List of people from Brattleboro, Vermont
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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Bands
- Sam Amidon, folk artist
- Tony Barrand, musician
- Saul Bellow, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature[1]
- H. H. Bennett, photographer
- Thomas Chubbuck, engraver and designer of the "Brattleboro stamp"
- Douglas Cox, violin maker
- Ely Culbertson, contract bridge player and promoter[2]
- Doveman (real name Thomas Bartlett), musician
- Jacob Estey, reed organ maker
- Karen Hesse, children's author
- Leavitt Hunt, photography pioneer and attorney
- Richard Morris Hunt, architect
- William Morris Hunt, painter
- Wolf Kahn, painter
- Rudyard Kipling, British author, wrote The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, "Mandalay" and Gunga Din while residing there; later received the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Joanna "JoJo" Levesque, singer and actor
- Ki Longfellow, novelist, playwright and screenwriter
- Leslie William Miller, artistic subject
- Blanche Honegger Moyse, choral conductor
- Marcel Moyse, flute player
- Bing Russell, actor, baseball player and executive, father of Kurt Russell
- Patrick Schneeweis, folk-punk artist
- King Tuff, musician
- Royall Tyler, playwright[3]
- Kit Watkins, musician
- Claude Williamson, musician
- Stu Williamson, musician
Military
- Theodore P. Greene, U.S. Navy rear admiral[4]
- George Bradley Kellogg, adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard, lieutenant colonel of the 1st Vermont Cavalry Regiment in the American Civil War[5]
- John W. Phelps, brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and later a minor party candidate for president[6]
Politics
- Becca Balint, U.S. congresswoman, president pro tempore of the Vermont Senate[7]
- F. Elliott Barber, Jr., Vermont attorney general[8]
- Herbert G. Barber, Vermont attorney general[9]
- John S. Burgess, lieutenant governor of Vermont[10]
- Arthur P. Carpenter, US marshal for Vermont[11]
- Willard H. Chandler, Wisconsin state senator[12]
- Harrie B. Chase, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, brother of Paul A. Chase[13]
- Paul A. Chase, associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, brother of Harrie B. Chase[14][15]
- Ezra Clark, Jr., U.S. congressman[16]
- James Elliot, U.S. congressman[17]
- Clarke C. Fitts, Vermont attorney general[18]
- Levi K. Fuller, 44th governor of Vermont[19]
- Ernest Willard Gibson, U.S. senator[20]
- Ernest W. Gibson Jr., governor of Vermont[21]
- Ernest W. Gibson III, associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court[22]
- Christian Hansen Jr., U.S. marshal for Vermont and member of the Vermont House of Representatives[23]
- Abram A. Hammond, 12th governor of Indiana[24]
- Broughton Harris, Vermont newspaper editor and businessman; one of the Runaway Officials of 1851 as Secretary of the Utah Territory[25]
- Kittredge Haskins, U.S. congressman[26]
- Mark Higley, Vermont state legislator
- Frederick Holbrook, 27th governor of Vermont[27]
- Frank E. Howe, lieutenant governor of Vermont[28]
- George Howe, state's attorney of Windham County, United States attorney for the District of Vermont, member of the Vermont Senate[29]
- Jonathan Hunt, bank president and congressman[30]
- Daniel Kellogg, U.S. attorney for the District of Vermont and justice of the Vermont Supreme Court[31]
- Samuel Knight, chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court[32]
- James Loren Martin, judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont[33]
- John Humphrey Noyes, utopian socialist, free love advocate, and founder of the Oneida Community[34]
- Samuel E. Perkins, justice of the Indiana Supreme Court[35]
- Harvey Putnam, U.S. congressman[36]
- Peter Shumlin, 81st governor of Vermont[37]
- Micah Townshend, secretary of state of Vermont[38]
- Sharon Treat, member of the Maine House of Representatives and Maine Senate[39]
- James Manning Tyler, U.S. congressman[40]
- Eleazer L. Waterman, judge of the Vermont Superior Court[41]
- Miro Weinberger, mayor of Burlington, Vermont[42]
- Hoyt Henry Wheeler, judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont[43]
Philanthropists
- Ronald Read, philanthropist, investor, janitor, and gas station attendant who received media coverage after his death in 2014 due to bequeathing US$1.2 million to Brooks Memorial Library and $4.8 million to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital