# List of people from Concord, New Hampshire

The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Concord, New Hampshire.

## Artists, authors, and entertainers

* John Adams (born 1947), Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
* Emma Elizabeth Brown (born 1847–?), artist, writer
* Carson Cistulli (born 1979), poet, essayist, baseball analyst
* JooYoung Choi (born 1982), artist
* George Condo (born 1957), artist
* Tony Conrad (1940–2016), experimental filmmaker, musician, composer
* Annie Duke (born 1965), professional poker player
* Dan Habib, photojournalist, documentary filmmaker
* Richard Lederer (born 1938), author, commentator on the English language
* Frederick Ferdinand Moore (1881–1947), novelist, soldier, recipient of Japanese Order of the Rising Sun
* Tad Mosel (1922–2008), Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
* Tom Rush (born 1941), folk and blues singer and songwriter
* Mary Parker Woodworth (1849–1919), writer, speaker

## Business and organizations

* Gary Hirshberg (born 1954), CEO of Stonyfield Farm
* Benjamin Holt (1849–1920), inventor; founder of Holt Manufacturing Company
* Levi Hutchins (1761–1855), clockmaker, inventor in 1787 of the first American alarm clock
* Sylvester Marsh (1803–1884), builder of the Mount Washington Cog Railway
* Fanny E. Minot (1847–1919), national president Woman's Relief Corps
* Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford (1774–1852), philanthropist, founder of Rolfe and Rumford Asylum and daughter of Benjamin Thompson (loyalist to Britain during the American Revolutionary War)

## Military

* Onslow S. Rolfe (1895–1985), U.S. Army brigadier general

## Politics

* Joseph Carter Abbott (1825–1881), Union Army general in the Civil War, U.S. senator from North Carolina
* Styles Bridges (1898–1961), U.S. senator, 63rd governor of New Hampshire
* Frank O. Briggs (1851–1913), U.S. Senator from New Jersey, New Jersey State Senator, Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey, born in Concord
* Henry G. Burleigh (1832–1900), U.S. congressman
* Benjamin F. Carter (1824–1916), Wisconsin legislator
* William E. Chandler (1835–1917), U.S. senator, U.S. Secretary of the Navy
* Ezra Durgin (1796–1863), Wisconsin legislator
* John R. French (1819–1890), U.S. congressman
* Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964), labor leader, activist
* Joseph A. Gilmore (1811–1867), railroad superintendent, 29th governor of New Hampshire
* Isaac Hill (1788–1851), U.S. senator, 16th governor of New Hampshire
* Paul Hodes (born 1951), U.S. congressman
* Arthur Livermore (1766–1853), U.S. congressman
* Mace Moulton (1796–1867), U.S. congressman
* Franklin Pierce (1804–1869), 14th president of the United States
* David Souter (born 1939), retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
* Thomas Stickney (1729–1809), soldier in the American Revolution, statesman
* George P. Tebbetts (1828–1909), third mayor of San Diego (1852)
* Robert W. Upton (1884–1972), U.S. senator

## Religious workers

* Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist
* Ruth A. Parmelee (1885–1973), Christian missionary, witness to the Armenian genocide
* Armenia S. White (1817–1916) suffragette, philanthropist, social reformer

## Scientists and academics

* Judy Fortin (born 1961), medical correspondent for CNN
* Jane Elizabeth Hoyt-Stevens (1860–1933), physician, writer, and suffragist based in Concord
* Christa McAuliffe (1948–1986), teacher, first Teacher in Space project winner, died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
* Jane M. Olson (1952–2004), genetic epidemiologist and biostatistician
* Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753–1814), scientist, inventor, loyalist during the American Revolutionary War

## Sports

* Chris Banks (born 1987), soccer player
* Gavin Bayreuther (born 1994), defensemen for the Columbus Blue Jackets
* Matt Bonner (born 1980), power forward and center for the Toronto Raptors and San Antonio Spurs
* Joe Lefebvre (born 1956), right fielder for the New York Yankees, San Diego Padres, and Philadelphia Phillies
* Ben Lovejoy (born 1984), former NHL defensemen
* Tara Mounsey (born 1978), hockey defenseman, played for the U.S. Women's Olympic Hockey Team
* Red Rolfe (1908–1969), New York Yankees starting player, five-time World Series winner
* Brian Sabean (born 1956), general manager of the San Francisco Giants
* Bob Tewksbury (born 1960), pitcher for six Major League Baseball teams