page_title: List of people from Rhode Island
section_title: Business
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Rhode Island / Business
caption_attribution_description: English: Samuel Slater, industrialist
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: Zachariah Allen (1795–1882) – textile manufacturer, scientist, lawyer, writer, inventor and civil leader
  Everett M. "Busy" Arnold (1899–1974) – comic book publisher
  John Brown (1736–1803) – merchant and slave-trader, original owner of the John Brown House, co-founder of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Brown University)
  Moses Brown (1738–1836) – co-founder of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Brown University)
  Nicholas Brown, Jr. (1769–1841) – businessman and philanthropist for whom Brown University is named
  Robert Crandall (born 1935) – former president and chairman of American Airlines
  Glenn Creamer – senior managing director of Providence Equity Partners
  Marcel Desaulniers (born 1945) – chef and director emeritus of the Culinary Institute of America
  Wylie Dufresne (born 1970) – celebrity chef, owner of wd~50 restaurant in Manhattan
  Ann Smith Franklin (1696–1763) – publisher
  Darius Goff (1809–1891), Pawtucket textile mill owner
  Catherine Littlefield Greene (1755–1814) – wife of Nathanael Greene
  Daniel Harple (born 1959) – entrepreneur, investor, inventor
  Bradley S. Jacobs (born 1956) – chairman and chief executive officer of XPO Logistics
  Laura Lang – former chief executive officer of Time Inc.
  Aaron Lopez (1731–1782) – slave merchant and philanthropist, wealthiest person in Newport
  Edward J. McElroy (born 1941) – labor union executive
  James McNerney (born 1949) – business executive
  David Nason (born 1970) – president and CEO of GE Energy Financial Services
  Jonathan M. Nelson (born 1956) – businessman and investor, founder of Providence Equity Partners
  Carolyn Rafaelian – designer, philanthropist, and business woman, founder of Alex and Ani
  Samuel Slater (1768–1835) – industrialist, "father of the industrial revolution"
  Henry J. Steere (1830–1889) – textile industrialist, philanthropist
  Judah Touro (1775–1854) – businessman
  William Kissam Vanderbilt (1849–1920) – member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family, original owner of Marble House in Newport
  William Vernon (1719–1806) – trader
caption: Samuel Slater
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