Northern High School (Detroit, Michigan)
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Northern High School was a high school in Detroit, Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

. The school was a part of Detroit Public Schools
Detroit Public Schools
Detroit Public Schools is a school district that covers all of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States. The student population of the Detroit Public Schools is about 65,971 , which is down about 9.7% from the previous school year. Detroit Public Charter Schools educate an additional 56,000...

. By the late 2000s Detroit Northern closed.

Distinguished alumni

  • Derrick Coleman
    Derrick Coleman
    Derrick D. Coleman is a retired American basketball player in the NBA. Coleman grew up and attended high school in Detroit, Michigan and attended college at Syracuse University...

     (1986), NBA basketball player
  • 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 :...

     (1971), track & field athlete
  • 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...

    , singer, "Queen of Soul"
  • Pete Moore
    Pete Moore
    Pete Moore is an African American soul singer, record producer, and songwriter, notable as the bass singer for Motown group The Miracles from 1955 onwards, and is one of the group's original members...

    , musician
  • 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...

    , singer/songwriter
  • Members of the Four Tops
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