Sports · born 1958
Viacheslav Fetisovice hockey defensemanLegendary Soviet defenseman who helped break the barrier keeping Soviet players out of the NHL, then anchored the Red Wings' "Russian Five" to back-to-back Stanley Cups.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
- 18 fields
Hungarian ties 31 Detroiters with Hungarian ties →
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Clear filtersSports · born 1958Viacheslav Fetisovice hockey defensemanLegendary Soviet defenseman who helped break the barrier keeping Soviet players out of the NHL, then anchored the Red Wings' "Russian Five" to back-to-back Stanley Cups.
Sports · born 1969
Sergei Fedorovice hockey centerHall of Fame center who defected from the Soviet Union to join the Red Wings in 1990, won three Stanley Cups in Detroit and the 1994 Hart Trophy as league MVP.
Sports · born 1984
Valtteri Filppulaice hockey player, centreFinnish centre who became the first Finn to play for the Red Wings, won the 2008 Stanley Cup scoring the second goal of the clinching game, and later returned to Detroit for two more seasons.
Sports · born 1984Prince Fielderbaseball player, first baseman, designated hitterPower-hitting first baseman who signed what was then the richest contract in Tigers history in 2012 and helped Detroit reach the World Series that year.
Sports · born 1979
Johan Franzénice hockey wingerSwedish power forward, nicknamed 'The Mule' by Steve Yzerman, who played his entire eleven-season NHL career with the Red Wings and set the franchise's single-series playoff goal-scoring record.
Sports · born 1981Cheryl Fordbasketball playerDetroit Shock forward, daughter of NBA great Karl Malone, who was named WNBA Rookie of the Year and champion in the same 2003 season and went on to win three titles with the team.Steve FraserGreco-Roman wrestler, coachHazel Park-born wrestler who won the first Olympic gold medal the United States ever earned in Greco-Roman wrestling, at the 1984 Los Angeles Games.
Sports · 1941–2021Bill Freehanbaseball catcherDetroit-born catcher who spent his entire 15-year career with the Tigers, an 11-time All-Star who caught the final out of the 1968 World Series.
Sports · born 1963Cecil Fielderbaseball first baseman, designated hitterSlugger who came back from Japan to hit 51 home runs for the 1990 Tigers, the first 50-homer season in the majors in 13 years.
Sports · 1925–2014William Clay Ford Sr.owner of the Detroit Lions, Ford Motor Company executiveHenry Ford's youngest grandson owned the Detroit Lions for fifty years and brought them back downtown to Ford Field in 2002.
Sports · 1944–2015Mel FarrAmerican football running back, car dealerLions running back of 1967–1973 who became Detroit's famous caped TV car dealer, "Mel Farr Superstar", heading the nation's largest Black-owned business in the late 1990s.
Sports · 1954–2009Mark Fidrychbaseball pitcherEccentric rookie pitcher who talked to the ball and packed Tiger Stadium during a magical 1976 season before arm injuries cut his career short.
Andy FarkasAmerican football fullbackHungarian-American fullback who came of age at University of Detroit Jesuit and the University of Detroit, starred for Washington and finished his NFL career with the Detroit Lions.Joe Fallssportswriter, columnistDetroit's most widely read sportswriter for half a century, covering the Tigers for the Times and Free Press and later writing for the Detroit News.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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