Sports · born 1979Mehmet Okurbasketball playerFirst Turkish player to win an NBA championship, as a reserve center-forward on the Pistons' 2004 title team.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
- 11 fields
Hungarian ties 22 Detroiters with Hungarian ties →
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Clear filtersSports · born 1979Mehmet Okurbasketball playerFirst Turkish player to win an NBA championship, as a reserve center-forward on the Pistons' 2004 title team.
Sports · born 1972Chris Osgoodice hockey goaltender, broadcasterGoaltender who spent most of his 17-year NHL career with Detroit and won three Stanley Cups with the Red Wings, in 1997, 1998 and 2008.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 ↗