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

• Dan Brown, author
• Andrew Coburn, author
• Sidney Darlington, electrical engineer; inventor of the Darlington pair
• Michael Golay, historian and author
• Thomas Hassan, 14th Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; husband of New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan
• Todd Hearon, poet
• Daniel Heartz, musicologist
• John Irving, author
• John Knowles, author
• Dudley Leavitt (1750–1831) publisher of Farmers Almanack and Miscellaneous Yearbook
• Dr. John Phillips, founder of Phillips Exeter Academy
• Edward L. Rowan, psychiatrist, author, Scouting leader
• Tabitha Gilman Tenney (1762–1837), novelist

Arts

• Daniel Chester French, sculptor Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial

Business

• Enoch Poor, ship builder and merchant; Continental Army brigadier general
• Edward Tuck, banker and philanthropist

Music

• Lloyd Ahlquist (aka. EpicLLOYD), internet musician/rapper
• Statik Selektah (aka. Statik Selektah), DJ, producer, CEO of Showoff Records
• Dan Zanes, lead singer of The Del Fuegos and Dan Zanes and Friends

Politics and law

• Charles H. Bell, US senator and the 38th Governor of New Hampshire
• Lewis Cass, 2nd Territorial Governor of Michigan, President pro tempore of the Senate, 22nd U.S. Secretary of State
• Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn, lawyer, soldier, and US congressman from Massachusetts
• Nathaniel Folsom, merchant, militia general, and delegate in the Continental Congress
• John Taylor Gilman, 7th and 12th Governor of New Hampshire
• Nicholas Gilman, Jr., signer of US Constitution
• Maggie Hassan, 81st and current Governor of New Hampshire
• Moses Leavitt (1650–1730), early Exeter settler, selectman, and Moderator of the General Court
• Gilman Marston, US congressman and senator; Union Army general
• Tristram Shaw, US congressman
• Henry Shute, lawyer, judge, and author
• Amos Tuck, lawyer and US congressman
• Rev. John Wheelwright, clergyman and founder of Exeter

Sports

• Victoria Arlen, Paralympian swimmer
• Chris Carpenter, pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays and St. Louis Cardinals ^[1]
• Fred Frame, auto racer, Indianapolis 500 winner
• Kevin Romine, right fielder for the Boston Red Sox^[2]

References