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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in
Brattleboro, Vermont.
Artists and entertainers
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Sam Amidon, folk artist
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Tony Barrand, musician
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Saul Bellow, winner of the 1976
Nobel Prize in Literature
[1]
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H. H. Bennett, photographer
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Thomas Chubbuck, engraver and designer of the "Brattleboro stamp"
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Douglas Cox, violin maker
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Ely Culbertson,
contract bridge player and promoter
[2]
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Doveman (real name Thomas Bartlett), musician
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Jacob Estey, reed organ maker
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Karen Hesse, children's author
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Leavitt Hunt, photography pioneer and attorney
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Richard Morris Hunt, architect
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William Morris Hunt, painter
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Wolf Kahn, painter
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Rudyard Kipling, British author, wrote
The Jungle Book,
Captains Courageous, "
Mandalay" and
Gunga Din while residing there; later received the
Nobel Prize in Literature
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Joanna Noëlle Levesque, singer and actor
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Ki Longfellow, novelist, playwright and screenwriter
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Leslie William Miller, artistic subject
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Blanche Honegger Moyse, choral conductor
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Marcel Moyse, flute player
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Bing Russell, actor, baseball player and executive, father of
Kurt Russell
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Patrick Schneeweis, folk-punk artist
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King Tuff, musician
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Royall Tyler, playwright
[3]
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Kit Watkins, musician
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Claude Williamson, musician
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Stu Williamson, musician
Bands
Military
Politics
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Becca Balint,
U.S. Congresswoman,
President pro tempore of the
Vermont Senate
[7]
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F. Elliott Barber, Jr.,
Vermont Attorney General
[8]
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Herbert G. Barber,
Vermont Attorney General
[9]
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John S. Burgess, lieutenant governor of Vermont
[10]
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Arthur P. Carpenter, US Marshal for Vermont
[11]
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Willard H. Chandler, Wisconsin state senator
[12]
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Harrie B. Chase, Judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, brother of Paul A. Chase
[13]
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Paul A. Chase, Associate Justice of the
Vermont Supreme Court, brother of Harrie B. Chase
[14]
[15]
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Ezra Clark, Jr., U.S. congressman
[16]
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James Elliot, U.S. congressman
[17]
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Clarke C. Fitts,
Vermont Attorney General
[18]
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Levi K. Fuller, 44th
Governor of Vermont
[19]
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Ernest Willard Gibson,
U.S. Senator
[20]
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Ernest W. Gibson Jr.,
Governor of Vermont
[21]
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Ernest W. Gibson III, Associate Justice of the
Vermont Supreme Court
[22]
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Abram A. Hammond, 12th
Governor of Indiana
[23]
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Broughton Harris, Vermont newspaper editor and businessman; one of the
Runaway Officials of 1851 as Secretary of the
Utah Territory
[24]
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Christian Hansen Jr., U.S. Marshal for Vermont and member of the Vermont House of Representatives
[25]
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Kittredge Haskins, U.S. congressman
[26]
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Mark Higley, Vermont state legislator
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Frederick Holbrook, 27th
Governor of Vermont
[27]
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Frank E. Howe, lieutenant governor of Vermont
[28]
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George Howe,
State's Attorney of
Windham County,
United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, member of the
Vermont Senate
[29]
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Jonathan Hunt, bank president and congressman
[30]
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Daniel Kellogg,
U.S. Attorney for the
District of Vermont and Justice of the
Vermont Supreme Court
[31]
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Samuel Knight, chief justice of the
Vermont Supreme Court
[32]
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James Loren Martin, Judge of the
United States District Court for the District of Vermont
[33]
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John Humphrey Noyes, utopian socialist, free love advocate, and founder of the
Oneida Community
[34]
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Samuel E. Perkins, Justice of the
Indiana Supreme Court
[35]
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Harvey Putnam, U.S. congressman
[36]
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Peter Shumlin, 81st
Governor of Vermont
[37]
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Micah Townshend,
Secretary of State of Vermont
[38]
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Sharon Treat, member of the
Maine House of Representatives and
Maine Senate
[39]
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James Manning Tyler, U.S. congressman
[40]
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Eleazer L. Waterman, Judge of the Vermont Superior Court
[41]
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Miro Weinberger,
mayor of Burlington, Vermont
[42]
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Hoyt Henry Wheeler, Judge of the
United States District Court for the District of Vermont
[43]
Philanthropist
Professionals
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Emma Bailey, first American woman auctioneer
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Walter J. Bigelow, editor at the
Brattleboro Reformer, former
mayor of Burlington, Vermont
[44]
- Dr.
Charles Chapin, U.S. Marshal for Vermont
[45]
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Alonzo Church, college president
[46]
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William Bullock Clark, geologist
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Donald J. Cram, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, grew up in Brattleboro
[47]
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Charles N. Davenport, attorney, Democratic Party leader, founder of the
Brattleboro Reformer
[48]
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James Fisk, financier
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Charles Christopher Frost, botanist
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Edwin Brant Frost, astronomer
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Ida May Fuller, first recipient of Social Security check
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John Holbrook, publisher and businessman
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Richard Morris Hunt, architect
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Leif K-Brooks, computer programmer and web designer
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William Rutherford Mead, architect
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James L. Oakes, judge
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Herbert Reiner Jr., diplomat
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Samuel Stearns, astronomer and doctor
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William Willard, school founder
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Jody Williams, teacher, aid worker, anti-land mines activist, and Nobel laureate
Sports
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Brad Baker, minor league baseball player
[49]
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Chris Duffy, center fielder and first baseman for the
Pittsburgh Pirates,
Milwaukee Brewers, and
Philadelphia Phillies
[50]
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James Galanes, Olympic cross-country skier
[51]
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Ernie Johnson, pitcher for the
Boston Braves/
Milwaukee Braves and
Baltimore Orioles
[52]
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Bill Koch, cross-country skier, Olympic silver medalist, World championship bronze medalist, World cup winner
[53]
[54]
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Joe Shield, quarterback for the
Green Bay Packers
[55]
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George Schildmiller, college baseball, basketball, and football player and college football coach
[56]
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