List of University of Vermont people

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^[1]
• Guy W. Bailey, Secretary of State of Vermont and president of the University of Vermont^[2]
• Cynthia Barnhart, Class of 1981, provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2022^[3]
• Frank M. Bryan, professor of Political Science^[4]
• Mary Cushman, Class of 1985, Professor of Medicine and Pathology in the Robert Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont^[5]
• John Dewey, Class of 1879, pragmatist philosopher and educator^[6]
• Berta Geller, Ed.D 1992, and research professor emeritus, University of Vermont College of Medicine^[7]

Activism

• Andrew Harris, abolitionist and minister; first African American to graduate from the University of Vermont^[8]
• Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize laureate for leading international action to ban land mines^[9]

Arts

• Ben Affleck, actor and Academy Award-winning filmmaker (transferred to Occidental College)^[10]
• Trey Anastasio, guitarist in the band Phish; (transferred to Goddard College)^[11]
• Dierks Bentley, country music artist (attended UVM one year; graduated from Vanderbilt University)^[12]
• Mark Boone Junior, aka Mark Heidrich, actor; best known for roles in Sons of Anarchy, Batman Begins, and Memento^[13]
• 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
• Ella Seaver Owen (1852–1910), artist, teacher
• Theodora Agnes Peck, novelist and poet^[14]
• Susan Powers, folk artist
• E. Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain^[15]
• Barbara Rachko, artist and author
• Jessica Seinfeld, author and cook^[16]
• Gail Sheehy, author
• Kerr Smith, actor best known for playing Jack McPhee on the television drama Dawson's Creek^[17]
• Michael A. Stackpole, science fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and BattleTech books^[18]
• Jay Stevens, author^[19]
• Rupert von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers

Business

• Frederick H. Billings, lawyer and financier; president of the Northern Pacific Railway 1879–1881^[20]
• Daniel Burke, former president of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)^[21]
• 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^[22]
• Diane Greene, technology entrepreneur and executive; former co-founder and CEO of VMware, board director of Google, and CEO of Google Cloud^[23]
• 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.;^[24] World War I recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross and a national vice-commander of the American Legion, 1921–1922^[25]
• William F. Ruprecht, president and CEO, Sotheby's
• Richard Sands, billionaire businessman and chairperson of Constellation Brands^[26]

Government and politics

• Frederick C. Aldrich, politician, member of New Hampshire House of Representatives^[27]
• 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^[28]
• Christopher A. Bray, member of the Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate^[29]
• Sarah E. Buxton (2000), member of Vermont House of Representatives, former member of UVM Board of Trustees^[30][31]
• 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^[32]
• 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^[33]
• 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^[34]
• Louis F. Dow, mayor of Burlington, Vermont, 1935–1939^[35]
• Brian Dubie, Vermont's 85th lieutenant governor, 2003–2011^[36]
• Molly Gray, lieutenant governor of Vermont^[37]
• Aaron H. Grout, Vermont Secretary of State^[38]
• Isaac R. Harrington, mayor of Buffalo, New York^[39][40]
• Donly C. Hawley, mayor of Burlington, Vermont^[41]
• Hollister Jackson, lieutenant governor of Vermont, died in the Great Flood of 1927^[42]
• Madeleine Kunin, former governor of Vermont; former U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland; former Deputy Secretary of Education, U.S. Dept. of Education^[43]
• James O'Halloran, Canadian politician
• John Eugene Osborne, third governor of Wyoming, U.S. representative from Wyoming^[44]
• Hamilton S. Peck, mayor of Burlington, state legislator, city court judge^[45]
• H. Henry Powers, U.S. congressman^[46]
• Theodore Prentiss, member of Wisconsin State Assembly
• Frederick M. Reed, Vermont Attorney General^[47]
• Robert Roberts, mayor of Burlington, Vermont^[48]
• Phil Scott, governor of Vermont^[49]
• George R. Vincent, physician and Greenback Party politician in Wisconsin
• Charles W. Waterman, US senator from Colorado, donated funds for construction of UVM's Waterman Building, UVM trustee 1921–1925, presented honorary degree of LL.D. in 1922^[50]
• William Almon Wheeler, vice president of the US, attended for two years (1837-1839), presented honorary degree of LL.D. in 1867, Bachelor of Arts (as in course) in 1876^[51]
• Susanne R. Young, Vermont Attorney General beginning in June 2022^[52][53]

Journalism

• Jack Arute, ABC and ESPN sideline reporter^[54]
• Clifford Beal, author and international journalist
• Brooke Gladstone, host of On the Media^[55]
• 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^[56]

Law and courts

• Asa O. Aldis, associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court^[57]
• John S. Buttles (1897), associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court^[58]
• Harold "Duke" Eaton Jr., justice of the Vermont Supreme Court^[59]
• Benjamin F. Fifield, lawyer who served as United States Attorney for the District of Vermont 1869–1880^[60]
• Seneca Haselton, mayor of Burlington, U.S. Minister to Venezuela, associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court^[61]
• William C. Hill (M.A., 1968), associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court^[62]
• Benjamin N. Hulburd, chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court^[63]
• George M. Powers, chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court^[64]
• John C. Sherburne, Vermont's first Rhodes Scholar and chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court^[65]
• Allen R. Sturtevant, associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court^[66]
• Charles Tetzlaff, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont^[67]

Medicine

• Frederick M. "Skip" Burkle Jr., Robert Larner College of Medicine (1965), humanitarian assistance and disaster response specialist
• M. Ahmad Chaudhry, radiologist, associate university professor^[68]

Military

• Brigadier General Donald H. Balch, United States Air Force general^[69]
• Brigadier General Jedediah Hyde Baxter, son of Portus Baxter and Surgeon General of the United States Army^[70]
• Brigadier General Reginald W. Buzzell (attended, Class of 1918), National Guard officer whose commands included the 43rd Infantry Division^[71][72]
• Lieutenant General Lewis A. Craparotta, United States Marine Corps^[73]
• Major General Steven A. Cray, adjutant general of Vermont, March, 2013 to March 2019^[74]
• Major General Thomas E. Drew, adjutant general of Vermont, 2012–2013^[75]
• Lieutenant General Michael Dubie, former Deputy Commander of United States Northern Command and former Vermont adjutant general^[76]
• Lieutenant General Edward J. O'Neill, commander of First United States Army^[77]
• Brigadier General Wayne H. Page, adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard^[78]
• Brigadier General James Stevens Peck, Union Army officer in the American Civil War, later served as adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard^[79]
• Brigadier General William Smith, Paymaster-General of the United States Army^[80][81]

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 century^[82]

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^[83]
• 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^[84]
• 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^[85]
• 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^[86]
• Albert Gutterson, gold medal winner in long jump in 1912 Summer Olympics; hockey facility Gutterson Fieldhouse is named after him^[87]
• 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^[88]
• Anthony Lamb, basketball player, played for the Golden State Warriors^[89]
• 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^[90]
• 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^[91]
• Torrey Mitchell, NHL center for the Buffalo Sabres^[92]
• Éric Perrin, NHL forward for the Tampa Bay Lightning when they won the Stanley Cup in 2004^[93]
• Martin St. Louis, three-time NCAA All-American winger; four-time NHL All-Star and NHL Hart Memorial Trophy and Lady Byng Trophy winner; won the Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 2003–04 Season^[94]
• Zack Scott, general manager of the New York Mets
• Patrick Sharp, NHL hockey player, attended^[95][96]
• Viktor Stålberg, winger for the Nashville Predators, 2009 NCAA All-American, 2013 Stanley Cup champion; attended
• Tim Thomas, goaltender and two-time Vezina Trophy winner for the Boston Bruins; won the Stanley Cup and Conn Smythe Trophy with the Bruins in the 2010–11 season^[97]
• Frank Trigilio, American football player

Other

• H. H. Holmes, serial killer, attended in 1879 and 1880^[98]