The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in the US city of Montpelier, Vermont.
Artists and authors
Frederick W. Adams, physician and author
Michael Arnowitt, classical and jazz pianist
Ruth Payne Burgess, painter
Jessica Comolli, beauty queen
Kathryn Davis, novelist
Garrett Graff, editor and educator
Rob Mermin, founder of Circus Smirkus
Frank Miller, comic book writer and artist
Anaïs Mitchell, singer-songwriter
Angelia Thurston Newman, poet, author, lecturer
Arthur E. Scott, photo-historian of US senate
Daniel Pierce Thompson, author
Samuel C. Upham, journalist and counterfeiter
Thomas Waterman Wood, painter
Eric Zencey, novelist and essayist
Military
John W. Clark, Union Army veteran and recipient of the Medal of Honor
Dayton P. Clarke, Union Army veteran and recipient of the Medal of Honor
Richard A. Cody, general, 31st Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army
Robert J. Coffey, Union Army veteran and recipient of the Medal of Honor
Hannibal Day, Union Army brigadier general
George Dewey, US Navy admiral
William Charles Fitzgerald, US Navy lieutenant
William W. Noyes, Union Army veteran and recipient of the Medal of Honor
James Stevens Peck, American Civil War officer who later served as Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard Francis V. Randall, Union Army officer in the American Civil War Stephen Thomas, Union Army brigadier general and recipient of the Medal of Honor
Politicians
James H. Agen, Wisconsin State Assemblyman
George H. Amidon, Vermont State Treasurer
Howard E. Armstrong, Secretary of State of Vermont
George W. Barker, U.S. Marshal for Vermont, Judge of Maniwitoc County, Wisconsin
Francis K. Brooks, majority leader of the Vermont House of Representatives and member of the Vermont Senate George W. Cate, U.S. congressman Augustine Clarke, Anti-Masonic Party leader and Vermont State Treasurer Jedd Philo Clark Cottrill, Wisconsin state senator Ann Cummings, Montpelier mayor and member of the Vermont Senate Madelyn Davidson, Vermont State Treasurer Luther C. Dodge, mayor of Burlington, Vermont Benjamin F. Fifield, lawyer who served as United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, 1869–1880 Charles E. Gibson Jr., Vermont Attorney General Mary Hooper, state representative and mayor of Montpelier George Howes, Vermont State Treasurer Vincent Illuzzi, state senator Elisha P. Jewett, Vermont State Treasurer Levi R. Kelley, Vermont State Treasurer Patrick Leahy, U.S. senator, President pro tempore of the United States Senate Farrand F. Merrill, Secretary of State of Vermont Timothy Merrill, Secretary of State of Vermont Lucas Miltiades Miller, U.S. congressman from Wisconsin William Paddock, Wisconsin State Assembly John A. Page, Vermont State Treasurer Asahel Peck, 35th governor of Vermont Lucius Benedict Peck, U.S. congressman Andrew Perchlik, member of the Vermont Senate Clarence H. Pitkin, U.S. Attorney for Vermont and Washington County State's Attorney Charles W. Porter, Secretary of State of Vermont Samuel Prentiss, U.S. senator Theodore Prentiss, Wisconsin state assemblyman John H. Senter, U.S. Attorney for Vermont, Mayor of Montpelier, Vermont Jeb Spaulding, member of the Vermont Senate, Vermont State Treasurer, Vermont Secretary of Administration, Chancellor of the Vermont State Colleges John Spaulding, Vermont State Treasurer John Mellen Thurston, U.S. senator William Upham, U.S. senator Eliakim Persons Walton, U.S. congressman Anne Watson, mayor of Montpelier Charles W. Willard, U.S. congressman David Wing Jr., Secretary of State of Vermont
Law and judiciary
Nicholas Baylies, Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
Louis P. Peck, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
Marilyn Skoglund, Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, notable for becoming an attorney and judge without attending law school Charles Tetzlaff, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont John H. Watson, Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court