List of people from Palm Beach, Florida
The following people were born, or live in, Palm Beach, Florida:
Actors and actresses[edit]
- Ellen Barkin – actress[1]
- George Hamilton – actor[2]
- Margaret Hayes – actress
- Mary Hartline – actress and model[1]
- Brett King – actor who later opened Coral Sands Hotel in the Bahamas, died in Palm Beach in 1999
- Alexander Kirkland – actor[1]
- Dina Merrill – American actress and socialite (daughter of E.F. Hutton & Marjorie Merriweather Post)
- Mark Patton – 1980s television and film actor
- Stephanie Seymour – model and actress
- Sylvester Stallone - actor[3]
- Mary Woronov – actress
Authors[edit]
- Ted Bell – bestselling author of suspense and espionage novels
- William S. Burroughs, Jr. – American novelist, son of beat writer William S. Burroughs and great-grandson to William Seward Burroughs I, the original inventor of the Burroughs adding machine. (b. 1947)
- Ann Coulter – syndicated columnist, author, and political commentator[4]
- Laurence Leamer – writer[5]
- Dmitri Nabokov – son and literary heir of famed novelist Vladimir Nabokov
- Tony Nader – author and leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement[6]
- James Patterson – best selling author[1]
- Richard René Silvin – author and lecturer [7][8]
Businesspersons[edit]
- S. Daniel Abraham – creator of Slim Fast
- Barney Family – heirs to the Smith Barney banking and brokerage fortune
- Dan Borislow – founder of magicJack
- John K. Castle – chairman and CEO of Castle Harlan, Inc.[1]
- James H. Clark – founder of Netscape[1]
- Horace Dodge – Dodge automotive family and died December 1920 at his Palm Beach residence[9]
- Jeffrey Epstein – financier and convicted sex offender
- Malcolm Glazer – CEO of First Allied Corporation and sports team owner (Manchester United of the Premier League and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League)
- Jane Goldman – real estate investor and daughter of Sol Goldman[1]
- E.F. Hutton – Wall Street broker who built Mar-a-Lago, husband of Marjorie Merriweather Post
- Raymond Kassar – investor and former chairman and CEO of Atari and former vice-chair of Burlington Industries
- John Kluge – Chairman of Metromedia, estimated net worth is $11 billion
- David Koch – Vice president of Koch Industries[1]
- Estée Lauder – businesswoman and mother of Leonard and Ronald Lauder[1]
- Leonard Lauder – businessman, art collector, and heir of Estée Lauder Companies[1]
- Edgar F. Luckenbach – shipping magnate
- Bernard Madoff – former NASDAQ chairman and convicted felon of various securities fraud[5]
- Ruth Madoff (born 1941) – wife of Bernie Madoff
- Gurnee Munn – President of American Totalisator[1]
- Bud Paxson – founder of Paxson Communications[1]
- Charles Peter McColough – former chairman and CEO of the Xerox Corporation
- Nelson Peltz (born 1942) – billionaire businessman and investor
- Ronald Perelman – corporate raider, Chairman of Revlon who sold his Palm Beach house in 2004 for $70 million[10]
- Jeffry Picower (1942–2009) – investor and philanthropist involved in the Madoff investment scandal
- John Sculley – former CEO of Apple, Inc and former president of PepsiCo
- Christopher A. Sinclair – chairman and CEO of Mattel and former CEO of Pepsi-Cola
Music[edit]
- Jimmy Buffett – singer[10]
- Jon Bon Jovi – singer from New Jersey, who in March 2018 purchased a home on the island, in addition to his other residences in Boca Raton, and New Jersey.
- Vic Damone – singer-songwriter, actor
- Michael Jackson – singer, lived there briefly in 2003 until 2005.
- John Lennon – musician worked with The Beatles. Lennon bought Harold Vanderbilt's former home, El Solano, in 1980 shortly before his murder.[11]
- Rod Stewart – singer
- Butch Trucks – founding member of The Allman Brothers Band
Media[edit]
- Roger Ailes – television executive and media consultant
- Conrad Black – former Canadian media baron, author, and convicted fraudster lived on Palm Beach Island for over twenty years
- Curt Gowdy – sportscaster
- Rush Limbaugh – radio show host, and conservative political commentator[12]
- Mehmet Oz – better known as Dr. Oz, Turkish-American cardiothoracic surgeon, professor, author, and television personality.[13]
- Howard Stern – radio personality
Philanthropists[edit]
- Mary Duke Biddle – philanthropist and wife of Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr.[1]
- Joseph Gurwin (1920–2009) – philanthropist[14]
- Evelyn Lauder – co-creator of the Pink Ribbon breast cancer awareness campaign, creator of Clinique[15]
- Nancy Brinker – founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure
- Janet Annenberg Hooker – philanthropist and daughter of Moses Annenberg[1]
- Marjorie Merriweather Post – Post cereal heiress, socialite, and philanthropist who built Mar-a-Lago. Wife of E.F. Hutton
- Mollie Wilmot – philanthropist and socialite
- Jayne Wrightsman – philanthropist and socialite
Politicians and political families[edit]
- Chester C. Bolton – Congressman from Ohio[1]
- Frances P. Bolton – wife of Chester C. Bolton. Served out the remainder of her husband's term after his death and then nearly 30 years thereafter[1]
- Paul Ilyinsky – mayor of Palm Beach
- Kennedy family[vague] – political family[5][better source needed]
- Brian Mulroney – former Canadian Prime Minister
- Henry Paulson – former US Treasury Secretary
- Wilbur Ross – US secretary of Commerce
- Earl E. T. Smith – former United States Ambassador to Cuba and mayor of Palm Beach
- Donald Trump – 45th President of the United States
- Ivana Trump – ex-wife of Donald Trump, until 2016[16][17]
- Melania Trump – wife of Donald Trump
Sports figures[edit]
- Logan Allen – MLB pitcher for the San Diego Padres
- Steve Alvers – American football player
- Herman Barron (1909–1978) – professional golfer[18][19]
- Rich Barnes – MLB pitcher for the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians
- Kevin Ohme – MLB pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals
- Lamar Jackson - NFL quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens
- Scottie Barnes - NBA small forward for the Toronto Raptors
Others[edit]
- Madeleine Astor – Titanic survivor and widow of John Jacob Astor IV
- Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. – United States Ambassador to several countries between the 1930s and 1960s[1]
- Billy Bishop – World War I flying ace, he died while spending the winter of 1956 in Palm Beach
- Henry Morrison Flagler – founder of Palm Beach
- Robert W. Gottfried – homebuilder[20][21]
- Paul Tudor Jones – hedge fund manager and philanthropist[1]
- Lana J. Marks – designer
- Addison Mizner – influential architect of Palm Beach landmarks and residences in the 1920s
- Paris Singer – builder of Everglades Club, within which is his apartment
- Harold Vanderbilt – railroad executive, great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, owned El Solano before John Lennon bought it.[1]
- Vera Wang – fashion designer (has recently sold the $9m mansion she owned on the Palm Beach coast and moved to NYC)
- Joseph E. Widener – founding benefactor of the National Gallery of Art, philanthropist, and horseman[1]
References[edit]
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- ^ "Take a look inside Palm Beach property purchased by Sylvester Stallone".
- ^ Friedman, Brad (4 November 2006). "Ann Coulter's Felonious Florida Voter Registration Application". Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ a b c Loney, Jim (19 December 2008). "Madoff scandal stuns Palm Beach Jewish community". Reuters. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ Hofheinz, Darrell (15 September 2016). "North End home with Vedic principles wins board approval". The Shiny Sheet. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ Cooper Noble, Paulette (4 September 2016). "Author shares tales, from royalty to a Duchess to loyalty from a dog". Palm Beach Daily News. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
- ^ Rogers, David (4 September 2016). "Palm Beacher tells tale of SS Normandie in new book". Retrieved 3 August 2020.
- ^ Hyde, Charles K. (2005). The Dodge brothers: the men, the motor cars, and the legacy. Wayne State University Press. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8143-3246-7. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
Horace Dodge house Palm Beach.
- ^ a b Clemence, Sara (12 September 2005). "Palm Beach Peach". Forbes. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ "El Solano Review – Palm Beach and the Treasure Coast". Fodor's Travel Guides. 1 October 2010. Archived from the original on 11 August 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ "Rush Limbaugh's House, and Other Egomaniacal Estates". New York Magazine. 7 July 2008. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ Ostrowski, Jeff (4 September 2016). "Dr. Oz just bought a Palm Beach mansion. See how much he paid". The Palm Beach Post. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
- ^ Martin, Douglas (26 September 2009). "Joseph Gurwin, Textile Manufacturer and Philanthropist, Dies at 89". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ Dargan, Michele; Donnelly, Shannon (13 November 2011). "Service to be Monday for Evelyn Lauder, beauty exec and pink ribbon co-creator". Palm Beach Daily News. Archived from the original on 13 May 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ Lahitou, Jessicah (8 July 2018). "Ivana Trump Has Done A Lot Since She Divorced Donald In '92 — Here's What She's Up To Now". Bustle. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- ^ Hofheinz, Darrell (10 March 2016). "Ivana Trump sells Palm Beach house for $16.6 million, deed shows". Palm Beach Daily News. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- ^ Slater, Robert (2000). Great Jews in sports. J. David Publishers. pp. 32–33. ISBN 9780824604530. Retrieved 5 October 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Carla Barron Obituary". The Palm Beach Post. 1 July 2012. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- ^ Stephanie Murphy, Shannon Donnelly (31 May 2007). "He Certainly Put his Stamp on the Island". Palm Beach Daily News.
- ^ Janjigian, Robert (January 2006). "High Style Impact". Palm Beach Life: 108–111. Retrieved 4 December 2018.