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 (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
 * 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

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), 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
 * 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