Athletes
- Ernest Blood – men's basketball coach (Manchester)
- Matt Bonner – National Basketball Association player - San Antonio Spurs (Concord)
- Chris Carpenter – Major League Baseball player - Toronto Blue Jays-St. Louis Cardinals (Raymond)
- Charlie Davies – Major League Soccer player - D.C. United (Manchester)
- Chad Eaton - National Football League defensive tackle (Exeter)
- Mark Fayne – NHL ice hockey player - New Jersey Devils (Nashua)
- Carlton Fisk - Major League Baseball catcher - Boston Red Sox - (grew up in Charlestown)
- Mike Flanagan - left-handed pitcher - Baltimore Orioles (Manchester)
- Sam Fuld – Major League Baseball player - Tampa Bay Rays (Durham)
- Jeff Giuliano – professional ice hockey player - Iserlohn Roosters (Nashua)
- Scotty Lago – snowboarder (Seabrook)
- Ben Lovejoy - NHL ice hockey player (Concord)
- Freddy Meyer – ice hockey player - Modo Hockey (Sanbornville)
- Bode Miller – alpine ski racer (Easton)
- Tara Mounsey – gold medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics (Concord)
- Chad Paronto – baseball player (Woodsville)
- Penny Pitou - United States Olympic alpine skier (Gilford and Laconia)
- Red Rolfe - third baseman, manager (Penacook)
- Kevin Romine – utility outfielder in Major League Baseball (Exeter)
- Leanne Smith – alpine skier (Conway)
- Darius Songaila- Lithuanian professional basketball player (attended school in New Hampton)
- Birdie Tebbetts - professional baseball player (Nashua)
- Bob Tewksbury – Major League Baseball pitcher (Concord)
- Jenny Thompson – competitive swimmer (Dover)
- Triple H – professional wrestler (Nashua)
- Stan Williams – Major League Baseball player (Enfield)
- Brian Wilson – professional baseball relief pitcher - San Francisco Giants (Londonderry)
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Famous quotes containing the word athletes:
“The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth ... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)