# List of University of Vermont people

The following is a list of individuals associated with the University of Vermont through attending as a student.

## Notable alumni
### Academia

* Henry Vernon Atherton, professor of Animal Science at the University of Vermont; pioneer in the dairy industry
* Guy W. Bailey, Secretary of State of Vermont and president of the University of Vermont
* Cynthia Barnhart, Class of 1981, provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2022
* Frank M. Bryan, professor of Political Science
* Mary Cushman, Class of 1985, Professor of Medicine and Pathology in the Robert Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont
* John Dewey, Class of 1879, pragmatist philosopher and educator
* Berta Geller, Ed.D 1992, and research professor emeritus, University of Vermont College of Medicine

### Activism

* Andrew Harris, abolitionist and minister; first African American to graduate from the University of Vermont
* Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize laureate for leading international action to ban land mines

### Arts

* Ben Affleck, actor and Academy Award-winning filmmaker (transferred to Occidental College)
* Trey Anastasio, guitarist in the band Phish; (transferred to Goddard College)
* Dierks Bentley, country music artist (attended UVM one year; graduated from Vanderbilt University)
* Mark Boone Junior, aka Mark Heidrich, actor; best known for roles in Sons of Anarchy, Batman Begins, and Memento
* Brian Camelio, Grammy Award-winning producer, pioneer of crowdfunding, founder of ArtistShare
* Jon Fishman, drummer in the band Phish
* David Franzoni, screenwriter of Gladiator, winner of 2001 Academy Award for Best Picture
* Mike Gordon, bassist in the band Phish
* Amr Kashmiri, Pakistani actor and musician
* Ella Seaver Owen (1852–1910), artist, teacher
* Theodora Agnes Peck, novelist and poet
* Susan Powers, folk artist
* E. Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain
* Barbara Rachko, artist and author
* Jessica Seinfeld, author and cook
* Gail Sheehy, author
* Kerr Smith, actor best known for playing Jack McPhee on the television drama Dawson's Creek
* Michael A. Stackpole, science fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and BattleTech books
* Jay Stevens, author
* Rupert von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers

### Business

* Frederick H. Billings, lawyer and financier; president of the Northern Pacific Railway 1879–1881
* Daniel Burke, former president of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
* Julius Yemans Dewey, physician, founder of the National Life Insurance Company; father of the only admiral of the Navy in U.S. history, George Dewey
* Diane Greene, technology entrepreneur and executive; former co-founder and CEO of VMware, board director of Google, and CEO of Google Cloud
* Brian Halligan, CEO and co-founder of HubSpot and author
* Dr. H. Nelson Jackson; businessman, physician, and senior officer of the Organized Reserves who carried out the first coast-to-coast automobile trip in the U.S.; World War I recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross and a national vice-commander of the American Legion, 1921–1922
* William F. Ruprecht, president and CEO, Sotheby's
* Richard Sands, billionaire businessman and chairperson of Constellation Brands

### Government and politics

* Frederick C. Aldrich, politician, member of New Hampshire House of Representatives
* Consuelo Northrup Bailey, first woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, serve as Speaker of the Vermont House, and be elected a state lieutenant governor (1955–1959); vice chair of the Republican National Committee 1952–1956
* Christopher A. Bray, member of the Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate
* Sarah E. Buxton (2000), member of Vermont House of Representatives, former member of UVM Board of Trustees
* Pedro Albizu Campos (1912–1913), Puerto Rican political leader, orator, lawyer and humanist; was either president or honorary president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party from 1930 until his death in 1965
* Matthew Choate 1992, Vermont state senator 2008–2010
* Jacob Collamer, Class of 1810; member of United States House of Representatives and United States Senate; United States Postmaster General; associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
* Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States 1923–1929
* Jedd Philo Clark Cottrill, Class of 1852, member of Wisconsin State Senate
* Paul Dame, chair of the Vermont Republican party
* Louis F. Dow, mayor of Burlington, Vermont, 1935–1939
* Brian Dubie, Vermont's 85th lieutenant governor, 2003–2011
* Molly Gray, lieutenant governor of Vermont
* Aaron H. Grout, Vermont Secretary of State
* Isaac R. Harrington, mayor of Buffalo, New York
* Donly C. Hawley, mayor of Burlington, Vermont
* Hollister Jackson, lieutenant governor of Vermont, died in the Great Flood of 1927
* Madeleine Kunin, former governor of Vermont; former U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland; former Deputy Secretary of Education, U.S. Dept. of Education
* James O'Halloran, Canadian politician
* John Eugene Osborne, third governor of Wyoming, U.S. representative from Wyoming
* Hamilton S. Peck, mayor of Burlington, state legislator, city court judge
* H. Henry Powers, U.S. congressman
* Theodore Prentiss, member of Wisconsin State Assembly
* Frederick M. Reed, Vermont Attorney General
* Robert Roberts, mayor of Burlington, Vermont
* Phil Scott, governor of Vermont
* George R. Vincent, physician and Greenback Party politician in Wisconsin
* Charles W. Waterman, US senator from Colorado, donated funds for construction of UVM's Waterman Building, UVM trustee 1921–1925, presented honorary degree of LL.D. in 1922
* William Almon Wheeler, vice president of the US, attended for two years (1837-1839), presented honorary degree of LL.D. in 1867, Bachelor of Arts (as in course) in 1876
* Susanne R. Young, Vermont Attorney General beginning in June 2022

### Journalism

* Jack Arute, ABC and ESPN sideline reporter
* Clifford Beal, author and international journalist
* Louisa Hodge, television reporter
* Eric Lipton, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times
* Henry Jarvis Raymond, co-founder of the New York Times and Harper's New Monthly Magazine
* Ryen Russillo, host of The Ryen Russillo Show, former co-host of the ESPN sports talk radio shows SVP & Russillo and Rusillo & Kanell, host of ESPN Radio's College Gameday

### Law and courts

* Asa O. Aldis, associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
* John S. Buttles (1897), associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
* Harold "Duke" Eaton Jr., justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
* Benjamin F. Fifield, lawyer who served as United States Attorney for the District of Vermont 1869–1880
* Seneca Haselton, mayor of Burlington, U.S. Minister to Venezuela, associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
* William C. Hill (M.A., 1968), associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
* Benjamin N. Hulburd, chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
* George M. Powers, chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
* John C. Sherburne, Vermont's first Rhodes Scholar and chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
* Allen R. Sturtevant, associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
* Charles Tetzlaff, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont

### Medicine

* Frederick M. "Skip" Burkle Jr., Robert Larner College of Medicine (1965), humanitarian assistance and disaster response specialist
* M. Ahmad Chaudhry, radiologist, associate university professor

### Military

* Brigadier General Donald H. Balch, United States Air Force general
* Brigadier General Jedediah Hyde Baxter, son of Portus Baxter and Surgeon General of the United States Army
* Brigadier General Reginald W. Buzzell (attended, Class of 1918), National Guard officer whose commands included the 43rd Infantry Division
* Lieutenant General Lewis A. Craparotta, United States Marine Corps
* Major General Steven A. Cray, adjutant general of Vermont, March, 2013 to March 2019
* Major General Thomas E. Drew, adjutant general of Vermont, 2012–2013
* Lieutenant General Michael Dubie, former Deputy Commander of United States Northern Command and former Vermont adjutant general
* Lieutenant General Edward J. O'Neill, commander of First United States Army
* Brigadier General Wayne H. Page, adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard
* Brigadier General James Stevens Peck, Union Army officer in the American Civil War, later served as adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard
* Brigadier General William Smith, Paymaster-General of the United States Army

### Religion

* Fishel Jacobs, martial artist, legal author, speaker
* William True Sleeper, Congregationalist clergyman, educator, poet, and hymn-writer
* Samuel Worcester, missionary to the Cherokees in Georgia and later in Indian Territory during early 19th century

### Science

* Peter F. Barth (M.S. in physics, 1981), neurophysicist, solved generalized closed-Cayley tree Ising model for large neural networks; wrote books on the mind teachings of Tibet
* Duane Graveline, astronaut
* Henry Farnham Perkins, zoologist and eugenicist

### Sports

* Barbara Cochran, Class of 1978; alpine ski racer, won gold medal in slalom at the 1972 Winter Olympics
* Ray Collins, Class of 1909, Boston Red Sox pitcher (1909–15) and later coached for UVM; started the first World Series game at Fenway Park in 1912; indoor track facility named for him and Larry Gardner
* Ross Colton, NHL hockey player for Tampa Bay Lightning; stored Stanley Cup-clinching goal in 2021
* Larry Gardner, Class of 1909; Major League third baseman for 17 years (1908–24) for the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Athletics and Cleveland Indians; played on four World Champions, and later coached and served as the athletic director at UVM; indoor track facility named for him and Ray Collins
* Albert Gutterson, gold medal winner in long jump in 1912 Summer Olympics; hockey facility Gutterson Fieldhouse is named after him
* Billy Kidd, alpine ski racer, 1964 Olympic silver medalist, raced for UVM before joining the U.S. Ski Team
* Jack Lamabe, Major League pitcher for several different teams over seven seasons including the 1967 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals
* Anthony Lamb, basketball player, played for the Golden State Warriors
* John LeClair, member of the 1992–93 Stanley Cup-winning Montreal Canadiens; has three 50 goals seasons in the NHL; former member of the Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins
* Rollie Massimino, Class of 1956, longtime college basketball coach who led the Villanova University men's basketball team to the 1985 NCAA Championship
* Kirk McCaskill, Major League pitcher for the California Angels and Chicago White Sox
* Torrey Mitchell, NHL center for the Buffalo Sabres
* Éric Perrin, NHL forward for the Tampa Bay Lightning when they won the Stanley Cup in 2004
* Martin St. Louis, three-time NCAA All-American winger; four-time NHL All-Star and NHL Hart Memorial Trophy and Lady Byng Trophy winner; won the Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 2003–04 Season
* Zack Scott, general manager of the New York Mets
* Patrick Sharp, NHL hockey player, attended
* Viktor Stålberg, winger for the Nashville Predators, 2009 NCAA All-American, 2013 Stanley Cup champion; attended
* Tim Thomas, goaltender and two-time Vezina Trophy winner for the Boston Bruins; won the Stanley Cup and Conn Smythe Trophy with the Bruins in the 2010–11 season
* Frank Trigilio, American football player

### Other

* H. H. Holmes, serial killer, attended in 1879 and 1880