List of people from New Hampshire

The following are people who were either born, raised, or who gained significant prominence for living in New Hampshire:

Athletes

Sam Fuld

Leanne Smith

• Kerry Bascom – women's basketball player (Epping)
• Ernest Blood – men's basketball coach (Manchester)
• Matt Bonner – National Basketball Association player – San Antonio Spurs (Concord)
• Chris Carpenter – Major League Baseball player – Toronto Blue Jays-St. Louis Cardinals (Raymond)
• Charlie Davies – Major League Soccer player – D.C. United (Manchester)
• Chad Eaton – National Football League defensive tackle (Exeter)
• Mark Fayne – NHL ice hockey player – New Jersey Devils (Nashua)
• Carlton Fisk – Major League Baseball catcher – Boston Red Sox – (grew up in Charlestown)
• Mike Flanagan – left-handed pitcher – Baltimore Orioles (Manchester)
• Sam Fuld – Major League Baseball player – Tampa Bay Rays (Durham)
• Jeff Giuliano – professional ice hockey player – Iserlohn Roosters (Nashua)
• James H. Horne – athletic director and coach at Indiana University
• Scotty Lago – snowboarder (Seabrook)
• Paul LaPolice – Canadian Football League coach (Nashua)
• Ben Lovejoy – NHL ice hockey player (Concord)
• Freddy Meyer – ice hockey player – Modo Hockey (Sanbornville)
• Bode Miller – alpine ski racer (Easton)
• Tara Mounsey – gold medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics (Concord)
• Chad Paronto – baseball player (Woodsville)
• Penny Pitou – United States Olympic alpine skier (Gilford and Laconia)
• Red Rolfe – third baseman, manager (Penacook)
• Kevin Romine – utility outfielder in Major League Baseball (Exeter)
• Leanne Smith – alpine skier (Conway)
• Darius Songaila – Lithuanian professional basketball player (attended school in New Hampton)
• Birdie Tebbetts – professional baseball player (Nashua)
• Bob Tewksbury – Major League Baseball pitcher (Concord)
• Jenny Thompson – competitive swimmer (Dover)
• Triple H – professional wrestler (Nashua)
• Bob Whitcher - pitcher with the Boston Braves
• Stan Williams – Major League Baseball player (Enfield)
• Brian Wilson – professional baseball relief pitcher – San Francisco Giants (Londonderry)

Arts and literature

Dan Brown

Robert Frost

Jodi Picoult

• Eric Aho, painter
• Russell Banks
• Samuel Bartlett – native
• Amy Beach – native
• Philip Booth
• Jon Brooks – native
• Dan Brown – native
• Bill Bryson – resident, 1995–2003
• Lisa Carver
• Charles Carleton Coffin
• Edward Estlin Cummings
• Joseph Dennie
• Tomie dePaola
• Richard Eberhart
• Ron Fortier
• Daniel Chester French – native
• Robert Frost
• Horace Greeley – native
• Donald Hall
• Dan Hurlin – native
• John Irving – native
• Elizabeth Orton Jones
• Jane Kenyon
• Heather King
• Maxine Kumin
• Dudley Leavitt
• Alan Lelchuk
• Edward MacDowell
• Joyce Maynard
• Jim McDermott
• Larkin Goldsmith Mead – native
• Grace Metalious
• P.J. O'Rourke
• Jules Olitski
• Maxfield Parrish
• John Perkins – native
• Jodi Picoult
• J. D. Salinger – lived in Cornish, New Hampshire for several decades
• Charles Simic
• Armstrong Sperry – resident 1941–1976
• Mark Steyn
• Harriet E. Wilson

Aviation/aeronautics

Alan Shepard

• Jay C. Buckey
• Richard M. Linnehan
• Thaddeus Lowe – native
• Lee Morin – native
• Richard A. Searfoss
• Alan Shepard – native

Educators

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

Entertainment

Sarah Silverman

Keri Lynn Pratt

Adam Sandler

Humorists/comedians

• Ant – native
• Jamie Kaler – native
• Seth Meyers – native
• Josh Meyers – Seth's brother
• Sarah Silverman – native

Actors/actresses

• Bradford Anderson – native
• Sam Ayers – native
• Richard Backus – native
• Jane Badler – native
• Gordon Clapp – native
• Andy Comeau – native
• Eliza Coupe – native
• Michael Graziadei
• Randy Harrison – native
• Sam Huntington – native
• Jean Kasem – native
• Thomas Kopache – native
• Keri Lynn Pratt – native
• Perrey Reeves – native
• Adam Sandler
• John Shea – native
• Christopher Stone – native

Television personalities

• Dana Bash
• Tom Bergeron
• Samantha Brown
• Ken Burns
• Mike O'Malley
• Don Orsillo

Models

Erica Campbell

Mandy Moore

• Jillian Beyor
• Erica Campbell – native
• Jennifer Lavoie

Musicians

• Gaston Allaire – native
• GG Allin – native
• D.J. Boudreau of Dirty On Purpose – native
• Dale Bozzio of Missing Persons
• Mark Brunswick
• Brad Delp of Boston
• Ronnie James Dio – native
• Julie Dubela
• Sully Erna of Godsmack
• JoJo
• Ray LaMontagne – native
• Tommy Makem
• Mandy Moore – native
• Bill Morrissey
• Matt Pond of Matt Pond PA
• Joe Queer – native
• Tom Rush – native
• Will Sheff of Okkervil River and Shearwater – native
• Cosy Sheridan
• Jon Spencer – native
• Bill Staines
• Steven Tyler of Aerosmith
• Brian Viglione of The Dresden Dolls
• Dot, Betty and Helen Wiggins of The Shaggs – natives. The band's strong Fremont accents are evident in their singing.

Infamous Granite Staters

H.H. Holmes

• Edward and Elaine Brown
• Carl Drega – native
• H.H. Holmes – native
• Linda Kasabian
• Adam Lanza
• Pamela Smart – native

Native Americans

• Passaconaway
• Plausawa
• Wonalancet

Scientists and engineers

• 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
• Ambrose Swasey – mechanical engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur
• Earl Silas Tupper – chemist, inventor of Tupperware

Political/military figures

Sherman Adams Kelly Ayotte – native William J. Baroody, Jr. – native Josiah Bartlett Timothy Bedel – native Jason Bedrick Joseph Blanchard – native Lewis Cass Jonathan Chase Salmon P. Chase – native Wentworth Cheswell – native Jonathan Cilley – native Joseph Cilley (senator) – native Joseph Cilley (state senator) – native John Cutt Henry Dearborn – native Abraham Drake – native Michael Durant – native Nathaniel Folsom Rene Gagnon – native John Taylor Gilman John Goffe Judd Gregg – native Ethel "Granny D" Haddock – native Enoch Hale Nathan Hale Paul Hodes John Langdon – native Lyndon Larouche John Lynch Nathaniel Meserve – native Jonathan Moulton – native Moses Nichols Frank Nesmith Parsons – native

Nathaniel Peabody David Petraeus – summer resident Benjamin Pierce Franklin Pierce – native Enoch Poor Carol Shea-Porter – native James Reed George Reid – native Warren Rudman Alexander Scammel Jeanne Shaheen Sumner Shapiro – United States Navy Rear Admiral Max Silber – businessman 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 (governor) see also John Wentworth (disambiguation) Daniel Webster – native William Whipple Isaac Wyman Louis C. Wyman – native Dawn Zimmer – native

Religious figures

Mary Baker Eddy

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

Other

• Brooke Astor – Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (native)
• William Robinson Brown – founder and owner of the Maynesboro Stud
• Tom Dey – film director
• Michael Durant - American pilot and author
• 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
• Betty Hill – notable alien abduction captive
• Gary Hirshberg – CEO of Stonyfield Farm
• Howard Lederer – professional poker player
• William Loeb III – publisher of the Union Leader from 1946–1981, conservative political figure
• Mary Josephine Ray – the world's second-oldest person at the time of her death in 2010
• Charles Revson – businessman

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