List of Famous people born in Michigan, United States of America

Serena Williams

Serena Jameka Williams
First Name Serena
Last Name Williams
Born on September 26, 1981 (age 41)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player and former world No. 1 in women's single tennis. She has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the Open Era, and the second-most of all time behind Margaret Court (24). The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranked her world No. 1 in singles on eight separate occasions between 2002 and 2017. She reached the No. 1 ranking for the first time on July 8, 2002. On her sixth occasion, she held the ranking for 186 consecutive weeks, tying the record set by Steffi Graf. In total, she has been No. 1 for 319 weeks, which ranks third in the Open Era among female players behind Graf and Martina Navratilova.

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Floyd Mayweather

First Name Floyd
Last Name Mayweather
Born on February 24, 1977 (age 46)
Height 170 cm | 5'7

Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. is an American professional boxing promoter and former professional boxer. He competed between 1996 and 2015, and made a one-fight comeback in 2017. During his career he won fifteen major world titles including The Ring in five weight classes, the lineal championship in four weight classes, and retired with an undefeated record. As an amateur, Mayweather won a bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1996 Olympics, three U.S. Golden Gloves championships, and the U.S. national championship at featherweight.

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Oracene Price

First Name Oracene
Born on April 3, 1952 (age 71)

Oracene Price is an American tennis coach. She is best known for being both the mother and coach of Venus and Serena Williams, regarded among the best tennis players of all time. She is the former wife of Richard Williams, whom she divorced in 2002.

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Madonna

Madonna Louise Ciccone

Madonna Louise Ciccone is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Referred to as the "Queen of Pop", she is regarded as one of the most influential figures in popular culture. Madonna is noted for her continual reinvention and versatility in music production, songwriting, and visual presentation. She is also known for pushing the boundaries of artistic expression in mainstream music while remaining completely in charge of every aspect of her career. Her works, which incorporate social, political, sexual, and religious themes, have generated both critical acclaim and controversy. Madonna is often cited as an influence by other artists.

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Selma Blair

Selma Blair Beitner
First Name Selma
Born on June 23, 1972 (age 50)
Height 159 cm | 5'3

Selma Blair Beitner is an American actress. She played a number of small roles in films and on television before obtaining recognition for her leading role in the film Brown's Requiem (1998). Her breakthrough came when she starred as Zoe Bean on the WB sitcom Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane (1999–2000), and as Cecile Caldwell in the cult film Cruel Intentions (1999). Blair continued to find success with the comedies Legally Blonde (2001) and The Sweetest Thing (2002), and achieved international fame with her portrayal of Liz Sherman in the big-budget fantasy films Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008).

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Huma Abedin

First Name Huma
Born on July 28, 1976 (age 46)

Huma Mahmood Abedin is an American political staffer who was vice chair of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign for President of the United States. Prior to that, Abedin was deputy chief of staff to Clinton, who was U.S. Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013. She was also the traveling chief of staff and former assistant for Clinton during Clinton's campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election.

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Aileen Wuornos

Aileen Carol Pittiman
First Name Aileen
Born on February 29, 1956
Died on October 9, 2002 (aged 46)
Height 165 cm | 5'5

Aileen Carol "Lee" Wuornos was an American serial killer and sex worker who murdered seven men in Florida in 1989 and 1990 by shooting them at point-blank range. Wuornos claimed that her victims had either raped or attempted to rape her while they were soliciting sex from her, and that all of the homicides were committed in self-defense. She was sentenced to death for six of the murders and was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002.

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Cooper Rush

Cooper Rush is an American football quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Central Michigan University, and was signed by the Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 2017.

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Kristen Bell

Kristen Anne Bell
First Name Kristen
Last Name Bell
Born on July 18, 1980 (age 42)
Height 155 cm | 5'1

Kristen Anne Bell is an American actress, singer, and producer. She began her professional acting career by starring in stage productions while attending the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. In 2001, she made her Broadway stage debut as Becky Thatcher in the comedy musical The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and appeared in a Broadway revival of The Crucible the following year. In 2004, she appeared in the action thriller film Spartan and received critical praise for her performance in the television drama film Gracie's Choice.

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Larry Nassar

Lawrence Gerard Nassar
First Name Larry
Born on August 16, 1963 (age 59)

Lawrence Gerard Nassar is an American convicted serial rapist and sex offender, former USA Gymnastics national team doctor, former osteopathic physician, and former professor at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. Nassar's cumulative sexual assault crimes were the basis of the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal that began in 2015, in which he was accused of assaulting at least 265 young women and girls dating back to 1992. His victims included numerous Olympic and United States women's national gymnastics team gymnasts, and he has admitted to 10 of those accusations.

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Daniel Henney

Daniel Phillip Henney
First Name Daniel
Last Name Henney
Born on November 28, 1979 (age 43)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Daniel Phillip Henney is an American actor and model. He is known for starring in films such as Seducing Mr. Perfect (2006), My Father (2007), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Shanghai Calling (2012), The Last Stand (2013), One Night Surprise (2013), and Big Hero 6 (2014).

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Magic Johnson

Earvin Johnson Jr.
First Name Magic
Last Name Johnson
Born on August 14, 1959 (age 63)
Height 202 cm | 6'8

Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. is an American former professional basketball player and former president of basketball operations of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Often regarded as the best point guard of all time, Johnson is also considered to be one of the greatest players in NBA history. He played for the Lakers for 13 seasons. After winning championships in high school and college, Johnson was selected first overall in the 1979 NBA draft by the Lakers. He won a championship and an NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award in his rookie season, and won four more championships with the Lakers during the 1980s. Johnson retired abruptly in 1991 after announcing that he had contracted HIV, but returned to play in the 1992 All-Star Game, winning the All-Star MVP Award. After protests from his fellow players, he retired again for four years, but returned in 1996, at age 36, to play 32 games for the Lakers before retiring for the third and final time.

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Tom Selleck

Thomas William Selleck
First Name Tom
Last Name Selleck
Born on January 29, 1945 (age 78)
Height 193 cm | 6'4

Thomas William Selleck is an American actor and film producer who has starred in a number of television series and films.

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Burt Reynolds

Burton Leon Reynolds, Jr.
First Name Burt
Last Name Reynolds
Born on February 11, 1936
Died on September 6, 2018 (aged 82)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. was an American actor, director, and producer of film and television, considered a sex symbol and icon of American popular culture.

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Dita Von Teese

Heather Renée Sweet
First Name Dita
Last Name Teese
Born on September 28, 1972 (age 50)
Height 160 cm | 5'3

Heather Renée Sweet, known professionally as Dita Von Teese, is an American vedette, burlesque dancer, model, businesswoman, and pornographic and mainstream actress. She is credited with re-popularizing burlesque performance, earning the moniker "Queen of Burlesque".

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Taylor Lautner

First Name Taylor
Last Name Lautner
Born on February 11, 1992 (age 31)
Height 174 cm | 5'9

Taylor Daniel Lautner is an American actor, voice actor, and model. He is known for playing Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga film series based on the novels of the same name by Stephenie Meyer.

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Aidan Hutchinson

First Name Aidan
Born on August 9, 2000 (age 22)

Aidan Hutchinson is an American football defensive end for the Michigan Wolverines.

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Ben Carson

Benjamin Solomon Carson
First Name Ben
Last Name Carson
Born on September 18, 1951 (age 71)

Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. is an American politician, author, and retired neurosurgeon who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021. He was a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 Republican primaries. He is considered a pioneer in the field of neurosurgery.

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Todd Beamer

First Name Todd
Last Name Beamer
Born on November 24, 1968
Died on September 11, 2001 (aged 32)

Todd Morgan Beamer was an American man aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked and crashed as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001. He was one of the passengers who attempted to regain control of the aircraft from the hijackers. During the struggle, the Boeing 757 lost control and crashed into a field in Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing everyone on board, but saving the hijackers' intended target and additional victims.

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Diana Ross

Diana Ernestine Earle Ross
First Name Diana
Last Name Ross
Born on March 26, 1944 (age 79)
Height 164 cm | 5'5

Diana Ross is an American singer and actress. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, she rose to fame as the lead singer of the vocal group The Supremes, who became Motown's most successful act during the 1960s and one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. They remain the best-charting female group in US history, with a total of twelve number-one hit singles on the US Billboard Hot 100, including, "Where Did Our Love Go", "Baby Love", "Come See About Me", and "Love Child".

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