List of people from Detroit

The list of people from Detroit includes those who were born, have lived, or worked in Detroit, Michigan, and in Metro Detroit.

Activists

Artists and designers

Architects

Ceramists

Dancers

Lottie "The Body" Graves

Fashion designers

Painters

Photographers

Sculptors

Textile and interior designers

Astronauts

Gregory Jarvis

Business, industry, academics, and labor

Clergy and religion

Government and politics

Albert M. Bielawski, member of the Michigan House of Representatives
James Blanchard, U.S. representative for Michigan and governor of Michigan
Suzanne Bonamici, U.S. representative for Oregon
Sonny Bono, U.S. representative for California
Walter B. Brady, member of the Michigan House of Representatives
Cora Brown, first African American woman elected to a state senate who was a member of the Michigan Senate
Henry Billings Brown, [Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court of the United States|justice] of the Supreme Court
Vern Buchanan, U.S. representative for Florida
Ella Bully-Cummings, chief of the Detroit Police
Ralph Bunche, Nobel Peace Prize winner and diplomat
Mickey Cafagna, mayor of Poway, California
Walter H. Campbell, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives
Ben Carson, secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Lewis Cass, secretary of State and U.S. senator for Michigan
Roy D. Chapin, secretary of Commerce
J. Michelle Childs, federal judge
John Conyers, U.S. representative for Michigan
Leon Czolgosz, anarchist who assassinated president William McKinley
Francis X. Desnoyers, mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Thomas E. Dewey, governor of New York
Debbie Dingell, U.S. representative for Michigan
John Dingell, U.S. representative for Michigan
John Dingell Sr., U.S. representative for Michigan
Gershwin A. Drain, federal judge
Keith Ellison, U.S. representative for Minnesota and attorney general of Minnesota
Jack Faxon, member of the Michigan Senate
William Webb Ferguson, member of the Michigan House of Representatives
Moses W. Field, U.S. representative for Michigan
Burley Follett, mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin
Michael Fougere, mayor of Regina, Saskatchewan
Nathan Goodell, mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin
Reneé Hall, police chief of the Dallas Police Department
Albert Hammond, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Tom Hayden, member of the California State Senate
Robert J. Huber, U.S. representative for Michigan
Tupac A. Hunter, member of the Michigan Senate
Jon A. Husted, U.S. senator for Ohio
Marilyn Jean Kelly, [Michigan Supreme Court|chief Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|justice of the Michigan Supreme Court]
Kwame Kilpatrick, mayor of Detroit
T. John Lesinski, member of the Michigan House of Representatives
Carl Levin, U.S. senator for Michigan
Henry W. Lord, U.S. representative for Michigan
Alfred Lucking, U.S. representative for Michigan
Eileen McNulty, Pennsylvania Secretary of Revenue
John N. Mitchell, United States attorney general
Frank Murphy, governor of Michigan and Supreme Court justice
Simon J. Murphy Jr., mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin
John Stoughton Newberry, U.S. representative for Michigan
Casmer P. Ogonowski, member of the Michigan House of Representatives
Dorothy Comstock Riley, judge of the Michigan Supreme Court
Mitt Romney, U.S. senator for Utah and governor of Massachusetts
Henry Hastings Sibley, governor of Minnesota
Shri Thanedar, U.S. representative for Michigan
Rashida Tlaib, U.S. representative for Michigan
Augustus B. Woodward, judge of Michigan Territory and Florida Territory
Coleman Young, mayor of Detroit

Military

Movie, radio, television, and journalism

Musicians, bands and composers

Sports figures

American football

Baseball

Basketball

Bodybuilding

Lenda Murray

Boxing

Fencing

Byron Krieger

Frisbee

Ken Westerfield

Golf

Hockey

Mixed martial arts

Motorsports

Olympians

Professional wrestling

Soccer

Swimming and diving

Tennis

Michael Russell

Track and field

Writers, novelists and poets

Others

Club Chalamet, social media personality