# 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
* Federico Bianchi – soccer player
* 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

## 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 Survivor: Gabon
* 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