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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in
Exeter, New Hampshire .
Academics and writing
John Irving
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
[1]
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
Elizabeth Jane Gardner
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
[2]
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
[3]
Thomas Paul (1773-1831), minister and abolitionist; founder of the First African Baptist Church in Boston, currently known as the
African Meeting House
Sports
References