List of people from Hallowell, Maine

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

Academics and writing

• Gorham Dummer Abbott, clergyman, educator and author
• Jacob Abbott, children's writer
• Martha Ballard, colonial midwife; her diary inspired the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812
• George Baron, mathematician
• Elias Bond, missionary and teacher
• William H. Getchell, 19th-century photographer
• Hall J. Kelley, settler and writer
• Howard Parshley, zoologist
• Thomas Sewall, doctor, writer and professor

Business and finance

• Thomas Hamlin Hubbard, general, lawyer, philanthropist and financier
• William Ladd, Ladd & Company founder
• Samuel Vaughan Merrick, manufacturer
• Thelma C. Swain, philanthropist
• Benjamin Vaughan, political economist, merchant and doctor

Entertainment

• Abbott Abbott Vaughn Meader, political humorist

Military

• Amos Stoddard, US Army officer (American Revolutionary War and The War of 1812)

Music

• Supply Belcher, composer, singer, and compiler of tune books

Politics and law

• Hiram Belcher, US congressman
• Joseph R. Bodwell, 40th governor of Maine
• Scott Cowger, state legislator
• George Evans, US congressman and senator
• John Hubbard, 22nd governor of Maine
• Dale McCormick, first openly gay member of the Maine state legislature
• Patrick K. McGowan, state legislator, candidate for governor
• Amos Nourse, doctor and US senator
• John Otis, US congressman
• James L. Reid, state representative and Maine Superior Court Justice
• Peleg Sprague, US Federal Judge
• Sharon Treat, state representative for Maine's 79th District
• Samuel Wells, 25th governor of Maine
• Reuel Williams, US senator

Sports

• Charlie Waitt, first baseman for the St. Louis Brown Stockings, Chicago White Stockings, Baltimore Orioles, and Philadelphia Quakers

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