This is a list of notable people from the U.S. state of Michigan. People from Michigan are sometimes referred to as Michiganders, Michiganians, or, more rarely, Michiganites. This list includes people who were born, have lived, or worked in Michigan.
Actors, entertainers, and filmmakers Actors
Directors, filmmakers, and producers Ford Beebe, director of films, including serials The Green Hornet and Buck Rogers (born in Grand Rapids) Mike Binder, director, screenwriter and actor, The Upside of Anger, Reign Over Me (born in Birmingham) John Randolph Bray, early film animator and producer (born in Addison) Jerry Bruckheimer, film and television producer, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Pirates of the Caribbean (born in Detroit) Matt Busch, writer and director, Aladdin 3477 (raised in Sterling Heights) Timothy Busfield, actor and television director, Lipstick Jungle, Without A Trace, Damages (born in Lansing) Bill Carruthers, television producer and director (born in Detroit) William Clemens, director of Nancy Drew and Perry Mason films (born in Saginaw) Kerry Conran, screenwriter and director, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (born in Flint) Francis Ford Coppola, film director and screenwriter, The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now (born in Detroit) Roger Corman, director and producer, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Wild Angels (born in Detroit) Gerald Di Pego, screenwriter and producer, Message in a Bottle (born in Flint) Paul Feig, film and television director, Bridesmaids (born in Mount Clemens) Robert J. Flaherty, filmmaker of Nanook of the North, first commercially successful documentary (born in Iron Mountain) Anne Fletcher, director, actress, and choreographer, The Proposal (born in Detroit) Loyal Griggs, Oscar-winning cinematographer (born in Sanilac County) Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes, film directors, producers, and screenwriters, Menace II Society (born in Detroit) John Hughes, director and writer, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Home Alone (born in Lansing) Jake Kasdan, film and television director, Bad Teacher, Sex Tape (born in Detroit) Lawrence Kasdan, screenwriter and director, The Big Chill, Body Heat, Silverado, Wyatt Earp (educated in Ann Arbor) Jeff Katz, film producer, The Pope's Exorcist, Snakes On A Plane (born in Detroit) Lee H. Katzin, film and television director, Le Mans (born in Detroit) Woodie King Jr., stage and film director and producer (raised in Detroit) Neil LaBute, film director, screenwriter and playwright, In the Company of Men (born in Detroit) Mitchell Leisen, director, Death Takes a Holiday, Midnight (born in Menominee) Norman Z. McLeod, director, Horse Feathers, Topper, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (born in Grayling) McG, film director, Charlie's Angels, Terminator Salvation (born in Kalamazoo) Michael Moore, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker and writer (born in Flint) Robert Moore, director, Murder By Death, Chapter Two (born in Detroit) Jane Murfin, screenwriter, What Price Hollywood? (born in Quincy) Vincenzo Natali, director and screenwriter, Cube (born in Detroit) Joel Potrykus, director and screenwriter, Ape, Buzzard (born in Ossineke) Bill Prady, television writer and producer (born in Detroit) Richard Quine, director and producer, Bell, Book and Candle, Sex and the Single Girl (born in Detroit) Sam Raimi, director, screenwriter, producer, Spider-Man, television series Xena: Warrior Princess (born in Royal Oak) Gene Reynolds, Emmy Award-winning director, co-creator of M*A*S*H (raised in Detroit) Lloyd Richards, stage director, National Medal of Arts recipient (raised in Detroit) Terry Rossio, screenwriter and film producer (born in Kalamazoo) Leonard Schrader, screenwriter, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Yakuza (born in Grand Rapids) Paul Schrader, director, screenwriter, American Gigolo, Blue Collar, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull (born in Grand Rapids) Robert Shaye, co-CEO of New Line Cinema (born in Detroit) Robert Tapert, producer of The Evil Dead, Timecop, Xena: Warrior Princess (born in Royal Oak) Paul Weatherwax, film editor, two-time Academy Award winner (born in Sturgis) Harry Winer, film and television director and producer (born in Detroit)
Radio and television people Byron Allen, comedian, television talk show host (born in Detroit) Tim Allen, actor and comedian, Home Improvement (lived in Birmingham) Gillian Anderson, actress, The X Files (lived and went to school in Grand Rapids) Sean Baligian, radio host at WDFN, pre and post game Detroit Lions (born in Livonia) Kristen Bell, actress, Veronica Mars (born in Huntington Woods) Elizabeth Berkley, actress, Saved by the Bell (born and raised in Farmington Hills) Sandra Bernhard, comedian and actress (born in Flint) Cam Brainard, radio and television announcer, narrator of Breed All About It on Animal Planet (born in Flint) Selma Blair, actress, Kath & Kim, Anger Management (born in Southfield) Bill Bonds, television journalist, WXYZ-TV (born in Pontiac) Dave Campbell, baseball player and broadcaster (born in Manistee) Dave Coulier, actor and stand-up comedian, Full House (born in St. Clair Shores) Jeff Daniels, actor, The Newsroom (grew up in Chelsea) Bob Eubanks, host of television game show The Newlywed Game (born in Flint) Paula Faris, correspondent for ABC News and The View (born in Jackson) Fred Foy, announcer, narrator of The Lone Ranger television series (born in Detroit) Cyndy Garvey, co-host with Regis Philbin on what later became Regis & Kathie Lee, ex-wife of Steve Garvey (born in Detroit) John Gordon, radio voice of Minnesota Twins (born in Detroit) Chris Hansen, television journalist (born in Chicago, but grew up in Michigan) Thom Hartmann, radio talk show host, author (born in Lansing) Ernie Harwell, radio broadcaster of Detroit Tigers baseball (1960–2002) (born in Georgia, lived in Novi) Mario Impemba, television broadcaster of Detroit Tigers baseball (born in Detroit) Art James, quiz show host and announcer (born in Dearborn) Jana Kramer, actress, One Tree Hill (born in Rochester Hills) Taylor Lautner, actor, Scream Queens (born in Grand Rapids) Casey Kasem, radio personality, host of American Top 40 (born in Detroit) James Lipton, host of Bravo cable television series Inside the Actors Studio, writer and poet (born in Detroit) Loni Love, comedian, featured on Chelsea Lately and I Love The '80s (born in Detroit) Bruce Martyn, radio broadcaster of Detroit Red Wings hockey (from Sault Ste. Marie) Greg Mathis, television judge (born in Detroit) J.P. McCarthy, radio personality, WJR (1960–1995) (born in New York) Ed McMahon, actor, announcer, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, sidekick to Carson (born in Detroit) Seth Meyers, comedian, Saturday Night Live cast member, host of Late Night with Seth Meyers Martin Milner, actor, starred in Route 66 and Adam-12 television shows (born in Detroit) George Noory, radio talk show host, Coast to Coast AM (born in Detroit, raised in Dearborn Heights) Carter Oosterhouse, television personality, Trading Spaces (born in Traverse City) Jack Paar, television talk show host, The Tonight Show (raised in and worked in Jackson) Van Patrick, sportscaster for Lions football and Tigers baseball in Detroit Arthur Penhallow, radio personality, WRIF (1970–2009) (born in Hawaii) Dick Purtan, longtime radio personality in Detroit area (lives in West Bloomfield) Gilda Radner, comedian and actress, Saturday Night Live (born in Detroit) Rob Rubick, football player and radio-TV commentator (born in Newberry) Tom Selleck, actor, star of 1980s hit TV show Magnum, P.I., producer, National Guard veteran (born in Detroit) Dax Shepard, actor, Parenthood (raised in Walled Lake and Milford) Ralph Story, radio and television personality (born in Kalamazoo) Katherine Timpf, television personality, reporter and comedian (born in Detroit) Lily Tomlin, comedian and actress, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (born in Detroit) Toni Trucks actress, Twilight Saga, SEAL Team (born in Grand Rapids, raised in Manistee) Willie Tyler, comedian and ventriloquist (raised in Detroit) Ty Tyson, sportscaster, voice of Detroit Tigers (1927–1953) (born in Pennsylvania, moved to Detroit) Kimberly Paigion Walker, radio and television personality, actress, host of 106 & Park (born in Oak Park) Ginger Zee, meteorologist for ABC News and Good Morning America (attended high school in Rockford)
Reporters, editors, photographers, and broadcasters Jim Bellows, newspaper editor, first managing editor of Entertainment Tonight (born in Detroit) Charles Collingwood, CBS television news correspondent (born in Three Rivers) Candy Crowley, CNN broadcast journalist (born in Michigan) Jill Dobson, Fox News entertainment correspondent (born in Quincy) Dick Enberg, sportscaster (born in Mount Clemens and raised in Armada) Joe Falls, sportswriter for Detroit newspapers (1956–2004) (born in New York, moved to Detroit) Paula Faris, correspondent for ABC News (born and raised in Jackson) Sara Ganim, correspondent for CNN (born in Detroit) Robin Givhan, fashion editor for the Washington Post (born in Detroit) Wendell Goler, Fox News senior White House and foreign affairs correspondent (raised in Jackson) Gael Greene, New York restaurant critic and author (born and raised in Detroit) Sanjay Gupta, chief medical correspondent for CNN (born in Novi) Jemele Hill, columnist and television personality for ESPN (born in Detroit) Gus Johnson, sportscaster for Fox Sports (born in Detroit) Jim Kaat, MLB Network sportscaster (born in Zeeland) Suzanne Malveaux, CNN reporter and White House correspondent (born in Lansing) Miles O'Brien, broadcast news journalist for PBS NewsHour (born in Detroit) Michael Parks, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor (both in Detroit) Steve Phillips, former ESPN baseball analyst (from Detroit) William E. Quinby, 19th-century editor and owner of the Detroit Free Press (born in Maine, moved to Detroit) Carl Quintanilla, anchor of the Sunday edition of Today and NBC Nightly News (born in Midland) Amy Robach, ABC news correspondent (born in St. Joseph) H.G. Salsinger, sports editor of Detroit News (1909–1958) (born in Ohio, moved to Detroit) Jay Schadler, ABC television news correspondent (born and raised in St. Joseph) Serena Shim, Lebanese-American journalist for Press TV (born in Detroit) Watson Spoelstra, sportswriter for the Detroit News 1945–73 (born in Grand Rapids) Mike Tirico, sportscaster for ESPN, NBC (lives in Ann Arbor) Lem Tucker, pioneering African-American two-time Emmy Award-winning news reporter (born in Saginaw) David Turnley, photojournalist and 1990 Pulitzer Prize winner (lives in Ann Arbor) Taro Yamasaki, photojournalist and 1981 Pulitzer Prize winner (born in Detroit)
Other Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist and actor (born in Chicago, raised in Decatur) Jessica Chobot, host, presenter, and actor (born in Buffalo, raised in Novi) John Heffron, comedian and winner of NBC's Last Comic Standing (born in Detroit) Jamie Hyneman, special effects expert on MythBusters (born in Marshall) Gregory Jbara, film, television and stage actor (born in Westland) Connie Kreski, model, Playboy magazine Playmate of the Year 1969 (born in Wyandotte) Lashonda Lester (died 2017), stand-up comedian Loretta Long, "Miss Susan" on PBS's Sesame Street (born and raised in Paw Paw) Bob Murawski, film editor (born in Detroit) Tariq Nasheed, conspiracy theorist (Detroit) Tyler Oakley, YouTuber, activist, and author (born in Jackson) TooTurntTony, social media personality (born in Commerce) Kristina and Karissa Shannon, twin sister models and Playboy Playmates (born in Ann Arbor) Kate Upton, model and actress, Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue "Rookie of the Year" 2011, cover model 2012 (born in St. Joseph)
Architects Constance Abernathy, architect, jeweler, and associate of Buckminster Fuller (born in Detroit)