List of people from New Hampshire

Aeronautics and aviation

• Jay C. Buckey – astronaut
• Michael Durant – pilot – native
• Richard M. Linnehan – astronaut
• Thaddeus Lowe – 19th-century balloonist – native
• Lee Morin – astronaut – native
• Richard A. Searfoss – astronaut
• Alan Shepard – astronaut; first American in space – native

  Arts and literature

• Eric Aho – painter
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich – poet, novelist, travel writer
• Russell Banks – novelist
• Amy Beach – composer – native
• Henry Ames Blood – poet, playwright – native
• Philip Booth – poet
• Ben Bradlee Jr. – journalist, author – native
• Dan Brown – novelist – native
• Bill Bryson – author – resident, 1995–2003
• Lisa Carver – writer
• Willa Cather – novelist
• Charles Carleton Coffin – American Civil War correspondent
• E. E. Cummings – poet
• Decap – artist and record producer
• Joseph Dennie – 18th-century writer
• Tomie dePaola – children's book author
• Richard Eberhart – poet
• James Thomas Fields – publisher, editor, poet
• Barbara Newhall Follett — writer — native
• Ron Fortier – comic book writer
• Daniel Chester French – sculptor – native
• Robert Frost – poet
• Horace Greeley – journalist – native
• Wayne Green – publisher – native
• Donald Hall – poet
• Nicholas Hondrogen – painter, photographer, sculptor
• Dan Hurlin – poet, literary critic – native
• John Irving – novelist – native
• Carrie Jones – novelist
• Elizabeth Orton Jones – illustrator
• Jane Kenyon – poet
• Heather King – blogger
• Maxine Kumin – poet
• Dudley Leavitt – publisher
• Alan Lelchuk – novelist, editor
• Edward MacDowell – pianist, composer
• Joyce Maynard – novelist
• Jim McDermott – illustrator
• Larkin Goldsmith Mead – sculptor – native
• Grace Metalious – novelist
• Bob Montana – illustrator of Archie comics
• Jules Olitski – painter
• P.J. O'Rourke – novelist
• Maxfield Parrish – painter
• John Perkins – author – native
• Jodi Picoult – author
• Eleanor H. Porter – novelist
• Augustus Saint-Gaudens – sculptor
• J. D. Salinger – novelist – lived in Cornish for several decades
• Charles Simic – poet
• Armstrong Sperry – children's book author – resident 1941–1976
• Mark Steyn – political commentator
• Celia Thaxter – poet
• Adam Warren – comic book writer/artist
• Brady Watt – producer, bass player, and bandleader
• Harriet E. Wilson – 19th-century novelist

  Athletes

• Victoria Arlen – Paralympian swimmer, ESPN personality
• Aaron Baddeley – professional golfer
• Kerry Bascom – women's basketball player
• Jane Blalock – professional golfer
• Ernest Blood – men's basketball coach
• Matt Bonner – National Basketball Association player – San Antonio Spurs
• John Bosa – NFL football player Miami Dolphins
• Dunbar Bostwick – Olympic ice hockey player –
• Kent Carlson – NHL ice hockey player –
• Chris Carpenter – Major League Baseball player – Toronto Blue Jays-St. Louis Cardinals
• Bruce Cunliffe – Olympic ice hockey player –
• Charlie Davies – Major League Soccer player – D.C. United
• Dangerous Danny Davis – professional wrestling referee and wrestler
• Matt Duffy – Major League Baseball player – Tampa Bay Rays
• Tricia Dunn-Luoma – Olympic ice hockey player –
• Chad Eaton – National Football League defensive tackle
• Eva Fabian – American-Israeli world champion swimmer
• Mark Fayne – NHL ice hockey player – New Jersey Devils
• Carlton Fisk – Major League Baseball catcher – Boston Red Sox –
• Mike Flanagan – Major League Baseball pitcher – Baltimore Orioles
• Brian Foster – professional ice hockey player –
• Sam Fuld – Major League Baseball player – Oakland A's
• Rich Gale – Major League Baseball pitcher – Kansas City Royals
• Jeff Giuliano – professional ice hockey player – Iserlohn Roosters
• Jesse Guilford – amateur golfer
• Kirk Hanefeld – professional golfer
• Jay Heaps – former professional soccer player and current soccer manager – New England Revolution
• James H. Horne – athletic director and coach at Indiana University
• Chip Kelly – NFL head coach – Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers
• Katie King-Crowley – Olympic ice hockey player –
• Scotty Lago – snowboarder
• Greg Landry – NFL quarterback
• Paul LaPolice – Canadian Football League coach
• Jeff Locke – Major League Baseball player – Pittsburgh Pirates
• Ben Lovejoy – NHL ice hockey player
• Hubie McDonough – NHL ice hockey player
• Jack McGowan – professional golfer
• Justin McIsaac – professional wrestler
• Freddy Meyer – ice hockey player – Modo Hockey
• Bode Miller – alpine ski racer
• Bill Moisan – Major League Baseball pitcher – Chicago Cubs
• John Morton – Olympic biathlon skier
• Tara Mounsey – gold medalist at 1998 Winter Olympics
• Chad Paronto – baseball player
• Penny Pitou – Olympic alpine skier silver medalist
• Deron Quint – NHL ice hockey player
• Kendall Reyes – football player
• Jon Rheault – professional ice hockey player
• Brandon Rogers – professional ice hockey player –
• Red Rolfe – Major League Baseball third baseman, manager and Yale coach
• Kevin Romine – utility outfielder in Major League Baseball
• Jeff Serowik – NHL ice hockey player
• Leanne Smith – alpine skier
• Darius Songaila – Lithuanian professional basketball player
• Matt Taven – professional wrestler
• Birdie Tebbetts – Major League Baseball player and manager
• Bob Tewksbury – Major League Baseball pitcher
• Jenny Thompson – swimmer, 12-time Olympic medalist
• Paul Thompson – NHL ice hockey player
• Triple H – professional wrestler
• Harold Weber – Olympic golfer
• Bob Whitcher – Major League Baseball pitcher – Boston Braves
• Stan Williams – Major League Baseball pitcher
• Brian Wilson – Major League Baseball relief pitcher – San Francisco Giants

  Criminals

• Lisa Biron – child molester and child pornographer
• Edward and Elaine Brown – tax evaders
• Carl Drega – killer of state troopers – native
• Brian Dugan – rapist and serial killer – native
• Samuel Green – serial killer and robber – native
• H.H. Holmes – serial killer of 1893 – native
• Linda Kasabian – member of Manson Family
• Adam Lanza – school shooter – born in Kingston
• Daniel Maldonado – Al-Shabaab terrorist – native
• Dennis Moran – computer hacker
• Richard Paul Pavlick – stalked John F. Kennedy – native
• Terry Peder Rasmussen – serial killer
• Pamela Smart – convicted murderer – native
• Forbes Smiley – art thief
• Henry Tufts – 18th century thief – native

  Educators

• Samuel Colcord Bartlett – Dartmouth president
• Richard Lederer – former St. Paul's School English teacher; author of Anguished English
• Christa McAuliffe – first teacher in space

  Entertainment

Actors and actresses

• Bradford Anderson – native
• Sam Ayers – native
• Richard Backus – native
• Jane Badler – native
• Wilson Bethel – native
• Peter Bonerz
• James Broderick – native
• Josh Casaubon
• Gordon Clapp – native
• Patience Cleveland
• Lew Cody
• Andy Comeau – native
• Zack Conroy – native
• Eliza Coupe – native
• Matt Czuchry – native
• Stephen Dunham
• Dustin Farnum – native
• Hallie Foote
• Phoebe Foster – native
• Pamela Gidley
• Michael Graziadei
• Randy Harrison – native
• Sam Huntington – native
• Jean Kasem – native
• William Kendis – native
• Thomas Kopache – native
• Walter Long – native
• Dorothy Loudon
• Kenneth MacKenna – native
• Mandy Moore - native
• Jared Nathan – native
• Mike O'Malley
• Sandeep Parikh – native
• Maggi Parker – native
• Keri Lynn Pratt – native
• Perrey Reeves – native
• Chris Romano – native
• Adam Sandler
• Erika Schaefer – native
• John Shea – native
• Laura Silverman – native
• Christopher Stone – native
• Ilene Woods – native

  Comedians and humorists

• Ant – native
• Ronny Chieng
• Jamie Kaler – native
• Josh Meyers – brother of Seth Meyers
• Seth Meyers – native; brother of Josh Meyers
• Sarah Silverman – native

  Internet personalities

• Adam22 – native

  Models

• Mia Tyler – native

  Musicians

• Chris Alfieri – member of Vattnet Viskar
• Gaston Allaire – native
• GG Allin – native
• Dale Bozzio – member, Missing Persons
• Mark Brunswick
• Daniel Cartier
• Charlie Clouser – native
• Connie Converse – native
• Brad Delp – member, Boston
• Ronnie James Dio – native
• Julie Dubela
• Sully Erna – member, Godsmack
• Betty George – native
• Lyman Heath – native
• Gary Hoey
• JoJo
• Ray LaMontagne – native
• Tommy Makem
• Mandy Moore – native
• Bill Morrissey
• Our Last Night
• Rod Picott
• Matt Pond – member, Matt Pond PA
• Joe Queer – native
• Tom Rush – native
• Joe Seiders – member, The New Pornographers
• Will Sheff – member, Okkervil River and Shearwater – native
• Cosy Sheridan
• Jon Spencer – native
• Bill Staines
• Buddy Stewart – native
• Sarah Stiles
• Steven Tyler – member, Aerosmith
• Brian Viglione – member, The Dresden Dolls
• Dot, Betty and Helen Wiggin – members, The Shaggs – natives
• Jillian Wheeler

  Television personalities

• Dana Bash – CNN journalist
• Tom Bergeron – host of ABC's Dancing with the Stars
• Samantha Brown – travel journalist
• Ken Burns – documentary filmmaker
• Carl Cameron – Fox News correspondent
• Corey Lewandowski – CNN political commentator and former 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign manager
• Don Orsillo – baseball broadcaster
• Trish Regan – Fox Business anchor
• Kristin Tate – Fox News commentator

  Native Americans

• Passaconaway
• Plausawa
• Wonalancet

  Political and military figures

• Sherman Adams
• Kelly Ayotte – native
• William J. Baroody, Jr. – native
• Josiah Bartlett
• Timothy Bedel – native
• Jason Bedrick
• Joseph Blanchard – native
• Edward H. Brooks – native
• Lewis Cass
• Jonathan Chase
• Salmon P. Chase – native
• Wentworth Cheswell – native
• Jonathan Cilley – native
• Joseph Cilley – native
• Joseph Cilley – native
• Robert W. Cone
• John Cutt
• Henry Dearborn – native
• Abraham Drake – native
• Michael Durant – native
• Nathaniel Folsom
• Rene Gagnon – native
• John Taylor Gilman
• John Goffe
• David Gottesman
• Judd Gregg – native
• Ethel "Granny D" Haddock – native
• Enoch Hale
• Nathan Hale
• Paul Hodes
• William E. Holyoke – native
• John Langdon – native
• Lyndon LaRouche
• Corey Lewandowski
• John Lynch
• Sean Patrick Maloney
• Thomas J. McIntyre
• Frank Merrill – Merrill's Marauders
• Nathaniel Meserve – native
• James Miller – native
• Jonathan Moulton – native
• Moses Nichols
• Richard O'Kane – native
• Frank Nesmith Parsons – native
• Nathaniel Peabody
• David Petraeus – summer resident
• Benjamin Pierce
• Franklin Pierce – 14th President of the United States
• Enoch Poor
• Carol Shea-Porter – native
• James Reed
• George Reid – native
• Warren Rudman
• Alexander Scammel
• Jeanne Shaheen
• Sumner Shapiro
• Max Silber
• David Souter
• John Stark – native
• Thomas Stickney – native
• Harlan F. Stone – native
• John Sullivan – native
• John H. Sununu
• John E. Sununu
• Katrina Swett
• Dick Swett
• Meldrim Thomson, Jr.
• Matthew Thornton
• George H. Wadleigh – native
• John Wentworth
• * see also John Wentworth
• Daniel Webster – native
• William Whipple
• Leonard Wood – native
• Isaac Wyman
• Louis C. Wyman – native
• Dawn Zimmer

  Religious figures

• Mary Baker Eddy
• John W. Gowdy
• Monsignor Pierre Hevey
• Gene Robinson

  Scientists and engineers

• Leonard Bailey – inventor, toolmaker, cabinet maker
• C. Loring Brace – anthropologist
• Stuart Chase – economist and engineer
• Jim Collins – MacArthur genius, bioengineer and inventor
• William E. Corbin – inventor of paper towels
• Sidney Darlington – electrical engineer and inventor of the Darlington transistor
• Dean Kamen – inventor of the Segway and founder of the FIRST Robotics Competition
• Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, Jr. – mechanical engineer, known for his steam engine designs
• Edward William Nelson – naturalist and ethnologist
• Sylvester H. Roper – inventor, pioneering builder of early automobiles and motorcycles
• Ambrose Swasey – mechanical engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur
• Earl Silas Tupper – chemist, inventor of Tupperware
• George H. Whipple – physician, pathologist and biomedical researcher; recipient, 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

  Other

• Brooke Astor – philanthropist; recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Hal Barwood – screenwriter, film producer, game designer and game producer
• Stephanie Birkitt – former assistant to David Letterman on Late Show with David Letterman
• William Robinson Brown – founder and owner, Maynesboro Stud
• Ben Cherington – professional baseball executive, general manager of the Boston Red Sox
• Kitty DeGree – real estate developer and philanthropist in Monroe, Louisiana, born in South Sutton in Merrimack County
• Brian De Palma – film director
• Tom Dey – film director
• Annie Duke – professional poker player
• Michael Durant – pilot and author
• Dan Eckman – director, writer
• Darby Field – first European to climb Mount Washington
• Phineas Gage – railroad construction foreman whose survival of an accident influenced discussion about the brain
• George Hawkins – victim of a bad skin graft that led to the celebrated "Hairy Hand" case of 'Hawkins v. McGee
• Barney and Betty Hill – alleged alien abduction captives
• Jenna Miscavige Hill – critic of the Church of Scientology
• Gary Hirshberg – chief executive officer, Stonyfield Farm
• Jed Hoyer – executive vice-president and general manager of the Chicago Cubs
• Bill Jackowski – MLB umpire
• Jigger Johnson – lumberjack
• A.G. Lafley – chief executive officer, Procter & Gamble
• Howard Lederer – professional poker player
• William Loeb III – publisher, Union Leader'' ; conservative political figure
• Richard and Maurice McDonald – founders of McDonald's
• Alanis Obomsawin – documentary filmmaker
• Chris Ohlson – film producer and director
• Charles Revson – businessman
• Robert Rodat – screenwriter, producer
• Chris Sheridan – TV writer

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