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Detroit, as seen from Windsor, Canada The following is a list of people from Detroit , Michigan. This list includes notable people who were born, have lived, or worked in and around Detroit as well as its metropolitan area .
G. Mennen Williams, 41st governor of Michigan (born in Detroit) Howard Wolpe, US congressman, special envoy to Great Lakes Region of Africa, director of Africa Program at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (born in California, settled in Kalamazoo) Coleman Young, mayor of Detroit 1974–94 (born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, moved to ...
Greg Kelser, forward for 1979 NCAA champion Michigan State and NBA player (attended high school in Detroit) Danny Lewis (born 1970), American-English basketball player Grant Long , player for several teams (born in Wayne )
Jean Engstrom, actress (born in Detroit, raised in Augusta and Battle Creek) Venida Evans, actress (born in Ypsilanti; raised in Detroit) Chad Everett, actor, star of TV series Medical Center and films such as The Singing Nun, Airplane II: The Sequel and Psycho (born in South Bend, Indiana, raised in Dearborn)
Free Press Flashback explores the work of Robert Hayden, the celebrated poet who grew up in Detroit's Paradise Valley. Detroit abounds in the work of a local poet who became world famous Skip to ...
Following is a list of Michigan writers, ... winner of National Book Award for Young People's Literature for 2000 [3] ... sportswriter for Detroit newspapers 1956 ...
Ohio has produced a slew of famous people from each of its 88 counties.
The former Detroit Pistons basketball coach lived in Jupiter and died there in 2009. He led the Pistons to back-to-back NBA championships (1989-90). ... Celebrities, famous people who live near ...