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) ^[1]
• Ben Affleck – actor and director
• Eddie Albert – actor, past honorary mayor ^[2]
• Judd Apatow – director, and wife Leslie Mann ^[3]
• James Arness – actor known as Marshal Matt Dillon on CBS' Gunsmoke
• Lionel Atwill – actor ^[4]
• Berton Averre – guitarist and composer
• Dan Aykroyd - actor ^[5]

B

• James Robert Baker – writer (died by suicide in his Pacific Palisades home in 1997) ^[6]
• Ronald Barak (born 1943) – Olympic gymnast ^[7]
• Christophe Beck – film/TV composer ^[8]
• Federico Bianchi – soccer player ^[9]
• Mel Blanc – voice actor, past honorary mayor ^{[2] [10]}
• Richard Boone – actor (Have Gun - Will Travel) ^[11]
• Kobe Bryant – NBA player ^[12]
• Francis X. Bushman – silent film star ^[13]

C

• Chris Carter – writer, director, producer ( The X-Files ) ^[14]
• Chevy Chase – actor, comedian, past honorary mayor ^[15]
• Tommy Chong – actor, comedian (one half of the comedy duo Cheech & Chong) ^[16]
• Martin Cohan – television writer and producer, creator of Who's the Boss? ^[17]
• Stephen Collins – actor, 7th Heaven ^[18]
• Bill Cosby – actor
• Bert Convy – actor, game show host, past honorary mayor ^[2]
• Yvonne Craig – actress
• Denise Crosby – actress ^[19]
• Billy Crystal – actor and comedian, former co-honorary mayor, along with his wife, Janice
• Jamie Lee Curtis – actress ^[20]

D

• Matt Damon – actor ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Larry David – Seinfeld co-creator and star-creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm ^[21]
• Geena Davis – actress, producer, activist ^[22]
• Patti Davis – actress, daughter of Nancy and Ronald Reagan; describes growing up in the Palisades in her memoirs, including The Long Goodbye ^[23]
• Dom DeLuise – actor, past honorary mayor ^[2]
• Vlade Divac – NBA player ^[24]
• Donna Dixon – actress, and husband Dan Aykroyd ^[5]
• Dr. Dre – rapper ^[25]

E

• Charles and Ray Eames
• Alden Ehrenreich – actor ^[26]
• Thelma "Tiby" Eisen (1922-2014) – baseball player
• Max Emerson and partner Andrés Camilo

F

• Nanette Fabray – actress, singer, past honorary mayor ^[2]
• Lion Feuchtwanger – German writer ^[27]
• 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) ^{[28] [29]}

G

• Jennifer Garner – actress ^[30]
• John Goodman – actor ^[31]
• Howard Gordon - television producer and writer ^{[32] [33]}
• Peter Graves – actor, past honorary mayor ^[2]
• Brad Grey – producer and CEO of Paramount Pictures ^[34]
• Christopher Guest – actor and director
• Steve Guttenberg – actor, past honorary mayor ^[35]

H

• Brad Hall – actor ^[36]
• Johnny Hallyday – singer ^[37]
• Tom Hanks – actor ^[38]
• Goldie Hawn – actress
• Joseph Morgan Henninger – artist and illustrator ^[39]
• Jennifer Love Hewitt – actress, television producer and director, singer/songwriter and author ^[40]
• Arthur Hill – actor ^[41]
• Emile Hirsch – actor ^[42]
• Oskar Homolka – actor ^[43]
• Anthony Hopkins – actor, past honorary mayor ^[2]
• 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 ^[44]

K

• Karen Kane – fashion designer ^[45]
• Stephen Kanner – modernist architect and co-founder of the A+D Museum ^[46]
• Diane Keaton – actress ^[31]
• Konrad Kellen – intelligence analyst and author ^[47]
• Nicole Kidman – actress ^[48]
• Ted Knight – actor, past honorary mayor ^[2]
• Brianna Kupfer – university student and murder victim ^[49]

L

• Lorenzo Lamas – actor, martial artist and reality show participant
• Carole Landis – actress ^[50]
• 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 ^{[2] [51]}
• Shelley Long – actress
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus – actress ^[36]
• Mike Love – band member of Beach Boys ^[52]

M

• Gavin MacLeod – actor, past honorary mayor ^[53]
• Leslie Mann – actress, and husband Judd Apatow ^[3]
• Thomas Mann – Nobel Prize-winning German novelist ^[54]
• Walter Matthau – actor, past honorary mayor ^[2]
• John Mayer – singer ^[55]
• Doug McClure – actor, past honorary mayor ^[2]
• Ted McGinley – actor ^[56]
• Patrick McGoohan – actor ^[57]
• Nancy Meyers – director, writer, producer ^[58]
• Henry Miller – author
• Poppy Montgomery – actress ^[59]
• Rita Moreno – singer, dancer and multiple award-winning actress, past honorary mayor ^[60]
• Jon Moscot – American-Israeli MLB pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
• Randy Newman – musician, singer-songwriter, and film composer ^[61]

N

• Stevie Nicks – singer ^[31]

O

• Conan O'Brien – talk show host, moved to Pacific Palisades in 2012 ^[62]
• Chris O'Donnell – actor ^[31]
• 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 ^[63]

P

• Brad Paisley – country singer ^[64]
• Alexandra Paul – actress and activist ^[65]
• 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 ^[66]

R

• John Raitt – actor, father of singer Bonnie Raitt ^[67]
• Ronald Reagan – 40th President of the United States, governor and actor ^[68]
• JJ Redick – NBA Player and Coach ^[69]
• Matthew Rhodes – film producer ^[70]
• 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 ^[71]

S

• Bob Saget – actor, comedian, past honorary mayor ^[72]
• Sabrina Scharf – actress and anti-pollution activist; wife of Bob Schiller ^[73]
• Bob Schiller – television writer
• Geoff Schwartz – NFL football player ^[74]
• Mitchell Schwartz – NFL football player ^[74]
• Arnold Schwarzenegger – actor and former governor of California ^[75]
• Vin Scully – baseball announcer (Los Angeles Dodgers) ^[76]
• Tom Segura – comedian
• Derek Shearer – professor at Occidental College and former United States Ambassador to Finland ^[77]
• David Shore – Canadian television writer
• Martin Short and actress-wife Nancy Dolman ( Soap ) – lived in Pacific Palisades, past honorary mayor ^[2]
• Maria Shriver – television journalist
• Sam Simon – writer, producer ^[78]
• Alan Smolinisky – entrepreneur, real estate investor, owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers ^{[79] [80]} and the Palisadian-Post newspaper ^[81]
• Evan Spiegel – co-founder and CEO of the American multinational technology and social media company Snap Inc. ^[82]
• Steven Spielberg – director, producer ^[83]
• Jill St. John – actress ^[84]
• Kent Steffes – USA Volleyball Hall of Famer
• Robert Stoller – psychiatrist and author
• Hilary Swank – actress ^[31]

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 ^[2]

W

• Robert Wagner – actor ^[84]
• Michael Waltman – actor ^[85]
• Adam West – actor, past honorary mayor ^[2]
• James Whale – director of horror films such as Frankenstein
• Matty Whitmore – contestant on reality TV show Survivor: Gabon
• Kimberly Williams – actress ^[64]
• Dennis Wilson – Beach Boys band member ^[52]
• Rita Wilson – actor ^[38]
• James Worthy – basketball player and TV commentator ^[86]

Z

• Gregg Zuckerman – mathematician, Yale University

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