List of people from New Hampshire

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
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* 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
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* 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

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* 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
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*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
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* 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
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### 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
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* 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
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* 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

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* 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