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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 ...
Nadia Bjorlin, soap opera actress (Days of Our Lives) Frank Corridon, pitcher for Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, and St. Louis Cardinals; invented now-illegal pitch, the spitball; Tanya Donelly, musician; vocalist for Rhode Island–based bands Belly and Throwing Muses; guitarist for the band The Breeders
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]
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 ...
[3] [11] [15] [16] [2] He died in his sleep 10 days after being diagnosed with lung cancer. He had also suffered from heart disease and other health issues. [3] [6] [15] [16] [2] His death was confirmed by Rhode Island State Police Colonel Steven O'Donnell, who called Ouimette "one of the most notorious villains Rhode Island has ever known."
John W. Davis, 38th and 41st Governor of Rhode Island [4] Joseph L. Fisher, U.S. Representative from Virginia's 10th congressional district; born in Pawtucket; Louis Monast, U.S. Representative from Rhode Island; immigrated to Pawtucket from Quebec, Canada as a child; Samuel Starkweather, 7th Mayor of Cleveland; born in Pawtucket
Longtime friend and four-time collaborator Ed Sheeran also spent several Independence Days at Swift's Rhode Island home (famously taking a stand for the British in a red coat one year).
The U.S. Board on Geographic Names, acknowledges that some people in Pawtucket want to call the Seekonk River within the city's boundaries the Pawtucket River, but the board says no way