The following is a list of individuals associated with the University of Vermont through attending as a student.
Notable alumni Academia Henry Vernon Atherton, professor of Animal Science at the University of Vermont; pioneer in the dairy industry Guy W. Bailey, secretary of state of Vermont and president of the University of Vermont Cynthia Barnhart, Class of 1981, provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2022 Frank M. Bryan, professor of Political Science Mary Cushman, Class of 1985, Professor of Medicine and Pathology in the Robert Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont John Dewey, Class of 1879, pragmatist philosopher and educator Berta Geller, Ed.D 1992, and research professor emeritus, University of Vermont College of Medicine
Activism Andrew Harris, abolitionist and minister; first African American to graduate from the University of Vermont Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize laureate for leading international action to ban land mines
Arts Ben Affleck, actor and Academy Award-winning filmmaker (transferred to Occidental College) Trey Anastasio, guitarist in the band Phish (transferred to Goddard College) Dierks Bentley, country music artist (attended UVM one year; graduated from Vanderbilt University) Mark Boone Junior, aka Mark Heidrich, actor; best known for roles in Sons of Anarchy, Batman Begins, and Memento Brian Camelio, Grammy Award-winning producer, pioneer of crowdfunding, founder of ArtistShare Jon Fishman, drummer in the band Phish David Franzoni, screenwriter of Gladiator, winner of 2001 Academy Award for Best Picture Mike Gordon, bassist in the band Phish Amr Kashmiri, Pakistani actor and musician James Kochalka, Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Ella Seaver Owen (1852–1910), artist, teacher Theodora Agnes Peck, novelist and poet Susan Powers, folk artist E. Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback MountainHeinz Dietrich Fischer, Erika J. Fischer, editors, The Pulitzer Prize Archive: Novel/Fiction Awards, 1917–1994, 1994, page 291 Barbara Rachko, artist and author Jessica Seinfeld, author and cookAllen Salkin, New York Times, How I Met Jerry Seinfeld, Scene 1, Take 2, November 4, 2007 Gail Sheehy, author Kerr Smith, actor best known for playing Jack McPhee on the television drama Dawson's Creek Michael A. Stackpole, science fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and BattleTech books Jay Stevens, author"Jay Karl Stevens". Obituary. Valley News, Lebanon, New Hampshire. March 13, 2025. Retrieved March 17, 2025. Rupert von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers
Business Frederick H. Billings, lawyer and financier; president of the Northern Pacific Railway 1879–1881 Daniel Burke, former president of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) Julius Yemans Dewey, physician, founder of the National Life Insurance Company; father of the only admiral of the Navy in U.S. history, George Dewey Diane Greene, technology entrepreneur and executive; former co-founder and CEO of VMware, board director of Google, and CEO of Google Cloud Brian Halligan, CEO and co-founder of HubSpot and author Dr. H. Nelson Jackson; businessman, physician, and senior officer of the Organized Reserves who carried out the first coast-to-coast automobile trip in the U.S.; World War I recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross and a national vice-commander of the American Legion, 1921–1922 Annelise Loevlie, CEO of Icelantic Skis William F. Ruprecht, president and CEO, Sotheby's Richard Sands, billionaire businessman and chairperson of Constellation Brands
Government and politics Frederick C. Aldrich, politician, member of New Hampshire House of Representatives Consuelo Northrup Bailey, first woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, serve as Speaker of the Vermont House, and be elected a state lieutenant governor (1955–1959); vice chair of the Republican National Committee 1952–1956 Christopher A. Bray, member of the Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate Sarah E. Buxton (2000), member of Vermont House of Representatives, former member of UVM Board of TrusteesVermont Secretary of State, Biographical Sketches of Federal and State Officers and Members of the General Assembly of 2011–2012, 2012, page 74Burlington Free Press, , March 20, 2014 Pedro Albizu Campos (1912–1913), Puerto Rican political leader, orator, lawyer and humanist; was either president or honorary president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party from 1930 until his death in 1965 Matthew Choate 1992, Vermont state senator 2008–2010 Jacob Collamer, Class of 1810; member of United States House of Representatives and United States Senate; United States Postmaster General; associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States 1923–1929 Jedd Philo Clark Cottrill, Class of 1852, member of Wisconsin State Senate Paul Dame, chair of the Vermont Republican party Louis F. Dow, mayor of Burlington, Vermont, 1935–1939 Brian Dubie, Vermont's 85th lieutenant governor, 2003–2011 Molly Gray, lieutenant governor of Vermont Aaron H. Grout, Vermont secretary of stateUniversity of Vermont, General Catalogue of the University of Vermont, 1901, page 199 Isaac R. Harrington, mayor of Buffalo, New York Donly C. Hawley, mayor of Burlington, Vermont Hollister Jackson, lieutenant governor of Vermont, died in the Great Flood of 1927 Madeleine Kunin, former governor of Vermont; former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland; former deputy secretary of education, U.S. Dept. of Education James O'Halloran, Canadian politician John Eugene Osborne, third governor of Wyoming, U.S. representative from Wyoming Hamilton S. Peck, mayor of Burlington, state legislator, city court judge H. Henry Powers, U.S. congressman Theodore Prentiss, member of Wisconsin State Assembly Frederick M. Reed, Vermont attorney general Robert Roberts, mayor of Burlington, Vermont Phil Scott, governor of Vermont John H. Sinclair, commander of the Vermont State Police and U.S. marshal for the District of Vermont George R. Vincent, physician and Greenback Party politician in Wisconsin Charles W. Waterman, U.S. senator from Colorado, donated funds for construction of UVM's Waterman Building, UVM trustee 1921–1925, presented honorary degree of LL.D. in 1922 William Almon Wheeler, vice president of the U.S., attended for two years (1837-1839), presented honorary degree of LL.D. in 1867, Bachelor of Arts (as in course) in 1876 Susanne R. Young, Vermont attorney general since 2022
Journalism Jack Arute, ABC and ESPN sideline reporter Clifford Beal, author and international journalist Brooke Gladstone, host of On the Media Louisa Hodge, television reporter Eric Lipton, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times Henry Jarvis Raymond, co-founder of the New York Times and Harper's New Monthly Magazine Ryen Russillo, host of The Ryen Russillo Show, former co-host of the ESPN sports talk radio shows SVP & Russillo and Rusillo & Kanell, host of ESPN Radio's College Gameday
Law and courts Asa O. Aldis, associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court John S. Buttles (1897), associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court Harold "Duke" Eaton Jr., justice of the Vermont Supreme Court Benjamin F. Fifield, lawyer who served as United States Attorney for the District of Vermont 1869–1880 Seneca Haselton, mayor of Burlington, U.S. minister to Venezuela, associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court William C. Hill (M.A., 1968), associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court Benjamin N. Hulburd, chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court George M. Powers, chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court John C. Sherburne, Vermont's first Rhodes Scholar and chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court Allen R. Sturtevant, associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court Charles Tetzlaff, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont
Medicine Frederick M. "Skip" Burkle Jr., Robert Larner College of Medicine (1965), humanitarian assistance and disaster response specialist Catherine Alicia Georges (2001), nurse, professor, nonprofit executive
Military Brigadier General Donald H. Balch, United States Air Force general Brigadier General Jedediah Hyde Baxter, son of Portus Baxter and Surgeon General of the United States ArmyUniversity of Vermont Alumni Association, University of Vermont Obituary Record, Volume 1, 1895, page 121 Brigadier General Reginald W. Buzzell (attended, Class of 1918), National Guard officer whose commands included the 43rd Infantry Division Lieutenant General Lewis A. Craparotta, United States Marine Corps Major General Steven A. Cray, adjutant general of Vermont 2013–2019Sam Hemingway, Burlington Free Press, , March 1, 2013 Major General Thomas E. Drew, adjutant general of Vermont, 2012–2013Vermont National Guard, Biography, Thomas E. Drew , accessed March 2, 2013 Lieutenant General Michael Dubie, former deputy commander of United States Northern Command and former Vermont adjutant general Major General Henry U. Harder, adjutant general of Vermont since 2026 Lieutenant General Edward J. O'Neill, commander of First United States Army Brigadier General Wayne H. Page, adjutant general of the Vermont National GuardUniversity of Vermont, Bulletin of the University of Vermont, March 1942, page 314 Brigadier General James Stevens Peck, Union Army officer in the American Civil War, later served as adjutant general of the Vermont National GuardUniversity of Vermont, General Catalogue, 1901, page 115 Brigadier General William Smith, paymaster-general of the United States Army
Religion Fishel Jacobs, martial artist, legal author, speaker William True Sleeper, Congregationalist clergyman, educator, poet, and hymn-writer Samuel Worcester, missionary to the Cherokees in Georgia and later in Indian Territory during early 19th centuryMize, Richard. Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. "Worcester, Samuel Austin (1778–1859)." Retrieved March 29, 2013.
Science Peter F. Barth (M.S. in physics, 1981), neurophysicist, solved generalized closed-Cayley tree Ising model for large neural networks; wrote books on the mind teachings of Tibet Duane Graveline, astronaut Henry Farnham Perkins, zoologist and eugenicist
Sports Barbara Cochran, Class of 1978, alpine ski racer, won gold medal in slalom at the 1972 Winter Olympics Ray Collins, Class of 1909, Boston Red Sox pitcher (1909–15) and later coached for UVM; started the first World Series game at Fenway Park in 1912; indoor track facility named for him and Larry Gardner Ross Colton, NHL hockey player for Colorado Avalanche; scored Stanley Cup-clinching goal in 2021 Larry Gardner, Class of 1909; Major League third baseman for 17 years (1908–24) for the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Athletics and Cleveland Indians; played on four World Champions, and later coached and served as the athletic director at UVM; indoor track facility named for him and Ray Collins Albert Gutterson, gold medal winner in long jump in 1912 Summer Olympics; hockey facility Gutterson Fieldhouse is named after him Billy Kidd, alpine ski racer, 1964 Olympic silver medalist, raced for UVM before joining the U.S. Ski Team Jack Lamabe, Major League pitcher for several different teams over seven seasons including the 1967 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals Anthony Lamb, basketball player, played for the Golden State Warriors John LeClair, member of the 1992–93 Stanley Cup-winning Montreal Canadiens; has three 50 goals seasons in the NHL; former member of the Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins Rollie Massimino, Class of 1956, longtime college basketball coach who led the Villanova University men's basketball team to the 1985 NCAA Championship Kirk McCaskill, Major League pitcher for the California Angels and Chicago White Sox Torrey Mitchell, NHL center for the Buffalo Sabres