Sports · born 1991Brandon Knightbasketball player, guardGuard selected eighth overall by the Pistons in 2011 who earned All-Rookie honors before being traded to Milwaukee, and briefly returned to Detroit in 2020.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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Clear filtersSports · born 1991Brandon Knightbasketball player, guardGuard selected eighth overall by the Pistons in 2011 who earned All-Rookie honors before being traded to Milwaukee, and briefly returned to Detroit in 2020.
Sports · born 1996Luke Kennardbasketball playerSharpshooting guard drafted 12th overall by the Pistons in 2017, whose three-point shooting still ranks among the most accurate in NBA history.
Sports · born 1991Torey Krugice hockey defensemanRoyal Oak-born defenseman who came up through metro Detroit's competitive youth hockey system before an NCAA and NHL career built mostly around the Boston Bruins.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 ↗