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
 * Jonas Fay, Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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