Film & TV · born 1950Christine Lahtiactress, directorOscar-winning director and Emmy-winning star of Chicago Hope, born in Birmingham, Michigan, and a graduate of Seaholm High School.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
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Clear filtersFilm & TV · born 1950Christine Lahtiactress, directorOscar-winning director and Emmy-winning star of Chicago Hope, born in Birmingham, Michigan, and a graduate of Seaholm High School.
Literature · born 1955Geoffrey A. LandisNASA scientist, science-fiction writer, poetDetroit-born NASA engineer and Hugo and Nebula–winning hard science-fiction author who works on Mars rovers and solar power.The lexicon keeps growing. Every entry lists its sources at the bottom. Dates were checked against Wikidata and Wikipedia. The texts are our own.