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 Sidney Darlington (July 18, 1906 – October 31, 1997) was an American electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration in 1953, the Darlington pair. He advanced the state of network theory, developing the insertion-loss synth ...

(1906–1997), electrical engineer; inventor of the

Darlington pair In electronics, a multi-transistor configuration called the Darlington configuration (commonly called a Darlington pair) is a circuit consisting of two bipolar transistors with the emitter of one transistor connected to the base of the other, su ...

William Perry Fogg William Perry Fogg (27 July 1826 – 8 May 1909) was an American adventurer and author, as well as the inspiration for Phileas Fogg in the 1873 novel ''Around the World in 80 Days''. Fogg was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, the son of Josiah F ...

(1826–1909), author, adventurer *

Michael Golay Michael Golay (born ) is an American author and former journalist. He is most known for his book ''A Ruined Land: The End of the Civil War'', which was a finalist for the prestigious Lincoln Prize. He currently lives with his wife, Julie Quinn, in E ...

, historian, author *

Thomas Hassan Thomas Edward Hassan is an American educator who served as the first gentleman of New Hampshire from 2013 to 2017 as the husband of governor Maggie Hassan.. He has served as the President of School Year Abroad since June 2016. Previously, he wor ...

, 14th principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; husband of New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan *

Todd Hearon Todd Hearon (born ) is an American poet, songwriter, dramatist and fiction writer. He is the author of three collections of poems -- STRANGE LAND, NO OTHER GODS and CROWS IN EDEN -- a number of plays and essays, and a novella, DO GEESE SEE GOD. ...

, poet, musician *

Daniel Heartz Daniel Heartz (1928–2019) was an American musicologist and professor emeritus of music at the University of California, Berkeley. Heartz studied at Harvard University. He lived in Berkeley, California Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern ...

(1928–2019), musicologist *

Charles Snead Houston Charles Snead Houston (August 24, 1913 – September 27, 2009) was an American physician, mountaineer, high-altitude investigator, inventor, author, film-maker, and former Peace Corps administrator. He made two important and celebrated attem ...

(1913–2009), mountaineer, medical doctor, Peace Corps administrator, author * John Irving (born 1942), author *

Dolores Kendrick Dolores Kendrick (September 7, 1927 – November 7, 2017) was an American poet, and served as the second Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia. Her book ''The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women'' won the Anisfield-Wolf Award. ...

(1927–2017), author, poet laureate of the District of Columbia, teacher at

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* John Knowles (1926–2001), author *

Dudley Leavitt Dudley Leavitt (August 31, 1830 – October 15, 1908) was an early Patriarch (Latter Day Saints), patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a Mormon pioneer and an early settler in southern Utah. Biography Leavi ...

(1772–1851), publisher of ''Farmers Almanack and Miscellaneous Yearbook'' * John Phillips (1719–1795), founder of

along with his wife Elizabeth * William Robinson (1794-1864), school founder *

Edward L. Rowan Edward Leslie Rowan (born c. 1940) is a retired psychiatrist, sex therapist, active author, and Scouting leader from Exeter, New Hampshire. He has been associated with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) for over 50 years and is a recipient of the D ...

(), psychiatrist, author,

Scouting Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement employing the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft, aquatics, hiking, backpacking ...

leader *

Tabitha Gilman Tenney __NOTOC__ Tabitha Gilman Tenney (1762–1837) was an early American author from Exeter, New Hampshire. Writing Tenney's novel ''Female Quixotism, Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon'', which fo ...

(1762–1837), novelist, proto-feminist *

James Monroe Whitfield James Monroe Whitfield (c. April 10, 1822 – April 23, 1871) was an African-American poet, abolitionist, and political activist. He was a notable writer and activist in abolitionism and African emigration during the antebellum era. He published th ...

(1822–1871), abolitionist poet

Arts

Daniel Chester French Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, best known for his 1874 sculpture ''The Minute Man'' in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1920 monume ...

(1850–1931), sculptor; '' Abraham Lincoln'' at the

Lincoln Memorial The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial built to honor the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is on the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., across from the Washington Monument, and is in the ...

Elizabeth Jane Gardner Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau (October 4, 1837 – January 28, 1922) was an American academic and salon painter, who was born in Exeter, New Hampshire. She was an American expatriate who died in Paris where she had lived most of her life. ...

(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 The Continental Army was the army of the United Colonies (the Thirteen Colonies) in the Revolutionary-era United States. It was formed by the Second Continental Congress after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, and was establis ...

brigadier general *

Ambrose Swasey Ambrose Swasey (December 19, 1846 – June 15, 1937) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, manager, astronomer, and philanthropist. With Worcester R. Warner he co-founded the Warner & Swasey Company. Life and work Swasey ...

(1846–1937), mechanical engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, manager, astronomer, philanthropist *

Edward Tuck Edward Tuck (August 24, 1842 – April 30, 1938) was an American banker, diplomat, and philanthropist. He is known for funding the establishment of the Tuck School of Business at his alma mater, Dartmouth College. The son of Amos Tuck, a found ...

(1842–1938), banker, diplomat, philanthropist

Music

Gregory W. Brown Gregory W. Brown is an American composer whose works have been performed across the United States and Europe, including Carnegie Hall in New York City, Cadogan Hall in London, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. His commissions for vocal ensemble ...

(born 1974), musician, pianist * Daniel Cartier (born 1969), singer and actor *

EpicLLOYD Lloyd Leonard Ahlquist (born January 18, 1977), better known by his online alias EpicLLOYD, is an American internet personality best known for the YouTube video series ''Epic Rap Battles of History'', along with Peter Shukoff ("Nice Peter"). Ahlq ...

(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 Daniel Edgerly Zanes (born November 8, 1961) is an American former member of the popular 1980s band the Del Fuegos and is now the front man of the Grammy-winning group Dan Zanes and Friends. History Zanes's father was a teacher, as well as a p ...

(born 1961), lead singer of The Del Fuegos and Dan Zanes and Friends

Politics and law

* Frank C. Archibald (1857–1935),

Vermont Attorney General The Vermont Attorney General is a statewide elected executive official in the U.S. state of Vermont who is elected every two years. It was created by an act of the Vermont General Assembly in 1790, repealed in 1797, and revived in 1904. The office ...

* Charles H. Bell (1823–1893), U.S. senator, 38th Governor of New Hampshire *

Lewis Cass Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782June 17, 1866) was an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United States Senate and served in the Cabinets of two U.S. Presidents, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. He w ...

(1782–1866), 2nd Territorial

Governor of Michigan The governor of Michigan is the head of state, head of government, and chief executive of the U.S. state of Michigan. The current governor is Gretchen Whitmer, a member of the Democratic Party, who was inaugurated on January 1, 2019, as the stat ...

, President pro tempore of the Senate, 22nd U.S. Secretary of State *

Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (March 3, 1783July 29, 1851) was an American soldier, lawyer, author, and statesman. Dearborn was the first President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and t ...

(1783–1851), lawyer, soldier, U.S. congressman from Massachusetts *

Nicholas Emery Nicholas Emery (September 4, 1776 – August 24, 1861) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as an associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from October 22, 1834, to October 21, 1841. Early life and educatio ...

(1776–1861), judge, legislator from Maine *

Nathaniel Folsom Nathaniel Folsom (September 28, 1726 – May 26, 1790) was an American merchant and statesman. He was a delegate for New Hampshire in the Continental Congress in 1774 and 1777 to 1780, signing the Continental Association. He served as major genera ...

(1726–1790), Founding Father, merchant, militia general, delegate to the

Continental Congress The Continental Congress was a series of legislative bodies, with some executive function, for thirteen of Britain's colonies in North America, and the newly declared United States just before, during, and after the American Revolutionary War. ...

* 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 The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people. Twenty of the victims were children between six and seven years old, and t ...

(1992–2012), mass murderer *

Moses Leavitt Moses Leavitt (1650–1730) was an early settler of Exeter, New Hampshire, in what is now the United States, where he worked as a surveyor. Later he became a large landowner, and served as selectman, and as a Deputy and later Moderator of the ...

(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 Caesar Nero Paul (c. 1741 – 1823), patriarch of a prominent New England family of writers, clergymen, and abolitionists. A victim of the Atlantic slave trade as a young child, he became a free man after the French and Indian War; married a white w ...

(c. 1741–1823), ex-slave, soldier and founder of a prominent family of abolitionists *

Tristram Shaw Tristram Shaw (May 23, 1786 – March 14, 1843) was a United States representative from New Hampshire. He was born in Hampton, New Hampshire in 1786. He completed preparatory studies there. Shaw held several local offices in Exeter, New Hampshir ...

(1786–1843), U.S. congressman *

Henry Shute Henry Augustus Shute (1856–1943) was an American lawyer, judge and writer, who was best known for his "Plupy" stories in ''The Saturday Evening Post'' and a series of books. Biography Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, Shute was a graduate of Phil ...

(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 Republican Party is a name used by many political parties around the world, though the term most commonly refers to the United States' Republican Party. Republican Party may also refer to: Africa *Republican Party (Liberia) * Republican Part ...

* Rev. John Wheelwright (–1679), clergyman, founder of Exeter

Religion

Tristram Gilman Tristram Gilman (November 24, 1735 – April 1, 1809) was an American Congregational minister who served as the fourth pastor of the "Old Ledge" meetinghouse in what was then North Yarmouth, Massachusetts (now Yarmouth, Maine), for forty years ...

(1735–1809), minister, descendant of the sixth generation of the town's early settler, Edward Gilman''Collections of the Maine Historical Society'', Maine Historical Society (1896), p. 45 * 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 Victoria Arlen (born September 26, 1994) is a current television personality for ESPN, as well as an actress, speaker, model, and former American paralympian swimmer. Early life Victoria Arlen was born in New Hampshire, USA, on September 26, 1 ...

(born 1994),

Paralympian The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaire ...

swimmer *

Chris Carpenter Christopher John Carpenter (born April 27, 1975) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays and St. Louis Cardinals from 1997 to 2012. A Cy Young Award win ...

(born 1975), pitched for the Toronto Blue Jays and St. Louis Cardinals * Fred Frame (1894–1962), auto racer, 1932 Indianapolis 500-winner *

Heather Jackson Heather Jackson (born April 24, 1984) is an American triathlete and track cyclist. She is the runner-up of the 2013 Ironman 70.3 World Championship and the third-place finisher at the 2012 Ironman 70.3 World Championship. In 2009, she took thir ...

(born 1984), professional triathlete *

Hunter Long Hunter Long (born August 19, 1998) is an American football tight end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Boston College and was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the third round of the 2021 ...

(born 1998), tight end for the Miami Dolphins *

Kevin Romine Kevin Andrew Romine (born May 23, 1961) is a former utility outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox throughout his career (1985–1991). Biography Romine attended Fountain Valley High School in Fountain Valley, Cali ...

(born 1961), right fielder for the Boston Red Sox * Timothy Shinnick, Major League Baseball second baseman 1890–1891; played for the Louisville Colonels

References

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Exeter Exeter () is a city in Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol. In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal comm ...