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 LiteratureStephanie Greene, Vermont Public Radio, Small Town, Big Names, September 30, 2013 H. H. Bennett, photographer Thomas Chubbuck, engraver and designer of the "Brattleboro stamp" Douglas Cox, violin maker Ely Culbertson, contract bridge player and promoterEly Culbertson, Contract Bridge Complete, 1936, page xviii 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 "JoJo" 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 Thus Love Witch Rosenshontz
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 WarLyman Simpson Hayes, History of the Town of Rockingham, Vermont, 1907, page 691 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 Christian Hansen Jr., U.S. marshal for Vermont and member of the Vermont House of Representatives 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 TerritoryJacob G. Ullery, Men of Vermont Illustrated, 1894, page 182 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 CourtHiram Carleton, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont, Volume 1, 1903, page 286 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
Philanthropists Ida Sherman Jenne (1860–1934), President National of the U.S. Daughters of 1812 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 winnerWorld Cup Standings George Schildmiller, college baseball, basketball, and football player and college football coach Joe Shield, quarterback for the Green Bay Packers
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