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- Bert Abbey (1869–1962); Major League baseball pitcher; born in Essex
- Charles Francis Adams (1876–1947); first owner of the Boston Bruins (1924–1925); born in Newport
- Charles Kendall Adams (1835–1902); educator and historian; born in Derby
- Frederick W. Adams (1786–1858); noted physician, author, violin maker; born in Pawlet
- Sherman Adams (1899–1986), politician, Chief of Staff for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, born in East Dover
- Charles Augustus Aiken (1827–1892); clergyman and academic; born in Manchester
- George Aiken, (1892 – 1984), Governor and US senator from Putney
- Ivan Albright (1897–1983); painter and artist; lived in Woodstock, Vermont
- Henry Mills Alden, editor of Harper's Weekly
- Ebenezer Allen
- Ethan Allen, commander of the Green Mountain Boys
- Fanny Allen after whom the hospital is named.
- Ira Allen
- Jerome Allen, author
- Julia Alvarez, author
- Trey Anastasio, vocals/guitar for Phish, a popular jam-band
- Piers Anthony, (pseudonym) science fiction author
- Lemuel H. Arnold, a Governor of Rhode Island
- Chester A. Arthur, twenty-first president of the United States
- Warren Austin, early U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
- Charlotte Ayanna, actress and the 1993 Miss Teen Vermont & Miss Teen USA.
- Mary Azarian, woodcut artist, children's book illustrator
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