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- David Mamet, playwright
- William Marks
- Anna Marsh
- John Martin
- Philip Maxwell, physician and politician and the person for whom Chicago's famous Maxwell Street was named
- Henry T. Mayo, four-star admiral. Born in Burlington
- Archer Mayor
- Margaret MacArthur, a musician and folk music archivist known as "Vermont's Songcatcher"
- John McCardell, Jr.
- Bill McKibben, American environmentalist
- James Meacham
- William Rutherford Mead
- Andrea Mead-Lawrence, first American to win two gold Olympic skiing medals
- Samuel Merrill
- Alexander Kennedy Miller
- Frank Miller
- Susan Tolman Mills
- Graham Mink,
- Anais Mitchell
- Amanda Mitteer
- Samuel Morey
- Justin Morgan
- Justin Smith Morrill, sponsor of the Land Grant College Act establishing "public ivies"
- George Sylvester Morris
- Levi P. Morton
- Joseph A. Mower
- Michael Moynihan
- Dennis Murphy
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