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Alfred Thayer Mahan was an American naval officer and historian who was a highly influential exponent of sea power in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mahan was the son of a professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., in 1859 and went on to serve nearly 40 years of active duty in the U.S. Navy.

A Union naval officer in the Civil War, he later lectured on naval history and strategy at the Naval War College, Newport, R.I., of which he was president (1886–89, 1892–93). Out of his lectures grew his two major works on the historical significance of sea power—The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783 (1890) and The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793–1812 (2 vol., 1892). His books were quickly translated into several languages and were widely read by political leaders, especially in Germany, where they were used as a justification for a naval buildup. In the United States, Theodore Roosevelt and other proponents of a big navy and overseas expansion were much influenced by Mahan’s writings. Among his many works are biographies of David Farragut and Horatio Nelson and the autobiographical From Sail to Steam (1907, repr. 1968).

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Gustave Maher was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

Mahood Bros. was a store located at 113-115 Princess St. in Kingston. The shop was founded by Perry S. Mahood and Frederick K. Mahood.

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Pamela Main was a teacher at QEVCI in Kingston, Ontario.

Charles Mair was born in the little lumbering village of Lanark, Upper Canada in 1838. He attended Queen's University in the Faculty of Arts during 1856 and 1857 but left his studies to participate in his family's lumbering business. In the mid-1860s he began to correspond with Dr. (later Sir) John Christian Schultz who had established himself at Fort Garry in the Northwest Territories. In 1867 Mair returned to Queen's where he studied medicine for one year before joining Schultz in 1868. In 1870 Mair was taken prisoner by Riel and sentenced to be shot. He escaped and , with his wife, fled to Portage la Prairie. For the rest of the century Mair was a merchant in both Ontario and Prince Albert In 1898 he entered the service of the Immigration Department where he remained until he was superannuated in 1921. He died in Victoria in 1927.

Throughout his life Mair was also an author. He published his first volume of poetry, Dreamland, in 1868 and his most famous work, Tecumseh a drama, appeared in 1886. A published paper, The American Bison, was instrumental in causing the Canadian government to take action to preserve the species.