Notable burials · NH
Notable people buried in New Hampshire
Wikidata records 422 notable people as buried in New Hampshire, spread over 107 of the cemeteries we list, the 33rd highest count of any state. Blossom Hill Cemetery in Concord holds the most, with 45 (11% of the state total).
422
notable burials
107
cemeteries with one or more
45
at Blossom Hill Cemetery
By theme
Who is buried in New Hampshire
Government
First Ladies of the United States1Governors33Presidents of the United States1United States representatives50United States senators28
Military
American Civil War veterans10Korean War veterans1Medal of Honor recipients5Mexican-American War veterans1American Revolutionary War veterans3Spanish-American War veterans1World War I veterans2World War II veterans6
Arts and entertainment
Actors4Architects2Painters, sculptors and photographers17Journalists8Musicians and singers12Pulitzer Prize winners1Writers and poets37
Sports
American football players5Baseball players8Basketball players2Boxers1
Science and work
From occupations, offices, awards and military service recorded on Wikidata. One person can appear in several lists.
People
Best-documented burials in New Hampshire
- Franklin Pierce1804-1869President of the United States from 1853 to 1857Old North Cemetery, Concord, NH
- Alan Shepard1923-1998American astronaut, first American in space, lunar explorerForest Hill Cemetery, Derry Village, NH
- Harlow Shapley1885-1972American astronomerNorth Cemetery, Peterborough, NH
- Claude Rains1889-1967British actorRed Hill Cemetery, Center Harbor, NH
- Ralph H. Baer1922-2014German-born American inventor and engineerHebrew Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Jane Pierce1806-1863First Lady of the United States from 1853 to 1857Old North Cemetery, Concord, NH
- Ogden Nash1902-1971American poetEast Cemetery, North Hampton, NH
- Edward MacDowell1860-1908American composerMacDowell Cemetery, Peterborough, NH
- Maxfield Parrish1870-1966American painter and illustratorPlainfield Cemetery, Lebanon, NH
- Lilla Cabot Perry1848-1933American artistNorway Plain Cemetery, Antrim, NH
- John Langdon1741-1819American politician and Founding FatherNorth Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH
- Arthur E. Kennelly1861-1939American electrical engineerDublin Town Cemetery, Dublin, NH
- Kenneth Appel1932-2013American mathematicianPine Hill Cemetery, Dover, NH
- Jack Sharkey1902-1994American boxerProspect Cemetery, Epping, NH
- Grace Metalious1924-1964American-French writerSmith Meeting House Cemetery, Gilmanton, NH
- Nicholas Gilman1755-1814American politicianExeter Cemetery, Exeter, NH
- Albert Henry Munsell1858-1918American artistProprietors Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH
- William Whipple1730-1785American politician and Founding FatherNorth Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH
- John P. Hale1806-1873American politicianPine Hill Cemetery, Dover, NH
- Joseph Carter Abbott1825-1881American general, senatorValley Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- William E. Chandler1835-1917American politicianBlossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, NH
- Clara Eaton Cummings1855-1906American cryptogamic botanist and university teacherPLeasant Valley Cemetery, Plymouth, NH
- Mary Brush1866-1949American painter, sculptor, and pioneer of aviationDublin Town Cemetery, Dublin, NH
- Samuel Livermore1732-1803American politicianTrinity Church Yard Cemetery, Plymouth, NH
- Daniel Clark1809-1891American politician, lawyer and judgeValley Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Perkins Bass1912-2011PoliticianPine Hill Cemetery, Peterborough, NH
- Person Colby Cheney1828-1901American politicianPine Grove Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Alvan Tufts Fuller1878-1958American politicianEast Cemetery, North Hampton, NH
- Justin Harvey Smith1857-1930American historianPlains Cemetery, Boscawen, NH
- Alfred B. Kittredge1861-1911American politicianConant Cemetery, Jaffrey, NH
- Francis Wayland Parker1837-1902US education pioneerPiscataquog Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Gretchen Merrill1925-1965Figure skaterExeter Cemetery, Exeter, NH
- Isaac Hill1789-1851American politicianBlossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, NH
- Robert W. Upton1884-1972American politicianBlossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, NH
- Edward H. Rollins1824-1889American politicianBlossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, NH
- Olive Hazlett1890-1974American mathematician & academicSaint Peters Cemetery New, Peterborough, NH
- John Page1787-1865American farmer and politicianLadd Street Cemetery, Haverhill, NH
- Amos Tuck1810-1879American politicianExeter Cemetery, Exeter, NH
- Charles H. Bell1823-1893American politicianExeter Cemetery, Exeter, NH
- Gilman Marston1811-1890Union United States Army general, politicianExeter Cemetery, Exeter, NH
- John S. Wells1803-1860American politicianExeter Cemetery, Exeter, NH
- Samuel Bell1770-1850American politicianVillage Cemetery, Chester, NH
- Henry F. Hollis1869-1949American politicianBlossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, NH
- George de Forest Brush1855-1941American artistDublin Town Cemetery, Dublin, NH
- Robert P. Bass1873-1960American politicianPine Hill Cemetery, Peterborough, NH
- Moses Norris Jr.1799-1855American politicianFloral Park Cemetery, Pittsfield, NH
- Frank Gay Clarke1850-1901American politicianPine Hill Cemetery, Peterborough, NH
- Henry E. Burnham1844-1917American politicianPine Grove Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Samuel D. Felker1859-1932American politicianRochester Cemetery, Rochester, NH
- Fletcher Hale1883-1931American politicianUnion Cemetery, Laconia, NH
- Edwin Eugene Bagley1857-1922American composerGreenlawn Cemetery, Keene, NH
- Benning W. Jenness1806-1879American politicianShackford-Jenness Cemetery, Northwood, NH
- James Bell1804-1857American politicianExeter Cemetery, Exeter, NH
- George G. Fogg1813-1881American politicianBlossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, NH
- Jacob Harold Gallinger1837-1918American politicianBlossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, NH
- David L. Morril1772-1849American politicianOld North Cemetery, Concord, NH
- Matthew Harvey1781-1866United States federal judgeOld North Cemetery, Concord, NH
- Thomas W. Thompson1766-1821American politicianOld North Cemetery, Concord, NH
- William Allis1901-1999PhysicistDublin Town Cemetery, Dublin, NH
- Thomas M. Edwards1795-1875American politicianWoodland Cemetery, Keene, NH
- Percy Goetschius1853-1943American composerPine Grove Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Eugene Elliott Reed1866-1940American politicianPine Grove Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Hosea Washington Parker1833-1922American politician and lawyerMountainview Cemetery, Claremont, NH
- Orren C. Moore1839-1893American politicianWoodlawn Cemetery, Nashua, NH
- William Badger1779-1852American politicianSmith Meeting House Cemetery, Gilmanton, NH
- Duffy Lewis1888-1979American baseball player and coachHoly Cross Cemetery, Derry, NH
- Jonathan Grout1737-1807American politicianPine Hill Cemetery, Dover, NH
- Frank W. Rollins1860-1915American politicianBlossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, NH
- Clement Storer1760-1830American politicianNorth Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH
- John Pickering1737-1805American juristNorth Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH
- Marian MacDowell1857-1956American musicianMacDowell Cemetery, Peterborough, NH
- Walter R. Peterson1922-2011American politicianPine Hill Cemetery, Peterborough, NH
- James A. Weston1827-1895American civil engineer, banker and politicianPine Grove Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Albert O. Brown1852-1937American politicianPine Grove Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Joshua G. Hall1828-1898American politicianPine Hill Cemetery, Peterborough, NH
- Sherman Everett Burroughs1870-1923American politicianPine Grove Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Jacob Hart Ela1820-1884American politicianRochester Cemetery, Rochester, NH
- Frank Dunklee Currier1853-1921American politicianCanaan Street Cemetery, Enfield, NH
- Ellery Albee Hibbard1826-1903American politicianUnion Cemetery, Laconia, NH
- Joseph Oliva Huot1917-1983American politicianSacred Heart Cemetery, Laconia, NH
- Samuel W. Hale1823-1891American politicianGreenlawn Cemetery, Keene, NH
- Henry Whitney Bellows1814-1882American priestWalpole Village Cemetery, Alstead, NH
- Ralph Metcalf1796-1858American politicianHope Hill Cemetery, Claremont, NH
- Ambrose Swasey1846-1937American engineerExeter Cemetery, Exeter, NH
- Ira Allen Eastman1809-1881American politicianValley Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Samuel Newell Bell1829-1889American politicianValley Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Frederick Smyth1819-1899American politicianValley Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- George W. Morrison1809-1888American politicianValley Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Ezekiel A. Straw1819-1882American politicianValley Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Moody Currier1806-1898American politicianValley Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- John Weeks Moore1807-1889American editorValley Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Abby Sage Richardson1837-1900Born 1837; died 1900Valley Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Levi Hutchins1761-1855American clockmakerOld North Cemetery, Concord, NH
- Woodbury Langdon1739-1805American politicianNorth Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH
- Ralph Delahaye Paine1871-1925American journalist and author, later politicianDurham Cemetery, Durham, NH
- Evarts Worcester Farr1840-1880American politicianGlenwood Cemetery, Littleton, NH
- Benjamin W. Kilburn1827-1909American photographerGlenwood Cemetery, Littleton, NH
- Martha Betz Shapley1890-1981American astronomerNorth Cemetery, Peterborough, NH
- Simon Goodell Griffin1824-1902United States Army generalWoodland Cemetery, Keene, NH
- Salma Hale1787-1866American politicianWoodland Cemetery, Keene, NH
- Arthur B. Jenks1866-1947American politicianPine Grove Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- George E. Adams1840-1917American politicianPine Hill Cemetery, Peterborough, NH
- John Butler Smith1838-1914New Hampshire governor and businessmanPine Grove Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Isaac D. White1901-1990United States Army generalPine Hill Cemetery, Peterborough, NH
- Charles M. Floyd1861-1923American politicianPine Grove Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Arthur Livermore1766-1853American politicianTrinity Church Yard Cemetery, Plymouth, NH
- Clifton Clagett1762-1829American politicianMeadow View Cemetery, Milford, NH
- John Randall Reding1805-1892American politicianLadd Street Cemetery, Haverhill, NH
- Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr.1799-1869American politicianWashington Cemetery, Keene, NH
- Samuel Dinsmoor1766-1835American politicianWashington Cemetery, Keene, NH
- Hall J. Kelley1790-1874American explorerWilson Hill Cemetery, Barnstead, NH
- John Howland1873-1926American pediatrician and medical educatorWalpole Village Cemetery, Alstead, NH
- James Frankland Briggs1827-1905American politicianGreen Grove Cemetery, Ashland, NH
- David H. Goodell1834-1915American politicianMaplewood Cemetery, Antrim, NH
- Richard McDonald1909-1998American entrepreneur, co-founder of McDonald'sMount Calvary Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Maurice McDonald1902-1971American entrepreneur, co-founder of McDonald'sMount Calvary Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Charles H. Sawyer1840-1908American politicianPine Hill Cemetery, Dover, NH
- Francis P. Murphy1877-1958American politicianSaint Patricks Cemetery, Newport, NH
- Robert O. Blood1887-1975American politicianBlossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, NH
- Henry Harrison Metcalf1841-1932American editor, historian, and author from New HampshireBlossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, NH
- John Samuel Sherburne1757-1830United States federal judgeNorth Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH
- Edgar Aldrich1848-1921American federal judgeGlenwood Cemetery, Littleton, NH
- Bertram Ellis1860-1920American newspaper editorWoodland Cemetery, Keene, NH
- James Wilson1766-1839American politician from New HampshireWoodland Cemetery, Keene, NH
- James Wilson1797-1881American politician from New HampshireWoodland Cemetery, Keene, NH
- Hiram A. Tuttle1837-1911American politicianFloral Park Cemetery, Pittsfield, NH
- Harl Pease1917-1942Air Force Medal of Honor recipientTrinity Church Yard Cemetery, Plymouth, NH
- Robert Burns1792-1866American politicianTrinity Church Yard Cemetery, Plymouth, NH
- Fanny E. Langdon1864-1899American botanist and zoologistTrinity Church Yard Cemetery, Plymouth, NH
- Charles A. Busiel1842-1901American politicianUnion Cemetery, Laconia, NH
- John Adams Harper1779-1816American congressman for New HampshireUnion Cemetery, Laconia, NH
- Ike Van Zandt1876-1908Major League Baseball playerWoodlawn Cemetery, Nashua, NH
- Martin Alonzo Haynes1842-1919American politicianBayside Cemetery, Gilford, NH
- Jonathan Daniels1939-1965Episcopal seminarianMonadnock View Cemetery, Keene, NH
- George B. Upham1768-1848American politicianWest Pleasant Street Cemetery, Claremont, NH
- Juliet Barrett Rublee1875-1966American birth control advocate, suffragist, film producerChase Cemetery, Claremont, NH
- George Rublee1868-1957American lawyerChase Cemetery, Claremont, NH
- Peleg Sprague1756-1800American politicianWashington Cemetery, Keene, NH
- Samuel Smith1765-1842American politician from New HampshireVillage Cemetery, Peterborough, NH
- Jonathan Blanchard1738-1788American politicianOld Dunstable Cemetery, Nashua, NH
- Phenomenal Smith1864-1952American professional baseball playerNew Saint Josephs Cemetery, Bedford, NH
- John Wentworth, Jr.1745-1787American lawyer and politicianPine Hill Cemetery, Dover, NH
- Edward Henry Durell1810-1887American politicianPine Hill Cemetery, Dover, NH
- Henry Shute1856-1943American lawyer and judgeExeter Cemetery, Exeter, NH
- Marshall Snow1842-1916United States educator and historianExeter Cemetery, Exeter, NH
- Frank Conner1908-1944American hammer throwerExeter Cemetery, Exeter, NH
- John Bell1765-1836Governor of New Hampshire 1828-9Village Cemetery, Chester, NH
- Mace Moulton1796-1867American politicianValley Cemetery, Manchester, NH
- Mary Parker Woodworth1849-1919American writer and speakerBlossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, NH
- Frank Jones Sulloway1883-1981American tennis player and lawyerBlossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, NH
Showing 150 of 422. Each cemetery page lists everyone recorded there.
Ordered by the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article about the person.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Blossom Hill Cemetery · Concord45
- Exeter Cemetery · Exeter26
- Pine Grove Cemetery · Manchester26
- Valley Cemetery · Manchester20
- Pine Hill Cemetery · Dover14
- Woodland Cemetery · Keene14
- Old North Cemetery · Concord14
- Dublin Town Cemetery · Dublin12
- Trinity Church Yard Cemetery · Plymouth11
- North Cemetery · Portsmouth10
- Union Cemetery · Laconia9
- Pine Hill Cemetery · Peterborough9
- Durham Cemetery · Durham8
- Walpole Village Cemetery · Alstead8
- West Pleasant Street Cemetery · Claremont7
- Village Cemetery · Chester7
- Forest Hill Cemetery · Derry Village7
- Rochester Cemetery · Rochester7
- East Cemetery · North Hampton6
- Edgewood Cemetery · Nashua6
- Washington Cemetery · Keene5
- Park Cemetery · Tilton-Northfield5
- Glenwood Cemetery · Littleton5
- North Newport Cemetery · Newport4
- Mount Calvary Cemetery · Manchester4
Method
About this list
Names, years and descriptions come from Wikidata, where each person’s entry gives the cemetery as their place of burial. It covers people with an encyclopedia entry, not every grave. How we build it.
Other states
Notable burials in other states
- Alabama635
- Alaska139
- Arizona297
- Arkansas378
- California9,351
- Colorado247
- Connecticut1,850
- Delaware100
- District of Columbia1,261
- Florida478
- Georgia859
- Hawaii172
- Idaho150
- Illinois3,508
- Indiana1,269
- Iowa748
- Kansas487
- Kentucky889
- Louisiana450
- Maine589
- Maryland1,397
- Massachusetts5,034
- Michigan1,368
- Minnesota839
- Mississippi289
- Missouri1,271
- Montana137
- Nebraska404
- Nevada250
- New Jersey1,938
- New Mexico222
- New York10,713
- North Carolina560
- North Dakota46
- Ohio2,567
- Oklahoma376
- Oregon566
- Pennsylvania3,541
- Rhode Island699
- South Carolina391
- South Dakota151
- Tennessee902
- Texas1,599
- Utah626
- Vermont437
- Virginia5,460
- Washington487
- West Virginia252
- Wisconsin1,183
- Wyoming107