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.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.
- 1,743 famous people
- 96 Detroit places
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Clear filtersVisual 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.
Press & broadcasting · born 1948Harvey Ovshinskyjournalist, broadcaster, documentary producer, teacherDetroit storyteller who founded the underground newspaper Fifth Estate at 17 in 1965, then chronicled the city for decades on radio and television.The lexicon keeps growing. Every entry lists its sources at the bottom. Dates were checked against Wikidata and Wikipedia. The texts are our own.