Famous People
Miami in television and film
- 2 Fast 2 Furious
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
- All About the Benjamins
- Any Given Sunday
- Bad Boys
- Big Trouble
- The Birdcage
- CSI: Miami
- Empty Nest
- Flipper
- The Golden Girls
- The Jackie Gleason Show (1960s incarnation)
- Making Mr. Right
- Miami Rhapsody
- Miami Vice
- Nip/Tuck
- Porky's
- Revenge of the Nerds 2
- Scarface
- There's Something About Mary
The Miami International Film Festival is a week-long event held each February.
The video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City takes place in a fictional city very inspired by Miami , including some of the same architecture and geography.
Famous Miami natives
- Steve Carlton, former professional baseball player, Philadelphia Phillies.
- Manny Diaz, mayor
- Bob Graham, U.S. Senator and former governor of Florida .
- Sidney Poitier, Academy Award-winning actor.
- Janet Reno, former U.S. Attorney General.
- Steve Spurrier, former UF Gators football coach.
- Sean Taylor, professional football player, Washington Redskins.
- Ben Vereen, actor.
- Marion Williams, gospel singer.
Notable Nonnative Residents
- Anita Bryant, singer and anti-gay crusader.
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas, famous conservationist and writer of fiction and non-fiction.
- Gloria Estefan, musician.
- Carl Hiaasen, notable contemporary novelist and former Miami Herald writer originally from Plantation, Florida.
- Gérard Latortue, Prime Minister of Haiti.
- Julia Tuttle, "Mother of Miami", one of the founders of the city in 1896.
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