Sports · born 1963Joe Dumarsbasketball player and executiveHall of Fame Pistons guard who won two championships as a "Bad Boy" and a third as team president, and stayed in Detroit for decades running local businesses.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.
- 1,743 famous people
- 96 Detroit places
- 5 fields
Hungarian ties 21 Detroiters with Hungarian ties →
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Clear filtersSports · born 1963Joe Dumarsbasketball player and executiveHall of Fame Pistons guard who won two championships as a "Bad Boy" and a third as team president, and stayed in Detroit for decades running local businesses.
Theatre & dance · born 1969Lydia R. Diamondplaywright, professorDetroit-born playwright of Stick Fly (2008), The Bluest Eye adaptation and Smart People, and winner of the 2020 Horton Foote Playwriting Award.
Music · born 1962Vinnie Dombroskisinger, songwriterDetroit-born singer and founder of Sponge, the 1990s alternative rock band behind “Plowed” and “Molly (16 Candles Down the Drain).”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 ↗