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
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