List of people from Bath, Maine

Last updated April 27, 2025

The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Bath, Maine.

Authors and academics

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Robert Jaffe, physicist
McDonald Clarke, poet
Eleanor P. Cushing, mathematics professor at Smith College
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
Chad Finn, sportswriter
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
David Sinclair, politician and resident of Bath^[2]
Francis B. Stockbridge, US senator
Peleg Tallman, US congressman

Science and engineering

Edward Davis, buccaneer and engineer
Francis H. Fassett, architect
Henry Gannett, geographer
George Edward Harding, architect^[3]
Robert Jaffe, physicist

Sports

Greg Moffett, former professional hockey player

References

↑ "Medal of Honor recipients". United States Army. Archived from the original on December 14, 2007. Retrieved November 19, 2010.
↑ "David Sinclair". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
↑ "The Death of George Edward Harding," American Architect and Building News 92, no. 1663 (November 9, 1907): 146.

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[1] "Medal of Honor recipients". United States Army. Archived from the original on December 14, 2007. Retrieved November 19, 2010.

[2] "David Sinclair". Ballotpedia. Retrieved December 8, 2023.

[3] "The Death of George Edward Harding," American Architect and Building News 92, no. 1663 (November 9, 1907): 146.

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