This is a list of people who live or 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]
• Dan Aykroyd – actor, and wife Donna Dixon^[5]

B

• 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

• 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]
• Matt Damon – actor^{[citation needed]}

D

• Larry David – Seinfeld co-creator and star-creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm^[20]
• Geena Davis – actress, producer, activist^[21]
• Sydney Pollack – director, actor and producer
• 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]

E

• Charles and Ray Eames
• Alden Ehrenreich – actor^[24]
• Thelma "Tiby" Eisen (1922-2014) - baseball player

F

• Nanette Fabray – actress, singer, past honorary mayor^[2]
• Lion Feuchtwanger – German writer^[25]
• Buckminster Fuller – inventor (lived in Pacific Palisades until his death in 1983 at age 87)^[26][27]

G

• Jennifer Garner – actress^[28]
• John Goodman – actor^[29]
• Peter Graves – actor, past honorary mayor^[2]
• Brad Grey – producer and CEO of Paramount Pictures^[30]
• Christopher Guest – actor and director
• Steve Guttenberg – actor, past honorary mayor^[31]

H

• Brad Hall – actor^[32]
• Johnny Hallyday – singer ^[33]
• Tom Hanks – actor^[34]
• Goldie Hawn – actress
• Joseph Morgan Henninger – artist and illustrator^[35]
• Jennifer Love Hewitt – actress, television producer and director, singer/songwriter and author^[36]
• Arthur Hill – actor^[37]
• Emile Hirsch – actor^[38]
• Oskar Homolka – actor^[39]
• 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^[40]

K

• Karen Kane – fashion designer^[41]
• Stephen Kanner – modernist architect and co-founder of the A+D Museum^[42]
• Diane Keaton – actress^[29]
• Konrad Kellen – intelligence analyst and author^[43]
• Nicole Kidman – actress^[44]
• Ted Knight – actor, past honorary mayor^[2]

L

• Lorenzo Lamas – actor, martial artist and reality show participant
• Carole Landis – actress^[45]
• 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][46]
• Shelley Long – actress
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus – actress^[32]
• Mike Love – band member of Beach Boys^[47]

M

• Gavin MacLeod – actor, past honorary mayor^[48]
• Leslie Mann – actress, and husband Judd Apatow^[3]
• Thomas Mann – Nobel Prize-winning German novelist^[49]
• Walter Matthau – actor, past honorary mayor^[2]
• John Mayer – singer^[50]
• Doug McClure – actor, past honorary mayor^[2]
• Ted McGinley – actor^[51]
• Patrick McGoohan – actor^[52]
• Nancy Meyers – director, writer, producer^[53]
• Henry Miller – author
• Poppy Montgomery – actress^[54]
• Rita Moreno – singer, dancer and multiple award-winning actress, past honorary mayor^[55]
• Jon Moscot – American-Israeli MLB pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
• Randy Newman – musician, singer/songwriter, and film composer^[56]

N

• Stevie Nicks – singer^[29]

O

• Conan O'Brien – talk show host, moved to Pacific Palisades in 2012^[57]
• Chris O'Donnell – actor^[29]
• Amy O'Neill – former actress
• Paul N.J. Ottosson – three-time Oscar-winning sound designer
• Jack Owens – singer and songwriter of the 1940s, honorary mayor of Pacific Palisades in 1955^[58]

P

• Brad Paisley – country singer^[59]
• Alexandra Paul – actress and activist^[60]
• Matthew Perry – actor

Q

• Anthony Quinn – actor^[61]

R

• John Raitt – actor, father of singer Bonnie Raitt^[62]
• Ronald Reagan – 40th President of the United States, governor and actor^[63]
• Matthew Rhodes – film producer^[64]
• 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^[65]

S

• Bob Saget – actor, comedian, past honorary mayor^[66]
• Sabrina Scharf – actress and anti-pollution activist; wife of Bob Schiller^[67]
• Bob Schiller – television writer
• Geoff Schwartz – NFL football player^[68]
• Mitchell Schwartz – NFL football player^[68]
• Arnold Schwarzenegger – actor and former governor of California^[69]
• Vin Scully – baseball announcer (Los Angeles Dodgers)^[70]
• Tom Segura - comedian
• Derek Shearer – professor at Occidental College and former United States Ambassador to Finland^[71]
• 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^[72]
• Alan Smolinisky – entrepreneur, real estate investor, owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers^[73][74] and the Palisadian-Post newspaper^[75]
• Evan Spiegel – co-founder and CEO of the American multinational technology and social media company Snap Inc.^[76]
• Steven Spielberg – director, producer^[77]
• Jill St. John – actress^[78]
• Ken Steffes - USA Volleyball Hall of Famer
• Robert Stoller – psychiatrist and author
• Hilary Swank – actress^[29]

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^[78]
• Michael Waltman – actor^[79]
• 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^[59]
• Dennis Wilson – Beach Boys band member^[47]
• Rita Wilson – actor^[34]
• James Worthy – basketball player and TV commentator^[80]

Z

• Gregg Zuckerman - mathematician, Yale University