List of Famous people born in Michigan, United States of America
Ryan Miller
Ryan Dean Miller is an American professional ice hockey goaltender for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Miller was drafted 138th overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft. In 2010, he won the Vezina Trophy as the league's best goaltender. On February 17, 2019, Miller became the winningest American-born goalie in NHL history.
J. T. Harding
John Thomas "J.T." Harding is an American country music songwriter. He has written songs for artists such as Uncle Kracker, Kenny Chesney, and Keith Urban.
Tyler Ulis
Tyler Ulis is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Stockton Kings of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats. At Kentucky in 2015, he led his team in assists, he made the 2015 SEC All-Freshman Team and led the 2014–15 Kentucky team that won its first 38 games before losing to Wisconsin in the final four of the 2015 NCAA Tournament. As a sophomore, Ulis was a Consensus first-team All-American and earned the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year and SEC Defensive Player of the Year recognition.
Bazzi
Andrew Bazzi, known mononymously by his surname, Bazzi, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. His song "Mine", released in October 2017, gained popularity in early 2018 when it became a meme through Musical.ly edits and the use of a Snapchat lens filter featuring the song. It peaked at number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and appeared on several international charts. He released his debut studio album, Cosmic, in 2018, which peaked at number 14 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Tony Harrison
Tony Harrison is an American professional boxer. He held the WBC light middleweight title from 2018 to 2019 and challenged once for the IBF light middleweight title in 2017. As of December 2019, Harrison is ranked as the world’s third best active light middleweight by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board and sixth by The Ring.
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Jordan Charles Vogt-Roberts is an American film and television director. His feature directorial debut, The Kings of Summer, screened at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The film also won the Narrative Feature Audience Award at the 2013 Dallas International Film Festival. In 2017, Vogt-Roberts directed the MonsterVerse film Kong: Skull Island.
Chico DeBarge
Jonathan Arthur "Chico" DeBarge is an American R&B singer and musician. DeBarge is a younger brother of the members of the Motown family act DeBarge. He is best known for his 1986 hit single, "Talk to Me" and for his 1997 hit comeback album Long Time No See.
J. D. Souther
John David Souther is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He has written and co-written songs recorded by Linda Ronstadt and the Eagles.
Sara Ganim
Sara Elizabeth Ganim is an American journalist, now a correspondent for CNN. Previously she was a reporter for The Patriot-News, a daily newspaper in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. There she broke the story that featured the Sandusky scandal and the Second Mile charity. For the Sandusky/Penn State coverage, "Sara Ganim and members of The Patriot-News Staff" won a number of national awards including the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, making Ganim the third-youngest winner of a Pulitzer. The award cited "courageously revealing and adeptly covering the explosive Sandusky sex scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky."
Aramis Ayala
Aramis Ayala was the State Attorney for the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida. She was elected in November 2016, and serves as the chief prosecutor. In May 2019, Ayala stated that she would not seek re-election as state attorney.