List of people from Ann Arbor, Michigan

The following is a list of Notable Ann Arborites (people born in or associated with the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan). Note that it does not include people associated with Ann Arbor only as students or alumni of the University of Michigan.

Activists and advocates

Keith Hefner, activist

Actors and models

Jack Falahee, actor, How To Get Away With Murder
Nicole Forester, actress
Grace Henderson (1860–1944), stage and silent film actress
Austin Nichols, actor
Lara Phillips, film and television actress
Kristina and Karissa Shannon, Playboy models
Martha Vickers (1925–1971), actress; wife of Mickey Rooney
Grace Lee Whitney (1930-2015), actress, Star Trek

Artists

Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker
Fred Gallagher, cartoonist
David S. Goyer, filmmaker
Gerome Kamrowski, abstract painter
Terry LaBan, cartoonist
Benjamin McCready, portrait painter
Anna Sui, fashion designer^{[citation needed]}
Timothy Van Laar, painter
Leo Zulueta, tattoo artist^[1]

Athletes and sports figures

Kole Ayi, NFL player
Aaron Bailey, NFL wide receiver
Charles A. Baird (c. 1870–1944), first UM athletic director
Evan Bates, figure skater
Keith Bostic, NFL defensive back
Rebecca Bross, artistic gymnast
Ian Cole, hockey player
Fritz Crisler (1899–1982), football coach
Ali Curtis, professional soccer player
Ken Dyer, NFL player
Alison Gregorka, water polo player, Olympic silver medalist
Eliot Halverson, figure skater
Jim Harbaugh, NFL quarterback and coach
John Harbaugh, NFL coach
Danielle Hartsell, pair skater, sister of Steve Hartsell
Steve Hartsell, pair skater, brother of Danielle Hartsell
Howdy Holmes, race driver
Keiffer Hubbell, figure skater
Madison Hubbell, figure skater
Zeke Jones, head coach, 2012 US Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Team; Olympic silver medalist
Steven Kampfer, professional hockey player
Bruce Kimball, Olympic diver
Aaron Krickstein, tennis player
Steve Morrison, NFL linebacker, college football coach
Gabe Muoneke, professional basketball player
Veronica Pershina, figure skater, coach
Emily Samuelson, figure skater
James Toney, world champion professional boxer
Alan Webb, professional track athlete
Charlie White, ice dancer, figure skater, 2014 Olympic gold medalist
Fielding H. Yost (1871–1946), football coach
Jason Zucker, NHL hockey player^[2]

Authors

Charles Baxter, novelist
T. Casey Brennan, comic book author
Emily Colas, novelist
Nicholas Delbanco, novelist
Dorothy Marie Donnelly, poet
Donald Dunbar, poet
Loren D. Estleman, mystery and Western novelist
James Hynes, novelist
Laura Kasischke, novelist, poet
Elizabeth Kostova, novelist
Bruce McConkie (1915–1985), Mormon theologian, poet
Davi Napoleon, drama critic, theatre historian
Andrea Phillips, author, game designer
John Pollack, author, presidential speechwriter
Davy Rothbart, author, filmmaker, journalist
Mike Rother, author on industrial management
Allan Seager (1906–1968), novelist, short story writer
Alfred Slote, children's author
Sarah Weeks, children's author
Nancy Willard, children's author

Educators

Henry Carter Adams (1851–1921), economist
James Burrill Angell (1829–1916), journalist, diplomat, University of Michigan president
Allen Britton (1914–2003), music educator, dean, UM School of Music
Carl Cohen, philosopher, activist
Charles Cooley (1864–1929), sociologist
Richard Crawford, music historian
John H. D'Arms (1934–2002) classicist
John Dewey (1859–1952), educational philosopher, reformer
Dag Øistein Endsjø, Norwegian scholar of religion
Sidney Fine (1920–2009), historian
Robben Fleming (1916–2010), UM president
David Noel Freedman (1922–2008), biblical scholar
Harlan Hatcher (1898–1998), UM president
H. Wiley Hitchcock (1923–2007), musicologist
Catharine MacKinnon, feminist legal scholar
Kenneth Lee Pike (1912–2000), linguist
Alvin Plantinga (born 1932), philosopher
Shael Polakow-Suransky, deputy chancellor, New York City Public Schools
Michael Porter (born 1947), economist
Michelle Rhee (born 1969), educator, activist
Wilfrid Sellars (1912–1989), philosopher
Harold Shapiro, economist, UM president
Henry Philip Tappan (1805–1881), first UM president
Claude H. Van Tyne (1869–1930), historian
Robert M. Warner (1927–2007), archivist of the United States, dean, UM School of Library Science
Glenn Watkins, musicologist
Leslie White (1900–1975), anthropologist
Raymond Louis Wilder (1896–1982), mathematician

Entrepreneurs and business figures

Tom and Louis Borders, founders of Borders Group^[3]
Jim Buckmaster, CEO of Craigslist
Bill Hewlett (1913–2001), engineer, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard
Bruce Iglauer, founder of Alligator Records
John and Thomas Knoll, creators of Adobe Photoshop
Tom Monaghan (born in 1937), founder of Domino's Pizza, former Detroit Tigers owner
Eugene Power (1905–1988), microfilming and micropublishing pioneer

Journalists, media figures

Jill Carroll, journalist, kidnapped in Iraq
Keith Gave, journalist, sportswriter
Reed Hundt, Federal Communications Commission chair
Jay Nordlinger, conservative political columnist
John Pollack, journalist, speech writer
Mike Tirico, sportscaster, Monday Night Football
Neda Ulaby, public radio correspondent
David Westin, media CEO

Luthiers

Gregg Alf, violin maker
David Burgess, violin maker
Joseph Curtin, violin maker
Herb David, guitar maker

Musicians

William Albright (1944–1998), composer, pianist
Robert Ashley (1930-2014), composer, audio synthesis pioneer
Leslie Bassett (1923-2016), composer
Chris Bathgate, singer-songwriter
Eve Beglarian, composer
William Bolcom, pianist, composer
Muruga Booker, percussionist
Brownsville Station, rock group
Chenille Sisters, folk group
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, formed in Ann Arbor
Lewis Hugh Cooper (1920–2007), bassoonist
Max Crook, rock musician
Dabrye (Tadd Mullinix), electronic dance musician
James Dapogny, pianist, jazz scholar
Disco D (1980–2007), record producer, composer
Ross Lee Finney (1906–1997), composer
Frontier Ruckus, indie folk, alt-country band
Robert Glasgow (1925–2008), organist
Mayer Hawthorne, singer, songwriter and musician
Katt Hernandez, violinist
Eva Jessye (1895—1992), choral director, composer
James Kibbie, organist
Lyndon Lawless, conductor, music educator
Eva Likova (1919—2004), operatic soprano
Marilyn Mason, organist
Roger, Ben, and Larry Miller
Scott Morgan, rock musician
Joan Morris, vocalist
Randy Napoleon, jazz guitarist
Pity Sex, indie rock band
Iggy Pop, front man, artist, and actor
William Revelli (1902–1994), band director
H. Robert Reynolds, band director
Samiyam, hip-hop producer
Bob Seger, rock and roll singer-songwriter
Dick Siegel, jazz guitarist
Donald Sinta, saxophonist
Tom Smith, filk musician
Kate Soper, composer
Steven Springer, guitarist, songwriter
SRC, rock band
Tally Hall, indie rock band
Taproot, alt-rock band
Deniz Tek, guitarist with Australian rock band Radio Birdman
Andrew W.K., singing-songwriter, television host
Ben Wilson, keyboard player in Blues Traveler
George Balch Wilson, composer
Wolf Eyes, industrial rock band
"Shakey Jake" Woods (1925–2007), street musician^[4]
Jeff Young, guitarist in Megadeth

Politicians

John Allen (died 1851), co-founder of Ann Arbor, attorney, state senator
Bruce Bartlett, historian, political adviser
Louis D. Belcher, mayor, 1978-83
Elizabeth Brater, state senator
Jane L. Campbell (born 1953), mayor of Cleveland, Ohio 2002-06
Thomas M. Cooley (1824–1898), chief justice, Michigan Supreme Court
Samuel J. Eldersveld (1917–2010), political scientist, mayor
James Kingsley (1797–1878), attorney, state legislator, mayor
Chris Kolb, state legislator, first openly gay member of the Michigan legislature
Edwin Lawrence (1808-1885), Michigan jurist and state representative
William S. Maynard (1802–1866), merchant, land developer, mayor
Robert D. Orr (1917–2004), governor of Indiana
Edward C. Pierce (1930–2002), physician, mayor of Ann Arbor
Elisha Rumsey (died 1827), co-founder of Ann Arbor in 1824
Ingrid Sheldon, mayor, 1993-2000
Benjamin Sherman, Wisconsin State Assemblyman and Senator
Neil Staebler (1905–2000), congressman, Democratic politician
L. D. Taylor (1857–1946), mayor of Vancouver
Albert H. Wheeler (1915–1994), microbiologist, first African American mayor of Ann Arbor

Scientists

Eric Betzig, physicist, Nobel laureate
Kazimierz Fajans (1887–1975), physical chemist
John H. Hubbell (1925–2007), radiation physicist
Emmett Leith (1927–2005), electrical engineer, co-inventor of holography
Deirdre McCloskey, economist
James V. Neel (1915–2000), geneticist
Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007), mathematical psychologist
Gene Sperling, economic advisor
Samuel Ting, physicist, Nobel laureate
James Craig Watson (1838–1880), astronomer
Thomas Huckle Weller (1915–2008), virologist, Nobel laureate

References

^ Aquino, Joann Natalia (March 2012; published January 10, 2012), "Leo Zulueta: The Father of Modern Tribal Tattooing Celebrates 30 Years in the Black", Skin and Ink Magazine, no. March 2012 {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
^ http://letsgodu.blogspot.com/2010/07/jason-zuckers-hockey-odessy.html
^ Where are they now? Borders brothers long gone from Ann Arbor as chain nears bankruptcy
^ Shakey Jake – Ann Arbor – ArborWiki

[Aquino-1] Aquino, Joann Natalia (March 2012; published January 10, 2012), "Leo Zulueta: The Father of Modern Tribal Tattooing Celebrates 30 Years in the Black", Skin and Ink Magazine, no. March 2012 {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)

[2] ttp://letsgodu.blogspot.com/2010/07/jason-zuckers-hockey-odessy.html

[3] Where are they now? Borders brothers long gone from Ann Arbor as chain nears bankruptcy

[4] Shakey Jake – Ann Arbor – ArborWiki

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