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 Noëlle 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