Film & TV · born 1980Austin Nicholsactor, directorActor and director born in Ann Arbor, best known as Julian Baker on One Tree Hill; his family moved to Texas before his first birthday.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
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Clear filtersFilm & TV · born 1980Austin Nicholsactor, directorActor and director born in Ann Arbor, best known as Julian Baker on One Tree Hill; his family moved to Texas before his first birthday.
Film & TV · born 1978Jaime Ray Newmanactress, producer, singerTelevision actress (Veronica Mars, Eureka, The Punisher) who grew up in Farmington Hills, acted in Detroit-area regional theaters and graduated from Cranbrook in 1996.
Film & TV · born 1969Vincenzo Natalifilm director, screenwriterDetroit-born Canadian-American director of the cult science-fiction thriller Cube and the horror film Splice.
Film & TV · born 1944Denise Nicholasactress, writerRoom 222's Liz McIntyre and In the Heat of the Night's Harriet DeLong, born in Detroit, raised there and in Milan, Michigan, who left the University of Michigan to join the civil rights theater movement.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 ↗