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State flag of Rhode Island Location of Rhode Island on the U.S. map This is a list of prominent people who were born in the state of Rhode Island or who spent significant periods of their lives in the state. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Academia Elizabeth Buffum Chace ...
Mary Colman Wheeler (May 15, 1846 – March 10, 1920) was the founder and first head of the Wheeler School in Providence, Rhode Island. Early life and education [ edit ]
Rhode Island’s sole billionaire Jonathan Nelson, of Providence Equity Partners, lives in Providence and is worth $3.1 billion, according to Forbes. More: RI billionaires club a lonely place. See ...
Jabez Bowen, federalist supporter, Deputy Governor of Rhode Island and Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court [25] John Brown, co-founder of Brown University, U.S. Representative [26] John Chafee, Governor of Rhode Island, Secretary of the Navy, and United States Senator [27] Zechariah Chafee, lawyer, academic and civil libertarian [28]
Tanya Donelly, musician; vocalist for Rhode Island–based bands Belly and Throwing Muses; 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; Lawson Little, 1940 U.S. Open golf champion; Lillian Richter, lithographer
The Goddard family (Sarah Updike Goddard, William Goddard and Mary Goddard) set up a printing press and were the first to publish a newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island, called The Providence Gazette. Mary's brother William was the publisher and printer of a revolutionary publication, the Maryland Journal; however, William then left Rhode ...
In 1875, Bibb had a building renovated for a store in Washington, D.C., [23] In 1880, Isaac N. Cary and his wife Mary E. Cary (whose parents were from Rhode Island) lived in Washington, D.C., with their adopted daughter Florilla Tucker. [20] Mary Bibb Cary died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1877, [11] [16] or just before her husband's death.
This category includes people who were notable in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations prior to the era of American Revolution. That is, they were notable before about 1765. People who are primarily associated with the Revolutionary era are located Category:People of Rhode Island in the American Revolution, instead of this ...