Editing Cornish, New Hampshire (section)

== Notable people ==
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* [[Champion S. Chase]] (1820–1898), politician
* [[Dudley Chase]] (1771–1846), [[state's attorney]] of [[Orange County, Vermont]], Speaker of the [[Vermont House of Representatives]], Chief Justice of the [[Vermont Supreme Court]], [[United States Senate|U.S. senator]] from [[Vermont]]
* [[Jonathan Chase (colonel)|Jonathan Chase]] (1732–1800), Revolutionary War officer
* [[Philander Chase]] (1775–1852), founder of [[Kenyon College]], sixth Presiding Bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church
* [[Salmon P. Chase]] (1808–1873), justice of the [[Supreme Court of the United States|US Supreme Court]]; born in Cornish
* [[Winston Churchill (novelist)|Winston Churchill]] (1871–1947), novelist; no relation to the [[Winston Churchill|British statesman of the same name]]
* [[Herbert Croly]] (1869–1930), author; co-founder of the magazine ''[[The New Republic]]''
* [[Thomas Wilmer Dewing]] (1851–1938), painter; founding member of the [[Ten American Painters]] and taught at the [[Art Students League of New York]]
* [[Michael Dorris]] (1945–1997), novelist, scholar
* [[Julie Duncan]] (1919–1986), actress, champion [[Steeplechase (horse racing)|steeplechase rider]]
* [[Louise Erdrich]] (born 1954), author<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TipWVIw65m4C&q=erdrich+new+hampshire+farmhouse&pg=PA64 |title=Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris |last1=Erdrich |first1=Louise |last2=Dorris |first2=Michael |date=1994 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |isbn=9780878056521 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Hamlin Garland]] (1860–1940), novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, [[Georgism|Georgist]], psychical researcher; best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers
* [[Christian Gerhartsreiter]] (born 1961), impostor, convicted murderer
* [[James Hall (governor)|James Hall]] (1802–1889), founder of [[Maryland-in-Africa]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Bowdoin College|date=1889 |title=Obituary Record of the Graduates of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine|trans-title= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nAQXAQAAIAAJ|language=English |location= |isbn=|pages=21–22}}</ref>
* [[Learned Hand]] (1872–1961), judge
* [[Percy MacKaye]] (1875–1956), playwright, poet
* [[Charles A. Platt]] (1861–1933), architect
* [[Samuel L. Powers]] (1848–1929), US congressman
* [[Augustus Saint-Gaudens]] (1848–1907), sculptor of the [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] generation who embodied the ideals of the [[American Renaissance]]
* [[Louis St. Gaudens]] (1854–1913), significant American sculptor of the [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] generation; brother of renowned sculptor [[Augustus Saint-Gaudens]]; Louis later changed the spelling of his name to '''St.''' Gaudens to differentiate himself from his well-known brother
* [[J. D. Salinger]] (1919–2010), writer, best known for his 1951 novel ''[[The Catcher in the Rye]]''<ref>Katie Zezima, [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/us/01salinger.html "Cornish Journal: J. D. Salinger a Recluse? Well, Not to His Neighbors"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 31, 2010.</ref>
* [[Nathan Smith (physician, born 1762)|Nathan Smith]] (1762–1829), physician, founder of [[Dartmouth Medical School|Dartmouth]] and [[Yale School of Medicine|Yale]] medical schools<ref name="Smith1914">{{cite book|author=Emily Jones Smith|title=The Life and letters of Nathan Smith, M.B., M.D.|url=https://archive.org/details/lifeandlettersn00smitgoog|access-date=November 6, 2012|year=1914|publisher=[[Yale University Press]]|page=xxvi}}</ref>
* [[Nathan Ryno Smith]] (1797–1877), surgeon, professor, son of [[Nathan Smith (physician, born 1762)|Nathan Smith]]
* [[Betsey Ann Stearns]] (1830-1914), inventor
* [[Woodrow Wilson]] (1856–1924), US president; summer resident at author Winston Churchill's Harlakenden House<ref>{{cite book |title=A brief history of Cornish,1763-1974 |last1=Wade |first1=M |last2=Tracy |first2=S. P. |last3=Wood |first3=D. C. |isbn=978-0-87451-129-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=57wMAAAAYAAJ |year=1976 |publisher=for the Town of Cornish by University Press of New England}}</ref>
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