page_title: List of people from Providence, Rhode Island
section_title: Arts, literature, humanities and entertainment
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Providence, Rhode Island / Arts, literature, humanities and entertainment
caption_attribution_description: The H. P. Lovecraft Memorial Plaque was unveiled on 19-August-1990 by The Friends of H. P. Lovecraft; and officially dedicated on 20-August-1990 by The City of Providence, Brown University, and The Friends of H. P. Lovecraft. The Friends of H. P. Lovecraft, the brainchild of Jon B. Cooke, really took off in earnest on May 11, 1990, when Cooke teamed up with S. T. Joshi and Will Murray to broadcast an appeal for funds for the H. P. Lovecraft Memorial Plaque to be dedicated to the Providence fantasy writer on the grounds of Brown University's John Hay Library on the centennial of Lovecraft's birth on Monday, August 20, 1990. The full story of how this all came about can be read in the 1990 Necronomicon Press booklet, "The H. P. Lovecraft Memorial Plaque" by "The Friends of H. P. Lovecraft". Photo taken by Will Hart on 20-August-1990.
context_page_description: The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Providence, Rhode Island.
context_section_description: Tom Adams – illustrator most famous for his Agatha Christie paperback cover designs
  Daniel Adel – painter and illustrator
  Chester Holmes Aldrich – architect and director of American Academy in Rome
  David Aldrich – artist and architect
  Mathuren Arthur Andrieu – painter
  Mildred Barker – Shaker eldress, musician, and scholar who lived at the Alfred and Sabbathday Lake Shaker communities
  Joe Bastardi – meteorologist
  Joe Beats – hip-hop producer
  Ted Berrigan – poet
  The Brother Kite – indie rock band
  Blu Cantrell – singer of 2001 hit "Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops)"
  William Carpenter – early settler of Providence
  Marilyn Chambers (1952–2009) – adult-film actress
  Damien Chazelle – director and screenwriter, Whiplash and La La Land
  Nicole Chesney – artist
  George M. Cohan – songwriter and entertainer, composed "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "You're a Grand Old Flag"
  Jim Connors (died 1987) – radio personality
  Bill Conti – composer of music for film and television, including theme from Rocky
  Scott Corbett – writer of children's books
  Michael Corrente – film director and producer
  Pauly D - Television personality, noted for contributions to the MTV program Jersey Shore.
  Christopher Denise – illustrator of children's books, including many in the Redwall series
  Bruce DeSilva – author of the Liam Mulligan series of mystery novels
  Paul Di Filippo – author of Steampunk Trilogy
  Ronald Dworkin – author, professor of constitutional law
  John Dwyer – multi-instrumentalist, primary songwriter and core member of Thee Oh Sees, visual artist, record label owner
  C. M. Eddy, Jr. – author of mysteries and horror fiction
  Nelson Eddy – singer and film actor
  Susan Eisenberg – voice actress
  Jeanpaul Ferro – poet, short fiction author, novelist
  Elisabeth Filarski – footwear designer, Survivor: The Australian Outback contestant
  Sage Francis – hip hop artist and slam poet
  Margaret Burnham Geddes – architect, activist, and urban planner
  Al Gomes – record producer and songwriter
  Roger A. Graham – lyricist, songwriter
  Robert Leo (Bobby) Hackett – jazz musician (trumpet, cornet, guitar)
  Scott Haltzman – author, The Secrets of Happily Married Men: Eight Ways to Win Your Wife's Heart Forever
  Scott Hamilton – tenor saxophonist
  Clay Hart – country musician (guitar)
  Richard Hatch – winner of Survivor: Borneo
  David Hedison – actor, star of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
  Greta Hodgkinson - ballet dancer
  Ruth Hussey – actress, Oscar-nominated for The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  Joe S. Jackson – sportswriter and editor
  Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones (1868–1933) – pioneering black soprano who played to audiences around the world
  Claudia Jordan – actress, Miss Rhode Island USA 1997
  Galway Kinnell – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
  Jesse Leach – vocalist and musician, original frontman of Killswitch Engage, Seemless, The Empire Shall Fall and Times of Grace
  James Sullivan Lincoln (1811–1888) – "Father of Rhode Island Art" and first president of the Providence Art Club
  H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) – author of fantasy and horror fiction
  Dorothy Lovett – actress
  Dodge MacKnight – painter
  George Macready – actor, Gilda, Paths of Glory
  Cormac McCarthy – Pulitzer Prize-winning author, The Road, No Country for Old Men
  Shanna Moakler – 1992 Miss Rhode Island Teen USA, 1995 Miss New York USA and Miss USA
  Nico Muhly – composer
  Andy On – Chinese-American Hong Kong actor
  Jeffrey Osborne – lead vocalist with L.T.D.
  Monty Oum (1981–2015) – animator for Rooster Teeth Productions; creator of RWBY
  Vincent Pagano – actor, screenwriter
  Don Pardo (1918–2014) – NBC announcer since 1944, Saturday Night Live 1975–2014
  S. J. Perelman – humorist, author, and screenwriter
  Sylvia Poggioli – reporter for National Public Radio
  Ira Rakatansky (1919–2014) – modernist architect
  Josh Schwartz – creator of television series The O.C.
  A. O. Scott – film critic for New York Times
  Chris Sparling - screenwriter and film director
  Daniel Sully – stage actor and playwright
  Benjamin C. Truman – war correspondent and author
  Meredith Vieira – television personality
  Sarah Helen Whitman – poet, possible inspiration for Edgar All
caption: The H. P. Lovecraft Memorial Plaque is located on Prospect Street
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