Politics · born 1963Keith Ellisonpolitician, lawyerDetroit-raised lawyer who in 2006 became the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress and later Minnesota's attorney general.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
- 20 fields
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Clear filtersPolitics · born 1963Keith Ellisonpolitician, lawyerDetroit-raised lawyer who in 2006 became the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress and later Minnesota's attorney general.
Law · born 1960Greg Mathisjudge, television arbitrator, authorDetroit-raised former gang member who became a 36th District Court judge in the city and then TV's 'Judge Mathis' for 24 seasons (1999–2023).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 ↗