List of University of Vermont people

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

Academia

 * Henry Vernon Atherton, professor of Animal Science at the University of Vermont and pioneer in the dairy industry.
 * Guy W. Bailey, Secretary of State of Vermont and President of the University of Vermont
 * David Hosmer, biostatistician and namesake of the Hosmer-Lemeshow test
 * 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 role as Bobby Munson on Sons of Anarchy and roles in 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, American folk artist.
 * E. Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain.
 * Barbara Rachko, American 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.
 * Rupert von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers

Business

 * Frederick H. Billings, Lawyer and financier. From 1879 to 1881 he was President of the Northern Pacific Railway.
 * Richard Sands, billionaire businessman and chairperson of Constellation Brands
 * Roger Crandall, chairman, president, and CEO of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
 * Diane Green, American technology entrepreneur and executive. Former co-founder and CEO of VMware, board director of Google, and CEO of Google Cloud
 * Brian Sack, former director of global economics at D.E. Shaw group and former executive vice president of the System Open Market Account and head of the Markets Group at the New York Federal Reserve Bank
 * 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.
 * 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. He was a 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

Government and politics

 * Frederick C. Aldrich, politician, member, 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 from 1952 to 1956.
 * Christopher A. Bray, member of the Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate
 * Sarah E. Buxton, (2000), Member, Vermont House of Representatives, former member, 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 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, 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 who 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 and United States Representative from Wyoming
 * Hamilton S. Peck, mayor of Burlington, state legislator, city court judge
 * H. Henry Powers, United States Congressman
 * Theodore Prentiss, Member, 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 United States, 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 award winning international journalist
 * Louisa Hodge, television reporter
 * Henry Jarvis Raymond, Co-Founder of the New York Times and Harper's New Monthly Magazine
 * Ryen Russillo, Host of The Ryen Russillo Show on The Ringer podcast network, Former Co-host of the ESPN sports talk radio show 'SVP & Russillo' and 'Rusillo & Kanell', host of ESPN Radio's 'College Gameday.'
 * Eric Lipton, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist for The New York Times
 * Laura Bernardini, VIce President National News Desk, CNN. Winner of two Emmy awards and two Peabody awards for journalism. https://www.cnn.com/profiles/laura-bernardini

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 from 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 & disaster response specialist
 * M. Ahmad Chaudhry, American radiologist, and 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, August, 2012 to March 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 who 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. Authored 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 the gold medal in the slalom in 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. Scored 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.
 * 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, an 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 UVM.
 * Viktor Stålberg, winger for the Nashville Predators. 2009 NCAA All-American, 2013 Stanley Cup champion. Attended UVM.
 * 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, American serial killer, attended in 1879 and 1880.