Politics · born 1964Fuat Oktaypolitician, engineer, academicTurkey's first vice president (2018–2023), who earned his master's degree and doctorate in engineering at Wayne State University in Detroit.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
- 14 fields
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Clear filtersPolitics · born 1964Fuat Oktaypolitician, engineer, academicTurkey's first vice president (2018–2023), who earned his master's degree and doctorate in engineering at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Press & broadcasting · born 1969Sanjay Guptaneurosurgeon, CNN chief medical correspondent, authorCNN's chief medical correspondent and a practicing neurosurgeon, born and raised in the Detroit suburb of Novi to parents who were Ford engineers.The lexicon keeps growing. Every entry lists its sources at the bottom. Dates were checked against Wikidata and Wikipedia. The texts are our own.