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"LIONEL ATWILL, 61, NOTED ACTOR, DIES; Veteran of Stage and Screen Made London Debut in 1904 -Star in Shaw, Pinero." The New York Times. Tuesday April 23, 1946. Berton Averre – guitarist and composer Dan Aykroyd - actorBrenoff, Ann. "Dan Aykroyd's Palisades palace." Los Angeles Times. April 27, 2008. Retrieved on November 25, 2008.

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 Mel Blanc – voice actor, past honorary mayor Richard Boone – actor (Have Gun - Will Travel) Kobe Bryant – NBA player Francis X. Bushman – silent film star"Francis X. Bushman Of Silent Films Dies; Francis X. Bushman, Actor, Dies at 83." The New York Times. August 24, 1966.

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 Ron Mael – musician, songwriter Russell Mael - singer, musician

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 – actorLeitereg, N. J. (2017, February 18). Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn let go of longtime Pacific Palisades home. Retrieved March 23, 2019, from https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hp-hotprop-20170218-story.html

S Bob Saget – actor, comedian, past honorary mayorHonorary Mayors. (n.d.). Retrieved March 23, 2019, from https://palisadeschamber.com/about/honorary-mayors/ Sabrina Scharf – actress and anti-pollution activist; wife of Bob SchillerSabrina Schiller--Her Crusade for Clean Air Creates a Whirlwind 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

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