Academics and writing

• Ralph Borsodi (1888-1977), author, theorist, died in Exeter^[1]
• Dan Brown (born 1964), author
• Lisa Bunker, author, NH state representative
• Andrew Coburn (1932–2018), author
• Sidney Darlington (1906–1997), electrical engineer; inventor of theDarlington pair
• William Perry Fogg (1826–1909), author, adventurer
• Michael Golay, historian, author
• Thomas Hassan, 14th principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; husband of New Hampshire GovernorMaggie Hassan
• Todd Hearon, poet, musician
• Daniel Heartz (1928–2019),musicologist
• Joe Hill (born 1972), writer
• 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 theDistrict of Columbia, teacher atPhillips Exeter Academy
• John Knowles (1926–2001), author
• Dudley Leavitt (1772–1851), publisher ofFarmers Almanack and Miscellaneous Yearbook
• John Phillips (1719–1795), founder ofPhillips Exeter Academy along with his wife Elizabeth^[2]
• 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

Business

Music

Politics and law

• Frank C. Archibald (1857–1935),Vermont attorney general^[3]
• Charles H. Bell (1823–1893), U.S. senator, 38thgovernor of New Hampshire
• Lewis Cass (1782–1866), 2nd territorialgovernor of Michigan, president pro tempore of the Senate, 22ndU.S. secretary of state
• Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (1783–1851), lawyer, soldier, U.S. congressman fromMassachusetts
• Nicholas Emery (1776–1861), judge, legislator fromMaine
• Nathaniel Folsom (1726–1790),founding father, merchant, militia general, delegate to theContinental Congress
• John Taylor Gilman (1753–1828), 7th and 12thgovernor of New Hampshire
• Nicholas Gilman, Jr. (1755–1814),founding father, signer of U.S. Constitution
• Maggie Hassan (born 1958), 81stgovernor 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 theRepublican Party
• Rev. John Wheelwright (c. 1592–1679), clergyman, founder of Exeter

Religion

Sports

References

1. ^"Ralph Borsodi, Wrote 'Flight from the City'".The New York Times. October 28, 1977.
2. ^"The Academy Center is renamed to honor Elizabeth Phillips".
3. ^Bigelow, Walter J. (1919).Vermont, Its Government 1919-1920. Montpelier, VT: Historical Publishing Company. p. 23.
4. ^Collections of the Maine Historical Society,Maine Historical Society (1896), p. 45
5. ^"Chris Carpenter Stats". Baseball Almanac. RetrievedNovember 26, 2012.
6. ^"Kevin Romine Stats". Baseball Almanac. RetrievedNovember 26, 2012.