award...
in film O Brother, Where Art Thou?O Brother, Where Art Thou?O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 comedy film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning. Set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression, the film's story is a modern satire loosely...
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- Rudy ValléeRudy ValléeRudy Vallée was an American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer.-Early life:Born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse and Catherine Lynch Vallée...
, singer. Born in Holland - James Van NessJames Van NessJames Van Ness was the seventh mayor of San Francisco, USA from 1855 to 1856.He was the son of Dutch-American Vermont Governor Cornelius Van Ness and father-in-law of future San Francisco mayor Frank McCoppin. Prior to being mayor, he had been a lawyer in the U.S. South and then a San Francisco...
- Stewart Van VlietStewart Van VlietStewart Leonard Van Vliet , was a United States Army officer who fought on the side of the Union during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- William Freeman VilasWilliam Freeman VilasWilliam Freeman Vilas was a member of the Democratic Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1891 to 1897. He was a prominent Bourbon Democrat....
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- M. Emmet WalshM. Emmet WalshMichael Emmet Walsh is an American actor who has appeared in over 100 film and television productions.-Life and career:Walsh was born in Ogdensburg, New York, the son of Agnes Kathrine and Harry Maurice Walsh, Sr., a customs agent...
, actor - James M. WarnerJames M. WarnerJames Meech Warner was a New England manufacturer and a brevet brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
, General in the Union Army - Seth WarnerSeth WarnerSeth Warner was born in Roxbury, Connecticut. In 1763, he removed with his father to Bennington in what was then known as the New Hampshire Grants. He established there as a huntsman....
- Cephas WashburnCephas WashburnCephas Washburn was a noted Christian missionary and educator who worked with the Cherokee of northwest Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. He is often referred to as "The Apostle to the Cherokees" and "Builder of Presbyterianism in Arkansas"....
- Ebenezer WashburnEbenezer WashburnSgt. Ebenezer Washburn, Esq., J.P., U.E. was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts in 1756 and settled on a farm in what is now Rutland, Vermont. In 1777, he joined Major-General John Burgoyne's troops...
- Peter T. WashburnPeter T. WashburnPeter Thacher Washburn was a lawyer, politician and Adjutant and Inspector General of the State of Vermont during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
- Charles W. WatermanCharles W. WatermanCharles Winfield Waterman was a United States Senator from Colorado. Born in Waitsfield, Washington County, Vermont, he attended the rural schools and St. Johnsbury Academy. He graduated from the University of Vermont at Burlington in 1885, and taught school in Connecticut and also at Fort Dodge,...
- Sterry R. WatermanSterry R. WatermanSterry Robinson Waterman was a lawyer and federal judge from Vermont.Waterman graduated Dartmouth College and "read law" before being admitted to practice. He practiced law in St. Johnsbury, Vermont for many years and also served as general counsel of the Vermont Unemployment Compensation...
Andrew Wheating
Andrew "Andy" Wheating is an American middle-distance track athlete. Wheating competed for the United States in the men's 800 m at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. He is a professional runner for Nike.-Personal:...
, Middle distance track athlete for the University of Oregon and was a 2008 member of the U.S. Olympic team.
Hilton Wick
Hilton Wick is best known as a member of the Vermont State Senate for a term starting in 1988. He also stood in the Republican Party primaries in the 1984 gubernatorial election losing to John Easton, Jr.....
Jody Williams
Jody Williams is an American teacher and aid worker who received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the campaign she worked for, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines...
, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, for efforts to clear away and ban anti-personnel mines
Bill W.
William Griffith Wilson , also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous , an international mutual aid fellowship with over two million members belonging to 100,800 groups of alcoholics helping other alcoholics achieve and maintain sobriety...
(Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous)
James Wilson (globe maker)
James Wilson was the first maker of globes in the USA.Born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, Wilson farmed with his father and trained as a blacksmith, though had little other formal education. He moved to Bradford, Vermont in 1796 and became interested in cartography and taught himself map making...
Steve Wisniewski
Steve Wisniewski nicknamed "The Wiz" is a former Offensive Lineman who played 13 seasons with the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders and is now an assistant offensive line coach for the Oakland Raiders. He was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the second round of the 1989 NFL Draft. His rights were traded...
George Woodard
George Woodard is an actor, musician, storyteller and dairy farmer from Vermont. He discovered acting in college and moved to Hollywood, California for six years until the pending sale of the family farm brought him home. He took over the dairy and maple syrup business from his elderly father and...
Urban A. Woodbury
Urban Andrain Woodbury was an American Civil War veteran, an entrepreneur and a U.S. politician of the Republican Party. Served as the 45th governor of Vermont.-Prewar life:...
Edwin T. Woodward
Edwin T. Woodward , was a naval officer during and after the American Civil War.-Civil War:Woodward was born in Castleton, Vermont, the son of Edwin C. and Charlotte Woodward. He received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy and began his studies there on November 21, 1859...
Dean Conant Worcester
Dean Conant Worcester, D.Sc., F.R.G.S. was an American zoologist, public official, and authority on the Philippines, born at Thetford, Vermont, and educated at the University of Michigan ....
Samuel Worcester
Samuel Austin Worcester , was a missionary to the Cherokee, translator of the Bible, printer and defender of the Cherokee's sovereignty. He was a party in Worcester v...
Jay Wright (poet)
Jay Wright is an African-American poet, playwright, and essayist. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he currently lives in Bradford, Vermont. Although his work is not as widely known as other American poets of his generation, it has received considerable critical acclaim...
Silas Wright
Silas Wright, Jr. was an American Democratic politician. Wright was born in Amherst, Massachusetts and moved with his father to Weybridge, Vermont in 1796. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1815 and moved to Sandy Hill, New York, the next year, where he studied law, being admitted to the bar...
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- Brigham YoungBrigham YoungBrigham Young was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877, he founded Salt Lake City, and he served as the first governor of the Utah...
(1801–1877); second prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; born in WhitinghamWhitingham, VermontWhitingham is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The town was named for Nathan Whiting, a landholder. The population was 1,298 at the 2000 census. Whitingham is the birthplace of Brigham Young, the second President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and founder of... - Thomas YamamotoThomas YamamotoThomas Yamamoto was an American artist.Born in Alameda, California, Thomas Yamamoto majored in art at UC Berkeley. His instructors included John Haley and Erle Loran, who worked with Hans Hoffman. To some degree they influenced his future work.In the 1930s, Tom was active in the art scene of the...
, artist, lived and died in Plainfield
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- Daphne ZunigaDaphne ZunigaDaphne Eurydice Zuniga is an American actress known for her roles as Jo Reynolds on the Fox primetime soap Melrose Place, as Victoria Davis on The CW teen drama One Tree Hill and as Princess Vespa in Spaceballs.-Early life:...
- Barry ZorthianBarry ZorthianBarry Zorthian was an American diplomat, most notably press officer for years during the Vietnam war, media executive and lobbyist. "By his own reckoning, Zorthian was the last surviving member of the original cadre of U.S...
, chief spokesperson for the U. S. government in Saigon, Vietnam 1964-1968; once worked in St. Johnsbury