Sports · born 1965
Dominik Hašekice hockey goaltenderCzech Hall of Fame goaltender, widely considered among the greatest ever, who won both of his Stanley Cups with the Detroit Red Wings.DETROIT / A living lexicon / ¼
Famous Detroiters
People who were born here, moved here or built their careers in Detroit: musicians, carmakers, athletes, writers, inventors, civil-rights leaders and a few notorious names. With their dates, their Detroit story and the places where they lived, worked and played, closed ones included.
- 1,949 famous people
- 516 Detroit places
- 7 fields
Hungarian ties 31 Detroiters with Hungarian ties →
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Clear filtersSports · born 1965Dominik Hašekice hockey goaltenderCzech Hall of Fame goaltender, widely considered among the greatest ever, who won both of his Stanley Cups with the Detroit Red Wings.
Film & TV · born 1965
Mike Henryvoice actor, writer, producerFamily Guy writer and longtime voice of Cleveland Brown, born in Pontiac, Michigan.
Film & TV · born 1966Hill Harperactor, author, political candidateActor from CSI: NY and The Good Doctor who moved to Detroit in 2016, bought a downtown coffee roastery and ran for the U.S. Senate from Michigan in 2024.
Film & TV · born 1965Butch Hartmananimator, writer, producerCreator of The Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom, born in Highland Park and raised in Roseville and New Baltimore in Macomb County.
Sports · born 1964
Brett Hullice hockey right winger, executiveOne of the NHL's greatest goal scorers, Hull signed with Detroit in 2001 chasing a second Stanley Cup and won it in 2002, switching his number out of respect for Vladimir Konstantinov.
Sports · born 1961Lynn Hillrock climberDetroit-born rock climber, raised in California, widely regarded as one of the greatest climbers in the sport's history for her 1993 first free ascent of The Nose on El Capitan.
Politics · born 1967Jon HustedpoliticianOhio Republican, U.S. senator since 2025, who was born in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak and adopted as an infant by an Ohio family.
Film & TV · born 1960Don HarveyactorCharacter actor of Eight Men Out, Casualties of War and The Thin Red Line, born and raised in St. Clair Shores, where he began acting at Lake Shore High School.Kevin Hatcherice hockey defensemanDetroit-born, Sterling Heights-raised defenseman who played 17 NHL seasons, made five All-Star Games and entered the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame with his brother Derian.
Music · born 1965Robert Hoodtechno producer, DJDetroit-born founding member of Underground Resistance who went on to invent the stripped-down sound of minimal techno.
Music · 1965–2021Mike Howeheavy metal singerDownriver-born heavy metal singer who started in the Detroit band Hellion and became the voice of Metal Church in two eras.
Music · born 1964Robert Hurstjazz bassist, composer, educatorDetroit-born bassist who played with Wynton and Branford Marsalis, spent the 1990s in The Tonight Show Band, and now teaches jazz bass at the University of Michigan.Fred Hammondgospel singer, bassist, producerDetroit gospel bassist, singer and producer who played bass for the Winans, co-founded Commissioned, and became one of contemporary gospel's best-selling artists.Kelli HandDJ, producer, label owner“First Lady of Detroit techno”, who opened doors for Black women in electronic music and ran her own Acacia label for three decades.Mike HuckabyDJ, producer, educatorBeloved Detroit deep-house and techno DJ who held residencies at the city's key clubs and taught music production to young Detroiters.The lexicon keeps growing. Every entry lists its sources at the bottom. Dates were checked against Wikidata and Wikipedia. The texts are our own. Famous people's places among the sights ↗
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