List of people from Palm Beach, Florida
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The following people were born, or live in, Palm Beach, Florida:
- Ellen Barkin – actress[1]
- George Hamilton – actor[2]
- Mary Hartline – actress and model[1]
- Margaret Hayes – actress
- Brett King – actor; later opened Coral Sands Hotel in the Bahamas; died in Palm Beach in 1999
- Alexander Kirkland – actor[1]
- Dina Merrill – 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. – 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 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
- 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, 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
- Charles Peter McColough – former chairman and CEO of the Xerox Corporation
- Gurnee Munn – president of American Totalisator[1]
- Bud Paxson – founder of Paxson Communications[1]
- Nelson Peltz – billionaire businessman and investor
- Ronald Perelman – corporate raider, chairman of Revlon; 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, former CEO of Pepsi-Cola
Music
- Jon Bon Jovi – singer from New Jersey; in March 2018 purchased a home on the island
- Jimmy Buffett – singer[10]
- Vic Damone – singer-songwriter, actor
- Michael Jackson – singer, lived there briefly, 2003–2005
- John Lennon – musician with The Beatles; 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]
- Nancy Brinker – founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure
- Joseph Gurwin – philanthropist[15]
- Janet Annenberg Hooker – philanthropist and daughter of Moses Annenberg[1]
- Evelyn Lauder – co-creator of the Pink Ribbon breast cancer awareness campaign, creator of Clinique[16]
- 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
- 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 for 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