Notable Faculty Members and Trustees (Non-Graduates)
- John Chandler (1762–1841), congressman and senator from Maine, trustee
- William King (1768–1862), Maine governor, trustee
- Jesse Appleton (1772–1819), president of Bowdoin and father of first lady Jane Pierce
- Parker Cleaveland (1780–1858), professor (50 years plus), scientist, "Father of American Mineralogy"
- Andrews Norton (1786–1853), theologian, visiting faculty member
- Amos Nourse (1794–1877), senator from Maine, professor of obstetrics
- James Bradbury (1802–1901), senator from Maine, trustee
- Roswell Dwight Hitchcock (1817–1887), professor of natural and revealed religion
- Charles Abiathar White (1826–1910), professor of natural history
- George Trumbull Ladd (1842–1921), professor of philosophy
- Roy Ridley (1890–1969), writer and poet, visiting faculty member
- Adam Walsh (1901–1985), NFL Coach of the Year for the Cleveland Rams
- Rex Warner (1905–1986), English classicist, visiting faculty member
- Louis Coxe (1918–1993), poet and author, longtime professor of English
- Elliott Schwartz (1936–present), notable composer and Robert K. Beckwith Professor of Music Emiritus
- Angus King (1944–present), Maine governor, adjunct faculty member
- Richard Ford (1944–present), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of Independence Day (1995)
- Victor L. Cahn (1948–present), playwright, author, actor, visiting professor of English
- Paul Franco (1956–present), professor of political philosophy
- Michael Crow (1956–present), president of Arizona State University, trustee
- Anthony Walton (1960–present), poet and writer-in-residence
- Scott Sehon (1963-present), professor of philosophy
- John Bisbee (1965-present), sculptor and professor of art
- Thomas Cornell (artist) (1937-present), professor of art
- Kristen R. Ghodsee, ethnographer, professor of gender and women's studies
- Eddie Glaude, professor of religion
- Charles Beitz, professor of politics, former Dean of Academic Affairs
- Richard E. Morgan, professor of politics, conservative writer
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