Notable People from Maine

Rufus Ingalls

Union Army general (1818-1893)

Anson Herrick

American politician (1812-1868)

Hazen S. Pingree

Union Army soldier and politician (1840-1901)

Keith Farnham

American politician

Robert Luce

American politician from Massachusetts (1862-1946)

Amos L. Allen

American politician (1837-1911)

Frank H. Foss

American politician (1865-1947)

Charles A. Coffin

American businessman (1844-1926)

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

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

Charles P. Nelson

American politician (1907-1962)

Ellen Russell Emerson

American writer, ethnologist

Asher Hinds

American politician (1863–1919)

Samuel C. Fessenden

American politician (1815-1882)

John A. Peters

American politician, lawyer and judge (1864-1953)

Oakes Murphy

American politician (1849-1908)

Frederick W. Plaisted

American politician (1865–1943)

John Irwin Hutchinson

American mathematician (1867-1935)

James Otis Kaler

American author, educator (1848-1912)

Molly Spotted Elk

American actress

Gail Laughlin

American politician

George Barrell Emerson

United States educator and botanist (1797-1881)

Amory Nelson Hardy

American photographer (1834–1911)

Andrew Sockalexis

American distance runner (1891-1919)

Benjamin White Norris

American politician (1819-1873)

Frederic Porter Vinton

American painter (1846-1911)

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)

Sid Farrar

American baseball player

Amy Morris Bradley

educator from the U.S. state of Maine. She established the first English school in Central America

Joseph Young Bergen

American botanist (1851-1917)

Aaron Lufkin Dennison

American businessman and watchmaker

James B. Greenough

American classical philologist (1833-1901)

Herbert Mayhew Lord

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

Nathaniel Gordon

American slave trader (1826–1862)

Robert P. T. Coffin

American writer (1892–1955)

Ernest W. Roberts

American politician, Massachusetts (1858-1924)

Emery J. San Souci

American politician (1857-1936)

George Gore

Major League Baseball player (1857–1933)

Seba Smith

American humorist (1792–1868)

Stanley R. Tupper

American politician (1921-2006)

Hiram Gregory Berry

Union Army General (1824–1863)

Mercy Lewis

accuser of the Salem witch trials

William Platt Jencks

American biochemist (1927–2007)

Samuel P. Benson

American politician (1804-1876)

Melville Sewell Bagley

Originator:archetypical Argentine national liqueur Hesperidina/holder:first patent/trademark registered in Argentina on that product (1838-1880)

Charles Wilbert Snow

American politician (1884–1977)

William Deering

American businessman (1826–1913)

Stephen Clark Foster

American politician from Maine (1799-1872)

Napoleon J.T. Dana

Union Army general (1822–1905)

Mark H. Dunnell

Union Army officer, politician (1823-1904)

Francis Fessenden

United States Army general during American Civil War