Literature · born 1960Jeffrey Eugenidesnovelist, short-story writerDetroit-born, Grosse Pointe-raised novelist whose The Virgin Suicides and Pulitzer-winning Middlesex are among the best-known literary portraits of the city and its suburbs.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.
- 1,912 famous people
- 135 Detroit places
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Clear filtersLiterature · born 1960Jeffrey Eugenidesnovelist, short-story writerDetroit-born, Grosse Pointe-raised novelist whose The Virgin Suicides and Pulitzer-winning Middlesex are among the best-known literary portraits of the city and its suburbs.
Politics · born 1963Keith Ellisonpolitician, lawyerDetroit-raised lawyer who in 2006 became the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress and later Minnesota's attorney general.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 ↗