List of people from Florida
This is a list of notable people who were born, raised, or spent significant time in the U.S. state of Florida.
Business
Politics and government
Film and television
Literature
| Name | Notability | Connection to Florida |
| T.D. Allman | Exposed CIA secret involvement with the war in Laos and interviews with world figures; historian author of Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State and Miami: City of the Future | Born in Tampa |
| Kristen Arnett | Fiction author and essayist; her debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, was a New York Times bestseller | Born, raised, and lives in Orlando |
| Dave Barry | Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and best-selling author | Lives in Miami |
| Shmuley Boteach | Best-selling author of 31 books including Kosher Sex and Kosher Jesus, Orthodox rabbi, radio and television host | Lived in Miami |
| Pat Frank | Author of Alas, Babylon | Lived in Tangerine |
| Carl Hiaasen | Journalist and novelist | Born in Plantation |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Author and folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance | Raised in Eatonville |
| James Weldon Johnson | Author, poet, and civil rights activist | Born in Jacksonville |
| Stetson Kennedy | Author of Palmetto Country and civil rights activist | Lived in Jacksonville and St. Augustine |
| David Nolan | Author of Fifty Feet in Paradise: The Booming of Florida | Lives in St. Augustine |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | Novelist and short story writer | Lived in Cross Creek, the setting for most of her work |
| Lillian Smith | Author and social critic | Born in Jasper |
| Florence Duval West | Poet | Born in Tallahassee, Florida |
Military
Music
Science and technology
| Name | Notability | Connection to Florida |
| Anthony J. Arduengo, III | Chemist and material scientist; discoverer of persistent carbene | Born in Tampa |
| Wendy Chung | Molecular and clinical geneticist | Born and raised in southern Florida |
| Philip Don Estridge | Led the development of the IBM Personal Computer | Born in Jacksonville; lived and worked in Boca Raton |
| John Gorrie | Inventor of mechanical cooling | Lived and worked in Apalachicola from 1833–onward |
| George Smoot | Astrophysicist and cosmologist; recipient, 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics | Born in Yukon |
| John Archibald Wheeler | Theoretical physicist | Born in Jacksonville |
Sports
- Eli Abaev, American-Israeli basketball player for Hapoel Be'er Sheva in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Jodi Appelbaum-Steinbauer, professional tennis player
- Richard Bleier, Major League Baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
- Alexis Blokhina, tennis player
- Ashlee Bond, American-Israeli Olympic show jumping rider who competes for Israel
- Angela Buxton, English tennis player
- Joe Chealey, basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Paul DeJong, Major League Baseball infielder for the San Francisco Giants
- Toney Douglas, basketball player for Hapoel Eilat of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- David Efianayi, basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, raised in Orlando
- Colton Gordon, baseball pitcher
- Ronald Green, American-Israeli basketball player, born in Miami Beach
- Max Greyserman, professional golfer on the PGA Tour
- Dalton Guthrie, MLB player for the San Francisco Giants
- Shawn Jones, basketball player for Hapoel Haifa of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Maurice Kemp, basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Evan Kravetz, Major League Baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds
- Jack Langer, basketball player and investment banker
- Max Lazar, Major League Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies
- Barry Leibowitz, American-Israeli basketball player in the American Basketball Association and the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Cameron Long, basketball player
- Dov Markus, Israeli-American soccer player, lives in Boynton Beach
- Ed Rubinoff, tennis player
- David Schneider, South African-Israeli tennis player
- Andrew Smith, American-Latvian basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Speedy Smith, basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Other
| Name | Notability | Connection to Florida |
| G. Harold Alexander | Florida Republican Party state chairman | Resided in Fort Myers |
| John Atchison | Assistant U.S. Attorney and children's sports coach, committed suicide in prison after being charged with soliciting sex from a five-year-old girl | Resided in Gulf Breeze |
| Carrot Top | Prop comedian | Born in Cocoa Beach |
| Fabiano Caruana | Youngest chess grandmaster in United States history | Born in Miami |
| Rick Dees | Radio personality | Born in Jacksonville |
| Janice Dickinson | Early supermodel | Born in Hollywood |
| Tiffany Fallon | Playboy Playmate of the Year | Born in Fort Lauderdale |
| Abraham Lincoln Lewis | Businessman and Florida's first African-American millionaire | Born in Madison |
| Adam Lovell | Founder of WriteAPrisoner.com | Lives and works in Edgewater |
| Charles E. Merrill | Founder of Merrill Lynch | Born in Green Cove Springs |
| Kara Monaco | Playboy Playmate of the Year | Born in Lakeland |
| Carolyn Murphy | Supermodel | Born in Fort Walton Beach |
| Chris Myers | Sportscaster | Born in Miami |
| Kathleen Parker | Syndicated columnist | Grew up in Winter Haven |
| A. Philip Randolph | Civil rights activist | Born in Crescent City |
| Adin Ross | Twitch streamer | Born in Boca Raton |
| Jason Schappert | Aviator, flight instructor | Lives in Ocala |
| Louis H. Schiff | Broward County Judge | Lives in Broward County |
| Krissy Taylor | Model | Born in Miami |
| Niki Taylor | Model | Born in Miami |
| Norman Thagard | NASA astronaut | Lives and works in Tallahassee |
| Hugo Vihlen | Record-breaking solo sailor | Born in Florida; lived in Homestead |
| Jimmy Wales | Founding member of the Wikimedia Foundation | Resided in St. Petersburg |
| Roger L. Worsley | Higher education administrator, president of Laredo Community College and chancellor of Southern Arkansas University Tech | Resident of The Villages in Sumter County since 2011 |
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Foreign-born Floridians
| Name | Notability | Connection to Florida |
| Alia Atkinson | Competitive swimmer; 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020 Olympian | Born in Jamaica, partly raised in and lives in Pembroke Pines |
| Camila Cabello | Singer and former member of Fifth Harmony | Born in Cuba and raised in Miami |
| Mark Consuelos | Television actor and husband of Kelly Ripa | Born in Spain and lived in Tampa |
| Gloria Estefan | Grammy Award-winning singer | Born in Cuba and raised in Miami |
| José Fernandez | Professional baseball pitcher | Born in Cuba and later moved to Tampa |
| Don Francisco | Popular television personality from Telemundo | Born in Chile and lives in Miami |
| Enrique Iglesias | Pop singer-songwriter and son of Spanish music legend Julio Iglesias | Born in Spain and raised in Miami |
| Mark Meadows | U.S. representative from North Carolina and White House Chief of Staff | Born in France and raised in Brandon |
| Tim Tebow | Professional baseball outfielder and former football quarterback | Born in the Philippines and raised in Jacksonville |
| Malu Trevejo | Singer | Born in Cuba and moved to Miami at age 13 |
| Carlos Valdés | Actor and singer known for his role as Cisco Ramon in the television series The Flash | Born in Colombia and raised in Miami |