List of people from Bath, Maine

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 (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
 * 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
 * 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
 * Robert Jaffe, physicist