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^[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

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

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

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

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

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