The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Bath, Maine.

• Robert Jaffe, physicist
• McDonald Clarke, poet
• Eleanor P. Cushing, mathematics professor at Smith College
• Alice May Douglas, poet and author
• George F. Magoun, first president of Iowa College (now Grinnell College)
• Edward Page Mitchell, editorial and short story writer
• William Maxwell Reed, author of children's science books
• Susan Marr Spalding (1841–1908), poet
• Geoffrey Wolff, novelist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer; lives in Bath
• Glenn Cummings, economist, politician and University of Southern Maine President

• Charles W. Morse, businessman

• Georgia Cayvan, stage actress
• Claude Demetrius, songwriter
• Emma Eames, singer
• Chad Finn, sportswriter
• John Adams Jackson, sculptor
• William Zorach, sculptor

• Charles Frederick Hughes, US Navy admiral
• William Smith, US Army private; Medal of Honor recipient ^[1]
• Silas Soule, abolitionist and Civil War era soldier

• Nathaniel S. Berry, 28th governor of New Hampshire
• Samuel Davis, US congressman
• Thomas W. Hyde, US senator; Union Army general and Metal of Honor recipient; founder of Bath Iron Works
• William King, first governor of Maine
• Arthur Mayo, state legislator
• Freeman H. Morse, US congressman and mayor
• Amos Nourse, physician and US senator
• William LeBaron Putnam, lawyer and politician
• Harold M. Sewall, last United States Minister to Hawaii
• Sumner Sewall, 58th governor of Maine
• Mary Small, politician
• David Sinclair, politician and resident of Bath ^[2]
• Francis B. Stockbridge, US senator
• Peleg Tallman, US congressman

• Edward Davis, buccaneer and engineer
• Francis H. Fassett, architect
• Henry Gannett, geographer
• George Edward Harding, architect ^[3]
• Robert Jaffe, physicist