Comedy · born 1953Tim Allencomedian, actorHome Improvement star and voice of Buzz Lightyear who grew up in Birmingham, Michigan, learned stand-up in Detroit's clubs and set his hit sitcom in suburban Detroit.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
- 17 fields
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Clear filtersComedy · born 1953Tim Allencomedian, actorHome Improvement star and voice of Buzz Lightyear who grew up in Birmingham, Michigan, learned stand-up in Detroit's clubs and set his hit sitcom in suburban Detroit.
Film & TV · born 1953Curtis Armstrongactor, voice actorDetroit-born actor famous as Booger in Revenge of the Nerds, who grew up in Berkley and trained at Oakland University's Academy of Dramatic Art.
Film & TV · born 1961Byron Allencomedian, television host, media executiveDetroit-born comedian who debuted on The Tonight Show at 18 and built Allen Media Group, one of the largest Black-owned media companies in the United States.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 ↗