Film & TV · born 1980Austin Nicholsactor, directorActor and director born in Ann Arbor, best known as Julian Baker on One Tree Hill; his family moved to Texas before his first birthday.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
- 515 Detroit places
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Clear filtersFilm & TV · born 1980Austin Nicholsactor, directorActor and director born in Ann Arbor, best known as Julian Baker on One Tree Hill; his family moved to Texas before his first birthday.
Sports · born 1989Gustav Nyquistice hockey forwardSwedish forward drafted by Detroit in 2008 who became a top scorer for the Red Wings over nearly a decade with the club.
Sports · born 1984Frans Nielsenice hockey forwardThe first Danish-born NHL player, who signed a six-year free agent deal with the Red Wings in 2016 and spent five seasons in Detroit.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 ↗