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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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Business & brands · 1929–2017Mike Ilitchfounder of Little Caesars, owner of the Red Wings and TigersSon of Macedonian immigrants who founded Little Caesars, bought the Red Wings and Tigers, and restored the Fox Theatre as his headquarters.The lexicon keeps growing. Every entry lists its sources at the bottom. Dates were checked against Wikidata and Wikipedia. The texts are our own.