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:
“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)
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“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)
“The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowhere in a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)