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 Albert Lythgoe (1868–1934), archaeologist and curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Dodge MacKnight, painter George Macready, actor, Gilda, Paths of Glory Jason Marsden, voice actor 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 Allan Poe poems "To Helen" and "Annabel Lee" Mabel May Woodward (1877–1945), prominent impressionist painter and RISD faculty Business Arunah Shepherdson Abell, publisher and philanthropist Everett M. "Busy" Arnold, comic-book entrepreneur and publisher Andrew Dexter Jr., financier of Exchange Coffee House Wylie Dufresne, chef Alan Shawn Feinstein, finance expert and philanthropist; Feinstein High School in Providence is named in his honor A. O. Granger (1846–1914), American industrialist and soldier William Hamlin, entrepreneur and Rhode Island's first engraver Henry J. Steere, industrialist and philanthropist Innovators Zachariah Allen, scientist and inventor, patented automatic cut-off valve for steam engines George Henry Corliss, inventor of the Corliss steam engine, which revolutionized industry by making steam-power cheaper than water-power for powering factories John Peirce, inventor who participated in the development of the telephone Andries van Dam, pioneer in the field of computer graphics and professor at Brown University Military George K. Anderson, general George Andrews, Adjutant General of the U.S. Army from 1912 to 1914 Israel Angell, colonel in the American Revolution Richard Arnold, Civil War general William Seaman Bainbridge, military physician, surgeon and gynecologist Charles L. Hodges, U.S. Army major