Notable Residents or Recurring Visitors
The following are people who have either resided on Nantucket or regularly visited the island:
- Russell Baker, New York Times columnist
- Bill Belichick, football coach
- Peter Benchley, author
- Don Callahan, bank executive
- Katie Couric, journalist
- James H. Cromartie, artist
- A. J. Cronin, novelist
- Bob Diamond, banker
- James A. Folger founder of coffee company, bearing his name
- Mayhew Folger, whaling captain
- Bill Frist, United States senator
- Lou Gerstner, business executive
- Charles Geschke, software entrepreneur
- Frank Gifford and Kathie Lee Gifford television entertainers
- David Halberstam, journalist and historian
- Kerry Hallam, artist
- Dorothy Hamill, figure skater
- Tommy Hilfiger, retail clothing executive
- Wayne Huizenga, entrepreneur
- Judith Ivey, actress
- Seward Johnson, sculptor
- Frances Karttunen, scholar
- John Kerry, United States senator, and his wife, Teresa Heinz, philanthropist
- Frank Lorenzo, aviation executive
- Rowland Hussey Macy, retail merchandiser
- Chris Matthews, political commentator
- Maria Mitchell, astronomer
- Mary Morrill, grandmother of Benjamin Franklin
- Lucretia Coffin Mott minister, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights
- Cyrus Peirce, educator
- Roger Penske, entrepreneur
- Nathaniel Philbrick, author
- Steven M. Rales, business executive
- Fred Rogers, children's television entertainer.
- Ned Rorem, composer
- David M. Rubenstein, financier
- Tim Russert, television host
- Richard Mellon Scaife, publisher
- Eric Schmidt, software executive
- John Shea, actor
- Frank Stallone, actor and musician
- Barry Sternlicht, hotelier
- Jerry Stiller, comedian and actor, and his wife, Anne Meara, actress
- Louis Susman, ambassador
- Joseph Gardner Swift, first graduate of the United States Military Academy
- Bruce Taylor, tobacco executive
- Jack Welch, business executive
- Charles F. Winslow, physician, 19th Century science author
- Bob Wright, broadcast executive
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