Religion · 1958–2025
Michael J. ByrnesCatholic Archbishop of Agaña (Guam)Detroit-born priest who served as an auxiliary bishop of Detroit before leading the Catholic Church in Guam; he died in Detroit in 2025.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
- 21 fields
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Clear filtersReligion · 1958–2025Michael J. ByrnesCatholic Archbishop of Agaña (Guam)Detroit-born priest who served as an auxiliary bishop of Detroit before leading the Catholic Church in Guam; he died in Detroit in 2025.
Religion · born 1949Leonard Paul BlairCatholic Archbishop of Hartford (2013–2024)Detroit-born priest who served as an auxiliary bishop of Detroit, then as Bishop of Toledo and Archbishop of Hartford.Alexander Joseph BrunettCatholic Archbishop of Seattle (1997–2010)Detroit-born priest who spent 35 years in Detroit-area ministry, led the archdiocese's ecumenical and interfaith work, then became Archbishop of Seattle.
Politics · 1814–1892Henry P. Baldwinshoe merchant, banker, governor of Michigan, U.S. senatorDetroit boot and shoe wholesaler and banker who built St. John's Episcopal Church on Woodward, served as governor (1869–1873) and gave Hazen Pingree his first Detroit job.
Religion · 1826–1890Caspar Henry Borgesssecond Catholic Bishop of Detroit (1871–1887)German-born bishop who led the Diocese of Detroit from 1871 to 1887, invited the Jesuits to found the future University of Detroit and clashed with Polish parishioners.E. M. Bronernovelist, playwright, feminist ritual writer, professorDetroit-born Jewish feminist author of A Weave of Women and The Women's Haggadah, who studied and taught for decades at Wayne State.Ortheia BarnesR&B and jazz singer, ministerDetroit R&B and jazz singer, sister of J. J. Barnes, who opened for Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Gladys Knight and later entered the ministry.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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