Auto industry · 1952–2018Sergio MarchionneCEO of Fiat, Chrysler and Fiat Chrysler AutomobilesItalian-Canadian executive who took over bankrupt Chrysler in 2009 and turned it around from Auburn Hills, merging it with Fiat.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
- 19 fields
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Clear filtersAuto industry · 1952–2018Sergio MarchionneCEO of Fiat, Chrysler and Fiat Chrysler AutomobilesItalian-Canadian executive who took over bankrupt Chrysler in 2009 and turned it around from Auburn Hills, merging it with Fiat.
Politics · born 1953Debbie Dingellpolitician, former GM executiveDetroit-born descendant of the Fisher Body family and former GM executive who succeeded her husband John Dingell in Congress in 2015, representing Dearborn and later Ann Arbor and western Wayne County.
Auto industry · born 1957Bill Ford Jr.executive chair of Ford Motor CompanyHenry Ford's great-grandson, Ford's executive chair since 1999, who bought and restored Michigan Central Station as the heart of a Corktown tech campus.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 ↗