List of people from Exeter, New Hampshire

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

Academics and writing

• Ralph Borsodi (1888-1977), author, theorist, died in Exeter
• Dan Brown (born 1964), author
• Lisa Bunker, author, NH state representative
• Andrew Coburn (1932–2018), author
• Sidney Darlington (1906–1997), electrical engineer; inventor of the Darlington pair
• William Perry Fogg (1826–1909), author, adventurer
• Michael Golay, historian, author
• Thomas Hassan, 14th principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; husband of New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan
• Todd Hearon, poet, musician
• Daniel Heartz (1928–2019), musicologist
• Joe Hill (born 1972), writer
• Charles Snead Houston (1913–2009), mountaineer, medical doctor, Peace Corps administrator, author
• John Irving (born 1942), author
• Dolores Kendrick (1927–2017), author, poet laureate of the District of Columbia, teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy
• John Knowles (1926–2001), author
• Dudley Leavitt (1772–1851), publisher of Farmers Almanack and Miscellaneous Yearbook
• John Phillips (1719–1795), founder of Phillips Exeter Academy along with his wife Elizabeth
• William Robinson (1794-1864), school founder
• Edward L. Rowan (), psychiatrist, author, Scouting leader
• Tabitha Gilman Tenney (1762–1837), novelist, proto-feminist
• James Monroe Whitfield (1822–1871), abolitionist poet

Arts

• Daniel Chester French (1850–1931), sculptor; Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial
• Elizabeth Jane Gardner (1837–1922), painter
• Jack Storms (born 1970), glass sculptor, entrepreneur; uses cold glass (fabricated glass) sculpting process to create his works; his Spectrum Cube and Tear Drop sculptures were used in the Marvel film Guardians of the Galaxy

Business

• Enoch Poor (1736–1780), ship builder, merchant; Continental Army brigadier general
• Ambrose Swasey (1846–1937), mechanical engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, manager, astronomer, philanthropist
• Edward Tuck (1842–1938), banker, diplomat, philanthropist

Music

• Gregory W. Brown (born 1974), musician, pianist
• Daniel Cartier (born 1969), singer and actor
• EpicLLOYD (born 1977), real name Lloyd Ahlquist, internet musician/rapper
• Statik Selektah (born 1982), real name Patrick Baril, DJ, producer, CEO of Showoff Records
• Dan Zanes (born 1961), lead singer of The Del Fuegos and Dan Zanes and Friends

Politics and law

• Frank C. Archibald (1857–1935), Vermont attorney general
• Charles H. Bell (1823–1893), U.S. senator, 38th governor of New Hampshire
• Lewis Cass (1782–1866), 2nd territorial governor of Michigan, president pro tempore of the Senate, 22nd U.S. secretary of state
• Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (1783–1851), lawyer, soldier, U.S. congressman from Massachusetts
• Nicholas Emery (1776–1861), judge, legislator from Maine
• Nathaniel Folsom (1726–1790), founding father, merchant, militia general, delegate to the Continental Congress
• John Taylor Gilman (1753–1828), 7th and 12th governor of New Hampshire
• Nicholas Gilman, Jr. (1755–1814), founding father, signer of U.S. Constitution
• Maggie Hassan (born 1958), 81st governor of New Hampshire, U.S. senator
• Adam Lanza (1992–2012), Perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
• Moses Leavitt (1650–1730), early Exeter settler, selectman, moderator of the General Court
• Gilman Marston (1811–1890), U.S. congressman, senator; Union Army general
• Caesar Nero Paul (c. 1741–1823), ex-slave, soldier and founder of a prominent family of abolitionists
• Tristram Shaw (1786–1843), U.S. congressman
• Henry Shute (1856–1943), lawyer, judge, author of "Plupy Shute" series
• Amos Tuck (1810–1879), attorney and congressman in New Hampshire; a founder of the Republican Party
• Rev. John Wheelwright (–1679), clergyman, founder of Exeter

Religion

• Tristram Gilman (1735–1809), minister, descendant of the sixth generation of the town's early settler, Edward Gilman
• Thomas Paul (1773-1831), minister and abolitionist; founder of the First African Baptist Church in Boston, currently known as the African Meeting House

Sports

• Victoria Arlen (born 1994), Paralympian swimmer
• Chris Carpenter (born 1975), pitched for the Toronto Blue Jays and St. Louis Cardinals
• Fred Frame (1894–1962), auto racer, 1932 Indianapolis 500-winner
• Heather Jackson (born 1984), professional triathlete
• Hunter Long (born 1998), tight end for the Miami Dolphins
• Kevin Romine (born 1961), right fielder for the Boston Red Sox
• Timothy Shinnick, Major League Baseball second baseman 1890–1891; played for the Louisville Colonels

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