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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived inBangor, Maine.

• Charles G. Bryant (1803–1858), Maine's first architect, lived and practiced in Bangor in the 1830s and designedMount Hope Cemetery, the secondgarden cemetery in the United States. Bryant later moved toTexas (Galveston) and became the first architect in that state, where, joining theTexas Rangers, he was eventually killed and scalped byApache Indians.^[1] Other prominent Bangor architects, many of whose buildings survive in the city and nearby towns, includedCalvin Ryder,Benjamin S. Deane,George W. Orff,C. Parker Crowell, andWilfred E. Mansur.^[2]
• Francis Clergue, born in neighboringBrewer, was a lawyer. He oversaw one of the most ambitious engineering projects in North America, the development ofSault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Ontario as a majorhydropower and industrial center in the 1890s–1900s. Before that Clergue had organized the Bangor Street Railway (the first electric railway in Maine) and the Bangor Waterworks, and had tried and failed to build a railroad acrossPersia and a waterworks in its capital,Tehran.^[3]
• Charles Davis Jameson, engineer who taught atMIT. He subsequently went to China and became Chief Consulting Engineer and Architect to theImperial Chinese Government (1895–1918). He planned important hydraulics projects and witnessed theBoxer Rebellion
• Edward Austin Kent (1854–1912), leading architect inBuffalo, New York, and three-time president of theAmerican Institute of Architects. He perished aboard theRMSTitanic when the ship struck an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912.^[4]

• Waldo Peirce, painter and bohemian. He was a confidante ofErnest Hemingway and was from a prominent Bangor family.
• Jeremiah Pearson Hardy (1800–1887), portrait painter. He apprenticed underSamuel Morse, lived and worked in Bangor for most of his career, sustained largely by the patronage of lumber barons.^[5] His children Anna Eliza Hardy and Francis Willard Hardy, and sister Mary Ann Hardy, were also part of a 19th-century circle of Bangor painters. Other members of this circle included Florence Whitney Jennison and Isabel Graham Eaton, who was also an author.^[6]
• Walter Franklin Lansil, studied first under Hardy, and then at theAcadémie Julian in Paris. He established a studio in Boston and became a celebrated landscape and marine artist.
• Frederic Porter Vinton (1846–1911), left Bangor at age 14 for Boston, where he became that city's most sought-after portrait painter—producing over 300 canvases—and one of the original members of theBoston School. He studied in Munich and withLeon Bonnat in Paris, as well as withWilliam Morris Hunt.
• Helena Wood Smith (1865–1914), member of the artists' colony atCarmel-by-the-Sea, California, was murdered there by her lover, Japanese photographer George Kodani. She was the sister of novelistRuel Perley Smith.^[7]
• Echo Eggebrecht, painter from New York, also a Bangor native.

• Brian Butterfield,Boston Red Sox third base coach was born in Bangor
• Norman Cahners of Bangor qualified for the1936 Olympic Team trials in track & field, but boycotted the event with Harvard track teammateMilton Green, because the games were to take place in Nazi Germany. Cahners and Green were Jewish. Cahners is a member of the Harvard Varsity Athletic Club Hall of Fame.^[8] He went on to build one of the largest publishing empires in America^[9]
• Adam Craig, cross-country biking champion was born in Bangor and grew up in nearbyCorinth, Maine. He was a member of the U.S. Biking Team at the2008 Beijing Olympic Games
• Marcus Davis, professionalmixed martial arts (MMA) fighter and his Team Irish currently call Bangor their home
• Jon DiSalvatore, formerNational Hockey League player
• Mary Freeman, Bangor-born swimmer; competed in the1952 Summer Olympics inHelsinki, Finland. She later became the sister-in-law ofGrace Kelly
• Al Harris (born 1956), formerNational Football League player of theChicago Bears andPhiladelphia Eagles comes from Bangor
• Emily Kagan (born 1981), American mixed martial artist^[10]
• Matt Kinney, Major League Baseball player of theMinnesota Twins,Milwaukee Brewers,Kansas City Royals and now Japan'sSeibu Lions
• Jack Leggett,Clemson University baseball coach
• Kevin Mahaney of Bangor won asilver medal in sailing at the 1992Barcelona Olympic Games, and went on to reach the finals of theAmerica's Cup trials with his Bangor-based PACT-95 team^[11]
• Chick Maynard, American baseball shortstop
• Jack McAuliffe, WorldLightweightBoxing Champion in the 1880s–1890s and known as "The Napoleon of the Ring", learned to fight growing up as a child in a tough Bangor neighborhood. He retired with an unbeaten record. Another local boxer,Michael Daley, became Lightweight Boxing Champion of New England, but was arrested in Bangor in 1903 for robbing a man at a local hotel
• Riley Masters, mid-distance runner
• Bobby Messenger, formerMajor League Baseball player (1901–1964) of theChicago White Sox andSt. Louis Browns
• Matthew Mulligan, of theNew England Patriots was born in Bangor
• Pat O'Connell (1861–1943) of theBaltimore Orioles
• Harry Orman Robinson, In the 1890s Robinson was Head Coach of theUniversity of Texas football team, theTexas Longhorns, and before that theUniversity of Missouri team, theMissouri Tigers. In the same decade, Bangor-bornFrank Barbour was Head Coach of theUniversity of Michigan team, theMichigan Wolverines, after playing as quarterback of the national championYale University team of 1891
• Jack Sharrott (1869–1927) of theNew York Giants andPhiladelphia Phillies
• Matt Stairs,Philadelphia Phillies hitter; (though Stairs is a native of New Brunswick, Canada)
• Jeff Turner, formerNational Basketball Association player of theNew Jersey Nets andOrlando Magic was born in Bangor. He also won agold medal at the 1984Los Angeles Olympic Games as a member of the U.S. Basketball Team

• Mabel Fuller Blodgett, wrote the novelAt the Queen's Mercy when she was 19 years old^[12]
• Laura Curtis Bullard, whose family started a successful patent medicine business in Bangor in the 1830s, eventually moved to Brooklyn and became a proto-feminist novelist and editor. She was a patron and confidante ofSusan B. Anthony andElizabeth Cady Stanton and took over editorship of their newspaperThe Revolution when it experienced financial difficulties
• Frederick H. Costello (1851–1921), nationally successful writer of adventure novels for young adults, who for 30 years held a day-job as local (Bangor) manager of the R.G. Dunn credit reporting company
• Owen Davis (1874–1956),Pulitzer Prize winning playwright; lived in Bangor until he was 15, and his prize-winning playIcebound (1923) is set in neighboringVeazie. Davis wrote between 200 and 300 plays, as well as radio and film scripts, and two autobiographies. He was inducted into theAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters, and was president of the Author's League of America and the American Dramatist's Guild^[13]
• Henry Payson Dowst (1872–1921), Bangor-born; was a novelist and short-story writer, and saw a number of his stories made into silent films. One wasThe Dancin' Fool (1920) starringWallace Reid. He spent his later life in a New York advertising agency, but was buried in Bangor
• Katya Alpert Gilden (1919–1991) of Bangor co-authored with her husband Bert Gilden the best-selling 1965 novelHurry Sundown, which became anOtto Preminger film in 1967
• Clarine Coffin Grenfell (1910–2004), poet and author, was born and raised in Bangor
• Frederic Henry Hedge, Bangor had strong links toTranscendentalism through Hedge, minister of theCongregational Church there in the 1830s. His circle, which includedRalph Waldo Emerson andHenry David Thoreau, met as "Hedge's Club" or theTranscendental Club whenever Hedge returned to his nativeCambridge, Massachusetts. Emerson had previously lectured in Bangor and Hedge took the position here on his advice.^[14]Thoreau visited Bangor a number of times (his aunt and cousins also lived here) and describes the city in his bookThe Maine Woods.
• Blanche Willis Howard, best-selling late 19th-century novelist, was born and raised in Bangor. She eventually moved toStuttgart, Germany, and married the court physician to KingCharles I of Württemberg, thus becoming the Baroness von Teuffel
• Stephen King, the author best known for his horror-themed stories, novels, and movies. His wife,Tabitha Spruce-King, is also a writer, as are sons Joseph Hillstrom King (akaJoe Hill) andOwen King. The family donates a substantial amount of money to local libraries and hospitals and has funded a baseball stadium, Mansfield Stadium (home to theSenior League World Series), and the Beth Pancoe Aquatic Center, both on the grounds of Hayford Park, for the citizens (especially the children) of the city. King's fictional town,Derry, Maine, shares many points of correspondence with Bangor—the rivers, thePaul Bunyan Statue, theThomas Hill Standpipe, the hospital—but is always referred to as separate from Bangor. King also features Bangor in many of his stories, such asThe Langoliers andStorm of the Century. King owned the radio stationsWKIT,WZON, andWZLO until 2025.
• Helen Maud Merrill (pen name, Samantha Spriggins; 1865–1943), litterateur and poet
• Hayford Peirce, science-fiction writer and nephew ofWaldo Peirce, is likewise a Bangor native, as is sci-fi author and cartoonistAlexis A. Gilliland. Other contemporary authors from Bangor include novelistsMameve Medwed,Tim Sullivan,Don J. Snyder,Christina Baker Kline,Christopher Willard; poetDavid Baker, and children's book authorsSusan Lubner andBruce McMillan.
• Eugene T. Sawyer, the "Prince ofDime Novelists", was born and raised in Bangor. In a 1902 interview, he claimed to have authored 75 examples of that genre, mostly for theNick Carter series, once producing a 60,000 word novel in two days. His major innovation was to "begin the plot with the first word", i.e. "We will have the money, or she shall die!"^[15]
• Ruel Perley Smith (1869–1937), born in Bangor, author of theRival Campers series of boy's book in the early 20th century. His regular job was as Night and Sunday Editor of theNew York World newspaper^[16]
• Tim Sullivan, science fiction author, was born and raised in Bangor
• George Savary Wasson, painter and author of four novels, lived and worked in Bangor in the early 20th century
• Christine Goutiere Weston (1904–1989), author of ten novels, more than thirty short stories, and two non-fiction books (aboutCeylon andAfghanistan), lived the latter part of her life in Bangor. She had been born in India and much of her fiction was set there.^[17]

• William Hammatt Davis, of Bangor, brother of playwrightOwen Davis, served as Chairman of theWar Labor Board underFranklin Roosevelt, where his job was keeping industrial peace between management and labor. He was appointedUS Economic Stabilizer at the end of the war. He also helped draft theNational Labor Relations Act (theWagner Act) of 1935, which gavelabor unions the right to organize
• Jay Stone, of Bangor was Chief Clerk of theWar Department in the 1920s
• Artemus E. Weatherbee (died 1995), of Bangor was anAssistant Secretary of the Treasury (1959–1970) and thereafter U.S. Director of theAsian Development Bank with the rank of Ambassador

• Jehudi Ashmun, professor and director of theBangor Theological Seminary which produced a number of influential ministers, missionaries, and scholars in the 19th century. Ashman later led a group of 32 freed slaves to theAmerican Colonization Society's African colony inLiberia in 1822, and is considered one of the founders of that nation^[18]Cyrus Hamlin, who graduated from the seminary in 1837, was the founder and first president ofRobert College inIstanbul, Turkey, and later president ofMiddlebury College (1880–85) in Vermont.^[19] SeminarianDaniel Dole (1808–78) left Bangor in 1839 to establish one of the earliest Protestant missions inHawaii, and ended up founding a local dynasty. His sonSanford B. Dole led the successful coup d'état against the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893, becoming the first and only President of theRepublic of Hawaii and, later, the first American territorial governor. Daniel's nephewJames Drummond Dole became the "Pineapple King"^[20]
• John Bapst (1815–1887), a Swiss-born member of theJesuit order, was sent toOld Town, Maine in the late 1840s to minister to the CatholicPenobscot tribe. Soon he was conducting a roving ministry to 33 Maine towns, largely as a result ofIrish-Catholic immigration. In 1851 he was embroiled in a religious controversy over grammar school education inEllsworth, Maine, and was brutalized, robbed, andtarred and feathered by aProtestant mob, inspired by theKnow-Nothing Party, which was popular in coastal Maine. He fled to Bangor, where a largeIrish-Catholic community was gathering, and where members of the local elite presented him with a new watch, his previous one having been stolen in Ellsworth. Bapst stayed in Bangor until 1859, overseeing the construction of the large brick St. John's Catholic Church in 1855.^[21] He left in 1860 to become the first rector ofBoston College. Later he became superintendent of theJesuit order inNew York and Canada, and died inBaltimore, Maryland. The presentJohn Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, formerly Catholic but now non-sectarian, is named for him^[22]
• Joseph Osgood Barrett (1823–1898), born in Bangor, was aUniversalist minister who became a prominentspiritualist andspirit medium in Illinois and Wisconsin. He was also a lecturer and author of books onspiritualism, and editor of the Chicago-based newspaperThe Spiritual Republic. He became known as an advocate ofwomen's rights with the publication of his bookSocial Freedom; Marriage: As It Is and As It Should Be in 1873^[23]
• Dana W. Bartlett, of Bangor moved toLos Angeles in 1896, founded asettlement house (the Bethlehem Institute) and became a major figure in the localprogressive andCity Beautiful movements. He is an honoree in theCalifornia Social Work Hall of Distinction
• Elisabeth Anthony Dexter, was European director of theUnitarian Service Committee during World War II, running a programme in neutralLisbon, Portugal to assist Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe
• Edward C. O'Leary was Bishop born in Bangor, of the Catholic Diocese of Maine in the 1970s–1980s
• Benjamin Franklin Tefft, Methodist Minister that became president of Genesee College in New York (the nucleus of the laterSyracuse University), and, in 1862, U.S. Consul inStockholm and acting Minister (Ambassador) to Sweden^[24] Congregational minister andBangor Theological Seminary professor John Russell Herrick later became president ofPacific University in Oregon (1880–83), and theUniversity of South Dakota (1885–87). Rev.Charles Carroll Everett, pastor of the Bangor Unitarian Church 1859–69, Tlater became a noted philosopher of religion and dean of theHarvard Divinity School

• Prescott Freese Dennett, of Bangor was one of 30 people indicted for sedition and tried inWashington in 1944. Dennett stood accused of helping a German agent,George Sylvester Viereck, distribute propaganda designed to keep the U.S. out of the war in Europe. The case ended in a mistrial
• Howard E. Penley, of Bangor andDorchester, Massachusetts, was arrested and arraigned in Bangor on Dec. 23, 1943, for refusing to register for the draft. He was the New England District Secretary of theSocialist Party of America and was opposed to war on political and religious grounds

• Elisha Hunt Allen, Bangor politician; served as U.S. Consul to theKingdom of Hawaii 1850–1856, and then joined the Hawaiian government as Chancellor and Chief Justice 1857–1876. In that capacity he accompaniedKing Kalakaua on his first and only trip to the United States in 1874. Allen returned to Washington as Ambassador of theKingdom of Hawaii to the United States, and died on the job during aWhite House diplomatic reception in 1883. Allen's son,William Fessenden Allen, who was born in Bangor, also served in the government of Hawaii, both before and after the Kingdom became an American territory
• Patrick Duddy, of Bangor was the U.S. Ambassador toVenezuela in the Bush administration. He was temporarily expelled from the country in 2008 by PresidentHugo Chávez in a dispute over an alleged American coup plot
• Albert G. Jewett, U.S. Chargé d'affaires toPeru (1845–1847)
• Edward Kent, formerMaine Governor; was U.S. Consul inRio de Janeiro 1849–1853, he lost two of his three children toyellow fever. His wife died the year they returned to Bangor, and his surviving child soon after
• Wyman Bradbury Seavy Moor, U.S. Consul-General to Canada (1857–1861)
• Robert Newbegin II, U.S. Ambassador toHonduras (1958) andHaiti (1960–1961)
• Chester E. Norris, U.S. Ambassador toEquatorial Guinea (1988–1991)
• Gorham Parks, U.S. Consul inRio de Janeiro (1845–1849)
• William P. Snow, U.S. Ambassador toBurma (1959–1961) andParaguay (1961–1967)
• Charles Stetson, U.S. Ambassador toBulgaria (1921–1928);Romania (1928), andYugoslavia (1933)
• Aaron Young Jr., U.S. Consul inRio Grande do Sul, Brazil (1863–1873), who was formerly Maine's State Botanist and Secretary of the Bangor Natural History Society.Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln's vice president and Bangor politician, served as U.S. Ambassador to Spain later in his career

• Melville Sewell Bagley, invented an aperitif namedHesperidina, using the peels of bitter oranges, which became the national liquor ofArgentina. It is still produced, with his image on every bottle
• John B. Curtis, commercialChewing gum was invented in Bangor in 1848 by Curtis. Curtis marketed his product as "State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum".^[25] He later opened a successful gum factory inPortland, Maine. Coincidentally, Bangor-bornFrank Barbour, who became a director (and later chairman of the board) of theBeech-Nut Packing Company, would launch that company's famous chewing gum line in 1910

• Chuck Peddle, who developed theMOS6502microprocessor in 1975, was born in Bangor in 1937
• Paul E. Watson, of Bangor, chief engineer of theU.S. Army Signal Corps, headed the team that built the army's first long-rangeradar in 1936–1937. This was the radar deployed in Hawaii at the time of thePearl Harbor Attack. The Army's radar laboratory was named "Watson Laboratories" after his death, and became the kernal of the present USAFRome Laboratory^[26]

• Margherita Arlina Hamm, spent part of her childhood in Bangor, was a pioneering female journalist who covered theSino-Japanese War andSpanish–American War for New York newspapers, sometimes from the front lines. She was also a prolific author of popular non-fiction books. Asuffragette, she was nonetheless a defender of American imperialism, chairing the pro-war "Woman's Congress of Patriotism and Independence" and writing an heroic biography of AdmiralGeorge Dewey^[27]
• Ralph W. 'Bud' Leavitt Jr. longtime columnist and editor forThe Bangor Daily News. Born inOld Town, Maine, Leavitt became a cub reporter atThe Bangor Daily Commercial at age 17 in 1934. Following the Second World War, Leavitt signed on with The News, where he filed, during the course of his career, 13,104 columns devoted to the outdoors, and where he served for many years as executive sports editor. Leavitt also hosted two long-running TV shows about the outdoors on Maine television
• Kate Snow, born in Bangor on June 10, 1969

• Edward Matthew Curran, who served as Chief Judge of theUnited States District Court for the District of Columbia (1966–1971) was born in Bangor. As a Federal judge in 1949 he presided over the treason trial ofMildred Gillars (aka Axis Sally), who was coincidentally born inPortland
• Melville Weston Fuller,Chief Justice of theU.S. Supreme Court (who served 1888–1910)read law in Bangor with his two uncles after graduating fromBowdoin College in 1853. He was admitted to the bar in Bangor in 1855
• Edward Kent Jr., son of Bangor Mayor, Maine Governor, and Maine Supreme Judicial Court JusticeEdward Kent, was appointed by his Harvard classmateTheodore Roosevelt as Chief Justice of theArizona Territory Supreme Court, 1902–1912. He delivered a landmark ruling on water rights (the Kent Decree of 1910)
• Robert Murray served as First District Judge and state legislator

• Charlotte Blake Brown (1846–1904), pioneering female physician who co-founded what became Children's Hospital of San Francisco in 1878, with an all-female staff and board of directors. In 1880 she also founded the firstnursing school in the American West. Children's Hospital merged with another institution to becomeCalifornia Pacific Medical Center in 1991
• Elliott Carr Cutler (1888–1947), son of a Bangor lumber merchant,^[28] became Chairman of the Dept. of Surgery atHarvard Medical School and a pioneer incardiac surgery, inventing a number of important techniques and publishing over 200 papers. He was elected President of theAmerican Surgical Association, and later became surgeon-in-chief atBrigham Hospital in Boston. During the Second World War he was Chief Surgical Consultant in the European Theatre of Operations with the rank of Brigadier General. Another Bangor-bornHarvard Medical School professor, Frederick T. Lord, was a pioneer in the use of serum to treatpneumonia, and was elected President of the American Association of Thoracic Surgery
• Harrison J. Hunt, surgeon on theCrocker Land Expedition to the Arctic in 1913–1917, and the first to return to civilization with news of his fellow explorers, who had been trapped in the ice for four years. Hunt escaped after a grueling four-month dog-sled journey accompanied by sixInuit. He spent the rest of his career working at the Eastern Maine Hospital in Bangor, and authored the bookNorth to the Horizon: Arctic Doctor and Hunter, 1913–1917 (Camden, Me: 1930). He is credited with finding the major biological specimens returned by the expedition—eggs of thered knot, which established its migration pattern between Europe and northernGreenland^[29]
• Georgia Nevins (1864–1957), nurse, nurse educator, hospital administrator, American Red Cross leader, born in Bangor
• Mabel Sine Wadsworth (1910–2006),birth control activist^[30]

• Doris Twitchell Allen (1901–2002), University of Maine psychologist; born in nearbyOld Town, and practiced at the Bangor Mental Health Institute in the 1970s, founded theChildren's International Summer Villages. She was also President of theInternational Council of Psychologists^[31]
• Winfield Scott Chaplin (1847–1918), grew up in Bangor, became professor of civil engineering at the Imperial University (nowTokyo University) in Japan, and was awarded theImperial Order of Meiji. He was later appointed Dean of theLawrence Scientific School at Harvard, and eventually Chancellor ofWashington University in St. Louis^[32]
• Robert Winslow Gordon, became the first Director of the Archives of the American Folk Song at theLibrary of Congress. In the 1910s–1930s he was arguably the leading authority on this genre of music, personally recorded nearly a thousand folk songs and transcribing the lyrics of 10,000 more
• John Irwin Hutchinson (1867–1935), became a noted Professor of Mathematics atCornell University, and Vice President of theAmerican Mathematical Society
• Ella Boyce Kirk (c. 1861–1930), became Superintendent of Schools inPittsburgh, one of the first women to hold that office in an American city
• Edith Lesley, founder ofLesley University in Massachusetts; grew up in Bangor
• Sarah Parcak, Bangor-bornEgyptologist; of theUniversity of Alabama uses satellite imaging. An earlier archaeologist from Bangor,Henry Williamson Haynes, also did field-work in Egypt
• Albion Woodbury Small, The "Father of American Sociology"; attended grade-school in Bangor. He was the first American professor of sociology, founder of the first dept. of sociology (at theUniversity of Chicago), edited the discipline's first American journal, and was President of theAmerican Sociological Society (1912–1913)^[33]
• Harris Hawthorne Wilder (1864–1928), zoologist; born in Bangor, was a pioneer in fingerprint analysis and forensic science
• William D. Williamson, aBrown University-educated Bangor lawyer who became the secondGovernor of Maine, was also the state's first historian, producing a two-volumeHistory of the State of Maine as early as 1832. It remained the standard reference throughout the 19th century.^[34]
• Edwin Young, who graduated fromBangor High School in 1935, became dean of the College of Letters and Science at theUniversity of Wisconsin and president of theUniversity of Maine. He was an economist and expert on international labor relations.^[35]

• Eugene A. Eberle (1840–1917), broadway actor; made his debut as Paris in a Bangor production ofRomeo and Juliet.^[36] He played the gravedigger inEdwin Booth'sHamlet in 1864–1865.^[37] By the early 1900s he was in the touring company of acclaimed actorOtis Skinner.^[38]
• Everett Glass (1891–1966), character actor; was born in Bangor. He appeared in more than eighty films and television shows from the 1940s through the 1960s, includingInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and episodes ofSuperman,Lassie, andPerry Mason.^[39]
• Richard Golden (1854–1909), comic stage actor; called by one turn-of-the-century theatre critic "the best character actor in America" is buried at Bangor'sMount Hope Cemetery^[40] His wife and partnerDora Wiley, "The Sweet Singer of Maine" was the originalprima donna of theBoston Opera Company
• Chris Greeley, featured in 1993 asCosmopolitan magazine's Bachelor-of-the-Month. As a result, he appeared on multiple TV shows, including ones hosted byJohn Tesh andLeeza Gibbons, in addition toCarnie Wilson andSally Jesse Raphael. Greeley also served four terms in theMaine Legislature
• Leonard Horn (1926–1975), directed episodes of 34 prime-time television series and a number of made-for-TV movies between 1959 and 1975, includingMission: Impossible,Mannix,It Takes a Thief,Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,The Outer Limits, andLost in Space.^[41]
• Bob Marley, comedian; born and raised in Bangor, has appeared on theLate Show with David Letterman,The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, andLate Night with Conan O'Brien as well asComedy Central and cult film "The Boondock Saints"
• Wayne Maunder, actor; playedGeorge Armstrong Custer in the seriesCuster onABC in 1967, and co-starred withAndrew Duggan,James Stacy, andPaul Brinegar onCBS'sLancerwestern series, was reared in Bangor though born inNew Brunswick, Canada
• Stephanie Niznik, actress; of the television seriesEverwood and the filmStar Trek: Insurrection was also reared in Bangor^[42]
• Priscilla Presley, actress and businesswoman; went to Mary Snow School during 2nd grade^[43]
• Charles Rocket (1949–2005), comedian/actor; cast member onSaturday Night Live, and appeared in more than eighty other television shows and films, includingTouched by an Angel,Miami Vice, andStar Trek: Voyager
• Eric Saindon,visual effects supervisor for the filmsKing Kong andNight at the Museum, and a key member of the visual effects team ofI, Robot andThe Lord of the Rings film trilogy. He is a three-time winner of theVisual Effects Society Award^[44] A second visual effects man from Bangor, Christopher Mills, has contributed to such films asEvan Almighty,The Golden Compass, andNight at the Museum^[45]
• Ralph Sipperly (c. 1890–1928), appeared in ten films between 1923 and 1932, most of them silent, including theAcademy Award winningSunrise: A Song of Two Humans.^[46] He died in Bangor and is buried atMount Hope Cemetery
• Gary Thorne, sportscaster; born here and once served as an assistant district attorney in the city

• Norman Cazden, celebrated composer (and collector offolk songs); victim ofMcCarthyism in the 1950s, taught at the nearbyUniversity of Maine from 1969 and died in Bangor in 1980
• Dick Curless, country singer; recorded the 1965 hitTombstone Every Mile, also lived there
• Howie Day, singer-songwriter; recorded the hit "Collide", was born in Bangor, and got his start playing local clubs
• Kay Gardner (1941–2002), flutist and pioneering composer of 'healing music' lived and died in Bangor
• R. B. Hall, conductor of the Bangor Band, became an internationally famous composer of marches. His 'Death or Glory' remains a march classic in the UK and Commonwealth counties
• Courtney LaPlante, lead vocalist ofSpiritbox, was born in Bangor and lived there until she was 6 years old.
• Sarah Robinson-Duff (died 1934), soprano and famous voice teacher^[47]
• George Frederick Root (1820–1895), notedAmerican Civil War era composer of songs such asThe Battle Cry of Freedom, lived in Bangor before becoming a successful music publisher inChicago
• Werner Torkanowsky, Berlin-born; director of theNew Orleans Symphony Orchestra, came to Bangor in 1981 to direct theBangor Symphony and did so until his death in 1992
• Johnny Williams, father of film composer John Williams lived there according to his 2022 Lenox Library interview.

• Charles A. Boutelle, Naval Lt. that accepted the surrender of the Confederate fleet after theBattle of Mobile Bay, where he commanded an ironclad. Another Bangor sailor,Thomas Taylor received the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in the same battle. Boutelle became a long-serving U.S. Congressman and proponent of American naval power. Boutelle Ave. in Bangor is named for him
• George Adams Bright, Rear Admiral; surgeon and medical director of the Naval Hospital in Washington, D.C.
• Joshua Chamberlain, Major General and hero of theBattle of Gettysburg who also accepted the surrender ofGeneral Lee's Army atAppomattox, was born in the neighboring city ofBrewer but studied at theBangor Theological Seminary. The bridge connecting the two cities is named for him. Chamberlain, a professor atBowdoin College when the war began, and later its president, could read seven foreign languages. He was also electedGovernor of Maine, as was another Civil War general from Bangor,Harris Merrill Plaisted.Cyrus Hamlin, who commanded a regiment of African-American troops, andCharles Hamlin, both sons of Vice PresidentHannibal Hamlin, also became generals in the Civil War. Other Bangorians who achieved a general's rank in the same conflict includedEdward Hatch, who commanded the cavalry division of Grant'sArmy of the Tennessee;Charles W. Roberts;George Varney;John F. Appleton andDaniel White. Col.Daniel Chaplin, who died in battle, was posthumously made a Maj. General. Brig. Gen.George Foster Shepley became the military governor ofLouisiana, and later ofRichmond, Virginia, the former Confederate capitol
• Carl Frederick Holden, Vice Admiral that began World War II as executive officer of the battleshipUSS Pennsylvania during the attack onPearl Harbor. He became the first captain of the battleshipUSS New Jersey, and ended the war as a Rear Adm. commanding Cruiser Division Pacific. He was on the deck of theUSS Missouri to witness the Japanese surrender in 1945
• Molly Kool (1916–2009), first registered female sea captain in North America, spent the last years of her life in Bangor
• Walter F. Ulmer, Lt. General; former Commandant of Cadets atWest Point and commander of theIII Corps andFort Hood
• Donald Norton Yates, Lt. General; helped select June 6, 1944 as the date forD-Day, the Allied invasion of Europe, in his capacity as chiefmeteorologist on GeneralDwight D. Eisenhower's staff. He chose well—it turned out to be the only day that month the invasion could have been successfully launched—and was subsequently decorated by three governments. He went on to become the chief meteorologist of theU.S. Air Force, Commander of the Air Force Missile Test Center atPatrick Air Force Base in Florida, and retired as deputy director of Defence Research and Engineering in the Pentagon^[48]
• Elmer P. Yates, Major General; early proponent of nuclear power in theU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

• John H. Carkin, Oregon lawyer and politician; born in Bangor
• Holland "Holly" Hanson Coors (1920–2009), beer baroness and political donor was born in Bangor. The ex-wife ofJoseph Coors, Colorado brewer and founder of the Heritage Foundation, Holly Coors sat on that organization's board of trustees
• Bettina Brown Gorton, wife of Australian Prime Minister SirJohn Gorton (who served 1968–1971) was from Bangor and graduated fromBangor High School. She was the only wife of an Australian Prime Minister to have been foreign-born untilAnnita van Iersel, wife ofPaul Keating (who served 1991–1996). She became Lady Gorton when her husband was knighted in 1977
• Abby Fisher Leavitt (1836–1897), social reformer
• Joseph Homan Manley, protege and close associate of presidential candidateJames G. Blaine, was Chairman of the National Executive Committee of theRepublican Party in the 1890s, and Maine's "political boss;" born in Bangor
• Sarah Mower Requa (1829–1922), philanthropist and California pioneer; born in Bangor
• Corelli C. W. Simpson (1837–1923), poet, cookbook author, painter; opened the first kindergarten in Bangor

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