The following is a list of people from Detroit, Michigan. This list includes notable people who were born, have lived, or worked in and around Detroit as well as its metropolitan area. Activists Octavia Williams Bates Gin'nnah Muhammad Rosa Parks Betty Shabazz Jalonne White-Newsome Malcolm X Artists Architects Charles N. Agree C. Howard Crane Joseph Nathaniel French Albert Kahn Wirt C. Rowland Minoru Yamasaki Ceramists Horace Caulkins Tom Lollar Diana Pancioli Mary Chase Perry Stratton Dancers Lottie "The Body" Graves Fashion designers Tracy Reese Anna Sui John Varvatos Painters Larry D. Alexander Ian Hornak Charles McGee Allie McGhee Gari Melchers Eric Millikin Niagara Carl Owens John Mix Stanley Carol Wald Photographers Bill Schwab Irakly Shanidze Taro Yamasaki Sculptors Marshall Fredericks Mike Kelley Julius T. Melchers Carl Milles Corrado Parducci Richard Ritter Carlo Romanelli Edward Wagner Textile designers Ruth Adler Schnee Astronauts Gregory Jarvis Business, industry, academics, and labor Steve Ballmer Elissa P. Benedek William E. Boeing George Gough Booth Eli Broad Roy D. Chapin Roy D. Chapin Jr. Nina Clifford Louis-Césaire Dagneau Douville de Quindre Bertrand Curtis Spitzley William Davidson John DeLorean Horace Elgin Dodge John Francis Dodge Shel Dorf George Doundoulakis William C. Durant Jeremiah Dwyer William R. Farrand Mark Fields Charles T. Fisher Alfred Ford Edsel Ford Edsel Ford II Henry Ford Henry Ford II William Clay Ford Jr. William Clay Ford Sr. Charles Lang Freer Dan Gilbert Elizabeth L. Gleicher Les Gold Berry Gordy Edgar Gott Tyree Guyton Arthur Hayes Frank J. Hecker Jimmy Hoffa Joseph L. Hudson Christopher Ilitch Denise Ilitch Marian Ilitch Mike Ilitch Peter Karmanos Jr. William J. Keep Sebastian S. Kresge Henry M. Leland Charles Lindbergh Michael J. Malik Sr. Alex Manoogian Oscar F. Mayer Elijah McCoy Manuel "Matty" Moroun Alan Mulally David Overton Francis Palms Roger Penske Heinz Prechter Ashley Qualls Walter Reuther Stephen M. Ross Jeffrey Sachs James E. Scripps Art Van Elslander James Vernor Hiram Walker B. Joseph White Kate Williams Ralph Wilson Mark Zbikowski Clergy and religion Solanus Casey Gregory Dickow C. L. Franklin Lucien Greaves Elijah Muhammad Wallace Fard Muhammad Jack Van Impe Government and politics Albert M. Bielawski James Blanchard Sonny Bono Walter B. Brady Cora Brown Henry Billings Brown Vern Buchanan Ella Bully-Cummings Ralph Bunche Mickey Cafagna Walter H. Campbell Ben Carson Lewis Cass Roy D. Chapin J. Michelle Childs John Conyers Francis X. Desnoyers Thomas E. Dewey Emma Didlake John Dingell John Dingell Sr. Gershwin