List of people from Palm Beach, Florida

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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
• Sylvester Stallone - actor ^[3]
• Alfie Wise - 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
• Ann Coulter – syndicated columnist, author, and political commentator ^[4]
• Laurence Leamer – writer ^[5]
• Dmitri Nabokov – son and literary heir of famed novelist Vladimir Nabokov
• Tony Nader – author and leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement ^[6]
• James Patterson – best selling author ^[1]
• Richard René Silvin – author and lecturer ^{[7] [8]}

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 member ^[9]
• 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 ^[5]
• Ruth Madoff – 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 – billionaire businessman and investor
• Ronald Perelman – corporate raider, Chairman of Revlon who sold his Palm Beach house in 2004 for $70 million ^[10]
• 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 and former CEO of Pepsi-Cola

Music

• Jimmy Buffett – singer ^[10]
• 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. ^[11]
• 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 ^[12]
• Rush Limbaugh – radio show host, and conservative political commentator ^[13]
• Mehmet Oz – better known as Dr. Oz, Turkish-American cardiothoracic surgeon, professor, author, and television personality. ^[14]
• Howard Stern – radio personality

Philanthropists

• Mary Duke Biddle – philanthropist and wife of Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. ^[1]
• Joseph Gurwin – philanthropist ^[15]
• Evelyn Lauder – co-creator of the Pink Ribbon breast cancer awareness campaign, creator of Clinique ^[16]
• 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 ^{[ vague ]} – political family ^{[5] [ better source needed ]}
• 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 ^{[17] [18]}
• Melania Trump – wife of Donald Trump

Sports figures

• Logan Allen – MLB pitcher for the San Diego Padres
• Steve Alvers – American football player
• Herman Barron – professional golfer ^{[19] [20]}
• Rich Barnes – MLB pitcher for the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians
• Paul Fentress – Olympic field hockey player
• 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 ^[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 ^{[21] [22]}
• 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

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3. "Take a look inside Palm Beach property purchased by Sylvester Stallone".
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5. Loney, Jim (December 19, 2008). "Madoff scandal stuns Palm Beach Jewish community". Reuters. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
6. Hofheinz, Darrell (September 15, 2016). "North End home with Vedic principles wins board approval". The Shiny Sheet. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
7. Cooper Noble, Paulette (September 4, 2016). "Author shares tales, from royalty to a Duchess to loyalty from a dog". Palm Beach Daily News. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
8. Rogers, David (September 4, 2016). "Palm Beacher tells tale of SS Normandie in new book" . Retrieved August 3, 2020.
9. 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 December 2, 2013. Horace Dodge house Palm Beach.
10. Clemence, Sara (September 12, 2005). "Palm Beach Peach". Forbes. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
11. "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.
12. Whitaker, Sterling (January 14, 2024). "Sean Hannity Moves to Florida — See Inside His Stunning Oceanfront Home". Taste of Country. Retrieved January 14, 2025.
13. "Rush Limbaugh's House, and Other Egomaniacal Estates". New York Magazine. July 7, 2008. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
14. Ostrowski, Jeff (September 4, 2016). "Dr. Oz just bought a Palm Beach mansion. See how much he paid". The Palm Beach Post. Retrieved December 4, 2018.
15. Martin, Douglas (September 26, 2009). "Joseph Gurwin, Textile Manufacturer and Philanthropist, Dies at 89". The New York Times. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
16. 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.
17. Lahitou, Jessicah (July 8, 2018). "Ivana Trump Has Done A Lot Since She Divorced Donald In '92 — Here's What She's Up To Now". Bustle. Retrieved July 15, 2019.
18. Hofheinz, Darrell (March 10, 2016). "Ivana Trump sells Palm Beach house for $16.6 million, deed shows". Palm Beach Daily News. Retrieved July 15, 2019.
19. Slater, Robert (2000). Great Jews in sports. J. David Publishers. pp. 32–33. ISBN   9780824604530 . Retrieved October 5, 2018– via Google Books.
20. "Carla Barron Obituary". The Palm Beach Post. July 1, 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2019.
21. Stephanie Murphy, Shannon Donnelly (May 31, 2007). "He Certainly Put his Stamp on the Island". Palm Beach Daily News.
22. Janjigian, Robert (January 2006). "High Style Impact". Palm Beach Life: 108–111. Retrieved December 4, 2018.