41.2678° N, 75.3935° W
NEWPORT
Most Famous People Born in Newport, United States
- Notable people
- 357
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1876
- Most distinctive
- Socialite 79.5×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Newport during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Newport Is Known For
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Politician is Newport's biggest profession — 19% of all notables (69).
Newport over-indexes on socialite — 79.5× the global rate.
Newport under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Newport's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Military
- Science
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- Music
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Mary Steenburgen
Born 1953
Mena Suvari
Born 1979
Matthew C. Perry
1794 - 1858
Van Johnson
1916 - 2008
Thomas H. Ince
1882 - 1924
Grace Moore
1898 - 1947
Dave Cowens
Born 1948
Ernie Pyle
1900 - 1945
Nadia Bjorlin
Born 1980
Harry Anderson
1952 - 2018
Sarah Josepha Hale
1788 - 1879
Oliver Evans
1755 - 1819
Eugene Odum
1913 - 2002
Kristin Hersh
Born 1966
William Ellery Channing
1780 - 1842
Tanya Donelly
Born 1966
Kelly Clark
Born 1983
John T. Walton
1946 - 2005
Henry M. Leland
1843 - 1932
Theodore Robinson
1852 - 1896
John Alexander (actor)
1897 - 1982
Clarence King
1842 - 1901
William Ellery
1727 - 1820
John T. Thompson
1860 - 1940
Ogden L. Mills
1884 - 1937
Charles Bird King
1785 - 1862
Andy Kirk (musician)
1898 - 1992
Thomas Pollock Anshutz
1851 - 1912
Burnett Guffey
1905 - 1983
Horace Tabor
1830 - 1899
Susan Dunklee
Born 1986
Leon Wilkeson
1952 - 2001
Ida Lewis
1842 - 1911
Jim Walton
Born 1948
Marshall Teague (actor)
Born 1953
Aileen Riggin
1906 - 2002
Nathaniel Shaler
1841 - 1906
Alice Walton
Born 1949
Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi
1886 - 1965
Ashley Newbrough
Born 1987
John Williams Gunnison
1812 - 1853
Benjamin Church (physician)
1734 - 1778
Michael Strange
1890 - 1950
Ben W. Hooper
1870 - 1957
Charles Kendall Adams
1835 - 1902
Homer Burton Adkins
1892 - 1949
Benjamin Waterhouse
1754 - 1846
William A. Chanler
1867 - 1934
Winston L. Prouty
1906 - 1971
Samuel Ward (American statesman)
1725 - 1776
James A. Beaver
1837 - 1914
Dallas Green (baseball)
1934 - 2017
Duane Graveline
1931 - 2016
Olive Blakeney
1894 - 1959
Edith Stuyvesant Gerry
1873 - 1958
Paul Gordon (musician)
1963 - 2016
Jason Lee (missionary)
1803 - 1845
Anne Bogart
Born 1951
Richard Hatch (Survivor contestant)
Born 1961
Judah Touro
1775 - 1854
Carroll S. Page
1843 - 1925
Horatio Hale
1817 - 1896
John LaFarge Jr.
1880 - 1963
John Collins (Continental Congress)
1717 - 1795
Dick Curtis
1902 - 1952
Daniel Frost Comstock
1883 - 1970
Robert J. Mrazek
Born 1945
Edward Malbone
1777 - 1807
Ethel Sands
1873 - 1962
Horace Harmon Lurton
1844 - 1914
Christopher Ellery
1768 - 1840
Hazard Stevens
1842 - 1918
Christopher G. Champlin
1768 - 1840
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
1869 - 1942
Henry Latimer (senator)
1752 - 1819
Charles Gibbs
1798 - 1831
Rick Bartow
1946 - 2016
Barry Cowsill
1954 - 2005
Brent Spence
1874 - 1967
Charles C. Van Zandt
1830 - 1894
Charles H. Crane
1825 - 1883
Jimmy Van Alen
1902 - 1991
Edith Starr Miller
1887 - 1933
Jerry Trimble
Born 1961
Kiffin Rockwell
1892 - 1916
Red Thunder Cloud
1919 - 1996
Lewis O. Barrows
1893 - 1967
Dino Martin
1920 - 1999
Larry Staverman
1936 - 2007
George H. Prouty
1862 - 1918
Hugh D. Auchincloss
1897 - 1976
Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
Born 1938
Richard Ward (governor)
1689 - 1763
Richard Benson
1943 - 2017
Jahleel Brenton
1770 - 1844
Charles Adams (ice hockey)
1876 - 1947
William Hunter (senator)
1774 - 1849
Solomon Southwick
1773 - 1839
Thomas Markle
Born 1945
Lucien Bonaparte Chase
1817 - 1864
Thomas Sergeant Perry
1845 - 1928
Katherine Corri Harris
1890 - 1927
Francis Malbone
1759 - 1809
Pierre Whalon
Born 1952
William C. Gibbs
1789 - 1871
Robert Harward
Born 1956
William Jones (governor)
1753 - 1822
Warren Randolph Burgess
1889 - 1978
Walter Channing (physician)
1786 - 1876
Joseph P. Cotton
1875 - 1931
William Wright Southgate
1800 - 1849
Jack Kerley
Born 1951
George Gordon King
1807 - 1870
Bert Shepard
1920 - 2008
Mary Anthony
1916 - 2014
J. Hale Sypher
1837 - 1905
Hiram Bell
1808 - 1855
Francis W. Nye
1918 - 2019
Henry Marchmore Shaw
1819 - 1864
Earl Metcalfe
1889 - 1928
Walter Clarke (governor)
1640 - 1714
William Barstow Strong
1837 - 1914
Paul Blaisdell
1927 - 1983
William Cotton (artist)
1880 - 1958
Lane Dwinell
1906 - 1997
Mason Tappan
1817 - 1886
Robert B. Cranston
1791 - 1873
William C. Cozzens
1811 - 1876
Sarah T. Bolton
1814 - 1893
Vincent Saint John
1876 - 1929
Edward de Veaux Morrell
1863 - 1917
John Parker (water polo)
Born 1946
Helene Rosson
1897 - 1985
Peter Lance
Born 1948
Portus Baxter
1806 - 1868
Thomas W. Sherman
1813 - 1879
Samuel Cranston
1659 - 1727
Joseph Wanton
1705 - 1780
William Henry Harrison Beadle
1838 - 1915
Charles Carroll Colby
1827 - 1907
Melville Bull
1854 - 1909
Ralph Purchase
1916 - 2000
David Narcizo
Born 1966
Clark Burdick
1868 - 1948
Henry Y. Cranston
1789 - 1864
Walter Franklin Prince
1863 - 1934
Edwin O. Stanard
1832 - 1914
Irv Goode
Born 1940
Carol Lavell
Born 1943
Ken Read (sailor)
Born 1961
Jack Turner (basketball, born 1939)
1939 - 2013
Roger Kirk (diplomat)
Born 1930
Andy West
Born 1953
Allen Van
1915 - 1995
Jonathan Nichols (Rhode Island)
1681 - 1727
George Gibbs (mineralogist)
1777 - 1834
Scott Steele
Born 1958
Nathaniel Hazard
1776 - 1820
Theodore Chanler
1902 - 1961
Joe Reed (American football)
Born 1948
John Gardner (Rhode Island)
1697 - 1764
Lloyd J. Beall
1808 - 1887
Conrad Lynn
1908 - 1995
Ryan Westmoreland
Born 1990
Peleg Sanford
1639 - 1701
May Justus
1898 - 1989
Henry Tew
1654 - 1718
Jonathan Nichols Jr.
1712 - 1756
David Munyon
Born 1952
William Paine Sheffield Jr.
1857 - 1919
Joseph Wanton Jr.
1730 - 1780
Lisa Nemzo
Born 1952
William Vernon
1719 - 1806
D. Putnam Brinley
1879 - 1963
Thomas Frye (Rhode Island)
1666 - 1748
James Black (congressman)
1793 - 1872
Isabel Barrows
1845 - 1913
John Cowsill
Born 1956
George Belknap
1832 - 1903
Henry C. Bates
1843 - 1909
William S. Ladd
1826 - 1893
David Olyphant
1789 - 1851
Michael Poulin
Born 1945
W. Paris Chambers
1854 - 1913
Alice Harriman
1861 - 1925
Edward Tyrrel Channing
1790 - 1856
Oliver Shaw
1779 - 1848
Margaret Van Alen Bruguiére
1876 - 1969
Pat Combs
Born 1966
Stephen Decatur Sr.
1752 - 1808
Theodora Mead Abel
1899 - 1998
Josephine Henry
1846 - 1928
Walter E. Carter Jr.
Born 1959
Frederick R. Goff
1916 - 1982
Billy Cox (baseball)
1919 - 1978
Charles A. Prouty
1853 - 1921
Phil Rogers (potter)
Born 1951
Austin Corbin
1827 - 1896
M. Teresa Paiva-Weed
Born 1959
Tom Mitchell (American football)
1944 - 2017
Samuel King (artist)
1749 - 1819
Peter F. Martin
Born 1941
Mark Hass
Born 1956
Lambert Packard
1832 - 1906
John Edwards (Rhode Island politician)
Born 1958
Wilfrid Zogbaum
1915 - 1965
John Thomas Hackett
1884 - 1956
Zophar M. Mansur
1843 - 1914
Paul K. Holmes III
Born 1951
Caroline S. Wagner
Born 1955
Helen M. Winslow
1851 - 1938
John Davis Williams
1902 - 1983
John J. Almy
1815 - 1895
Solomon Southwick (American Revolution)
1731 - 1797
Susanna Anthony
1726 - 1791
Brenton Halliburton
1774 - 1860
Alamazoo Jennings
1850 - 1894
George Latimer (Pennsylvania politician)
1750 - 1825
Edward B. Lawson
1895 - 1962
William Hunter (Assistant Secretary of State)
1805 - 1886
John Mellekas
1933 - 2015
Dudley Newton
1845 - 1907
Barbara Leonard
1924 - 2013
Charles Inman
1810 - 1899
Sir Sidney Herbert, 1st Baronet
1890 - 1939
Earl E. T. Smith
1903 - 1991
Katie Sieben
Born 1977
Harry A. Black
1879 - 1923
Jake Crum
Born 1991
Peter Augustus Jay (diplomat)
1877 - 1933
Theo Young
Born 1965
Dean Brelis
1924 - 2006
Lucy M. Hall
1843 - 1907
Allen Bestwick
Born 1961
Joseph Grafton
1757 - 1836
Heinie Stafford
1891 - 1972
Joseph K. Taussig Jr.
1920 - 1999
Charles Benjamin Howard
1885 - 1964
Kid Baldwin
1864 - 1897
Robert Carter Pitman
1825 - 1891
William M. Rodman
1814 - 1868
Edward Everett Rose
1862 - 1939
Charlie Fern
Born 1968
John Ruckdeschel
Born 1946
Rudy Hulswitt
1877 - 1950
M. Bernard Aidinoff
1929 - 2016
Josias Lyndon
1704 - 1778
Charles L. McGaha
1914 - 1984
Katherine Gilbert
1886 - 1952
Andrew Hermann
Born 1971
Dowell Loggains
Born 1980
Enoch Chase
1809 - 1892
Joseph Arnold (Rhode Island)
1710 - 1776
P. H. Horgan III
Born 1960
William Stevens Lawton
1900 - 1993
Dan Gamache
Born 1990
Benjamin Hunkins
1810 - 1900
Woodbury Kane
1859 - 1905
Rodney Brand
Born 1948
James Strong (college president)
1833 - 1913
John Burroughs Hopkins
1742 - 1796
Horace Chase
1810 - 1886
Anne McGihon
Born 1957
Margaret Frances Andrews
1894 - 1945
Thomas J. Boynton (politician)
1856 - 1945
George Champlin Mason Sr.
1820 - 1894
L. D. Ottinger
Born 1938
William Coddington Jr.
1651 - 1689
J. Patrick O'Neill
Born 1971
William Chesarek
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George Andrews Moriarty Jr.
1883 - 1968
W. P. Finney
1871 - 1954
Steve Stephens
Born 1930
John Dolan (baseball)
1867 - 1948
Houston Fancher
Born 1966
Lewis Gouverneur Morris
1882 - 1967
William H. Horsfall
1847 - 1922
Michael Walsh (Medal of Honor)
1858 - 1913
George Miller (baseball)
1853 - 1929
Elizabeth Livingston Cavendish-Bentinck
1855 - 1943
John Collins Covell
1823 - 1887
Bernard A. Byrne
1853 - 1910
George Province
Born 1842
Orlie Weaver
1886 - 1970
DeLancey Astor Kane
1844 - 1915
Joseph Whipple III
1725 - 1761
Jim Wood (Arkansas)
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David C. Nichols
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Amy Rice
Born 1966
Lyell Gustin
1895 - 1988
Fuzzy Cupid
1928 - 1976
Bo Lacy
Born 1980
Albert T. Church
Born 1947
Edward "Ned" Kendall
1808 - 1861
D. LeRoy Dresser
1862 - 1915
Frank Corridon
1880 - 1941
George Textor
1886 - 1954
Jimmy Owens (racing driver)
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Thomas Breese
1793 - 1846
Cornelius Coffey
1903 - 1994