Film & TV · born 1965Sherilyn Fennactress, authorTwin Peaks' Audrey Horne, born in Detroit into the Quatro rock family: Suzi Quatro is her aunt.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
- 8 fields
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Clear filtersFilm & TV · born 1965Sherilyn Fennactress, authorTwin Peaks' Audrey Horne, born in Detroit into the Quatro rock family: Suzi Quatro is her aunt.
Film & TV · born 1962Paul Feigdirector, writer, producer, actorBridesmaids director and Freaks and Geeks creator who grew up in Mount Clemens and based his cult series on his years at Chippewa Valley High School.
Sports · born 1969Sergei Fedorovice hockey centerHall of Fame center who defected from the Soviet Union to join the Red Wings in 1990, won three Stanley Cups in Detroit and the 1994 Hart Trophy as league MVP.
Film & TV · born 1966Anne Fletcherfilm director, choreographer, dancerDirector of Step Up, The Proposal and Hocus Pocus 2, born in Detroit and raised in St. Clair Shores, where she learned to dance and first performed.
Science & invention · born 1969Tony Fadellengineer, designer, entrepreneurEngineer known as the 'father of the iPod', co-creator of the iPhone and founder of Nest Labs; he grew up in the Detroit area and graduated from Grosse Pointe South High School.
Sports · born 1963Cecil Fielderbaseball first baseman, designated hitterSlugger who came back from Japan to hit 51 home runs for the 1990 Tigers, the first 50-homer season in the majors in 13 years.The lexicon keeps growing. Every entry lists its sources at the bottom. Dates were checked against Wikidata and Wikipedia. The texts are our own.