The following are people who were born, raised, or who gained significant prominence for living in U.S. state of New Hampshire:

Aeronautics and aviation

 Jay C. Buckey – astronaut
 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

A–M

 Eric Aho – painter 
 Thomas Bailey Aldrich – poet, novelist, travel writer
 Russell Banks – novelist
 Amy Beach – composer – native
 Philip Booth, poet
 Jon Brooks – songwriter – 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
 Joseph Dennie – 18th-century writer
 Tomie dePaola – children's book author
 Richard Eberhart – poet
 James Thomas Fields – publisher, editor, poet
 Ron Fortier – comic book writer
 Daniel Chester French – sculptor – native
 Robert Frost – poet
 Horace Greeley – journalist – native
 Donald Hall – poet
 Dan Hurlin – poet, literary critic – native
 John Irving – novelist – native
 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

N–Z

 P.J. O'Rourke – novelist
 Jules Olitski – painter
 Maxfield Parrish – painter
 John Perkins – author – native
 Jodi Picoult – author
 Augustus Saint-Gaudens – sculptor
 J. D. Salinger – novelist – lived in Cornish, New Hampshire for several decades
 Charles Simic – poet
 Armstrong Sperry – children's book author – resident 1941–1976
 Mark Steyn – political commentator
 Adam Warren – comic book writer/artist
 Harriet E. Wilson – 19th-century novelist

Athletes

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 – Oakland A's (Durham)
Jeff Giuliano – professional ice hockey player – Iserlohn Roosters (Nashua)
Jay Heaps – former professional soccer player and current soccer manager – New England Revolution (Nashua)
James H. Horne – athletic director and coach at Indiana University (Berlin)
Chip Kelly – NFL head coach – Philadelphia Eagles (Dover)
Scotty Lago – snowboarder (Seabrook)
Paul LaPolice – Canadian Football League coach (Nashua)
Jeff Locke – Major League Baseball player – Pittsburgh Pirates (Redstone)
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)
Kendall Reyes – football player (Nashua)
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 (Berlin)
Stan Williams – Major League Baseball player (Enfield)
Brian Wilson – professional baseball relief pitcher – San Francisco Giants (Londonderry)

Criminals

 Edward and Elaine Brown – tax evaders
 Carl Drega – killer of state troopers – native
 H.H. Holmes – serial killer of 1893 – native
 Linda Kasabian – member of Manson Family
 Adam Lanza – involved in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
 Pamela Smart – convicted murderer – 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 
 Gordon Clapp – native
 Andy Comeau – native
 Eliza Coupe – native
 Ashley Fires
 Michael Graziadei
 Randy Harrison – native
 Sam Huntington – native
 Jean Kasem – native
 Thomas Kopache – native
 Mike O'Malley
 Keri Lynn Pratt – native
 Perrey Reeves – native
 Chris Romano – native
 Adam Sandler
 John Shea – native
 Christopher Stone – native

Comedians and humorists

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

Models

 Jillian Beyor
 Erica Campbell – native
 Jennifer Lavoie

Musicians

 Gaston Allaire – native
 GG Allin – native
 Dale Bozzio  – member, Missing Persons
 Mark Brunswick
 Brad Delp  – member, Boston
 Ronnie James Dio – native
 Julie Dubela
 Sully Erna – member, Godsmack
 JoJo
 Ray LaMontagne – native
 Tommy Makem
 Mandy Moore – native
 Bill Morrissey
 Our Last Night
 Matt Pond  – member, Matt Pond PA
 Joe Queer – native
 Tom Rush – native
 Will Sheff  – member, Okkervil River and Shearwater – native
 Cosy Sheridan
 Jon Spencer – native
 Bill Staines 
 Steven Tyler – member, Aerosmith
 Brian Viglione  – member, The Dresden Dolls
 Dot, Betty and Helen Wiggin  – members, The Shaggs – natives

Television personalities

 Dana Bash – CNN journalist
 Tom Bergeron – host of Dancing with the Stars
 Samantha Brown – travel journalist
 Ken Burns – documentary filmmaker
 Don Orsillo – baseball broadcaster

Native Americans

 Passaconaway
 Plausawa
 Wonalancet

Political and military figures

A–M

 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 (senator) – native
 Joseph Cilley (state senator) – 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
 Judd Gregg – native
 Ethel "Granny D" Haddock – native
 Enoch Hale
 Nathan Hale
 Paul Hodes
 John Langdon – native
 Lyndon LaRouche
 John Lynch
 Thomas J. McIntyre
 Nathaniel Meserve – native
 Jonathan Moulton – native

N–Z

 Moses Nichols
 Richard O'Kane – native
 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
 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 (governor)
 see also John Wentworth (disambiguation)
 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

 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
 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 (Ashland)

Other

 Brooke Astor – philanthropist; recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom  (native)
 Cam Brensinger – founder and chief executive officer, NEMO Equipment
 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
 Tom Dey – film director
 Annie Duke – professional poker player
 Michael Durant – 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 – chief executive officer, Stonyfield Farm 
 A.G. Lafley – chief executive officer, Procter & Gamble
 Howard Lederer – professional poker player
 William Loeb III – publisher, Union Leader'' (1946–1981); conservative political figure
 Mary Josephine Ray – world's second-oldest person at the time of her death in 2010
 Charles Revson – businessman

New Hampshire
Lists about U.S. states