# List of people from Hanover, New Hampshire

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

## Academics and writing

* Laura BridgmanPhilip Booth (1925–2007), poet
* Andy Borowitz (born 1958), writer, comedian, satirist, actor
* C. Loring Brace (1930–2019), anthropologist
* Gerald Warner Brace (1901–1978), writer, educator, sailor, boat builder
* Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (1829–1889), first deaf-blind American to gain a significant education in the English language
* Francis Brown (1849–1916), Semitic scholar
* Bill Bryson (born 1951), author
* James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888), preacher, author
* Richard Eberhart (1904–2005), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
* Janet Evanovich (born 1943), writer
* Barbara Newhall Follett (1914–disappeared 1939), author; in December 1939, aged 25, reportedly became depressed with her marriage and walked out of her apartment, never to be seen again
* Richard Foster (1826–1901), abolitionist, educator
* Joan Halifax (born 1942), Zen Buddhist teacher, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, author
* Virginia Heffernan (born 1969), critic, columnist, author
* Grace Webster Haddock Hinsdale (1832–1902), author
* Paul D. Paganucci (1931–2001), investment banker, university educator, college financial administrator, businessman
* Jodi Picoult (born 1966), author
* Mary Roach (born 1959), author
* Kate Sanborn (1839–1917), author, teacher, lecturer, reviewer, compiler, essayist, farmer
* Armstrong Sperry (1897–1976), writer-illustrator of children's literature
* Eleazar Wheelock (1711–1779), college founder

## Arts

* Nicol Allan (1931–2019), artist
* Dave Cole (born 1975), contemporary sculptor

## Business and design

* Hal Barwood, game developer
* George Bissell (1821–1884), industrialist
* William Kamkwamba (born 1987), inventor, author
* Olin Stephens (1908–2008), yacht designer

## Media

* Jack Beatty (born 1945), writer, commentator
* Tom Dey (born 1965), film director
* Brad Feldman (born 1967), television and radio announcer
* Dana Vespoli, pornographic actress

## Medical

* Dixi Crosby (1800–1873), surgeon, educator at Dartmouth College
* C. Everett Koop (1916–2013), Surgeon General of the United States

## Military

* Thomas C. Kinkaid (1888–1972), U.S. Navy admiral during WWII

## Music

* Sir Babygirl (born 1993), singer, songwriter, guitarist
* Al Barr (born 1968), vocalist for Dropkick Murphys
* Kent Carter (born 1939), jazz musician
* Ken Chastain (born 1964), musician, engineer, producer
* Charlie Clouser (born 1963), keyboardist, composer, record producer, remixer
* Noah Kahan (born 1997), singer-songwriter
* Jon Spencer (born 1965), singer, composer, guitarist

## Politics and law

* Henry Fowle Durant (1822–1881), lawyer, philanthropist
* Jonathan Freeman (1745–1808), U.S. congressman
* C. Everett Koop (1916–2013), 13th U.S. Surgeon General
* Sean Patrick Maloney (born 1966), U.S. congressman
* James W. Patterson (1823–1893), U.S. congressman and senator
* James W. Ripley (1786–1835), attorney, Jacksonian U.S. congressman
* Samuel Taggart (1754–1825), U.S. congressman
* Daniel Webster (1782–1852), U.S. congressman, senator from Massachusetts
* Leonard Wilcox (1799–1850), U.S. senator

## Sports

* Barbara Bedford (born 1972), Olympic swimmer
* Nate Fish (born 1980), baseball player and coach
* Hilary Knight (born 1989), women's hockey forward; 2010 and 2014 Olympic silver medalist
* Kevin Pearce (born 1987), former professional snowboarder; competed professionally from 2007 to 2009, when a crash during snowboard training left him with a traumatic brain injury
* Ben True (born 1985), runner; World Cross Country Championships silver medalist (2013)