List of people from Pacific Palisades
(Redirected from Notable Natives and Residents of Pacific Palisades, California)
This is a list of people who live or lived in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles.
A
edit- 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]
- Dan Aykroyd – actor, and wife Donna Dixon[5]
B
edit- James Robert Baker – writer (committed suicide in his Pacific Palisades home in 1997)[6]
- Ronald Barak (born 1943) – Olympic gymnast[7]
- Christophe Beck – film/TV composer [8]
- Mel Blanc – voice actor, past honorary mayor[2][9]
- Richard Boone – actor (Have Gun - Will Travel)[10]
- Kobe Bryant – NBA player[11]
- Francis X. Bushman – silent film star[12]
C
edit- Chris Carter – writer, director, producer (The X-Files)[13]
- Chevy Chase – actor, comedian, past honorary mayor[14]
- Tommy Chong – actor, comedian (one half of the comedy duo Cheech & Chong)[15]
- Martin Cohan – television writer and producer, creator of Who's the Boss?[16]
- Stephen Collins – actor, 7th Heaven[17]
- Bill Cosby – actor
- Bert Convy – actor, game show host, past honorary mayor[2]
- Yvonne Craig – actress
- Denise Crosby – actress[18]
- Billy Crystal – actor and comedian, former co-honorary mayor, along with his wife, Janice
- Jamie Lee Curtis – actress[19]
D
edit- Matt Damon – actor [citation needed]
- Larry David – Seinfeld co-creator and star-creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm[20]
- Geena Davis – actress, producer, activist[21]
- Patti Davis – actress, daughter of Nancy and Ronald Reagan; describes growing up in the Palisades in her memoirs, including The Long Goodbye[22]
- Dom DeLuise – actor, past honorary mayor[2]
- Vlade Divac – NBA player[23]
- Donna Dixon – actress, and husband Dan Aykroyd[5]
- Dr. Dre – rapper[24]
E
edit- Charles and Ray Eames
- Alden Ehrenreich – actor[25]
- Thelma "Tiby" Eisen (1922-2014) – baseball player
- Max Emerson and partner Andrés Camilo
F
edit- Nanette Fabray – actress, singer, past honorary mayor[2]
- Lion Feuchtwanger – German writer[26]
- 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)[27][28]
G
edit- Jennifer Garner – actress[29]
- John Goodman – actor[30]
- Peter Graves – actor, past honorary mayor[2]
- Brad Grey – producer and CEO of Paramount Pictures[31]
- Christopher Guest – actor and director
- Steve Guttenberg – actor, past honorary mayor[32]
H
edit- Brad Hall – actor[33]
- Johnny Hallyday – singer [34]
- Tom Hanks – actor[35]
- Goldie Hawn – actress
- Joseph Morgan Henninger – artist and illustrator[36]
- Jennifer Love Hewitt – actress, television producer and director, singer/songwriter and author[37]
- Arthur Hill – actor[38]
- Emile Hirsch – actor[39]
- Oskar Homolka – actor[40]
- Anthony Hopkins – actor, past honorary mayor[2]
- Max Horkheimer – German philosopher of critical theory and the Frankfurt school
- Kate Hudson – actress
I
edit- Nick Itkin (born 1999) – Olympic fencer, junior world champion
J
edit- Sylvia Juncosa – guitarist[41]
K
edit- Karen Kane – fashion designer[42]
- Stephen Kanner – modernist architect and co-founder of the A+D Museum[43]
- Diane Keaton – actress[30]
- Konrad Kellen – intelligence analyst and author[44]
- Nicole Kidman – actress[45]
- Ted Knight – actor, past honorary mayor[2]
- Brianna Kupfer – university student and murder victim[46]
L
edit- Lorenzo Lamas – actor, martial artist and reality show participant
- Carole Landis – actress[47]
- 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][48]
- Shelley Long – actress
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus – actress[33]
- Mike Love – band member of Beach Boys[49]
M
edit- Gavin MacLeod – actor, past honorary mayor[50]
- Leslie Mann – actress, and husband Judd Apatow[3]
- Thomas Mann – Nobel Prize-winning German novelist[51]
- Walter Matthau – actor, past honorary mayor[2]
- John Mayer – singer[52]
- Doug McClure – actor, past honorary mayor[2]
- Ted McGinley – actor[53]
- Patrick McGoohan – actor[54]
- Nancy Meyers – director, writer, producer[55]
- Henry Miller – author
- Poppy Montgomery – actress[56]
- Rita Moreno – singer, dancer and multiple award-winning actress, past honorary mayor[57]
- Jon Moscot – American-Israeli MLB pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
- Randy Newman – musician, singer-songwriter, and film composer[58]
N
edit- Stevie Nicks – singer[30]
O
edit- Conan O'Brien – talk show host, moved to Pacific Palisades in 2012[59]
- Chris O'Donnell – actor[30]
- 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[60]
P
edit- Brad Paisley – country singer[61]
- Alexandra Paul – actress and activist[62]
- Mark Payne – multiple Emmy winning make-up artist, filmmaker and author
- Matthew Perry – actor
- Sydney Pollack – director, actor and producer
Q
edit- Anthony Quinn – actor[63]
R
edit- John Raitt – actor, father of singer Bonnie Raitt[64]
- Ronald Reagan – 40th President of the United States, governor and actor[65]
- Matthew Rhodes – film producer[66]
- 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[67]
S
edit- Bob Saget – actor, comedian, past honorary mayor[68]
- Sabrina Scharf – actress and anti-pollution activist; wife of Bob Schiller[69]
- Bob Schiller – television writer
- Geoff Schwartz – NFL football player[70]
- Mitchell Schwartz – NFL football player[70]
- Arnold Schwarzenegger – actor and former governor of California[71]
- Vin Scully – baseball announcer (Los Angeles Dodgers)[72]
- Tom Segura – comedian
- Derek Shearer – professor at Occidental College and former United States Ambassador to Finland[73]
- 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[74]
- Alan Smolinisky – entrepreneur, real estate investor, owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers[75][76] and the Palisadian-Post newspaper[77]
- Evan Spiegel – co-founder and CEO of the American multinational technology and social media company Snap Inc.[78]
- Steven Spielberg – director, producer[79]
- Jill St. John – actress[80]
- Ken Steffes – USA Volleyball Hall of Famer
- Robert Stoller – psychiatrist and author
- Hilary Swank – actress[30]
T
edit- 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
edit- Vivian Vance – actress, past honorary mayor[2]
W
edit- Robert Wagner – actor[80]
- Michael Waltman – actor[81]
- 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[61]
- Dennis Wilson – Beach Boys band member[49]
- Rita Wilson – actor[35]
- James Worthy – basketball player and TV commentator[82]
Z
edit- Gregg Zuckerman – mathematician, Yale University
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