The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Bath, Maine.
Authors and academics
- 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 (1841âÂÂ1908), poet
- Geoffrey Wolff, novelist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer; lives in Bath
- Glenn Cummings, economist, politician and University of Southern Maine President
Business
Media and arts
Military
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
- Francis B. Stockbridge, US senator
- Peleg Tallman, US congressman
Science and engineering
Sports
References