Sports · born 1982Joel Anthonybasketball player, centerCanadian center and two-time NBA champion with Miami who spent his final two NBA seasons as a rarely used reserve big man for the Pistons.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
- 515 Detroit places
- 3 fields
Hungarian ties 22 Detroiters with Hungarian ties →
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Clear filtersSports · born 1982Joel Anthonybasketball player, centerCanadian center and two-time NBA champion with Miami who spent his final two NBA seasons as a rarely used reserve big man for the Pistons.
Sports · born 1985Arron Afflalobasketball playerUCLA All-American guard whom the Pistons drafted 27th overall in 2007 and who spent his first two NBA seasons in Detroit.
Film & TV · born 1985Dan AmboyeractorDetroit-born actor from the Roeper School, known for Younger, Uncoupled and as Prince William in a royal-romance TV movie.
Sports · born 1987Justin Abdelkaderice hockey wingerMichigan State Frozen Four hero whom the Red Wings drafted and who spent his entire twelve-season NHL career in Detroit, including the 2008 Stanley Cup.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 ↗