List of VISTA volunteers

Notable people who served as members with the Volunteers in Service to America program include the following:

• Alurista, poet and activist
• Paul H. Anderson, Minnesota Supreme Court justice; attorney for VISTA
• James R. Benn
• Howard Berman
• Rhonda Berry
• David Blankenhorn
• Peter C. Brinckerhoff
• Beano Cook, Sportscaster
• Carl Gershman (1965–1967; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), President of the National Endowment for Democracy since 1984
• Larry Gossett
• Eula Hall
• Richard P. (Dick) Haugland
• Michael Hennessy, San Francisco sheriff
• Charniele Herring, member of the Virginia House of Delegates
• Patricia D. Jehlen, Massachusetts state senator
• Margo Jennings, running coach
• Colbert I. King
• Douglas Kirby
• Tom Kolwiecki, fictional character in Denise Giardina's novel The Unquiet Earth
• Thomas A Kramer (Kansas City , Kansas ) 1970-1972 Vista Leader 1972 founder of Kramer Video Inc , Seattle, WA

• Gerry Larson

• Susan Lish
• Ki Longfellow, author; VISTA volunteer on the Blackfeet Indian reservation
• William Luvaas
• Ray Magliozzi, former host of Car Talk
• James H. Maloney
• George R. R. Martin
• John Medinger, Wisconsin State Assembly and Mayor of La Crosse, Wisconsin
• Alan Meisner
• Charles E. F. Millard
• Gwen Moore
• Mary Murphy
• Hill Pickus
• James H. Rathlesberger
• Irwin Redlener
• Emilie Richards
• Eugene Richards
• Jay Rockefeller, U.S. Senator
• Tweed Roosevelt
• John Singer (Faygele Ben-Miriam) (mid 1960s, St. Louis), U.S. LGBT rights activist
• Ted Smith
• James Sokolove
• John Thorn (served 1966-1967 on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana)
• Peterson Zah

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