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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Famous quotes containing the words notable, residents, recurring and/or visitors:
“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“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)
“Let us think this thought in its most terrible form: existence as it is, without meaning or aim, and yet recurring inevitably, without a finale in nothingness—”eternal recurrence.””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Neighboring farmers and visitors at White Sulphur drove out occasionally to watch ‘those funny Scotchmen’ with amused superiority; when one member imported clubs from Scotland, they were held for three weeks by customs officials who could not believe that any game could be played with ‘such elongated blackjacks or implements of murder.’”
—For the State of West Virginia, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)