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Input impedance

In electrical engineering, the input impedance of an electrical network is the measure of the opposition to current (impedance), both static (resistance) and dynamic (reactance), into a load network that is external to the electrical source network. The input admittance (the reciprocal of impedance) is a measure of the load network's propensity to draw current. The source network is the portion of the network that transmits power, and the load network is the portion of the network that consumes power.

Input impedance
If the load network were replaced by a device with an output impedance equal to the input impedance of the load network (equivalent circuit), the characteristics of the source-load network would be the same from the perspective of the connection point. So, the voltage across and the current through the input terminals would be identical to the chosen load network.

Therefore, the input impedance of the load and the output impedance of the source determine how the source current and voltage change.

The Thévenin's equivalent circuit of the electrical network uses the concept of input impedance to determine the impedance of the equivalent circuit.

Calculation
If one were to create a circuit with equivalent properties across the input terminals by placing the input impedance across the load of the circuit and the output impedance in series with the signal source, Ohm's law could be used to calculate the transfer function.

Electrical efficiency
The values of the input and output impedance are often used to evaluate the electrical efficiency of networks by breaking them up into multiple stages and evaluating the efficiency of the interaction between each stage independently. To minimize electrical losses, the output impedance of the signal should be insignificant in comparison to the input impedance of the network being connected, as the gain is equivalent to the ratio of the input impedance to the total impedance (input impedance + output impedance). In this case,
 * $$ Z_{in} \gg Z_{out} $$ (or $$ Z_{L} \gg Z_{S} $$)
 * The input impedance of the driven stage (load) is much larger than the output impedance of the drive stage (source).

Power factor
In AC circuits carrying power, the losses of energy in conductors due to the reactive component of the impedance can be significant. These losses manifest themselves in a phenomenon called phase imbalance, where the current is out of phase (lagging behind or ahead) with the voltage. Therefore, the product of the current and the voltage is less than what it would be if the current and voltage were in phase. With DC sources, reactive circuits have no impact, therefore power factor correction is not necessary.

For a circuit to be modelled with an ideal source, output impedance, and input impedance; the circuit's input reactance can be sized to be the negative of the output reactance at the source. In this scenario, the reactive component of the input impedance cancels the reactive component of the output impedance at the source. The resulting equivalent circuit is purely resistive in nature, and there are no losses due to phase imbalance in the source or the load.
 * $$\begin{align}

Z_{in} & = X - j\operatorname{Im}(Z_{out}) \\ \end{align}$$

Power transfer
The condition of maximum power transfer states that for a given source maximum power will be transferred when the resistance of the source is equal to the resistance of the load and the power factor is corrected by canceling out the reactance. When this occurs the circuit is said to be complex conjugate matched to the signals impedance. Note this only maximizes the power transfer, not the efficiency of the circuit. When the power transfer is optimized the circuit only runs at 50% efficiency.

The formula for complex conjugate matched is
 * $$\begin{align}

Z_{in} & = Z_{out}^* \\ & = \left\vert Z_{out} \right\vert e^{- j \Theta_{out}} \\ & = \operatorname{Re}(Z_{out}) - j \operatorname{Im}(Z_{out}). \\ \end{align}$$ When there is no reactive component this equation simplifies to $$Z_{in} = Z_{out}$$ as the imaginary part of $$Z_{out}$$ is zero.

Impedance matching
When the characteristic impedance of a transmission line, $$Z_{line}$$, does not match the impedance of the load network, $$Z_{in}$$, the load network will reflect back some of the source signal. This can create standing waves on the transmission line. To minimize reflections, the characteristic impedance of the transmission line and the impedance of the load circuit have to be equal (or "matched"). If the impedance matches, the connection is known as a matched connection, and the process of correcting an impedance mismatch is called impedance matching. Since the characteristic impedance for a homogeneous transmission line is based on geometry alone and is therefore constant, and the load impedance can be measured independently, the matching condition holds regardless of the placement of the load (before or after the transmission line).
 * $$Z_{in} = Z_{line}$$

Signal processing
In modern signal processing, devices, such as operational amplifiers, are designed to have an input impedance several orders of magnitude higher than the output impedance of the source device connected to that input. This is called impedance bridging. The losses due to input impedance (loss) in these circuits will be minimized, and the voltage at the input of the amplifier will be close to voltage as if the amplifier circuit was not connected. When a device whose input impedance could cause significant degradation of the signal is used, often a device with a high input impedance and a low output impedance is used to minimize its effects. Voltage follower or impedance-matching transformers are often used for these effects.

The input impedance for high-impedance amplifiers (such as vacuum tubes, field effect transistor amplifiers and op-amps) is often specified as a resistance in parallel with a capacitance (e.g., 2.2MΩ ∥ 1pF). Pre-amplifiers designed for high input impedance may have a slightly higher effective noise voltage at the input (while providing a low effective noise current), and so slightly more noisy than an amplifier designed for a specific low-impedance source, but in general a relatively low-impedance source configuration will be more resistant to noise (particularly mains hum).

Radio frequency power systems
Signal reflections caused by an impedance mismatch at the end of a transmission line can result in distortion and potential damage to the driving circuitry.

In analog video circuits, impedance mismatch can cause "ghosting", where the time-delayed echo of the principal image appears as a weak and displaced image (typically to the right of the principal image). In high-speed digital systems, such as HD video, reflections result in interference and potentially corrupt signal.

The standing waves created by the mismatch are periodic regions of higher than normal voltage. If this voltage exceeds the dielectric breakdown strength of the insulating material of the line then an arc will occur. This in turn can cause a reactive pulse of high voltage that can destroy the transmitter's final output stage.

In RF systems, typical values for line and termination impedance are 50 Ω and 75 Ω.

To maximise power transmission for radio frequency power systems the circuits should be complex conjugate matched throughout the power chain, from the transmitter output, through the transmission line (a balanced pair, a coaxial cable, or a waveguide), to the antenna system, which consists of an impedance matching device and the radiating element(s).

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Mount King

Mount King may refer to:

 * Mount King (Antarctica), a mountain in the Tula Mountains
 * Mount King (British Columbia), a summit in the Canadian Rockies
 * King Peak (Yukon), also called Mount King, a mountain in Canada
 * Parish of Mount King, a civil parish of Poole County, New South Wales, Australia

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Cook River / Weheka

The Cook River / Weheka is in the South Island of New Zealand. The headwaters are from the La Perouse Glacier on the western flanks of the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana, and it flows west, then northeast, then northwest and into the Tasman Sea. Its tributaries include the Balfour River, fed by Balfour Glacier, and the Fox River, fed by Fox Glacier / Te Moeka o Tuawe. Much of the river lies within the Westland Tai Poutini National Park. The river was renamed from Cook River to Cook River / Weheka as a result of the Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998.

Brown trout can be fished for in the river.

Access along the river by foot is difficult beyond the junction with the Balfour River. There are no approved helicopter landing sites in the river valley, but there are chamois, tahr and small numbers of red deer available to hunters.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Great Kat

This isn't actually a VFD, more of a notice of deletion posted here because I don't know where else to bring it up. The Great Kat herself, a heavy metal guitarist of some minor fame, called me twice yesterday with many incoherent claims about this page and so on.

The basic story is that she posted her PR puff piece autobiography on the site, but anonymously, and a sysop did the right thing -- treated it as a potential copyright violation, cleared the text, posted on copyright problems page, etc. The Great Kat was deeply offended by this, and called me making wild legal threats and explaining how we are ruining her career by calling her a copyright violator.

Of course, we did not call her a copyright violator, and no reasonable person could conclude from any of the pages in question that we were saying anything of the sort. It wouldn't occur to anyone, even, I don't think.

Nonetheless, even my reversion of the page was inadequate for her, and she now is bitching and moaning about her name appearing anywhere on the site, and threatening me with legal action if I don't remove the pages from the archive, etc.

Well, forget that. I've had enough. I've deleted the article that she wrote, both as a courtesy to her because she obviously doesn't want her text used on our site anymore, but also because it was self-serving crap anyway.

Poking around on the net, she's a very, uhm, interesting character about whom we should have an article anyway. A real article, an NPOV article. It should be neutral, fair, objective, and true. We may rest assured that she is going to have her attorney scrutinizing it very carefully lest we say anything libelous about her, so be more careful than normal about that.

I do not fear any actual legal action from her. It would cost her a ton of money to pursue this, and it's just a completely baseless claim in the first place. Any responsible attorney will tell her that. Based on my experience last night on the phone with her, though, I'm not sure she will stop screaming long enough to actually listen to reason.

So, anyhow, that's why I just deleted the article without listing it here first. Jimbo Wales 19:01, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Personally I find it hard to believe this person could be anything other than cool, calm and reasonable in any social intercourse. --bodnotbod 20:32, May 8, 2004 (UTC)
 * Interesting. By the look of the publicity stuff on her page, she seems incapable of closing her mouth. An odd medical condition? Denni 02:33, 2004 May 9 (UTC)
 * Lockjaw ROFL!  --bodnotbod 14:53, May 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * Man I wish I a fly on the wall during that conversation. As this is a high-profile case, it is worth reminding people to not bite the newcomers if you can at all help it. In this case the new user got bitten (see the user talk page), got pissed off and Jimbo ended up with an ear-bashing and a legal threat. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 21:32, 8 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Which user talk page? I see Talk:The Great Kat, but I can't find the user's page. --Ben Brockert 03:37, May 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * D'oh. Found it: User_talk:24.47.83.60. It is a bit brusque, but Moncrief was obviously acting in good faith. --Ben Brockert 20:08, May 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * I think that what Moncrief wrote was perfectly acceptable and constructive. This user was already acting in a confrontational way. In that situation we need to politely set limits, and sometimes the reaction will be this. Even in hindsight, I don't see what else could have been done. Andrewa 07:20, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Wrong I think. Anon posted copyvio. With minutes it is covered up. Anon thinks "Hmm, it's ok, I wrote it so no-ones going to sue" and puts the work back. Moncrief makes an aggressive comment on the talk page, without explaining why copyvios are important (admittedly it would be good if anons/newbies could be trusted to read the copyvio message, but they can't, so we have to suck it up). Newbie flies off the handle at the tone, and phones Jimbo. If we had said "all we need to know is if it is your work, then we can keep it and edit it to meet our other policies and guidelines" then maybe the newbie would've understood.
 * So you're saying it's perfectly acceptable for newbies to post copyvios and we're not supposed to do anything about it? RickK 19:52, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
 * No, I think he's saying that one should be polite and friendly in explaining to new users that they shouldn't do this. Snowspinner 20:55, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Exactly right, Snowspinner. That sharp message was left after the newbie had only once tried to restore her text. Lots of newbies don't quite understand what is going on when edits come rapidly. We should have some patience. Although we've heard the copyvio process a million times, it's their first time. Some of the aggressive old-timers should put themselves in the shoes of a newbie occasionally. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 15:47, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm in full agreement. We must assume all first posters have no clue about fundamental rules. Hell, lots of us who have been here for a while still run into things we weren't aware of. I think Moncrief's statement was far too harsh given the circumstance, and while I thank him for being on guard, I also think newbies should be encouraged leave the posting of such messages to others. I'm sure Ms. Kat's page would be a most interesting one, though it might be a bit tricky to get her to see the merits of NPOV... Denni 19:24, 2004 May 14 (UTC)
 * Comment: I couldn't help but wonder why "lockjaw" came up.  Then I saw the reason why.  Interesting.  :^P  I have no real objection to the stub as it is despite the poster's overreaction, but who the hell is going to wander onto this site looking for information on this individual?  On the other hand, this just may be the next "CoolDude."  BEWARE:  SHE IS LOOSING HER PATIENTS!  Jimbo, you handled it better than I would have, BTW. - Lucky 6.9 18:34, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I checked her website, and some-one does indeed seem to be biting the newbie. As they are wearing a hood, I assume that they are one of our anonymous contributors (please stop it or you will be reverted again). Jimbo, don't be concerned about the screaming - in some cases it's an occupational hazard of playing loud music. --Zigger 19:02, 2004 May 13 (UTC)


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Pratt & Whitney F119

The Pratt & Whitney F119, company designation PW5000, is an afterburning turbofan engine developed by Pratt & Whitney for the Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program, which resulted in the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor. The engine delivers thrust in the 35000 lbf class and was designed for sustained supersonic flight without afterburners, or supercruise. Delivering almost 22% more thrust with 40% fewer parts than its F100 predecessor, the F119 allows the F-22 to achieve supercruise speeds of up to Mach 1.8. The F119's nozzles incorporate thrust vectoring that enable them to direct the engine thrust ±20° in the pitch axis to give the F-22 enhanced maneuverability.

The F119 is also the basis for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) propulsion system, with variants powering both the Boeing X-32 and Lockheed Martin X-35 concept demonstrators. The X-35 won the JSF competition and the production Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is powered by an F119 derivative, the Pratt & Whitney F135 which produces up to 43000 lbf of thrust.

History
The F119 resulted from the Joint Advanced Fighter Engine (JAFE) program in the early 1980s aimed at supplying the powerplant for the Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF). Detailed design of Pratt & Whitney's submission, designated internally as PW5000, began when the request for proposals (RFP) for JAFE, later renamed the ATF Engine (ATFE) program, was released in May 1983. Advances in engine technology, such as those from the Advanced Turbine Engine Gas Generator (ATEGG) and the Joint Technology Demonstration Engine (JTDE) programs, allowed the design to do more work with fewer stages, with the PW5000's compressor having only 6 stages compared to the 10 stages in the F100's compressor. The high pressure and low pressure turbines were single stage and counter-rotating, which reduced the gyroscopic forces on the engine; it was hoped that counter-rotation would eliminate a row of turbine stators for a vaneless high and low pressure turbine interface, which would save weight and reduce parts count, but this was ultimately not successful and the stators were retained. The fan and compressor stages were to use integrally bladed rotors (IBR), also known as blisks, to reduce weight and cost and improve performance. Owing to the ATF's demanding requirements for supercruise, the PW5000 design has low bypass ratio, high core and turbine inlet temperatures, and a fully variable convergent-divergent nozzle to achieve high specific thrust in intermediate, or non-afterburning power. The combustor, internally named Floatwall, eliminated welds to mitigate crack growth due to thermal cycling. The original RFP called for maximum thrust in the 30000 lbf class for an aircraft gross weight of 50000 lb.

Pratt & Whitney and General Electric were selected to make prototype engines, designated YF119 and YF120 respectively, for demonstration and validation (Dem/Val). Both engine makers would provide engines for both the Lockheed/Boeing/General Dynamics YF-22 and the Northrop/McDonnell Douglas YF-23 ATF technology and flight demonstrators. The ATF's increasing weight during development required more thrust to meet the performance requirements; as gross weight grew to 60000 lb, the required maximum thrust was increased by 20% to 35000 lbf class. Pratt & Whitney's design changed to incorporate a 15% larger fan, increasing bypass ratio from 0.25 to 0.30. However, unlike General Electric, Pratt & Whitney did not fit its larger fan on flightworthy YF119s for the ATF flight demonstrators to avoid potential reliability issues that may arise. Instead, the revised fan was extensively ground tested at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. As a result, both the YF-22 and YF-23 had lower performance with the YF119s than with the YF120s.

On 3 August 1991, Pratt & Whitney was awarded the EMD contract for ATF engine, while the Lockheed/Boeing/General Dynamics team won the contract for the ATF airframe. While the YF119 was a more conventional design compared to the General Electric's variable cycle YF120, Pratt & Whitney accrued far greater test hours and emphasized reliability and the lower risk. Ground tests of the F119-PW-100 were first conducted in February 1993. The production engines were fitted on the production F-22, and were first flown on the F-22's maiden flight on 7 September 1997. A total of 507 engines were produced. In 2013 Pratt & Whitney assisted the F119 Heavy Maintenance Center (HMC) at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma in the first F119 depot overhaul.

Turbine engine advances from ATEGG and JTDE continued with the Integrated High Performance Turbine Engine Technology (IHPTET) program, with applications in F119 improvement packages and derivatives. Prototype YF119 variants powered the Boeing X-32 and Lockheed Martin X-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) concept demonstrator aircraft, and subsequent full scale development of the F119 derivative resulted in the F135 family of engines that powers the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.

Design
The F119 is a twin-spool axial-flow low-bypass turbofan. It has a three-stage fan driven by a single-stage low pressure turbine and six-stage high pressure compressor driven by single-stage high pressure turbine. The shroud-less fan has wide-chord, low aspect ratio hollow titanium fan blades that are linear-friction welded to the disks to form single-piece integrally-bladed rotors (IBRs), or blisks. The fan and compressor stators and thrust-vectoring nozzle use a burn-resistant titanium alloy called Alloy C, with the first row of vanes variable in order to increase surge margin. The Floatwall annular combustor is lined with high-cobalt material for oxidation resistance and combustion chamber durability, and ensures the clean burning of the fuel and reduced NOx generation. Within the turbine exhaust case, the high-pressure turbine blades are made of single-crystal superalloys and impingement cooled using air from the high-pressure compressor. The high and low pressure spools are counter-rotating. The requirement for the ATF to supercruise, or fly supersonic without afterburners, results in a very low bypass ratio of 0.30 for the F119-PW-100 in order to achieve high specific thrust. The F119 has dual-redundant full authority digital engine control (FADEC), also referred to internally as Digital Electronic Engine Control (DEEC), supplied by Hamilton Standard and fully integrated into the F-22's vehicle management system, making the engine highly reliable, stall-resistant, and forgiving of rapid throttle inputs.

The three-zone (reduced from four from the prototype) afterburner, or augmentor, contributes to the stealth of the aircraft by having fuel injectors integrated into thick curved vanes coated with ceramic radar-absorbent materials (RAM). These vanes replace the traditional fuel spray bars and flame holders and block line-of-sight of the turbines. The convergent-divergent nozzle can vector ±20° in the pitch axis, which greatly improves the aircraft's pitch authority by augmenting the pitching moment of the tail with engine thrust; this enables the F-22 to remain controllable while flying at a trimmed alpha of over 60°. The thrust vectoring is fully integrated into the F-22's flight control system to facilitate handling. The rectangular nozzle consists two wedge-shaped flaps for stealth and also contribute to lower infrared signature by flattening the exhaust plume and facilitating its mixing with ambient air through shed vortices.

The F119 places a high emphasis on human systems integration; features that facilitate engine maintenance and servicing include modular design such as an axially split case, color-coded cables and harnesses, and a reduction of the number of hand tools required for servicing to just five. Most components are one-deep and servicing can be conducted while wearing hazmat protective clothing. The engine has a design life of 8,650 total accumulated cycles, with inspection and overhaul of the hot section approximately every 2,000 hours and the cold section every 4,000 hours.

Prototype variants
While the production F119 on the F-22 incorporates rectangular thrust vectoring nozzles, prototype variants on other aircraft had different nozzle solutions that are tailored to the airframe.

The YF119 on the YF-23 had a single-expansion ramp nozzle (SERN) consisting of a variable wedge flap on the top and a fixed ramp on the bottom, which then transitions to a trench on top of the aft fuselage. While the SERN lacked thrust vectoring capability, it allowed the exhaust to be further cooled in the trenches, significantly reducing infrared signature when viewed from below the aircraft; the trenches in the aft deck were lined with tiles that were "transpiration cooled" from engine bleed air to withstand the heat of the exhaust.

The specialized YF119 variants on the X-32 and X-35 had provisions for short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) operations. The YF119-PW-614 on the X-32 had a pitch-axis thrust vectoring nozzle and valves can redirect the engine exhaust and bleed air to provide direct lift, similar to the Pegasus engine on the Harrier. In contrast, YF119-PW-611 on the X-35 had a round axisymmetric nozzle that can swivel downwards while the low-pressure spool drives a lift fan that's engaged through a clutch; engine bypass air is also routed to roll posts for additional lift and stability. The X-35 won the JSF competition and its shaft-driven lift fan system, called LiftSystem, was fully developed by Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney for the F135-PW-600.

Variants

 * YF119-PW-100L: Prototype engine for the YF-22; rated 30,000 lbf thrust class.
 * YF119-PW-100N: Prototype engine for the YF-23; rated 30,000 lbf thrust class.
 * F119-PW-100: Production engine for the F-22A with larger fan and increased bypass ratio (BPR) rated for 35,000 lbf thrust class.
 * YF119-PW-611: Prototype engine for the X-35.
 * YF119-PW-614: Prototype engine for the X-32.

Applications

 * Boeing X-32 (YF119-PW-614)
 * Lockheed YF-22 (YF119-PW-100L)
 * Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor (F119-PW-100)
 * Lockheed Martin X-35 (YF119-PW-611)
 * Northrop YF-23 (YF119-PW-100N)

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Sztum

Sztum (formerly Stuhm) is a town in northern Poland in the Powiśle region, located in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. It is the capital of Sztum County, with some 10,141 inhabitants (2004).

History
Signs of settlement dating back to the Roman Empire era have been found. In the early Middle Ages, a fortified settlement of the Old Prussians existed at the site, conquered by the Teutonic Knights in 1236. The castle was captured by the Poles after the Battle of Grunwald in 1410. Town rights were granted to the settlement in 1416 and confirmed by King Sigismund II Augustus in 1553.

In 1441 both the town and the local Teutonic county official joined the Prussian Confederation, which opposed Teutonic rule, and upon the request of which King Casimir IV Jagiellon incorporated the territory to the Kingdom of Poland in 1454. The castle, which initially remained in the hands of the Teutonic Knights, was captured by Poles after a siege in 1454, but later it was taken over by the Teutonic Knights again. In 1466 by the Second Peace of Toruń the town was finally renounced by the Teutonic Knights and integrated with the Kingdom of Poland. As part of Poland, the town functioned as a seat of the Sztum County in Malbork Voivodeship and a place to hold the voivodeship's sejmiks (regional court sessions). The Sztum Castle was the seat of the local starosts. In 1506 and 1512 the town was visited by Nicolaus Copernicus, and in 1552 it was visited by Polish King Sigismund II Augustus. In 1772 as a result of the First Partition of Poland the town was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia. In October–December 1831, some Polish infantry units and intendant troops of the November Uprising stopped in the town on the way to their final internment places. In 1871, it became part of the newly created German Empire. In 1910, the Polish Bank Ludowy was founded in the town.

According to the Treaty of Versailles, after World War I the inhabitants of the town and its district were asked whether they want to remain in Germany or join the new Second Polish Republic in the East Prussian plebiscite of 1920. Ultimately in Stuhm, 2,079 (73.5%) votes were cast in favor of remaining in Germany and 751 (26.5%) votes were in favor of rejoining Poland. Based on that result, Stuhm was included in the Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder within East Prussia in Germany. In the interwar period, Sztum remained one of the main centers of the Polish community in the area. The Germans arrested 30 local Polish activists in August 1939, before the invasion of Poland which started World War II. During the war, the Germans operated a Nazi prison in the town. After World War II Sztum became again part of Poland, under territorial changes demanded by the Soviet Union at the Potsdam Conference.

On July 14, 2012, the town and surrounding areas including Barlewice was hit by a Low-End F3/T6 tornado, resulting in one injury. Buildings saw significant roof damage, some of which was entirely torn off. Other buildings were damaged as well. The tornado was part of an outbreak that produced several tornadoes, one of which killed a person.

Transport
The Polish National road 55 and Voivodeship road 517 pass through the town, and there is also a train station.

Sports
Local sports clubs include football club Olimpia Sztum, which competes in the lower leagues, and athletics club Zantyr Sztum.

Notable residents

 * Emil Stumpp (1886–1941) a German painter teacher and artist known for his cartoons and drawings of well-known people including an unfavourable one in 1933 of Adolf Hitler
 * Goetz Oertel (born 1934) an American physicist and science manager
 * Richard Nowakowski (born 1955) a retired boxer, competed for East Germany, silver medallist 1976 Summer Olympics and bronze medallist 1980 Summer Olympics
 * Jacek Frąckiewicz (born 1969) a former Polish footballer, 169 pro games
 * Monika Merl (born 1979) a German 800 metres runner
 * Wojciech Tyszyński (born 1984) a Polish sprint canoer competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics
 * Wojciech Zyska (born 1994) a Polish footballer
 * Katarzyna Janiszewska (born 1995) a Polish handball player
 * Joanna Kozłowska (born 1995) a Polish handball player

International relations
Sztum is twinned with:

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M10 motorway (Great Britain)

The M10 was a motorway in Hertfordshire, England, running for approximately 3 miles (4.5 km) southeast from the M1 motorway at junction 7 near Hemel Hempstead to the A414 North Orbital Road at Park Street Roundabout, just south of St Albans. Opened in 1959, it was reclassified as part of the A414 in 2009 having only been a spur motorway for about 50 years.

History
The M10 opened on 2 November 1959 along with the M1 and M45, and was designed and constructed by Tarmac Construction as part of the St Albans bypass (along with the M1 between junctions 5 and 10).

At the time, the M1's southern terminus was at junction 5 at Berrygrove, with the main route from there to the A1 in London being via the A41 Watford Bypass. Since the capacity of the A roads was much less than that of the motorway, a distributing spur was required to split up the traffic and reduce congestion at Berrygrove. The M10 was thus built to distribute southbound traffic on the M1 onto the A5 (now A5183) and, as an alternative, via the North Orbital Road and the A6 to the A1 Barnet Bypass.

The M45 was the equivalent distributing spur at the northern end of the M1, and is thus regarded as a sister motorway to the M10.

In later years, as the M1 was extended southwards into London and the M25 was built, the M10's original purpose eroded. It was sometimes suggested that the motorway might have been extended to meet the M25 at junction 22, but this was never proposed.

Downgrade
In December 2008, widening of the M1 between the M25 and Luton was completed, with non-motorway collector/distributor lanes built to link junction 8 of the M1, at Hemel Hempstead, with junction 7 and the M10. As traffic could now travel between Hemel Hempstead and Park Street Roundabout without having to access the M1, there was no need to keep the M10 as a motorway. Hence, on 1 May 2009, the M10 was downgraded to an A road, and designated as part of the A414. This also released the "M10" designation for use elsewhere. This also had the added bonus of allowing lorries to park when waiting for access to a proposed rail freight depot. Otherwise if the proposed rail freight depot went ahead and it had remained a motorway there would have been nowhere for lorries to wait.

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Mount Steele

Mount Steele is the fifth-highest mountain in Canada and either the tenth- or eleventh-highest peak in North America. Its exact elevation is uncertain. Commonly-quoted figures are 5073 m and 5020 m. A lower southeast peak of Mt. Steele stands at 4300 m.

It was named after Sir Sam Steele, the North-West Mounted Police officer in charge of the force in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush.

Elevation
Mount Steele's exact elevation is uncertain. Until the 1960s, Canadian topographical maps showed an elevation of 5073 m, which was determined in 1913 by International Boundary Commission surveyors. However, this height was never tied to the sea-level datum established by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. More recent Canadian topographical maps no longer show a spot height, and their contour lines indicate a summit elevation of 5,02020 metres (about 16,47060 ft). The older figure continues to be quoted by other sources.

First ascent in 1935
Walter A. Wood led a team consisting of Foresta Wood (Walter's wife), Swiss guide Hans Fuhrer, Joseph W. Fobes, Harrison Wood and I. Pearce Hazard. The expedition approached the peak on the eastern side from Kluane Lake. Base camp was established at the foot of the Steele Glacier with horses carrying loads to Advance Base Camp (known as Camp 6) further along the glacier. ABC provided good views of the mountain and the team decided on the east ridge as their line of ascent.

After waiting for the weather to improve after heavy snowfalls, a four-man team consisting of Walter Wood, Harrison Wood, Fuhrer and Forbes left Camp 8 at the base of the ridge. Their plan to was to make a 2440 m push to the summit. After steady upwards progress, deteriorating weather forced them to return to Camp 8 where they waited out a five-day storm which dumped over a metre of fresh snow. They started out again on August 15 and the ascent was made easier this time by windblown and hard steep snow slopes rather than steep soft snow on their earlier attempt. At 4570 m, a plateau of wretched snow forced the team to crawl on all fours. Walter Wood commented: "The humour of it impressed me. Here were four supposedly normal human beings crawling across a snow field 15,000 ft. up in the air, engaged in what they fondly believed to be a sporting venue."

Alternating the lead every 100 paces, they made their way from the plateau to the top, finally reaching the summit at 2:30 pm. The team enjoyed a blissful thirty minutes of windless conditions on top before beginning their descent.

Avalanche and landslides
On 22 July 2007 at approximately 13:25 Pacific Daylight Time, a massive avalanche took place on Mount Steele when a slab of ice with a volume of about 3,000,000 m3 broke loose from its north face. The slab broke up as it fell down the side of the mountain, developing into an avalanche that crossed Steele Glacier, overtopped a 275 m ridge, and continued onto Hodgson Glacier, where it finally came to rest after traveling a total horizontal distance of 8 km. The avalanche covered about 2 km2 of the surface of Steele Glacier. The avalanche registered as a 2.1-magnitude seismic event.

At 17:57 Pacific Daylight Time on 24 July 2007 – only two days after the avalanche — a massive landslide occurred on the north face of Mount Steele when a 400 m wide section of ice and rock fell. With a volume estimated at between 27,500,000 and 80,500,000 m3, it lasted about 100 seconds and reached a maximum speed of at least 252 kph. Falling 2,500 m down the side of the mountain, the landslide traveled across the 1.5 km wide Steele Glacier, and reached the top of a 275 m ridge on the opposite side of the glacier, where it came to a stop before sliding back down onto Steele Glacier. It traveled a total horizontal distance of 5.76 km. It was immediately recognized as one of the largest landslides in Yukon Territory history, if not the largest, and is one of the largest in the recorded history of western Canada.

On 11 October 2015, 45,000,000 MT of rock, snow, and ice with a volume of about 20,000,000 m3 slid 1 km down the side of Mount Steele and 2 km across the surface of Steele Glacier. It was one of the ten largest landslides of the year worldwide.

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Buller River

The Buller River (Kawatiri) is a river in the South Island of New Zealand. The Buller has the highest flow of any river in the country during floods, though it is only the 13th longest river; it runs for 177 km from Lake Rotoiti through the Buller Gorge and into the Tasman Sea near the town of Westport. A saddle at 710 m separates the Buller from the Motupiko River and that is divided from the Wairau River by a 695 m saddle, both aligned along the Alpine Fault, as is the top of the Buller valley.

Within the Buller Gorge and downstream from the Deepdale River joining, the Buller crosses from Tasman District into Buller District. The Paparoa Range separates the Buller River from the Grey River. A number of flora and fauna are found in the Buller catchment, many of these extending onto the slopes of the Paparoa Range.

The Buller River upstream from Murchison along with the Mangles River are popular for whitewater kayaking and recreational fishing, though the whole river can be kayaked; it is the only major river in the country with no hydro lakes, though a seismic survey for hydro power was done in 1973. For experienced canoeists the Ariki Falls section, between Murchison and Newton Flat, is also popular and novices can use it by carrying kayaks around the rapids, except when the river is very low and the rapids become unnavigable. The river is suitable for contact recreation approximately 95% of the time, though Tasman Council recognises it needs to be better because of the popularity of whitewater kayaking below Gowan Bridge.

follows the river for 132 km, SH63, upstream from SH6, for 23 km and the Stillwater–Ngākawau railway line runs through the Lower Gorge to Westport. follows the river for much of its length.

This river has an annual mean flow of 454 m3/s, is estimated to have reached 12700 m3/s in the 1926 flood and has the highest flood flow in the country of over 7640 m3/s. 93% of the water comes from the western mountains, which make up only 38% of the catchment, and it is highest in summer, partly due to melting snow.

Early history
Excavations at the mouth of the river, across from Westport, uncovered 77 stone adzes, 2,693 stone flakes (argillite, chert, obsidian and silcrete from manufacture of stone tools), minnow lures, moa bone, sites of huts, ovens, middens and urupā, with one shell carbon dated to between 1219 and 1316. Early trading is indicated by argillite from Ohana, at the south end of D'Urville Island, chert from upper North island and obsidian from Mayor Island / Tūhua. In 2004 the site was described as one of the largest and best preserved large Archaic sites in the country. More investigation may reveal whether it was occupied for more than a few years.

Subsequent pre-colonial history is obscure. The Waitangi Tribunal concluded that, "very little is known about the history of Ngati Apa's occupation of the region . . . invasion by northern tribes in the early nineteenth century made it difficult to pass on any substantial record of the traditional history of this area" and it was "probably an area of migratory resource use rather than permanent occupation". One migratory resource was Ngāi Tahu's pounamu trade, which had a greenstone trail through the valley, probably in summer, when the river would usually be lower. By virtue of a taua of 1829–1832, Ngāti Toa Rangatira was recognised in 2012 as having an interest in the upper part of the river.

European settlement
Europeans first discovered Lake Rotoiti in 1842. The first written record of the river mouth was in 1845, when a sealing captain, Joseph Thoms, was reported as finding, "a large river, a mile wide. It has a bar at the entrance, on which he took soundings, and found sixteen feet at high water. The river appeared to be navigable for a considerable distance. Mr. Thoms anchored his vessel in five fathoms, and pulled up four or five miles in his boat. He describes the valley through which the river runs to be twenty miles wide, finely wooded, with some open land."

In 1846 Brunner was the first European to follow the full length of the Buller, together with his guide, E Kehu, of Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri, who already knew the area well (Ekehu had been taken prisoner by Ngāi Tahu while living near the Grey River). That expedition lasted almost 560 days. The journey was so difficult that they left Lake Rotoiti on 31 December 1846, but only reached the mouth of the river on 4 June 1847. They returned up the Buller, leaving Inangahua on 23 March 1848 and reached Lake Rotoiti again on 12 June 1848.

Surveyor John Rochfort discovered gold and coal in the Buller valley in 1859. Despite this indication of the land's value, the 1860 Arahura Deed sold most of the West Coast to the government for £300 (about 1d per 100 acres), covering a total of 7000000 acre, which included virtually all of the Buller valley south from the Gowan River.

A West Coast gold rush, coal mines and timber sawmills resulted in a rapid population increase in the 1860s. By 1867 there were 6,087 miners in Nelson Province and 10,466 people (and 1,612 tents, indicating the temporary nature of their stay) in Westland North, which also included the Grey valley. About 1,500 were in Westport in 1867, which was then the 3rd largest port for exporting gold, after Hokitika and Dunedin.

Name
William Fox was the New Zealand Company agent (a UK-based company of 1837, with a royal charter supporting colonisation efforts) in Nelson, when he, Thomas Brunner and Charles Heaphy, explored the Buller as far south as Murchison in February 1846. In a report to Colonel Wakefield, Fox said, "As it will present a considerable feature on the maps of this island, I have called it the Buller, after the member for Liskeard", who was Charles Buller, a UK Member of Parliament and director of the New Zealand Company.

The original Māori name for the Buller may have been Kawatiri, although Patrick O'Regan thought that was a misunderstanding of Ka Awatiri. He translated Awatiri as a rapid river. The first 1846 expedition named the Buller valley around Murchison as the Aglionby valley, after the English MP, Henry Aglionby Aglionby. In 1911 O'Regan suggested it had dropped out of use because it was hard to pronounce.

River modifications
Organs Island was created, about 6 km upstream from Westport, when a loop in the Buller was bypassed by a straight flood relief channel built between 1882 and 1886. The old river course became silted up between 1925 and 1945, but part of it remains to allow Buller floodwater to overflow into the Orowaiti River. A wall in that overflow was repaired in 2022 after flooding.

Transport
Until roads were built, goods were carried from Westport to Lyell in fleets of canoes, or, later, horse-drawn boats, carrying up to 7 tons, or 12 tons up to Inangahua. They could take 11 weeks to make the journey, but the 40 mi from Lyell could also be covered in 7 hours downstream.

Roads in the valley evolved. In good weather a footpath was passable along the length of the valley by 1864. Horses could usually travel from Nelson to Lyell by 1867 and wheeled traffic by 1876. A dray road opened from Inangahua to Lyell in 1878.

A telegraph line opened to Lyell in 1874. Job Lines began a link between Westport and Reefton in 1876, using horses from Westport and a coach from the Landing to Reefton. By July 1877 the road through the Lower Gorge had improved sufficiently for the coach to run through to Westport. The road near Tiroroa included two short tunnels, until Fern Arch was demolished in 1937.

The first Newman Brothers coach ran between Foxhill (end of the Nelson railway) and Hampden (Murchison) on 22 July 1879, following improvements to the road, was extended to Lyell in 1880 and, by Job Lines, to Reefton in 1882. A motor service began in 1913, allowing the journey between Westport and Nelson to be made in a day. A daily bus linking Nelson and Westport began in 1923. InterCity now runs buses on 4 days a week, taking 3 hours 29 minutes, including a 15 minute break at Murchison. By car the 217 km route takes a bit under 3 hours.

In 1964 the Nelson-Murchison Railways Road Services route was taken over by Nelson Suburban Bus Co.

Bridges

 * Cobb_and_Co_coach_on_board_a_punt_on_the_Buller_River_(21120308819).jpg coach on the Nine Mile punt about 1910]]The first bridge up the river is Buller Bridge, opened in 1888 as a road-rail bridge on the Cape Foulwind Railway and built by M'Lean and Son of Wellington for £13,704 15s 6d. It was a 1040 ft long, iron lattice bridge. That original bridge was replaced in 1976 by a concrete road bridge, slightly upstream. A ferry, and later a punt, crossed the river from Nine Mile Road, Te Kuha, from 1874. The punt was swept away in a 1908 flood, five horses were drowned and the coach was left in shallow water. It also broke free, or was damaged, in 1909 and 1926 floods. The last punt was built about 1914 and it closed in 1927.
 * By 1911 there was a 725 ft suspension bridge over the river, just downstream from Buller. Between 1928 and 1931 a 540 ft suspension footbridge was also built over the river, 19 mi from Westport, to link the railway construction workers' camp to the railway. It's sometimes not clear in accounts which bridge is being described. Both bridges had gone by 1972.
 * Buller River bridge No.89, on the Stillwater–Ngākawau Line, crosses the river near Inangahua. It is 206 m long, on 6 x 100 ft spans, resting on 8 ft diameter piles.
 * Lyell_punt_and_bridge.jpg Bridge at Lyell, on SH6, was built by J & A Anderson of Christchurch for £8,957 and replaced the punt on 4 August 1890. The Warren truss bridge spans 168 ft, supported by a central pier in the river.
 * Buller Gorge Swingbridge (suspension bridge) is about a kilometre below Ariki Falls. It is 110 m long and 19 m above the river.
 * O'Sullivan's Bridge, also on SH6, was built in 1908 and rebuilt in 1975.
 * Longford Bridge, also on SH6, was rebuilt in 1966. The pre-stressed concrete, box girder bridge is 316 ft long, with a main span of 170 ft, 42 ft above normal water level. It was built 1 mi upstream of the 1899 single-lane, wooden, suspension bridge and cost £47,490.
 * Nuggety Creek Bridge was built about 1919 to give access to Nuggety Creek Road and now has a 25 tonne weight limit.
 * Gowan Valley Bridge was built between 1914 and 1917.
 * Harleys Rock Bridge at Devils Grip, on SH63, was first built about 1875 and upgraded about 1928. The present concrete bridge was built in 1979.
 * Upper_Buller_Bridge_near_Saint_Arnaud.JPG Buller Bridge is on SH63. It was built in 1868 and rebuilt in 1928 and 1981.
 * Buller Bridge on Mount Robert Road was built about 1955 and rebuilt in 2015.

Natural history
In 1846 the land around what was later Westport was described as covered to the river edge with totara and kahikatea. Much of the river flows through beech forest, with matagouri scrub and mānuka in the upper reaches. Carmichaelia (New Zealand broom) grows in the lower valley, especially around Lyell. Along the river most lowland forest on the fertile alluvial soils has been felled, but stands of kahikatea and rimu remain in some inland lowland basins. Other trees and bushes in the valley include mountain akeake, daisy bush, Hector's tree daisy, Dracophyllum densum, mountain cedar, mountain neinei, mountain toatoa, mountain and silver beech, pink pine, yellow-silver pine, southern rata and small rimu. Among other plants there are wire rush, eyebright and ferns such as Gleichenia dicarpa, Gleichenia microphylla Leptopteris superba and Hymenophyllum rufescens.

Black-fronted terns and black-billed gulls nest in braided stretches of the river, especially near the Hinemoatū River. Great spotted kiwi (roa) live in the upper valley. Other birds include Australasian bittern (matuku hūrepo) long-tailed cuckoo (koekoeā), New Zealand falcon (kārearea), fernbird (kōtātā), New Zealand pipit (pihoihoi), rifleman (titipounamu), western weka kererū, tūī, korimako, riroriro, pīwakawaka, tauhou and morepork (ruru).

Speckled skinks (Oligosoma infrapunctatum) are rare in the upper part of the valley, but the most common of 8 species of lizard elsewhere in the valley.

Rhytida meesoni perampla snail, Leaf-veined slugs and many insects live in the valley, including the striped dung fly, Mycetophila fungus gnats, West Coast tree weta, Wellington tree weta, Kahurangi ground wētā, and Hakaharpalus and Kiwitrechus beetles. European wasps have become a problem in the beech forests since their spread in the 1970s, being known to kill and compete for food with lizards and other native species.

Bluegill bully, torrentfish, common bully and short-finned eels are in the river and streams. Salmon trout were introduced to the Buller in 1878 and trout in 1884.

Other introduced animals include stoats, red deer, goats, pigs and chamois. Rats were present when Europeans first explored the valley in 1846.

Geology
Lake Rotoiti was created by a glacier and glacial moraines occupy a large area between the Buller and Gowan rivers. From the lake the Buller flows west through a gorge cut in granitic rocks of the Median Batholith. It then turns southwest to follow the axis of the Longford Syncline to Murchison. Tributary valleys around Murchison commonly follow north-south trending faults and fold axes.

The Buller's deep gorges have been cut through the mountains as they've been raised by Quaternary faulting and folding. Some 350,000 years ago the river had wide floodplains, which remain as flat terraces above the narrow gorge, as at Manuka Flat, now roughly 300 m above the river. The Murchison Basin was filled between the Late Eocene and Early Miocene by sediments in increasingly shallow waters, indicating that the uplift of the area to the north began in the Early Miocene. It was particularly rapid during the late Miocene-Pliocene.

In the 1929 Murchison earthquake a 1.6 km landslide fell 550 m to dam the Buller at Fern Flat, about midway between Murchison and O'Sullivan's Bridge. After two days the dam was washed away. The road between Murchison and Inangahua had 34 landslips, some up to 600 m wide. The road at White Creek, in the Upper Gorge, was split by a 4.5 m scarp. There were also slips in the 1968 Inangahua earthquake, one of which created a 30 m high dam in the river, just above Inangahua.

Above the Lower Gorge, podzol soils lie on sandstones of the Brunner Coal Measures. They are very infertile, acidic and tend to be very poorly drained. At high altitudes, the soils become skeletal and, in many places, unweathered rocks lie on the surface. Brunner Coal Measures are Eocene and were deposited in an estuary. There were coal mines near the Lower Gorge at Rahui (opened 1942) and Cascade (originally opened to improve mine drainage in 1897).

Gold is in quartz veins near Lyell, deposited by hydrothermal fluids, created by metamorphosis, about 420 million years ago.

Uranium was found in the Lower Gorge in 1955 and searches were made for viable deposits until the 1970s, but all were less than 0.1% U3O8. In 1972 the mountains on either side of the Gorge were officially named Mounts Cassin and Jacobsen, after the men who discovered the uranium.

Tributaries
The Buller has several major tributaries. These include (in order from Lake Rotoiti) the Gowan River, the Matakitaki River, the Maruia River, and the Inangahua River. Other smaller tributaries include the Hinemoatū / Howard, Hope, Owen, Mangles, Matiri, Newton, Orikaka, Blackwater, Ohikaiti and Ohikanui Rivers.

In July 2001 the Buller Water Conservation Order came into force, listing the waters of the Buller River and tributaries that are to be retained in their natural state or protected because of the outstanding characteristics, features and values of the waters.

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Nowy Dwór Gdański

Nowy Dwor Gdanski (Nowi Dwór; formerly Tiegenhof) is a town in Poland on the Tuja river in the Żuławy Wiślane region, capital of Nowy Dwór Gdański County, located in Pomeranian Voivodeship, with 10,171 inhabitants (2012).

History
The settlement was established in 1570. Initially owned by the Loitz family, it was later governed by the Wejher and Sobieski noble families, including King of Poland John III Sobieski. Administratively it was part of the Malbork Voivodeship within the Polish Crown. As a result of the First Partition of Poland in 1772 it was annexed by the German state of Prussia. In 1920 it became part of the Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk).

On September 1, 1939, the day Germany invaded Poland, causing World War II, the Germans murdered the local Polish customs inspector. The town was then annexed by Nazi Germany. During the war, a subcamp of the Stutthof concentration camp was operated by the Germans in the town. One of the places where the Germans used the forced labour of Stutthof prisoners was the train station, where there is now a memorial plaque. After the defeat of Nazi Germany in the war in 1945, the town again became part of Poland.

Notable residents

 * Krzysztof Pilarz (born 1980), professional goalkeeper, (praticipated in over 250 games)
 * Piotr Sierzputowski (born 1992), tennis coach

International relations
Nowy Dwór Gdański is twinned with:

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List of people from Maine

The following is a list of prominent people who were born in the American state of Maine, live in Maine, or for whom Maine is a significant part of their identity.

A

 * Angela Adams (born 1965), designer; born in North Haven
 * Paul André Albert (1926–2019), scientist; born in Van Buren
 * Tom Allen (born 1945), politician, Congressman (1997–2009); born in Portland
 * Adelbert Ames (1835–1933), military officer, politician, Governor of Mississippi (1868–1870; 1874–1876), United States Senator from Mississippi (1870–1874); born in Rockland
 * Benjamin Ames (1778–1835), politician, Governor of Maine (1821–1822); lived in Houlton
 * Erin Andrews (born 1978), sportscaster, Dancing With the Stars contestant and co-host; born in Lewiston

B

 * John Baldacci (born 1955), politician, Governor of Maine (2003–2011), Congressman (1995–2003); born in Bangor, lives in Portland
 * Christopher Daniel Barnes (born 1972), actor, voice actor, The Little Mermaid film, Spider-Man television series; born in Portland
 * Trevor Bates (born 1993), NFL player; born in Portland
 * Leon Leonwood Bean (1872–1967), founder of L.L. Bean Inc., a large private retail company in Freeport
 * Corey Beaulieu (born 1983), musician, guitarist in Trivium; born in Brunswick
 * Anna Belknap (born 1974), actress, Lindsay Monroe on CSI: NY; born in Damariscotta
 * Joan Benoit (born 1957), first women's Olympic marathon champion; born in Cape Elizabeth
 * Louisa Dow Benton (1831–1895), linguist, translator; born in Portland
 * Jacques Berlinerblau (born 1966), religious scholar, Georgetown University professor; born in Portland
 * Carroll Thayer Berry (1886–1978), printmaker, woodcut engraver, painter and photographer; born in New Gloucester
 * Nina Blackwood (born 1955), radio and television personality, actor, model; lives in Mid Coast region
 * James G. Blaine (1830–1893), United States Representative, Senator, and Secretary of State, Republican presidential candidate in 1884
 * Dennis Blair (born 1947), US Director of National Intelligence (2009–2010), four-star U.S. Navy admiral; born in Kittery
 * Cindy Blodgett (born 1975), basketball player and coach; born in Clinton; attended Lawrence High School and University of Maine Orono
 * Tim Boetsch (born 1981), mixed martial artist; born in Lincolnville
 * Gordon Bok (born 1939), folk singer-songwriter; born in Camden
 * Milton Bradley (1836–1911), board game manufacturer with the Milton Bradley Company; born in Vienna
 * Joseph E. Brennan (born 1934), politician, Governor of Maine (1979–1987), Congressman (1987–1991); born in Portland
 * Contessa Brewer (born 1974), news anchor for MSNBC; born in Parsonsfield
 * Styles Bridges (1898–1961), politician, Governor of New Hampshire (1935–1937) and U.S. Senator from New Hampshire (1937–1961); born in Pembroke
 * James Brooks (1807–1873), Congressman from New York; born in Portland
 * Brett Brown (born 1961), head coach and general manager for the Philadelphia 76ers; born in South Portland
 * Harry Brown (1917–1986), poet, novelist, screenwriter; born in Portland
 * Scott Brown (born 1959), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (2010–13); born in Kittery
 * Ashley Bryan (1923–2022), writer and illustrator; resided in Islesford
 * Marisa Butler (born 1994), model, singer and beauty pageant title holder; Miss Maine USA 2016, Miss World America 2018, and Miss Earth USA 2021
 * Brian Butterfield (born 1958), professional baseball coach; born in Bangor

C

 * Nik Caner-Medley (born 1983), basketball player; born in Portland
 * Al Carbee (1914–2005), outsider artist; born in Portland, lived in Saco
 * John Cariani (born 1969), actor, Law & Order; grew up in Presque Isle
 * Howie Carr (born 1952), journalist, author, radio talk-show host; born in Portland
 * Bill Carrigan (1883–1969), catcher and manager for Boston Red Sox; born in Lewiston
 * Rachel Carson (1907–1964), author; lived in Southport
 * Walter Case Jr., harness racer
 * Elisabeth Cavazza (1849–1926), author, journalist; born in Portland
 * Joshua Chamberlain (1828–1914), Civil War major general, Governor of Maine (1867–1871)
 * Thomas Davee Chamberlain (1841–1896), Civil War lieutenant colonel, brother of Major General Joshua Chamberlain
 * Conrad Chase (born 1965), actor, singer; born in Portland
 * Oren Burbank Cheney (1816–1903), student, teacher, principal Parsonsfield Seminary; Free Will Baptist clergyman; abolitionist; founding president of Bates College
 * Yvon Chouinard (born 1938), founder of Black Diamond Equipment and Patagonia, born in Lewiston
 * Cody Christian (born 1995), actor; Pretty Little Liars, Teen Wolf; born in Portland and grew up on a Penobscot reservation
 * Frank Churchill (1901–1942), Oscar-winning composer for many Disney animated films; born in Rumford
 * Carolyn Chute (born 1947), novelist, populist political activist; born in Portland; lives in Parsonsfield
 * Nathan Clifford (1803–1881), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Attorney General of the United States; lived in Newfield
 * Eunice Hale Cobb (1803–1880), writer, activist; born in Kennebunk
 * William Cohen (born 1940), U.S. Congressman (1973–1979), Senator (1979–1997), US Secretary of Defense (1997–2001); born in and Mayor of Bangor (1971–1973)
 * Samuel Colman (1832–1920), artist, writer, interior designer; born in Portland
 * Susan Collins (born 1952), U.S. Senator from Maine; born in Caribou
 * Jennie Maria Drinkwater Conklin (1841–1900), author, activist; born in Portland
 * Ernie Coombs, children's entertainer, known for Mr. Dressup
 * Michelle Coombs, geologist currently working in Alaska, originally from Maine
 * William Coperthwaite (1930–2013), educator and yurt advocate; born in Monticello
 * Ron Corning (born 1971), TV host at WFAA in Dallas, Texas; raised in Calais
 * Mike "Fluff" Cowan (born 1947), PGA Tour golf caddy; born in Winslow
 * Ricky Craven (born 1966), ESPN broadcaster, NASCAR driver; born in Newburgh
 * Laura Creavalle (born 1959), Guyanese-born Canadian/American professional bodybuilder; lives in Old Orchard Beach
 * Ian Crocker (born 1982), three-time Olympic champion in swimming; born in Portland
 * Effie Crockett (1856–1940), actress, wrote and composed the lullaby "Rock-a-bye Baby"; born in Rockland
 * John Crowley (born 1942), author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction; born in Presque Isle
 * Earl Cunningham (1893–1977), folk artist; born in Edgecomb
 * Dick Curless (1932–1995), country singer; born in Fort Fairfield
 * Ron Currie Jr. (born 1975), author; lives in Portland
 * Robert Card, US Army Reserve Sergeant First Class (E-7) and mass murderer

D

 * Robert L. Dale (1924–2020), pilot in Antarctica and namesake of the Dale Glacier; lived in Brunswick
 * Sarah D'Alelio (born 1980), professional mixed martial artist; born in Belfast
 * Frances Brackett Damon (1857–1939), poet, writer; born in Dexter
 * Olive E. Dana (1859–1904), writer, poet; born in Augusta
 * Bette Davis (1908–1989), two-time Oscar-winning actress; born in Massachusetts and lived in Cape Elizabeth
 * Owen Davis (1874–1956), Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist; born in Portland
 * Howie Day (born 1981), singer; born and raised in Brewer
 * William Deering (1826–1913), businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of International Harvester; born in South Paris
 * Grace DeGennaro (born 1956), artist; resides in Yarmouth
 * Patrick Dempsey (born 1966), actor; born in Lewiston
 * Nelson Dingley Jr. (1832–1899), Governor of Maine (1874–1876), US House of Representatives (1881–1899), responsible for the Dingley Tariff
 * Rick DiPietro (born 1981), NHL player; born in Lewiston
 * Dorothea Dix (1802–1878), pioneering advocate for treatment and care of the handicapped and mentally ill; born in Hampden
 * George Dole (1885–1928), Olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics; born in Michigan and lived in Bath
 * Jeff Donnell (1921–1988), actress; born in Windham
 * Alice May Douglas (1865–1943), poet, author, editor; born in Bath
 * Paul Douglas (1892–1976), economist and Illinois senator (1949–1967); partly raised in Onawa
 * Cornelia M. Dow (1842–1905), philanthropist, temperance activist; born and died in Portland
 * Brian Dumoulin (born 1991), NHL player, Pittsburgh Penguins; born in Biddeford
 * Emma B. Dunham (1826–1910), poet, teacher; born in Minot; died in Deering

E

 * Kevin Eastman (born 1962), comic book artist and writer; co-created Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; born in Springvale
 * Stanley Boyd Eaton (born 1938), radiologist, one of the originators of the concept of Paleolithic nutrition; born in Old Town
 * Gertrude Elliott (1874–1950), actress: stage, silent movies; born in Rockland
 * Maxine Elliott (1868–1940), stage actress; born in Rockland
 * Robbie Ellis (born 1943), professional wrestler who was featured in Sports Illustrated, born in Portland, Maine
 * Ellen Russell Emerson (1837–1907), author, ethnologist; born in New Sharon
 * George Barrell Emerson (1797–1881), educator; born in Kennebunk

F

 * Myrna Fahey (1933–1973), actress, Father of the Bride; born in Carmel
 * Hannah Tobey Farmer (1823-1891), philanthropist, writer, social reformer; born in Berwick; died in Eliot
 * Terry Farnsworth (born 1942), Canadian Olympic judoka
 * Wallace Rider Farrington (1871–1933), journalist and government administrator, Territorial Governor of Hawaii (1921–1929); born in Orono
 * Parker Fennelly (1891–1988), actor; born in Northeast Harbor
 * William Pitt Fessenden (1806–1869), politician, Secretary of the Treasury (1864–1865); Congressman (1841–1843); Senator (1854–1864; 1865–1869); lived in Portland
 * Greg Finley (born 1984), actor, The Secret Life of the American Teenager; born in Portland
 * Frank Fixaris (1934–2006), sportscaster; resident of Falmouth
 * Cooper Flagg (born 2006), basketball player; raised in Newport
 * Ryan Flaherty (born 1986), professional baseball infielder and current coach; born in Portland
 * James Flavin (1906–1976), film and television actor; born in Portland
 * Charles Flint (1850–1934), businessman, founder of Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company which later became IBM; born in Thomaston
 * Francis Ford (1881–1953), actor, writer, director, brother of John Ford; born in Portland
 * John Ford (1894–1973), film director, winner of six Oscars; born in Cape Elizabeth, raised on Munjoy Hill in Portland
 * Philip Ford (1900–1976), film director, nephew of John Ford; born in Portland
 * Melville Fuller (1833–1910), eighth Chief Justice of the United States (1888–1910); born in Augusta
 * Charlie Furbush (born 1986), baseball pitcher; born in Portland, attended St. Joseph's College of Maine

G

 * Joey Gamache (born 1966), lightweight champion who boxed from 1976 to 2000; originally from Lewiston
 * Peter A. Garland (1923–2005), politician, Congressman (1961–1963); lived in Brunswick
 * Scott Garland (born 1973), WWE wrestler, ring name Scotty 2 Hotty; born in Westbrook
 * Gladys George (1904–1954), actress, The Maltese Falcon, The Best Years of Our Lives; born in Patten
 * Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. (1868–1924), early advocate of scientific management and pioneer of motion study; born in Fairfield
 * Jon Gillies (born 1994), ice hockey player; raised in South Portland
 * Everett Glass (1891–1966), actor; born in Bangor
 * Charles Goddard (1879–1951), playwright and screenwriter for silent films; born in Portland
 * Jared Golden (born 1982), politician, Congressman (2019–); lives in Lewiston
 * Gary Gordon (1960–1993), Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army who died during Operation Gothic Serpent; born in Lincoln
 * Noah Gray-Cabey (born 1995), teen actor, My Wife and Kids, Heroes; raised in Newry
 * Chris Greeley (born 1962), Cosmopolitan magazine's Bachelor of the Month in June 1993; appeared on multiple TV shows in the 1990s
 * Mace Greenleaf (1872–1912), stage and screen actor silent films
 * Patty Griffin (born 1964), Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter and musician; born in Old Town
 * Einar Gustafson (1935–2001), childhood cancer patient, namesake of The Jimmy Fund; born and raised in New Sweden

H

 * Edwin Hall (1855–1938), physicist who discovered the "Hall effect"; born in Gorham
 * John H. Hall (1781–1841), inventor of the M1819 Hall breech-loading rifle; mass production innovator; born in Portland
 * Hannibal Hamlin (1809–1891), 15th Vice President of the United States and U.S. Senator; born in Paris
 * Simon Hamlin (1866–1939), politician, Congressman (1935–1937); born in Standish
 * Frank Handlen (1916–2023), artist and shipwright; born in Brooklyn, now the oldest resident in Kennebunkport
 * Marsden Hartley (1877–1943), artist, poet; born in Lewiston
 * George Haskins (1915–1991), law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
 * Juliana Hatfield (born 1967), guitarist and singer-songwriter; born in Wiscasset
 * Garnet Hathaway (born 1991), NHL player; raised in Kennebunkport
 * Heather Hemmens (born 1988), actress, Hellcats; raised in Waldo
 * James Chico Hernandez (born 1954), Sambo martial artist; resides in Washburn
 * Richard Herrick, received the first successful organ transplant from identical twin brother Ronald Herrick in 1954; born and lived in Maine
 * Charlie Hewitt (born 1946), artist; born in Lewiston
 * Joe Hill (born 1971), horror novelist; born in Hermon
 * John Hodgman (born 1971), actor, writer and comedian; lives in Brooklin
 * Will Holt (1929–2015), singer-songwriter, librettist and lyricist; born in Portland
 * Winslow Homer (1836–1910), 19th-century painter; lived in Prouts Neck
 * Oliver Otis Howard (1830–1909), United States Army officer and a Union general; born in Leeds
 * Caroline Dana Howe (1824–1907), writer, poet, hymnwriter; born in Fryeburg
 * Helen Marr Hurd (1839–1909), educator, poet; born in Harmony; died in St. Albans

I

 * Robert Indiana (1928–2018), pop artist; lived in Vinalhaven

J

 * Dave Jackson (1902–1978), Allagash Wilderness Waterway guide
 * Sandi Jackson (born 1963), politician, former member of the Chicago City Council; born in Kittery
 * Theodora R. Jenness (1847–1935), writer, editor; born in Greenwood
 * Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909), novelist and short story writer; lived in South Berwick
 * Jigger Johnson (1871–1935), logger and American folk hero known for his numerous off-the-job exploits

K

 * Natalie Kalmus (1882–1965), "color supervisor" of virtually all Technicolor feature films made from 1934 to 1949; born in Houlton
 * Linda Kasabian (born 1949), member of Charles Manson's "family"; born in Biddeford
 * David E. Kelley (born 1956), Emmy-winning television producer and writer; born in Waterville
 * Anna Kendrick (born 1985), Oscar-nominated actress; born in Portland
 * Matthew Kenney (born 1964), celebrity chef, author, educator and entrepreneur; raised in Searsport; graduated from University of Maine at Orono
 * Sumner Kimball (1834–1923), General Supt. of U.S. Life-Saving Service; born in Lebanon; raised in Sanford
 * Angus King (born 1944), Governor of Maine (1995–2003), US Senator from Maine (since 2013); lives in Brunswick
 * Owen King (born 1977), author; raised in Bangor
 * Stephen King (born 1947), novelist whose books have sold more than 350 million copies; born in Portland; raised in Durham; lives in Bangor
 * Tabitha King (born 1949), novelist, wife of Stephen King; born in Old Town; lives in Bangor
 * William King (1788–1852), politician, first Governor of Maine (1820–1821); born in Scarborough

L

 * Linda Lavin (born 1937), actress, Alice, six-time Tony Award nominee; born and raised in Portland
 * Abby Fisher Leavitt (1836–1897), social reformer, newspaper publisher; born in Bangor
 * Bud Leavitt Jr. (1917–1994), Bangor sportswriter, outdoor columnist, television host
 * Paul LePage (born 1948), politician, Governor of Maine (2011–2019), Mayor of Waterville (2003–2011); born in Lewiston
 * Roger Levesque (born 1981), former professional soccer player; born in Portland
 * Enoch Lincoln (1788–1829), politician, Governor of Maine (1827–1829), US Congressman (1818–1826); lived in Augusta
 * Tawny Little (born 1956), 1976 Miss America, television journalist; born in Portland
 * Elle Logan (born 1987), 2008 Olympic gold medalist in women's rowing; born in Portland
 * Alvin Orlando Lombard (1856–1937), inventor of continuous tracked vehicles; born in Springfield
 * James B. Longley (1924–1980), first Independent Governor of Maine (1975–1979); born in Bangor
 * James B. Longley Jr. (born 1951), politician, Congressman (1995–1997); born in Lewiston
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), poet, born and raised in Portland; attended Bowdoin College
 * Barry B. Longyear (born 1942), novelist, author of Enemy Mine; lives in New Sharon
 * Bob Ludwig (born 1945), audio mastering engineer, founder of Gateway Mastering and DVD in Portland

M

 * Marc Macaulay (born 1957), actor, Burn Notice; born in Millinocket
 * Frances Laughton Mace (1836–1899), poet; born in Orono
 * Dick MacPherson (1930–2017), football coach; born in Old Town
 * Nicole Maines (born 1997), actress, Supergirl, LGBT rights activist; lives in Portland
 * Ella M. S. Marble (1850–1929), physician; born in Gorham; died in Paris
 * Bob Marley (born 1967), stand-up comedian; from Portland; born in Bangor
 * Andrea Martin (born 1947), actress, comedian, voice actress, SCTV, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Kim Possible, Earthworm Jim; born in Portland
 * H.S. Maxim (1840–1916), inventor of Maxim gun; born in Sangerville
 * Julia Harris May (1833–1912), poet, teacher, founder; born in Strong
 * David McCullough (1933–2022), author, historian, Pulitzer Prize winner; lived in Camden
 * Cynthia McFadden (born 1956), co-anchor of Nightline and Primetime; born in Lewiston
 * John McKernan (born 1948), politician, Governor of Maine (1987–1995), Congressman (1983–1987); born in Bangor
 * Victor McKusick (1921–2008), physician, scientist, "father of medical genetics"; born in Parkman
 * Vincent McKusick (1921–2014), attorney, Chief Justice of Maine Supreme Judicial Court; born in Parkman
 * Christian McLaughlin (born 1967), TV writer, producer, novelist; born in Houlton
 * Don McLean (born 1945), singer-songwriter; lives in Camden
 * Vaughn Meader (1936–2004), comedian, impersonator, musician, film actor; born in Waterville
 * Estelle M. H. Merrill (1858–1908), journalist, editor; born in Jefferson
 * Helen Maud Merrill (1865–1943), litterateur, poet; born in Bangor; died in Portland
 * Mike Michaud (born 1955), politician, Congressman (2003–2015); lives in East Millinocket
 * Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950); poet, born in Rockland
 * Janet T. Mills (born 1948); politician, Governor of Maine (2019–); born in Farmington
 * George J. Mitchell (born 1933), U.S. Senate Majority Leader, significant player in peace process of Northern Ireland; born in Waterville
 * Herb Mitchell (1937–2011), actor, director; born in Bar Harbor
 * Matthew Mulligan (born 1985), former NFL tight end; born in Bangor and lived in Enfield
 * Edmund Muskie (1914–1996); politician, Governor and then Senator of Maine, and Democratic vice presidential nominee (1968), U.S. Secretary of State (1980–1981), born in Rumford

N

 * Emma Huntington Nason (1845–1921), poet, author, musical composer; born in Hallowell
 * John Neal (1793–1876), writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist; lived entire life in Portland except for sixteen years in Boston, Baltimore, and London
 * Judd Nelson (born 1959), actor, The Breakfast Club, Suddenly Susan; born in Portland
 * Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), sculptor of found objects; came to Maine when she was five and lived in Rockland
 * Rachel Nichols (born 1980), actress, Alias, Star Trek, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra; born and raised in Augusta
 * Stephanie Niznik (1967–2019), actress, Everwood, Vanishing Son, Life Is Wild; born in Bangor
 * Lillian Nordica (1857–1914), opera singer known as one of the foremost dramatic sopranos of the 19th and 20th centuries; born in Farmington
 * William North (1755–1836), Revolutionary soldier, later made a General, aide-de-camp to Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, U.S. Senator from New York (1798); born in Pemaquid
 * Edward Lawry Norton (1898–1983), Bell Labs engineer and scientist famous for developing the concept of the Norton equivalent circuit; born in Rockland

O

 * Harry Oakes (1874–1943), discovered second-largest gold mine in Canada; mysteriously murdered in the Bahamas, which became basis of several books and movies; born in Sangerville
 * Jeremiah O'Brien (1744–1818), naval officer of American Revolutionary War; born in Kittery
 * John O'Hurley (born 1954), actor, voice actor, TV personality; J. Peterman on Seinfeld; born in Kittery

P

 * Albion K. Parris (1788–1857), politician, Governor of Maine (1822–1827), US Senator (1827–1828); born in Hebron
 * Gilbert Patten (1866–1945), author of the Frank Merriwell novels; born in Corinna
 * Frannie Peabody (1903–2001), HIV/AIDS activist, helped establish The AIDS Project, and co-founded the Peabody House
 * Waldo Peirce (1884–1970), artist, born in Bangor; lived most of his life in Maine
 * Maynard Pennell (1910–1994), Boeing executive and chief engineer of the 707 prototype; born in Skowhegan
 * Greenleaf Whittier Pickard (1877–1956), radio pioneer and 1926 IEEE Medal of Honor winner; born in Portland
 * Chellie Pingree (born 1955), politician, Congresswoman (since 2009); lives in North Haven
 * Bruce Poliquin (born 1953), politician, Congressman (2015–2019); born in Waterville, lives in Oakland
 * John A. Poor (1808–1871), developer of the Portland gauge Maine railway system; born in Andover
 * Quinton Porter (born 1982), NFL player; born in Portland
 * Zach Porter (born 1989), singer-songwriter for Allstar Weekend; born in Bath
 * Shirley Povich (1905–1998), sports columnist and reporter for The Washington Post; born in Bar Harbor

Q

 * Althea G. Quimby (1858–1942), president, Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Maine; born in Norway

R

 * Esther Ralston (1902–1994), silent film actress; born in Bar Harbor
 * Thomas Brackett Reed (1839–1902), U.S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1889–1891 and 1895–1899; born in Portland
 * Lois Rice (1933–2017), businesswoman and educator, mother Susan Rice; born in Portland
 * Derek Rivers (born 1994), NFL player; born in Augusta
 * Aaron Robinson (born 1970), composer; born in Camden and raised in Waldoboro
 * Duncan Robinson (born 1994), professional basketball player; born in York
 * Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935), poet; born in Alna and raised in Gardiner
 * Nelson Rockefeller (1908–1979), businessman, philanthropist, public servant, Vice President of the United States (1974–1977) and Governor of New York (1959–1973); born in Bar Harbor
 * Charles Rocket (1949–2005), actor, Saturday Night Live, Tequila and Bonetti, Dumb and Dumber; born in Bangor
 * Lou Rogers (1879–1952), suffrage cartoonist, writer, and radio personality, born in Patten
 * Daniel Rose (1772–1835), politician, Governor of Maine (1822); lived in Thomaston
 * Henrietta Gould Rowe (1834/35–1910), litterateur, author; born in East Corinth
 * Victoria Rowell (born 1959), actress, The Young and the Restless, Diagnosis: Murder, Dumb and Dumber; born and raised in Portland
 * Travis Roy (1975–2020), college ice hockey player; born in Augusta
 * Robert Rushworth (1924–1993), U.S. Air Force major general and test pilot; born in Madison

S

 * Tim Sample (born 1951), humorist and author; born in Fort Fairfield and raised in Boothbay Harbor
 * Sue A. Sanders (1842–1931), teacher, clubwoman, author; born in Casco
 * Salome Sellers (1800–1909), centenarian, born in Deer Isle, Maine
 * Tony Shalhoub (born 1953), actor; attended University of Southern Maine
 * Reta Shaw (1912–1982), actress, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, Mary Poppins; born in South Paris
 * Arthur Shawcross (1945–2008), serial killer; born in Kittery
 * Timothy Simons (born 1978), actor, Veep; born in Readfield
 * Mark Sisson (born 1953), blogger and co-founder of Primal Kitchen
 * Albion Woodbury Small (1854–1926), sociologist and founder of first university department of sociology in United States; born in Buckfield and raised in Bangor
 * Taylor Small (born 1994), politician, member of the Vermont House of Representatives (2021–present); born in Portland
 * Margaret Chase Smith (1897–1995), first woman to serve in both houses of U.S. Congress (1940–1973); first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the Presidency at a major political party's convention; born in Skowhegan
 * Samantha Smith (1972–1985), child peace activist, child actress; born in Houlton, later lived in Manchester
 * Kate Snow (born 1969), television journalist for NBC News; born in Bangor
 * Olympia Snowe (born 1947), Congresswoman and U.S. Senator; born in Augusta and raised in Auburn
 * Louis Sockalexis (1871–1931), professional baseball player; born on Penobscot Indian Island Reservation
 * Brett Somers (1922–2007), actress; born in Canada and raised in Portland
 * Susan Marr Spalding (1841–1908), poet; born in Bath
 * Aly Spaltro (born 1989), musician known professionally as Lady Lamb; began her recording career in Brunswick
 * Ellis Spear (1834–1917), Civil War lieutenant colonel of the 20th Maine Infantry Regiment
 * Percy Spencer (1894–1970), inventor of the microwave oven; born in Howland
 * Spose (born 1985), rapper, podcaster; lives in Wells
 * Andrew St. John (born 1982), actor, General Hospital, Life Is Wild; born in Millinocket
 * Bob Stanley (born 1954), former professional baseball player, pitched for Boston Red Sox in 1986 World Series; born in Portland
 * Cordelia Stanwood (1865–1968), teacher, ornithologist, and wildlife photographer
 * C. A. Stephens (1844–1931), writer and gerontologist; born and died in Norway, Maine
 * C. J. Stevens (1927–2021), author; born in Smithfield and has lived in Phillips, Weld, and Temple
 * Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896), author of Uncle Tom's Cabin; lived in Brunswick
 * Noel Paul Stookey (born 1937); folk singer and songwriter; member of Peter Paul and Mary group; resides in Blue Hill
 * Charlie Summers (born 1956); politician, Secretary of State of Maine (2011–2013); lives in Biddeford
 * Bill Swift (born 1961), former professional baseball pitcher; born in Portland
 * Tim Sylvia (born 1976), mixed martial arts fighter, professional wrestler; born in Ellsworth

T

 * Drew Taggart (born 1989), musician, DJ, singer of the Chainsmokers; grew up in Freeport
 * Gerald Talbot (born 1931), Maine state legislator (1972–1978), African American civil rights activist; born in Bangor
 * Phyllis Thaxter (1919–2012), actress, born in Portland
 * Augustin Thompson (1835–1903), creator of Moxie, born in Union
 * Brigadier Samuel Thompson (1734–1798), soldier of the American Revolutionary War; lived in Brunswick
 * Gary Thorne (born 1948), sportscaster, born in Bangor
 * Andrew J. Tozier (1838–1910), soldier, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient; born in Litchfield
 * Novella Jewell Trott (1846–1929), author, editor; born in Woolwich
 * Jeff Turner (born 1962), retired professional basketball player; born in Bangor
 * Liv Tyler (born 1977), actress, daughter of Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler; grew up in Maine

U

 * John G. Utterback (1872–1955), politician, Congressman (1933–1935); lived in Bangor

V

 * Donald Valle (1908–1977), founder and owner of Valle's Steak House restaurant chain; born in Italy, moved to Portland in 1912
 * Richard Valle (1931–1995), son of Donald Valle and owner of eponymously named Valle's Steak House; born in Portland
 * Rudy Vallée (1901–1986), singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer; lived in Westbrook
 * Todd Verow (born 1966), filmmaker, cinematographer, actor; born in Bangor

W

 * Oliver Wahlstrom (born 2000), hockey player; born in Yarmouth
 * John Bruce Wallace (born 1950), composer, musician, author; born in Calais
 * Dan Walters (1966–2020), baseball player; born in Brunswick
 * Sam Webb (born 1945), former chairman of Communist Party USA; born in Maine
 * Janwillem van de Wetering (1931–2008), novelist; lived in Blue Hill
 * Clarence White (1944–1973), bluegrass, country rock, and rock guitarist; born in Lewiston
 * E. B. White (1899–1985), essayist, author, humorist, poet; lived in Brooklin
 * Ellen G. White (1827–1915), author, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church; born in Gorham
 * Charles Whitman (1842–1910), zoologist, influential to the founding of classical ethology; born in Woodstock
 * JoAnn Willette (born 1963), actress, Just the Ten of Us; born in Lewiston
 * William D. Williamson (1779–1846) politician, Governor of Maine (1821); lived in Bangor
 * Carl Willey (1931-2009) baseball player who was a pitcher for the Milwaukee Braves and New York Mets, born in Cherryfield
 * Dorothy Clarke Wilson (1904–2003), author, playwright; born in Gardiner
 * Abba Goold Woolson (1838–1921), writer; born in Windham
 * Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009), 20th-century painter; had a home in Cushing
 * Jamie Wyeth (born 1946), contemporary painter; has lived in Maine since the mid-1960s
 * N. C. Wyeth (1882–1945), artist and illustrator; bought a home in Port Clyde in the 1930s
 * Nick Wyman (born 1950), actor, Die Hard with a Vengeance; born in Portland

Z

 * Steven Zirnkilton (born 1958), voice actor and former politician; lives in Seal Harbor

title: List of people from Maine


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nexuscience/old

Advert for company selling CD version of Wikipedia that gets 1 hit other than their own Web site. Niteowlneils 21:53, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Yuck. This is just... Ugh. Delete -- Cyrius|&#9998 22:39, May 8, 2004 (UTC)
 * Self-serving promotion. Non-encyclopedic. Delete. It even gives a faint impression that Wikipedia is endorsing this parasitic enterprise... and associates Wikipedia with a home envelope-stuffing offer (most if not all such offers are scams). Dpbsmith 02:36, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
 * While waiting for the vote to complete, I edited the article to reduce the spam and POV aspects. I still want to see the article deleted and will be very, very, discouraged if it should end up getting preserved as an unintentional consequence of my editing. Dpbsmith 12:30, 9 May 2004 (UTC)

 * $29.95 for something I could get in superior form for free? Yaaaaay! Hook me up, and delete with extreme prejudice and Wikiviolence. Lord Bob 02:38, May 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * Disgusting self promotion of a parasitic product. Delete with extreme prejudice. DO'Neil 02:41, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, spam. --Stormie 03:38, May 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, spam. They don't need to promote their overpriced CDs here. andy 10:35, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Yup, delete. Their parent company's website did provide me some brief amusement though, from a paragraph talking about their stupid enelope stuffing thing: This isn't some sort of envelope stuffing scheme or chain letter, this is an honest opportunity to begin earning money by stuffing envelopes from home!. Amazing opportunity I reckon, who else is going to sign up... - Ams80 (signed on behalf )
 * Delete. Undeserved publicity for a completely broken mirror running some kind of scam (every page contains a dead "contents" link, absolutely no information of what it is you'd be buying). We want nothing to do with these people. Personally, I'd favour blanking the page while we wait out the VfD incubation period, to avoid anyone crawling or mirroring it, but I know there's precedent against that kind of thing. - IMSoP 13:32, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Boy, does this ever deserve a slow and lingering death. Kudos to Dpbsmith for attempting to polish this you-know-what in the meantime. Delete.  - Lucky 6.9 03:46, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. Alcarillo 16:12, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Just delete that thing, and please do it fast! Sid 16:48, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Note that the original creator of this article removed this listing with no comment 19:25, 11 May 2004. It was restored by IMSoP a few hours later.
 * Comment: "This is the creator of the article nexuscience. I would like to apologize for the sales format in which I originally wrote the article. I would also like to ask those persons who have voted for the deletion of the article to please read Wikipedia talk:Mirrors and forks. I had not meant to offend anybody here. I had actually thought that offering the Wikipedia on CD-ROM would be a welcome idea here. That being said, talk of the offer being some sort of 'scam' is bothersome to me. I would never have wanted to make such a bad impression. Any person from Wikipedia who wishes to verify the authenticity of my offer may download the entire Encyclopedia here. You may be correct in deleting the article, however, I do think that being the first commercial entity to be selling the Wikipedia on CD-ROM is a relevant subject." 68.203.192.35 16:35, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Spam, pure and simple. -- Stevietheman 01:31, 15 May 2004 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Configurism

gets no google hits, website link doesn't work, not linked to. Maximus Rex 21:56, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete. Neologism, it can come back if its still around in 2 years. - TB 22:41, 8 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Cyrius|&#9998 22:42, May 8, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete WPWoodJr 05:33, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: jaredwf 14:54, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Could be interesting. Is there any possibility to "store" it till there is either more information on the topic or less (meaning: It isn't worth an article)? If no, there's no possibilty, delete it. Sid 16:50, 10 May 2004 (UTC)


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Talk:List of speech recognition projects

Please make sure that this page doesn't turn into a jumping-off point for the original creator's attempts at spamming Wikipedia. RickK 21:56, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

Someone add Dragon Naturally Speaking to this! :] (66.69.0.248 18:30, 22 August 2007 (UTC))