Ceramists

• Horace Caulkins
  Horace Caulkins
  Horace James Caulkins was an American ceramic artist living in Detroit, Michigan, he began his career as a dental supplier. In doing this he developed a kiln for firing dental enamel, the products from which were marketed under the trade name of Revelation...
  
  
• Diana Pancioli
  Diana Pancioli
  Diana Pancioli, born in Detroit, Michigan, is professor of ceramics at Eastern Michigan University and the author of Extruded Ceramics published in 1999 by Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. She is a former head of Production at Pewabic Pottery in Detroit...
  
  
• Mary Chase Perry Stratton
  Mary Chase Perry Stratton
  Mary Chase Perry Stratton was an American ceramic artist. She was a co-founder, along with Horace James Caulkins, of Pewabic Pottery, a form of ceramic art used to make architectural tiles.-Early years:...
  
  
• Tom Lollar
  Tom Lollar
  Tom Lollar is an internationally renowned ceramist. He attended Western Michigan University and earned his B.F.A. in Sculpture and Ceramics in 1973 and his M.A. in Ceramics and Art History in 1979....
  
   – professor

Painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

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• Ian Hornak
  Ian Hornak
  Ian Hornak was an American draughtsman, painter and printmaker associated with the Hyperrealist and Photorealist art movements.-Biography:...
  
   – realist painter
• Bradley Jones
  Bradley Jones
  Bradley Scott "Brad" Jones is an Australian football player who plays for Liverpool as a goalkeeper. He was a member of the Middlesbrough team for over a decade, and also had a number of loan spells at a succession of lower league clubs; Shelbourne, Stockport, Rotherham, Blackpool and Sheffield...
  
  
• Carlos Lopez
  Carlos López
  Carlos López can refer to:* Carlos Antonio López , Paraguayan politician* Carlos López , Mexican baseball player* Carlos Lopez * Carlos López de Silanes, Mexican football player...
  
  
• Charles McGee (painter)
  Charles McGee (painter)
  Charles McGee is an American artist. McGee moved to Detroit at the age of 10, where he found that “everything was on the move and it hasn’t slowed down yet.” McGee’s paintings, assemblages and sculptures are in prestigious national and international collections, and are on permanent display at the...
  
  
• Gari Melchers
  Gari Melchers
  Julius Garibaldi Melchers was an American artist. He was one of the leading American proponents of naturalism.-Biography:...
  
  
• John Mix Stanley
  John Mix Stanley
  John Mix Stanley was an artist-explorer, an American painter of landscapes, and Native American portraits and tribal life. Born in the Finger Lakes region of New York, he started painting signs and portraits as a young man, but in 1842 traveled to the American West to paint Native American life...
  
   – 19th-century painter and portraitist; cofounder of the forerunner to the Detroit Institute of Arts
  Detroit Institute of Arts
  The Detroit Institute of Arts is a renowned art museum in the city of Detroit. In 2003, the DIA ranked as the second largest municipally owned museum in the United States, with an art collection valued at more than one billion dollars...
  
  
• Carol Wald
  Carol Wald
  Carol S. Wald was an American artist who was also widely known for her talents as an illustrator. Her collages and paintings appeared in Time, Fortune, and Ms, and on the covers of Business Week, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and Saturday Review.Carol Wald was born in Detroit, Michigan,...
  
  
• Kurt Wenner
  Kurt Wenner
  Kurt Wenner is an artist with an international following. He is best known for his invention of 3D pavement art. Wenner was inspired by anamorphic perspective, but had to invent an entirely new geometry in order to create his stunning 3D pavement art images.-Career:Kurt Wenner produced his first...
  
   – painter
• Carl Owens
  Carl Owens
  Carl Owens was an American artist. His professional experience in the Art began as an illustrator in the U.S. Army. Later, he taught art in the Detroit Public Schools and served as staff artist for the school system...
  
   – painter

Sculptors

• Marshall Fredericks
  Marshall Fredericks
  Marshall Maynard Fredericks was an American sculptor.-Biography:Fredericks was born of Scandinavian heritage in Rock Island, Illinois on January 31, 1908. His family moved to Florida for a short time and then settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where he grew up...
  
  
• Julius T. Melchers
• Carl Milles
  Carl Milles
  Carl Milles was a Swedish sculptor, best known for his fountains. He was married to artist Olga Milles and brother to Ruth Milles and half brother to the architect Evert Milles...
  
  
• Isamu Noguchi
  Isamu Noguchi
  was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces,...
  
  
• Corrado Parducci
  Corrado Parducci
  Corrado Giuseppe Parducci was an Italian-American architectural sculptor who was a celebrated artist for his numerous early 20th Century works.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Carlo Romanelli
  Carlo Romanelli
  Carlo Alfred Romanelli was an Italian sculptor, born in Florence, Italy August 24, 1872 and died August 9, 1947. He came to the United States in 1902, settling in Los Angeles, California. He moved to Detroit, Michigan in the early 1920s...
  
  
• Edward Wagner
  Edward Wagner
  -Early years:Wagner had immigrated from Germany to Detroit, Michigan by 1871. After arriving in Detroit he studied with Detroit sculptor Julius Melchers . He also studied in New York....
  
  

Business, industry, academics, and labor

• Steve Ballmer
  Steve Ballmer
  Steven Anthony "Steve" Ballmer is an American business magnate. He is the chief executive officer of Microsoft, having held that post since January 2000. , his personal wealth is estimated at US$13.9 billion, ranking number 19 on the Forbes 400.-Early life:Ballmer was born in Detroit, Michigan to...
  
  
• William Boeing
  William Boeing
  William Edward Boeing was an American aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company.-Biography:Boeing was born to a wealthy German mining engineer named Wilhelm Böing who had made a fortune and who had a sideline as a timber merchant...
  
  
• George Gough Booth
  George Gough Booth
  George Gough Booth was the publisher of the privately held Evening News Association, a co-founder of Booth Newspapers, and a noted philanthropist.-Publishing career:...
  
  
• Eli Broad
  Eli Broad
  Eli Broad is an American businessman from Detroit, Michigan who resides in Los Angeles, California.-Life and career:An only child, Broad was born in the Bronx to Lithuanian Jewish immigrant parents. His father was a housepainter, his mother was a dressmaker. His family moved to Detroit when he...
  
   – Co-founder KB Home and SunAmerica Life Insurance Co.
• Ben Carson
  Ben Carson
  Benjamin Solomon "Ben" Carson, Sr., M.D., is an American neurosurgeon and the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States by President George W...
  
   – noted neurosurgeon
• Tony Chiappetta - Argents Express Group
• John De Lorean
  John De Lorean
  John Zachary DeLorean was an American engineer and executive in the U.S. automobile industry, most notably with General Motors, and founder of the DeLorean Motor Company....
  
  
• Horace Elgin Dodge
  Horace Elgin Dodge
  Horace Elgin Dodge, Sr. was an American automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company.-Early years and business:...
  
   – co-founder of Dodge
  Dodge
  Dodge is a United States-based brand of automobiles, minivans, and sport utility vehicles, manufactured and marketed by Chrysler Group LLC in more than 60 different countries and territories worldwide....
  
  
• John Francis Dodge
  John Francis Dodge
  John Francis Dodge was an American automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company.-Biography:...
  
   – co-founder of Dodge
• Roy D. Chapin
  Roy D. Chapin
  Roy Dikeman Chapin was an American industrialist and automaker. He also served as the United States Secretary of Commerce from August 8, 1932, to March 3, 1933, in the last months of the administration of President Herbert Hoover.Chapin was born in 1880 in Lansing, Michigan, and attended the...
  
   – founder Hudson Motor Car Company
  Hudson Motor Car Company
  The Hudson Motor Car Company made Hudson and other brand automobiles in Detroit, Michigan, from 1909 to 1954. In 1954, Hudson merged with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation to form American Motors. The Hudson name was continued through the 1957 model year, after which it was dropped.- Company strategy...
  
  , United States Secretary of Commerce
  United States Secretary of Commerce
  The United States Secretary of Commerce is the head of the United States Department of Commerce concerned with business and industry; the Department states its mission to be "to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce"...
  
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• Roy D. Chapin, Jr. – former CEO of American Motors
  American Motors
  American Motors Corporation was an American automobile company formed by the 1954 merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company. At the time, it was the largest corporate merger in U.S. history.George W...
  
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• William C. Durant
  William C. Durant
  William Crapo "Billy" Durant was a leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry, the founder of General Motors and Chevrolet who created the system of multi-brand holding companies with different lines of cars....
  
  
• Charles T. Fisher
  Charles T. Fisher
  Charles Thomas Fisher was a Catholic American businessman and an automotive pioneer.Born in Norwalk, Ohio, Charles was the second son of Lawrence and Margaret Fisher. The family would grow to include seven boys and four girls...
  
   – president of Detroit's Fisher Body
  Fisher Body
  Fisher Body is an automobile coachbuilder founded by the Fisher brothers in 1908 in Detroit, Michigan; it is now an operating division of General Motors Company...
  
   automotive.
• Charles Lang Freer
  Charles Lang Freer
  Charles Lang Freer was an American railroad-car manufacturer from Detroit, Michigan who gave to the United States his art collections and funds for a building to house them. The Freer Gallery of Art founded by him is part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C..-Early life:Freer was...
  
  
• Edsel Ford
  Edsel Ford
  Edsel Bryant Ford , son of Henry Ford, was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was president of Ford Motor Company from 1919 until his death in 1943.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Edsel Ford II
  Edsel Ford II
  Edsel Bryant Ford II is the great-grandson of Henry Ford and the son of Henry Ford II. He is currently a member of the board of directors of Ford Motor Company.-Education:...
  
  
• Henry Ford
  Henry Ford
  Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry...
  
  
• Henry Ford II
  Henry Ford II
  Henry Ford II , commonly known as "HF2" and "Hank the Deuce", was the son of Edsel Ford and grandson of Henry Ford...
  
  
• William Clay Ford, Sr.
  William Clay Ford, Sr.
  William Clay Ford, Sr. is the youngest of the four children of Edsel Ford and the youngest grandchild of Henry Ford.-Biography:...
  
  
• William Clay Ford, Jr.
  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  William Clay "Bill" Ford Jr. , is the great-grandson of Henry Ford, and serves as the executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, Ford also served as the President, CEO, and COO until turning over those roles to former Boeing executive Alan Mulally in September 2006...
  
  
• Dan Gilbert
• Berry Gordy
  Berry Gordy
  Berry Gordy, Jr. is an American record producer, and the founder of the Motown record label, as well as its many subsidiaries.-Early years:...
  
  
• Frank J. Hecker
  Frank J. Hecker
  Frank J. Hecker was an American railroad-car manufacturer from Detroit, Michigan-Early life:Frank J. Hecker was born in Freedom, Michigan on July 6, 1846. His family moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1859, where Frank was educated...
  
  
• Joseph L. Hudson
• Jimmy Hoffa
  Jimmy Hoffa
  James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa was an American labor union leader....
  
   – Teamsters
  Teamsters
  The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is a labor union in the United States and Canada. Formed in 1903 by the merger of several local and regional locals of teamsters, the union now represents a diverse membership of blue-collar and professional workers in both the public and private sectors....
  
   president
• Mike Ilitch
  Mike Ilitch
  Michael "Mike" Ilitch Sr. is an American entrepreneur and owner of the Detroit Red Wings and the Detroit Tigers. In addition to his sports ownerships, he is the founder and owner of Little Caesars Pizza since 1959, which has become an international fast food franchise...
  
  
• Marian Bayoff Ilitch
  Marian Bayoff Ilitch
  Marian Bayoff Ilitch was born and raised in Dearborn, Michigan, USA, the daughter of Macedonian immigrants. She met her future husband Mike Ilitch in 1954 when the two went on a blind date arranged by his father. A year later, they were married. They have seven children...
  
  
• Peter Karmanos, Jr.
  Peter Karmanos, Jr.
  Peter Karmanos, Jr. is the CEO of Compuware Corporation and owner of the Carolina Hurricanes, Plymouth Whalers and Florida Everblades hockey franchises...
  
  
• Sebastian S. Kresge
• Henry M. Leland
  Henry M. Leland
  Henry Martyn Leland was a machinist, inventor, engineer and automotive entrepreneur who founded the two premier American luxury marques, Cadillac and Lincoln. Retrieved December 30, 2008....
  
  
• Charles Lindbergh
  Charles Lindbergh
  Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.Lindbergh, a 25-year-old U.S...
  
  
• Michael J. Malik, Sr.
  Michael J. Malik, Sr.
  Michael J. Malik, Sr. is a developer and entrepreneur from Detroit, Michigan who resides in Birmingham, Michigan.Since the early 1990s he and his partner Marian Ilitch have been catalysts for legalization of gambling and development of gambling halls from coast to coast and in Hawaii with mixed...
  
  
• Oscar Mayer
  Oscar Mayer
  Oscar Mayer is an American meat and cold cut production company, owned by Kraft Foods, known for its hot dogs, bologna, bacon and Lunchables products.-History:...
  
  
• Elijah McCoy
  Elijah McCoy
  Elijah J. McCoy was a Canadian-American inventor and engineer, who was notable for his 57 U.S. patents, most to do with lubrication of steam engines. His family returned to the United States in 1847, where he lived for the rest of his life and became a US citizen.- Early life and education:Elijah J...
  
  
• Tom Monaghan
  Tom Monaghan
  Thomas Stephen "Tom" Monaghan is an entrepreneur and Catholic philanthropist and activist who founded Domino's Pizza in 1960. He owned the Detroit Tigers from 1983-1992....
  
  
• Alex Manoogian
  Alex Manoogian
  Alexander "Alex" Manoogian was an Armenian-American industrial engineer, businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist who had most of his career in Detroit, Michigan. He and his wife Marie donated their home to the city, which uses the Manoogian Mansion as the mayoral residence...
  
  
• David Overton – founder of The Cheesecake Factory
  The Cheesecake Factory
  The Cheesecake Factory, Inc. is a restaurant company in the United States. The company operates 165 upscale, casual, full-service dining restaurants: 151 under The Cheesecake Factory mark, 13 under the Grand Lux Cafe mark and one under the RockSugar Pan Asian Kitchen mark...
  
   and Grand Lux Cafe
• Larry Page
  Larry Page
  Lawrence "Larry" Page is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Sergey Brin, is best known as the co-founder of Google. As of April 4, 2011, he is also the chief executive of Google, as announced on January 20, 2011...
  
   founder of Google
  Google
  Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
  
  
• Roger Penske
  Roger Penske
  Roger S. Penske is the owner of the automobile racing team Penske Racing, the Penske Corporation, and other automotive related businesses. A winning racer in the late 1950s, Penske was named 1961's Sports Car Club of America Driver of the Year by Sports Illustrated...
  
  
• Heinz Prechter
  Heinz Prechter
  Heinz Prechter a German born entrepreneur who founded the American Sunroof Company was a quintessential entrepreneur, legendary visionary, community leader and philanthropist. He was a close friend and avid fundraiser for the Bush Family .-Early life:Born in 1942 in Kleinhöbing, Germany, Mr...
  
  
• Walter Reuther
  Walter Reuther
  Walter Philip Reuther was an American labor union leader, who made the United Automobile Workers a major force not only in the auto industry but also in the Democratic Party in the mid 20th century...
  
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• Stephen M. Ross
  Stephen M. Ross
  Stephen M. Ross is an American real estate developer. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of The Related Companies, L.P., a New York City-based real estate development company. It is jointly owned by his business partner, Jorge M. Perez. He owns 95% of the Miami Dolphins NFL football franchise and...
  
   – founder/CEO of The Related Companies
  The Related Companies
  The Related Companies L.P. is a real estate developer, manager and financier. The developer of numerous high-profile projects in New York City and around the United States, Related is best known for its historic 2.8 million-square-foot $1,700,000,000 Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle...
  
   real estate firm, helped to establish the Ross School of Business
  Ross School of Business
  The Stephen M. Ross School of Business is the business school of the University of Michigan. Numerous publications have ranked the Ross School of Business' Bachelor of Business Administration , Master of Business Administration and Executive Education programs among the top in the country and the...
  
   at the University of Michigan
  University of Michigan
  The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
  
  , 95% owner of Miami Dolphins
  Miami Dolphins
  The Miami Dolphins are a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
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• Jeffrey Sachs
  Jeffrey Sachs
  Jeffrey David Sachs is an American economist and Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. One of the youngest economics professors in the history of Harvard University, Sachs became known for his role as an adviser to Eastern European and developing country governments in the...
  
   – economist
• James E. Scripps
  James E. Scripps
  James Edmund Scripps was an American newspaper publisher and philanthropist.Scripps was born in 1835 in London to James Mogg Scripps and Ellen Mary Scripps. His father was a bookbinder who came to America in 1844 with six motherless children. Scripps grew up on a Rushville, Illinois, farm...
  
  
• Tyree Guyton
  Tyree Guyton
  Tyree Guyton is an artist from Detroit, Michigan, born on August 24, 1955. He is married to Jenenne Whitfield and lives within Detroit city limits. Before becoming an artist, Guyton worked as a firefighter and an autoworker and served in the U.S. Army. Guyton studied art at Marygrove College,...
  
   – artist, founder Heidelberg Project
  Heidelberg Project
  The Heidelberg Project is an outdoor art project in Detroit, Michigan. It was created in 1986 by artist Tyree Guyton and his grandfather Sam Mackey as an outdoor art environment in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood on the city's east side, just north of the city's historically African-American Black...
  
  
• James Vernor
  James Vernor
  James Vernor, Sr. was an American pharmacist and druggist who invented Vernor's ginger ale in 1866.-Biography:...
  
   – creator of Vernors ginger ale
• B. Joseph White
  B. Joseph White
  Bernard Joseph White is President Emeritus of the University of Illinois and James F. Towey Professor of Business and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is Dean Emeritus of the Stephen M...
  
   – president of the University of Illinois
  University of Illinois system
  The University of Illinois is a system of public universities in Illinois consisting of three campuses: Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, and Springfield. Across its three campuses, the University of Illinois enrolls about 70,000 students. It had an operating budget of $4.17 billion in 2007.-System:The...
  
  , former president of the University of Michigan
• Manuel "Matty" Moroun
  Manuel Moroun
  Manuel "Matty" Moroun is an American businessman of Lebanese descent and the owner of CenTra, Inc., the holding company which controls the Ambassador Bridge. The former is significant as it is the only private ownership of a border crossing between the United States and Canada. He bought the...
  
   – transportation mogul, owner of the Ambassador Bridge
  Ambassador Bridge
  The Ambassador Bridge is a suspension bridge that connects Detroit, Michigan, in the United States, with Windsor, Ontario, in Canada. It is the busiest international border crossing in North America in terms of trade volume: more than 25 percent of all merchandise trade between the United States...
  
  
• Ray Jenkins- Founder of Uncle Ray's Potatoe Chip Company

Government and politics

• Albert M. Bielawski
  Albert M. Bielawski
  -Biography:Bielawski was born on January 16, 1867 to Joseph and Teresa Bielawski in Poland. Eventually he would move to the United States, living in Cudahy, Wisconsin and Gary, Indiana before moving to Hamtramck, Michigan and Detroit, Michigan...
  
  
• James Blanchard
  James Blanchard
  James Johnston "Jim" Blanchard is a politician from the US state of Michigan. A Democrat, Blanchard has served in the United States House of Representatives, as the 45th Governor of Michigan, and as United States Ambassador to Canada....
  
  
• Sonny Bono
  Sonny Bono
  Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono was an American recording artist, record producer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades.-Early life:...
  
  
• Ralph Bunche
  Ralph Bunche
  Ralph Johnson Bunche or 1904December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine. He was the first person of color to be so honored in the history of the Prize...
  
   – Nobel Peace Prize laureate
  Nobel Peace Prize
  The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
  
  
• Cora Brown
  Cora Brown
  Cora Mea Brown , was the first African-American woman elected to a United States state senate, winning a seat in the Michigan State Senate in 1952.-Early life:...
  
  
• Mickey Cafagna
  Mickey Cafagna
  Michael "Mickey" Cafagna was the third elected mayor of the city of Poway, California, serving from 1998 until his death in 2009.Cafagna was born in Detroit, Michigan, the third son of Italian immigrants...
  
   – mayor of Poway, California
  Poway, California
  Poway is a city in San Diego County, California. Originally an unincorporated community in San Diego County, Poway officially became a city in December 1980. Even though Poway lies geographically in the middle of San Diego County, most consider its relative location as north county inland...
  
  
• Roy D. Chapin
  Roy D. Chapin
  Roy Dikeman Chapin was an American industrialist and automaker. He also served as the United States Secretary of Commerce from August 8, 1932, to March 3, 1933, in the last months of the administration of President Herbert Hoover.Chapin was born in 1880 in Lansing, Michigan, and attended the...
  
  
• Ella Bully-Cummings
  Ella Bully-Cummings
  Ella M. Bully-Cummings became the first female police chief of Detroit, the tenth-largest police force in the United States, when Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick appointed her on November 3, 2003....
  
  
• Lewis Cass
  Lewis Cass
  Lewis Cass was an American military officer and politician. During his long political career, Cass served as a governor of the Michigan Territory, an American ambassador, a U.S. Senator representing Michigan, and co-founder as well as first Masonic Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Michigan...
  
  
• John Conyers
  John Conyers
  John Conyers, Jr. is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1965 . He is a member of the Democratic Party...
  
  
• William Davidson
  William Davidson
  William Morse "Bill" Davidson, J. D. was an American businessman who was President, Chairman and CEO of Guardian Industries, one of the world's largest manufacturers of architectural and automotive glass...
  
  
• Francis X. Desnoyers
  Francis X. Desnoyers
  -Biography:Desnoyers was born Francis Xavier Desnoyers on July 29, 1813 in Detroit, Michigan. He would marry Louisa A. Baird of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and had three children. Their son, Frank, would also become Mayor of Green Bay and would marry the daughter of another Green Bay Mayor, M. P....
  
  
• Thomas E. Dewey
• John Dingell
  John Dingell
  John David Dingell, Jr. is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1955 . He is a member of the Democratic Party...
  
  
• Burley Follett
  Burley Follett
  -Biography:Follett was born on December 30, 1806 in Otsego County, New York. In 1822, he moved to Detroit, Michigan. Follett first came to Wisconsin to deliver supplies to the garrisons of Fort Howard and Fort Winnebago. He took up permanent residence in Green Bay following the Black Hawk War....
  
  
• Nathan Goodell
  Nathan Goodell
  -Biography:Goodell was born on August 8, 1798 in Pomfret, Connecticut. He was the eleventh of twelve children born to Richard and Marcia Goodell. Goodell would move to Jefferson County, New York and marry Hannah Mosely Weeks, the daughter of a Swedenborgian clergyman. They would have two children....
  
  
• Saul Green
  Saul Green
  Saul Green is the former Deputy Mayor of Detroit, Michigan. He was appointed the position by former Mayor, Ken Cockrel, Jr. and was retained as Deputy Mayor by current Mayor Dave Bing.Green is an attorney who overseen both the Detroit Police and Law Department...
  
  
• Tom Hayden
  Tom Hayden
  Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden is an American social and political activist and politician, known for his involvement in the animal rights, and the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. He is the former husband of actress Jane Fonda and the father of actor Troy Garity.-Life and...
  
  
• Kwame Kilpatrick
  Kwame Kilpatrick
  Kwame Malik Kilpatrick is a former mayor of Detroit, Michigan. Kilpatrick's mayorship was plagued by numerous scandals and rampant accusations of corruption, with the mayor eventually resigning after being charged with ten felony counts, including perjury and obstruction of justice...
  
  
• Marilyn Jean Kelly
  Marilyn Jean Kelly
  Marilyn Jean Kelly is a jurist in the U.S. state of Michigan. Mrs. Kelly is serving her second term in office as a Justice on the Michigan Supreme Court...
  
  
• T. John Lesinski
  T. John Lesinski
  Thaddeus John "T. John" Lesinski, , was politician and judge from the U.S. state of Michigan.-Biography:Lesinski was born in Detroit, Michigan and lived in Detroit and Grosse Pointe Shores...
  
  
• Alexander Macomb
  Alexander Macomb, Jr.
  Alexander Macomb was the commanding general of the United States Army from May 29, 1828 to June 25, 1841. Macomb was the field commander at the Battle of Plattsburg, and after the stunning victory was lauded with praise and styled "The Hero of Plattsburgh" by some of the American press...
  
   – commanding general of the United States Army
  United States Army
  The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
  
   from 1828 to 1841
• John N. Mitchell
  John N. Mitchell
  John Newton Mitchell was the Attorney General of the United States from 1969 to 1972 under President Richard Nixon...
  
  
• Wallace Fard Muhammad
  Wallace Fard Muhammad
  Wallace Fard Muhammad was a minister and founder of the Nation of Islam. He established the Nation of Islam's first mosque in Detroit, Michigan in 1930, and ministered his distinctive religion there for three years, before mysteriously disappearing in June 1934. He was succeeded by his follower...
  
   – founder of the Nation of Islam
  Nation of Islam
  The Nation of Islam is a mainly African-American new religious movement founded in Detroit, Michigan by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad in July 1930 to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of African-Americans in the United States of America. The movement teaches black pride and...
  
  
• Frank Murphy
  Frank Murphy
  William Francis Murphy was a politician and jurist from Michigan. He served as First Assistant U.S. District Attorney, Eastern Michigan District , Recorder's Court Judge, Detroit . Mayor of Detroit , the last Governor-General of the Philippines , U.S...
  
   – former Mayor of Detroit, Governor of Michigan
  Governor of Michigan
  The Governor of Michigan is the chief executive of the U.S. State of Michigan. The current Governor is Rick Snyder, a member of the Republican Party.-Gubernatorial elections and term of office:...
  
  , Attorney General of the United States and Supreme Court Justice
• Simon J. Murphy, Jr.
  Simon J. Murphy, Jr.
  Simon J. Murphy, Jr. was Mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin.-Biography:Murphy was born Simon Jones Murphy, Jr. on March 27, 1851 in Maine. He moved with his family to Detroit, Michigan in 1866 before graduating from the Lawrence Scientific School. Murphy married Helena Bogardus Platt. They would have...
  
  
• Dorothy Comstock Riley
  Dorothy Comstock Riley
  Dorothy Comstock Riley was a lawyer and judge from the U.S. state of Michigan, serving on the Michigan Supreme Court and the first woman to serve on the Michigan Court of Appeals...
  
  
• Mitt Romney
  Mitt Romney
  Willard Mitt Romney is an American businessman and politician. He was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and is a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination.The son of George W...
  
  , former Governor of Massachusetts
  Governor of Massachusetts
  The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the executive magistrate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States. The current governor is Democrat Deval Patrick.-Constitutional role:...
  
   and 2008 Republican
  Republican Party (United States)
  The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
  
   Presidential candidate
• Coleman Young
  Coleman Young
  Coleman Alexander Young served as mayor of Detroit in the U.S. state of Michigan from 1974 to 1993. Young became the first African-American mayor of Detroit in the same week that Maynard Jackson became the first African-American mayor of Atlanta.-Pre-Mayoral career:Young was born in Tuscaloosa,...
  
  
• Carl Levin
  Carl Levin
  Carl Milton Levin is a Jewish-American United States Senator from Michigan, serving since 1979. He is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. He is a member of the Democratic Party....
  
  , U.S. Senator from Michigan
• Betty Shabazz
  Betty Shabazz
  Betty Shabazz , born Betty Dean Sanders and also known as Betty X, was an American educator and civil rights advocate. She was the wife of Malcolm X....
  
   – widow of the late Malcolm X
  Malcolm X
  Malcolm X , born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz , was an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its...
  
  
• Augustus B. Woodward
  Augustus B. Woodward
  Augustus Brevoort Woodward was the first Chief Justice of the Michigan Territory. In that position, he played a prominent role in the planning and reconstruction of Detroit following a devastating fire.Woodward never married. His biographer, Arthur M...
  
   – second chief justice of the Michigan Territory
  Michigan Territory
  The Territory of Michigan was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 30, 1805, until January 26, 1837, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Michigan...
  
  

Movie, radio, television figures, and journalists

• Nicole Alexander
  Nicole Alexander
  Nicole "Hoopz" Alexander is an American reality TV show contestant best known for winning the VH1 reality television shows Flavor of Love and I Love Money.-Career:...
  
  
• Curtis Armstrong
  Curtis Armstrong
  Curtis Armstrong is an American actor best known for his portrayal as Booger in the Revenge of the Nerds movies, as Herbert Viola on Moonlighting, and as famed record producer Ahmet Ertegün in the film Ray.-Early life:...
  
  
• Bill Bonds
  Bill Bonds
  Bill Bonds is an American television anchor and reporter, best known for his work at WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan. Born in 1933, Bonds became an Action News anchorman beginning in the early 1970s.-Early career:...
  
  
• George Bogle
• Byron Allen
  Byron Allen
  Byron Allen is an American comedian. He is the head of Entertainment Studios, a broadcast syndication company responsible for producing and distributing several television shows pertaining to stand-up comedy and the entertainment industry. Allen also hosts some of the shows himself.-Early...
  
  
• Tim Allen
  Tim Allen
  Tim Allen is an American comedian, actor, voice-over artist, and entertainer, known for his role in the sitcom Home Improvement...
  
  
• Paul W. Smith
  Paul W. Smith
  Paul W. Smith is the morning drive-time host at Detroit, Michigan's WJR radio. As a clear-channel station on 760 AM, WJR can be heard throughout the Midwest, and Smith's program is known throughout the region...
  
  
• Elizabeth Berkley
  Elizabeth Berkley
  Elizabeth Berkley is an American television, film, and theatre actress. Berkley's most notable roles were in the television series Saved by the Bell, as brainy feminist Jessie Spano, and the 1995 Paul Verhoeven film Showgirls, as exotic dancer Nomi Malone.-Early life:Berkley was born and raised...
  
  
• Selma Blair
  Selma Blair
  Selma Blair is an American actress who has worked in film, theatre and television. She has performed in feature films including Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde, The Sweetest Thing, Hellboy, The Fog, Purple Violets and Hellboy II: The Golden Army...
  
  
• Christie Brinkley
  Christie Brinkley
  Christie Brinkley is an American model and actress best known for her three consecutive appearances on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in the late 1970s and early 1980s, for her long-running contract with CoverGirl, the longest ever of any model in history, and for her marriage...
  
  
• Jerry Bruckheimer
  Jerry Bruckheimer
  Jerome Leon "Jerry" Bruckheimer is an American film and television producer. He has achieved great success in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. His best known television series are CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Eleventh Hour, Without a Trace, Cold Case, The...
  
  
• Ellen Burstyn
  Ellen Burstyn
  Ellen Burstyn is a leading American actress of film, stage, and television. Burstyn's career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the next ten years she appeared in several films and television series before joining the Actors Studio in 1967...
  
  
• Bruce Campbell
  Bruce Campbell
  Bruce Lorne Campbell is an American film and television actor. As a cult movie actor, Campbell starred as Ashley J. "Ash" Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series of films and he has starred in many low-budget cult films such as Crimewave, Maniac Cop, Bubba Ho-tep, Escape From L.A. and Sundown:...
  
  
• Kim Carson
  Kim Carson
  Kim Carson, aka Sherie Weil her given name, is an American radio personality.She was born in Detroit, Michigan and graduated from Denby High School....
  
  
• Seymour Cassel
  Seymour Cassel
  Seymour Joseph Cassel is an American actor.He first came to prominence in the 1960s in the pioneering independent films of writer/directorJohn Cassavetes...
  
  
• Jessica Cauffiel
  Jessica Cauffiel
  Jessica Cauffiel is an American actress and singer.-Early life:Cauffiel was born in Detroit, Michigan; her mother is a social worker and her father is Lowell Cauffiel, a best-selling true crime author, screenwriter and television documentary producer...
  
  
• Vondie Curtis-Hall
  Vondie Curtis-Hall
  Vondie Curtis-Hall is an American actor and film director.As an actor, he is best known for his role as Dr. Dennis Hancock on the CBS medical drama Chicago Hope created by David E. Kelley.-Early life:...
  
  
• Wayne Dyer
  Wayne Dyer
  Wayne Walter Dyer is an American self-help advocate, author, and lecturer.- Early life :Dyer was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Melvin Lyle and Hazel Irene Dyer and spent much of his adolescence in an orphanage on the east side of Detroit. Dr. Wayne Dyer is a 1958 graduate of Denby High School;...
  
  
• Francis Ford Coppola
  Francis Ford Coppola
  Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...
  
  
• Roger Corman
  Roger Corman
  Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...
  
  
• Dave Coulier
  Dave Coulier
  David Alan "Dave" Coulier is an American stand-up comedian, impressionist, television and voice actor, and television host. He is well-known for his role as Joey Gladstone on the ABC sitcom Full House, which ran from 1987 to 1995....
  
  
• Wally Cox
  Wally Cox
  Wallace Maynard Cox was an American comedian and actor, particularly associated with the early years of television in the United States. He appeared in the U.S. TV series Mr. Peepers , plus several other popular shows, and as a character actor in over 20 films...
  
  
• Kristen Bell
  Kristen Bell
  Kristen Anne Bell is an American actress. Although her first film role was an uncredited appearance in Polish Wedding, Bell previously acted in stage and musical productions. In 2001, she made her Broadway debut as Becky Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer...
  
  
• Pam Dawber
  Pam Dawber
  Pam Dawber is an American actress best known for her lead television sitcom roles as Mindy McConnell in Mork & Mindy and Samantha Russell in My Sister Sam .-Life and career:...
  
  
• Sherilyn Fenn
  Sherilyn Fenn
  Sherilyn Fenn is an American actress and filmmaker. She came to international attention for her performance as Audrey Horne on the 1990 cult TV series Twin Peaks...
  
  
• David Alan Grier
  David Alan Grier
  David Alan Grier , also known as "D.A.G." , is an American actor and comedian known for his work on the sketch comedy television show In Living Color.-Early life:...
  
  
• Karl Haas
  Karl Haas
  Karl Haas was a German-American classical music radio host, whose distinctively sonorous voice and humanistic approach to making music appreciation contagious made him well-received by many...
  
  
• Julie Harris
  Julie Harris
  Julia Ann "Julie" Harris is an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has won five Tony Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award, and was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1994, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame...
  
  
• Kirsten Haglund
  Kirsten Haglund
  Kirsten Lora Haglund is a beauty queen from Farmington Hills, Michigan who was Miss America 2008.-Biography:Haglund graduated from Walled Lake Western High School in 2006 and spent one year pursuing a BFA in Musical Theatre at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in...
  
  
• Charlton Heston
  Charlton Heston
  Charlton Heston was an American actor of film, theatre and television. Heston is known for heroic roles in films such as The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, El Cid, and Planet of the Apes...
  
  
• Royce Howes
  Royce Howes
  Royce Bucknam Howes was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author who also published a biography of Edgar Guest and a number of crime novels...
  
  
• Ernie Hudson
  Ernie Hudson
  Ernest Lee "Ernie" Hudson is an American actor known for his roles as Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters film series, Sergeant Albrecht in The Crow, and Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's Oz.-Early life:...
  
  
• Hughes brothers
  Hughes Brothers
  Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes , known together professionally as the Hughes brothers, are American film directors, producers and screenwriters...
  
   (Albert and Allen Hughes)
• Tom Hulce
  Tom Hulce
  Thomas Edward "Tom" Hulce is an American actor and theater producer. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his Oscar-nominated portrayal of Mozart in the movie Amadeus and his role as "Pinto" in National Lampoon's Animal House. Additional acting awards included a total of four Golden Globe...
  
  
• Kim Hunter
  Kim Hunter
  Kim Hunter was an American film, theatre, and television actress. She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire...
  
  
• Darren James
  Darren James
  Darren James is an American former pornographic actor who made worldwide headlines after testing positive for HIV.James tested positive on April 13, 2004...
  
  
• James Earl Jones
  James Earl Jones
  James Earl Jones is an American actor. He is well-known for his distinctive bass voice and for his portrayal of characters of substance, gravitas and leadership...
  
  
• Casey Kasem
  Casey Kasem
  Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem is an American radio personality and voice actor who is best known for being the host of the nationally syndicated Top 40 countdown show American Top 40, and for voicing Shaggy in the popular Saturday morning cartoon franchise Scooby-Doo.Kasem, along with Don Bustany and...
  
  
• Celia Keenan-Bolger
• Brian Kelly
  Brian Kelly (actor)
  Brian Kelly was an American actor best known for his role as Porter Ricks, the widowed father of two sons on the NBC television series Flipper, and as Scott Ross in the ABC advernture series Straightaway, with co-star John Ashley.-Early years:Born in Detroit, Michigan, Kelly was the son of former...
  
  
• Richard Kiel
  Richard Kiel
  Richard Dawson Kiel is an American actor best known for his role as the steel-toothed Jaws in the James Bond movies The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker as well as the video game Everything or Nothing, and Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore...
  
  
• James O'Barr
  James O'Barr
  James O'Barr is an American graphic artist, best known as the creator of the comic book series The Crow.-Personal life:O'Barr, an orphan, was raised in the foster care system...
  
  
• David Patrick Kelly
  David Patrick Kelly
  David Patrick Kelly is an American actor and musician who has appeared in numerous films, including some major roles.-Career:...
  
  
• Michael Kinsley
  Michael Kinsley
  Michael Kinsley is an American political journalist, commentator, television host, and pundit. Primarily active in print media as both a writer and editor, he also became known to television audiences as a co-host on Crossfire...
  
  
• Neil LaBute
  Neil LaBute
  Neil N. LaBute is an American film director, screenwriter and playwright.-Early life:LaBute was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Marian, a hospital receptionist, and Richard LaBute, a long-haul truck driver. LaBute is of French Canadian, English and Irish ancestry, and was raised in Spokane,...
  
  
• Piper Laurie
  Piper Laurie
  Piper Laurie is an American actress of stage and screen known for her roles in the television series Twin Peaks and the films The Hustler, Carrie, and Children of a Lesser God, all of which brought her Academy Award nominations...
  
  
• James Lipton
  James Lipton
  James Lipton is an American writer, poet, composer, actor and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. He is the executive producer, writer and host of the Bravo cable television series Inside the Actors Studio, which debuted in 1994...
  
  
• Karen McDougal
  Karen McDougal
  Karen McDougal is an American model and actress. She is known for her appearances in Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month for December 1997 and Playmate of the Year of 1998. In 2001, the readers of Playboy voted McDougal "No...
  
  
• Mara MacDonald
  Mara MacDonald
  Mara MacDonald is an American television reporter, known for her recent work at NBC affiliate WDIV-TV, owned by Post-Newsweek Stations in Detroit, Michigan.A native of the Detroit area, MacDonald is a graduate of the Detroit Country Day School...
  
  
• Dick Martin
  Dick Martin (comedian)
  Thomas Richard "Dick" Martin was an American comedian and director, best known for his role as the cohost of the sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Greg Mathis
  Greg Mathis
  Greg Mathis is a retired Michigan 36th District Court judge and syndicated television show judge. His show Judge Mathis is produced by Telepictures Productions, and distributed by Warner Brothers. It is seen five days a week in most television markets in North America...
  
  
• Ed McMahon
  Ed McMahon
  Edward Peter "Ed" McMahon, Jr. was an American comedian, game show host and announcer. He is most famous for his work on television as Johnny Carson's sidekick and announcer on The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992. He also hosted the original version of the talent show Star Search from 1983 to 1995...
  
  
• Tim Meadows
• Nicki Micheaux
  Nicki Micheaux
  Nicki Micheaux is an American actress. She was on ABC Family's Lincoln Heights.-Biography:Micheaux was born in Detroit, Michigan to an army officer father....
  
  
• Martin Milner
  Martin Milner
  Martin Sam Milner is an American actor best known for his performances in two popular television series, Adam-12 and Route 66....
  
  
• Kenya Moore
  Kenya Moore
  Kenya Summer Moore is an American film and television actress, producer, beauty queen, model and author.She is recognizable for her roles in movies such as Waiting to Exhale, Deliver Us from Eva and the 2007 Lindsay Lohan thriller I Know Who Killed Me...
  
  
• Harry Morgan
  Harry Morgan
  Harry Morgan is an American actor. Morgan is well-known for his roles as Colonel Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H , Pete Porter on both Pete and Gladys and December Bride , Detective Bill Gannon on Dragnet , and Amos Coogan on Hec Ramsey...
  
  
• Naima Mora
  Naima Mora
  Naima Mora is an American fashion model and the winner of Cycle 4 of America's Next Top Model.-Early life:Naima Mora was born on March 1, 1984 in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of African American, talented jazz vocalist and entrepreneur Theresa Mora & Mexican jazz percussionist Francisco Mora...
  
  
• Michael Moriarty
  Michael Moriarty
  Michael Moriarty is an American-Canadian actor of stage and screen, and a jazz musician. He played Benjamin Stone for four seasons on the TV series Law & Order.-Early life:...
  
  
• Bob Murawski
  Bob Murawski
  Bob Murawski is an American film editor as well as a film distributor of cult horror and independent films under the "Box Office Spectaculars" and "Grindhouse Releasing" labels. He was awarded the 2010 Academy Award, BAFTA, and A.C.E. awards for "Best Film Editing" on the feature film, The Hurt...
  
  
• Vincenzo Natali
  Vincenzo Natali
  Vincenzo Natali is an American-Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for writing and directing science fiction films such as Cube, Nothing and Splice.-Early life:...
  
  
• Denise Nicholas
  Denise Nicholas
  Denise Nicholas is an American actress and social activist who was involved in the American Civil Rights Movement...
  
  
• George Noory
  George Noory
  George Ralph Noory is a Lebanese-American radio talk show host.As of 2010, he is the weekday host of the late-night radio talk show Coast to Coast AM. He is heard across the United States and Canada on many AM and FM stations as well as on XM Satellite Radio. His show is one of the most listened...
  
  
• Rob Paulsen
  Rob Paulsen
  Robert Fredrick "Rob" Paulsen III , sometimes credited as Rob Paulson, is an American voice actor, best known as the voice behind Raphael from the 1987 cartoon of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Yakko Warner and Dr...
  
  
• George Peppard
  George Peppard
  George Peppard, Jr. was an American film and television actor.Peppard secured a major role when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's , portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers , and played the title role of the millionaire sleuth Thomas Banacek in...
  
  
• Ryan M. Place
  Ryan M. Place
  Ryan M. Place is an Italian-German writer and filmmaker.-Career:Place attended high school at the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park, graduated with a B.S...
  
  
• Reagan Gomez-Preston
  Reagan Gomez-Preston
  Reagan Gomez-Preston is an American actress.-Early life:Gomez-Preston was born in Detroit to a Puerto Rican mother, Cheryl Gomez, and an African-American father, Bennett Preston. She has a younger brother named Kyle....
  
  
• Gilda Radner
  Gilda Radner
  Gilda Susan Radner was an American comedian and actress, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award in 1978.-Early life:...
  
  
• Sam Raimi
  Sam Raimi
  Samuel Marshall "Sam" Raimi is an American film director, producer, actor and writer. He is best known for directing cult horror films like the Evil Dead series, Darkman and Drag Me to Hell, as well as the blockbuster Spider-Man films and the producer of the successful TV series Hercules: The...
  
  
• Ted Raimi
  Ted Raimi
  Theodore "Ted"/"Half Ted" Raimi is an American actor, perhaps best known for his roles as Lieutenant Tim O'Neill in seaQuest DSV and Joxer the Mighty in Xena: Warrior Princess/Hercules: The Legendary Journeys...
  
  
• Joyce Randolph
  Joyce Randolph
  Joyce Randolph is an American actress, best known for playing Trixie Norton on The Honeymooners.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Della Reese
  Della Reese
  Delloreese Patricia Early, known professionally as Della Reese , is an American actress, singer, game show panelist of the 1970s, one-time talk-show hostess and ordained minister. She started her career in the 1950s as a gospel, pop and jazz singer, scoring a hit with her 1959 single "Don't You...
  
  
• Pat St. John
  Pat St. John
  Pat St. John is one of the U.S.'s preeminent and longest serving radio personalities and voice artists. Known as The Dee-Jay’s DJ, he began his radio career on Windsor, Canada's CKLW in 1969, but is best known for his work in the New York City market on WPLJ, WNEW-FM, WCBS-FM and WAXQ...
  
  
• Soupy Sales
  Soupy Sales
  Soupy Sales was an American comedian, actor, radio-TV personality and host, and jazz aficionado. He was best known for his local and network children's television show, Lunch with Soupy Sales; a series of comedy sketches frequently ending with Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his...
  
  
• George C. Scott
  George C. Scott
  George Campbell Scott was an American stage and film actor, director and producer. He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, and as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's Dr...
  
  
• Tom Selleck
  Tom Selleck
  Thomas William "Tom" Selleck is an American actor, and film producer. He is best known for his starring role as Hawaii-based private investigator Thomas Magnum on the 1980s television show Magnum, P.I.. He also plays Police Chief Jesse Stone in a series of made-for-TV movies based on the Robert B....
  
  
• Stirling Silliphant
  Stirling Silliphant
  Stirling Dale Silliphant was an American screenwriter and producer. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, moved to Glendale, California as a child, graduated from Hoover High School, and was educated at the University of Southern California...
  
  
• J.K. Simmons
• Tom Sizemore
  Tom Sizemore
  Thomas Edward "Tom" Sizemore, Jr. is an American film and television actor and producer. He is known for his roles in films such as Saving Private Ryan, Strange Days, Pearl Harbor, Heat and Black Hawk Down....
  
  
• Tom Skerritt
  Tom Skerritt
  Thomas Roy "Tom" Skerritt is an American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and more than 200 television episodes since 1962.-Early life:...
  
  
• Nick Sousanis
  Nick Sousanis
  Walter Nickell Sousanis is the former editor-in-chief and co-founder of thedetroiter.com.In addition to managing the daily operations of thedetroiter.com since its founding October 2002, Sousanis authored art reviews and editorials, and was responsible for editing all content and updating the site...
  
  
• Geoff Stults
  Geoff Stults
  Geoffrey Manton "Geoff" Stults is an American actor. He is best known for his regular roles on 7th Heaven, October Road and Happy Town. During the 2011 network upfronts, Fox announced it was picking up The Finder, a spin-off of Bones, in which Stults will star as the title character.-Early...
  
  
• George Stults
  George Stults
  George Sheehy Stults is an American actor and former fashion model. Stults grew up in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado but was born in Detroit, Michigan...
  
  
• Danny Thomas
  Danny Thomas
  Danny Thomas was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor, best known for starring in the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy . He was also the founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital...
  
  
• Marlo Thomas
  Marlo Thomas
  Margaret Julia “Marlo” Thomas is an American actress, producer, and social activist known for her starring role on the TV series That Girl . She also serves as National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital...
  
  
• Lily Tomlin
  Lily Tomlin
  Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin is an American actress, comedienne, writer, and producer. Tomlin has been a major force in American comedy since the late 1960's when she began a career as a stand up comedian and became a featured performer on television's Laugh-in...
  
  
• Obie Trice
  Obie Trice
  Obie Trice III is an American rapper and songwriter. He began rapping at the age of 11, and is most known for his time spent signed to Shady Records. Obie Trice has formed his own record label, Black Market Entertainment.-Biography:...
  
  

• Courtney B. Vance
  Courtney B. Vance
  Courtney Bernard Vance is an American actor. He was formerly a regular on the NBC/USA television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver. He was also a series regular on the ABC series FlashForward. As of 2011, he appears on the TNT series The Closer as Chief...
  
  
• Robert Wagner
  Robert Wagner
  Robert John Wagner is an American actor of stage, screen, and television.A veteran of many films in the 1950s and 1960s, Wagner gained prominence in three American television series that spanned three decades: It Takes a Thief , Switch , and Hart to Hart...
  
  
• Cynthia Watros
  Cynthia Watros
  Cynthia Michele Watros is an American television actress, who also starred in films and on stage. She is known for her roles as Libby on the ABC TV series Lost, Kellie in The Drew Carey Show, Erin in Titus, and Annie Dutton in Guiding Light...
  
  
• Billy West
• John Witherspoon
  John Witherspoon (actor)
  John Witherspoon is an American comedian and actor who has had roles in over 28 movies and 20 television shows. Mostly known for the "Friday" series, he has been acting for over three decades and starred in shows such as Hollywood Shuffle , Boomerang...
  
  
• Max Wright
  Max Wright
  George Edward Maxwell "Max" Wright is an American actor, best known for his role as Willie Tanner in the sitcom ALF.-Biography:Wright was born George Edward Maxwell Wright in Detroit, Michigan....
  
  
• Butch Hartman
  Butch Hartman
  Elmer Earl "Butch" Hartman IV is an American animator, executive producer, animation director, storyboard artist, voice actor, occasional singer, producer, and creator of the animated series The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom and T.U.F.F. Puppy.-Childhood:Hartman was born in Highland Park,...
  
   – creator of The Fairly OddParents
  The Fairly OddParents
  The Fairly OddParents is an American-Canadian animated television series created by Butch Hartman about the adventures of Timmy Turner, who is granted fairy godparents named Cosmo and Wanda. The series started out as cartoon segments that ran from September 4, 1998 to March 23, 2001 on Oh Yeah!...
  
  and Danny Phantom
  Danny Phantom
  Danny Phantom is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon, produced by Billionfold Studios. The show was about a teenage half-ghost boy, who frequently saves his town and the world from ghost attacks, while attempting to keep his ghost half a secret...
  
  

Musicians, bands, composers

• Aaliyah
  Aaliyah
  Aaliyah Dana Haughton , who performed under the mononym Aaliyah , was an American R&B recording artist, actress and model. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in Detroit, Michigan. At the age of 10, she appeared on the television show Star Search and performed in concert alongside...
  
  
• Alice Coltrane
  Alice Coltrane
  Alice Coltrane, née McLeod was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, and composer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...
  
  
• Anita Baker
  Anita Baker
  Anita Baker is an American R&B/soul jazz singer-songwriter. To date, Baker has won eight Grammy Awards, and has four platinum albums and two gold albums to her credit....
  
  
• Anita Cochran
  Anita Cochran
  Anita Renee Cockerham , known professionally as Anita Cochran, is an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer. Signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1997, she made her debut on the U.S. country charts that year with the release of her first album Back to You...
  
  
• Anybody Killa
  Anybody Killa
  James Lowery, also known as Anybody Killa, or ABK, is a Native American rapper from Detroit, Michigan whose stage persona is that of a Native American warrior. He is signed to Psychopathic Records.-Biography:...
  
  
• Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
  
  
• Barry Harris
  Barry Harris
  Barry Doyle Harris is an American bebop jazz pianist and educator.-Biography:Harris left Detroit for New York City in 1960...
  
  
• Big Herk
  Big Herk
  Big Herk is an American rapper from Detroit, Michigan. Big Herk started off rapping with the Detroit-based group Rock Bottom. He left the group in 2003 and released his debut Guilty As Charged. He was later featured in the movie Project 313...
  
  
• Big Sean
  Big Sean
  Sean Michael Anderson , better known by his stage name Big Sean, is an American rapper. Big Sean signed with Kanye West's G.O.O.D...
  
  
• Bizarre
  Bizarre (rapper)
  Rufus Arthur Johnson , better known as Bizarre is an American recording artist best known for his work with Detroit hip-hop group D12. His songs are often about subjects which create shock value such as rape and drugs.-Early life:Bizarre was born as Rufus Arthur Johnson on July 5, 1976 in Detroit,...
  
  
• Black Dahlia Murder
• Blaze Ya Dead Homie
  Blaze Ya Dead Homie
  Chris Rouleau, also known as Blaze Ya Dead Homie, is an American rapper from Romeo, Michigan. His stage persona is that of a reincarnated gang member killed in the late 1980s, and his music is a fusion of gangsta rap and horrorcore.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bob Seger
  Bob Seger
  Robert Clark "Bob" Seger is an American rock and roll singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist.As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s...
  
  
• Brandi Williams
  Brandi Williams
  Brandi Danielle Williams is an American actress, singer and songwriter. She is most notable for singing in the R&B trio Blaque.-Early life:...
  
  
• Brendan Benson
  Brendan Benson
  Brendan Benson is an American musician and songwriter. He sings and plays guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, and drums. He has released four solo albums and is a member of the band The Raconteurs....
  
  
• Brian Holland
  Brian Holland
  Brian Holland is an American songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Holland–Dozier–Holland. That songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound and numerous hit records by artists such as Martha and the Vandellas, The Supremes, The Four Tops,...
  
  
• Bronze Nazareth
  Bronze Nazareth
  Bronze Nazareth is a Hip-Hop music producer and emcee associated with the Wu-Tang Clan. He is, along with Cilvaringz, part of the new generation of producers to carry on the Wu-Tang sound. He has a solo career as an emcee and is also a part of the hip-hop group Wisemen.- Biography :He was born and...
  
  
• Chad Smith
  Chad Smith
  Chad Smith is an American musician, best known as the longtime and current drummer of Red Hot Chili Peppers. Smith is also the drummer of the hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot which includes Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, and Michael Anthony, former Deep Purple vocalist Glenn Hughes' backing band and...
  
  
• Chiodos
  Chiodos
  Chiodos is an American post hardcore band from Davison, Michigan. Formed in 2001, the group was originally known as "The Chiodos Bros," the band's name was a tribute to filmmakers Stephen, Charles, and Edward Chiodo, responsible for the film Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Chiodos released their...
  
  
• D12
  D12
  D12, an acronym for The Dirty Dozen, is an American hip hop group from Detroit, Michigan. D12 has had chart-topping albums in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia...
  
  
• Dark Lotus
  Dark Lotus
  Dark Lotus is an American hip hop supergroup based in Detroit, Michigan. Formed in 1998, the group consists of Psychopathic Records-associated rappers Joseph Bruce and Joseph Utsler of Insane Clown Posse, Jamie Spaniolo and Paul Methric of Twiztid, and Chris Rouleau.-History:Dark Lotus made its...
  
  
• David DiChiera
  David DiChiera
  David DiChiera is an American composer and founding general director of Michigan Opera Theatre.-Career:...
  
  
• Diana Ross
  Diana Ross
  Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
  
  
• Dinah Washington
  Dinah Washington
  Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones , was an American blues, R&B and jazz singer. She has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s", and called "The Queen of the Blues"...
  
  
• Don Was
  Don Was
  Don Was is an American musician, bassist and record producer.-Life and career:Was was born in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from Oak Park High School in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park, then attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor but dropped out after the first year...
  
  
• Dwele
  Dwele
  Andwele Gardner , better known by his stage name Dwele is a soul singer, songwriter and record producer from Detroit, Michigan.-Biography:...
  
  
• Edward Holland Jr.
• Electric Six
  Electric Six
  Electric Six is a six-piece metro Detroit-based band that plays what has been described as a brand of rock music infused with elements of "garage, disco, punk, new wave, and metal." The band met recognition in 2003 with the singles "Danger! High Voltage" and "Gay Bar", and subsequently recorded...
  
  
• Eminem
  Eminem
  Marshall Bruce Mathers III , better known by his stage name Eminem or his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. Eminem's popularity brought his group project, D12, to mainstream recognition...
  
  
• Esham
  Esham
  Rashaam Attica Smith, better known by his stage name Esham , is an American rapper from Detroit, Michigan known for his hallucinogenic style of hip hop which he refers to as "acid rap", which fuses rock-based beats and lyrics involving subjects such as death, drug use, evil, paranoia and...
  
  
• Factory 81
  Factory 81
  Factory 81 was an American rock band from Detroit, Michigan. Formed in 1997, the band was active until 2003.- Biography :Factory 81 released their only album, Mankind in 1999 on Medea Records; while it did not chart, it was reissued by The Orchard in 2000 and Universal Motown Republic Group on...
  
  
• Florence Ballard
  Florence Ballard
  Florence Glenda Ballard Chapman was an American singer and a founding member of the Motown group The Supremes. From 1963 until 1967, Ballard sang on 16 Top 40 hit Supremes' singles, ten of which hit number-one on the Billboard Hot 100. In 1967, Motown CEO Berry Gordy decided to remove Ballard from...
  
  
• Fred Hammond
  Fred Hammond
  Fred Hammond is a gospel music singer, bass guitar player, and record producer.-Musical career:Hammond has been active both as a member of the gospel performing group Commissioned, and as a solo artist...
  
  
• Freda Payne
  Freda Payne
  Freda Charcilia Payne Some sources give a birth year of 1945, but this appears to be an error as all sources agree that she is older than her sister Scherrie, born 1944. is an American singer and actress best known for her million selling, 1970 hit single, "Band of Gold". She was also an actress in...
  
  
• Geri Allen
  Geri Allen
  Geri Allen is an American composer/pianist educator jazz pianist, raised in Detroit, Michigan, and educated in the Detroit Public Schools. Allen has worked with many of the greats of modern music, including Ornette Coleman, Ron Carter, Ravi Coltrane, Tony Williams, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette,...
  
  
• Glenn Frey
  Glenn Frey
  Glenn Lewis Frey is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor, best known as a founding member of the Eagles. Frey formed the Eagles after he met drummer Don Henley in 1970 and the two eventually joined Linda Ronstadt's backup band for her summer tour. The Eagles formed in 1971 and...
  
  
• House of Krazees
  House of Krazees
  House of Krazees was an American hip hop group from Detroit, Michigan. The group was composed of the rappers R.O.C., Paul Methric and Jamie Spaniolo. House of Krazees performed a style of hardcore hip hop known as horrorcore and was active from 1993 until 1997....
  
  
• Iggy Pop
  Iggy Pop
  Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...
  
  
• Insane Clown Posse
  Insane Clown Posse
  Insane Clown Posse is an American hip hop duo from Detroit, Michigan. The group is composed of Joseph Bruce and Joseph Utsler, who perform under the respective personas of the "wicked clowns" Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope. Insane Clown Posse performs a style of hardcore hip hop known as horrorcore...
  
  
• J Dilla
  J Dilla
  James Dewitt Yancey , better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer who emerged from the mid-1990s underground hip hop scene in Detroit, Michigan...
  
  
• J.D. Souther
• Jackie Wilson
  Jackie Wilson
  Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson, Jr. was an American singer and performer. Known as "Mr. Excitement", Wilson was important in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul. He was known as a master showman, and as one of the most dynamic singers and performers in R&B and rock history...
  
  
• Jason Stollsteimer
  Jason Stollsteimer
  Jason Stollsteimer is the vocalist and guitarist for the American indie rock band The Von Bondies. Stollsteimer also is the main songwriter and producer of the Von Bondies...
  
  
• Jeff Mills
  Jeff Mills
  Jeff Mills is an American techno DJ and producer.-Career:Starting in the early 1980s, Mills, using the name "The Wizard", was a recurring guest DJ on "The Electrifying Mojo" radio show on WJLB...
  
  
• Joe Henderson
  Joe Henderson
  Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note.-Early life:From a very large family with five sisters and nine...
  
  
• Josh Gracin
  Josh Gracin
  Joshua Mario "Josh" Gracin is a country music singer. A former member of the United States Marine Corps, he first gained public attention as the fourth-place finalist on the second season of the Fox Networks talent competition American Idol.After his elimination from the show, Gracin completed his...
  
  
• Jumpsteady
• Karriem Riggins
  Karriem Riggins
  Karriem Riggins is a jazz drummer, hip hop producer, dj, and sometime rapper. He is a former member of the Ray Brown Trio and Mulgrew Miller trio and currently appears in the Diana Krall quartet....
  
  
• Kenny Burrell
  Kenny Burrell
  Kenneth Earl "Kenny" Burrell is an American jazz guitarist. His playing is grounded in bebop and blues; he has performed and recorded with a wide range of jazz musicians.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kevin Saunderson
  Kevin Saunderson
  Kevin Saunderson is an American electronic music producer. At the age of nine he moved to Belleville, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit where he attended Belleville High School and befriended two students, Derrick May and Juan Atkins...
  
  
• Kid Rock
  Kid Rock
  Robert James "Bob" Ritchie , known by his stage name Kid Rock, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and rapper with five Grammy Awards nominations...
  
  
• Kina Cosper
• Lamont Dozier
  Lamont Dozier
  Lamont Herbert Dozier is an American songwriter and record producer, born in Detroit, Michigan. Dozier has either co-written or produced several US Billboard #1 hits.-Career:...
  
  
• Louis Hayes
  Louis Hayes
  Louis Hayes is an American jazz drummer.-Biography:His father played drums and piano and his mother the piano and he refers to the early influence of hearing jazz, especially that of big bands, on the radio...
  
  
• Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...
  
  
• Marcella Detroit
  Marcella Detroit
  Marcella Detroit is a vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter. She was a member of the band Shakespears Sister, along with Siobhan Fahey of Bananarama. Detroit's soprano voice provided lead vocals on their biggest hit, "Stay," which was No...
  
  
• Margaret Whiting
  Margaret Whiting
  Margaret Whiting was a singer of American popular music and country music who first made her reputation during the 1940s and 1950s.-Youth:...
  
  
• Mark Tremonti
  Mark Tremonti
  Mark Thomas Tremonti is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the lead guitarist of the American rock bands Creed and Alter Bridge. He is a founding member of both bands...
  
  
• Martha Reeves
  Martha Reeves
  Martha Rose Reeves is an American R&B and Pop singer and former politician, and was the lead singer of the Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas. During her tenure with The Vandellas, they scored over a dozen hit singles, including "Jimmy Mack", "Dancing in the Street" and "Nowhere to Run"...
  
  
• Mayer Hawthorne
  Mayer Hawthorne
  Mayer Hawthorne is an American singer, producer, songwriter, arranger, audio engineer, DJ, rapper and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, California, USA. The stage name "Mayer Hawthorne" is a combination of Cohen's real middle name and the name of the street he grew up on in Michigan...
  
  
• MC5
  MC5
  The MC5 is an American rock band formed in Lincoln Park, Michigan and originally active from 1964 to 1972. The original band line-up consisted of vocalist Rob Tyner, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred "Sonic" Smith, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson...
  
  
• Mike Posner
  Mike Posner (musician)
  Michael Robert "Mike" Posner is an American singer, songwriter, and producer. Posner released his debut album, 31 Minutes to Takeoff, on August 10, 2010...
  
  
• Mike Quatro
  Mike Quatro
  Mike Quatro is a singer and songwriter who released several albums in the 1970s. These albums became especially popular in Detroit, Michigan, where Quatro was popular on the club scene. He also received some airplay on FM radio...
  
  
• Milt Jackson
  Milt Jackson
  Milton "Bags" Jackson was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms...
  
  
• Mitch Ryder
  Mitch Ryder
  William S. Levise, Jr , better known by his stage name Mitch Ryder, is an American musician who has recorded over two dozen albums in more than four decades.-Career:...
  
  
• Kenneth Dixon Jr
  Moodymann
  Moodymann also known as Kenny Dixon Jr or KDJ for short, is a Techno/House musician based in Detroit, Michigan.He creates a thoroughly hybrid form of techno/house dance music, jazz, soul, disco and funk via his innovative use of reworked riffs, samples , and grooves taken from...
  
  
• Motown Rage
  Motown Rage
  Motown Rage is an American rap metal band from Detroit, Michigan. They have released two albums. They were signed to Psychopathic Records sublabel Hatchet House from 2007 until 2009.-Formation:...
  
  
• Norman O'Connor
  Norman O'Connor
  Father Norman James O'Connor, "The Jazz Priest", was born in Detroit, Michigan, on November 20, 1921. He became interested in jazz music at an early age and began playing piano with local jazz bands while in high school...
  
  
• Obie Trice
  Obie Trice
  Obie Trice III is an American rapper and songwriter. He began rapping at the age of 11, and is most known for his time spent signed to Shady Records. Obie Trice has formed his own record label, Black Market Entertainment.-Biography:...
  
  
• Parliament
  Parliament (band)
  Parliament was a funk band most prominent during the 1970s. It and its sister act Funkadelic, both led by George Clinton, began the funk music culture of that decade.-History:...
  
  
• Porcelain Black
  Porcelain Black
  Alaina Marie Beaton , better known by her stage name Porcelain Black, is an American pop-rock singer-songwriter. She started her music career at 18 under the stage name Porcelain and the Tramps with Virgin Records. However, Black and Virgin could not agree on the music that she recorded and she...
  
  
• Proof
  Proof (rapper)
  DeShaun Dupree Holton better known as Proof his stage name, was an American rapper from Detroit, Michigan. During his career, he was a member of the groups Goon Squad, 5 Elementz, Promatic, and most notably D12...
  
  
• Psychopathic Rydas
  Psychopathic Rydas
  Psychopathic Rydas is an American hip hop group based in Detroit, Michigan. Formed in 1999, the group consists of Psychopathic Records-associated rappers performing under alternate stage names in the style of mainstream gangsta rap...
  
  
• Ray Kamalay
  Ray Kamalay
  Ray Kamalay is an American jazz guitarist and singer from Detroit, Michigan who has recorded several jazz records with his group, the Red Hot Peppers. Kamalay is noted for his work with many folk music groups and notable jazz artists such as the Chenille Sisters, Johnny Frigo, and Howard Armstrong...
  
  
• Ray Parker Jr.
  Ray Parker Jr.
  Ray Erskine Parker, Jr. , is an American guitarist, songwriter, producer and recording artist. Parker is known for writing and performing the theme song to the motion picture Ghostbusters, for his solo hits, and performing with his band Raydio as well as the late Barry White.-Early life and...
  
  
• Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise
  Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise
  Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise is an American band. It formed in 1994 when former members of the band Second Self met a blind street performer by the name of Robert Bradley. Robert Bradley was born in Alabama, but gained musical experience and spirit by singing as a child at The Alabama...
  
  
• Royce Da 5'9"
• Search the City
  Search the City
  Search the City is an alternative/punk band from Detroit, Michigan. In 2006, their debut EP Ghosts was released. The band has just signed onto Tooth & Nail Records and released their new debut album A Fire So Big The Heavens Can See It on April 1, 2008. The band toured with groups such as Run Kid...
  
  
• Sleeping With Sirens
  Sleeping with Sirens
  Sleeping with Sirens is an American post-hardcore band from Orlando, Florida currently residing in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Formed in 2009 by members of For All We Know, Broadway and We Are Defiance...
  
  
• Slum Village
  Slum Village
  Slum Village was a hip hop group from Conant Gardens, Detroit, Michigan.The group was formed by three members: rappers Baatin and T3, plus rapper and producer J Dilla . J Dilla left in 2002 to pursue a solo career with MCA Records...
  
  
• Smokey Robinson
  Smokey Robinson
  William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy...
  
  
• Stevie Wonder
  Stevie Wonder
  Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
  
  
• Sufjan Stevens
  Sufjan Stevens
  Sufjan Stevens is an American singer-songwriter and musician born in Detroit, Michigan. Stevens first began releasing his music on Asthmatic Kitty, a label co-founded with his stepfather, beginning with the 1999 release, A Sun Came...
  
  
• Suzi Quatro
  Suzi Quatro
  Susan Kay "Suzi" Quatro is an American singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor.She scored a string of hit singles in the 1970s that found greater success in Europe and Australia than in her homeland, and had a recurring role on the popular American sitcom Happy Days.-Music:Quatro began her...
  
  
• Taproot
  Taproot (band)
  Taproot is a four-piece rock group from Ann Arbor, Michigan. They are most known for their hit single "Poem" , as well as a number of other singles from 2000 to the present.-Pre-formation:...
  
  
• Teairra Mari
  Teairra Marí
  Teairra Maria Thomas , better known by her stage name Teairra Marí, is an American singer-songwriter, actress, model, and dancer. At the age of 16, she was signed to Def Jam and released her first album, Teairra Marí. After disappointing sales, she was let go from her recording contract in the...
  
  
• Ted Nugent
  Ted Nugent
  Theodore Anthony "Ted" Nugent is an American guitarist, musician, singer, author, reserve police officer, and activist. From Detroit, Michigan, he originally gained fame as the lead guitarist of The Amboy Dukes, before embarking on a lengthy solo career...
  
  
• The Clark Sisters
  The Clark Sisters
  The Clark Sisters are an American gospel vocal group consisting of four sisters:Jacky Clark Chisholm, Elbernita "Twinkie" Clark, Dorinda Clark-Cole, and Karen Clark Sheard. A fifth sister, Denise Clark Bradford, no longer performs with the group. The Clark Sisters are the daughters of legendary...
  
  
• The Detroit Cobras
  The Detroit Cobras
  The Detroit Cobras are an American garage rock cover band from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 1994.-History:The Detroit Cobras signed with Sympathy for the Record Industry and released their first full-length album, Mink Rat or Rabbit, in 1998...
  
  
• The Dirtbombs
  The Dirtbombs
  The Dirtbombs are an American garage rock band based in Detroit, Michigan, notable for blending diverse influences such as punk rock and soul while featuring a dual bass guitar, dual drum and guitar lineup...
  
  
• The Four Tops
  Four Tops
  The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet, whose repertoire has included doo-wop, jazz, soul music, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, hard rock, and showtunes...
  
  
• The Gories
  The Gories
  The Gories are an American garage rock trio that formed in Detroit in 1986. They were among the first 1980s garage punk bands to incorporate overt blues influences...
  
  
• The Hard Lessons
  The Hard Lessons
  The Hard Lessons are a rock band from Detroit, Michigan, known for their high-energy live appearances and innovative sound. The band has toured extensively in the United States and Europe...
  
  
• The Miracles
  The Miracles
  The Miracles are an American rhythm and blues group from Detroit, Michigan, notable as the first successful group act for Berry Gordy's Motown Record Corporation . Their single "Shop Around" was Motown's first million-selling hit record, and the group went on to become one of Motown's signature...
  
  
• The Raconteurs
  The Raconteurs
  The Raconteurs is an American rock band that was formed in Detroit, Michigan, featuring four members known for other musical projects: Jack White , Brendan Benson , Jack Lawrence , and Patrick Keeler .-Formation:The...
  
  
• The Suicide Machines
  The Suicide Machines
  The Suicide Machines were an American punk rock band formed in March 1991 in Detroit, Michigan and disbanded in May 2006. During the course of their career the band released six full-length albums on the labels Hollywood Records and Side One Dummy Records...
  
  
• The Supremes
  The Supremes
  The Supremes, an American female singing group, were the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop, soul, Broadway show tunes, psychedelic soul, and disco...
  
  
• The Temptations
  The Temptations
  The Temptations is an American vocal group having achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, R&B, doo-wop, funk, disco, soul, and adult contemporary music.Formed in Detroit,...
  
  
• The Von Bondies
  The Von Bondies
  The Von Bondies were an American alternative rock band. The group disbanded in July 2011. Its most recent members were Jason Stollsteimer on vocals and lead guitar, Christy Hunt on rhythm guitar and Leann Banks on bass guitar...
  
  
• Jack White
  Jack White (musician)
  Jack White , often credited as Jack White III, is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and occasional actor...
  
  
• The White Stripes
  The White Stripes
  The White Stripes was an American rock band, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consisted of the songwriter Jack White and drummer Meg White . Jack and Meg White were previously married to each other, but are now divorced...
  
  
• The Winans family
• Theo Parrish
  Theo Parrish
  Theo Parrish is a techno/house musician based in Detroit, Michigan. He was born in Washington, DC. He grew up in Chicago, Illinois listening to jazz musicians like Miles Davis, Nina Simone, and George Gershwin. He graduated from the Chicago Academy of the Arts and went to study at the Kansas City...
  
  
• Troy Gregory
  Troy Gregory
  Troy Gregory is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, filmmaker and solo artist. He is best-known for his work with The Dirtbombs, Prong, and The Witches.-Chronology:...
  
  
• Twiztid
  Twiztid
  Twiztid is an American hip hop duo from Warren, Michigan. The group is composed of Jamie Spaniolo and Paul Methric, who perform under the respective personas of Jamie Madrox and Monoxide Child...
  
  
• We Came as Romans
  We Came as Romans
  We Came as Romans is an American rock band from Troy, Michigan. Formed in 2005, the band signed to Equal Vision Records in April 2009 and have released two EPs, Demonstrations and Dreams , and two full-length albums, To Plant a Seed and Understanding What We've Grown to Be...
  
  
• Xzibit
  Xzibit
  Alvin Nathaniel Joiner , better known by his stage name Xzibit , is an American rapper, actor, and television host. He is known as the host of the MTV show Pimp My Ride, which brought him mainstream success...
  
  
• Yusef Lateef
  Yusef Lateef
  Dr. Yusef Lateef is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam in 1950.Although Lateef's main instruments are the tenor saxophone and flute, he is known for...
  
  

Sports figures

• Sid Abel
  Sid Abel
  Sidney Gerald Abel was a Canadian professional hockey player and later coach in the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Fred Arbanas
  Fred Arbanas
  Frederick Vincent Arbanas is an American former college and professional football player. Drafted out of Michigan State by the American Football League's Dallas Texans in 1961, he missed the 1961 season with injuries...
  
  
• Johnathon Banks
  Johnathon Banks
  Johnathon Maurice Banks is a professional boxer. Prior to turning pro, Banks was a three time National Amateur Champion at 178 lbs.Banks started playing the piano in middle school, but boxing soon took over and dominated that desire...
  
  
• Jerome Bettis
  Jerome Bettis
  Jerome Abram "The Bus" Bettis is a retired American football halfback who played for the NFL's Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers. Bettis is considered one of the best big backs ever because his footwork and power, and is currently fifth on the National Football League's all-time...
  
  
• Eric Bischoff
  Eric Bischoff
  Eric Aaron Bischoff is an American entrepreneur, and professional wrestling booker and on-screen personality currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling...
  
  
• Earl Blaik
  Earl Blaik
  Earl Henry "Red" Blaik was an American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and United States Army officer. He served as the head football coach at Dartmouth College from 1934 to 1940 and at the United States Military Academy from 1941 to 1958, compiling a career college...
  
  
• Kevin Brooks
  Kevin Brooks (American football)
  Kevin Craig Brooks is a former professional American football defensive end in the National Football League. He was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1st round of the 1985 NFL Draft....
  
  
• Gilbert Brown
  Gilbert Brown
  Gilbert Jesse Brown, is a former nose tackle who played for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League . Brown played 125 Packers games recording 292 tackles and seven sacks. Nicknamed "The Gravedigger," in honor of his celebratory dance following a thunderous tackle, Brown played in...
  
  
• P.J. Brown
• Avery Brundage
  Avery Brundage
  Avery Brundage was an American amateur athlete, sports official, art collector, and philanthropist. Brundage competed in the 1912 Olympics and was the US national all-around athlete in 1914, 1916 and 1918...
  
  
• Terry Brunk – wrestler known professionally as Sabu
• Richard Byas Jr.
• Henry Carr
  Henry Carr
  Henry Carr is a former American track and field athlete who won two gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.-Early life:...
  
  
• Dave DeBusschere
  Dave DeBusschere
  David Albert DeBusschere was an American NBA and major league baseball player and coach in the NBA. In 1996, DeBusschere was named as one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history....
  
  
• Alex Delvecchio
  Alex Delvecchio
  Alexander Peter "Fats" Delvecchio is a former ice hockey player and member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.After playing a single junior league season for the Oshawa Generals of the OHA Delvecchio joined the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League for the 1952 season, and helped the team to...
  
  
• Marshall Dill
  Marshall Dill
  Born in 1953, Marshall Dill is a native of Detroit and a 1971 graduate of Northern High School; Dill enjoyed a stellar career as one of the most successful interscholastic track and field athletes in United States history.- For the record: 1971 :...
  
  
• Ken Doherty
  Ken Doherty (track)
  Ken Doherty was an American decathlon champion, college track and field coach, author and longtime director of the Penn Relays. While a student at the University of Michigan, Doherty won the American decathlon championship in 1928 and 1929 and won the bronze medal in the event at the 1928 Summer...
  
  
• Chris Douglas-Roberts
  Chris Douglas-Roberts
  Chris Douglas-Roberts, also known as CDR is an American basketball player who plays for Virtus Bologna. He played college basketball for the Memphis Tigers.-High school:...
  
  
• Bob Dozier
  Bob Dozier
  Robert "Bob" Dozier is a 1993 inductee to the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame; he was a highly successful educator and football coach at Detroit's Mackenzie High School. Dozier's thirty-three year career spanned five decades...
  
  
• Joe Dumars
  Joe Dumars
  Joe Dumars III , nicknamed Joe D, is a retired American basketball player in the NBA, and currently the Detroit Pistons' President of Basketball Operations....
  
  
• Tony F. Elliott
  Tony F. Elliott
  Tony F. Elliott is a former defensive back in the National Football League. He was a member of the Green Bay Packers during the 1987 NFL season.-References:...
  
  
• Willie "The Wisp" Fleming
  Willie Fleming
  Willie Fleming is a former professional Canadian football player with the Canadian Football League BC Lions. Fleming played collegiately as a halfback at the University of Iowa, where he was a member of the Hawkeye's 1959 Rose Bowl championship team. He is a member of the Canadian Football Hall...
  
  
• Larry Foote
  Larry Foote
  Lawrence Edward Foote, Jr. is an American football linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Steelers in the fourth round of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at Michigan....
  
  
• Antonio Gates
  Antonio Gates
  Antonio Gates is an American football tight end for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League. He was signed as an undrafted free agent in 2003 after playing college basketball at Kent State University...
  
  
• Mondray Gee
  Mondray Gee
  Mondray Gee is an assistant strength and conditioning coach in the National Football League.-Biography:Gee was born on June 15, 1976 in Detroit, Michigan and attended Michigan State University. He is the cousin of former NFL player Karl Williams.-Career:...
  
  
• Terry Gerin
  Terry Gerin
  Terrance "Terry" Gerin is an American professional wrestler and actor, better known by the ring name Rhino . He is best known for his career in Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling...
  
   – wrestler known professionally as Rhino
• George Gervin
  George Gervin
  George "The Iceman" Gervin is a retired American professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association and National Basketball Association for the Virginia Squires, San Antonio Spurs, and Chicago Bulls...
  
  
• Kirk Gibson
  Kirk Gibson
  Kirk Harold Gibson is a former Major League Baseball player and currently the manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks. As a player, Gibson was an outfielder who batted and threw left-handed...
  
  
• Fletcher Gilders
  Fletcher Gilders
  Fletcher Gilders was a Detroit native who won fame as a talented multi-sport athlete for the Colts of Northwestern High School and the Buckeyes of Ohio State University...
  
  
• Barbara Gilders-Dudeck
  Barbara Gilders-Dudeck
  19-year old Detroit native and Mackenzie High School graduate, Barbara Sue Gilders represented the United States in the sport of springboard diving at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia....
  
  
• Jerry Glanville
  Jerry Glanville
  Jerry Glanville is a former American football player and current head coach of the Hartford Colonials of the United Football League, former NASCAR driver and owner, and sportscaster in the United States. He served the head coach of the Houston Oilers from 1986 to 1990 and the Atlanta Falcons from...
  
  
• Kevin Glenn
  Kevin Glenn
  Kevin Glenn, Jr. is a professional Canadian football quarterback for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League. He was signed by the Saskatchewan Roughriders as an undrafted free agent in 2001...
  
  
• Mike Hartman
  Mike Hartman
  Michael J. Hartman is a retired professional ice hockey player. Hartman was drafted in the seventh round, 131st overall, by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft....
  
  , NHL hockey player
• Derian Hatcher
  Derian Hatcher
  Derian Hatcher is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League with the Minnesota North Stars, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings and Philadelphia Flyers...
  
  
• Thomas Hearns
  Thomas Hearns
  Thomas "Hitman" Hearns is a retired American boxer. Nicknamed the "Motor City Cobra" and more famously "The Hitman", Hearns became the first boxer in history to win world titles in four divisions. He would also become the first fighter in history to win five world titles in five different divisions...
  
  
• Gordie Howe
  Gordie Howe
  Gordon "Gordie" Howe, OC is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player who played for the Detroit Red Wings and Hartford Whalers of the National Hockey League , and the Houston Aeros and New England Whalers in the World Hockey Association . Howe is often referred to as Mr...
  
  
• Pepper Johnson
  Pepper Johnson
  Thomas "Pepper" Johnson is a former American football linebacker, and the current defensive line coach for the New England Patriots of the National Football League.-College:...
  
  
• Cobi Jones
  Cobi Jones
  Cobi N'Gai Jones is a retired American soccer player who formerly served as assistant coach with the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer , with whom he had been involved as a player and coach since the team's inaugural season in 1996...
  
  
• Al Kaline
  Al Kaline
  Albert William "Al" Kaline is a former Major League Baseball right fielder. He is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Kaline played his entire 22-year baseball career with the Detroit Tigers. Kaline still works for the Tigers as a front office official. Because of his lengthy career and...
  
  
• Jackie Kallen
  Jackie Kallen
  Jackie Kallen is one of boxing's first and most successful female managers. Her life was the inspiration for the film Against the Ropes. She also worked as a consultant for Mark Burnett's reality tv series The Contender....
  
  
• Ray Lane
  Ray Lane
  Ray Lane is a sports broadcasting figure in Detroit, Michigan. During the late 1940s, Ray played baseball and basketball for the Stags of Mackenzie High School...
  
  
• Charley Lau
• David Legwand
  David Legwand
  David Legwand is an American professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League . He attended Grosse Pointe North High School....
  
  
• Nicklas Lidstrom
  Nicklas Lidström
  Nicklas Erik Lidström is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenseman who has played his entire National Hockey League career with the Detroit Red Wings, and is their captain...
  
  
• Mickey Lolich
  Mickey Lolich
  Michael Stephen Lolich is a former Major League Baseball pitcher from 1962 until 1979 who played the majority of his career with the Detroit Tigers.-Baseball career:...
  
  
• Ted Lindsay
  Ted Lindsay
  Robert Blake Theodore Lindsay is a former professional ice hockey player, a forward for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League . He scored over 800 points in his Hockey Hall of Fame career, won the Art Ross Trophy in 1950, and won the Stanley Cup four times...
  
  
• Joe Louis
  Joe Louis
  Joseph Louis Barrow , better known as Joe Louis, was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949. He is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweights of all time...
  
  
• Ray McLean
  Ray McLean (fullback)
  Ray McLean was a fullback in the National Football League. He played with the Green Bay Packers during the 1921 NFL season.-References:...
  
  
• Lou Mihajlovich
  Lou Mihajlovich
  -Career:Mihajlovich's first professional experience was with the Los Angeles Dons of the All-American Football Conference. Later he played with the Green Bay Packers during the 1954 NFL season.He played at the collegiate level at Indiana University.-References:...
  
  
• Mike Modano
  Mike Modano
  Michael Thomas Modano, Jr. is a retired American professional ice hockey player, who most notably played for the Minnesota North Stars/Dallas Stars franchise. He is the all-time goal-scoring and points leader amongst American-born players in the NHL, as well as the last active player in the NHL...
  
  
• Guy Murray
  Guy Murray
  Guy Murray is the current men's and women's cross country and track and field head coach at the University of Detroit Mercy. Murray was one of the top runners in U of D history as a distance runner and he was also a marathon runner...
  
  
• Lenda Murray
  Lenda Murray
  Lenda Murray is a champion female bodybuilder from the United States. She is an eight-time winner of the Ms. Olympia title, the highest achievement in professional female bodybuilding.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Kevin Nash
  Kevin Nash
  Kevin Scott Nash is an American professional wrestler and actor. As of 2011, Nash is signed to a five year contract with WWE under their WWE Legends program and appears as part of their Raw brand roster...
  
  
• Hal Newhouser
  Hal Newhouser
  Harold "Prince Hal" Newhouser was an American pitcher for Major League Baseball who played 17 seasons from 1939 to 1955, mostly with the Detroit Tigers of the American League...
  
  
• Harry Newman
  Harry Newman
  Harry Lawrence Newman was an American football quarterback who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines , the New York Giants , and the Brooklyn/Rochester Tigers .-College career:...
  
  
• Chris Osgood
  Chris Osgood
  Christopher John Osgood is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He's currently ranked tenth in wins in NHL regular season history with 401 career wins. He spent the first part of his 17-year NHL career with the Detroit Red Wings, then the New York Islanders and the St. Louis...
  
  
• Milt Pappas
  Milt Pappas
  Milton Steven "Milt" Pappas is a former professional baseball pitcher...
  
  
• Benny Parsons
  Benny Parsons
  Benjamin Stewart Parsons was an American NASCAR driver, and later an announcer/analyst on TBS, ESPN, NBC and TNT...
  
  
• Phil Parsons
  Phil Parsons
  Phil Parsons , is a former NASCAR driver and owner of MSRP Motorsports . He is also the younger brother of the late 1973 Winston Cup champion and former NBC/TNT commentator Benny Parsons. Years later, he returned to the Busch Series, where he enjoyed modest success...
  
  
• Calvin Peete
  Calvin Peete
  Calvin Peete is an American professional golfer. He was the most successful African-American on the PGA Tour, with 12 wins, before the emergence of Tiger Woods....
  
  
• Brian Rafalski
  Brian Rafalski
  Brian Christopher Rafalski is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman who played 15 professional ice hockey seasons for five teams: 11 in the National Hockey League for two teams , three in SM-liiga for two teams prior to entering the NHL, and one in Elitserien for...
  
  
• Ruffin Hamilton
  Ruffin Hamilton
  -Career:Hamilton was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round of the 1994 NFL Draft and spent the 1994 NFL season with the team. After two years away from the NFL, he spent three seasons with the Atlanta Falcons....
  
  
• Sugar Ray Robinson
  Sugar Ray Robinson
  Sugar Ray Robinson was an African-American professional boxer. Frequently cited as the greatest boxer of all time, Robinson's performances in the welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted sportswriters to create "pound for pound" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of weight...
  
  
• Paul Rudzinski
  Paul Rudzinski
  Paul Rudzinski is a former linebacker in the National Football League. He played three seasons with the Green Bay Packers.-References:...
  
  
• Chris Sabin
  Chris Sabin
  Joshua Harter is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Chris Sabin. He is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where he currently teams with Alex Shelley as The Motor City Machine Guns.After being trained by Scott D'Amore, Sabin debuted in 2000 for...
  
  
• Barry Sanders
  Barry Sanders
  Barry Sanders is a former American football running back who spent all of his professional career with the Detroit Lions in the NFL. Sanders left the game just short of the all-time rushing record...
  
  
• Flip Saunders
  Flip Saunders
  Phillip "Flip" Saunders is an American basketball head coach of the Washington Wizards. He previously coached the Detroit Pistons and the Minnesota Timberwolves.-High school and college player:Saunders was born in Cincinnati, Ohio....
  
  
• Terry Sawchuk
  Terry Sawchuk
  Terrance Gordon Sawchuk was a Ukrainian-Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers.-Early life and playing career:Sawchuk was born and raised...
  
  
• Paul Seymour
  Paul Seymour (American football)
  Paul Christopher Seymour is a former professional American football player. He played five seasons for the Buffalo Bills.A 6'5", 250 lbs...
  
  
• Alex Shelley
  Alex Shelley
  Patrick Martin , is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Alex Shelley. He wrestles for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he currently teams with Chris Sabin as The Motor City Machine Guns. He previously gained fame on the independent circuit, working most notably for...
  
  
• Sgt. Slaughter
  Sgt. Slaughter
  Robert Remus , better known by his ring name Sgt. Slaughter, is an American former WWE personality and semi-retired professional wrestler. From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, Slaughter had success in the National Wrestling Alliance, American Wrestling Association, and World Wrestling...
  
  
• John Smoltz
  John Smoltz
  John Andrew Smoltz is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher and active sportscaster. He is best known for his prolific career of more than two decades with the Atlanta Braves, in which he garnered eight All-Star selections and received the Cy Young Award in 1996...
  
  
• Rick Steiner
  Rick Steiner
  Robert Rechsteiner is an American professional wrestler, better known under his ring name Rick Steiner.Steiner is best known for his tenure with World Championship Wrestling, where he was an eight time World Tag Team Champion...
  
  
• Scott Steiner
  Scott Steiner
  Scott Carl Rechsteiner is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Scott Steiner. Steiner is perhaps best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling alongside his older brother Rick as the Steiner Brothers and as a member of the New World Order...
  
  
• Isiah Thomas
  Isiah Thomas
  Isiah Lord Thomas III , nicknamed "Zeke",is the men's basketball coach for the FIU Golden Panthers, and a retired American professional basketball player who played point guard for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association from 1981 until 1994. He led the "Bad Boys" to the NBA...
  
  
• Allen Tolmich
  Allen Tolmich
  Allen Tolmich is a former track and field athlete.Tolmich was born in Detroit, Michigan, and is Jewish. He attended Wayne State University, joined its track team as a walk-on in 1934, and was captain of it in 1936 to 1937...
  
  
• Milt Trost
  Milt Trost
  Milt Trost is a former player in the National Football League. He played his first five seasons with the Chicago Bears before playing in his final one with the Philadelphia Eagles.-References:...
  
  
• John Vanbiesbrouck
  John Vanbiesbrouck
  John "Beezer" Vanbiesbrouck is a retired professional ice hockey goaltender, who was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2007. He played in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers, Florida Panthers, Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders, and New Jersey Devils...
  
  
• Delisa Walton-Floyd
  Delisa Walton-Floyd
  Delisa Walton-Floyd is a former World-Class middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres; she was a two-time National Collegiate champion, and two-time U.S. Open champion in her event. Delisa Walton-Floyd represented the United States at the 1987 Pan American Games; winning a silver...
  
  
• Gary Waters
  Gary Waters
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• Chris Webber
  Chris Webber
  Mayce Edward Christopher "Chris" Webber, III , nicknamed C-Webb, is a retired American professional basketball player. He is a five-time NBA All-Star, a former All-NBA First Teamer, a former NBA Rookie of the Year, and a former #1 overall NBA Draftee...
  
  
• James Wisniewski
  James Wisniewski
  James Joseph Wisniewski is an American professional ice hockey player, an alternate captain for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Lorenzo Wright
  Lorenzo Wright
  Lorenzo Christopher Wright was a Detroit native and star athlete at Miller High School and Wayne State University; Wright is renowned for his noteworthy accomplishments in the sport of track and field....
  
  
• Mike York
  Mike York
  Michael York is an American professional ice hockey left winger currently playing for the Iserlohn Roosters of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga .-Playing career:...
  
  

Writers, novelists, and poets

• Mitch Albom
  Mitch Albom
  Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom is an American best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, radio and television broadcaster and musician. His books have sold over 30 million copies worldwide...
  
  
• Nelson Algren
  Nelson Algren
  Nelson Algren was an American writer.-Early life:Algren was born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Goldie and Gerson Abraham. At the age of three he moved with his parents to Chicago, Illinois where they lived in a working-class, immigrant neighborhood on the South Side...
  
  
• Ron Allen
• Harriette Arnow
• Jeremiah Curtin
  Jeremiah Curtin
  Jeremiah Curtin was an American translator and folklorist.-Life:Born in Detroit, Michigan, Curtin spent his early life in Milwaukee County and later graduated from Harvard College in 1863. In 1864 he went to Russia, where he worked as both a translator and for the U.S. legation...
  
  
• Jeffrey Eugenides
  Jeffrey Eugenides
  Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer. Eugenides is most known for his first two novels, The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex . His novel The Marriage Plot was published in October, 2011.-Life and career:Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan,...
  
  
• Donald Goines
  Donald Goines
  Donald Goines was an African American writer of urban fiction. His novels were deeply influenced by the work of Iceberg Slim.-Life:...
  
  
• Edgar Guest
  Edgar Guest
  Edgar Albert Guest was a prolific English-born American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People's Poet.In 1891, Guest came with his family to the United States from England...
  
  
• Judith Guest
  Judith Guest
  Judith Guest is an American novelist and screenwriter. She was born in Detroit, Michigan and is the great-niece of Poet Laureate Edgar Guest .- Work :...
  
  
• Jeffrey Eugenides
  Jeffrey Eugenides
  Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer. Eugenides is most known for his first two novels, The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex . His novel The Marriage Plot was published in October, 2011.-Life and career:Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan,...
  
  
• Carla Harryman
  Carla Harryman
  Carla Harryman is an American poet, essayist, and playwright often associated with the Language poets. She teaches Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University and serves on the MFA faculty of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College...
  
  
• Robert Hayden
  Robert Hayden
  Robert Hayden was an American poet, essayist, educator. He was appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1976.-Biography:...
  
  
• Conrad Hilberry
  Conrad hilberry
  Conrad Hilberry is an American poet.Hilberry went to Oberlin College for his undergraduate Bachelor of Arts, and continued his studies with a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was a professor of English at Kalamazoo College from 1962 to 1998.Hilberry is the...
  
  
• Royce Howes
  Royce Howes
  Royce Bucknam Howes was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author who also published a biography of Edgar Guest and a number of crime novels...
  
  
• William Kienzle
• Tim LaHaye
  Tim LaHaye
  Timothy F. LaHaye is an American evangelical Christian minister, author, and speaker. He is best known for the Left Behind series of apocalyptic fiction, which he co-wrote with Jerry B. Jenkins. He has written over 50 books, both fiction and non-fiction.-Early life:LaHaye was born in Detroit,...
  
   – minister
  Minister of religion
  In Christian churches, a minister is someone who is authorized by a church or religious organization to perform functions such as teaching of beliefs; leading services such as weddings, baptisms or funerals; or otherwise providing spiritual guidance to the community...
  
  , author, speaker; known for the Left Behind
  Left Behind (series)
  Left Behind is a series of 16 best-selling novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times: pretribulation, premillennial, Christian eschatological viewpoint of the end of the world. The primary conflict of the series is the members of the Tribulation...
  
  series.
• Elmore Leonard
  Elmore Leonard
  Elmore John Leonard Jr. , better known as Elmore Leonard, is an American novelist and screenwriter. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.Among his...
  
  
• Philip Levine
  Philip Levine (poet)
  Philip Levine is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for over thirty years at the English Department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well...
  
  
• Thomas Lynch
  Thomas Lynch (poet)
  Thomas Lynch is an American poet, essayist, and undertaker.-Early life:Lynch was educated by nuns and Christian Brothers at Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Lynch then went to university and mortuary school, from which he graduated in 1973...
  
  
• Ron Milner
  Ron Milner
  Ronald Milner was an African-American playwright. His play, Checkmates, starring Paul Winfield and Denzel Washington ran on Broadway in 1988.-Early life:...
  
  
• Joyce Carol Oates
  Joyce Carol Oates
  Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...
  
  
• Alice Randall
  Alice Randall
  Alice Randall is an American author and songwriter. Randall grew up in Washington, D.C.. She attended Harvard University, where she earned an honors degree in English and American literature, before moving to Nashville in 1983 to become a country songwriter. She currently lives in Nashville,...
  
  
• Dudley Randall
  Dudley Randall
  Dudley Randall was an African American poet and poetry publisher from Detroit, Michigan. He founded a publishing company called Broadside Press in 1965, which published many leading African American writers. Randall's most famous poem is "The Ballad of Birmingham", written during the 1960s, about...
  
  
• John Sinclair
  John Sinclair (poet)
  John Sinclair is a Detroit poet, one-time manager of the band MC5, and leader of the White Panther Party — a militantly anti-racist countercultural group of white socialists seeking to assist the Black Panthers in the Civil Rights movement — from November 1968 to July 1969...
  
  
• Christopher Paul Curtis
  Christopher Paul Curtis
  Christopher Paul Curtis is an American children's author and a Newbery Medal winner who wrote The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 and the critically acclaimed Bud, Not Buddy. Bud, Not Buddy is the first novel to receive both the Coretta Scott King Award and the Newbery Medal...
  
  
• Barrett Watten
  Barrett Watten
  Barrett Watten is an American poet, editor, and educator often associated with the Language poets.Since 1994, Watten has taught modernism and cultural studies at Wayne State University in Detroit...
  
  
• Helen Zia
  Helen Zia
  Helen Zia is an American journalist and scholar who has covered Asian American communities and social and political movements for decades.-Life and career:...