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
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
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
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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
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