Sports · born 1987Charlie Whiteice dancer, Olympic champion, coachDearborn-born ice dancer, 2014 Olympic champion with Meryl Davis, who now coaches at the Michigan Ice Dance Academy he co-founded in Canton.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
- 4 fields
Hungarian ties 22 Detroiters with Hungarian ties →
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Clear filtersSports · born 1987Charlie Whiteice dancer, Olympic champion, coachDearborn-born ice dancer, 2014 Olympic champion with Meryl Davis, who now coaches at the Michigan Ice Dance Academy he co-founded in Canton.
Music · born 1981Jimmie Wilsonsinger, musical theatre actorDetroit-born singer and stage actor who represented San Marino at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in a duet with Valentina Monetta.
Film & TV · born 1985James WolkactorFarmington Hills native known as Bob Benson on Mad Men, who grew up in Oakland County and trained at the University of Michigan.
Sports · born 1982Chris Wilcoxbasketball player, power forwardAthletic power forward who played two seasons for the Pistons in the middle of an 11-year NBA career spent with five different teams.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 ↗