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Lots of people were born in Maine. I assume you mean famous people though so here's a list. * Business * Leon Leonwood (L.L.) Bean, clothing maker and retailer * Milton Bradley, board game inventor * Reuben Colburn, shipbuilder from Pittston, and guide for Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, part of the Invasion of Canada (1775) * Francis Edgar Stanley and Freelan O. Stanley, inventors, Stanley Steamer * Entertainment and media * Christopher Daniel Barnes, actor * Corey Beaulieu, Band member/songwriter of Trivium * Anna Belknap, actress * Gordon Bok, folksinger/songwriter * John Cariani, actor * Ernie Coombs, actor (Mr. Dressup) * Howie Day, singer/songwriter * Patrick Dempsey, actor * Richard Dysart, actor * Kevin Eastman, co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles * James Flavin, actor * Jonathan Frakes, actor * Dan Fogelberg, singer/songwriter * Todd Field, writer/director, actor * John Ford, director, actor * Frank Fixaris, sports broadcaster * Patty Griffin, singer/songwriter * Marsden Hartley, Artist * Juliana Hatfield, musician * David E. Kelley, producer * Ray Lamontagne, singer/songwriter * Linda Lavin, actress * David Mallett, singer/songwriter * Bob Marley, comedian * Andrea Martin, actress, comedienne * Hiram Stevens Maxim, Sangerville Invented the machine gun. * Judd Nelson, actor (member of the Brat Pack) * Rachel Nichols, actress * Shirley Povich, Washington Post sports columnist * Victoria Rowell, actress * Tim Sample, humorist * Andrew St. John, actor * Noel Paul Stookey, singer/songwriter * Phyllis Thaxter, actress * Gary Thorne, sports broadcaster * Liv Tyler, actress (daughter of singer Steven Tyler) * Steven Zirnkilton, voiceover actor, best known for the opening narration of the NBC television drama series Law & Order. * Bob Ludwig, Owner and founder of Gateway Mastering and DVD, a resident of Maine. * Literature and the Arts * Artemus Ward, writer * Walter Van Tilburg Clark, writer * Thomas A. Desjardin, writer * Nancy A. Henry, poet * Winslow Homer, artist (27 year resident) * Sarah Orne Jewett, writer * Stephen King, writer * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet * Robert McCloskey writer * Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet * Ruth Moore, writer * George Lorenzo Noyes, writer and artist * Lincoln Peirce, cartoonist * Walter Piston, composer * Van Reid, novelist * Phineas Quimby, 19th century philosopher, writer * Kenneth Roberts, historical novelist * Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet * Richard Russo, writer * Harriet Beecher Stowe, novelist & abolitionist * E.B. White, writer (28 year resident) * Andrew Wyeth, artist * Marguerite Yourcenar, writer and first female chosen for the French Academy (Resident in Mount Desert Island, from 1950 to 1987 * John Gould, author and newspaper editor * National Public Service * Ed Muskie, Governor of Maine, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State under President Carter, Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1968, and ran for the presidency in 1972 * George Mitchell, U.S. Senator, Senate Majority Leader * Margaret Chase Smith, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator

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