Notable Residents
Former and current residents include:
- Hervey Allen, author of Anthony Adverse
- Leo Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite
- William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State
- Neal Colzie, NFL cornerback
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas, environmentalist
- Frank Gore, San Francisco 49ers running back
- Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society
- LeBron James, basketball player, Miami Heat.
- Peter Lewis, businessman
- Madonna, 1992–2000
- Mia Michaels, television star
- Kirk Munroe, author of children's books
- Ralph Middleton Munroe, American yacht designer, builder of the oldest house in Miami, Florida, now The Barnacle Historic State Park; 1886–1933
- Ric O'Barry, Dolphin Activist; star of movie/documentary The Cove
- Winston E. Scott, (Captain, USN, Ret.); NASA Astronaut (former)
- Sylvester Stallone 1993–1999
- Sepy Dobronyi, 1963–2010, Sculptor, Movie Producer, Jeweler
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Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or residents:
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)