Biographical Records
Notable People from Maine
1,023 notable figures born in Maine, showing page 9 of 21, ranked by historical prominence.
William Deering
1826 - 1913
industrialist
William Wilder
1855 - 1913
politicianlawyer
Virgil D. Parris
1807 - 1874
politicianlawyer
Abner Taylor
1829 - 1903
politician
William Wallace Kimball
1828 - 1904
businessperson
Nehemiah Abbott
1804 - 1877
politicianlawyer
Charles Arthur "Charlie" Akers
1939 - 2016
biathlete
Walter A. Burleigh
1820 - 1896
politicianlawyer
Stephen Lindsey
1828 - 1884
politicianlawyer
James S. Wiley
1808 - 1891
politicianlawyer
Richard S. Ayer
1829 - 1896
politician
Hiram Pitt Bennet
1826 - 1914
politicianlawyerjudge
John Lynch
1825 - 1892
journalistpolitician
Bellamy Storer
1796 - 1875
university teacherpoliticianlawyer
Nathaniel Cobb Deering
1827 - 1887
politician
John Adams Jackson
1825 - 1879
sculptor
Donald C. McRuer
1826 - 1898
merchantpolitician
Franklin Clark
1801 - 1874
politician
John W. Heselton
1900 - 1962
politicianlawyer
John T. Averill
1825 - 1889
politician
Shailer Mathews
1863 - 1941
university teachertheologian
Thomas Bowman
1848 - 1917
politician
Solomon Comstock
1842 - 1933
politicianlawyer
Thomas Hurley Brents
1840 - 1916
politicianlawyerjudge
Elizabeth Armstrong Reed
1842 - 1915
orientalist
Seth Eastman
1808 - 1875
cartographersoldierpainter
Frank E. Guernsey
1866 - 1927
politicianlawyer
Marcia Oakes Woodbury
1865 - 1913
painter
Caleb Ayer
1813 - 1883
politicianlawyer
Carl Ring
1902 - 1991
athletics competitor
Albion P. Howe
1818 - 1897
military officer
Mary Winslow Smyth
1873 - 1937
folklorist
Ethel Bailey Higgins
1866 - 1963
botanistbotanical collectorcurator
Boyd Bartlett
1897 - 1965
physicist
Grace Macurdy
1866 - 1946
classical philologistclassical scholaruniversity teacher
Charles S. Benton
1810 - 1882
politicianlawyerjudge
Joseph A. McDonough
1896 - 1944
film directorassistant director
Charles Russell Clason
1890 - 1985
deanpoliticianlawyer
James C. Oliver
1895 - 1986
politician
Francis Edgar Stanley
1849 - 1918
inventorphotographer
Ben C. Eastman
1812 - 1856
politicianlawyer
Natalie Kalmus
1892 - 1965
cinematic techniciandirectorart director
William B. Small
1817 - 1878
politicianlawyer
William S. Soule
1836 - 1908
photographer
Horatio Collins King
1837 - 1918
lawyer
Harrison Bird Brown
1831 - 1915
painter
C. J. Stevens
1927 - 2021
explorerbiographertranslator
George Rowe
1894 - 1975
actor
James Bates
1789 - 1882
politician
Walker Blaine
1855 - 1890
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