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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.
[edit] Athletics
Nap Lajoie, member of Baseball Hall of Fame
- Bill Almon (1952- ), baseball player
- Billy Andrade (1964- ), golfer
- Rocco Baldelli (1981- ), baseball player
- Harvey Bennett (1952- ), ice hockey player
- Bryan Berard (1977- ), ice hockey player
- Will Blackmon (1984- ), American football player
- Brian Burke (1955- ), ice hockey executive
- Keith Carney (1970- ), ice hockey player
- Mike Cloud (1975- ), American football player
- Jill Craybas (1974- ), tennis player
- Ernie DiGregorio (1951- ), basketball player
- Anthony Durante (1967-2003), wrestler
- Claire Waters Ferguson, ice skating executive
- Brad Faxon (1961- ), golfer
- Melissa Fiorentino (1977- ), boxer
- Dave Gavitt (1937- ), basketball coach
- Billy Gonsalves (1908-1977), soccer player
- Lou Gorman, baseball executive
- Gabby Hartnett (1900-1972), baseball player
- Matt Hyson (1970- ), wrestler
- Chris Iannetta (1983- ), baseball player
- Jeff Jillson (1980- ), ice hockey player
- Paul Konerko (1976- ), baseball player
- Nap Lajoie (1874-1959), baseball player
- Lou Lamoriello (1942- ), ice hockey executive
- Rick Lancellotti (1956- ), baseball player
- Davey Lopes (1945- ), baseball player
- Peter Manfredo (1980- ), boxer
- Chuck Palumbo (1971- ), wrestler
- Vinny Paz (1962- ), boxer
- Aileen Riggin (1906-2002), swimmer
- Joe Soares, rugby player
- Mike Stefanik (1958- ), NASCAR driver
- Mark Van Eeghen (1952- ), NFL Pro Bowl Running Back
- Clara Lamore Walker (1924-), Olympic swimmer. In the Swimming Hall of Fame
- Dan Wheeler (1977- ), baseball player
[edit] Business
[edit] Entertainment
Thomas Harper Ince, silent film actor
Ruth Hussey, film and stage actress, with husband Bob Longenecker
- Norm Abram (1950- ), carpenter and television performer
- Robert Aldrich (1918-1983), film director
- Gianna Amore (1968- ), model and actress
- Harry Anderson (1952- ), actor
- David Angell (1946-2001), television producer
- Jon B (1974- ), singer
- Nadia Bjorlin (1980- ), actress
- Ruth Buzzi (1936- ), actress
- Nicholas Colasanto (1924-1985), actor
- Vin Di Bona (1944- ), television producer
- Eddie Dowling (1895-1976), actor
- Nelson Eddy (1901-1967), actor and singer
- Mark Famiglietti (1979- ), actor
- Bobby Farrelly (1958- ), film director
- Peter Farrelly (1956- ), film director
- Ava Gaudet, actor and singer
- Peter Gerety (1940- ), actor
- Joanna Going (1963- ), actress
- Spalding Gray (1941-2004), actor
- Elisabeth Hasselbeck (1977- ), television performer
- David Hedison (1927- ), actor
- Ruth Hussey (1911-2005), actress
- Thomas Harper Ince (1882-1924), actor
- Richard Jenkins (1953- ), actor
- Van Johnson (1916- ), actor
- Claudia Jordan (1973- ), model
- Geoffrey Lewis (1935- ), actor
- Eric Lutes (1962- ), actor
- Seth MacFarlane (1973- ), actor, voice actor, (Numerous voices on Family Guy)
- Mike Maronna (1977- ), actor
- Jason Marsden (1975- ), actor
- Caroline McWilliams (1945- ), actress
- Debra Messing (1968- ), actress
- Shanna Moakler (1975- ), model and actress
- Christopher Murney (1943- ), actor
- Arden Myrin (1973- ), actress
- Don Reo, television producer
- Charles Rocket (1945-2005), actor
- Josh Schwartz (1976- ), television producer
- Mena Suvari (1979- ), actress
- Aimee Sweet (1977- ), model and actress
- Meredith Vieira (1953- ), television performer
- Desiree Washington (1973- ), model
- James Woods (1947- ), actor
[edit] Journalism
[edit] Literature and art
George M. Cohan, composer, playwright and performer
- John Noble Barlow (1861-1917), painter
- Dicky Barrett (1964- ), popular musician
- John Cafferty , popular musician
- Blu Cantrell (1976- ), popular musician
- Wendy Carlos (1939- ), composer
- George M. Cohan (1878-1942), playwright, composer and vaudeville performer
- Bill Conti (1943- ), film composer
- Bill Cowsill (1948-2006), popular musician
- C. M. Eddy, Jr. (1896-1967), author
- Nelson Eddy (1901-1967), popular musician
- Eileen Farrell (1920-2002), opera singer
- Billy Gilman (1988- ), popular musician
- Bobby Hackett (1915-1976), jazz musician
- Kristin Hersh (1966- ), with half-sister Tanya Donelly (1966- ) and Rogers High School schoolmate David Narcizo (1966- ), popular musicians
- Greta Hodgkinson, ballet dancer
- Jesse Leach (1978- ), popular musician
- H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), author
- David Macaulay (1946- ), author
- Cormac McCarthy (1933-), novelist.
- Don McGregor (1945- ), comic book writer
- Edwin O'Connor (1918-1968), novelist
- David Olney (1948- ), popular musician
- Jeffrey Osborne (1948- ), popular musician
- S.J. Perelman (1904-1979), humorist, critic
- Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828), painter
[edit] Military
Matthew Perry, U.S. Navy officer
John Chafee, United States senator
- William Henry Allen (1784-1813), U.S. Navy officer
- Ambrose Burnside (1824-1881), U.S. Army officer
- Timothy Bush (1728-1815), Continental Army officer
- Stephen Champlin (1789-1870), U.S. Navy officer
- Godfrey Chevalier (1889-1922), U.S. Navy officer
- Nathanael Greene (1742-1786), Continental Army officer
- Matthew Perry (naval officer) (1794-1858), U.S. Navy officer
- Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819), U.S. Navy officer
- Isaac P. Rodman (1822-1862), U.S. Army officer
- Frank Wheaton (1833-1903), U.S. Army officer
- Abraham Whipple (1733-1819), naval commander
[edit] Politics and government
- Sullivan Ballou (1829-1861), state representative and U.S. Army officer
- John Chafee (1922-1999), U.S. Senator
- Lincoln Chafee (1953- ), U.S. Senator
- Vincent "Buddy" Cianci, Jr. (1941- ), mayor of Providence
- David Cicilline (1961- ), mayor of Providence
- Job Durfee (1790-1847), U.S. Congressman
- Gordon D. Fox (1961- ), state representative
- Stephen Hopkins (1707-1785), Governor of Rhode Island, RI Supreme Court justice, Signatory of the Declaration of Independence
- Pat LaMarche (1960- ), Green Party presidential candidate
- Dee Dee Myers (1961- ), White House Press Secretary
- Jack Reed (1949- ), U.S. Senator
- William H. Sullivan (1922- ), U.S. Ambassador
- Charles Tillinghast James (1805-1862), U.S. Senator
- William West (1733-1816), American Revolution general, Lieutenant Governor, RI Supreme Court justice, anti-federalist leader
- Charles C. Van Zandt (1830-1894), governor
[edit] Religion
[edit] Science
Sherwood C. ("Woody") Spring, NASA astronaut
- Arthur Irving Andrews (1878-1967), law professor
- Frank Caprio (judge) (1936- ), judge and television performer
- Robert Carothers (1942- ), president of the University of Rhode Island
- Catherine Littlefield Greene (1755-1814), wife of Nathanael Greene
- Joyce Jillson (1946-2004), astrologer
- Raymond Mathewson Hood (1881-1934), architect
- Wilfred Harold Munro (1849-1934), historian
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), philanthropist
- Thomas Alexander Tefft (1826-1859), architect
- Marjorie van Vliet (1923-1990), teacher and aviator
- Minton Warren (1850-1907), classical scholar
