List of Famous people born in Michigan, United States of America
Avonte Maddox
Avonte Maddox is an American football cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Pittsburgh.
John C. Kornblum
John Christian Kornblum is an American diplomat and businessman. He entered the American Foreign Service in 1964. Over the next thirty five years, he served in Europe and at the State Department in Washington. Since 2001, he has established himself as an investment banker and international business consultant. He lives in Berlin. He is Jewish.
Jason Richardson
Jason Anthoney Richardson is an American former professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Richardson was taken by the Golden State Warriors as the fifth overall pick in the 2001 NBA draft after playing college basketball for Michigan State University. He won the NBA Dunk Contest in both 2002 and 2003, becoming the second player, after Michael Jordan, to win the competition back-to-back. Richardson has also played for the Charlotte Bobcats, Phoenix Suns, Orlando Magic, and the Philadelphia 76ers.
Deyonta Davis
Deyonta Davis is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Santa Cruz Warriors of the NBA G League. He won the Mr. Basketball of Michigan in 2015 and appeared in the McDonald's All-American Boys Game the same year. He played one season of college basketball for the Michigan State Spartans before being drafted by the Boston Celtics with the 31st overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft before being traded to the Memphis Grizzlies on draft night.
Danny Brown
Daniel Dewan Sewell, known professionally as Danny Brown, is an American rapper and songwriter. He is described by MTV as "one of rap's most unique figures in recent memory".
Bill Hybels
William Hybels is an American church figure and author. He is the founding and former senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois, one of the most attended churches in North America, with an average attendance of nearly 24,000 as of late 2018. He is the founder of the Willow Creek Association and creator of the Global Leadership Summit. Hybels is also an author of a number of Christian books, especially on the subject of Christian leadership. Previously slated to step down in October 2018, Hybels retired early after allegations of sexual misconduct were made against him, though he has denied all allegations. A six-month long independent review found the allegations to be credible.
Barry Crane
Barry Crane was a prolific television producer and director, and a bridge player who "won more titles than anyone else in the history of the game". According to the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL), he was "widely recognized as the top matchpoint player of all time" —the tournament format commonly played in private clubs.
Bryan Rust
Bryan Peter Rust is an American professional ice hockey winger currently playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). Rust was born in Pontiac, Michigan, but grew up in Troy, Michigan. He won back-to-back Stanley Cups with the Penguins in 2016 and 2017.
Annie Lazor
Annie Lazor is an American competitive swimmer. In 2021, Lazor won the bronze medal in the women's 200 meter breaststroke event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. In 2019, she represented the United States at the 2019 Pan American Games held in Lima, Peru. She won the gold medal in the women's 100 meter breaststroke and women's 200 meter breaststroke events. She also won the gold medal in the women's 4 × 100 meter medley relay event.
Rosalind Brewer
Rosalind G. Brewer is an American businesswoman, who is slated to become the CEO of Walgreens on March 15, 2021; at that time, she will be the only Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company. She is currently the COO of Starbucks and the former President and CEO of Sam's Club, a division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. USA Today referred to her as "one of corporate America's most prominent women and black female executives." She became the first woman and the first African-American to fill the role of CEO at one of Wal-Mart Stores' divisions. In 2018 she was listed as the 34th in Forbes' ranking of the most powerful women.