List of Famous people born in Vermont, United States of America

Henry Wells was an American businessman important in the history of both the American Express Company and Wells Fargo & Company.

John Garibaldi Sargent was an American lawyer and government official. He served as United States Attorney General during the administration of President Calvin Coolidge.

Charles H. Durkee was an American pioneer, Congressman, and United States Senator from Wisconsin. He was one of the founders of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and was a Governor of the Utah Territory in the last five years of his life.

Abram Adams Hammond was the 12th Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. He succeeded to the office upon the death of Governor Ashbel P. Willard and completed the remaining three months of Willard's term.

Henry Clay Ide was a U.S. judge, colonial commissioner, ambassador, and Governor-General of the Philippines.

John Young was an American politician. He served in the United States House of Representatives and as Governor of New York.

Columbus Delano was a lawyer, rancher, banker, statesman and a member of the prominent Delano family. Delano was elected U.S. Congressman from Ohio, serving two full terms and one partial one. Prior to the American Civil War, Delano was a National Republican and then a Whig; as a Whig, he was identified with the faction of the party that opposed the spread of slavery into the Western territories, and he became a Republican when the party was founded as the major anti-slavery party after the demise of the Whigs in the 1850s. During Reconstruction Delano advocated federal protection of African-Americans' civil rights, and argued that the former Confederate states should be administered by the federal government, but was not part of the United States until they met the requirements for readmission to the Union.

David R. Lindberg is an American malacologist and professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Curator for the University of California Museum of Paleontology and co-editor of the journal Molecular Systematics and Phylogeography of Mollusks.

John Putnam Chapin served as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1846–1847) for the Whig Party.

George Dewey was Admiral of the Navy, the only person in United States history to have attained the rank. He is best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War, with the loss of only a single crewman on the American side.