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The Town of Palm Beach (called Palm Beach Island or the Island of Palm Beach to differentiate between the town and the county) is an upscale incorporated town
Incorporated town

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 in Palm Beach County
Palm Beach County, Florida

Palm Beach County has the largest land area located in the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2007, the county had an estimated population of 1,351,236 , making it the third most populous in the state of Florida and the twenty ninth most populous in the United States....
, Florida
Florida

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, United States
United States

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. The Intracoastal Waterway
Intracoastal Waterway

The Intracoastal Waterway is a 4,800-km waterway along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States. Some lengths consist of natural inlets, salt-water rivers, bays, and sounds; others are man-made canals....
 separates it from the neighboring cities of West Palm Beach
West Palm Beach, Florida

West Palm Beach, also known as West Palm, is the most populous city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The city is also the oldest incorporated municipality in South Florida....
 and Lake Worth
Lake Worth, Florida

Lake Worth is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, Florida, which takes its name from the body of water along its eastern border, originally called "Lake Worth", and now generally known as the Lake Worth Lagoon....
. As of 2000, Palm Beach had a year-round population of 10,468, with an estimated seasonal population of 30,000. As of 2004, the year-round population recorded by the U.S.






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The Town of Palm Beach (called Palm Beach Island or the Island of Palm Beach to differentiate between the town and the county) is an upscale incorporated town
Incorporated town

An incorporated town is a town that is a municipal corporation....
 in Palm Beach County
Palm Beach County, Florida

Palm Beach County has the largest land area located in the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2007, the county had an estimated population of 1,351,236 , making it the third most populous in the state of Florida and the twenty ninth most populous in the United States....
, Florida
Florida

Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. The Intracoastal Waterway
Intracoastal Waterway

The Intracoastal Waterway is a 4,800-km waterway along the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States. Some lengths consist of natural inlets, salt-water rivers, bays, and sounds; others are man-made canals....
 separates it from the neighboring cities of West Palm Beach
West Palm Beach, Florida

West Palm Beach, also known as West Palm, is the most populous city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The city is also the oldest incorporated municipality in South Florida....
 and Lake Worth
Lake Worth, Florida

Lake Worth is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, Florida, which takes its name from the body of water along its eastern border, originally called "Lake Worth", and now generally known as the Lake Worth Lagoon....
. As of 2000, Palm Beach had a year-round population of 10,468, with an estimated seasonal population of 30,000. As of 2004, the year-round population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 9,860.

History

Palm Beach was established as a resort by Henry Morrison Flagler
Henry Morrison Flagler

Henry Morrison Flagler was an United States business magnate, real estate promoter, rail transport developer and Rockefeller partner in Standard Oil....
, a founder of Standard Oil
Standard Oil

Standard Oil was a predominant United States integrated petroleum producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 as an Ohio Corporation, it was the largest oil refiner in the world and operated as a major company trust and was one of the world's first and largest multinational corporations until it was broken up...
, who made the Atlantic coast barrier island accessible via his Florida East Coast Railway
Florida East Coast Railway

The Florida East Coast Railway is a Class II railroad operating in the United States state of Florida; in the past, it has been a Class I railroad....
. The nucleus of the community was established by Flagler's two luxury resort hotels, the Royal Poinciana Hotel
Royal Poinciana Hotel

The Royal Poinciana Hotel was a Gilded Age hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, Florida, United States. Enlarged twice and doubling in size each time, it became the largest wooden structure in the world, with 1,700 employees and accommodations for 2,000 guests....
 and The Breakers Hotel
Breakers Hotel

The Breakers Hotel is a historic hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, Florida, United States. First known as The Palm Beach Inn, it was opened on January 16, 1896 by Henry Flagler, an oil, real estate and railroad tycoon, to accommodate travelers on his Florida East Coast Railway....
. West Palm Beach
West Palm Beach, Florida

West Palm Beach, also known as West Palm, is the most populous city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. The city is also the oldest incorporated municipality in South Florida....
 was built across Lake Worth as a service town, and has become a major city in its own right.

Flagler's houselots were bought by the beneficiaries of the Gilded Age
Gilded Age

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, and in 1902 Flagler himself built a Beaux-Arts
Beaux-Arts architecture

Beaux-Arts architecture denotes the academic Neoclassical architecture architectural style that was taught at the ?cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris....
 mansion, Whitehall
Flagler Museum

Flagler Museum, also known as Whitehall, is a 55-room mansion open to the public in Palm Beach, Florida in the United States. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....
, designed by the New York-based firm Carrère and Hastings
Carrère and Hastings

Carr?re and Hastings, the firm of John Merven Carr?re and Thomas Hastings , located in New York City, was one of the outstanding Beaux-Arts architecture list of architecture firms in the United States....
 and helped establish the Palm Beach winter "season" by constant entertaining. The town was incorporated on April 17, 1911.

Geography

Palm Beach is the easternmost town in Florida, located on a long barrier island.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 27.0 km² (10.4 mi²). 10.2 km² (3.9 mi²) of it is land and 16.9 km² (6.5 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 62.45% water.

Climate

Palm Beach, and rest of southern Florida has true tropical climate
Tropical climate

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, and with mean temperatures any month never below 64.4°F (18°C) .

Summer and wet period of May through October are hot, humid and wet with average high temperatures of 86 - 90°F (30 - 32°C) and lows of 70 - 75°F (21 - 24°C). During this period, more than half of the summer days brings occasionally afternoon thunderstorms and seabreezes that somewhat cools down for the rest of the day.

Winter and dryer period of November through April are warm and mostly dry with average high temperatures of 75 - 82°F (24 - 27°C) and lows of 57 - 66°F (14 - 19°C). However, the city experience occasionally cold fronts during this period, bringing high temperatures of 50s and 60s (10 - 16°C) and lows of 40s and 50s (4 - 10°C) lasting only for few days.

Annual average precipitation is 61 in (1560 mm), which most of it occur during the summer and wet period of May through October. However, rainfall occurs in all months, mainly as short-lived heavy afternoon thunderstorms. Palm Beach has an average of 133 wet days and 234 sunshine days annually. Hurricane season is officially from June 1 through November 30, with the peak months being August, September and October. The city has received direct or near direct hits from hurricanes in 1928, 1947, 1949, 1964, 1965, 1979, 1992, 1999, 2004, and 2005.

Monthly Normal and Record High and Low Temperatures
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Rec High °F 89 90 94 99 96 98 101 98 97 95 91 90
Norm High °F 75.1 76.3 79.2 82.1 85.9 88.5 90.1 90.1 88.7 85 80.4 76.4
Norm Low °F 57.3 58.2 61.9 65.4 70.5 73.8 75 75.4 74.7 71.2 65.8 60.1
Rec Low °F 27 32 30 43 51 61 66 65 66 46 36 28
Precip (in) 3.75 2.55 3.68 3.57 5.39 7.58 5.97 6.65 8.1 5.46 5.55 3.14
Source:


Demographics

As of the 2000 census, over half the population (52.6%) are 65 years of age or older, with a median age of 67 years. 9.4% are under the age of 18, 1.5% are from 18 to 24, 11.5% are from 25 to 44, and 25.0% from 45 to 64. For every 100 females there are 79.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 77.0 males.

The per capita income
Per capita income

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 for the town is $109,219. Males have a median income of $71,685 versus $42,875 for females. 5.3% of the population and 2.4% of families are below the poverty line. 4.6% of those under the age of 18 and 2.9% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

The racial makeup of the town is 96% White (93.8% were non-Hispanic White), 2.57% Black or African American, 0.53% Asian, 0.04% Native American, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.21% from other races, and 0.63% from two or more races. 2.56% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The 10,468 people in the town are organized into 5,789 households and 3,021 families. The population density
Population density

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 is 1,031.1/km² (2,669.2/mi²). There are 9,948 housing units at an average density of 979.8/km² (2,536.6/mi²). 7.7% of the households have children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.1% are married couples
Marriage

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 living together, 3.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 47.8% are non-families. 42.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 27.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 1.81 and the average family size is 2.38.

Many of Palm Beach's residents are affluent, with a median household income of $94,562 and a median family income of $137,867. The town's affluence and its "abundance of pleasures" and "strong community-oriented sensibility" were cited when it was selected in June 2003 as America's
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 "Best Place to Live" by Robb Report
Robb Report

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 magazine.

As of 2000, speakers of English
English language

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 was the first language
First language

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 of 87.81% of all residents, while French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
 comprised 4.48%, Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
 consisted of 3.65%, German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 made up 2.16%, Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
 speakers made up 0.45%, Yiddish
Yiddish language

Yiddish is a non-territorial High German languages of Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. Unlike other such languages, Yiddish is written with the Hebrew alphabet as opposed to a Latin alphabet....
 made up 0.36%, Russian
Russian language

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 was at 0.30% (even though those of Russia
Russia

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n ancestry made up 10.30% of the population), Arabic
Arabic language

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 and Swedish
Swedish language

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 at 0.25%, and Polish
Polish language

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 was the mother tongue of 0.24% of the population.

As of 2000, Palm Beach's had the 40th highest percentage of Russia
Russia

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n residents in the U.S., with 10.30% of the populace (tied with Pomona, NY
Pomona, New York

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 and the township
Township

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 of Lower Merion, PA). It also had the 26th highest percentage of Austria
Austria

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n residents in the US, at 2.10% of the town's population (which tied with 19 other US areas).

Transportation

The city is served by Palm Beach International Airport
Palm Beach International Airport

Palm Beach International Airport is a public airport located 3 miles west of West Palm Beach, Florida and serves Palm Beach County, Florida. The airport is operated and maintained by Palm Beach County Department of Airports....
 and Amtrak
Amtrak

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, as well as Tri-Rail
Tri-Rail

Tri-Rail is a Regional rail line linking Miami, Florida, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and West Palm Beach, Florida, Florida, United States. It is run by the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority....
-– all located in West Palm Beach and connecting Palm Beach to Miami. Public transportation is available through Palm Tran
Palm Tran

Palm Tran is a bus system run by the Palm Beach County Government, serving Palm Beach County, Florida. Standard one-way fare is $1.50 . For $3.55 an unlimited all-day pass ....
, which was offering several routes within the town of Palm Beach until May 10, 2008 and connected with the rest of the county.

The northern portion of Palm Beach is served by the Route 41 bus which travels from the northern most portion of Palm Beach at the inlet and then down to Royal Palm Way, across the Royal Park Bridge into West Palm Beach and up to the government center, and then follows the same route in reverse. This island of Palm Beach was served by the Route 42 Palm Tran bus from Lantana
Lantana, Florida

Lantana is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida, Florida, United States. The population was 9,437 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S....
 in the south going along State Road A1A up to Royal Poncianna Way where it crosses over the Flagler Memorial Bridge into West Palm Beach to the government center and then back again for the southbound trip. Route 42 ended on May 10. 2008 due to low ridership.

Private vehicles and taxis are the predominant means of transport in Palm Beach. Bicycles are a popular transport on the island, although most areas have no bicycle trails, so safe and comfortable travel is not always assured. The Lake Trail, exclusively for pedestrian and bike traffic, extends from Royal Palm Way (State Road 704) in the south up to the north end of the island. The trail follows the edge of the Lake Worth Lagoon
Lake Worth Lagoon

The Lake Worth Lagoon is a lagoon located in Palm Beach County, Florida, at coordinates . It is approximately long and up to a mile wide. It runs parallel to the coast, and is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by bar , including Palm Beach, Florida....
 (part of the intercoastal waterway) except for a section between the Flagler Museum
Flagler Museum

Flagler Museum, also known as Whitehall, is a 55-room mansion open to the public in Palm Beach, Florida in the United States. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....
 and the Biltmore Condominiums, where the trail follows the streets. Another break occurs to pass around the Sailfish Yacht Club in the north end of the island.

Traveling by bike along the ocean can be hazardous. Only a short section in the downtown area has sidewalks. The roads along the ocean are narrow and have small or no shoulders, making biking a potentially dangerous activity in those areas.

In the southern end of the island, south of Sloan's Curve, through South Palm Beach
South Palm Beach, Florida

South Palm Beach is a town in Palm Beach County, Florida, Florida, United States. The population was 699 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S....
 to East Ocean Avenue (linking to Lantana) is a two-mile long, relatively wide pedestrian path that is popular with walkers, runners, and bikers alike.

Points of interest

  • Breakers Hotel
    Breakers Hotel

    The Breakers Hotel is a historic hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, Florida, United States. First known as The Palm Beach Inn, it was opened on January 16, 1896 by Henry Flagler, an oil, real estate and railroad tycoon, to accommodate travelers on his Florida East Coast Railway....
  • Four Arts Gardens
    Four Arts Gardens

    The Four Arts Gardens, also known as the Four Arts Library, Gardens and Philip Hulitar Sculpture Gardens, are nonprofit botanical gardens located at 2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach, Florida....
  • Mar-A-Lago
    Mar-A-Lago

    Mar-A-Lago , built 1924-1927, is the name of the Marjorie Merriweather Post estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Post built the house with her husband, Edward F....
  • Whitehall, the Flagler Museum
    Flagler Museum

    Flagler Museum, also known as Whitehall, is a 55-room mansion open to the public in Palm Beach, Florida in the United States. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....
  • Worth Avenue
    Worth Avenue

    Worth Avenue, sometimes referred to as the Rodeo Drive of Florida, is a famous upscale shopping district in Palm Beach, Florida, in the United States....
  • Wally Findlay Galleries


Notable residents — past and present

  • Henry Morrison Flagler
    Henry Morrison Flagler

    Henry Morrison Flagler was an United States business magnate, real estate promoter, rail transport developer and Rockefeller partner in Standard Oil....
    , founder of Palm Beach
  • Conrad Black
    Conrad Black

    Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Order of Canada, Order of St. Gregory the Great is a Canadian-born British people historian and columnist who was for a time the third biggest newspaper magnate in the world....
    , Baron Black of Crossharbour a famous media baron, investor and author has lived on Palm Beach Island for over twenty years. He and his wife Barbara live on South Ocean Blvd.
  • Barbara (Scofield) Davidson-Ranked top 5 in the world in tennis, winner of French Open mixed doubles championship, quarterfinals or better of three of the four grand slam events
  • Paul Ilyinsky
    Paul Ilyinsky

    Paul R. Ilyinsky was a three-time Mayor of Palm Beach, Florida, and the only child of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia and his morganatic wife, Cincinnati heiress Audrey Emery....
     or HH Paul Romanovsky-Ilynsky 1928 - 2005 , senior male of Romanov Dynasty, Head of House of Holstein -Gottorp, Prince of Holstein-Gottorp, Duke of Holstein - Gottorp, Prince Romanovsky - Ilynsky, U.S. Marine Corps colonel , son of HIH Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia
    Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia

    Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, of the House of Romanov was a Russian imperial dynast, one of the few Romanovs to escape murder by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution of 1917....
    , grandson of John J. Emery , nephew of John J. Emery
    John J. Emery

    John Josiah Emery , developer of the Carew Tower in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the time the tallest building west of the Alleghenies, and the Netherland Plaza Hotel, opened at the same time, was a major figure in the city's cultural life for more than four decades....
    . Ilyinsky was elected to the Palm Beach town council in 1981. Two years later, Ilyinsky ran unopposed and spent another term as council president. He won the mayor's job in 1993, and served until 2000.
  • Horace Dodge, The Dodge automotive family. 1868-1920 Died December 1920 at his Palm Beach residence.
  • Marjorie Merriweather Post
    Marjorie Merriweather Post

    Marjorie Merriweather Post a.k.a. Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May was a leading United States socialite and the founder of General Foods, Inc....
     - Post cereal heiress, socialite, and philanthropist who built Mar-A-Lago
    Mar-A-Lago

    Mar-A-Lago , built 1924-1927, is the name of the Marjorie Merriweather Post estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Post built the house with her husband, Edward F....
     wife of E.F. Hutton
  • Nancy Brinker
    Nancy Brinker

    Nancy Goodman Brinker is the founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an organization named after her only sister, Susan, who died from breast cancer in 1980 at age 36....
     - former Chief of Protocol of the United States; former United States ambassador to Hungary 2001-09-06 to 2003-06-19; founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure; sister of Susan G. Komen.
  • William S. Burroughs, Jr.
    William S. Burroughs, Jr.

    William Seward Burroughs, III was an American novelist, also known as William S. Burroughs, Jr. and Billy Burroughs. He bears the name of both his William S....
     - American novelist,son of famous beat writer William S. Burroughs and great-grandson to William Seward Burroughs I, the original inventor of the Burroughs adding machine. (b. 1947)
  • E.F. Hutton - Wall street broker who built Mar-A-Lago
    Mar-A-Lago

    Mar-A-Lago , built 1924-1927, is the name of the Marjorie Merriweather Post estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Post built the house with her husband, Edward F....
     husband of Marjorie Merriweather Post
    Marjorie Merriweather Post

    Marjorie Merriweather Post a.k.a. Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May was a leading United States socialite and the founder of General Foods, Inc....
  • Dina Merrill
    Dina Merrill

    Dina Merrill is an American actress and socialite....
     - American actress and socialite (daughter of E.F. Hutton & Marjorie Merriweather Post)
  • Donald Trump
    Donald Trump

    Donald John Trump is an United States business magnate, socialite, television personality, and author. He is the Chairman and CEO of the Trump Organization, a US-based real-estate developer....
    - Business magnate and television personality
  • Ivana Trump
    Ivana Trump

    Ivana Trump is a former Olympic Games athlete, socialite, and fashion model noted for her marriage to Business magnate Donald J. Trump....
     - Ex-wife of Donald Trump
  • James Patterson
    James Patterson

    James B. Patterson is an United States author of thriller novels....
    - Best Selling Author
  • Ronald Perelman
    Ronald Perelman

    Ronald Owen Perelman is an American billionaire investor who made his fortune buying beleaguered corporations and re-selling them later for enormous profits....
    - Corporate Raider, Chairman of Revlon
    Revlon

    Revlon is an American cosmetics company....
  • Barney Family
    Barney Family

    The Barney Family are important American financiers, equally famous for their pervasion in the society pages as they are for economic journals. For the last 300 years the Barney clan has been lauded for their for their patronage of the arts and philanthropic pursuits....
    - heirs to the Smith Barney banking and brokerage fortune
  • Ann Coulter
    Ann Coulter

    Ann Hart Coulter is an United States political commentator, syndicated columnist, and best-selling author. She frequently appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public and private events....
    - Syndicated columnist, author, and political commentator
  • Rush Limbaugh
    Rush Limbaugh

    Rush Hudson Limbaugh III is an United States radio personality and Conservatism in the United States political commentator. His radio syndication talk radio, The Rush Limbaugh Show, airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks....
    -Radio host and political commentator
  • Jimmy Buffett
    Jimmy Buffett

    James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer, songwriter, author, businessman, and recently a movie producer best known for his "island escapism" lifestyle and music including hits such as "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday." He has a devoted base of Fan known as "Parrotheads." His band is called the Coral Reefer Band....
    - Singer
  • John Kluge
    John Kluge

    John Werner Kluge is a Germany-United States entrepreneur and a billionaire. He is best known as a television industry mogul in the United States....
    - Chairman of Metromedia
    Metromedia

    Metromedia was a media company that owned radio station and television stations in the United States from 1956 to 1986....
    , estimated net worth is $11 Billion
  • Malcolm Glazer
    Malcolm Glazer

    Malcolm Irving Glazer is an United States businessman and sports-team owner. He is the president and chief executive officer of First Allied Corporation, a holding company for his varied business interests, most notably in the food processing industy....
    - CEO of First Allied Corporation and sports team owner (Manchester United of the English Premier League and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
    Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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     of the National Football League
    National Football League

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    )
  • James H. Clark
    James H. Clark

    Dr. James H. Clark is a prolific entrepreneur and former computer scientist. He founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Inc., Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO and Healtheon....
    - Founder of Netscape
  • S. Daniel Abraham
    S. Daniel Abraham

    S. Daniel Abraham is an American businessman who was born and raised in Long Beach, New York. He is frequently included in Forbes 400 list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, and is notable for his introduction of the Slim-Fast beverage in the late 1970s....
    - Creator of Slim Fast
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    , Jewish Philanthropist
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  • Madeleine Astor
    Madeleine Astor

    Madeleine Force Astor was the wife of millionaire John Jacob Astor IV and the wealthiest woman on board the RMS Titanic....
     - Titanic Survivor, and widow of John Jacob Astor IV
    John Jacob Astor IV

    John Jacob Astor IV was an United States millionaire businessman, real estate builder, inventor, writer, a member of the prominent Astor family, and a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War....
  • Kennedy family
    Kennedy family

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    - Political Family
  • Charles Peter McColough
    Charles Peter McColough

    Charles Peter Philip Paul McColough was the joint creater and owner of the Xerox Corporation , and was a former Chief Executive Officer and Chair at Xerox....
    - Former Chairman and CEO of the Xerox Corporation.
  • Rod Stewart
    Rod Stewart

    Roderick David "Rod" Stewart Order of the British Empire is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping....
    - Singer
  • Vera Wang
    Vera Wang

    Vera Wang is an United States fashion designer based in New York. She is known for her wedding gown collection, among other specialties.Wang has made wedding gowns for Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Thal?a, Jessica Simpson, Avril Lavigne, Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Garner, Sharon Stone, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Uma Thurman, Holly Hunter, Camp...
     - Fashion designer (has recently sold the $9m mansion she owned on the Palm Beach coast and moved to NYC)
  • Curt Gowdy
    Curt Gowdy

    Curtis Edward "Curt" Gowdy was an Media of the United States sportscaster, well-known as the longtime "voice" of the Boston Red Sox and for his coverage of many nationally-televised sporting events, primarily for NBC Sports in the 1960s and 1970s....
     - Sportscaster
  • Christopher Sinclair - Former CEO of Pepsi
  • Henry Paulson
    Henry Paulson

    Henry Merritt "Hank" Paulson Jr. served as the 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury and is a member of the International Monetary Fund Board of Governors....
     - Former US Treasury Secretary
  • Dmitri Nabokov
    Dmitri Nabokov

    Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov, born in Berlin on May 10 1934, is the only child of writer Vladimir Nabokov and his wife Vera Nabokov. He is currently executor of his Vladimir Nabokov#List of works....
     - son and literary heir of famed novelist Vladimir Nabokov
    Vladimir Nabokov

    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Multilingualism Russian-American novelist and short story writer.Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian language, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist....
  • Lana J. Marks - Designer
  • Laurence Leamer
    Laurence Leamer

    Laurence Leamer is a best-selling author and journalist. Leamer is a former Ford Fellow in International Development at the University of Oregon and a former International Fellow at Columbia University....
     - Writer
  • Bernard Madoff
    Bernard Madoff

    Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff is an United States businessman and former chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange charged with perpetrating what may be the largest investor fraud ever committed by a single person....
    - Former NASDAQ chairman and suspect of financial fraud
  • The Duke and Duchess of Windsor frequently holidayed in Palm Beach after their marriage in 1937.
  • Gabriela Spanic
    Gabriela Spanic

    Gabriela Spanic , popularly known as Gaby Spanic, is an award-winning mexican actress best known for her roles in telenovelas. Her twin sister is model/actress Daniela Spanic....
      International Spanish Novela actress/singer


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