# 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
* 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.
* 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 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
* 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