# List of people from Brattleboro, Vermont

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

## Artists and entertainers

* Sam Amidon, folk artist
* Tony Barrand, musician
* Saul Bellow, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature
* H. H. Bennett, photographer
* Thomas Chubbuck, engraver and designer of the "Brattleboro stamp"
* Douglas Cox, violin maker
* Ely Culbertson, contract bridge player and promoter
* 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
* Kit Watkins, musician
* Claude Williamson, musician
* Stu Williamson, musician

### Bands

* Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains
* Witch (American band)

## Military

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

## Politics

* Becca Balint, U.S. Congresswoman, President pro tempore of the Vermont Senate
* F. Elliott Barber, Jr., Vermont Attorney General
* Herbert G. Barber, Vermont Attorney General
* John S. Burgess, lieutenant governor of Vermont
* Arthur P. Carpenter, US Marshal for Vermont
* Willard H. Chandler, Wisconsin state senator
* Harrie B. Chase, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, brother of Paul A. Chase
* Paul A. Chase, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, brother of Harrie B. Chase
* Ezra Clark, Jr., U.S. congressman
* James Elliot, U.S. congressman
* Clarke C. Fitts, Vermont Attorney General
* Levi K. Fuller, 44th Governor of Vermont
* Ernest Willard Gibson, U.S. Senator
* Ernest W. Gibson Jr., Governor of Vermont
* Ernest W. Gibson III, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
* Abram A. Hammond, 12th Governor of Indiana
* Broughton Harris, Vermont newspaper editor and businessman; one of the Runaway Officials of 1851 as Secretary of the Utah Territory
* Christian Hansen Jr., U.S. Marshal for Vermont and member of the Vermont House of Representatives
* Kittredge Haskins, U.S. congressman
* Mark Higley, Vermont state legislator
* Frederick Holbrook, 27th Governor of Vermont
* Frank E. Howe, lieutenant governor of Vermont
* George Howe, State's Attorney of Windham County, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, member of the Vermont Senate
* Jonathan Hunt, bank president and congressman
* Daniel Kellogg, U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont and Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
* Samuel Knight, chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
* James Loren Martin, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont
* John Humphrey Noyes, utopian socialist, free love advocate, and founder of the Oneida Community
* Samuel E. Perkins, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
* Harvey Putnam, U.S. congressman
* Peter Shumlin, 81st Governor of Vermont
* Micah Townshend, Secretary of State of Vermont
* Sharon Treat, member of the Maine House of Representatives and Maine Senate
* James Manning Tyler, U.S. congressman
* Eleazer L. Waterman, Judge of the Vermont Superior Court
* Miro Weinberger, mayor of Burlington, Vermont
* Hoyt Henry Wheeler, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont

## Philanthropist

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

## Professionals

* Emma Bailey, first American woman auctioneer
* Walter J. Bigelow, editor at the Brattleboro Reformer, former mayor of Burlington, Vermont
* Dr. Charles Chapin, U.S. Marshal for Vermont
* Alonzo Church, college president
* William Bullock Clark, geologist
* Donald J. Cram, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, grew up in Brattleboro
* Charles N. Davenport, attorney, Democratic Party leader, founder of the Brattleboro Reformer
* James Fisk, financier
* Charles Christopher Frost, botanist
* Edwin Brant Frost, astronomer
* Ida May Fuller, first recipient of Social Security check
* John Holbrook, publisher and businessman
* Richard Morris Hunt, architect
* Leif K-Brooks, computer programmer and web designer
* William Rutherford Mead, architect
* James L. Oakes, judge
* Herbert Reiner Jr., diplomat
* Samuel Stearns, astronomer and doctor
* William Willard, school founder
* Jody Williams, teacher, aid worker, anti-land mines activist, and Nobel laureate

## Sports

* Brad Baker, minor league baseball player
* Chris Duffy, center fielder and first baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Brewers, and Philadelphia Phillies
* James Galanes, Olympic cross-country skier
* Ernie Johnson, pitcher for the Boston Braves/Milwaukee Braves and Baltimore Orioles
* Bill Koch, cross-country skier, Olympic silver medalist, World championship bronze medalist, World cup winner
* Joe Shield, quarterback for the Green Bay Packers
* George Schildmiller, college baseball, basketball, and football player and college football coach