A list of notable people from the U.S. state of Michigan. Bolding indicates places in Michigan. People from Michigan are sometimes referred to as Michiganders, Michiganians, or more rarely as Michiganites. This list includes people who were born, have lived, or worked in Michigan.
Actors, entertainers and filmmakers
Actors
Main article: List of Michigan actorsDirectors, filmmakers, and producers
- Mike Binder, director, screenwriter and actor (born in Birmingham )
- Kerry Conran, screenwriter and director (born in Flint )
- Roger Corman, director and producer (born in Detroit )
- Jerry Bruckheimer, movie and TV producer (born in Detroit )
- Robert J. Flaherty, filmmaker best known his Nanook of the North the first commercially successful documentary film (born in Iron Mountain )
- Francis Ford Coppola, film director, screen writer, publisher and vintner, three-time Academy Award winner for Best Picture, first director to have two films competing for Best Picture at the same time -- The Conversation and ( The Godfather, Part II (born in Detroit )
- John Hughes, director and writer of the Brat Pack films (born in Lansing )
- Woodie King, Jr., stage and film director and producer (raised in Detroit )
- McG, film director (born in Kalamazoo )
- Michael Moore, filmmaker and writer (born in Flint )]
- Sam Raimi, director most known for movies The Evil Dead, Spider-Man, and producing Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys TV series (born in Royal Oak )
- Rich Robins(II), Emmy-winning television producer for Fox and Comedy Central (born in Howell )
- Terry Rossio, screenwriter and film producer (born in Kalamazoo )
- Paul Schrader, film director (born in Grand Rapids )
- Robert Shaye, co-CEO of New Line Cinema (born in Detroit )
- Bill Carruthers Producer Director, Soupy, Press Your Luck, Frank Sinatra, Johhny Cash, Media advisor to Presidents (born in Detroit )
Radio and television people
- Byron Allen, comedian, TV talk show host (born in Detroit )
- Kristen Bell, Pretty Actress
- Sandra Bernhard, comedian (born in Flint )
- Cam Brainard, radio and TV announcer best known as the narrator of Breed All About It on Animal Planet (born in Flint )
- Selma Blair, Pretty Actress
- Bob Eubanks, game show host most known for The Newlywed Game (born in Flint )
- Thom Hartmann, radio talk show host, broadcaster and author (born in Lansing )
- Casey Kasem, radio personality host of American Top 40 (born in Detroit )
- James Lipton, host of the Bravo cable TV series, Inside the Actors Studio , writer and poet (born in Detroit )
- Loni Love, comedian, featured on television shows such as Chelsea Lately and I Love The '80s (born in Detroit )
- Greg Mathis, Judge and later TV Judge (born in Detroit )
- Ed McMahon, Tonight Show announcer and sidekick to Johnny Carson (born in Detroit )
Reporters and sportscasters
- Charles Collingwood, CBS television news correspondent (born in Three Rivers )
- Jill Dobson, Fox News entertainment correspondent (born in Quincy )
- Dick Enberg, sportscaster (born in Armada )
- Jim Kaat, MLB Network sportscaster (born in Zeeland )
- Suzanne Malveaux, CNN news reporter (born in Lansing )
- Steve Phillips, ESPN baseball analyst (from Detroit )
- Amy Robach, MSNBC news anchor (born in Michigan)
- Jay Schadler, ABC television news correspondent (born and raised in St. Joseph )
- Lem Tucker, pioneering African-American two-time Emmy Award-winning news reporter who worked at points for NBC, ABC and CBS (born in Saginaw )
Other
- Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist and actor. (born in Chicago , raised in Decatur )
- John Heffron, comedian and winner of NBC's Last Comic Standing (born in Detroit )
- Jamie Hyneman, film special effects expert on MythBusters television show. (born in Marshall )
- Loretta Long, "Miss Susan" on PBS's Sesame Street (born and raised in Paw Paw )
Architects
- Charles N. Agree
- Marcus Burrowes
- Emily Helen Butterfield, Michigan's first female licensed architect, artist and church architecture innovator (born in Algonac )
- C. Howard Crane
- John M. Donaldson
- Joseph N. French
- Norman Bel Geddes, architectural industrial designer, aviation designer, and theatrical designer best known for the 1939 New York World's Fair pavilion Futurama he designed for General Motors (born in Adrian )
- Eric J. Hill
- Albert Kahn, architect (born in Rhaunen, Germany; moved to Detroit )
- Louis Kamper
- William E. Kapp
- Florence Knoll, minimalist archtitect and furniture designer (born in ' Saginaw'* )
- John Lautner
- Gordon W. Lloyd
- George D. Mason
- Charles Willard Moore, architect, leader of the humanistic architecture movement (born in Benton Harbor )
- S. Kenneth Neumann
- Ralph Rapson, architect best-known for the design of the original Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis (born in Alma )
- Harry J. Rill
- Gino Rossetti
- Matthew L. Rossetti
- Wirt C. Rowland, architect best-known for his design of the Guardian Building (born in Clinton )
- Eero Saarinen
- Victor Saroki
- Eliel Saarinen
- Ossian Cole Simonds, late-19th century landscape architect (born in Grand Rapids )
- Fred L. Smith
- Minoru Yamasaki, architect, best known for designing the World Trade Center. (Born in Seattle, later moved to Grand Rapids )
Artists and artisans
Ceramists
- Horace Caulkins, known for Pewabic Pottery used to make architectural tiles.
- Diana Pancioli, ceramist, professor, and author.
- Mary Chase Perry Stratton, known for Pewabic Pottery used to make architectural tiles.
Painters
- Mathias Alten, impressionist painter from Grand Rapids
- Frederick Stuart Church, 19th century painter (born in Grand Rapids )
- E. Irving Couse, painter and founding member of the Taos artist colony (born in Saginaw )
- Ian Hornak, Realist Painter (born in Philadelphia, PA and moved to Mount Clemens at age 5; later moved to Detroit )
- Bradley Jones
- Carlos Lopez
- Charles McGee (painter)
- Gari Melchers
- Julius Rolshoven
- John Mix Stanley, 19th century painter and portraitist; cofounder of the forerunner to the Detroit Institute of Arts (born in Canandaigua, New York; moved to Detroit )
- Kent Twitchell, muralist and painter (born in Lansing )
- Carol Wald
- Kurt Wenner, painter (born in Ann Arbor )
- Ezra Winter, muralist, born 1886 in Traverse City. Works include Canterbury tales mural (1939), Library of Congress John Adams Building, Washington, D.C. and works in the Guardian Building, Detroit.
Photographers
- Talbert Abrams, "Father of Aerial Photography" (born in Tekonsha )
- Louis James Pesha, pioneering marine photographer (born in Euphemia, Ontario, moved to Marine City )
- Bill Schwab, fine arts photographer born in Detroit
Sculptors
- Marshall Fredericks
- Julius T. Melchers
- Carl Milles
- Isamu Noguchi
- Corrado Parducci
- Carlo Romanelli
- Edward Wagner
Astronauts and aviation pioneers
- Michael J. Bloomfield, astronaut (raised in Lake Fenton )
- William Boeing, aviation pioneer, founder of Boeing Company (born in Detroit )
- Roger B. Chaffee, astronaut (born in Grand Rapids )
- Edward Heinemann, aircraft designer responsible wholly or in part for 20 major military aircraft, including the A-4 Skyhawk light bomber, the F3D Skyknight night fighter and the F4D Skyray carrier-based fighter aircraft (born in Saginaw )
- Gregory Jarvis, astronaut and payload specialist—died in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger (born in Detroit )
- Brent W. Jett, astronaut (born in Pontiac )
- Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, aircraft engineer and aeronautical innovator (born in Ishpeming )
- Iven Carl Kincheloe, Jr., test pilot pioneer (born in
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