Famous Mainiacs

Our beloved Maine is a state that has produced many creative and talented people, and a place that many prominent people from various walks of life, call home. They range from prominent landscape painter like Winslow Homer, to renowned athlete like Joan Benoit Samuelson. The great poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was from Maine, as was the avid outdoorsman Leon Leonwood Bean, founder of the well known LL Bean brand.

Here is our list of 15 great people with Maine connections, who've made it big. Who's your favorite Mainiac?

Myron Avery

Olympia Snowe

Leon Leonwood Bean

David E. Kelley

George J. Mitchell

Winslow Homer

Patrick Dempsey

E.B. White

William Cohen

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Joan Benoit Samuelson

Kevin Eastman

Stephen King 

Steven Zirnkilton

Edna St. Vincent Millay