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 JooYoung Choi (born 1982), artist Carson Cistulli (born 1979), poet, essayist, baseball analyst 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 Jascha Richter (born 1963), musician, the lead singer of Danish rock band Michael Learns to Rock 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 Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964), labor leader, activist John R. French (1819–1890), U.S. congressman Joseph A. Gilmore (1811–1867), railroad superintendent, 29th governor of New Hampshire Charles G. Haines (1792–1825), Democratic-Republican Party organizer in Concord, Adjutant General of New York 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 (1939–2025), 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), defenseman 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 defenseman 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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