List of Famous people born in Michigan, United States of America
Jon Cedar
Jon Cedar was an American actor. He appeared in more than sixty television and film roles during his career.
Roland Hanna
Roland Pembroke Hanna was an American jazz pianist, composer, and teacher.
Harry Keramidas
Harold Thomas Keramidas is an American film and television editor. He is perhaps best known for his work in the Back to the Future film trilogy, co-editing with Arthur Schmidt. He has also edited the films Children of the Corn, About Last Night..., The Favor, Judge Dredd, among other films. His older brother George "Furious George" Keramidas is a soccer star.
Randall Kaplan
Randall Kaplan is a serial entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Akamai Technologies. Kaplan is an active venture investor and is the managing partner of JUMP Investors, a Los Angeles-based venture capital and private equity firm.
Hamilton E. James
Hamilton Evans "Tony" James is an American billionaire businessman, and the executive vice chairman of The Blackstone Group, a New York-based global asset management firm, having previously been president and chief operating officer. James has been chairman of Costco since August 2017.
Joseph William Tobin
Joseph William Tobin, CSsR is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. A member of the Redemptorists, he has been the Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, since his installation on January 6, 2017. He had served as the Archbishop of Indianapolis since 2012 and as secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (CICLSAL) from 2010 to 2012. He has been a cardinal since November 19, 2016.
Frank Tate
Frank Tate is a former American professional boxer.
Johnny Davis
Johnny Reginald Davis is an American former professional basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played in the NBA with four teams in ten years from 1976 to 1986, winning an NBA championship in his rookie season (1976–77) with the Portland Trail Blazers. He also played for the Indiana Pacers, the Atlanta Hawks, and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
John Poloni
John Paul Poloni is a left-handed former Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in two games for the Texas Rangers in 1977.
Philip LaZebnik
Philip LaZebnik is an American screenwriter and producer. LaZebnik has written screenplays for films including Pocahontas, Mulan, The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar, Asterix and the Vikings, The Three Investigators and the Secret of Skeleton Island, The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar II, The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar III: The Mystery of the Snake Crown, The Three Investigators and the Secret of Terror Castle, Emma and Santa Claus and The Ark and the Aardvark. He wrote the book for the musical "Fairy Tale" about Hans Christian Andersen with songs by Stephen Schwartz, and wrote the book and lyrics for "Oktoberfest: the Musical" with music by Harold Faltermeyer. In collaboration with Mads Æbeløe Nielsen he wrote the book for the theatrical musical version of Djævelens lærling, a best-selling Danish fantasy novel of the same name by Kenneth B. Andersen, with songs and music by Madeline Myers.