List of Famous people born in Michigan, United States of America
Bruce Iglauer
Bruce Iglauer is an American businessman and record producer who founded Alligator Records as an independent record label featuring blues music.
Michael Bailey Smith
Michael Bailey Smith is an American actor and business development manager. He is best known for his appearances on the hit television series Charmed, where he played Belthazor, a Grimlock leader and Shax.
Mike Rogers
Michael J. Rogers is a former U.S. Representative for Michigan's 8th congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, Rogers served from 2001 to 2015. From 2011 to 2015, he was Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Jim Cash
James Willis Cash was an American film writer, noted for writing such 1980s films such as Top Gun and The Secret of My Success.
Ivan Raimi
Ivan Mitchell Raimi is an American Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.), and screenwriter, and the older brother of filmmaker Sam Raimi and actor Ted Raimi. Ivan works as an emergency physician in Ann Arbor, traveling to Los Angeles occasionally to work in Hollywood.
Scott Spiegel
Scott Spiegel is an American screenwriter, film director, producer and actor. He co-wrote the screenplay for the movie Evil Dead II with longtime friend, film director Sam Raimi, with whom he attended Wylie E. Groves High School in Birmingham, Michigan. Spiegel played the role of Scotty in Raimi's Within the Woods, which served as a precursor to The Evil Dead.
William A. Earle
William A. Earle was a twentieth-century American philosopher.
Carl Craig
Carl Craig is an American electronic music producer, DJ, and founder of the record label Planet E Communications. He is known as a leading figure and pioneer in the second wave of Detroit techno artists during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He has recorded under his given name in addition to a variety of aliases, including Psyche, BFC, and Innerzone Orchestra.
Diane Carey
Diane L. Carey-Brodeur is an American fiction writer, publishing under the pen names Lydia Gregory, Diane Carey, and D. L. Carey.
Sarah Jackson
Sarah Jeanette Jackson, née Sherman was a Canadian artist. Jackson first became known for her sculptures and drawings, and then for her photocopy and digital art. She was an early user of the photocopier to make art, and used this practice to embrace mail art.