Comedy · born 1969Ken Jeongcomedian, actor, physicianDetroit-born comedian and licensed physician, famous as Mr. Chow in The Hangover and Ben Chang in Community.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.
- 1,743 famous people
- 96 Detroit places
- 17 fields
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Clear filtersComedy · born 1969Ken Jeongcomedian, actor, physicianDetroit-born comedian and licensed physician, famous as Mr. Chow in The Hangover and Ben Chang in Community.
Comedy · born 1984Brandon T. Jacksonactor, stand-up comedian, rapperDetroit-born comedian and actor of Tropic Thunder and the Percy Jackson films, who first performed at youth nights in his father's Detroit church.
Film & TV · born 1961Al Jeantelevision writer, producerLongtime showrunner of The Simpsons, born in Detroit and raised in Farmington Hills, where he graduated from Harrison High School.
Comedy · 1958–2022The Amazing Johnathancomedian, magicianDetroit-born 'Freddy Krueger of Comedy', a gory comedy-magic act that headlined in Las Vegas year-round from 2001 to 2014.The lexicon keeps growing. Every entry lists its sources at the bottom. Dates were checked against Wikidata and Wikipedia. The texts are our own.