List of people from Exeter, New Hampshire

See also: Category:People from Exeter, New Hampshire

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

Academics and writing

John Irving

• Ralph Borsodi (1888-1977), author, theorist, died in Exeter ^[1]
• 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
• 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 ^[2]
• William Robinson (1794-1864), school founder
• Edward L. Rowan (c. 1940), psychiatrist, author, Scouting leader
• Tabitha Gilman Tenney (1762–1837), novelist, proto-feminist
• James Monroe Whitfield (1822–1871), abolitionist poet

• Joe Hill (writer) (born 1972)

Arts

Elizabeth Jane Gardner

• 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 ^[3]
• 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), mass murderer
• 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 (c. 1592–1679), clergyman, founder of Exeter

Religion

• Tristram Gilman (1735–1809), minister, descendant of the sixth generation of the town's early settler, Edward Gilman ^[4]
• 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 ^[5]
• 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 ^[6]
• Timothy Shinnick, Major League Baseball second baseman 1890–1891; played for the Louisville Colonels

References

1. "Ralph Borsodi, Wrote 'Flight from the City'". The New York Times. 28 October 1977.
2. "The Academy Center is renamed to honor Elizabeth Phillips".
3. Bigelow, Walter J. (1919). Vermont, Its Government 1919-1920. Montpelier, VT: Historical Publishing Company. p. 23.
4. Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Maine Historical Society (1896), p. 45
5. "Chris Carpenter Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
6. "Kevin Romine Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved November 26, 2012.