Notable People from Maine

Alton Kelley

artist (1940–2008)

Frank M. Warren, Sr.

American businessman

Llewellyn Powers

American politician (1836–1908)

W. Herbert Dunton

American artist (1878-1936)

Peleg Sprague

United States federal judge (1793-1880)

Samuel Merrill

American politician, 7th Governor of Iowa (1822-1899)

Charles Frederick Hughes

American admiral

John Bower

US Nordic combined skier

J. Harold Murray

American actor (1891–1940)

Warren H. Carroll

American historian, Roman Catholic journalist and founding college president (1932-2011)

William T. Haines

American politician (1854–1919)

John N. Abrams

United States Army General

Nathaniel S. Berry

American politician (1796-1894)

Ebenezer M. Chamberlain

American politician (1805-1861)

Robert Luce

American politician from Massachusetts (1862-1946)

Daniel Wells Jr.

American politician (1808–1902)

John Irwin Hutchinson

American mathematician (1867-1935)

Richard Cutts

American politician (June 28, 1771 – April 7, 1845)

Charles A. Coffin

American businessman (1844-1926)

Frank H. Foss

American politician (1865-1947)

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

American novelist, short story writer, educator (1909–1971)

Joseph Holt Ingraham

Novelist, teacher (1809-1860)

Luther Whiting Mason

American educator (1818–1896)

George Palmer Putnam

American publisher and writer (1814-1872)

Molly Spotted Elk

American actress

Richard H. Vose

Governor of Maine (1803-1864)

John Anderson

19th-century American politician from Maine (1792-1853)

Frederick W. Plaisted

American politician (1865–1943)

Oakes Murphy

American politician (1849-1908)

John A. Peters

American politician, lawyer and judge (1864-1953)

Charles P. Nelson

American politician (1907-1962)

Frederic Porter Vinton

American painter (1846-1911)

Sid Farrar

American baseball player

Andrew Sockalexis

American distance runner (1891-1919)

Zebulon York

Confederate Army general

Herbert Mayhew Lord

Director of the United States Bureau of the Budget (1859-1930)

Bryant Moore

U.S. Army officer, commander of the 8th Infantry Division during and after WWII, and the IX Corps in the Korean War (1894-1951)

Gail Laughlin

American politician

Asher Hinds

American politician (1863–1919)

James B. Greenough

American classical philologist (1833-1901)

James Otis Kaler

American author, educator (1848-1912)

Ichabod Goodwin

American politician (1794–1882)

William Augustus Hall

American politician (1815–1888)

William Platt Jencks

American biochemist (1927–2007)

Francis Fessenden

United States Army general during American Civil War

Rufus Ingalls

Union Army general (1818-1893)

Mercy Lewis

accuser of the Salem witch trials

Anson Herrick

American politician (1812-1868)

George Gore

Major League Baseball player (1857–1933)

Amos L. Allen

American politician (1837-1911)