Biographical Records
Notable People from Maine
1,023 notable figures born in Maine, showing page 5 of 21, ranked by historical prominence.
Francis H. Kimball
1845 – 1919
architect
Henrietta Edgecomb Hooker
1851 – 1929
scientific collectorbotanistbotanical collector
William G. Crosby
1805 – 1881
juristgovernorpolitician
Amos Tuck
1810 – 1879
politicianbusinesspersonlawyer
Anson Morrill
1803 – 1887
politician
Peter Kyros
1925 – 2012
military officerpoliticianlawyer
George P. Merrill
1854 – 1929
mineralogistcuratorgeologist
Ellen Hamlin
1835 – 1925
politician
Stephen Clark Foster
1820 – 1898
politician
George Stillman Hillard
1808 – 1879
biographerjuristpolitician
Freeman Knowles
1846 – 1910
journalistpoliticianlawyer
William T. Cobb
1857 – 1937
juristgovernorpolitician
George Lincoln Goodale
1839 – 1923
botanistphysician
Gertrude Elliott
1874 – 1950
stage actorsuffragetteactor
Henry Adams Bellows
1885 – 1939
translatorhistorianlinguist
Anne Carroll Moore
1871 – 1961
literary criticchildren's writerjournalist
Otis Tufton Mason
1838 – 1908
Americanistanthropologistcurator
Wyman B. S. Moor
1811 – 1869
diplomatpoliticianlawyer
William E. Sawyer
1850 – 1883
inventorengineer
Nathan A. Farwell
1812 – 1893
politicianlawyer
Hiram Edson
1806 – 1882
editor
Charles Deering
1852 – 1927
patron of the artsart collectorentrepreneur
Lenny Breau
1941 – 1984
classical guitaristjazz musicianjazz guitarist
Donald Edmond Pelotte
1945 – 2010
theologianCatholic bishopCatholic priest
Nelson Dingley
1832 – 1899
journalistjuristgovernor
Horatio King
1811 – 1897
politicianwriter
James S. Brown
1824 – 1878
politicianlawyer
Carl E. Milliken
1877 – 1961
governorpoliticianbusinessperson
John H. Hall
1781 – 1841
gunsmithinventor
Henry Plummer
1832 – 1864
prospectorsheriff
James Henry Carleton
1814 – 1873
military officer
Sidney Perham
1819 – 1907
politician
Annie Louise Cary
1842 – 1921
opera singer
Edwin O. Jordan
1866 – 1936
bacteriologistmicrobiologist
Mary Louise Graffam
1871 – 1921
missionary
Ernie Coombs
1927 – 2001
television actoractorscreenwriter
Maria a'Becket
1839 – 1904
painter
John Hubbard
1794 – 1869
governorpoliticianphysician
William Robinson Brown
1875 – 1955
writer
Robert Aitken Rushworth
1924 – 1993
military flight engineeraircraft pilotmilitary officer
Horace Wilson
1843 – 1927
baseball playerteacher
Daniel W. Gooch
1820 – 1891
politicianlawyer
Doris Twitchell Allen
1901 – 2002
university teacherclinical psychologistpsychologist
Charles West Kendall
1828 – 1914
journalisteditorpolitician
Henry B. Cleaves
1840 – 1912
juristgovernorpolitician
Benjamin Paul Akers
1825 – 1861
sculptor
Henry Gannett
1846 – 1914
map makerstatisticiangeographer
Carlos Baker
1909 – 1987
scholar of Englishnovelistliterary critic
Frederick Robie
1822 – 1912
governorpoliticianphysician
John Noble Goodwin
1824 – 1887
juristgovernorpolitician