Macomb County ( ) is a

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located in the eastern portion of the U.S. state of

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, bordering Lake St. Clair, and is part of northern

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. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 881,217, making it the third-most populous county in the state. The

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is Mt. Clemens. Macomb County is part of the

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. The city of Detroit is located south of the county's southern border. Macomb County contains 27 cities, townships and villages, including three of the top ten most-populous municipalities in Michigan as of the 2010 census: Warren (#3), Sterling Heights (#4) and Clinton Township (#10). Most of this population is concentrated south of Hall Road (M-59), one of the county's main thoroughfares.

History

The

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lived in the area for centuries before European contact and were preceded by other cultures of ancient indigenous peoples. The first European colonizers were French, and they arrived in the area during the 17th century. Other early settlers were

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fur trappers, who sometimes married Ojibwe women, and Jesuit missionaries. A Moravian colony was established in the county in the late 18th century. In addition to the original French and

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settlers, later immigrants included

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, and others from Europe. In the 19th century, the county received many European-American migrants from New York and New England, who were attracted to the area for land and booming jobs in the lumber and other resource industries. Macomb County was formally organized on January 15, 1818, as the third county in the

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. The county was named in honor of

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-born Alexander Macomb, Jr., a highly decorated veteran of the

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and hero of the Battle of Plattsburg. He was made Commanding General of the U.S. Army in 1828. As was typical in development, the county at first encompassed a much larger area than at present. As population increased in the area, the state legislature removed territory in 1819 and 1820 to form the counties of

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, Lapeer, Genesee, and St. Clair. In May 2008, Macomb County voters approved the inclusion of a County Executive in a new charter to be submitted to the voters by 2010. A charter commission was elected in November 2008 to draft a charter for submission to Governor Granholm, which was submitted and approved and placed on the November 2009 ballot. The Charter passed with a 60.4% to 39.6% margin.

Geography

Michigan Macomb county Lake St Clair Anchor Bay Selfridge AFB IMG 1817

According to the

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, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (16%) is water. The county's southeastern border with

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is located across Lake St. Clair. Lake St. Clair borders the county on the east. Macomb County is mostly considered a part of Southeast Michigan. However, the far northern parts of the county, including

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and Armada, are often considered to be part of Michigan's

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region. The county comprises mostly rural/agricultural communities to the north and a mix of suburban and urban areas to the south.

Adjacent counties

* Lambton County,

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, Canada - southeast * St. Clair County, Michigan - northeast * Lapeer County, Michigan - northwest *

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- west *

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- south

Demographics

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As of the

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, there were 840,978 people living in the county. 85.4% were

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, 8.6% Black or African American, 3.0% Asian, 0.3% Native American, 0.6% of some other race and 2.1% of two or more races. 2.3% were Hispanic or Latino (of any race). 14.8% were of

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, 14.3% Polish, 11.1% Italian, 6.5% Irish and 5.9%

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ancestry. In 2000, 87.6% of county residents spoke only

at home; 1.7% spoke Italian, 1.4% Polish, 1.2% Spanish, 1.1%

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, and 1.1% Syriac. European ethnic groups that have settled in Macomb County since the late 20th century include

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and Macedonians. Among Asian ethnic groups, eight numbered over 1,000 people in Macomb County. They were

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, Asian Indians, Chaldeans, Filipinos, Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, and Hmong. Pakistanis are also represented in Macomb County's population.Selweski, Chad.
Albanians, Chaldeans, Arabs and Asians move to Macomb County

Archive
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''. March 23, 2011. Retrieved on July 6, 2015. Native American tribes had more than 2,478 residents in Macomb County in 2000. In 2000, there were 309,203 households, out of which 31.10% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.30% were

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living together, 10.10% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.80% were non-families. 26.90% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.30% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 3.09. In 2000, the age distribution of the county was as follows: 24.10% under the age of 18, 8.00% from 18 to 24, 31.50% from 25 to 44, 22.80% from 45 to 64, and 13.70% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.00 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.90 males. The median income for a household in the county was $52,102, and the median income for a family was $62,816. Males had a median income of $48,303 versus $30,215 for females. The

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for the county was $24,446. About 4.00% of families and 5.60% of the population were below the

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, including 7.00% of those under age 18 and 6.40% of those age 65 or over. According to the 2006 American Community Survey, the average family size was 3.15. The population of 25 and over was 571,463. 86.9% of that population had graduated from high school, and 21% of the population had a

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or higher. About 14.3% of that population was disabled. 12.5% of Macomb's population could speak another language at home. Of Michigan's five largest counties, Macomb experienced the most population growth (102.5%) in the postwar years of accelerating suburban development, between 1950 and 1960. Its population has continued to grow to the present day, albeit at a slower pace since 1980.

Parks and recreation

Macomb County is home to more than 130 parks covering managed by the state, regional, county, and local government. There are four major public parks in the County
Freedom Hill County Park
Macomb Orchard Trail, Lake St. Clair Metropark, and Stony Creek Metropark. The county also has 31 miles of shoreline and over 100 marinas.

Government

The county government operates the

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, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, keeps files of deeds and mortgages, maintains

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, administers public health regulations, and participates with the state in the provision of welfare and other social services. The county board of commissioners, which for the 2019–21 term is chaired by Bob Smith, controls the budget and creates and adopts ordinances and resolutions related to County functions. In Michigan, most local government functions — police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc. — are the responsibility of individual cities and townships. The Macomb Intermediate School District serves all school districts based in the county.

Elected officials

* County Executive: Mark A. Hackel ( Democrat) * Prosecuting Attorney:

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(Republican) *

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: Anthony Wickersham (Democrat) *

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: Anthony Forlini (Republican) *

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: Larry Rocca (Republican) * Public Works Commissioner:

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(Republican) * Macomb County Board of Commissioners: 13 members, elected from districts (6 Democrats, 7 Republicans) * Circuit Court: 13 judges (non-partisan) * Probate Court: 2 judges (non-partisan)

Politics

Macomb County has shown Republican tendencies in statewide elections, while tending to favor Democratic candidates at the federal and local level. Since the 2010s, Macomb County has shifted towards the Republicans, and after the 2020 elections the party gained control of the Board of Commissioners for the first time as well as four of the five countywide offices. The county gained fame in the 1980s and '90s as a bellwether of state and national politics. Macomb's large cohort of middle-class, socially conservative whites gave it one of the nation's most prominent concentrations of "

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s". Outsider candidates with a conservative-populist bent have done well there in the past, such as

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and

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in 2016 and 2020. Macomb County voters were primarily responsible for the failure of the Regional Transit Authority proposal to create a public transit system in the Metropolitan Detroit region. The more populated communities south of M-59 (Warren, Sterling Heights, Clinton Charter Township), closer to Detroit city proper are friendlier to Democrats. Warren leans Democratic, while Sterling Heights, after voting for

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in 2012, voted for Trump by about 12 points in both 2016 and 2020, but in 2018, voted for Gretchen Whitmer and Debbie Stabenow by 3 points, and Clinton Charter Township after voting for Obama in 2012, voted for Trump in 2016, but swung back to Whitmer and Stabenow in 2018 and Joe Biden in 2020. The communities north of M-59 further removed from Detroit are more strongly Republican, all backing Trump in 2016 and 2020 and

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in 2018.

Transportation

Air

* Coleman A. Young International Airport (DET) (Detroit) - General aviation only * Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) (

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) - Major commercial airport, a hub for

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and Spirit Airlines * Oakland County International Airport (PTK) Waterford Township) - Charter passenger facility *

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(near

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) - A minor international airport on the Canada–US border. * Selfridge Air National Guard Base (

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) - Military airbase *

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(2 miles east of Romeo, Michigan) - Small general aviation airport within Macomb County *Ray Community Airport (2 miles southeast of

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) - Small general aviation airport within Macomb County *Marine City Airport (4 miles west of Marine City, Michigan) - Small general aviation airport in neighboring Saint Clair County *

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(2 miles east of

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) - Small general aviation airport in neighboring

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Major highways

* runs –west through Detroit and serves Ann Arbor to the west (where it continues to

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) and Port Huron to the northeast. The stretch of the current I-94 freeway from Ypsilanti to Detroit was one of the first American limited-access freeways. Henry Ford built it to link his factories at

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and Dearborn during

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. It was called the Willow Run Expressway. * runs east-west from the junction of I-96, I-275, and M-5 to I-94, providing a route through the northern suburbs of Detroit. * is a major road that runs from Marysville to downtown Detroit. The portion of the road between 23 Mile Road and New Haven Road is not numbered. Between New Haven Road and Main Street in the city of Richmond, the road is part of M-19. Between Richmond and Marysville the road is not numbered. * starts in New Haven goes up Gratiot to Richmond. The route leaves Gratiot and goes northwest through Richmond and then north through Memphis. Then it goes north through St. Clair and Sanilac Counties and ends at M-142 between Bad Axe and Harbor Beach in Huron County. * begins as part of 23 Mile Road, east of I-94, and ends in Marysville. * which is called the Van Dyke Freeway and Christopher Columbus Freeway from 18 Mile Road in Sterling Heights to 27 Mile Road in Washington Township. It is also called the POW/MIA Memorial Freeway from 27 Mile Road in Washington Township to the freeway's end at 34 Mile Road in Bruce Township, however, it is locally known as the Van Dyke Freeway. It continues as Van Dyke Road or Van Dyke Avenue north to Port Austin and south through Warren to Gratiot Avenue in Detroit. * (Veterans Memorial Freeway) from Utica to

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, continues east as Hall Road to Gratiot Avenue and as William P. Rosso Highway to its terminus at I-94 and west as various surface roads to I-96 near Howell * (Groesbeck Highway) begins in Detroit at Gratiot (M-3) and ends at Hall Road (M-59). *, known by many due to the film '' 8 Mile'', forms the dividing line between Detroit on the south and the suburbs of Macomb and Oakland counties on the north. It is also known as Baseline Road outside of Detroit, because it coincides with the baseline used in surveying Michigan; that baseline is also the boundary for many Michigan counties.

Other roads

* Jefferson Avenue is a scenic highway that runs parallel to the shore of the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair. It is also the principal thoroughfare for the Grosse Pointes, where it is called Lake Shore Drive. *"Mile" roads: Surface street navigation in Metro Detroit is commonly anchored by "mile roads," major east-west surface streets that are spaced at one-mile intervals and increment as one travels north and away from the city center. Mile roads sometimes have two names, the numeric name (ex. 15 Mile Road) used in Macomb County and a local name (ex. Maple Road) used in Oakland County mostly.

Rail

Into the end of the 1950s the

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operated multiple trains from Mackinaw City at the north end of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, with stops at Warren station. The last Bay City to Detroit passenger train through Warren stopped on March 19, 1964.

Communities

Cities

* Center Line * Eastpointe (formerly East Detroit) * Fraser * Grosse Pointe Shores (partial) * Memphis (partial) *

(county seat) * New Baltimore *

(partial) * Roseville *

St. Clair Shores St. Clair Shores is a suburban city bordering Lake St. Clair in Macomb County of the U.S. state of Michigan. It forms a part of the Metro Detroit area, and is located about northeast of downtown Detroit. Its population was 59,715 at the 2010 ...

* Sterling Heights * Utica * Warren

Villages

* Armada *

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* Romeo

Charter townships

* Chesterfield Charter Township * Clinton Charter Township * Harrison Charter Township * Shelby Charter Township * Washington Charter Township

Civil townships

* Armada Township * Bruce Township * Lenox Township * Macomb Township * Ray Township * Richmond Township

Unincorporated communities

* Anchor Bay Gardens * Anchor Bay Harbor * Anchor Bay Shores * Broad Acres * Cady * Chesterfield * Chesterfield Shores * Clifton Mill *

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* Lakeside * Lottivue * Macomb * Meade * Milton * Mount Vernon * Point Lakeview * Preston Corners * Ray Center * Saint Clair Haven * Sebille Manor * Shelby * Waldenburg *

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* Wolcott Mills *

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Education

School districts:
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Almont Community Schools Almont Community Schools is a school district located in Almont, Michigan, United States. It has three schools, each covering the whole district for the specific grades they serve. Schools * Almont High School * Almont Middle School * Orcha ...

* Anchor Bay School District * Armada Area Schools * Center Line Public Schools * Chippewa Valley Schools * Clintondale Community Schools * East Detroit Public Schools * Fitzgerald Public Schools *

Fraser Public Schools Fraser Public Schools is a public school district located in Fraser, Michigan in the United States. Fraser Public Schools educates about 5,200 students. The majority of students were categorized as white, followed by black, with only 1–2% of ...

* Lakeview Public Schools * Lake Shore Public Schools * L'Anse Creuse Public Schools * Memphis Community Schools * Mount Clemens Community School District * New Haven Community Schools *

Oxford Area Community Schools Oxford Community Schools is a school district headquartered in Oxford, Michigan. The district serves portions of northeastern Oakland County and southwestern Lapeer County. In Oakland County, it serves Oxford, Leonard, most of Oxford Townshi ...

Richmond Community Schools Richmond Community Schools is a school district headquartered in Richmond, Michigan Richmond is a city within Metro Detroit in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,735 at the 2010 census. Most of the city is located in Macomb Coun ...

* Rochester Community School District *

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* Roseville Community Schools * South Lake Schools * Utica Community Schools *

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* Warren Woods Public Schools

Notable people

Actors and actresses

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, actor,

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, actor/comedian,

* Adrienne Frantz, actress and singer, Mount Clemens, Michigan * Faye Grant, actress,

* Kathleen Rose Perkins, actress, New Baltimore *

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, actress, Roseville, Michigan

Athletes

* George Herbert Allen, coached in the NFL and USFL, St. Clair Shores * David Booth, NHL player, Washington Township *

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, NHL player for the

Winnipeg Jets The Winnipeg Jets are a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg. The team competes in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western Conference, and is owned by True North Sports & Entertainment, p ...

* Dave Debol, NHL player, St. Clair Shores *

Danny DeKeyser Daniel Christopher DeKeyser (born March 7, 1990) is an American professional ice hockey defenseman. He is currently an unrestricted free agent who most recently played with the Toronto Marlies in the American Hockey League (AHL). He formerly pla ...

, NHL Player, Macomb County *

Joe DeLamielleure Joseph Michael DeLamielleure ( ; born March 16, 1951) is an American former professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL). He was an All-American playing college football for the Michigan State Spartans. H ...

, NFL Player, Center Line *

John DiGiorgio John DiGiorgio (born June 29, 1982) is a retired American football linebacker. He was signed by the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He played college football at Saginaw Valley State. Professional career Buffalo Bills DiGiorg ...

, NFL Player, Macomb, Shelby Township * Denny Felsner, NHL player, Warren *

Derian Hatcher Derian John Hatcher (born June 4, 1972) is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Minnesota North Stars, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings and Philadelphia Flyers. ...

, NHL player, Sterling Heights *

Kevin Hatcher Kevin John Hatcher (born September 9, 1966) is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman who played in the NHL for 17 seasons between 1984 and 2001 for the Washington Capitals, Dallas Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Rangers and ...

, NHL player, Sterling Heights * Pat Hentgen, MLB player, Fraser *

Bryan Herta Bryan John Herta (born May 23, 1970) is an American former race car driver. He currently runs his own team, Bryan Herta Autosport in the NTT IndyCar Series. His team won the 2011 Indianapolis 500 with driver Dan Wheldon and the 2016 Indianapolis ...

, race car driver, Warren * Matt Hunwick, NHL player, Warren * Ron Kramer, NFL player, Eastpointe * Craig Krenzel, NFL player, Sterling Heights *

Chad LaRose Chad LaRose (born March 27, 1982) is an American former professional hockey player. He has previously played as a Stanley Cup winner for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL). Playing career As a youth, LaRose played in th ...

, NHL player, Fraser * John Mazza, PBA bowler, Shelby Township * Shirley Muldowney, race car driver, Armada * John Smoltz, MLB player, Warren *

Jim Sorgi James Joseph Sorgi Jr. (born December 3, 1980) is a former American football quarterback. He played college football at the University of Wisconsin and was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the sixth round of the 2004 NFL Draft. Sorgi served a ...

, NFL player, Fraser *

Matt Taormina Matthew Angelo Taormina (born October 20, 1986) is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He played with the New Jersey Devils and the Tampa Bay Lightning of the National Hockey League (NHL). Playing career As a youth, Taormina p ...

, NHL player, Warren * Michele Van Gorp, WNBA player from

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist Jam ...

, Warren * Doug Weight, NHL player, Warren *

Mark Wells Mark Ronald Wells (born September 18, 1957) is an American former professional ice hockey forward who is best known for being a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team. Amateur career Mark Wells graduated from Lake Shore High School in ...

, member of the 1980 Olympic hockey team,

Johnny White Johnny White (January 18, 1932 – December 24, 1977), was an American racecar driver. Born in Warren, Michigan, White died in Indianapolis, Indiana. He drove in the USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1963 and 1964 seasons, with 11 c ...

, race car driver, Warren *

Ernie Whitt Leo Ernest Whitt (born June 13, 1952) is an American former professional baseball catcher. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), including twelve for the Toronto Blue Jays, and was the last player from the franchise's inaugural sea ...

, MLB player, Roseville * Frank Zombo, NFL player, Sterling Heights *

Kyle Cook David Kyle Cook (born August 29, 1975) is an American musician best known as a member of the band Matchbox Twenty, serving as the lead guitarist, banjo player, backing and occasional lead vocalist. Career Matchbox Twenty Kyle Cook joined Matc ...

, NFL player, Macomb Twp. * Steve Oleksy, NHL player, Chesterfield Twp. * Tyler Conklin, NFL player, Chesterfield Twp. * Sean Murphy-Bunting, NFL Player, Macomb Twp.

Musicians

Kid Rock Robert James Ritchie (born January 17, 1971), known professionally as Kid Rock (also known as Bobby Shazam), is an American singer, songwriter and rapper. His style alternates between rock, hip hop, country, and metal. A self-taught musician ...

, Romeo *

Mitch Ryder Mitch Ryder (born William Sherille Levise, Jr.; February 26, 1945) is an American musician who has recorded more than 25 albums over more than four decades. Career Ryder formed his first band, Tempest, when he was at Warren High School, and th ...

, Roseville * Justin Jeffre, ('' 98 Degrees''),

* Uncle Kracker, Harrison Township *

Eminem Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem (; often stylized as EMINƎM), is an American rapper and record producer. He is credited with popularizing Hip hop music, hip hop in Middle America (United Sta ...

, Warren * Fred 'Sonic' Smith, St. Clair Shores *

Alice Cooper Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer whose career spans over five decades. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusions, including pyrotechnics, guilloti ...

, Eastpointe *

Chuck Inglish Evan Ingersoll (born October 7, 1984), better known by his stage name Chuck Inglish, is an American rapper, producer and songwriter most known for being part of the hip hop duo The Cool Kids with Sir Michael Rocks. His debut album ''Convertibles ...

, Mt. Clemens

Other

* Joe Cada, professional poker player, Shelby Township *

Dick Enberg Richard Alan Enberg (January 9, 1935 – December 21, 2017) was an American sportscaster. Over the course of an approximately 60-year career, he provided play-by-play of various sports for several radio and television networks, including ...

, sportscaster, Armada *

Martha Griffiths Martha Wright Griffiths (January 29, 1912 – April 22, 2003) was an American lawyer and judge before being elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1954. Griffiths was the first woman to serve on the House Committee on Ways and M ...

Lieutenant Governor of Michigan The lieutenant governor of Michigan is the second-ranking official in U.S. state of Michigan, behind the governor. The current lieutenant governor by default is Garlin Gilchrist, a Democrat, who has held the office since January 1, 2019. Pro ...

(1983–1991), Armada * Alex Groesbeck, politician, Warren * Butch Hartman, creator of the cartoon show '' The Fairly OddParents'', New Baltimore *

Ian Hornak Ian Hornak (January 9, 1944 – December 9, 2002) was an American draughtsman, painter and printmaker. He was one of the founding artists of the Hyperrealist and Photorealist fine art movements; credited with having been the first Photorea ...

, Artist,

* George F. Lewis, proprietor of newspapers * Jerry M. Linenger,

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...

astronaut An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'star', and (), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft. Although generally r ...

, Eastpointe * Carey Torrice, politician, Clinton Township * Howard Wiest, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, Washington Township

References

External links

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