Among prominent individuals from New Hampshire are founding father Nicholas Gilman, Senator Daniel Webster, Revolutionary War hero John Stark, editor Horace Greeley, founder of the Christian Science religion Mary Baker Eddy, poet Robert Frost, astronaut Alan Shepard, and author Dan Brown.

* probable – Nicholas Bourbon, French poet

** Nicholas Grimald, English poet ( d. 1562 )

* December 6 – Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist ( b. 1674 )

** Nicholas Grimald, English poet and theologian ( b. 1519 )

** Nicholas Breton, English poet and novelist ( d. 1626 )

The French poet and reformer Nicholas Bourbon dubbed him " the Apelles of our time ," a typical contemporary accolade.

* Nicholas Breton, 16th century poet

At the National Theatre in late 2009 Nicholas Hytner directed Bennett's play The Habit of Art, about the relationship between the poet W. H.

* Caleb D ' Anvers, the pseudonym of Nicholas Amhurst ( 1697 – 1742 ), English poet, political writer and editor of The Craftsman.

His tomb in the cemetery of St. Nicholas parish church, Chiswick, in West London has recently been restored, it refers to him as the " wearied citizen poet " and incorrectly states his age as 50.

* Louis MacNeice's family moved to the town when the poet was two years old ( his father was appointed Rector of St Nicholas ' Church of Ireland Church ), and he left at the age of ten to attend boarding school in England.

* Nicholas Dewey, Australian poet

Little is known of Barebone's early life, writing in 2001 Nicholas Tyacke speculated that he was the son of John Barebone rector of Charwelton and Mary Roper of Daventry and that he probably had an older brother called Fear-God ( who is known to have been a minor poet ), but this can not confirmed because the parish Charwelton registers for that period no longer exist.

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay ( November 10, 1879 – December 5, 1931 ) was an American poet.

** Nicholas Breton, poet and novelist ( born c. 1545 )

Nicholas Breton ( also Britton or Brittaine ) ( 1545 – 1626 ), English poet and novelist, belonged to an old family settled at Layer Breton, Essex.

He repaired his fortunes by marrying the wealthy widow of William Breton, thus becoming stepfather to the poet, Nicholas Breton.

Ted Hughes, former poet laureate of England and widower of the poet Sylvia Plath, was directly related to Nicholas Ferrar on his mother's side.

Nicholas Grimald ( or Grimoald ) ( 1519 – 1562 ), English poet and dramatist, was born in Huntingdonshire, the son probably of Giovanni Baptista Grimaldi, who had been a clerk in the service of Empson and Dudley in the reign of Henry VII.

Nicholas Rowe, the dramatic poet, was born in " Rowe's Cottage " 1674.

Mikhail Lermontov was awarded the Fourth Class of the Order but never received it, as his name was removed from the final list of recipients by Czar Nicholas I, who harbored a strong dislike for the contumacious poet.

Nicholas Rowe ( 20 June 1674 – 6 December 1718 ), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer, was appointed Poet Laureate in 1715.

* 1847 – Julia Ann Moore, American poet ( d. 1920 )

In 1803, Irish poet Thomas Moore arrived in Bermuda, having been appointed registrar to the Admiralty there.

* 1779 – Clement Clarke Moore, American educator, author, and poet ( d. 1863 )

* 1779 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet ( d. 1852 )

* February 5 – Marianne Moore, American poet ( b. 1887 )

** Julia A. Moore, American poet ( b. 1847 )

* March 4 – Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet, author and artist ( d. 1944 )

* May 28 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet ( d. 1852 )

" Founded by the poet Alfred Kreymborg and the artist Man Ray, this group included Walter Conrad Arensberg, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore and Marcel Duchamp.

* Frank Frankfort Moore ( 1855 – 1931 ), British dramatist, novelist and poet

* Julia A. Moore ( 1847 – 1920 ), American poet

In James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the Irish poet Thomas Moore is described by the protagonist Stephen Dedalus as being " a Firbolg in the borrowed cloak of a Milesian.

* Julia A. Moore, American poet

He edited volumes of the letters of the playwright Oscar Wilde, the writer and caricaturist Max Beerbohm, and the writer George Moore, as well as the diaries of the poet Siegfried Sassoon and the autobiography of Arthur Ransome.

Thomas Moore ( 28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852 ) was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer.

Also buried there is poet Clement Clark Moore, who wrote "' Twas the Night Before Christmas ".

** Julia A. Moore, American poet ( born 1847 )

* November 16-Nicholas Moore, poet ( died 1986 )

* January 21-George Moore, poet, novelist ( born 1852 )

* Charles Leonard Moore ( 1854 – 1925 ), lawyer and poet born in Philadelphia

* July 10-Clement Clarke Moore, poet

* February 25-Thomas Moore, poet