Music · born 1972Eminemrapper, songwriter, record producer, actorDetroit-raised rapper who came up through the city's open-mic battles and became one of the best-selling artists in music history.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
- 4 fields
Hungarian ties 21 Detroiters with Hungarian ties →
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Clear filtersMusic · born 1972Eminemrapper, songwriter, record producer, actorDetroit-raised rapper who came up through the city's open-mic battles and became one of the best-selling artists in music history.
Film & TV · born 1973Colin EgglesfieldactorAll My Children and Melrose Place actor and romantic lead of Something Borrowed, born in Farmington Hills.
Sports · born 1971Todd Eldredgefigure skater1996 men's world champion and six-time U.S. champion who trained at the Detroit Skating Club in Bloomfield Hills.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 ↗