- David Bromstad
David Reed Bromstad (born August 17, 1973) is the winner of season one of "HGTV Design Star". He has a show called "Color Splash with David Bromstad", which debuted Monday, March 19, 2007, on HGTV & Style Network. Bromstad was born in Cokato, Minnesota. He was always interested in art and design, and while in high school made a decision to pursue a career as a Disney animator. - Morris Lapidus
Morris Lapidus (November 25, 1902 - January 18, 2001) was the architect of curvy, flamboyant Neo-baroque moderne hotels that defined the 1950s 'Miami Beach' resort hotel style. Born in Odessa, Russian Empire, his family Orthodox Jews, fled Russian pogroms to New York when he was an infant. As a young man, Lapidus toyed with theatrical set design and studied architecture at Columbia University. - Cindy Margolis
Cynthia D. "Cindy" Margolis (born October 1, 1965) is an American glamour spokesmodel and actress. - Pete Tong
Pete Tong (born July 1960) is a British DJ who works for BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom. He is known worldwide by fans of electronic music for hosting programs such as "Essential Mix" and "Essential Selection" on the radio service, which can be heard through Internet radio streams, for his record label FFRR Records, and for his own performances at nightclubs across the globe. Tong has also worked as a record producer. - Albert Anis
Albert Anis (1889-1964), was a renowned Art Deco Architect. He was one of a group of American-born architects working in Miami Beach who synthesized the austere architectural principles of the International Style with their own brand of modernism which embraced the ornamentation and exotic lure of tropical Miami Beach. - William Lehman
William Lehman was a United States Representative from Florida. Born in Selma, Alabama, he graduated from Dallas Academy and Selma High School, 1930. He received a B.S. from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1934 and attended Oxford University in 1965. He was an auto dealer and a teacher at Miami Norland Junior High School in Miami, Florida in 1963–1964, and was an instructor at Miami Dade Junior College in 1965–1966. - Mitchell Wolfson Jr.
Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. (1939 -) is a businessman, collector, philanthropist, and founder of the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach, Florida, and Nervi, Italy. Art collector and museum founder Mitchell "Micky" Wolfson Jr. continues to explore his unique vision through ongoing initiatives and educational projects in South Florida and Genoa, Italy. Dedicated to the support and promotion of research, preservation and education, … - Laila Ali
Laila Ali (born December 30, 1977 in Miami Beach) is the daughter of Muhammad Ali and his third wife Veronica Porsche Ali. She was their second child and is the most famous of the nine children born to Muhammad Ali. Laila has a degree in business from Santa Monica College and previously owned a nail salon in California before becoming a boxer. - Xavier Cortada
Xavier Cortada is a Cuban-American painter residing in Miami, Florida. His work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and cultural venues across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Antarctica At the University of Miami, he was inducted into the Iron Arrow Honor Society, the highest honor awarded at the university. Cortada holds three degrees from the University of Miami – a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Public Administration and Juris Doctor. - Carl G. Fisher
Carl Graham Fisher was an American entrepreneur. Despite having severe astigmatism, he became a seemingly tireless pioneer and promoter of the automotive, auto racing, and real estate development industries. Regarded as a promotional genius for most of his life, he was a bicycle enthusiast and became involved in bicycle and later auto racing. After being injured in stunts, he helped develop paved racetracks and roadways. - Dorothy Draper
Dorothy Draper (born 1889 in Tuxedo Park, New York, died 1969) was an influential and innovative American interior decorator of the early to mid 20th century. She was one of the few early women to really delve into the male dominated construction industry. Her style was big, brash, bodacious, bold, and bordered on what some would consider gaudy, shocking both men and women of her day. She was a predecessor of Morris Lapidus, the architect that would redesign, … - Barret Robbins
Barret Robbins (born August 26, 1973 in Houston, Texas) is a former American Football center for the National Football League Oakland Raiders where he played for nine seasons between 1995 to 2004. After playing for Texas Christian University, he was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the 2nd round. He became one the NFL's best centers, being elected to the Pro Bowl in 2002 and 2003. While being the leader of the Raiders offensive line that led them to Super Bowl XXXVII, … - Bryan Norcross
Bryan Norcross is the Hurricane Specialist for WFOR-TV (the CBS owned-and-operated television station in Miami, Florida) and the chief hurricane analyst for CBS News in New York. Norcross has been a constant fixture on CBS's national newscasts over the past few years due to the renewed frequency of hurricanes. A resident of Miami Beach, Norcross has lived in Florida for most of his life. - Alex Fernandez
Alexander Fernandez (born August 13, 1969 in Miami Beach, Florida) is a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who pitched for the Chicago White Sox (1990-96) and Florida Marlins (1997, 1999-2000). In 1990, Fernandez won the Golden Spikes Award while pitching at Miami-Dade Community College as the best amateur baseball player in the United States. He later attended the University of Miami before entering Major League Baseball. - Janelle Pierzina
Janelle Marie Pierzina (born January 10, 1980) was a contestant on the sixth and All-Star seasons of the American version of the CBS reality show "Big Brother". Pierzina resides in Miami Beach, Florida. She was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. - John S. Collins
John Stiles Collins (December 29, 1837-February 11, 1928) was a Quaker farmer from New Jersey, USA who moved to southern Florida and attempted to grow vegetables and coconuts on the swampy, bug-infested stretch of land between Miami and the ocean, a barrier island which became Miami Beach. Although the farming venture was not successful, with involvement from his family, notably his sons and sons-in law, John S. Collins also became a land developer. - June Taylor
June Taylor (14 Dec 1917-17 May2004) was an American choreographer. Born in Chicago, Taylor was a nightclub dancer until she developed tuberculosis at age 20. She took up choreography, founding, in 1942, her own troupe of dancers, the "June Taylor Dancers", and took them on the road. She met Jackie Gleason at a Baltimore nightclub in 1946, and made her television debut in 1948, on "The Toast of the Town" starring Ed Sullivan, … - Alexandra Kosteniuk
Alexandra Kosteniuk is a Russian chess player who became female European champion in 2004 by winning the tournament in Dresden, Germany. In August 2006 she became the first Chess960 (Fischer Random) women world champion after beating Germany's top female player Elisabeth Pähtz 5.5-2.5. In November 2004, she achieved the International Grandmaster title, becoming the tenth of the eleven women who have received the highest title awarded by the World Chess Federation (FIDE). - Gerardo Machado
Gerardo Machado y Morales (September 28, 1871, Camajuani - March 29, 1939, Miami Beach, Florida) was a Cuban general of the Cuban War of Independence and the 5th president of Cuba (1925-1933). He was from the central provinces and poor background, said to have been a cattle rustler, before he joined the fight for independence. A butcher by trade he had only three fingers on his left hand. He married cousin Elvira Machado Nodal; they had three daughters; Laudelina (Nena), … - George E. Merrick
George Edgar Merrick (1886-1942) was a real estate developer who is best known as the planner and builder of the city of Coral Gables, Florida in the 1920s, one of the first planned communities in the United States. Merrick was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania. His father, Solomon G. Merrick, was a Congregationalist minister. The family moved to Miami, Florida when George was 12 years old. He attended Rollins College in Winter Park. - Yochanan Zweig
Rabbi Yochanan Zweig is the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva and Kollel Beis Moshe Chaim of Miami Beach. Under his auspices is also a high school and elementary school, both located in Miami Beach. While attending Ner Israel Rabbinical College from 1955-1969, Rabbi Zweig received rabbinical ordination ("Yoreh Yoreh" and "Yadin Yadin") from Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman and Rabbi Yaacov Weinberg. - Amar Gamal
Amar Gamal (born c. 1970) is a well known Cuban dancer who practices the art of bellydancing. She lived in Florida as a teenager. At the age of thirteen, Gamal began performing as a bellydancer with the Mid-Eastern Dance Exchange company, based in Miami Beach. One of her directors at the time was the well known dancer, Tamalyn Dallal. - Apasra Hongsakula
Apasara Hongsakula (born in 1948 in Bangkok, Thailand;) is a Thai beauty queen who has held the title Miss Universe 1965. She was the first woman from Thailand ever captured the Miss Universe crown. - Sholom Lipskar
Sholom Dovber Lipskar is a Chabad rabbi who founded the Landow Yeshiva Center in Miami Beach in 1969, The Shul of Bal Harbour in Surfside, Florida in 1981 and the Aleph Institute and the Educational Academy for the Elderly also in 1981. - Everett McGill
Everett McGill (b. Charles Everett McGill on October 21, 1945) is an American actor, born in Miami Beach, Florida. He graduated from Rosedale High School, Rosedale, Kansas, in 1963. McGill has a relatively short filmography, but has managed to garner some level of fame by appearing in films and television series, including a stint as Chad Richards on the soap opera "The Guiding Light" in 1975 and 1976, with cult followings. - Robert Raven Kraft
Robert "Raven" Kraft (1950-) is a streak runner and country songwriter living in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.A. Raven has run on the sand of Miami Beach every single day since January 1, 1975. In the summer, Raven begins his daily eight-mile run shortly after 5:00 p.m.. In the winter, the run begins shortly after 4:00p.m. Every day, the run starts and ends at the 5th Street lifeguard stand. - Tracy Middendorf
Tracy Lynn Middendorf (born January 26, 1970 in Miami Beach, Florida) is an American television, movie, and stage actress. She attended Pickens High School in Jasper, Georgia. In 1987, during her senior year, she left Jasper to take drama classes in Miami, and later attended SUNY Purchase. She broke into television as Carrie Brady on the daytime soap opera "Days of Our Lives" in 1992. - Eddie Heywood
Eddie Heywood (birth name:Edward Heywood, Jr. b. December 4, 1915 in Atlanta, Georgia - d. January 3, 1989 in Miami Beach, Florida) was a famous Jazz pianist who became very popular in the 1940s. His father, Eddie Heyward, Sr. was also a jazz musician from the 1920s. Heywood, Jr. played with several popular jazz musicians such as Wayman Carver in 1932, Clarence Love from 1934 to 1937 and Benny Carter from 1939 to 1940 after moving to New York City. - Abraham Lavender
Dr. Abraham D. Lavender (born in Sumter, South Carolina, November 14 1940) is a professor of Sociology at Florida International University, and is president of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies. Lavender was born and raised in South Carolina, receiving his B.A. and M.A. degrees in psychology from the University of South Carolina at Columbia in 1963 and 1965 respectively. He earned a PhD in sociology in 1972 at the University of Maryland, College Park, … - Sean Yazbeck
Sean Yazbeck (born 1972 in London, England) is a businessman, actor, and the winner of the fifth season of the reality show, "The Apprentice", where candidates compete in several tasks on a 15-week "job interview" for a position in one of billionaire Donald Trump's companies. He is the first non-American to be selected during the run of The Apprentice. - Ernest Lawson
Ernest Lawson (March 22, 1873 - December 18, 1939) was an American painter and a member of The Eight. Lawson was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Though Lawson mostly painted landscapes, he also did some realistic urban scenes which were shown at the 1908 exihibition of The Eight. His painting style is heavily influenced by Impressionism, especially the style of John Henry Twachtman, Alfred Sisley, and J. Alden Weir. - Claudia Costa
Claudia Costa (born June 6, 1978) is a Canadian-born model and actor (see TV links), born to Portuguese parents. Claudia grew up in Toronto, Ontario where she began her modeling career. After relocating to Miami Beach where she would attend film school, Costa shifted gears and posed for Playboy. She was the Cyber Girls of the Week on (March 8 2004). Her credits include Playboy magazine prints and Playboy TV. In June 2007, … - Carlos Prio-Touzet
Carlos Prio-Touzet (b. 1955 in Havana, Cuba), is a prominent architect in Miami, Florida. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami. He has been a top designer and vice president for such firms as Arquitectonica, Sasaki, and Spillis Candela. He has designed buildings in Europe, Asia and the United States. He is presently one of the founding principals of Touzet Studio. - King Levinsky
King Levinsky (10 September 1910 - 30 September 1991), also known as Kingfish Levinsky, was an American heavyweight boxer who fought during the 1930's. He was born Harris Krakow, and was a member of the Krakow fish selling family of Maxwell street Chicago. Levinsky was a rated heavyweight whose biggest wins came against ex-heavyweight champion Jack Sharkey on a ten round decision, and ex-lightheavyweight champion Tommy Loughran, also on a decision. - Amber Barretto
Amber Barretto (born January 19, 1978 in Miami Beach, Florida) is an American actress. She was born of Cuban parents in Miami Beach, Fl. but grew up in Michigan and New York. She was discovered while competing in the "Little Miss Michigan" pageant where one of the judges owned an agency, and her family later moved to New York City. Auditioned for "Hang Time" on tape in New York, when Peter Engel, the executive producer of the show, … - Stacey Reile
Stacey Reile, also known as Stay-Lo, is a participant in the sport of women's boxing. Reile was born and raised in Utica, New York and attended high school there. Reile had a lot of misguided anger and needed a change, so after high school she moved to Miami Beach, Florida. Reile took up boxing in 1998 after she met a Swedish boxer named Lena Akesson (a.k.a. Lena Fiore). Lena, who was signed with Angelo Dundee, invited Reile to her gym. - Cheryl Patton
Cheryl Patton is a beauty queen coming from Florida who has held the Miss USA title. Patton won the Miss Florida USA 1967 title and represented Florida in the Miss USA 1967 pageant held in Miami Beach in her home state. She placed as second runner-up in the pageant, which was won by Sylvia Hitchcock of Alabama. In July that year, Hitchcock became the fourth woman from the United States to win the Miss Universe title, and for the first time, … - Rob Richie
Robert Richie (born 1962), is the executive director of the FairVote, a non-profit organization that researches and advocates election reforms that increase voter turnout, accountable governance and fair representation. A particular expert on international and domestic electoral systems, Richie has directed FairVote (formerly called the Center for Voting and Democracy) since its founding in 1992. - Phil Spitalny
Phillip "Phil" Spitalny (b. November 7, 1890, Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now independent Ukraine] - d. October 11, 1970, Miami Beach, Florida was a jazz musician known for his work on the radio, which he earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions on the radio. Wrote some music with jazz musician Lee "Stubby" Gordon. - Carol Vitale
Carol Vitale (born November 14, 1948, in Elizabeth, New Jersey) is an American model and television program hostess/personality, who resides simultaneously in both Los Angeles, California and Miami, Florida. She was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1974 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by David Chan. Carol grew up in New Jersey with six brothers and sisters. She had a very wholesome childhood and was close to her maternal grandparents.
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