Notable Residents
- Ousted Cuban president Fulgencio Batista died in Guadalmina, near Marbella, in 1973.
- Rick Parfitt OBE, legendary British rock musician from Status Quo, lives in the mountains just outside of Marbella.
- Antonio Banderas, born in the nearby city of Málaga, has been a regular visitor to Marbella where he has a house in Los Monteros. Stella, his daughter with wife, US actress Melanie Griffith, was born in Marbella in 1999.
- HI-NRG popstar and actor, Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead), vacationed in Marbella from 1985 to 1987.
- In 1981 English actress Joan Collins accepted her career-making role in the hit prime time melodrama Dynasty while living in her Marbella vacation home.
- Sean Connery lived in Marbella, where he was regularly seen playing golf when not filming. He left following disagreements with the local press.
- English writer Vincent Cronin has had a home in Marbella for decades.
- Arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar was a longtime resident until his imprisonment, and has been nicknamed "The Prince of Marbella".
- Mark Langford, the former, multi-millionaire boss of The Accident Group who notoriously sacked most of his 2,700 staff by text message, died after being involved in a car accident in Marbella on April 11, 2007
- Actor Dolph Lundgren resides in Marbella and London with his wife and two children.
- English songwriter Richard Daniel Roman
- Porn star Linsey Dawn McKenzie
- Mike Reid, English actor and comedian, was living in Marbella at the time of his death on 29 July 2007. He was born in Hackney, London, and retired to Marbella a few years before he died.
- Andy Gray, Scottish footballer
- Frank Harper, actor
- James Hewitt
- Jörg Wontorra, German sport journalist
- Santi Cazorla, footballer
Read more about this topic: Marbella
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)