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Maine Notables - Fascinating People, Remarkable Accomplishments
Maine Notables is an informational database of Maine people or those with Maine connections who have gained fame or notoriety for a variety of reasons. You may be surprised at some of the people who are from Maine or have a connection to Maine.
Listed in each entry is biographical data: dates of birth/death, connection to Maine, and claim to fame. Also included are listings of some selected resources by or about him or her available at the Maine State Library and links to pertinent websites.
This will be a dynamic database, corrected and updated as necessary to remain current.
Recent Additions to Maine Notables
Lenny Breau, Gladys Hasty Carroll, William Cohen, Molly Spotted Elk, John Gould, Hannibal Hamlin, Marsden Hartley, Bernard Lown, David Mallett, Molly Ockett,
Robert Skoglund, Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Maine Notables
| Person |
Birth - Death |
Category |
| Arnold, Benedict |
1741 - 1801 |
Political Figures |
| Ballard, Martha |
1734/35 – 1812 |
Literature |
| Bean, Leon Leonwood |
1872 – 1967 |
Entrepreneurs |
| Blaine, James G. |
1830 – 1893 |
Political Figures |
| Breau, Lenny |
1941 – 1984 |
Entertainment |
| Bush, George Herbert Walker |
1924 - |
Political Figures |
| Carroll, Gladys Hasty |
1904-1999 |
Literature |
| Carson, Rachel |
1907 - 1964 |
Literature |
| Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence |
1828 – 1914 |
Political Figures |
| Cohen, William S. |
1940 – |
Political Figures |
| Collins, Susan M. |
1952 - |
Political Figures |
| Craven, Ricky |
1966 - |
Sports |
| Crocker, Ian |
1982 - |
Sports |
| Crosby, Cornelia "Fly Rod" |
1854 – 1946 |
Sports |
| Dix, Dorothea |
1802 – 1887 |
Other |
| Ford, John |
1894 – 1973 |
Entertainment |
| Gerritsen, Tess |
1953 - |
Literature |
| Gould, John T. |
1908 - 2003 |
Literature |
| Greenlaw, Linda |
1960 - |
Literature |
| Greenwood, Chester |
1858 - 1937 |
Entrepreneurs |
| Hamlin, Hannibal |
1809 – 1891 |
Political Figures |
| Hartley, Marsden |
1877 – 1943 |
Arts |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
1804 – 1864 |
Literature |
| Homer, Winslow |
1836 - 1910 |
Arts |
| Howard, Oliver Otis |
1830 – 1909 |
Political Figures |
| Jewett, Sarah Orne |
1849 – 1909 |
Literature |
| Kent, Rockwell |
1882 - 1971 |
Arts |
| King, Stephen |
1947 - |
Literature |
| King, Tabitha |
1949 - |
Literature |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
1807 – 1882 |
Literature |
| Lown, Bernard |
1921 - |
Other |
| Mallett, David |
1951 - |
Entertainment |
| Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens |
1840 – 1916 |
Entrepreneurs |
| McCloskey, Robert |
1914 – 2003 |
Literature |
| Millay, Edna St Vincent |
1892 – 1950 |
Literature |
| Mitchell, George J. |
1933 - |
Political Figures |
| Muskie, Edmund S. |
1914 - 1996 |
Political Figures |
| Northrup, Christiane |
1949 - |
Literature |
| Ogilvie, Elisabeth |
1917 – 2006 |
Literature |
| Peary, Robert E. |
1856 – 1920 |
Other |
| Roberts, Kenneth |
1885 – 1957 |
Literature |
| Robinson, Edwin Arlington |
1869 – 1935 |
Literature |
| Rowell, Victoria |
1960 - |
Entertainment |
| Russo, Richard |
1949 - |
Literature |
| Sample. Tim |
1951 |
Entertainment |
| Samuelson, Joan Benoit |
1957 - |
Sports |
| Sarton, May |
1912 – 1995 |
Literature |
| Skoglund, Robert (The Humble Farmer) |
1936 - |
Entertainment |
| Smith, Margaret Chase |
1897 – 1995 |
Political Figures |
| Smith, Samantha |
1972-1985 |
Political Figures |
| Snowe, Olympia J. |
1947 - |
Political Figures |
| Sockalexis, Louis Francis |
1871 - 1913 |
Sports |
| Spotted Elk, Molly (AKA Molly Nelson Archambaud or Molly Dellis) |
1903 - 1977 |
Arts |
| Stanley, Francis Edgar and Stanley, Freelan Oscar |
1849 - 1940 |
Entrepreneurs |
| Stookey, Noel Paul |
1937 - |
Entertainment |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
1811 – 1896 |
Literature |
| Vallée, Rudy |
1901 – 1986 |
Entertainment |
| White, E.B. |
1899 - 1985 |
Literature |
| Wiggin, Kate Douglas |
1856 – 1923 |
Literature |
| Wilson, Dorothy Clark. |
1904-2003 |
Literature |
| Wyeth, Andrew |
1917 - |
Arts |
| Wyeth, Jamie |
1946 - |
Arts |
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