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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Concord, New Hampshire.

Artists, authors, and entertainers

• John Adams (born 1947), Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
• Emma Elizabeth Brown (born 1847–?), artist, writer
• Carson Cistulli (born 1979), poet, essayist, baseball analyst
• JooYoung Choi (born 1982), artist
• George Condo (born 1957), artist
• Tony Conrad (1940–2016), experimental filmmaker, musician, composer
• Annie Duke (born 1965), professional poker player
• Dan Habib, photojournalist, documentary filmmaker
• Richard Lederer (born 1938), author, commentator on the English language
• Frederick Ferdinand Moore (1881–1947), novelist, soldier, recipient of Japanese Order of the Rising Sun
• Tad Mosel (1922–2008), Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
• Tom Rush (born 1941), folk and blues singer and songwriter
• Mary Parker Woodworth (1849–1919), writer, speaker

Business and organizations

• Gary Hirshberg (born 1954), CEO of Stonyfield Farm
• Benjamin Holt (1849–1920), inventor; founder of Holt Manufacturing Company
• Levi Hutchins (1761–1855), clockmaker, inventor in 1787 of the first American alarm clock
• Sylvester Marsh (1803–1884), builder of the Mount Washington Cog Railway
• Fanny E. Minot (1847–1919), national president Woman's Relief Corps
• Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford (1774–1852), philanthropist, founder of Rolfe and Rumford Asylum and daughter of Benjamin Thompson (loyalist to Britain during the American Revolutionary War)

Military

• Onslow S. Rolfe (1895–1985), U.S. Army brigadier general

Politics

• Joseph Carter Abbott (1825–1881), Union Army general in the Civil War, U.S. senator from North Carolina
• Styles Bridges (1898–1961), U.S. senator, 63rd governor of New Hampshire
• Frank O. Briggs (1851–1913), U.S. Senator from New Jersey, New Jersey State Senator, Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey, born in Concord
• Henry G. Burleigh (1832–1900), U.S. congressman
• Benjamin F. Carter (1824–1916), Wisconsin legislator
• William E. Chandler (1835–1917), U.S. senator, U.S. Secretary of the Navy
• Ezra Durgin (1796–1863), Wisconsin legislator
• John R. French (1819–1890), U.S. congressman
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964), labor leader, activist
• Joseph A. Gilmore (1811–1867), railroad superintendent, 29th governor of New Hampshire
• Isaac Hill (1788–1851), U.S. senator, 16th governor of New Hampshire
• Paul Hodes (born 1951), U.S. congressman
• Arthur Livermore (1766–1853), U.S. congressman
• Mace Moulton (1796–1867), U.S. congressman
• Franklin Pierce (1804–1869), 14th president of the United States
• David Souter (born 1939), retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Thomas Stickney (1729–1809), soldier in the American Revolution, statesman
• George P. Tebbetts (1828–1909), third mayor of San Diego (1852)
• Robert W. Upton (1884–1972), U.S. senator

Religious workers

• Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist
• Ruth A. Parmelee (1885–1973), Christian missionary, witness to the Armenian genocide
• Armenia S. White (1817–1916) suffragette, philanthropist, social reformer

Scientists and academics

• Judy Fortin (born 1961), medical correspondent for CNN
• Jane Elizabeth Hoyt-Stevens (1860–1933), physician, writer, and suffragist based in Concord
• Christa McAuliffe (1948–1986), teacher, first Teacher in Space project winner, died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
• Jane M. Olson (1952–2004), genetic epidemiologist and biostatistician
• Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753–1814), scientist, inventor, loyalist during the American Revolutionary War

Sports

• Gavin Bayreuther (born 1994), defensemen for the Columbus Blue Jackets
• Matt Bonner (born 1980), power forward and center for the Toronto Raptors and San Antonio Spurs
• Joe Lefebvre (born 1956), right fielder for the New York Yankees, San Diego Padres, and Philadelphia Phillies
• Ben Lovejoy (born 1984), former NHL defensemen
• Tara Mounsey (born 1978), hockey defenseman, played for the U.S. Women's Olympic Hockey Team
• Red Rolfe (1908–1969), New York Yankees starting player, five-time World Series winner
• Brian Sabean (born 1956), general manager of the San Francisco Giants
• Bob Tewksbury (born 1960), pitcher for six Major League Baseball teams

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