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
• 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

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