Music · born 1948Ted Nugentguitarist, singer, songwriterThe “Motor City Madman,” Detroit-born hard-rock guitarist of the Amboy Dukes and “Cat Scratch Fever,” a fixture of the Grande Ballroom era.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.
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Clear filtersMusic · born 1948Ted Nugentguitarist, singer, songwriterThe “Motor City Madman,” Detroit-born hard-rock guitarist of the Amboy Dukes and “Cat Scratch Fever,” a fixture of the Grande Ballroom era.
Sports · born 1944Václav Nedomanskýice hockey forwardThe first Czechoslovak hockey star to defect and play professionally in North America, who spent five NHL seasons with the Red Wings in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Film & TV · born 1944Denise Nicholasactress, writerRoom 222's Liz McIntyre and In the Heat of the Night's Harriet DeLong, born in Detroit, raised there and in Milan, Michigan, who left the University of Michigan to join the civil rights theater movement.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 ↗