Editing Little Compton, Rhode Island (section)

==Notable people==
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* [[Awashonks]] ({{circa|1620}}–{{circa|1684}}), female [[sachem]] ([[Tribal chief|chief]]) of the [[Sakonnet]] tribe<ref>{{cite book|last=Wilbour|first=Benjamin Franklin|title=Little Compton Families|year=1967|publisher=Little Compton Historical Society|location=Little Compton, RI|isbn=0-8063-4704-X|page=xvii}}</ref>
* [[Jack Brennan]] (1937-2023), president [[Richard Nixon]]'s post-[[Watergate scandal|resignation]] [[chief of staff]]; had a summer home in Little Compton
* [[Sydney Richmond Burleigh]] (1853–1931), painter and illustrator; building and furniture designer;  born in Little Compton
* [[J. C. Chandor]] (born 1974), writer, director, and [[Academy Award]] nominee for the screenplay of ''[[Margin Call (film)|Margin Call]]''; summer resident of Little Compton<ref>{{cite news|last=Schanen|first=Eric|title=Inside 'All is Lost' From a Trio of Cal 39s to Teaching Redford to Sail|url=http://www.sailingmagazine.net/news/features/1423-inside-all-is-lost-from-a-trio-of-cal-39s-to-teaching-redford-to-sail.html|access-date=November 6, 2013|newspaper=Sailing Magazine|date=October 2013}}</ref>
* [[Benjamin Church (ranger)|Colonel Benjamin Church]] ({{circa|1639}}–1718), founder of Little Compton. Known as the father of the [[United States Army Rangers]] and commander of Colonial forces during [[King Philip's War]] (1675–1676); died and is buried in Little Compton
*[[Isaiah Davenport]] (1784–1827), master builder<ref name=sm>[https://www.savannahmagazine.com/savannahs-master-builder/ "Savannah's Master Builder"] – ''Savannah Magazine'', March 6, 2017</ref> 
* [[Sylvester Graham]], pastor, early vegetarian, namesake of the [[Graham Cracker]]
* [[Christopher R. Hill]] (born 1952), former [[Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs]] and former [[United States Ambassador to Iraq]]; lived in Little Compton
* [[Henry Demarest Lloyd]] (1847–1903), political activist and [[muckraking]] journalist; lived in Little Compton<ref>{{cite book|last=Goodrich|first=David L.|title=The Real Nick and Nora: Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, Writers of Stage and Screen Classics|url=https://archive.org/details/realnicknorafran00good|url-access=limited|year=2001|publisher=SIU Press|location=Carbondale, IL|isbn=9780809389698|page=[https://archive.org/details/realnicknorafran00good/page/n40 8]}}</ref>
* [[J. William Middendorf]] (born 1924), United States Ambassador to the [[Netherlands]], Permanent Representative to the [[Organization of American States]], [[US Secretary of the Navy|Secretary of the Navy]], composer, and artist; lives in Little Compton<ref>{{cite news|last=McGaw|first=Jim|title=Little Compton Man's an Ambassador for the Arts|url=http://www.eastbayri.com/news/little-compton-mans-an-ambassador-for-the-arts/|access-date=November 6, 2013|newspaper=EastBayRI|date=July 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529064352/http://www.eastbayri.com/news/little-compton-mans-an-ambassador-for-the-arts/|archive-date=May 29, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Arden Myrin]] (born 1973), comedian and actress (''[[MADtv]], [[Chelsea Lately]]''); born in Little Compton
* [[Elizabeth Pabodie]] (1623–1717), daughter of [[Plymouth Colony]] settlers [[John Alden (Pilgrim)|John Alden]] and [[Priscilla Mullins]], recognized as the first [[White people|white]] girl born in [[New England]]; buried in Little Compton
* [[Abel Head "Shanghai" Pierce]] (1834–1900), a [[Texas]] rancher and cattleman; known as an authority on cattle; born in Little Compton
* [[Frank Schulman|Jacob Frank Schulman]] (1927–2006), Unitarian Universalist minister, theologian, and author of several books. Summer resident with wife Alice Southworth Schulman, descendant of [[John Alden]], [[Priscilla Mullins]] and Constant Southworth, one of the original 16th century settlers
* [[Charles Upham Shepard]] (1804–1886), mineralogist; born in Little Compton<ref>{{cite book|last=Wilson|first=James|title=Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography.|year=1975|location=Mineralogical Record|pages=253–257}}</ref>
* [[John Simmons (clothing manufacturer)|John Simmons]] (1796–1870), clothing manufacturer; founder of [[Simmons College (Massachusetts)|Simmons College]]; born in Little Compton
* [[Henry Tillinghast Sisson]] (1831–1910), American Civil War era colonel in the [[Union Army]]; [[Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island]]; inventor of the three-[[ring binder]]; lived and died in Little Compton
* [[Paul Suttell]] (born 1949), current Chief Justice of the [[Rhode Island Supreme Court]]; lives in Little Compton
* [[Charles Edwin Wilbour]] (1833–1896), journalist and [[Egyptologist]] who produced the first English translation of ''[[Les Misérables]]''; born in Little Compton
* [[Isaac Wilbour]] (1763–1837), 6th [[List of Governors of Rhode Island|Governor of Rhode Island]]; US [[United States House of Representatives|congressman]]; 34th [[Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court]]; born and died in Little Compton
* [[Rupert von Trapp]] (1911–1992), eldest son of the Trapp Family Singers, whose family story inspired ''[[The Sound of Music]]''; lived in Little Compton<ref>{{cite news|last=Burdett|first=Bruce|title=Henriette von Trapp, 85, Adamsville|url=http://www.eastbayri.com/obituaries/henriette-von-trapp-85-adamsville/|access-date=November 6, 2013|newspaper=EastBayRI|date=April 16, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501055648/http://www.eastbayri.com/obituaries/henriette-von-trapp-85-adamsville/|archive-date=May 1, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{div col end}}