Famous People From New Hampshire
Ambit Energy entrepreneur Ray Montie makes his home in New Hampshire. Though the New England state isn’t the largest, many successful people have either been born there or called it home.
American poet e.e. cummings, who is associated with modern free-form poetry and often considered one of the most influential modern poets, was born in Massachusetts but spent much of his early life on Silver Lake in Madison, New Hampshire. His family eventually bought a farm nearby.
Maxfield Parrish was an artist and illustrator known for his idealized neo-classical figures and saturated hues. His fifty-year career was wildly successful, and his painting, Daybreak, was the most popular art print of the 20th century. Maxfield Parrish was born in Philadelphia and toured Europe to study the work of the old masters before settling in New Hampshire.
Jodi Piccoult is the acclaimed author of twenty-six novels and accompanying short stories as well as DC Comics Wonder Woman. In addition to a long list of literary awards, Jodi Piccoult is known for her advocacy on behalf of women and the LGBT community. She lives in Hanover.
This well-loved actor, comedian, and filmmaker got his start on Saturday Night Live and went on to earn more than two billion dollars at the box office.
Comedian, writer, producer, and actor Seth Myers grew up in Bedford, New Hampshire. He currently host the show Late Night With Seth Myers.
Performer, comedian, writer, producer, musician, activist, and winner of two Primetime Emmys, a Screen Actor’s Guild Award, a Grammy, and many others, Sarah Silverman was born in Bedford, New Hampshire.
Astronaut Alan Shephard was born in Derry, New Hampshire, in 1923. He attended the US Naval Academy and 1961, became the second man to travel to space. In 1971, he walked on the moon.
Franklin Pierce was the fourteenth President of the United States and served from 1853-1857. He was born in New Hampshire and supported the Abolitionist Movement prior to the American Civil War.
Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk, who played for the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago White Sox, was born in Bellows Falls, Vermont, which was the closest hospital to his home town of Charlestown, New Hampshire.
New Hampshire has spawned its share of serial killers, including one of the most bizarre and prolific, H.H. Holmes, famous for his “murder hotel” in which as many as 200 people may have lost their lives. He was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, in 1861. Holmes was born Herman Webster Mudgett in 1861 and lived in the area until adulthood. He graduated from the University of Michigan’s Department of Medicine and Surgery in 1884, and not long after, his fascination with dissection as well as a long career of insurance fraud—initially using corpses to defraud insurance companies—began soon after.
Holmes’s golden age as a serial killer truly began when he arrived in Chicago in 1886 and began construction of his infamous Murder Castle. The castle had a pharmacy on the ground floor, while the second and thirds floors were filled with elaborate torture rooms, twisting, maze-like hallways that went nowhere, false walls and partitions, and pipes through which gas could fill some of the rooms. Some rooms were also equipped with chutes so corpses could be dropped directly into the basement, where vats of acid, quicklime, and a crematorium waited to dispose of them. Holmes rented out rooms in this “hotel” during the Chicago’s World’s Fair, taking advantage of the huge transient population moving through the city at that time.
H.H. Holmes was executed in Philadelphia in 1896. A spectacular account of his career as well as the culture at the time can be read in Eric Larson’s wonderful book, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America.
Serial killer Brian Dugan was active in Chicago but born in Nashua, New Hampshire, and Samuel Green, robber, serial killer, and dubbed “America’s first public enemy number one” was born in Meredith in 1796. Manson family member Linda Kasabian grew up in Milford, New Hampshire.
As you can see from the previous and far from exhaustive list, New Hampshire, the Granite State, has produced some of the most renowned poets, artists, entertainers, and athletes as well as one of the most prolific and depraved killers, certainly the most prolific in the United States at the turn of the century, in H.H. Holmes.
New Hampshire will surely continue to nurture success. As a state, it is educated and progressive. It is home to the Ivy League university, Dartmouth College, which was founded before the Revolutionary War. Notable Dartmouth alumni include Mindy Kaling, Shonda Rhimes, Rachel Dratch, Aisha Tyler, Daniel Webster, Kirsten Gillibrand, Seth Abramson, Jake Tapper, Robert Frost, and astronaut James H. Newman, to name just a few.
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