- Susan Collins
Susan Margaret Collins (born December 7 1952, in Caribou, Maine) is an American politician, the junior U.S. Senator from Maine and a Republican.
- Olympia Snowe
Olympia Jean Bouchles Snowe (born February 21, 1947) is a Republican politician and the senior United States Senator from Maine. A moderate Republican, Snowe has become widely known for her ability to influence close votes and Senatorial filibusters, making her among the most influential of U.S. Senators. She is considered one of the most liberal Republicans in the senate. In 2006, she was named one of "America's Top Ten Senators" by "Time" Magazine.
- Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror and fantasy novels. King was the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. King evinces a thorough knowledge of the horror genre, as shown in his nonfiction book "Danse Macabre", which chronicles several decades of notable works in both literature and cinema.
- Tom Allen
Thomas H. (Tom) Allen is a member of the United States House of Representatives representing (map). He is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2008. Allen was first elected in 1996, defeating Republican incumbent James Longley Jr. with 55% of votes cast to Longley's 45%. Allen has been reelected five times since, receiving over 55% of the vote each time.
- John Baldacci
Governor John Baldacci has offered the citizens of Maine a truly unique opportunity to determine the future of Sears Island, and thereby resolve a public controversy that has caused uncertainty and conflict about this island, an important asset of upper Penobscot Bay, for more than 30 years.
- George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush was the forty-first President of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Before his presidency, Bush was the forty-third Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan. He has also served as the member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th district of Texas (1967–1971), the United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1971–1973), …
- Bob Marley
Bob Marley is a comedian from Portland, Maine. He delivers jokes mostly about life in New England with an exaggerated New England accent. Bob Marley's first television appearance was on Comedy Central. He also appeared as Detective Greenly in the movie Boondock Saints. He graduated from Deering High School in Portland, Maine in 1985.
- Margaret Chase Smith
Margaret Chase Smith was a Republican Senator from Maine, and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to both the U.S. House and the Senate, and the first woman from Maine to serve in either. She was also the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the U.S. Presidency at a major party's convention (1964 Republican Convention, won by Barry Goldwater).
- William Cohen
William Sebastian Cohen is an author and American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. A Republican, Cohen served as Secretary of Defense (1997–2001) under Democratic President Bill Clinton.
- Mike Michaud
Michael H. (Mike) Michaud was born January 18 1955 in Millinocket, Maine. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing. He was first elected in 2002, narrowly defeating Republican Kevin Raye in the race to replace John Baldacci (who was elected Governor). The 2002 race garnered a great deal of publicity as, in a reverse of most Congressional races, …
- Angus King
Angus S. King, Jr. (born March 31, 1944) served two terms as an Independent Governor of Maine from 1995 to 2003. After leaving office, he became a distinguished lecturer at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine and annually teaches a semester-long undergraduate course on leadership. He also became employed at a law firm and a consulting firm in Portland, Maine. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College in the class of 1966.
- Tim Sample
- Chellie Pingree
Chellie Pingree (born April 2, 1955 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is the immediate past President and CEO of Common Cause, a nonpartisan citizens' lobbying group based in Washington, DC. She stepped down in January 2007 to return to her home state, possibly in order to run for Congress in 2008. She has recently filed the necessary paperwork and has announced she will in fact run for the seat. Prior to taking the reins of Common Cause in March of 2003, …
- George J. Mitchell
George John Mitchell, GBE (born August 20, 1933) is a former Democratic Party politician and United States Senator from the state of Maine, and currently serves as Chairman of the global law firm DLA Piper US LLP and also as the Chancellor of the Queen's University of Belfast. He was the United States Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995. He was also Chairman of The Walt Disney Company from March 2004 until January 2007.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882) was an American poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", "A Psalm of Life", "The Song of Hiawatha" and "Evangeline". He also wrote the first American translation of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" and was one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets. Longfellow was born and raised in the Portland, Maine area.
- Edmund Muskie
Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie (March 28, 1914 - March 26, 1996) was an American Democratic politician from Maine. He served as Governor of Maine, a U.S. Senator, as U.S. Secretary of State, and ran as a candidate for Vice President of the United States.
- Joshua Chamberlain
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (September 8 1828 - February 24 1914) was a college professor from Maine who volunteered to join the Union Army without the benefit of any formal military education, and became a highly respected and decorated Union officer during the American Civil War, reaching the rank of brigadier general (and brevet major general). For his gallantry at Gettysburg, he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
- Samoset
Samoset was the first Native American to make contact with the Pilgrims. On March 16, 1621 the settlers were more than surprised when Samoset strolled straight through the middle of the encampment at Plymouth Colony and greeted them in English and asked whether they had any beer for him. He was a member of an Abenaki tribe that resided at that time in Maine. He was a sagamore (subordinate chief) of his tribe and was visiting Chief Massasoit.
- Richard Russo
Richard Russo (born July 15 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Born in Johnstown, New York, and raised in nearby Gloversville, he earned a B.A. (1967), a M.F.A. (1980), and a Ph.D. (1979) from the University of Arizona. His novel "Empire Falls", published in 2001, won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has written four other novels: "Mohawk", "The Risk Pool", "Nobody's Fool", and "Straight Man", …
- E. B. White
Elwyn Brooks White (July 11 1899, Mount Vernon, New York - October 1 1985, North Brooklin, Maine) was a leading American essayist, author, humorist, poet and literary stylist. "No one can write a sentence like White," James Thurber once said of his crisp and graceful writing style. A liberal free-thinker, White often wrote as an ironic onlooker, championing freedom of the individual. His writing ranged from satire to textbooks and children's fiction.
- James G. Blaine
James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830 - January 27, 1893) was a U.S. Representative, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Maine and a two-time United States Secretary of State. He was a dominant Republican leader of the Third Party System, obtaining the 1884 Republican nomination, but lost to Democrat Grover Cleveland.
- Hannibal Hamlin
Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809 - July 4, 1891) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Hamlin served in the Maine Legislature, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and as Governor of Maine. He began his career as a Democrat but later became a member of the Republican Party. He was the first Republican to serve as Vice President of the United States, elected as Abraham Lincoln's running mate in the 1860 presidential election.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was a white American abolitionist and novelist, whose "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential, even in Britain. It made the political issues of the 1850s regarding slavery tangible to millions, energizing anti-slavery forces in the North. It angered and embittered the South.
- John Lynch
John Lynch (February 18, 1825 - July 21, 1892) was a nineteenth century politician, merchant, manufacturer and newspaper publisher from Maine. Born in Portland, Maine, Lynch attended public schools as a child and graduated from Portland High School in 1842. He engaged in mercantile pursuits, was manager of the "Portland Daily Press" in 1862 and was a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1862 to 1864.
- Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and printmaker, most famous for his marine subjects. Largely self-taught, he is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th century America, and a preeminent figure in American art.
- John Ford
John Ford was an American film director famous for both his westerns such as "Stagecoach" and "The Searchers" and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as "The Grapes of Wrath". His win of four Best Director Academy Awards (1935, 1940, 1941, 1952) is a record till today unmatched, although only one of those films, "How Green Was My Valley", won Best Picture. His style of film-making has been tremendously influential, …
- Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Galen Dempsey (born January 13, 1966) is an American actor who first became prominent in Hollywood during the late 1980s. He is also known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd (Dr. McDreamy) on the medical drama "Grey's Anatomy". During the 2000s, he also appeared in several film roles, including "The Emperor's Club" and "Freedom Writers".
- Beth Edmonds
Betheda Edmonds is a Democratic State Senator in Maine representing District 10, which includes the towns of Brunswick, Freeport, Harpswell and Pownal. After winning re-election in 2004, Edmonds became President of the Maine State Senate, making her next in the line of succession for the governorship after current Governor John Baldacci. She was re-elected with 67% of votes cast in 2006.
- Howie Carr
Howard Louis "Howie" Carr (born January 17, 1952) is an American broadcaster, award-winning journalist, "New York Times" best-selling author, and a highly rated talk-radio host in the greater Boston and New England area.
- Steve Miller
Steve Miller is the grandson of poet and WBAL radio personality Dorothea Neale. He graduated from Reisterstown’s Franklin Senior High school in 1968 after learning how to make chapbooks as editor of the school’s literary magazine, Junto.
- Joe Hill
Joe Hill (born 1972 as Joseph Hillstrom King) is an American writer of Speculative fiction. Hill is the second child of the authors Stephen and Tabitha King. His younger brother Owen King is also a writer. Hill chose to use an abbreviated form of his given name (a reference to executed labor leader Joe Hill, for whom he was named) in 1997, out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits instead of as the son of Stephen King.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She was also known for her unconventional, bohemian lifestyle and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work.
- Joan Benoit
Joan Benoit Samuelson (born May 16, 1957) is an American former marathon runner who won gold at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the year that the women's marathon was introduced. As a result she was the first ever women's Olympic marathon champion.
- Owen Brewster
Ralph Owen Brewster (February 22, 1888-December 25, 1961) was an American politician from Maine. Brewster, a Republican, was solidly conservative, a close confidant of Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and antagonist of Howard Hughes. Owen (he preferred to be known by his middle name) Brewster was born in Dexter, the son of William Edmund Brewster, a member of the Maine House of Representatives, and Carrie S. Bridges.
- Nelson Rockefeller
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 - January 26, 1979) was the forty-first Vice President of the United States, governor of New York State, philanthropist and businessman. A leader of the liberal wing of the Republican Party, he was Governor of New York from 1959 to 1973, where he launched many construction and modernization projects. A descendant of one of the world's richest and best known families, he failed repeatedly in his attempts to become president, …
- Henry Knox
Henry Knox (July 25, 1750 - October 25, 1806) was an American bookseller from Boston who became the chief artillery officer of the Continental Army and later the nation's first Secretary of War
- Marsden Hartley
Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 - September 2, 1943) was an American painter and poet in the early 20th century. Hartley was born in Lewiston, Maine, USA. He began his art training at the Cleveland Art Institute after moving to Cleveland, Ohio in 1892. At the age of 22, he moved to New York City where he attended the National Academy of Design and studied painting with William Merritt Chase.
- Patty Griffin
Patty Griffin, born March 16 1964, is an American singer-songwriter from Old Town, Maine, next to the Penobscot Indian reservation. Two of her first four albums were unreleased by A&M Records.
- John Holmes
John Holmes (March 14, 1773-July 7, 1843) was an American politician. Holmes, a National Republican, served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and was one of the first two U.S. Senators from Maine. Holmes was noted for his involvement in the Treaty of Ghent. Holmes was born in Kingston, Massachusetts. He attended public schools in Kingston and in 1796 graduated from Rhode Island College (now Brown University) in Providence, Rhode Island.
- Liv Tyler
Liv Tyler (born Liv Rundgren, on July 1, 1977 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, New York) is an American actress most famous for her roles of Grace Stamper in "Armageddon" and Arwen in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.