List of people from Detroit

The following is a list of people from Detroit, Michigan. This list includes notable people who were born, have lived, or worked in and around Detroit as well as its metropolitan area.

Activists

• Octavia Williams Bates
• Gin'nnah Muhammad
• Rosa Parks
• Betty Shabazz
• Jalonne White-Newsome
• Malcolm X

Artists and designers

Architects

• Charles N. Agree
• C. Howard Crane
• Joseph Nathaniel French
• Francis E. Griffin
• Nathan Johnson
• Beverly Hannah Jones
• Albert Kahn
• Roger Margerum
• Wirt C. Rowland
• Bernard C. Wetzel
• Donald F. White
• Minoru Yamasaki

Ceramists

• Horace Caulkins
• Tom Lollar
• Diana Pancioli
• Mary Chase Perry Stratton

Dancers

• Lottie "The Body" Graves

Fashion designers

• Tracy Reese
• Anna Sui
• John Varvatos

Painters

• Larry D. Alexander
• Ian Hornak
• Charles McGee
• Allie McGhee
• Gari Melchers
• Eric Millikin
• Niagara
• Carl Owens
• John Mix Stanley
• Carol Wald

Photographers

• Bill Schwab
• Irakly Shanidze
• Taro Yamasaki

Sculptors

• Marshall Fredericks
• Mike Kelley
• Julius T. Melchers
• Carl Milles
• Corrado Parducci
• Richard Ritter
• Carlo Romanelli
• Edward Wagner

Textile designers

• Ruth Adler Schnee

Astronauts

• Gregory Jarvis

Business, industry, academics, and labor

Clergy and religion

• Solanus Casey
• Gregory Dickow
• C. L. Franklin
• Lucien Greaves
• Elijah Muhammad
• Wallace Fard Muhammad
• Jack Van Impe

Government and politics

Military

• Charles Keller

Movie, radio, television figures and journalists

Musicians, bands and composers

Sports figures

Writers, novelists and poets

See also

• List of people from Michigan

Notes

References and further reading

• Gavrilovich, Peter & Bill McGraw (2000). The Detroit Almanac. Detroit Free Press. ISBN 0-937247-34-0.
• Gavrilovich, Peter & Bill McGraw (2006). The Detroit Almanac, 2nd edition. Detroit Free Press. ISBN 978-0-937247-48-8.
• Hendricks, Dave (August 15, 2008). "Hidalgo County leads state in jobless rate, job growth | leads, county, rate – Now". TheMonitor.com. Retrieved January 30, 2011.
• Hill, Eric J. & John Gallagher (2002). AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3120-3.
• Meyer, Katherine Mattingly; Martin C.P. McElroy (1980). Detroit Architecture A.I.A. Guide Revised Edition. Introduction by W. Hawkins Ferry, Hon A.I.A. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1651-4.
• Poremba, David Lee (2003). Detroit: A Motor City History. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-2435-2.
• McFeely, William S. (1974). Woodward, C. Vann (ed.). Responses of the Presidents to Charges of Misconduct. New York, New York: Delacorte Press. ISBN 0-440-05923-2.

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