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Fact Sheets - Notable Figures

Notable figures that have stayed at or visited The Biltmore Hotel since 1993

World Leaders

President William Jefferson Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
Vice President Al Gore and Mrs. Tipper Gore
President George Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush
Vice President Dan Quayle
President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter
U.S. Secretary of State General Colin Powell
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
Their Majesties King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía of Spain
Their Royal Highnesses Grand Duke Jean and Grand Duchess Josephine of Luxembourg
Her Royal Highness Princess Beneditke of Denmark and His Highness Prince Richard
His Royal and Imperial Highness Bertrand of Orleans and Braganza, Prince of Brazil
H.S.H. Prince Albert of Monaco
His Highness The Maharaja Gaj Singh II of Marwar-Jodphur
His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso
British Prime Minister Lady Margaret Thatcher
President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia
President Alejandro Toledo of Perú
President José Maria Aznar of Spain and First Lady Ana Botella de Aznar
Honorable Jordi Pujol, President of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, Spain
President Vicente Fox of the United States of Mexico and First Lady Marta Fox
President Francisco Flores of El Salvador and First Lady Lourdes Flores
President Enrique Bolaños of Nicaragua
President Miguel Angel Rodríguez of Costa Rica
President Andrés Pastrana of Colombia
President Julio María Sanguinetti of Uruguay
President Mikhail Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union
Congressman Dick Gephardt
Senator Bob Dole and Mrs. Elizabeth Dole
Senator John Edwards
Senator Joseph Biden
Senator Bob Graham
Senator Edward Kennedy
Senator John McCain
Senator Ken Salazar
U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Florida Governor Jeb Bush

The 3 Heads of State of the Western Hemisphere who took part in the 1994 Summit of the Americas

Prime Minister Lester Bird of Antigua and Barbuda
President Carlos Saúl Menem of Argentina
Prime Minister Hubert A. Ingraham of the Bahamas
Prime Minister Owen Arthur of Barbados
Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel of Belize
President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada of Bolivia
President Itamar Franco of Brazil
Prime Minister Jean Chretien of Canada
President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle of Chile
President Ernesto Samper Pizano of Colombia
President José Maria Figueres Olsen of Costa Rica
Prime Minister Dame M. Eugenia Charles of Dominica
President Joaquín Balaguer Ricardo of the Dominican Republic
President Sixto Durán-Ballén Cordovez of Ecuador
President Armando Calderón Sol of El Salvador
Prime Minister Nicholas Brathwaite of Grenada
President Ramiro de León Carpio of Guatemala
President Cheddi Jagan of Guyana
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti
President Carlos Roberto Reina Idiaquez of Honduras
Prime Minister Percival J. Patterson of Jamaica
President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León of México
President Violeta Chamorro of Nicaragua
President Ernesto Pérez Balladares of Panamá
President Juan Carlos Wasmosy of Paraguay
President Alberto Kenyo Fujimori of Perú
Prime Minister Kennedy Simmons of St. Kitts and Nevis
Prime Minister John G. M. Compton of St. Lucia
Prime Minister James F. Mitchell of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
President Ronald R. Venetian of Suriname
Prime Minister Patrick Manning of Trinidad and Tobago
President Luis Alberto Lacalle of Uruguay
President William Jefferson Clinton of the United States of America
President Rafael Caldera of Venezuela

Entertainment, Fashion and Sports Celebrities

Christina Aguilera
Muhammad Ali
Steve Allen
Paul Anka
Lauren Bacall
Kevin Bacon
Billy Baldwin
Antonio Banderas
Angela Bassett
Marisa Berenson
Larry Bird
AJ Burnett
James Caan
Neve Campbell
Cyd Charisse
Chayanne
Natalie Cole
Nadia Comaneci
Bill Cosby
Cindy Crawford
Celia Cruz
Jane Curtin
Johnny Depp
Cameron Díaz
Raúl DiBlasio
Bo Diddley
Matt Dillon
Placido Domingo
Rocío Durcal
Emilio Estefan
Gloria Estefan
Erik Estrada
Alex Fernández
Chase Fields
Jamie Foxx
Daisy Fuentes
Andy García
Gessell
Bob Griese
Martha Grimes Alejandra Guzmán
Scott Hamilton
Woody Harrelson
Orlando “El Duque” Hernández
Livan Hernández
Carolina Herrera
Carl Hiaasen
Tommy Hilfiger
Evander Holyfield
Whitney Houston
Oscar de la Hoya
Rachel Hunter
Elizabeth Hurley
Julio Iglesias
Chris Isaak
LL Cool J
Janet Jackson
Magic Johnson
José José
Alicia Keys
Gladys Knight
Emeril Lagasse
Ty Law
Martin Lawrence
Spike Lee
Jerry Lewis
Tara Lipinski
Jennifer López
Mike Lowell
Lucero
Kyle MacLachlan
Chuck Mangione
Patty Manterola
Ricky Martin
Jamal Mashburn
John Mellencamp
Luis Miguel
Manuel Mijares
Penélope Ann Miller
Matthew Modine
Pablo Montero
Julianne Moore
Alonzo Mourning
Bill Murray
Laura Pausini
Chyna Phillips
Mike Piazza
Salvador Pineda
Alexandre Pires
Markie Post
Prince
Dennis Quaid
Robert Redford
Judge Reinhold
Denise Richards
Eric Roberts
“El Puma” Rodríguez
Iván Rodríguez
Ronaldo
Theresa Russell
Alex Sánchez
Gus Van Sant
Cristina Saralegui
Roy Scheider
Claudia Schiffer
Jon Secada
Martin Sheen
Will Smith
Sylvester Stallone
Martha Stewart
Rod Stewart
Oliver Stone
Sharon Stone
Olga Tañón
Thalía
The Bee Gees
John Travolta
Ivana Trump
Tommy Tune
Gloria Vanderbilt
Bob Vila
Robert Wagner
Mike Wallace
John Walsh
Esther Williams
Oprah Winfrey
Katarina Witt
James Woods
Kristi Yamaguchi
Daddy Yankee