List of personalities of the city of Portland (Maine)

The following list deals with the personalities of Portland .

Sons and Daughters of Portland

Edward Russell (1782-1835), politician of the Secretary of State of Maine was
Bellamy Storer (1796–1875), politician
Joseph C. Noyes (1798–1868), politician
David Humphreys Storer (1804-1891), medical doctor and zoologist
Asa Clapp (1805-1891), politician
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), novelist, poet and playwright
JH Ingraham (1809–1860), author and Anglican clergyman
James Brooks (1810–1873), politician
William Augustus Hall (1815–1888), politician
John Lynch (1825-1892), politician
Thomas Fessenden (1826–1868), politician
Samuel Colman (1832–1920), painter and interior designer
Edward S. Morse (1838–1925), zoologist and expert on Japanese ceramics
John Knowles Paine (1839–1906), organist and composer
Thomas Brackett Reed (1839–1902), politician
Helen Blanchard (1840-1922), inventor

Shailer Mathews (1863-1941), theologian
Oakley C. Curtis (1865–1924), politician and Governor of Maine
Owen Davis (1874–1956), playwright, Pulitzer Prize winner
Percival Proctor Baxter (1876–1969), politician and governor of Maine
Hiram Abrams (1878–1926), first president of the United Artists film distributor
Francis Ford (1881–1953), film actor, screenwriter and director
Paul Franklin Clark (1882–1983), bacteriologist and university professor
Fletcher Hale (1883-1931), politician
Robert Hale (1889–1976), politician
Daniel Joseph Feeney (1894–1969), Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Portland
Joseph A. McDonough (1896–1944), assistant director and film director
Mildred Gillars (1900–1988), radio presenter during the Second World War, who participated in propaganda programs on behalf of Radio Berlin

Michael A. Napolitano (1908–2000), politician, state auditor, and state trasurer from Maine
Ruthie Tompson (* 1910), animator with the Walt Disney Company
William Vacchiano (1912–2005), music professor and solo trumpeter with the New York Philharmonic for 31 years
Cliff Leeman (1913–1986), jazz drummer
Edward Gurney (1914–1996), politician
Harry Brown (1917–1986), screenwriter and novelist
Alvin Morell Bentley (1918–1969), politician
Phyllis Thaxter (1919–2012), actress
Rodney S. Quinn (1923-2012), soldier and politician of the Secretary of State of Maine was
Peter N. Kyros (1925–2012), politician
Bryce Bayer (1929-2012), physicist, the Bayer filter developed
Joseph E. Brennan (born 1934), politician and governor of Maine
Linda Lavin (born 1937), singer and actress
Sue Wagner (* 1940), politician
Terry O'Brien (* 1943), luge rider
Tom Allen (* 1945), politician
Stephen King (born 1947), writer
Andrea Martin (* 1947), actress
Nicholas Wyman (* 1950), musical actor and film actor

Edson Mitchell (1953-2000), investment banker
Alan Taylor (* 1955), historian
Elizabeth Strout (* 1956) writer
Dave Bowler (* 1957), jazz musician
Judd Nelson (born 1959), actor
Victoria Rowell (born 1959), actress
Richard Wallace (* 1960), software entrepreneur, chairman and co-founder of ALICE
Rebecca Martin (* 1969), singer
Amanda Buckner (* 1975), martial artist
Christopher Daniel Barnes (* 1972), actor and voice actor
Mike Pride (* 1979), jazz musician
Ian Crocker (* 1982), swimmer
Greg Finley (born 1984), actor
Anna Kendrick (born 1985), actress
Elle Logan (b.1987), rower
Megan Sweeney (* 1987), luge rider
Emily Sweeney (* 1993), luge rider

James B. Cahoon (1802–1867), politician and Mayor of Portland
John Anderson (1792–1853), politician and Mayor of Portland
John Joubert (1963-1996), serial killer
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1828–1914), officer and politician
Mark Harris (1779–1843), politician
Horace A. Hildreth (1902–1988), politician and governor of Maine, ran a radio station in Portland
Joel Hastings Metcalf (1866–1925), astronomer and discoverer of many asteroids
Bill Slavick (born 1927), peace activist and English professor
Lorenzo De Medici Sweat (1818–1898), politician