List of people from New Hampshire

The following are people who were either born, raised, or who gained significant prominence for living in New Hampshire:

Athletes

Sam Fuld

• 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)
• Carlton Fisk - Major League Baseball Catcher - Boston Red Sox - Grew up in (Charlestown)
• Mike Flanagan -Former left-handed pitcher- Baltimore Orioles (Manchester)
• Sam Fuld – Major League Baseball Player- Tampa Bay Rays (Durham)
• Jeff Giuliano – professional Ice Hockey Player- Iserlohn Roosters (Nashua)
• Scotty Lago – American Snowboarder (Seabrook)
• Ben Lovejoy - American NHL ice hockey player (Concord)
• Freddy Meyer – American Ice Hockey Player- Modo Hockey (Sanbornville)
• Bode Miller – American alpine ski racer (Easton)
• Tara Mounsey – Gold medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics (Concord)
• Chad Paronto – American Baseball Player (Woodsville)
• Penny Pitou - Former United States Olympic alpine skier Lived in (Gilford) and (Laconia)
• Robert Rolfe -American third baseman, manager (Penacook)
• Kevin Romine – Former utility outfielder in Major League Baseball (Exeter)
• Leanne Smith – American alpine skier (Conway)
• Darius Songaila- Lithuanian Professional basketball Player - Attended School in (New Hampton)
• Birdie Tebbetts- American professional baseball Player Lived in (Nashua)
• Bob Tewksbury – Former Major League Baseball pitcher (Concord)
• Jenny Thompson – American former competitive swimmer (Dover)
• Triple H – American professional wrestler (Nashua)
• Stan Williams – Former Major League Baseball Player (Enfield)
• Brian Wilson – American professional baseball relief pitcher- San Francisco Giants (Londonderry)

Arts and literature

• Russell Banks
• Samuel Bartlett – native
• Amy Beach – native
• Philip Booth
• Dan Brown – native
• Bill Bryson – resident, 1995–2003
• Lisa Carver
• Charles Carleton Coffin
• Edward Estlin Cummings
• Joseph Dennie
• Tomie dePaola
• Richard Eberhart
• Ron Fortier
• Daniel Chester French – native
• Robert Frost
• Horace Greeley - native
• Donald Hall
• John Irving – native
• Elizabeth Orton Jones
• Jane Kenyon
• Heather King
• Maxine Kumin
• Dudley Leavitt
• Alan Lelchuk
• Edward MacDowell
• Joyce Maynard
• Jim McDermott
• Larkin Goldsmith Mead – native
• Grace Metalious
• P.J. O'Rourke
• John Perkins – native
• Jodi Picoult
• J. D. Salinger – lived in Cornish, New Hampshire for several decades
• Charles Simic
• Armstrong Sperry – resident 1941–1976
• Mark Steyn
• Harriet E. Wilson

Aviation/aeronautics

• Jay C. Buckey
• Richard M. Linnehan
• Thaddeus Lowe – native
• Lee Morin – native
• Richard A. Searfoss
• Alan Shepard – native

Educators

• Christa McAuliffe – first teacher in space
• Richard Lederer – former St. Paul's School English teacher; author of Anguished English

Entertainment

Humorists/comedians

• Ant – native
• Jamie Kaler – native
• Seth Meyers – native
• Josh Meyers – Seth's brother
• Sarah Silverman – native

Actors/actresses

• Bradford Anderson – native
• Sam Ayers – native
• Richard Backus – native
• Jane Badler – native
• Gordon Clapp – native
• Andy Comeau – native
• Eliza Coupe – native
• Michael Graziadei
• Randy Harrison – native
• Sam Huntington – native
• Jean Kasem – native
• Thomas Kopache – native
• Keri Lynn Pratt – native
• Perrey Reeves – native
• Adam Sandler
• John Shea – native
• Christopher Stone – native

Television personalities

• Tom Bergeron
• Samantha Brown
• Ken Burns
• Mike O'Malley
• Don Orsillo

Models

• Jillian Beyor
• Erica Campbell – native
• Jennifer Lavoie

Musicians

• GG Allin – native
• Dale Bozzio of Missing Persons
• Ronnie James Dio – native
• Julie Dubela
• Sully Erna of Godsmack
• JoJo
• Ray LaMontagne – native
• Tommy Makem
• Mandy Moore – native
• Bill Morrissey
• Joe Queer – native
• Tom Rush - native
• Will Sheff of Okkervil River and Shearwater – native
• Cosy Sheridan
• Jon Spencer – native
• Bill Staines – native
• Steven Tyler of Aerosmith
• Brian Viglione of The Dresden Dolls

Infamous New Hampshirites

• Edward and Elaine Brown
• Carl Drega – native
• H.H. Holmes – native
• Linda Kasabian
• Pamela Smart – native

Native Americans

• Passaconaway
• Plausawa
• Wonalancet

Scientists and engineers

• Stuart Chase – economist and engineer
• Jim Collins – MacArthur genius, bioengineer and inventor
• 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
• Ambrose Swasey – mechanical engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur

Political/military figures

Sherman Adams Kelly Ayotte - native William J. Baroody, Jr. – native Josiah Bartlett Timothy Bedel – native Joseph Blanchard – native Lewis Cass Jonathan Chase Salmon P. Chase – native Wentworth Cheswell – native Joseph Cilley (senator) – native Joseph Cilley (state senator) – native John Cutt Henry Dearborn – native Abraham Drake – native Michael Durant – native Nathaniel Folsom Rene Gagnon – native John Taylor Gilman John Goffe Ethel "Granny D" Haddock – native Judd Gregg – native Enoch Hale Nathan Hale Paul Hodes John Langdon – native Lyndon Larouche John Lynch Nathaniel Meserve – native Jonathan Moulton – native Moses Nichols Frank Nesmith Parsons – native

Nathaniel Peabody David Petraeus – summer resident Benjamin Pierce (governor) Franklin Pierce – native Enoch Poor Carol Shea-Porter – native James Reed George Reid – native Alexander Scammel Jeanne Shaheen 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 Daniel Webster – native William Whipple Isaac Wyman Louis C. Wyman – native Dawn Zimmer – native

Religious figures

• Mary Baker Eddy
• John W. Gowdy
• Monsignor Pierre Hevey
• Gene Robinson

Other

• Brooke Astor – native (Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient)
• Darby Field – first European to climb Mount Washington
• Betty Hill - notable alien abduction captive
• William Loeb - publisher of the Union Leader from 1946-1981, conservative political figure
• Mary Josephine Ray – the world's second-oldest person at the time of her death in 2010

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