List of people from Palm Beach, Florida

The following people were born, or live in, Palm Beach, Florida:

Actors and actresses

 * Ellen Barkin – actress
 * George Hamilton – actor
 * Margaret Hayes – actress
 * Mary Hartline – actress and model
 * Brett King – actor who later opened Coral Sands Hotel in the Bahamas, died in Palm Beach in 1999
 * Alexander Kirkland – actor
 * 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
 * Mary Woronov – actress

Authors

 * 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
 * Laurence Leamer – writer
 * Dmitri Nabokov – son and literary heir of famed novelist Vladimir Nabokov
 * Tony Nader – author and leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement
 * James Patterson – best selling author
 * Richard René Silvin – author and lecturer

Businesspersons

 * 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.
 * James H. Clark – founder of Netscape
 * Horace Dodge – Dodge automotive family and died December 1920 at his Palm Beach residence
 * 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
 * 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
 * Estée Lauder – businesswoman and mother of Leonard and Ronald Lauder
 * Leonard Lauder – businessman, art collector, and heir of Estée Lauder Companies
 * Edgar F. Luckenbach – shipping magnate
 * Bernard Madoff – former NASDAQ chairman and convicted felon of various securities fraud
 * Ruth Madoff (born 1941) – wife of Bernie Madoff
 * Gurnee Munn – President of American Totalisator
 * Bud Paxson – founder of Paxson Communications
 * 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
 * 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

 * Jimmy Buffett – singer
 * 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.
 * Rod Stewart – singer
 * Butch Trucks – founding member of The Allman Brothers Band

Media

 * 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
 * Mehmet Oz – better known as Dr. Oz, Turkish-American cardiothoracic surgeon, professor, author, and television personality.
 * Howard Stern – radio personality

Philanthropists

 * Mary Duke Biddle – philanthropist and wife of Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr.
 * Joseph Gurwin (1920–2009) – philanthropist
 * Evelyn Lauder – co-creator of the Pink Ribbon breast cancer awareness campaign, creator of Clinique
 * Nancy Brinker – founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure
 * Janet Annenberg Hooker – philanthropist and daughter of Moses Annenberg
 * 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

 * Chester C. Bolton – Congressman from Ohio
 * 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
 * Paul Ilyinsky – mayor of Palm Beach
 * Kennedy family – political family
 * 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
 * Melania Trump – wife of Donald Trump

Sports figures

 * Logan Allen – MLB pitcher for the San Diego Padres
 * Steve Alvers – American football player
 * Herman Barron (1909–1978) – professional golfer
 * Rich Barnes – MLB pitcher for the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians
 * Richie Guerin – NBA shooting guard for the New York Knicks and Atlanta Hawks
 * 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

 * 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
 * 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
 * Paul Tudor Jones – hedge fund manager and philanthropist
 * 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.
 * 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