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: English: Son of Providence: George M. Cohan Statue in Providence, Rhode Island. Located on Wickenden Street in the Fox Point neighborhood.
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: This statue of George M. Cohan stands near his birthplace in the Fox Point neighborhood
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