Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Rhode Island
Will Mackenzie
Will Mackenzie is an American television director and actor.
Christopher Stanley
Christopher Stanley is an American film and television actor, best known for his role as the politician Henry Francis, the second husband of Betty Francis played by January Jones on Mad Men. After a recurring role in the third and fourth seasons, he is a main cast member in the fifth, sixth and seventh seasons. He appeared in the Ben Affleck-directed film Argo.
Peter Frechette
Peter Frechette is an American actor. He is a stage actor with two Tony Award nominations for Eastern Standard and Our Country's Good, and frequently stars in the plays of Richard Greenberg. He is well known on TV for playing hacker George on the NBC series Profiler and Peter Montefiore on Thirtysomething. In film, he is known for playing T-Bird Louis DiMucci in the musical Grease 2.
Daniel Farrands
Daniel Farrands is an American filmmaker who specializes in the horror film genre.
Edward D. DiPrete
Edward Daniel DiPrete is an American Republican Party politician and convicted felon from Rhode Island. He served as the 70th Governor of Rhode Island for three two-year terms, serving from 1985 to 1991. Convicted of numerous corruption charges, he is the only Rhode Island governor to have gone to prison.
Grant Wilson
Grant Steven Wilson is an art director and developer for Rather Dashing Games, a game company he founded with Michael Richie, and the co-founder of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), which is based in Warwick, Rhode Island. He is also the star and co-producer of the cable television reality series, Ghost Hunters. He left the show in 2014 and returned for the 2019 revival.
Robert N. Charrette
Robert N. Charrette is an American graphic artist, game designer, sculptor and author. Charrette has authored more than a dozen novels. His gaming materials have received many Origins Awards. Charrette was inducted in the Origins Hall of Fame in 2003. His work is known for a clean, realistic style that invokes themes from Feudal Japan and Chanbara films and in particular, historical and fantastic representations of Samurai culture. His early work in game design and miniature sculpting set the tone for depictions of Japanese mythology in American fantasy and science fiction. His 1979 role-playing game Bushido was one of the first role-playing games with a non-Western theme and remained in print for more than three decades. Charrette produced gaming products for Fantasy Games Unlimited, Grenadier Models Inc. and Ral Partha Enterprises, FASA and currently operates Parroom Enterprises, LLC, a boutique miniatures game company.
Philip W. Noel
Philip William Noel is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 68th Governor of Rhode Island. He was elected in 1972, and re-elected in 1974.
Jim Langevin
James R. Langevin is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the first quadriplegic to serve in Congress; Langevin was appointed to be the first quadriplegic Speaker pro tempore of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2019.