Film & TV · born 1963Gail O'Gradyactress, producerThree-time Emmy nominee for NYPD Blue, where she played receptionist Donna Abandando, born in Detroit.DETROIT / A living lexicon / ¼
Famous Detroiters
People who were born here, moved here or built their careers in Detroit: musicians, carmakers, athletes, writers, inventors, civil-rights leaders and a few notorious names. With their dates, their Detroit story and the places where they lived, worked and played, closed ones included.
- 1,912 famous people
- 135 Detroit places
- 5 fields
Hungarian ties 22 Detroiters with Hungarian ties →
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Clear filtersFilm & TV · born 1963Gail O'Gradyactress, producerThree-time Emmy nominee for NYPD Blue, where she played receptionist Donna Abandando, born in Detroit.
Visual art · born 1960James O'Barrcomics artist, writerDetroit comics artist who created The Crow, a dark revenge story shaped by personal loss and by a Detroit murder case, later a cult film.The lexicon keeps growing. Every entry lists its sources at the bottom. Dates were checked against Wikidata and Wikipedia. The texts are our own. Famous people's places among the sights ↗