Literature · 1909–1981Nelson Algrennovelist, short-story writerDetroit-born author of The Man with the Golden Arm, the first National Book Award winner for fiction, who became the great chronicler of Chicago's down-and-out.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.
- 1,940 famous people
- 366 Detroit places
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Clear filtersLiterature · 1909–1981Nelson Algrennovelist, short-story writerDetroit-born author of The Man with the Golden Arm, the first National Book Award winner for fiction, who became the great chronicler of Chicago's down-and-out.
Science & invention · 1904–2007Rudolf Arnheimart and film theorist, psychologistGerman-born theorist of art and visual perception, author of Art and Visual Perception, who spent his last three decades in Ann Arbor and taught at the University of Michigan.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 ↗