List of people from Bath, Maine
The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Bath, Maine.
Authors and academics
- Robert Jaffe, physicist
- McDonald Clarke, poet
- Alice May Douglas, poet and author
- George F. Magoun, first president of Iowa College (now Grinnell College)
- Edward Page Mitchell, editorial and short story writer
- William Maxwell Reed, author of children's science books
- Susan Marr Spalding (1841–1908), poet
- Geoffrey Wolff, novelist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer; lives in Bath
- Glenn Cummings, economist, politician and University of Southern Maine President
Business
- Charles W. Morse, businessman
Media and arts
- Georgia Cayvan, stage actress
- Claude Demetrius, songwriter
- Emma Eames, singer
- John Adams Jackson, sculptor
- William Zorach, sculptor
Military
- Charles Frederick Hughes, US Navy admiral
- William Smith, US Army private; Medal of Honor recipient.[1]
- Silas Soule, abolitionist and Civil War era soldier
Politics
- Nathaniel S. Berry, 28th governor of New Hampshire
- Samuel Davis, US congressman
- Thomas W. Hyde, US senator; Union Army general and Metal of Honor recipient; founder of Bath Iron Works
- William King, first governor of Maine
- Arthur Mayo, state legislator
- Freeman H. Morse, US congressman and mayor
- Amos Nourse, physician and US senator
- William LeBaron Putnam, lawyer and politician
- Harold M. Sewall, last United States Minister to Hawaii
- Sumner Sewall, 58th governor of Maine
- Mary Small, politician
- Francis B. Stockbridge, US senator
- Peleg Tallman, US congressman
Science and engineering
- Edward Davis, buccaneer and engineer
- Francis H. Fassett, architect
- Henry Gannett, geographer
- Robert Jaffe, physicist
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References
- "Medal of Honor recipients". United States Army. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
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