See also: Category:People from Hanover, New Hampshire
The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Academics and writing
- Philip Booth (1925–2007), poet
- Andy Borowitz (born 1958), writer, comedian, satirist, actor
- C. Loring Brace (1930–2019), anthropologist
- Gerald Warner Brace (1901–1978), writer, educator, sailor, boat builder
- Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (1829–1889), first deaf-blind American to gain a significant education in the English language
- Francis Brown (1849–1916), Semitic scholar
- Bill Bryson (born 1951), author
- James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888), preacher, author
- Richard Eberhart (1904–2005), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
- Janet Evanovich (born 1943), writer
- Barbara Newhall Follett (1914–disappeared 1939), author; in December 1939, aged 25, reportedly became depressed with her marriage and walked out of her apartment, never to be seen again
- Richard Foster (1826–1901), abolitionist, educator
- Joan Halifax (born 1942), Zen Buddhist teacher, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, author
- Virginia Heffernan (born 1969), critic, columnist, author
- Grace Webster Haddock Hinsdale (1832–1902), author
- Paul D. Paganucci (1931–2001), investment banker, university educator, college financial administrator, businessman
- Jodi Picoult (born 1966), author
- Mary Roach (born 1959), author
- Kate Sanborn (1839–1917), author, teacher, lecturer, reviewer, compiler, essayist, farmer
- Armstrong Sperry (1897–1976), writer-illustrator of children's literature
- Eleazar Wheelock (1711–1779), college founder
Arts
- Nicol Allan (1931–2019), artist
- Dave Cole (born 1975), contemporary sculptor
Business and design
- Hal Barwood, game developer
- George Bissell (1821–1884), industrialist
- William Kamkwamba (born 1987), inventor, author
- Olin Stephens (1908–2008), yacht designer
Media
- Jack Beatty (born 1945), writer, commentator
- Tom Dey (born 1965), film director
- Brad Feldman (born 1967), television and radio announcer
- Dana Vespoli, pornographic actress
Medical
- Dixi Crosby (1800–1873), surgeon, educator at Dartmouth College
- C. Everett Koop (1916–2013), Surgeon General of the United States
Military
- Thomas C. Kinkaid (1888–1972), U.S. Navy admiral during WWII
Music
- Sir Babygirl (born 1993), singer, songwriter, guitarist
- Al Barr (born 1968), vocalist for Dropkick Murphys
- Kent Carter (born 1939), jazz musician
- Ken Chastain (born 1964), musician, engineer, producer
- Charlie Clouser (born 1963), keyboardist, composer, record producer, remixer
- Noah Kahan (born 1997), singer-songwriter
- Jon Spencer (born 1965), singer, composer, guitarist
Politics and law
- Henry Fowle Durant (1822–1881), lawyer, philanthropist
- Jonathan Freeman (1745–1808), U.S. congressman
- C. Everett Koop (1916–2013), 13th U.S. Surgeon General
- Sean Patrick Maloney (born 1966), U.S. congressman
- James W. Patterson (1823–1893), U.S. congressman and senator
- James W. Ripley (1786–1835), attorney, Jacksonian U.S. congressman
- Samuel Taggart (1754–1825), U.S. congressman
- Daniel Webster (1782–1852), U.S. congressman, senator from Massachusetts
- Leonard Wilcox (1799–1850), U.S. senator
Sports
- Barbara Bedford (born 1972), Olympic swimmer
- Nate Fish (born 1980), baseball player and coach
- Hilary Knight (born 1989), women's hockey forward; 2010 and 2014 Olympic silver medalist
- Kevin Pearce (born 1987), former professional snowboarder; competed professionally from 2007 to 2009, when a crash during snowboard training left him with a traumatic brain injury
- Ben True (born 1985), runner; World Cross Country Championships silver medalist (2013)
References
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- ^ "Professor C. Loring Brace: Bringing Physical Anthropology ("Kicking and Screaming") Into the 21st Century!" (PDF). umich.ed. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
- McGinnity, B.L., Seymour-Ford, J. and Andries, K.J. (2004) "Laura Bridgman". Perkins History Museum, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA.
- "PRESIDENTS OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE". Dartmouth. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
- "COMING HOME". The New York Times. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
- "James Freeman Clarke". Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
- "Richard Eberhart". PoetryFoundation. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
- "Janet Evanovich". Forbes. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
- "Biographical Sketch of Richard Baxter Foster", Dictionary of Missouri Biographies, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri: 1999, pg. 311-313
- "Roshi Joan Halifax on compassion, women in Buddhism, and altruism". Spirituality & Health. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
- "Virginia Heffernan, Television Critic". The New York Times. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
- Robinson, Charles Seymour (1893). Annotations Upon Popular Hymns (Public domain ed.). Hunt & Easton. pp. 368–.
- "Paul D. Paganucci '53, TU'54, Vice President and Treasurer of the College Emeritus" (PDF). Dartmouth. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
- Donahue, Deirdre (March 3, 2009). "Jodi Picoult's life is far from her wrenching novels". USA Today. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
- "Mary Roach". The Morning News. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
- Marquis, Albert Nelson (1915). Who's Who in New England: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. A.N. Marquis & Company. p. 939.
- "To Bora-Bora and Back Again: The Story of Armstrong W. Sperry". Armstrong Sperry. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
- Alex de Sherbinin (2011). "Eleazar Wheelock: The Man and His Legacy" (PDF). Columbia University, Creative Commons. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
- "About". davecoledavecol.com. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
- "Hal Barwood Interview". Adventure Gamers. 23 July 2002. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
- Hall, Henry (1885). America's Successful Men of Affairs: The city of New York. p. 87.
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- "RIPLEY, James Wheelock (1786-1835)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
- "TAGGART, Samuel, (1754 - 1825)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
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- "Throwback Thursday: Ben True". Running Times. 14 November 2013. Retrieved December 14, 2013.