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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in
Bennington, Vermont.
Artists and entertainers
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Pamela Blair, actress, singer and dancer (Val in the musical
A Chorus Line); born in Bennington
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Henry Brant, composer, awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for Music (2002); taught at
Bennington College
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Carleton Carpenter, actor (
Summer Stock); born in Bennington
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Helen Frankenthaler, painter; attended
Bennington College
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Robert Frost, poet, four time
Pulitzer Prize winner; lived and buried in Bennington
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Cynthia Gibb, actress and former model (Suzi on
Search for Tomorrow); born in Bennington
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Milford Graves, free jazz drummer, percussion musician; instructor at
Bennington College
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Miles Hyman, author and illustrator
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Stanley Edgar Hyman, literary critic; instructor at
Bennington College
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Shirley Jackson, novelist and short story writer, author of ‘’
The Lottery’’. Wife of
Stanley Edgar Hyman; lived in Bennington
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Jamaica Kincaid, novelist (
Lucy); lived in Bennington
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Ray Magliozzi, co-host of NPR's weekly radio show,
Car Talk; taught science in Bennington
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Bernard Malamud, novelist and short story writer; taught at Bennington College
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Jules Olitski, painter; taught at
Bennington College (1963–1967)
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Mary Oliver, poet; lived in Bennington
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Beverley Owen, actress; lived and died in Bennington
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Allen Shawn, composer; instructor at
Bennington College
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David Smith, sculptor
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R. John Wright, doll designer and maker; lives in Bennington
Professionals
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Ethan Allen, soldier, author, philosopher, land speculator and businessman
[1]
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Hiram Bingham, missionary
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William L. Burke, professor
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Edward Hamlin Everett, founder of the
Bennington Museum
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Lydia Mary Fay (1804–1878), missionary, educator, writer, and translator
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Nathaniel Fillmore, farmer and father of President
Millard Fillmore
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James Fisk Jr., financier
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Simon Fraser, fur trader and explorer
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Daniel Williams Harmon, fur trader and diarist
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Anthony Haswell, printer, journalist and free speech champion
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Herbert William Heinrich, industrial safety pioneer
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Horace Chapin Henry, businessman and art gallery founder
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Alfred Lebbeus Loomis, physician
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Alexander Nemerov, art historian
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Trenor W. Park, lawyer, businessman, politician and philanthropist
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Isaac G. Perry, architect
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Henry W. Putnam, inventor, manufacturer, businessman and philanthropist
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John Spargo, author, historian and socialist intellectual
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John F. Winslow, industrialist and college president
Military
Murderers
Law
Politics
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Howard E. Armstrong,
Secretary of State of Vermont
[13]
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Peter J. Brady, member of the Vermont House of Representatives
[14]
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Elijah Brush, second mayor of
Detroit,
Michigan
[15]
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T. Garry Buckley, lieutenant governor of Vermont
[16]
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Brian Campion, member of the Vermont Senate
[17]
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Nathan Clark, speaker of the
Vermont House of Representatives
[18]: 459
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Timothy R. Corcoran, member of the Vermont House of Representatives and Bennington town clerk
[19]
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Timothy Corcoran II, member of the Vermont House of Representatives
[20]
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Charles Hial Darling,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
[21]
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Joseph Fay,
Secretary of State of Vermont
[18]: 464
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Abraham B. Gardner, lieutenant governor of Vermont
[22]
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Hiland Hall, U.S. congressman,
Governor of Vermont
[23]
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Emory S. Harris, US Marshal for Vermont
[24]
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Robert E. Healy, member of the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Associate Justice of the
Vermont Supreme Court
[25]
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Albert Krawczyk, member of the Vermont House of Representatives
[19]
[26]
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Frederick S. Lovell, Wisconsin state legislator, and
Union Army officer in the
American Civil War
[27]
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John G. McCullough, governor of Vermont
[28]
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Orsamus Cook Merrill, U.S. congressman
[29]
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Joseph Naper, member of the
Illinois House of Representatives and founder of
Naperville, Illinois
[30]
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Jesse O. Norton, U.S. congressman
[31]
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Paul Offner, educator and
Wisconsin state legislator
[32]
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Jonathan Robinson, US senator
[33]
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Moses Robinson, U.S. senator and
Governor of Vermont prior to statehood
[34]
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Richard W. Sears, member of the Vermont Senate
[35]
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Mark Shepard, member of the Vermont Senate
[36]
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Benjamin Swift, U.S. senator
[37]
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Isaac Tichenor, jurist, U.S. senator and the 5th
Governor of Vermont
[38]
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David S. Walbridge, U.S. congressman
[39]
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Stephen K. Williams, member of the New York State Senate
[40]
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William Henry Wills, governor of Vermont
[41]
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Ralph G. Wright, Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives
[42]
Sports
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