Editing Rhode Island (section)

==Notable people==
{{main|List of people from Rhode Island}}
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* [[Thomas Angell]] (1618–1694) – co-founder of the [[Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations]]
* [[Joshua Babcock]] (1707–1783) – physician, American Revolution general, state Supreme Court justice, and postmaster
* [[John Clarke (Baptist minister)|John Clarke]] (1609–1676) – Baptist minister, co-founder of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, author of its influential charter, and a leading advocate of religious freedom in America
* [[William Coddington]] (1601–1678) – magistrate of the [[Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations]], Judge of Portsmouth, Judge of Newport, Governor of Portsmouth and Newport, Deputy Governor of the entire colony, and governor of the colony
* [[William Ellery]] (1727–1820) – a signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]] as a representative of Rhode Island
* [[Samuel Gorton]] (1593–1677) – settled [[Warwick, Rhode Island|Warwick]]
* [[Nathanael Greene]] (1742–1786) – Continental Army officer, considered George Washington's most gifted officer
* [[Esek Hopkins]] (1718–1802) – Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy during the [[American Revolutionary War]]
* [[Stephen Hopkins (politician)|Stephen Hopkins]] (1707–1785) – Governor of Rhode Island, RI Supreme Court justice, signatory of the Declaration of Independence
* [[Anne Hutchinson]] (1591–1643) – early settler of Newport, the catalyst of the [[Antinomian Controversy]]
* [[H. P. Lovecraft]] (1890–1937) – author
* [[Oliver Hazard Perry]] (1785–1819) naval commander and hero of the [[War of 1812]], the best-known and most prominent member of the [[Perry family]] naval dynasty
* [[Samuel Slater]] (1768–1835) – industrialist, "father of the industrial revolution"
* [[Gilbert Stuart]] (1755–1828) – painter, one of America's foremost portraitists
* [[James Mitchell Varnum]] (1748–1789) – general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
* [[Samuel Ward (Rhode Island politician)|Samuel Ward]] (1725–1776) – Supreme Court justice, Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and a delegate to the Continental Congress
* [[Samuel Ward Jr.]] (1756–1832) – American Revolutionary War soldier and delegate to the secessionist [[Hartford Convention]]
* [[Roger Williams]] (1603–1684) – founder of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, influential author, considered the first proponent of [[separation of church and state]]
* [[Abraham Whipple]] (1733–1819) – Continental Navy commander-in-chief