List of Famous people born in Vermont, United States of America
Jeff Pidgeon
Jeff Pidgeon is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, and voice actor at Pixar.
Joseph Sweetman Ames
Joseph Sweetman Ames was a physicist, professor at Johns Hopkins University, provost of the university from 1926 to 1929, and university president from 1929 to 1935. He is best remembered as one of the founding members of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and its longtime chairman (1919–1939). NASA Ames Research Center is named after him. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1911. He was the 1935 recipient of the Langley Gold Medal from the Smithsonian Institution.
E. Mason Hopper
E. Mason Hopper was an American film director of the silent era. He directed 76 films between 1911 and 1935.
Carlene King Johnson
Carlene King Johnson Drake was Miss USA 1955.
Louis Winslow Austin
Louis Winslow Austin was an American physicist known for his research on long-range radio transmissions.
Frederick H. Billings
Frederick H. Billings was an American lawyer and financier. From 1879 to 1881 he was President of the Northern Pacific Railway.
William Freeman Vilas
William Freeman Vilas was an American politician who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1891 to 1897. He was a prominent Bourbon Democrat.
George Aiken
George David Aiken was an American politician and horticulturist. A member of the Republican Party, he was the 64th Governor of Vermont (1937–1941) before serving in the United States Senate for 34 years, from 1941 to 1975. At the time of his retirement, he was the most senior member of the Senate.
Edson S. Densmore
Edson S. Densmore was an American civil servant who served as a Doorkeeper to the President of the United States from 1885 to 1887, and as Chief Usher of the White House in Washington, D.C., briefly in 1887 and again from March 1889 until his death in November 1892.
Richard M. Brewer
Richard M. "Dick" Brewer, was an American cowboy and Lincoln County lawman. He was the founding leader of the Regulators, a deputized posse that fought in the Lincoln County War.