List of people from Pacific Palisades

This is a list of notable people who live or have 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
• Berton Averre – guitarist and composer
• Dan Aykroyd - actor

B

• James Robert Baker – writer (died by 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

D

• Matt Damon – actor
• Larry David – Seinfeld co-creator and star-creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Geena Davis – actress, producer, activist
• 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
• Dr. Dre – rapper

E

• Charles and Ray Eames
• Alden Ehrenreich – actor
• Thelma "Tiby" Eisen (1922-2014) – baseball player
• Max Emerson and partner Andrés Camilo

F

• Nanette Fabray – actress, singer, past honorary mayor
• Lion Feuchtwanger – German writer
• Spencer Freedman (born 1998) – college basketball player for the Harvard Crimson and NYU Violets
• Buckminster Fuller – inventor (lived in Pacific Palisades until his death in 1983 at age 87)

G

• Jennifer Garner – actress
• John Goodman – actor
• Howard Gordon - television producer and writer
• 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
• Brianna Kupfer – university student and murder victim

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
• Ron Mael – musician, songwriter
• Russell Mael - singer, musician

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-songwriter of the 1940s, honorary mayor of Pacific Palisades in 1955

P

• Brad Paisley – country singer
• Alexandra Paul – actress and activist
• Mark Payne – multiple Emmy winning make-up artist, filmmaker and author
• Matthew Perry – actor
• Sydney Pollack – director, actor and producer
• Pat Conway - 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
• JJ Redick – NBA Player and Coach
• 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
• Kent 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 '
• 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

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