Film & TV · born 1960Courtney B. VanceactorTony- and Emmy-winning Detroit native, a Detroit Country Day graduate and Boys & Girls Club alumnus, famed for playing Johnnie Cochran.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.
- 1,940 famous people
- 366 Detroit places
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Clear filtersFilm & TV · born 1960Courtney B. VanceactorTony- and Emmy-winning Detroit native, a Detroit Country Day graduate and Boys & Girls Club alumnus, famed for playing Johnnie Cochran.
Sports · born 1963John Vanbiesbrouckice hockey goaltenderDetroit-born goaltender, son of Belgian and Italian immigrants, who won the Vezina Trophy in 1986 and took the Florida Panthers to the 1996 Stanley Cup Final.
Sports · born 1963Mike Vernonice hockey goaltenderGoaltender who won the Conn Smythe Trophy in 1997 as the Red Wings ended a 42-year Stanley Cup drought.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 ↗