List of people from Rhode Island
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This is a list of prominent people who were born in the U.S. State of Rhode Island or spent significant periods of their lives in the state.
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[edit] Athletics
- Bill Almon, baseball player
- Billy Andrade, golfer
- Rocco Baldelli, baseball player
- Harvey Bennett, ice hockey player
- Bryan Berard, ice hockey player
- Brian Burke (executive), ice hockey executive
- Keith Carney, ice hockey player
- Mike Cloud, American football player
- Jill Craybas, tennis player
- Ernie DiGregorio, basketball player
- Anthony Durante, wrestler
- Claire Waters Ferguson, ice skating executive
- Brad Faxon, golfer
- Melissa Fiorentino, boxer
- Dave Gavitt, basketball coach
- Billy Gonsalves, soccer player
- Lou Gorman, baseball executive
- Gabby Hartnett, baseball player
- Matt Hyson, wrestler
- Jeff Jillson, ice hockey player
- Paul Konerko, baseball player
- Nap Lajoie, baseball player
- Lou Lamoriello, ice hockey executive
- Rick Lancellotti, baseball player
- Davey Lopes, baseball player
- Peter Manfredo, boxer
- Chuck Palumbo, wrestler
- Aileen Riggin, swimmer
- Joe Soares, rugby player
- Mike Stefanik, NASCAR driver
- Dan Wheeler, baseball player
[edit] Business
- Everett M. "Busy" Arnold, comic book publisher
- Ann Smith Franklin, publisher
- Edward J. McElroy, labor union executive
- Aldo Tatangelo, businessman and politician
- Judah Touro, businessman
- William Vernon, trader
[edit] Entertainment
- Norm Abram, carpenter and television performer
- Robert Aldrich, film director
- Gianna Amore, model and actress
- Harry Anderson, actor
- David Angell, television producer
- Nadia Bjorlin, actress
- Ruth Buzzi, actress
- Nicholas Colasanto, actor
- Vin Di Bona, television producer
- Eddie Dowling, actor
- Mark Famiglietti, actor
- Bobby Farrelly, film director
- Peter Farrelly, film director
- Peter Gerety, actor
- Spalding Gray, actor
- Elisabeth Hasselbeck, television performer
- David Hedison, actor
- Ruth Hussey, actress
- Thomas Harper Ince, actor
- Richard Jenkins, actor
- Van Johnson, actor
- Claudia Jordan, model
- Eric Lutes, actor
- Mike Maronna, actor
- Jason Marsden, actor
- Caroline McWilliams, actress
- Debra Messing, actress
- Shanna Moakler, model and actress
- Christopher Murney, actor
- Arden Myrin, actress
- Don Reo, television producer
- Charles Rocket, actor
- Josh Schwartz, television producer
- Mena Suvari, actress
- Aimee Sweet, model and actress
- Meredith Vieira, television performer
- Desiree Washington, model
- James Woods, actor
[edit] Journalism
- Allen Bestwick, sportscaster
- Angelo Cataldi, sportscaster
- David Hartman, television newscaster
- Irving R. Levine, journalist
- Walter Mossberg, columnist
[edit] Literature and art
- John Noble Barlow, painter
- Dicky Barrett, popular musician
- John Cafferty, popular musician
- Blu Cantrell, popular musician
- Wendy Carlos, composer
- George M. Cohan, playwright and composer
- Bill Conti, film composer
- Bill Cowsill, popular musician
- Nelson Eddy, popular musician
- Eileen Farrell, opera singer
- Billy Gilman, popular musician
- Bobby Hackett, popular musician
- Kristin Hersh, with half-sister Tanya Donelly and Rogers High School schoolmate David Narcizo, popular musicians
- Jesse Leach, popular musician
- H. P. Lovecraft, author
- Seth MacFarlane, screenwriter
- David Macaulay, author
- Don McGregor, comic book writer
- Edwin O'Connor, novelist
- David Olney, popular musician
- Jeffrey Osborne, popular musician
- S.J. Perelman, humorist, critic
- Gilbert Stuart, painter
[edit] Military
- William Henry Allen (USN), U.S. Navy officer
- Ambrose Burnside, U.S. Army officer
- Timothy Bush, Continental Army officer
- Stephen Champlin, U.S. Navy officer
- Godfrey Chevalier, U.S. Navy officer
- Nathanael Greene, Continental Army officer
- Matthew Perry (naval officer), U.S. Navy officer
- Oliver Hazard Perry, U.S. Navy officer
- Isaac P. Rodman, U.S. Army officer
- Frank Wheaton, U.S. Army officer
- Abraham Whipple, naval commander
[edit] Politics and government
- Sullivan Ballou, state representative and U.S. Army officer
- John Chafee, U.S. Senator
- Lincoln Chafee, U.S. Senator
- Vincent "Buddy" Cianci, Jr., mayor of Providence
- David Cicilline, mayor of Providence
- Job Durfee, U.S. Congressman
- Gordon D. Fox, state representative
- Charles Tillinghast James, U.S. Senator
- Pat LaMarche, Green Party presidential candidate
- Dee Dee Myers, White House Press Secretary
- Jack Reed, U.S. Senator
- William H. Sullivan, U.S. Ambassador
- Charles C. Van Zandt, governor
[edit] Religion
- Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe, Episcopal Church bishop
- Edwards Amasa Park, theologian
- Roger Williams (theologian), theologian and colony co-founder
[edit] Science
[edit] Other
- Arthur Irving Andrews, law professor
- Frank Caprio (judge), judge and television performer
- Robert Carothers, president of the University of Rhode Island
- Catherine Littlefield Greene, wife of Nathaniel Greene
- Joyce Jillson, astrologer
- Raymond Mathewson Hood, architect
- Wilfred Harold Munro, historian
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, philathrophist
- Thomas Alexander Tefft, architect
- Marjorie van Vliet, teacher and aviator
- Minton Warren, classical scholar
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