Prominent Figures in The History of Rhode Island
- Peleg Arnold
- Joshua Babcock
- Oliver Belmont
- Charles Brayton
- John Brown
- Moses Brown
- John Nicholas Brown II
- Nicholas Brown, Jr.
- Ambrose Burnside
- William Coddington
- Buddy Cianci
- John Clarke (Baptist minister)
- Solomon Drowne
- William Ellery
- Arthur Fenner
- Theodore Foster
- Samuel Gorton
- Theodore F. Green
- Nathanael Greene
- Esek Hopkins
- Stephen Hopkins (politician)
- Anne Hutchinson
- Aaron Lopez
- H. P. Lovecraft
- James Manning (minister)
- Florence K. Murray
- James Woods
- John O. Pastore
- Claiborne Pell
- William Sprague (Rhode Island, 1799–1856)
- Ezra Stiles
- William Kissam Vanderbilt
- James Mitchell Varnum
- Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
- Samuel Ward (American statesman)
- Samuel Ward, Jr.
- William West (Rhode Island politician)
- Roger Williams (theologian)
- Olivia Culpo
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