Notable People from Michigan

Kathleen Kirkham

actress (1895-1961)

Harry Shannon

American actor (1890–1964)

Ray Johnson

American artist (1927-1995)

Watts S. Humphrey

American engineer (1927–2010)

Bob Bemer

American computer scientist and aerospace engineer (1920–2004)

Frederica de Laguna

American ethnologist, anthropologist, and archaeologist (1906–2004)

Dick Lundy

American animator (1907–1990)

Edward Woods

American actor

James Brooker

American pole vaulter

M. F. K. Fisher

American writer (1908–1992)

William Talman

American actor (1915-1968)

Slim Gaillard

American musician (1916–1991)

Donald T. Campbell

American social scientist (1916–1996)

Florence Knoll

American architect (1917-2019)

Eddie Crook

American boxer (1929-2005)

Mike Ilitch

Macedonian-American entrepreneur and owner of the Detroit Red Wings and the Detroit Tigers, founder and owner of Little Caesars Pizza

Art Van Damme

American musician (1920–2010)

Joseph Beyrle

American soldier (1923-2004)

John Welchli

American rower (1929–2018)

Betsy Snite

alpine skier (1938-1984)

Stephen W. Bosworth

former Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a United States diplomat (1939–2016)

Thomas Schippers

American conductor (1930–1977)

Martha Henry

American-born Canadian actress (1938–2021)

John McKinlay

American rower

Gene Harris

American pianist (1933–2000)

Steve Mackay

American musician, saxophonist (1949-2015)

Donyale Luna

American model and actress (1945-1979)

Mark Wells

American ice hockey player (1957–2024)

Chris Taylor

American professional and amateur wrestler (1950-1979)

Roger Mayweather

American boxer (1961–2020)

Nate Huffman

American basketball player (1975–2015)

Frederick Hanley Seares

American astronomer (1873-1964)

Van Dyke Brooke

American actor, screenwriter and film director (1859-1921)

Gari Melchers

American artist (1860-1932)

John Randolph Bray

animator (1879-1978)

Stanley Ketchel

American boxer (1886–1910)

Jane Murfin

American writer (1884-1955)

John Garrels

American hurdler, shot putter and discus thrower (1885-1956)

Elizabeth C. Crosby

scientist, teacher, author (1888–1983)

Harriet Hammond

actress (1899-1991)

Paul de Kruif

American microbiologist (1890–1971)

George Magoffin Humphrey

American politician (1890-1970)

Vivian Martin

American actress (1893–1987)

Charles Moore

American architect (1925-1993)

Ken Doherty

American decathlete (1905-1996)

Stirling Silliphant

American screenwriter (1918–1996)

Sy Oliver

American jazz arranger, trumpeter, composer, singer and bandleader (1910–1988)

Richard Clyde Taylor

American philosopher, born 1919 (1919–2003)

Nancy Harkness Love

American aviator (1914–1976)

Herbert Stein

American economist (1916–1999)