List of people from Bennington, Vermont

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 businessman
• 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^: 123
• Jonas Fay, Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court^{: 119–120}
• 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^: 459
• 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^: 464
• 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
• 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
• 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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