Science & invention · 1944–1986Gregory Jarvisengineer, astronautDetroit-born satellite engineer who died as a payload specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in January 1986.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 filtersScience & invention · 1944–1986Gregory Jarvisengineer, astronautDetroit-born satellite engineer who died as a payload specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in January 1986.
Science & invention · born 1954Bill Joycomputer scientist, entrepreneurAuthor of the vi editor, a key developer of BSD Unix and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, born in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills.
Science & invention · born 1958Brent W. Jett Jr.astronaut, naval aviator, test pilotFour-time Space Shuttle astronaut and Navy test pilot, born in Pontiac, Michigan.The lexicon keeps growing. Every entry lists its sources at the bottom. Dates were checked against Wikidata and Wikipedia. The texts are our own.