List of people from Pacific Palisades

This is a list of people who live or lived in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles.

A

 * J. J. Abrams – director, screenwriter and creator of Alias and Lost (graduate of Palisades Charter High School)
 * Ben Affleck – actor and director
 * Eddie Albert – actor, past honorary mayor
 * Judd Apatow – director, and wife Leslie Mann
 * James Arness – actor known as Marshal Matt Dillon on CBS' Gunsmoke
 * Lionel Atwill – actor
 * Dan Aykroyd – actor, and wife Donna Dixon

B

 * James Robert Baker – writer (committed suicide in his Pacific Palisades home in 1997)
 * Ronald Barak (born 1943) – Olympic gymnast
 * Christophe Beck – film/TV composer
 * Mel Blanc – voice actor, past honorary mayor
 * Richard Boone – actor (Have Gun - Will Travel)
 * Kobe Bryant – NBA player
 * Francis X. Bushman – silent film star

C

 * Chris Carter – writer, director, producer (The X-Files)
 * Chevy Chase – actor, comedian, past honorary mayor
 * Tommy Chong – actor, comedian (one half of the comedy duo Cheech & Chong)
 * Martin Cohan – television writer and producer, creator of Who's the Boss?
 * Stephen Collins – actor, 7th Heaven
 * Bill Cosby - actor
 * Bert Convy – actor, game show host, past honorary mayor
 * Yvonne Craig – actress
 * Denise Crosby – actress
 * Billy Crystal – actor and comedian, former co-honorary mayor, along with his wife, Janice
 * Jamie Lee Curtis – actress
 * Matt Damon – actor

D

 * Larry David – Seinfeld co-creator and star-creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm
 * Geena Davis – actress, producer, activist
 * Sydney Pollack – director, actor and producer
 * Patti Davis – actress, daughter of Nancy and Ronald Reagan; describes growing up in the Palisades in her memoirs, including The Long Goodbye
 * Dom DeLuise – actor, past honorary mayor
 * Vlade Divac – NBA player
 * Donna Dixon – actress, and husband Dan Aykroyd

E

 * Charles and Ray Eames
 * Alden Ehrenreich – actor
 * Thelma "Tiby" Eisen (1922-2014) - baseball player

F

 * Nanette Fabray – actress, singer, past honorary mayor
 * Lion Feuchtwanger – German writer
 * Buckminster Fuller – inventor (lived in Pacific Palisades until his death in 1983 at age 87)

G

 * Jennifer Garner – actress
 * John Goodman – actor
 * Peter Graves – actor, past honorary mayor
 * Brad Grey – producer and CEO of Paramount Pictures
 * Christopher Guest – actor and director
 * Steve Guttenberg – actor, past honorary mayor

H

 * Brad Hall – actor
 * Johnny Hallyday – singer
 * Tom Hanks – actor
 * Goldie Hawn – actress
 * Joseph Morgan Henninger – artist and illustrator
 * Jennifer Love Hewitt – actress, television producer and director, singer/songwriter and author
 * Arthur Hill – actor
 * Emile Hirsch – actor
 * Oskar Homolka – actor
 * Anthony Hopkins – actor, past honorary mayor
 * Max Horkheimer – German philosopher of critical theory and the Frankfurt school
 * Kate Hudson – actress

I

 * Nick Itkin (born 1999) - Olympic fencer, junior world champion

J

 * Sylvia Juncosa – guitarist

K

 * Karen Kane – fashion designer
 * Stephen Kanner – modernist architect and co-founder of the A+D Museum
 * Diane Keaton – actress
 * Konrad Kellen – intelligence analyst and author
 * Nicole Kidman – actress
 * Ted Knight – actor, past honorary mayor

L

 * Lorenzo Lamas – actor, martial artist and reality show participant
 * Carole Landis – actress
 * Joe Lando – actor
 * Matt LeBlanc - actor most known for appearing as Joey Tribbiani on Friends
 * Sugar Ray Leonard – boxer, former honorary mayor
 * Eugene Levy, actor, comedian, current honorary mayor
 * Jerry Lewis – comedian, actor, director, and past honorary mayor
 * Shelley Long – actress
 * Julia Louis-Dreyfus – actress
 * Mike Love – band member of Beach Boys

M

 * Gavin MacLeod – actor, past honorary mayor
 * Leslie Mann – actress, and husband Judd Apatow
 * Thomas Mann – Nobel Prize-winning German novelist
 * Walter Matthau – actor, past honorary mayor
 * John Mayer – singer
 * Doug McClure – actor, past honorary mayor
 * Ted McGinley – actor
 * Patrick McGoohan – actor
 * Nancy Meyers – director, writer, producer
 * Henry Miller – author
 * Poppy Montgomery – actress
 * Rita Moreno – singer, dancer and multiple award-winning actress, past honorary mayor
 * Jon Moscot – American-Israeli MLB pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
 * Randy Newman – musician, singer/songwriter, and film composer

N

 * Stevie Nicks – singer

O

 * Conan O'Brien – talk show host, moved to Pacific Palisades in 2012
 * Chris O'Donnell – actor
 * Amy O'Neill – former actress
 * Paul N.J. Ottosson – three-time Oscar-winning sound designer
 * Jack Owens – singer and songwriter of the 1940s, honorary mayor of Pacific Palisades in 1955

P

 * Brad Paisley – country singer
 * Alexandra Paul – actress and activist
 * Matthew Perry – actor

Q

 * Anthony Quinn – actor

R

 * John Raitt – actor, father of singer Bonnie Raitt
 * Ronald Reagan – 40th President of the United States, governor and actor
 * Matthew Rhodes – film producer
 * Joan Rivers – comedian (owned a home here as well as in New York)
 * Karl L. Rundberg (1899–1969) – Los Angeles City Council member
 * Kurt Russell – actor

S

 * Bob Saget – actor, comedian, past honorary mayor
 * Sabrina Scharf – actress and anti-pollution activist; wife of Bob Schiller
 * Bob Schiller – television writer
 * Geoff Schwartz – NFL football player
 * Mitchell Schwartz – NFL football player
 * Arnold Schwarzenegger – actor and former governor of California
 * Vin Scully – baseball announcer (Los Angeles Dodgers)
 * Tom Segura - comedian
 * Derek Shearer – professor at Occidental College and former United States Ambassador to Finland
 * David Shore - Canadian television writer
 * Martin Short and actress-wife Nancy Dolman (Soap) – lived in Pacific Palisades, past honorary mayor
 * Maria Shriver – television journalist
 * Sam Simon – writer, producer
 * Alan Smolinisky – entrepreneur, real estate investor, owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Palisadian-Post newspaper
 * Evan Spiegel – co-founder and CEO of the American multinational technology and social media company Snap Inc.
 * Steven Spielberg – director, producer
 * Jill St. John – actress
 * Ken Steffes - USA Volleyball Hall of Famer
 * Robert Stoller – psychiatrist and author
 * Hilary Swank – actress

T

 * Thelma Todd – actress, found dead in her car in 1935 at Palisades home, above Roadside Cafe she operated on Pacific Coast Highway
 * William J. Tuttle – Hollywood makeup artist

V

 * Vivian Vance – actress, past honorary mayor

W

 * Robert Wagner – actor
 * Michael Waltman – actor
 * Adam West – actor, past honorary mayor
 * James Whale – director of horror films such as Frankenstein
 * Matty Whitmore – contestant on reality TV show Survivor: Gabon
 * Kimberly Williams – actress
 * Dennis Wilson – Beach Boys band member
 * Rita Wilson – actor
 * James Worthy – basketball player and TV commentator

Z

 * Gregg Zuckerman - mathematician, Yale University