Let's see...who's from Rhode Island....well let's see...Mena Suvari is from my town, Newport. She was the chick in American Beauty. Brother Runt/Spike Dudley is from Lincoln, RI which is like 20 minutes from here (nowhere in Rhode Island is more then forty minutes away). John F. Kennedy used to have a vacation home here when he was alive, and he got married only a few blocks from where I live actually.
Richard Hatch (the winner of the original Survivor) lives about five minutes from my house. Or he did until he was put in jail for tax evasion. Used to go to school with his son---what a fucked up family. Kid apparently used to get raped by his dad. Piece of shit. Kid was still an asshole though and I remember we got into a fight once, which I won. What did you expect, the kid was like 100 pounds tops at the time.
The Farrely Brothers, who made Dumb & Dumber and There's Something About Mary are from here as well, they used to live in Providence.
Oh yeah and the man himself HP Lovecraft (wrote the story that was the basis for the film Re-Animator among others) was born in Providence as well. Best horror writer, ever.
That's all that comes to mind.