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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in
Portland, Maine.
Authors and academics
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John Howard Appleton, chemist
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Louisa Dow Benton, linguist and letter writer
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Hannah Johnson Carter, art educator
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Elisabeth Cavazza (1849–1926), author, journalist, and music critic
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Jennie Maria Drinkwater Conklin (1841–1900), author
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Leo Connellan, Beat poet and Poet Laureate of Connecticut
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Owen Davis, dramatist
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Robert F. Griffin, essayist
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Dorothy M. Healy, professor at
Westbrook College and Curator of the Maine Women Writers Collection
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Stephen King, author
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet
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John Neal, author and critic
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Alan Taylor, historian
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William Irwin Thompson, poet and cultural historian
Business
Explorers and settlers
Media and arts
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Dorothy Appleby, American film actress
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Maria a'Becket, painter
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Hiram Abrams, motion picture mogul
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Bebe Buell, model, musician, and mother of
Liv Tyler[
citation needed]
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Howie Carr, radio personality
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Cody Christian, actor and rapper
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John Greenleaf Cloudman, artist, portrait painter and cabinet maker
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Charles Codman, painter
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Jerry Crasnick, sports journalist
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Kevin Eastman, co-creator of
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles[
citation needed].
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Greg Finley II, actor
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Frank Fixaris, sportscaster
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Francis Ford, actor
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John Ford, director
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Charles L. Fox, painter, labor unionist, and two-time candidate for Governor of Maine with the
Socialist Party
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Adam Gardner, musician
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Peter Garland, composer
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Jeremiah Hacker, journalist and reformer
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Will Holt, songwriter
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Avery Yale Kamila, journalist and community organizer
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Anna Kendrick, actress
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Charles F. Kimball, artist
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Jennie Kimball, actor, soubrette, theatrical manager
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Linda Lavin, actress
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Tawny Little, television newscaster and
Miss America (1976)
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Bob Ludwig, Grammy Award-winning audio
mastering engineer
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Bob Marley, comedian
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Andrea Martin, actress
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Judd Nelson, actor
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Lincoln Peirce, comic strip creator, Big Nate
- Ryan Peters, aka
Spose, rapper
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Victoria Rowell, actress
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Ethelynde Smith, concert singer and botanical painter
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Stuart Saunders Smith, composer and percussionist
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Brett Somers, actress
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Franklin Stanwood, painter
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Phyllis Thaxter, actress
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Liv Tyler, actress
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Louise Brown Verrill, composer
Military
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James Alden Jr., rear admiral in the United States Navy
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George G. Gatley, brigadier general who commanded brigades and divisions in
World War I
[1]
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John H. Hall, inventor of the first United States Army breech-loading rifle
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Horatio Collins King, Medal of Honor recipient
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Charles J. Loring Jr., Medal of Honor recipient
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Holman S. Melcher, mayor, Civil War veteran
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Edward Preble, naval officer
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Herbert E. Schonland, Medal of Honor recipient
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Ronald Speirs, army officer with the
Easy Company, 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment
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Peleg Wadsworth, Revolutionary War general
Politics
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Joseph Adams, state legislator
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Justin Alfond,
President of the Maine Senate
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George H. Allan, state legislator and women's suffrage proponent
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Daniel W. Ames, Civil War veteran and state legislator
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James Appleton, state legislator and activist
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Joseph E. Brennan, 70th
Governor of Maine
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Michael F. Brennan, Mayor and state legislator
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Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War veteran, governor, served as Surveyor of the Portland Port
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W. Edward Crockett, state legislator
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Winfred Thaxter Denison,
United States Assistant Attorney General and
Secretary of the Interior for the Philippines; born in Portland
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Santo DiPietro, Maine state legislator and businessman; born in Portland
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Neal Dow, mayor of Portland; Civil War general;
temperance movement leader
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John Eder, state legislator and
Maine Green Independent Party organizer
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William P. Fessenden, U.S. Senator
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Fletcher Hale, U.S. Congressman from
New Hampshire
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Charles Harlow, mayor of Portland; state legislator
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Anne Haskell, state legislator
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Jon Hinck, state legislator and attorney
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John Lynch, U.S. Congressman
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George Mitchell, U.S. Senate Majority Leader (1989 to 1995); chairman of
Walt Disney; U.S. special envoy to the Middle East
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Merle Nelson, state legislator
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William Pitt Preble, Justice of the
Maine Supreme Court;
U.S. Minister to the Netherlands; President of the
St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad
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Anne Rand, state legislator
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Thomas Brackett Reed, U.S. Congressman; Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
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George Ruby, Black Republican legislator in Reconstruction-era Texas; raised in Portland
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James E. Thorne, state legislator
[2]
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Charles W. Walton, U.S. Congressman
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Herman W. Waterman, politician from
Wisconsin
Professionals
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Edville Gerhardt Abbott, surgeon
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Oscar Cox, lawyer
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Walter M. Fleming, physician, founder of the
Shriners
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Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr., architect
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Robert E. McAfee, physician
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Alexander Parris, architect
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Lois Rice,
College Board executive & education scholar
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Thomas J. Sparrow, architect
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Henry Aiken Worcester, 19th century minister & vegetarian
Sports
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Mike Brown (born 1975), mixed martial arts fighter
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Nik Caner-Medley (born 1983), basketball forward
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Dick Capp (born 1942), American football tight end and linebacker
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Ian Crocker (born 1982), Olympic swimmer
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Rob Elowitch (born 1943), wrestler
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Terry Farnsworth (born 1942), Canadian Olympic judoka
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Ryan Flaherty (born 1986), baseball second baseman
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Charlie Furbush (born 1986), baseball pitcher
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Rip Jordan (1889–1960), baseball pitcher
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Pete Ladd (born 1956), baseball pitcher
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Gary McAdam (born 1955), ice hockey forward
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Quinton Porter (born 1982), American football quarterback
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Joan Benoit Samuelson (born 1957), marathon runner
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Bob Stanley (born 1954), baseball pitcher
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Coley Welch (1919–2000), middleweight boxer
Other
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Cornelia Dow (1842–1905), philanthropist, temperance activist; born and died in Portland, Maine
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Sarah E. Fuller (1838-1913), national president,
Woman's Relief Corps; born in Portland, Maine
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Nathaniel Gordon, only American slave trader to be tried, convicted, and executed under the Piracy Law of 1820 "for being engaged in the Slave Trade"
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L. Isabel Heald (1842–1932), social leader and philanthropic worker
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Ellen Martin Henrotin, social reformer; born in Portland, Maine
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Augusta Merrill Hunt (1842-1932), philanthropist, suffragist, temperance leader; lived in Portland her entire life
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Lois Galgay Reckitt (born 1944), executive director of Family Crisis Services, Portland, Maine
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