Notable People from Maine

Joseph Allard

Canadian fiddler and composer

De Alva S. Alexander

American historian, lawyer, politician and journalist (1846-1925)

Wallace Rider Farrington

Sixth Territorial Governor of Hawaii (1871–1933)

Keith Farnham

American politician

Dan Walters

American baseball player (1966-2020)

William Augustus Hall

American politician (1815–1888)

Albert Smith Bickmore

American naturalist (1839-1914)

Marcellus Stearns

American politician (1839-1891)

Charles Alton Ellis

American engineer (1876–1949)

Tim Sullivan

American science fiction novelist, screenwriter, actor, film director and short story writer

Everett De Roche

American screenwriter

Rufus Ingalls

Union Army general (1818-1893)

Anson Herrick

American politician (1812-1868)

Ichabod Goodwin

American politician (1794–1882)

James Phinney Baxter III

American historian (1893-1975)

Amos L. Allen

American politician (1837-1911)

Hazen S. Pingree

Union Army soldier and politician (1840-1901)

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

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

Ellen Russell Emerson

American writer, ethnologist

Charles P. Nelson

American politician (1907-1962)

Samuel C. Fessenden

American politician (1815-1882)

Amory Nelson Hardy

American photographer (1834–1911)

Molly Spotted Elk

American actress

Charles A. Coffin

American businessman (1844-1926)

Robert Luce

American politician from Massachusetts (1862-1946)

George Barrell Emerson

United States educator and botanist (1797-1881)

Benjamin White Norris

American politician (1819-1873)

Mercy Lewis

accuser of the Salem witch trials

John Irwin Hutchinson

American mathematician (1867-1935)

Amy Morris Bradley

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

John A. Peters

American politician, lawyer and judge (1864-1953)

Asher Hinds

American politician (1863–1919)

Aaron Lufkin Dennison

American businessman and watchmaker

Oakes Murphy

American politician (1849-1908)

Frederick W. Plaisted

American politician (1865–1943)

Frank H. Foss

American politician (1865-1947)

Robert P. T. Coffin

American writer (1892–1955)

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

Samuel P. Benson

American politician (1804-1876)

Nathaniel Gordon

American slave trader (1826–1862)

Herbert Mayhew Lord

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

Andrew Sockalexis

American distance runner (1891-1919)

Frederic Porter Vinton

American painter (1846-1911)

James B. Greenough

American classical philologist (1833-1901)

Hiram Gregory Berry

Union Army General (1824–1863)

Joseph Young Bergen

American botanist (1851-1917)

Seba Smith

American humorist (1792–1868)

William Deering

American businessman (1826–1913)

Lou Rogers

American cartoonist and activist (1879-1952)