Civil rights & activism · born 1970Gary Yourofskyanimal rights activist, lecturerDetroit-born, Oak Park-raised animal rights lecturer whose 2010 talk 'The Most Important Speech You Will Ever Hear' became a landmark of online vegan activism.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
- 16 fields
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Clear filtersCivil rights & activism · born 1970Gary Yourofskyanimal rights activist, lecturerDetroit-born, Oak Park-raised animal rights lecturer whose 2010 talk 'The Most Important Speech You Will Ever Hear' became a landmark of online vegan activism.
Civil rights & activism · born 1976Huwaida Arrafhuman rights lawyer, activistDetroit-born Palestinian American lawyer and activist who co-founded the International Solidarity Movement in 2001 and chaired the Free Gaza Movement.
Science & invention · born 1976Mona Hannapediatrician, public health researcherPediatrician raised in Royal Oak and trained at Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, whose research exposed the Flint water crisis and who created the Rx Kids cash program.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 ↗