page_title: Gorham, Maine
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Gorham, Maine / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Gorham Normal School, Gorham, ME; from a 1905 postcard published by the Hugh C. Leighton Company of Portland, Maine. The school is now the University of Southern Maine.
context_page_description: Gorham is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 16,381 at the 2010 census. The 2012 estimate of Gorham's population was 16,667. In addition to its urban village center known as Gorham Village or simply "the Village," the town encompasses a number of smaller, unincorporated villages and hamlets with distinct historical identities, including South Gorham, West Gorham, Little Falls, White Rock, and North Gorham. Gorham is home to one of the three campuses of the University of Southern Maine. In 2013, Gorham was voted second best town in Maine after Hampden by a financial website.
  Gorham is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area.
  Initially named Narragansett Number 7, the village was renamed Gorhamtown Plantation in honor of the famous New England Ranger John Gorham I, the great grandfather of John Gorham 4th.
context_section_description: Wendell Abraham Anderson, politician
  James Phinney Baxter, historian, civic leader
  Percival Baxter, 53rd Governor of Maine
  Julie Berry, TV producer, Survivor: Vanuatu contestant
  James Boyle, state legislator
  Joseph Brackett, elder in Shakers sect and songwriter, most notably of Simple Gifts
  Bob Crowley, winner of Survivor: Gabon, physics teacher at Gorham High School
  Edwin Hall, physicist
  Isaiah H. Hedge, MD, abolitionist, early donor to Bates College, physician
  Charles Davis Jameson, lumberman, general
  Stephen Longfellow, US congressman
  James Mann, US congressman
  Josiah Pierce, Maine state senator and lawyer
  Rodney S. Quinn, Secretary of State of Maine (1979–1988)
  Frederick Robie, 39th governor of Maine
  Linda Sanborn, state legislator
  Donald F. Snow, US congressman
  Ellen G. White, religious leader
  Horace Wilson, professor and baseball promoter
  Shawn Moody, 2018 candidate for Governor of Maine, born in Gorham
  Peter Mills, former member of the Maine state Senate, raised in Gorham
caption: Corthell Hall at U.S.M., built in 1878, designed by the noted Portland architect Francis H. Fassett, c. 1904
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