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
 * Lilian Vaughan Morgan (née Sampson; 1870–1952), experimental biologist
 * Emma Huntington Nason (1845–1921), poet, author, and musical composer
 * 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 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
 * Daniel Shagoury (born 1981 or 1982), state representative
 * Peleg Sprague, US federal judge
 * Sharon Treat, state representative for Maine's 79th District
 * Samuel Wells, 25th governor of Maine
 * Reuel Williams, US senator

Religion

 * George B. Cheever, abolitionist minister and writer

Sports

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