Notable People from Maine

Samuel Blake

American lawyer and politician (1807–1887)

Edmund Needham Morrill

American politician (1834–1909)

Aaron S. Daggett

American Army general (1837-1938)

Isaac McLellan

American writer

Joseph Cummings

American clergyman and educator; president of Wesleyan University, later president of Northwestern University (1817–1890)

John Wingate Thornton

American genealogist

Martha Gallison Moore Avery

American socialist and Roman-catholic activist (1851-1929)

Shailer Mathews

American theologian (1863-1941)

Beverly Jensen

American writer (1953-2003)

Edward Hatch

Union Army general (1832–1889)

Herbert L. Osgood

American historian (1855–1918)

William Conway

United States Navy sailor (1802–1865)

John Lewis Childs

American horticultural entrepreneur and politician (1856-1921)

Effie I. Canning

American actress (1857-1940)

John Ripley Freeman

American civil engineer

C. J. Stevens

American poet

Stephen Coburn

American politician (1817-1882)

Samuel Thurston

American pioneer (1815-1851)

Joshua Maria Young

American bishop

Josiah Pierce

American politician

Wilhelmina Harper

American writer

Moses Macdonald

American congressman for Maine (1815-1869)

George W. Emery

11th Governor of the Territory of Utah (1830-1909)

Solomon Comstock

American politician (1842–1933)

Mark Trafton

American congressman for Massachusetts (1810-1901)

John W. Howe

American politician

John H. Rice

American politician (1816-1911)

Cyrus King

American politician (1772-1817)

David Pearce Penhallow

American botanist (1854-1910)

Princess Watahwaso

American singer (1882-1969)

George Rowe

American actor (1894-1975)

David A. Boody

United States Representative (1837–1930)

Horatio Bisbee, Jr.

American politician, Florida (1839-1916)

Allen Alexander Bradford

American jurist (1815–1888)

Robert Hale

American politician (1889-1976)

John F. Appleton

Union Army general (1838-1870)

Frederick A. Pike

American politician (1816-1886)

Elliott Cutler

American general (1888–1947)

John Goodwin Lyman

Canadian artist (1886-1967)

William Smyth

American writer on mathematics

Ephraim K. Smart

American politician (1813-1872)

Charles E. Littlefield

American politician (1851-1915)

Elbridge Gerry

American politician 1813-1886

Daniel J. McGillicuddy

American politician (1859-1936)

Frank Nye

American politician (1852-1935)

Abba Goold Woolson

American writer

Samuel F. Hersey

American politician (1812-1875)

Virgil Williams

American painter and art administrator (1830–1886)

Ella M. S. Marble

American journalist, educator, activist, physician.

Charles Copeland

American book illustrator (1858-1945)