List of Newport, Rhode Island people

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This entry lists notable people who were born, resided or worked in Newport, Rhode Island.

[edit] Notable people born in Newport

Eighteenth Century

• Vice-Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, Royal Navy
• William Ellery Channing, one of the foremost Unitarian preachers of the nineteenth century.

Nineteenth Century

• Thomas Harper Ince, actor
• Ida Lewis, lighthouse keeper credited with saving 18 lives in Newport Harbor throughout the nineteenth century; she received national attention and numerous honors. A United States Coast Guard buoy tender bears her name.
• Matthew C. Perry, Commodore of the U.S. Navy who forced the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854, under the threat of military force.

Twentieth Century

• Harry Anderson, actor and comedian
• Nadia Bjorlin - soap opera actress (Days of Our Lives)
• David Clarke owner and founder of Red Sox Prospectus
• Frank Corridon, who pitched for the Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, and St. Louis Cardinals and is known for inventing the now illegal pitch, the spitball.
• Tanya Donelly, musician, vocalist for Rhode Island-based bands Belly and Throwing Muses, as well as guitarist for the band The Breeders.
• Charlie Fern, White House speechwriter, journalist.
• Van Johnson, actor, known best for "all-American" roles in MGM films during World War II.
• Mena Suvari, actress, known best for her role as the vampish cheerleader with whom Kevin Spacey's character is obsessed in the 1999 film American Beauty.

[edit] Notable people who lived or worked in Newport

17th Century

• Benedict Arnold (governor) of Rhode Island
• William Coddington, governor of Rhode Island
• John Clarke (1609-1676), Baptist minister and drafter of the Royal Charter
• Nicholas Easton, governor of Rhode Island

18th Century

• George Berkeley, philosopher
• Louis Alexandre Berthier, French Army officer, later Marshal of France and Napoleon's chief of staff
• William Ellery, signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Robert Feke, portrait painter
• Peter Harrison, architect
• Samuel Hopkins (clergyman), Congregational minister and pioneer leader for abolition of the slave trade
• Louis-Marie, vicomte de Noailles, French army officer
• Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general
• Charles Theodore Pachelbel, first organist of Newport's Trinity Church and son of Johann Pachelbel
• William Selby, organist (Trinity Church) and composer
• John Smybert, artist
• Ezra Stiles, minister, diarist, and President of Yale
• Gilbert Stuart, portrait painter
• Isaac Touro, hazzan at Synagogue

19th Century to 1885

• George Bancroft, historian, Secretary of the Navy, diplomat, and summer resident
• August Belmont, financier
• Ambrose Burnside, commandant at Fort Adams, later a Civil War general, governor, and senator
• Julia Ward Howe, author and summer resident
• Henry James, author
• William James, Harvard professor
• John Kensett, artist
• Clement C. Moore, summer resident and author of 'Twas the Night before Christmas
• Levi P. Morton, summer resident and donor of Morton Park, later Vice President of the United States
• Captain Oliver Hazard Perry, Hero of the War of 1812
• William Trost Richards, artist
• Milton H. Sanford, textile magnate and Thoroughbred racehorse owner
• Judah Touro, philanthropist
• Richard Upjohn, architect

The Gilded Age, 1885 - 1914

• Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor, socialite
• Alva Belmont, socialite and leader of women's rights movement
• Charles Barney, socialite, banker, founder of Smith Barney Brokerage
• August Belmont, financier
• Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, socialite, builder of Belcourt Castle
• James Gordon Bennett, Jr.
• Ogden Codman, designer
• Richard Morris Hunt, architect
• William Morris Hunt, artist
• John LaFarge, artist
• Pierre Lorillard, tobacco manufacturer
• Admiral Stephen B. Luce, founder, Naval War College
• Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, naval historian and strategist
• Ward McAllister, coined the term 'the 400' for the New York social elite
• Charles McKim, architect
• H.H. Richardson, architect
• Edith B. Price, writer and illustrator
• Horace Trumbauer, architect
• Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of W.K. and Alva Vanderbilt; duchess of Marlborough
• Cornelius Vanderbilt II
• William Kissam Vanderbilt
• Edith Wharton, author
• Stanford White, architect

20th Century, 1914-2000

• Laura Jane Barney socialite, philanthropist, Smith Barney Brokerage heiress Champ Soleil Mansion on Belleveue Ave
• Admiral Jeremy Michael Boorda, 25th Chief of Naval Operations
• Doris Duke, philanthropist
• President Dwight D. Eisenhower, located his summer White House at Newport
• Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr.
• Kristin Hersh, musician, vocalist for Rhode Island-based band Throwing Muses, 50 Foot Wave and solo artist.
• Fleet Admiral Ernest King, Chief of Naval Operations, 1941-1945
• Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet, 1942-45; Chief of Naval Operations
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, summer resident and First Lady
• Claiborne Pell, U.S. Senator
• Admiral William Sims, commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe 1917-19
• Admiral Raymond Spruance, the victor of Midway and later President, Naval War College
• Harold Vanderbilt, yachtsman
• Paul Gordon - keyboardist and guitarist with Goo Goo Dolls, New Radicals, Lisa Marie Presley and currently B52's

21st Century, 2000-present

• Richard Hatch - first winner of the realty television show Survivor
• Curtis T. Rolando, relief pitcher for the Newport Scales and Shells