Religion · 1892–1971Reinhold Niebuhrtheologian, pastorOne of America's leading 20th-century theologians, who formed his ideas as pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit from 1915 to 1928.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.
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- 515 Detroit places
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Clear filtersReligion · 1892–1971Reinhold Niebuhrtheologian, pastorOne of America's leading 20th-century theologians, who formed his ideas as pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit from 1915 to 1928.
Film & TV · born 1944Denise Nicholasactress, writerRoom 222's Liz McIntyre and In the Heat of the Night's Harriet DeLong, born in Detroit, raised there and in Milan, Michigan, who left the University of Michigan to join the civil rights theater movement.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 ↗