People from colonial Rhode Island

English Baptist theologian and author (1603–1683)

participant in the Antinomian Controversy

Quaker martyr

American general in the American Revolutionary War (1742-1786)

American painter (1755–1828)

Metacomet (c. 1638 in Massachusetts – August 12, 1676), also known as Pometacom, Metacom, and by his adopted English name King Philip, was sachem (elected chief) to the Wampanoag people from 1662–1676, and the second son of the sachem Massasoit. Metacomet became sachem after Massasoit's death. Metacomet was killed on August 12, 1676, near Mount Hope, Rhode Island. Scholars say his death marked the end of King Phillip's War (1675–1678).

American politician and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence

British pirate

American merchant sea captain

American carpenter, military officer, and Ranger during America's Colonial era

American politician (1752-1828)

Weetamoo (pronounced Wee-TAH-moo) (c. 1635–1676), also referred to as Weethao, Weetamoe, Wattimore, Namumpum, and Tatapanunum, was a Pocasset Wampanoag Native American Chief. She was the sunksqua, or female sachem, of the Pocasset tribe, which occupied contemporary Tiverton, Rhode Island in 1620. The Pocasset, which she led, was one of the tribes of the Wampanoag.

American physician and United States senator from Rhode Island (1729-1808)

American politician (1609–1676)

American politician (1771-1822)

thumb|upright=1.1|An 1874 illustration of Uncas killing Miantonomoh in 1643

American politician

Governor of the state of Rhode Island (1731-1809)

American politician (1772-1820)

American politician

Rhode Island colonial woman

American architect (1716-1775)

American colonial newspaper printer and publisher (1696-1763)

American politician (1755-1808)

American federal judge (1747-1824)

United States federal judge (1741-1796)

American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (1717-1795)

Continental Navy officer (1718-1802)

American businessman (1738–1836)

minister (1738-1791)

Governor of Rhode Island (1766-1818)

Continental Army officer, colonel of the African American 1st Rhode Island Regiment (1737-1781)

American politician (1769-1839)

American merchant, slave trader, and statesman from Providence, Rhode Island (1736-1803)

American politician (1741-1793)

American businessman (1769–1841)

American colonial author, printer, newspaper publisher, and almanac publisher

Ninigret (also known as Juanemo according to Roger Williams) (c. 1610-1677) was a sachem of the eastern Niantic Indian tribe in New England at the time of colonization, based in Rhode Island. In 1637, he allied with the colonists and the Narragansetts against the Pequot Indians.

United States federal judge (1760-1812)