List of Famous people born in Michigan, United States of America
Jerome Remick
Jerome "Jerry" Hosmer Remick III was a Canadian numismatist, geologist and columnist for Canadian Coin News.
Paul Weatherwax
Paul John Weatherwax was an American film editor, and two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
Jay Adelson
Jay Adelson is an American Internet entrepreneur. In 2014 Adelson co-founded Center Electric with Andy Smith. In 2013 he founded Opsmatic, a technology company that improves productivity on operations teams. In 2015 Opsmatic was bought by New Relic. Adelson's Internet career includes Netcom, DEC's Palo Alto Internet Exchange, co-founder of Equinix, Revision3 and Digg, and CEO of SimpleGeo, Inc. In 2008, Adelson was named a member of Time Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential People in the World and was listed as a finalist on the same list in 2009.
Richard Street
Richard Allen Street was an American soul and R&B singer, most notable as a member of Motown vocal group The Temptations from 1971 to 1993. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Street was the first member of the Temptations to actually be a native of the city which served as Motown's namesake and hometown; all of the previous members were born and at least partially raised in the southern United States.
Arthur Henry Krawczak
Arthur Henry Krawczak was an American Bishop of the Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit from 1973 to 1982.
Alexander Joseph Brunett
Alexander Joseph Brunett was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Seattle from 1997 until his retirement in 2010. Brunett previously served as the Bishop of Helena from 1994 to 1997 and after his retirement he served as apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Oakland, California from 2012 to 2013.
Jack J. McCauley
Jack McCauley is an American engineer, hardware designer, inventor, video game developer and philanthropist. As an engineer at Activision, he designed the guitars and drums for the Guitar Hero video game series and was the Chief Engineer at Oculus VR, which was later acquired by Facebook for $2 billion. At Oculus, McCauley was chief developer of the Oculus DK1 and DK2 virtual reality headsets.
Vincenzo Natali
Vincenzo Natali is an American-Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for writing and directing science fiction and horror films such as Cube, Cypher, Nothing, and Splice.
Bruce Cork
Bruce Cork was a physicist who discovered the antineutron in 1956 while working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He retired from Lawrence in 1986. He died October 7, 1994 at the age of 78 after a long illness.
Robert Erickson
Robert Erickson was an American composer.