John Howard Appleton , chemistLouisa Dow Benton , linguist and letter writerHannah Johnson Carter , art educatorElisabeth Cavazza (1849–1926), author, journalist, and music criticJennie Maria Drinkwater Conklin (1841–1900), authorLeo Connellan , Beat poet and Poet Laureate of ConnecticutOwen Davis , dramatistRobert F. Griffin , essayistDorothy M. Healy , professor at Westbrook College and Curator of the Maine Women Writers CollectionStephen King , authorHenry Wadsworth Longfellow , poetJohn Neal , author and criticAlan Taylor , historianWilliam Irwin Thompson , poet and cultural historian
Academy Award winning director John Ford Actress and singer Anna Kendrick Dorothy Appleby , American film actressMaria a'Becket , painterHiram Abrams , motion picture mogulBebe Buell , model, musician, and mother of Liv Tyler [ citation needed ] Howie Carr , radio personalityCody Christian , actor and rapperJohn Greenleaf Cloudman , artist, portrait painter and cabinet makerCharles Codman , painterJerry Crasnick , sports journalistKevin Eastman , co-creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [ citation needed ] Greg Finley II , actorFrank Fixaris , sportscasterFrancis Ford , actorJohn Ford , directorCharles L. Fox , painter, labor unionist, and two-time candidate for Governor of Maine with the Socialist Party Adam Gardner , musicianPeter Garland , composerJeremiah Hacker , journalist and reformerWill Holt , songwriterAvery Yale Kamila , journalist and community organizerAnna Kendrick , actressCharles F. Kimball , artistJennie Kimball , actor, soubrette, theatrical managerLinda Lavin , actressTawny Little , television newscaster and Miss America (1976)Bob Ludwig , Grammy Award-winning audio mastering engineerBob Marley , comedianAndrea Martin , actressJudd Nelson , actorLincoln Peirce , comic strip creator, Big Nate Ryan Peters, aka Spose , rapper
Victoria Rowell , actressEthelynde Smith , concert singer and botanical painterStuart Saunders Smith , composer and percussionistBrett Somers , actressFranklin Stanwood , painterPhyllis Thaxter , actressLiv Tyler , actressLouise Brown Verrill , composer
Mexican-American and Civil War naval officer James Alden Jr. James Alden Jr. , rear admiral in the United States NavyGeorge G. Gatley , brigadier general who commanded brigades and divisions in World War I [1] John H. Hall , inventor of the first United States Army breech-loading rifleHoratio Collins King , Medal of Honor recipientCharles J. Loring Jr. , Medal of Honor recipientHolman S. Melcher , mayor, Civil War veteranEdward Preble , naval officerHerbert E. Schonland , Medal of Honor recipientRonald Speirs , army officer with the Easy Company, 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment Peleg Wadsworth , Revolutionary War general
William P. Fessenden, Secretary of the Treasury for Abraham Lincoln Senator and diplomat George Mitchell Joseph Adams , state legislatorJustin Alfond , President of the Maine Senate George H. Allan , state legislator and women's suffrage proponentDaniel W. Ames , Civil War veteran and state legislatorJames Appleton , state legislator and activistJoseph E. Brennan , 70th Governor of Maine Michael F. Brennan , Mayor and state legislatorJoshua Chamberlain , Civil War veteran, governor, served as Surveyor of the Portland PortW. Edward Crockett , state legislatorWinfred Thaxter Denison , United States Assistant Attorney General and Secretary of the Interior for the Philippines ; born in PortlandSanto DiPietro , Maine state legislator and businessman; born in PortlandNeal Dow , mayor of Portland; Civil War general; temperance movement leaderJohn Eder , state legislator and Maine Green Independent Party organizerWilliam P. Fessenden , U.S. SenatorFletcher Hale , U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire Charles Harlow , mayor of Portland; state legislatorAnne Haskell , state legislatorJon Hinck , state legislator and attorneyJohn Lynch , U.S. CongressmanGeorge Mitchell , U.S. Senate Majority Leader (1989 to 1995); chairman of Walt Disney ; U.S. special envoy to the Middle EastMerle Nelson , state legislatorWilliam Pitt Preble , Justice of the Maine Supreme Court ; U.S. Minister to the Netherlands ; President of the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad Anne Rand , state legislatorThomas Brackett Reed , U.S. Congressman; Speaker of the U.S. House of RepresentativesGeorge Ruby , Black Republican legislator in Reconstruction-era Texas; raised in PortlandJames E. Thorne , state legislator[2] Charles W. Walton , U.S. CongressmanHerman W. Waterman , politician from Wisconsin
Edville Gerhardt Abbott , surgeonOscar Cox , lawyerWalter M. Fleming , physician, founder of the Shriners Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. , architectRobert E. McAfee , physicianAlexander Parris , architectLois Rice , College Board executive & education scholarThomas J. Sparrow , architectHenry Aiken Worcester , 19th century minister & vegetarian
Major League Baseball player Ryan Flaherty Mike Brown (born 1975), mixed martial arts fighterNik Caner-Medley (born 1983), basketball forwardDick Capp (born 1942), American football tight end and linebackerIan Crocker (born 1982), Olympic swimmerRob Elowitch (born 1943), wrestlerTerry Farnsworth (born 1942), Canadian Olympic judokaRyan Flaherty (born 1986), baseball second basemanCharlie Furbush (born 1986), baseball pitcherRip Jordan (1889–1960), baseball pitcherPete Ladd (born 1956), baseball pitcherGary McAdam (born 1955), ice hockey forwardQuinton Porter (born 1982), American football quarterbackJoan Benoit Samuelson (born 1957), marathon runnerBob Stanley (born 1954), baseball pitcherColey Welch (1919–2000), middleweight boxer
Cornelia Dow (1842–1905), philanthropist, temperance activist; born and died in Portland, MaineSarah E. Fuller (1838-1913), national president, Woman's Relief Corps ; born in Portland, MaineNathaniel Gordon , only American slave trader to be tried, convicted, and executed under the Piracy Law of 1820 "for being engaged in the Slave Trade"L. Isabel Heald (1842–1932), social leader and philanthropic workerEllen Martin Henrotin , social reformer; born in Portland, MaineAugusta Merrill Hunt (1842-1932), philanthropist, suffragist, temperance leader; lived in Portland her entire lifeLois Galgay Reckitt (born 1944), executive director of Family Crisis Services, Portland, MaineFrederick L. Small (1866–1918), stockbroker; convicted and hanged by the state of New Hampshire for the murder of his wife 
