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 businessmanWillard Sterne Randall, "Ethan Allen: His Life and Times, (New York, London: W. W. Norton and Company, 2011) 253. 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 Fred C. Martin, member of the Vermont House of Representatives and US internal revenue collector for Vermont 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 Robert Plunkett 1998, member of the Vermont Senate 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
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