The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Artists and entertainers
Sam Amidon, folk artist
Tony Barrand, musician
Saul Bellow, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature
H. H. Bennett, photographer
Thomas Chubbuck, engraver and designer of the "Brattleboro stamp" Douglas Cox, violin maker Ely Culbertson, contract bridge player and promoter Doveman (real name Thomas Bartlett), musician Jacob Estey, reed organ maker Karen Hesse, children's author Leavitt Hunt, photography pioneer and attorney Richard Morris Hunt, architect William Morris Hunt, painter Wolf Kahn, painter Rudyard Kipling, British author, wrote The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, "Mandalay" and Gunga Din while residing there; later received the Nobel Prize in Literature Joanna Noëlle Levesque, singer and actor Ki Longfellow, novelist, playwright and screenwriter Leslie William Miller, artistic subject Blanche Honegger Moyse, choral conductor Marcel Moyse, flute player Bing Russell, actor, baseball player and executive, father of Kurt Russell Patrick Schneeweis, folk-punk artist King Tuff, musician Royall Tyler, playwright Kit Watkins, musician Claude Williamson, musician Stu Williamson, musician
Bands
Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains
Military
Theodore P. Greene, U.S. Navy rear admiral
George Bradley Kellogg, Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard, Lieutenant Colonel of the 1st Vermont Cavalry Regiment in the American Civil War John W. Phelps, brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and later a minor party candidate for president
Politics
Becca Balint, U.S. Congresswoman, President pro tempore of the Vermont Senate
F. Elliott Barber, Jr., Vermont Attorney General
Herbert G. Barber, Vermont Attorney General
John S. Burgess, lieutenant governor of Vermont
Arthur P. Carpenter, US Marshal for Vermont
Willard H. Chandler, Wisconsin state senator
Harrie B. Chase, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, brother of Paul A. Chase Paul A. Chase, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, brother of Harrie B. Chase Ezra Clark, Jr., U.S. congressman James Elliot, U.S. congressman Clarke C. Fitts, Vermont Attorney General Levi K. Fuller, 44th Governor of Vermont Ernest Willard Gibson, U.S. Senator Ernest W. Gibson Jr., Governor of Vermont Ernest W. Gibson III, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court Abram A. Hammond, 12th Governor of Indiana Broughton Harris, Vermont newspaper editor and businessman; one of the Runaway Officials of 1851 as Secretary of the Utah Territory Christian Hansen Jr., U.S. Marshal for Vermont and member of the Vermont House of Representatives Kittredge Haskins, U.S. congressman Frederick Holbrook, 27th Governor of Vermont Frank E. Howe, lieutenant governor of Vermont George Howe, State's Attorney of Windham County, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, member of the Vermont Senate Jonathan Hunt, bank president and congressman Daniel Kellogg, U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont and Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court Samuel Knight, chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court James Loren Martin, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont John Humphrey Noyes, utopian socialist, free love advocate, and founder of the Oneida Community Samuel E. Perkins, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court Harvey Putnam, U.S. congressman Peter Shumlin, 81st Governor of Vermont Micah Townshend, Secretary of State of Vermont Sharon Treat, member of the Maine House of Representatives and Maine Senate James Manning Tyler, U.S. congressman Eleazer L. Waterman, Judge of the Vermont Superior Court Miro Weinberger, mayor of Burlington, Vermont Hoyt Henry Wheeler, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont
Philanthropist
Ronald Read, philanthropist, investor, janitor, and gas station attendant who received media coverage after his death in 2014 due to bequeathing US$1.2 million to Brooks Memorial Library and $4.8 million to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital.