List of people from Brattleboro, Vermont

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

Artists and entertainers

• Will Ackerman, music producer and guitarist
• Sam Amidon, folk artist
• Tony Barrand, musician
• Saul Bellow, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature.^[1][2]
• H. H. Bennett, photographer
• Douglas Cox, violin maker
• Ely Culbertson, contract bridge player and promoter^[3]
• Jacob Estey, reed organ maker
• Karen Hesse, children's author
• Leavitt Hunt, photography pioneer and attorney
• 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, film actor
• Pat The Bunny 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

Military

• Theodore P. Greene, US 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^[4]

Politics

• Willard H. Chandler, Wisconsin state senator
• Ezra Clark, Jr., US congressman^[5]
• James Elliot, US congressman^[6]
• Clarke C. Fitts, Vermont Attorney General^[7]
• Levi K. Fuller, 44th governor of Vermont^[8]
• Ernest Willard Gibson, United States Senator
• Ernest W. Gibson, Jr., Governor of Vermont
• Abram A. Hammond, 12th governor of Indiana^[9]
• Broughton Harris, Vermont newspaper editor and businessman; one of the Runaway Officials of 1851 as Secretary of the Utah Territory^[10]
• Kittredge Haskins, US congressman^[11]
• Frederick Holbrook, 27th governor of Vermont^[12]
• Jonathan Hunt, bank president and congressman^[13]
• Daniel Kellogg, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont and Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court^[14]
• John Humphrey Noyes, utopian socialist, free love advocate, and founder of the Oneida Community
• Harvey Putnam, US congressman^[15]
• Peter Shumlin, 81st governor of Vermont^[16]
• Sharon Treat, state representative for Maine's 79th District
• James Manning Tyler, US congressman^[17]

Professionals

• Alonzo S. Church, college president^[18]
• William Bullock Clark, geologist
• James Fisk, financier
• Charles Christopher Frost, botanist
• Edwin Brant Frost, astronomer
• Ida May Fuller, first recipient of Social Security check
• Richard Morris Hunt, architect
• William Rutherford Mead, architect
• James L. Oakes, judge
• 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^[19]
• Chris Duffy, center fielder and first baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Brewers, and Philadelphia Phillies^[20]
• James Galanes, Olympic cross-country skier^[21]
• Ernie Johnson, pitcher for the Boston Braves/Milwaukee Braves and Baltimore Orioles^[22]
• Bill Koch, Olympic ski racer, silver and bronze medalist^[23]
• Joe Shield, quarterback for the Green Bay Packers^[24]

References

1. Saul Bellow at Find a Grave, retrieved December 23, 2013
2. Stephanie Greene, Vermont Public Radio, Samll Town, Big Names, September 30, 2013
3. Ely Culbertson, Contract Bridge Complete, 1936, page xviii
4. Lyman Simpson Hayes, History of the Town of Rockingham, Vermont, 1907, page 691
5. "CLARK, Ezra, Jr., (1813 - 1896)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
6. "ELLIOT, James, (1775 - 1839)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
7. "Funeral of Clarke C. Fitts". Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, Vermont). December 29, 1916. p. 7.
8. "Funeral of Ex Governor Fuller of Vermont". Boston Evening Transcript. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
9. "Indiana Governor Abram Adams Hammond". National Governors Association. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
10. Jacob G. Ullery, Men of Vermont Illustrated, 1894, page 182
11. "HASKINS, Kittredge, (1836 - 1916)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
12. "Vermont Governor Frederick Holbrook". National Governors Association. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
13. "HUNT, Jonathan, (1787 - 1832)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
14. Hiram Carleton, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont, Volume 1, 1903, page 286
15. "PUTNAM, Harvey, (1793 - 1855)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
16. "Governor Peter E. Shumlin's Biography". Project Vote Smart. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
17. "TYLER, James Manning, (1835 - 1926)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
18. White, James Terry (1899). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. J.T. White,. p. 180.
19. "Brad Baker". Baseball-Reference.Com. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
20. "Chris Duffy". Baseball-Reference.Com. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
21. "Jim Galanes". SR/Olympic Sports. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
22. "Ernie Johnson". Baseball-Reference.Com. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
23. "Bill Koch". SR/Olympic Sports. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
24. "Joe Shield". Pro-Football-Reference.Com. Retrieved October 24, 2012.