# List of people from Bennington, Vermont

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

## Artists and entertainers

* Pamela Blair, actress, singer and dancer (Val in the musical A Chorus Line); born in Bennington
* Henry Brant, composer, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music (2002); taught at Bennington College
* Carleton Carpenter, actor (Summer Stock); born in Bennington
* Helen Frankenthaler, painter; attended Bennington College
* Robert Frost, poet, four time Pulitzer Prize winner; lived and buried in Bennington
* Cynthia Gibb, actress and former model (Suzi on Search for Tomorrow); born in Bennington
* Milford Graves, free jazz drummer, percussion musician; instructor at Bennington College
* Miles Hyman, author and illustrator
* Stanley Edgar Hyman, literary critic; instructor at Bennington College
* Shirley Jackson, novelist and short story writer, author of ‘’The Lottery’’. Wife of Stanley Edgar Hyman; lived in Bennington
* Jamaica Kincaid, novelist (Lucy); lived in Bennington
* Ray Magliozzi, co-host of NPR's weekly radio show, Car Talk; taught science in Bennington
* Bernard Malamud, novelist and short story writer; taught at Bennington College
* Jules Olitski, painter; taught at Bennington College (1963–1967)
* Mary Oliver, poet; lived in Bennington
* Beverley Owen, actress; lived and died in Bennington
* Allen Shawn, composer; instructor at Bennington College
* David Smith, sculptor
* R. John Wright, doll designer and maker; lives in Bennington

## Professionals

* Ethan Allen, soldier, author, philosopher, land speculator and businessman
* Hiram Bingham, missionary
* William L. Burke, professor
* Edward Hamlin Everett, founder of the Bennington Museum
* Lydia Mary Fay (1804–1878), missionary, educator, writer, and translator
* Nathaniel Fillmore, farmer and father of President Millard Fillmore
* James Fisk Jr., financier
* Simon Fraser, fur trader and explorer
* Daniel Williams Harmon, fur trader and diarist
* Anthony Haswell, printer, journalist and free speech champion
* Herbert William Heinrich, industrial safety pioneer
* Horace Chapin Henry, businessman and art gallery founder
* Alfred Lebbeus Loomis, physician
* Alexander Nemerov, art historian
* Trenor W. Park, lawyer, businessman, politician and philanthropist
* Isaac G. Perry, architect
* Henry W. Putnam, inventor, manufacturer, businessman and philanthropist
* John Spargo, author, historian and socialist intellectual
* John F. Winslow, industrialist and college president

## Military

* Reginald W. Buzzell, U.S. Army brigadier general, resided in Bennington
* David Fay, participant in the Battle of Bennington during the American Revolution, Adjutant General of the Vermont Militia during the War of 1812, Judge of the Vermont Supreme Court
* David Robinson, major general in the state militia and U.S. Marshal for Vermont
* Seth Warner, officer in the Green Mountain Boys

## Murderers

* Mary Rogers, murderer
* Elizabeth Van Valkenburgh, murderer

## Law

* Orion M. Barber, U.S. federal judge
* Samuel H. Blackmer, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
* Charles Dewey Day, superior court judge in Canada
* John Fassett Jr., Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
* David Fay, Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court$^{:123}$
* Jonas Fay, Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court$^{:119–120}$
* James Stuart Holden, federal judge
* Pierpoint Isham, Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
* John Robinson, US Marshal for Vermont

## Politics

* Howard E. Armstrong, Secretary of State of Vermont
* Peter J. Brady, member of the Vermont House of Representatives
* Elijah Brush, second mayor of Detroit, Michigan
* T. Garry Buckley, lieutenant governor of Vermont
* Brian Campion, member of the Vermont Senate
* Nathan Clark, speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives$^{:459}$
* Timothy R. Corcoran, member of the Vermont House of Representatives and Bennington town clerk
* Timothy Corcoran II, member of the Vermont House of Representatives
* Charles Hial Darling, Assistant Secretary of the Navy
* Joseph Fay, Secretary of State of Vermont$^{:464}$
* Abraham B. Gardner, lieutenant governor of Vermont
* Hiland Hall, U.S. congressman, Governor of Vermont
* Emory S. Harris, US Marshal for Vermont
* Robert E. Healy, member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
* Albert Krawczyk, member of the Vermont House of Representatives
* Frederick S. Lovell, Wisconsin state legislator, and Union Army officer in the American Civil War
* John G. McCullough, governor of Vermont
* Orsamus Cook Merrill, U.S. congressman
* Joseph Naper, member of the Illinois House of Representatives and founder of Naperville, Illinois
* Jesse O. Norton, U.S. congressman
* Paul Offner, educator and Wisconsin state legislator
* Jonathan Robinson, US senator
* Moses Robinson, U.S. senator and Governor of Vermont prior to statehood
* Richard W. Sears, member of the Vermont Senate
* Mark Shepard, member of the Vermont Senate
* Benjamin Swift, U.S. senator
* Isaac Tichenor, jurist, U.S. senator and the 5th Governor of Vermont
* David S. Walbridge, U.S. congressman
* Stephen K. Williams, member of the New York State Senate
* William Henry Wills, governor of Vermont
* Ralph G. Wright, Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives

## Sports

* Peter Graves, Olympic announcer and cross-country ski coach for Harvard University
* Andrew Newell, Olympic cross country skier
* Betsy Shaw, Olympic snowboarder