List of people from Concord, New Hampshire
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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Concord, New Hampshire.
- John Adams (born 1947), Pulitzer Prize-winning composer[1]
- Emma Elizabeth Brown (born 1847–?), artist, writer
- JooYoung Choi (born 1982), artist[2]
- Carson Cistulli (born 1979), poet, essayist, baseball analyst[3]
- George Condo (born 1957), artist[4]
- Tony Conrad (1940–2016), experimental filmmaker, musician, composer[5]
- Annie Duke (born 1965), professional poker player
- Dan Habib, photojournalist, documentary filmmaker
- Richard Lederer (born 1938), author, commentator on the English language[6]
- Frederick Ferdinand Moore (1881–1947), novelist, soldier, recipient of Japanese Order of the Rising Sun[7]
- Tad Mosel (1922–2008), Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright[8]
- Jascha Richter (born 1963), musician, the lead singer of Danish rock band Michael Learns to Rock[9]
- Tom Rush (born 1941), folk and blues singer and songwriter[10]
- Mary Parker Woodworth (1849–1919), writer, speaker
Business and organizations
- Gary Hirshberg (born 1954), CEO of Stonyfield Farm[11]
- Benjamin Holt (1849–1920), inventor; founder of Holt Manufacturing Company[12]
- 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[13]
- 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)[14]
Military
- Onslow S. Rolfe (1895–1985), U.S. Army brigadier general[15]
Politics
- Joseph Carter Abbott (1825–1881), Union Army general in the Civil War, U.S. senator from North Carolina[16]
- Styles Bridges (1898–1961), U.S. senator, 63rd governor of New Hampshire[17]
- Frank O. Briggs (1851–1913), U.S. senator from New Jersey, New Jersey state senator, mayor of Trenton, New Jersey, born in Concord[18]
- Henry G. Burleigh (1832–1900), U.S. congressman[19]
- Benjamin F. Carter (1824–1916), Wisconsin legislator[20]
- William E. Chandler (1835–1917), U.S. senator, U.S. secretary of the Navy[21]
- Ezra Durgin (1796–1863), Wisconsin legislator[22][23]
- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964), labor leader, activist[24]
- John R. French (1819–1890), U.S. congressman[25]
- Joseph A. Gilmore (1811–1867), railroad superintendent, 29th governor of New Hampshire[26]
- Isaac Hill (1788–1851), U.S. senator, 16th governor of New Hampshire[27]
- Paul Hodes (born 1951), U.S. congressman[28]
- Arthur Livermore (1766–1853), U.S. congressman[29]
- Mace Moulton (1796–1867), U.S. congressman[30]
- Franklin Pierce (1804–1869), 14th president of the United States[31]
- David Souter (1939–2025), associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States[32]
- Thomas Stickney (1729–1809), soldier in the American Revolution, statesman[33]
- George P. Tebbetts (1828–1909), third mayor of San Diego (1852)[34]
- Robert W. Upton (1884–1972), U.S. senator[35]
Religious workers
- Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist[36]
- Ruth A. Parmelee (1885–1973), Christian missionary, witness to the Armenian genocide
- Armenia S. White (1817–1916) suffragette, philanthropist, social reformer[37]