Music · 1979–2001Aaliyahsinger, actress, dancerBrooklyn-born R&B star raised in Detroit, who graduated from the city's performing-arts high school while already releasing hit albums.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.
- 664 famous people
- 66 Detroit places
- 14 fields
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Clear filtersMusic · 1979–2001Aaliyahsinger, actress, dancerBrooklyn-born R&B star raised in Detroit, who graduated from the city's performing-arts high school while already releasing hit albums.
Film & TV · born 1953Curtis Armstrongactor, voice actorDetroit-born actor famous as Booger in Revenge of the Nerds, who grew up in Berkley and trained at Oakland University's Academy of Dramatic Art.
Literature · born 1971Megan Abbottcrime novelist, screenwriterEdgar Award–winning crime novelist born in Detroit and raised in Grosse Pointe, whose suburban noirs about girls and women draw on her Michigan youth.The lexicon keeps growing. Every entry lists its sources at the bottom. Dates were checked against Wikidata and Wikipedia. The texts are our own.