Sports · born 1978Mike Yorkice hockey player, coachWaterford-born forward who rose through Detroit-area youth hockey clubs before a long professional career in the NHL and Germany's top league.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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Hungarian ties 22 Detroiters with Hungarian ties →
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Clear filtersSports · born 1978Mike Yorkice hockey player, coachWaterford-born forward who rose through Detroit-area youth hockey clubs before a long professional career in the NHL and Germany's top league.
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.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 ↗