List of people from Palm Beach, Florida
The following people were born, or live in, Palm Beach, Florida:
Actors and actresses
- Ellen Barkin – Actress[1]
- George Hamilton – Actor[2]
- Margaret Hayes – Actress
- Mary Hartline – Actress and model[1]
- Brett King – Actor who later opened Coral Sands Hotel in the Bahamas, died in Palm Beach in 1999
- Alexander Kirkland – Actor[1]
- 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
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[3]
- Laurence Leamer – Writer[4]
- Dmitri Nabokov – son and literary heir of famed novelist Vladimir Nabokov
- Tony Nader – author and leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement[5]
- James Patterson – Best Selling author[1]
- Richard René Silvin – Author and lecturer [6] [7]
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.[1]
- James H. Clark – Founder of Netscape[1]
- Horace Dodge – Dodge automotive family and died December 1920 at his Palm Beach residence[8]
- 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[1]
- 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[1]
- Estée Lauder – businesswoman and mother of Leonard and Ronald Lauder[1]
- Leonard Lauder – businessman, art collector, and heir of Estée Lauder Companies[1]
- Edgar F. Luckenbach – Shipping magnate
- Bernard Madoff – Former NASDAQ chairman and convicted felon of various securities fraud[4]
- Ruth Madoff (born 1941) – wife of Bernie Madoff
- Gurnee Munn – President of American Totalisator[1]
- Bud Paxson – Founder of Paxson Communications[1]
- 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[9]
- 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[9]
- 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.[10]
- Rod Stewart – Singer
- Butch Trucks – Founding member of The Allman Brothers Band
Media
- Roger Ailes – television executive and media consultant
- Conrad Black – a 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[11]
- Mehmet Oz – Better known as Dr. Oz, Turkish-American cardiothoracic surgeon, professor, author, and television personality.[12]
- Howard Stern – Radio personality
Philanthropists
- Mary Duke Biddle – Philanthropist and wife of Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr.[1]
- Joseph Gurwin (1920–2009) – Philanthropist[13]
- Evelyn Lauder – co-creator of the Pink Ribbon breast cancer awareness campaign, creator of Clinique[14]
- Nancy Brinker – founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure
- Janet Annenberg Hooker – Philanthropist and daughter of Moses Annenberg[1]
- 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[1]
- 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[1]
- Paul Ilyinsky – mayor of Palm Beach
- Kennedy family – political family[4]
- 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[15][16]
- 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[17][18]
- Rich Barnes – MLB pitcher for the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians
- 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[1]
- 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[19][20]
- Paul Tudor Jones – Hedge fund manager and philanthropist[1]
- 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.[1]
- 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[1]
References
- Barbara Marshall (19 July 2018). "A look behind the hedges of nine spectacular Palm Beach mansions". The Palm Beach Post. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- Davis, Christine (26 April 2012). "On the Market: George Hamilton, engaged, is selling Waterview Towers bachelor pad for $895,000". Palm Beach Daily News. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
- Friedman, Brad (4 November 2006). "Ann Coulter's Felonious Florida Voter Registration Application". Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- Loney, Jim (19 December 2008). "Madoff scandal stuns Palm Beach Jewish community". Reuters. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- Hofheinz, Darrell (15 September 2016). "North End home with Vedic principles wins board approval". The Shiny Sheet. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- Cooper Noble, Paulette (4 September 2016). "Author shares tales, from royalty to a Duchess to loyalty from a dog". Palm Beach Daily News. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
- Rogers, David (4 September 2016). "Palm Beacher tells tale of SS Normandie in new book". Retrieved 3 August 2020.
- Hyde, Charles K. (2005). The Dodge brothers: the men, the motor cars, and the legacy. Wayne State University Press. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-8143-3246-7. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
Horace Dodge house Palm Beach.
- Clemence, Sara (12 September 2005). "Palm Beach Peach". Forbes. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- "El Solano Review – Palm Beach and the Treasure Coast". Fodor's Travel Guides. 1 October 2010. Archived from the original on 11 August 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- "Rush Limbaugh's House, and Other Egomaniacal Estates". New York Magazine. 7 July 2008. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- Ostrowski, Jeff (4 September 2016). "Dr. Oz just bought a Palm Beach mansion. See how much he paid". The Palm Beach Post. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
- Martin, Douglas (26 September 2009). "Joseph Gurwin, Textile Manufacturer and Philanthropist, Dies at 89". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- Dargan, Michele; Donnelly, Shannon (13 November 2011). "Service to be Monday for Evelyn Lauder, beauty exec and pink ribbon co-creator". Palm Beach Daily News. Archived from the original on 13 May 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- Lahitou, Jessicah (8 July 2018). "Ivana Trump Has Done A Lot Since She Divorced Donald In '92 — Here's What She's Up To Now". Bustle. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- Hofheinz, Darrell (10 March 2016). "Ivana Trump sells Palm Beach house for $16.6 million, deed shows". Palm Beach Daily News. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- Slater, Robert (2000). Great Jews in sports. J. David Publishers. pp. 32–33. ISBN 9780824604530. Retrieved 5 October 2018 – via Google Books.
- "Carla Barron Obituary". The Palm Beach Post. 1 July 2012. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- Stephanie Murphy, Shannon Donnelly (31 May 2007). "He Certainly Put his Stamp on the Island". Palm Beach Daily News.
- Janjigian, Robert (January 2006). "High Style Impact". Palm Beach Life: 108–111. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
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