List of Edmund Rice (colonist) descendants

This is a list of descendants of Edmund Rice, a noted colonial settler.

Title page to Andrew Henshaw Ward's A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: The Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, financed by members of the Rice family and published in 1858.

In 1638, Rice immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with his kin, where he became a founder of both Sudbury, Massachusetts, and Marlborough, Massachusetts.

A

• Géraldine Margit Virginia Olga Mária Apponyi de Nagyappony (1915–2002), Queen of Albania
• Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV (born 1953), actor and musician, son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
• Lucie Désirée Arnaz (born 1951), entertainer and producer; daughter of actors Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

B

• Frederick Henry Ball (1915–2007), movie studio executive, actor, and brother of comedian Lucille Ball.
• Lucille Désirée Ball (1911–1989), actress, comedian, television personality, and studio executive Desilu Productions
• Donald Clinton Barton (1889–1939), geophysicist and pioneering petroleum geologist
• George Hunt Barton (1852–1933), geologist, educator, explorer of Greenland with Robert E. Peary
• Asa Brigham (1788–1844), signer of Texas Declaration of Independence, Texas treasurer, Austin mayor
• Carl Campbell Brigham (1890–1943), controversial pioneer of psychometrics, known for creating the Scholastic Aptitude Test
• Elbert Sidney Brigham (1877–1962), U.S. Congressman from Vermont
• Elijah Brigham (1751–1816), Massachusetts state representative and state senator; U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts.
• Mary Ann Brigham (1829–1889), American educator and 8th President (President Elect) of Mount Holyoke College
• Robert Breck Brigham (1826–1900), philanthropist endowing the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital in Boston.
• Joseph Emerson Brown (1821–1894), Governor of Georgia during the U.S. Civil War and U.S. Senator from Georgia
• Joseph Mackey Brown (1851–1932), Two non-consecutive term governor of Georgia implicated in the lynching of Leo Frank; son of Joseph E. Brown
• Catharinus Putnam Buckingham (1808–1888), professor of mathematics and brigadier general in Union Army; grandson of Rufus Putnam
• Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950), author and creator of the Tarzan character
• John Coleman Burroughs (1913–1979), book illustrator and son of Edgar Rice Burroughs

C

• Paul Rice Camp (1919–2012), physicist, academic, and Chief of Materials Research at CRREL
• Miriam C. Camps (1916–1994), economist, author, and State Department official
• George Rice Carpenter (1863–1909), educator and literary scholar
• Margaret Seymour Carpenter (1893–1987), author of the novel Experiment Perilous
• Herman Churchill (1869–1941), educator, genealogist and historian
• Charles Colson (1931–2012), Director of the Office of Public Liaison
• Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933), Thirtieth President of the United States
• Charles Austin Coolidge (1844–1926), Brigadier General
• John Coolidge (1906–2000), businessman and philanthropist from Plymouth Notch, Vermont, and son of President Coolidge

D

• Matthew Paige Damon (born 1970), American actor
• Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802–1887), health care and social reformer
• Allen Stuart Drury (1918–1998), journalist, and winner of the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Advise and Consent
• Alexander Greer Drury (1844–1929), physician, medical educator and medical historian
• Asa Drury (1801–1870), educator and Baptist minister best known as an antebellum abolitionist
• Thomas Drury (1668–1723), Massachusetts colonial legislator

E

• Alexander Rice Esty (1826–1881), 19th-century New England architect
• Constantine Canaris Esty (1824–1912), state representative, state senator and U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts.

G

• Robert Grant (1852–1940), American novelist and probate judge in Massachusetts.

H

• Erastus Otis Haven (1820–1881), Methodist bishop, Massachusetts state senator, and president of three major universities
• John James Hollister Jr. (1901–1961) California state senator and grandson of William Welles Hollister
• William Welles Hollister (1818–1886) a California rancher and entrepreneur, namesake of Hollister, California
• Arthur Otis Howe (1871–1951), Vermont state representative and senator
• Elias Howe (1819–1867), inventor of the first practical sewing machine
• Frank Edmund Howe (1870–1953), Vermont state legislator, House speaker, and Vermont lieutenant governor
• Gardner Howe (1759–1854), Vermont state legislator
• Gilman Bigelow Howe (1850–1933), genealogist and president of the National Genealogical Society
• Jonas Howe (1786–1865), Massachusetts state legislator
• Jonas Holland Howe (1821–1898), abolitionist, artist, and Minnesota state legislator
• Marshall Otis Howe (1832–1919), Vermont state legislator
• Simon Herbert Howe (1835–1911), businessman, Massachusetts state legislator and first mayor of Marlborough
• Levi Hubbard (1762–1836), Massachusetts state legislator, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts (Maine District)

I

• Charles Phillip Ingalls (1836–1902), American pioneer whose life was depicted in the Little House books
• James Harvey Irvine (1867–1947), prominent landowner in Orange County, California; Irvine Ranch

K

• Charles Reuben Keyes (1871–1951), educator, archaeologist and German scholar
• Margaret Naumann Keyes (1918–2015), educator and heritage conservation scholar
• David Sjodahl King (1917–2009), U.S. Congressman from Utah, ambassador
• William Henry King (1863–1949), U.S. Congressman and Senator from Utah

L

• Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968), writer, political theorist & co-founder of the modern American libertarian movement
• Walter Franklin Lansil (1846–1925), Boston based American artist known for scenes of Venice
• Wilbur Henry Lansil (1855–1897), Boston based American artist and younger brother of Walter Franklin Lansil.
• Mary Ashton (Rice) Livermore (1820–1905), American abolitionist, social activist, and author.

M

• Walter Ralston Martin (1928–1989), Baptist Christian minister and author
• Christopher Meloni (born 1961), American actor.
• Catherine Ann Keyes Miller (1905–1978), music historian, archivist, and educator

O

• Josephine King Olsen (born 1942), 20th Director of the Peace Corps.
• Culbert Levy Olson (1876–1962), California governor 1939–1943; first cousin to U.S. Senator William H. King

P

• Frank Charles Partridge (1861–1943), lawyer, diplomat, and U.S. Senator from Vermont
• William Lyon Phelps (1865–1945), author, radio program host, professor of English literature at Yale University
• Orlando Brunson Potter (1823–1894). businessman, U.S. Congressman from New York
• Persis (Rice) Putnam (1737–1820), wife of U.S. Revolutionary War general Rufus Putnam.

R

• Abbott Barnes Rice (1862–1926), businessman and Massachusetts state legislator
• Alexander Hamilton Rice (1818–1895), industrialist, Boston mayor, Massachusetts governor, and U.S. Congressman
• Alexander Hamilton Rice Jr. (1875–1956), physician, geographer and explorer
• Alexandrea Kawisenhawe Rice (born 1972), contemporary Canadian actress from the Kahnawake Mohawk nation
• Americus Vespucius Rice (1835–1904), banker, brigadier general, U.S. Congressman from Ohio
• Andrew Eliot Rice (1922–2010), American political scientist, founder of Peace Corps and the Society for International Development
• Arthur Wallace Rice (1869–1938), architect from Boston and partner in Parker, Thomas & Rice
• Caleb Rice (1792–1873), attorney; first president of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts
• Charles Rice (1787–1863), brigadier general of the Massachusetts Militia and state representative
• Charles Allen Thorndike Rice (1851–1889), publisher, editor and journalist
• Charles Francis Rice (1851–1927), Methodist minister, author
• Edmund Rice (1819–1889), U.S. Congressman from Minnesota
• Edmund Rice (1842–1906), brigadier general and Medal of Honor awardee
• Edward Everett Rice (1847–1924), composer and musical theater producer
• Edward Hyde Rice (1847–1895), American educator from Massachusetts
• Edward Loranus Rice (1871–1960), biologist and university administrator
• Eustace Bond Rice (1871–1938) professor of music theory at New England Conservatory
• Franklin Pierce Rice (1852–1919), publisher, historian and antiquarian
• George Merrick Rice (1808–1894), businessman, steel industry pioneer, Massachusetts state senator
• George Walter Rice (1855–1884), pioneering Canadian photographer and arctic explorer
• George Washington Rice (1823–1856), businessman and founder of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
• Harvey Rice (1800–1891), lawyer, publisher, author and Ohio state legislator
• Henry Rice (1786–1867), U.S. military officer, merchant and Massachusetts state legislator
• Henry Mower Rice (1816–1894), U.S. Senator from Minnesota, prominent in its statehood
• Horace Jacobs Rice (1882–1964), Massachusetts lawyer and law school administrator
• Ingraham "Gitz" Rice (1891-1947), Canadian military officer and musical entertainer
• Jacob Rice (1787–1879), New Hampshire state legislator
• James Clay Rice (1828–1864), educator, lawyer and brigadier general
• James Stephen Rice (1846–1939), businessman, rancher & early resident of Tustin, California
• Joel Taylor Rice (aka Joel Ryce-Menuhin), (1933–1998) pianist and Jungian psychologist
• John Asaph Rice (1829–1888), prominent Chicago hotelier & book collector, father of Wallace Rice
• John Richard Rice (1895–1980), Baptist evangelist and pastor.
• Jonas Rice (1672–1753), grandson of Edmund; first permanent English American settler and founder of Worcester, Massachusetts
• Joseph Rice (1638–1711), son of Edmund, Member of the Massachusetts General Court in 1683 and 1698
• Joseph Waldo Rice (1828–1915), American-born entrepreneur and early settler of Barmah, Victoria, Australia.
• Kathleen Creighton Starr Rice (1882–1963), Math professor; trapper; homesteader; first female gold prospector in the Canadian North.
• Lawrence Bridges Rice (1898–1992), architect and tennis champion
• Leon Scott Rice (born 1958), Lieutenant General, U.S. Air Force; Director of Air National Guard and formerly The Adjutant General (TAG) of the Massachusetts National Guard
• Laura North Rice (1920–2004), psychology professor, author
• Lilian Jeannette Rice (1889–1938), architect from San Diego
• Luther Rice (1783–1836), Baptist minister, missionary to India, and educator; founder of George Washington University
• Michael Alan Rice (born 1955), biologist, Rhode Island state legislator
• Ora Ray Rice (1885–1966), dentist, Wisconsin state legislator, Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly 1951–54
• Paul North Rice (1888–1967), librarian, reference department director of the New York Public Library
• Percy Fitch Rice (1882–1954), inventor and businessman
• Richard Henry Rice (1863–1922), mechanical engineer and inventor
• Robert Vernon Rice (1924-2020), biochemist and educator
• Rosella Rice (1827-1888), American author contributing to the folklore of John "Johnny Appleseed" Chapman.
• Thomas Rice (1654–1747), grandson of Edmund; Massachusetts colonial legislator and a founder of Westborough, Massachusetts
• Thomas Rice (1734–1812), Massachusetts state legislator, judge, Federalist Party politician
• Thomas Rice (1768–1854), Massachusetts state legislator, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts (Maine district)
• Victor Moreau Rice (1818–1869), New York State legislator, educator, newspaperman, banker and insurance company executive.
• Wallace deGroot Cecil Rice (1859–1939), author, poet and designer of the Chicago flag
• Willard Wadsworth Rice (1895–1967), silver medalist U.S. hockey player in the 1924 Winter Olympics
• William Abbott Rice (1912–1991), geologist and university professor
• William Rice (1788–1863), Massachusetts businessman and public servant
• William Rice (1821–1897), Methodist minister, librarian
• William Ball Rice (1840–1909), industrialist and president of Rice & Hutchins, Inc.
• William Chauncey Rice (1878–1941), American lawyer, prominent Methodist and editor of Zion's Herald
• William Gorham Rice Jr. (1892–1979) law professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison
• William Gorham Rice Sr. (1856–1945) American government official from Albany, New York
• William North Rice (1845–1928), geologist, Methodist minister and university administrator
• William Whitney Rice (1826–1896), U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
• George Edmund Royce (1829–1903), businessman and state senator from Vermont

S

• Joan Irvine Smith (1933–2019), businesswoman and philanthropist prominent in Orange County, California.

T

• James Vernon Taylor (born 1948), American singer and songwriter.

U

• William Upham (1791–1853), Vermont state legislator and U.S. Senator from Vermont

W

• Gideon Welles (1802–1878), Secretary of the Navy during the Lincoln and Andrew Johnson administrations.
• Almanzo James Wilder (1857–1949), husband of writer Laura Ingalls Wilder and father of writer Rose Wilder Lane
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957), author of Little House on the Prairie

Z

• Leka Zogu (1939–2011), Crown Prince of Albania
• Leka Zogu II (b. 1982), pretender to Albanian throne