The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Bath, Maine.
Authors and academics
Robert Jaffe, physicist
McDonald Clarke, poet
Eleanor P. Cushing, mathematics professor at Smith College
Alice May Douglas, poet and author
George F. Magoun, first president of Iowa College (now Grinnell College) Edward Page Mitchell, editorial and short story writer William Maxwell Reed, author of children's science books Susan Marr Spalding (1841–1908), poet Geoffrey Wolff, novelist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer; lives in Bath Glenn Cummings, economist, politician and University of Southern Maine President
Business
Charles W. Morse, businessman
Media and arts
Georgia Cayvan, stage actress
Claude Demetrius, songwriter
Emma Eames, singer
Chad Finn, sportswriter
John Adams Jackson, sculptor
William Zorach, sculptor
Military
Charles Frederick Hughes, US Navy admiral
William Smith, US Army private; Medal of Honor recipient
Silas Soule, abolitionist and Civil War era soldier
Politics
Nathaniel S. Berry, 28th governor of New Hampshire
Samuel Davis, US congressman
Thomas W. Hyde, US senator; Union Army general and Metal of Honor recipient; founder of Bath Iron Works William King, first governor of Maine Arthur Mayo, state legislator Freeman H. Morse, US congressman and mayor Amos Nourse, physician and US senator William LeBaron Putnam, lawyer and politician Harold M. Sewall, last United States Minister to Hawaii Sumner Sewall, 58th governor of Maine Mary Small, politician Francis B. Stockbridge, US senator Peleg Tallman, US congressman