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
• Mary Hartline – actress and model
• Margaret Hayes – actress
• Brett King – actor; later opened Coral Sands Hotel in the Bahamas; died in Palm Beach in 1999
• Alexander Kirkland – actor
• Dina Merrill – 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
• Alfie Wise – actor
• Mary Woronov – actress

Authors

• Ted Bell – bestselling author of suspense and espionage novels
• William S. Burroughs, Jr. – novelist, son of beat writer William S. Burroughs and great-grandson to William Seward Burroughs I, the original inventor of the Burroughs adding machine
• Ann Coulter – syndicated columnist, author, and political commentator
• Laurence Leamer – writer
• Dmitri Nabokov – son and literary heir of 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
• 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 member
• Jeffrey Epstein – financier and convicted sex offender
• Malcolm Glazer – CEO of First Allied Corporation, 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 – wife of Bernie Madoff
• Charles Peter McColough – former chairman and CEO of the Xerox Corporation
• Gurnee Munn – president of American Totalisator
• Bud Paxson – founder of Paxson Communications
• Nelson Peltz – billionaire businessman and investor
• Ronald Perelman – corporate raider, chairman of Revlon; sold his Palm Beach house in 2004 for $70 million
• Jeffry Picower – 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, former CEO of Pepsi-Cola

Music

• Jon Bon Jovi – singer from New Jersey; in March 2018 purchased a home on the island
• Jimmy Buffett – singer
• Vic Damone – singer-songwriter, actor
• Michael Jackson – singer, lived there briefly, 2003–2005
• John Lennon – musician with The Beatles; 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
• Sean Hannity – television and radio political commentator
• 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.
• Nancy Brinker – founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure
• Joseph Gurwin – philanthropist
• Janet Annenberg Hooker – philanthropist and daughter of Moses Annenberg
• Evelyn Lauder – co-creator of the Pink Ribbon breast cancer awareness campaign, creator of Clinique
• 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

• 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 for 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 and 47th 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
• Rich Barnes – MLB pitcher for the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians
• Scottie Barnes – NBA small forward for the Toronto Raptors
• Herman Barron – professional golfer
• Paul Fentress – Olympic field hockey player
• Richie Guerin – NBA shooting guard for the New York Knicks and Atlanta Hawks
• Lamar Jackson – NFL quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens
• Kevin Ohme – MLB pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals

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; 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 (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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