Cape Elizabeth, Maine - Notable People

Notable People

  • Joan Benoit, marathon runner
  • George Cleeve, early settler
  • Eliot Cutler, lawyer, entrepreneur, politician
  • Bette Davis, actress
  • Cynthia Dill, lawyer and 2012 Democratic candidate for United States Senate
  • Eleanor Espling, politician
  • John Ford, film director
  • Dorothy Bush Koch, sister of former President George W. Bush
  • Samuel Longfellow, clergyman and hymn writer
  • Jean Ginn Marvin, state legislator
  • Gary Merrill, actor
  • Dodge Morgan, sailor, businessman, and publisher
  • James C. Oliver, US congressman
  • Elizabeth Oakes Smith, poet, writer, and women’s rights activist

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