Music · 1931–2010Shirley Verrettopera singer (mezzo-soprano and soprano), voice teacherCelebrated Verdi and Donizetti star who spent her final 14 years teaching voice at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she died in 2010.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
- 366 Detroit places
- 11 fields
Hungarian ties 22 Detroiters with Hungarian ties →
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Clear filtersMusic · 1931–2010Shirley Verrettopera singer (mezzo-soprano and soprano), voice teacherCelebrated Verdi and Donizetti star who spent her final 14 years teaching voice at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she died in 2010.
Music · born 1971Claude VonStrokehouse DJ, producer, label founderDetroit-raised house producer who founded San Francisco's Dirtybird Records and paid tribute to his hometown with “Who's Afraid of Detroit?”.
Music · born 1995Veezerapper, singerWest-side Detroit rapper whose hazy, understated flow on Navy Wavy and Ganger made him one of the most influential Detroit voices of the 2020s.
Music · born 1990Icewear Vezzorapper, entrepreneur, film producerEast-side Detroit rapper and businessman behind Iced Up Records and the Rich Off Pints series, named one of Detroit's most influential figures by Axios in 2022.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 ↗