Film & TV · 1928–1994George PeppardactorBreakfast at Tiffany's leading man and The A-Team's Hannibal Smith, born in Detroit, raised in Dearborn and buried there beside his parents.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
- 270 Detroit places
- 7 fields
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Clear filtersFilm & TV · 1928–1994George PeppardactorBreakfast at Tiffany's leading man and The A-Team's Hannibal Smith, born in Detroit, raised in Dearborn and buried there beside his parents.
Science & invention · 1923–1969Walter Pittslogician, computational neuroscientistSelf-taught Detroit-born logician who, with Warren McCulloch, wrote the 1943 paper that introduced the first mathematical model of a neural network.
Sports · 1927–2015Billy Piercebaseball pitcherDetroit-born, Highland Park-raised left-hander who debuted with his hometown Tigers at 18 and became a seven-time All-Star for the Chicago White Sox.
Science & invention · 1920–2006Lawrence Patrickbiomechanics researcherWayne State University professor who made himself a 'human crash-test dummy', enduring hundreds of rocket-sled rides and impacts to learn how bodies are hurt in car crashes.
Science & invention · 1928–2022Ananda Prasadphysician, medical researcherIndian-born physician at Wayne State University in Detroit who proved that zinc is essential to human health.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 ↗