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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.
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Auto industry · 1864–1936
Henry B. Joypresident of the Packard Motor Car Company, Lincoln Highway promoterDetroit railroad heir who brought Packard to the city, commissioned Albert Kahn's giant plant on East Grand Boulevard and championed the Lincoln Highway.Charles E. SorensenFord production chief, pattern maker and manufacturing pioneerDanish-born 'Cast-Iron Charlie', Henry Ford's production boss for four decades, who helped create the moving assembly line and ran Willow Run.
Eugene Farkasautomotive engineer, Model T and Fordson tractor designerHungarian-born Ford engineer who helped tool up the Model T and was chief engineer of the Fordson tractor.Charles T. Fisherco-founder of Fisher Body, industrialist and bankerWith his older brother Fred he founded Fisher Body in Detroit in 1908; the seven Fisher brothers built the car bodies of GM and the Fisher Building.Semon Knudsenautomotive executive, head of Pontiac and Chevrolet, president of FordSon of GM president William Knudsen who turned stodgy Pontiac into a performance brand, ran Chevrolet, then had a stormy 19 months as Ford's president.Csaba Csereautomotive engineer and journalist, Car and Driver editor-in-chiefHungarian-American MIT engineer who left Ford's advanced engine office for Car and Driver in Ann Arbor and ran the magazine as editor-in-chief from 1993 to 2008.
Law · 1922–1994Otis M. Smithlawyer, Michigan Supreme Court justice, GM general counselFirst African American justice of the Michigan Supreme Court (1961–1966), who then rose to vice president and general counsel of General Motors at its Detroit headquarters.
Auto industry · 1878–1940C. Harold Willsengineer and metallurgist, chief contributor to the Model T, founder of Wills Sainte ClaireDetroit-raised toolmaker who was Henry Ford's first key engineer, shaped the Model T and its vanadium steel, and later built the Wills Sainte Claire car.
Harry Bennetthead of Ford's Service Department, Henry Ford's enforcerAnn Arbor–born ex-boxer who ran Ford's feared Service Department, led violent anti-union actions at the Rouge and was fired by Henry Ford II in 1945.Alexander Y. Malcomsoncoal dealer, first financial backer of Ford Motor CompanyScottish-born Detroit coal dealer who bankrolled Henry Ford in 1902–1903, co-owned Ford Motor Company's first plant, then sold out in 1906.Imre Molnardesign educator, dean and provost of the College for Creative StudiesHungarian-born, Australian-raised designer who as dean and provost of Detroit's College for Creative Studies pushed its car-design school into the world's front rank.Charles Baloughautomotive engineer, Model T draftsman, founding president of Hercules MotorsHungarian engineer who helped put the Model T on paper in Ford's Piquette experimental room, then built Hercules Motors into a major American engine maker.Stephen I. Feketeautomotive engineer, Hudson chief engineerBudapest-trained engineer whose balanced-crankshaft patent sat at the heart of Hudson's 1916 Super Six; later Hudson's chief engineer in Detroit.
Auto industry · 1888–1961Lawrence P. Fisherpresident of Cadillac, Fisher Body co-ownerThe Fisher brother who ran Cadillac and discovered designer Harley Earl, bringing him to Detroit to style the 1927 LaSalle.Jules Haltenbergerautomotive engineer and inventor, member of the Model T design teamKassa-born engineer who worked beside Galamb and Balogh in Ford's closed Model T room at Piquette, later Briscoe's chief engineer and a lifelong auto inventor.Zoltán Jánosivehicle engineer, terramechanics researcherHungarian refugee engineer whose soil-shear equation, worked out at the Army's Land Locomotion Laboratory by the Detroit Arsenal, still helps model off-road wheels and tracks.Aladar O. Simkoengine research engineer at FordHungarian engineer at Ford who directed development of PROCO, a direct-injection stratified-charge engine, and filed dozens of engine patents over 35 years.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 ↗
