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Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Mary Wilson, Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Mar vie Gay,Diana Washington, Sammy davis jr, Buddy Guy,Temptations, Berry Gordy, Muddy Water, The Clark Sisters, Martha Reeves, Soupy Sales, Anita Baker, Jackie Wilson, Dr. Benjamin Carson, Joe Lewis, Rev. C L Franklin, Sissy Huston,mother of Whither Huston, Florence Ballard, Joe Madison, Mary Wells, JUST TO NAME A FEW.their lots more
Tim AllenStar of Home Improvement, a television comedy set in a Detroit suburb. Allen spent much of his childhood in Birmingham. He attended Western Michigan University and performed stand-up comedy at Mark Ridley s Comedy Castle in Detroit.Justin BarthaJustin Bartha is best known as Nicholas Cage s sidekick in National Treasure. He was born in West Bloomfield in 1978 and attended West Bloomfield High School.Sonny BonoBest known as part of The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, Bono wrote several of the duo s hit songs and later was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He was born in Detroit in 1935.Jerry BruckheimerBruckheimer is a powerful Hollywood producer. In addition to producing movies like National Treasure, Pirates of the Caribbean and Pearl Harbor, Bruckheimer has produced several television shows. He was born in Detroit in 1945.Ellen BurstynBurstyn starred in The Exorcist and won the Academy Award for Alice Doesn t Live Here Anymore. She was born in Detroit and attended Cass Tech High School.Bruce CampbellStar of Sam Raimi s cult classic The Evil Dead. He currently stars in USA s Burn Notice. He was born in Birmingham in 1958. He grew up in the Metro Detroit Area and met Raimi in High School.Alice CooperCooper was born Vincent Damon Furnier in Detroit in 1948. Originally, Furnier s band was named Alice Cooper. After the band broke up, Furnier changed his name to Alice Cooper. He often returns to the Detroit area.Francis Ford CoppolaCoppola is the academy-award winning director of The Godfather. He was born in Detroit in 1939 but raised in New York.Roger CormanCamp filmmaker in 1950s and 60s Hollywood, Corman was responsible for such classics as The Wasp Woman, The Brain Eaters and the original The Little Shop of Horrors. He is still going strong as a producer. He was born in Detroit in 1926.Jeff DanielsStar of Terms of Endearment, Dumb and Dumber, and The Squid and the Whale, Daniels was raised in Chelsea, Michigan. After making it big, Daniels opened the Purple Rose Theatre Company in Chelsea where his family still resides. He is married to his high school sweetheart.
Select stars from metro Detroit:Tim AllenBruce CampbellEllen BurstynJustin BarthaFrancis Ford CoppolaRoger CormanJerry BruckheimerSonny BonoAlice CooperJeff DanielsEminemPaul FeigKim HunterMadonnaEd McMahon
Will the Detroit metropolitan area be sufficient?Ted Nugent, Bob Seger, Iggy Pop, Glenn Frey, Gilda Radner, Casey Kasem, Tom Selleck, Robin Williams- these are all I can think of at the moment, besides others who have already been named.
I will only try to add to the answers given above. Again, not necessarily from Detroit proper, but from the Detroit Metro area:NBA Star Chris WebberHenry Ford - founder of Ford Motor CompanyRosa Parks (obviously not originally from Detroit, but spent much of her later life in Detroit) - Civil Rights Activist
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Lilly Tomlin comedienne, Diana Ross singer
you got loads of people. eminem, biggie, 2pac...