Macomb County ( ) is a

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on the eastern shore of the

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. It is part of the

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, bordering

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to the north and containing many of its northern suburbs. Its

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is Mt. Clemens, and its largest community is

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. As of the 2020 census, the county had a population of 881,217, making it the third-most populous county in the state, behind neighboring Wayne and

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. Macomb County contains 27

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s and

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s, including three of the ten most-populous municipalities in Michigan. 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 colonists were French, and they arrived in the area during the 17th century. Other early settlers were French 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 English 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

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

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and hero of the

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. 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

, Lapeer, Genesee, and St. Clair. After

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, Macomb and neighboring Oakland County grew rapidly due to the suburbanization - between 1950 and 1960 the county population more than doubled. However, as opposed to the more white-collar Oakland County, Macomb County residents were generally auto workers and other middle-class blue-collar workers. 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

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borders the county on the east. Macomb County is mostly considered a part of

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. 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

By land * St. Clair County, Michigan - northeast *

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- northwest *

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- west *

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- south By water *

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, Canada - southeast

Demographics

Michigan Macomb county Charter Township with Clinton River and Selfridge AFB IMG 1810

As of the 2010 United States Census, 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%

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, 11.1%

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, 6.5% Irish and 5.9%

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ancestry. In 2000, 87.6% of county residents spoke only English at home; 1.7% spoke

, 1.4%

, 1.2%

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, 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, Chaldo-Assyrians, Filipinos, Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, and

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. 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 post-

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 2023–24 term is chaired by Don Brown, 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:

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(

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) *

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(Republican) *

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: Anthony Wickersham (Democrat) *

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: Anthony Forlini (Republican) * County Treasurer: Larry Rocca (Republican) * Public Works Commissioner:

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(Republican) *

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: 13 members, elected from districts (5 Democrats, 8 Republicans) * Circuit Court: 13 judges (non-partisan) * Probate Court: 2 judges (non-partisan)

Politics

Macomb County has historically 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

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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 White voters 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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, and

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. Macomb County voters were primarily responsible for the failure of the 2016 Regional Transit Authority proposal to create a comprehensive 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

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and

Debbie Stabenow Deborah Ann Stabenow ( ; née Greer; born April 29, 1950) is an American politician who served from 2001 to 2025 as a United States senator from Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party, she was Michigan's first female U.S. senator. Before he ...

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

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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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* 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. *

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( Mount Clemens) - Military airbase * Romeo State Airport (2 miles east of

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) - 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

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) - 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

. 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 near Bad Axe 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 Sterling Heights is a city in Macomb County, Michigan, Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A northern Metro Detroit, suburb of Detroit, Sterling Heights is located roughly north of downtown Detroit. As of the 2020 census, the city had ...

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

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

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* (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

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and

. It is also the principal thoroughfare for the

Grosse Pointe Grosse Pointe is a group of five adjacent suburbs in the Metro Detroit, Detroit metropolitan area on the shore of Lake St. Clair. From southwest to northeast, they are: *Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, Grosse Pointe Park *Grosse Pointe, Michiga ...

s, where it is called Lake Shore Drive. *Mound Road is a north-south divided highway running from a junction with Mt. Elliott Street in Detroit to Auburn Road north of M-59 in Shelby Township. It runs parallel to M-53/Van Dyke Road one mile to the west. Its massive stack interchange with I-696 is a remnant of a cancelled freeway upgrade that would've connected with a proposed extension of the Davison Freeway on the south end and the M-53 freeway via a connector along the 18 1/2 Mile Road corridor on the north end. *"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

New York Central Railroad The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected New York metropolitan area, gr ...

operated multiple trains from

Mackinaw City Mackinaw City ( ) is a village at the northernmost point of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, United States. Divided between Cheboygan and Emmet counties, Mackinaw City is located at the southern end of the Mackinac Bridge, which carries Interst ...

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 Fraser may refer to: Places Antarctica * Fraser Point, South Orkney Islands Australia * Fraser, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb in the Canberra district of Belconnen * Division of Fraser (Australian Capital Territory), a former federal ...

Grosse Pointe Shores Grosse Pointe Shores (officially Village of Grosse Pointe Shores, a Michigan City) is a city in Wayne and Macomb counties in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,647 at the 2020 census, down from 3,008 in 2010. Grosse Pointe Shore ...

(partial) *

Memphis Memphis most commonly refers to: * Memphis, Egypt, a former capital of ancient Egypt * Memphis, Tennessee, a major American city Memphis may also refer to: Places United States * Memphis, Alabama * Memphis, Florida * Memphis, Indiana * Mem ...

(partial) * Mount Clemens (county seat) * New Baltimore *

(partial) * Roseville * St. Clair Shores *

* Utica *

Villages

* Armada *

New Haven New Haven is a city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound. With a population of 135,081 as determined by the 2020 U.S. census, New Haven is the third largest city in Co ...

Romeo Romeo Montague () is the male protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy ''Romeo and Juliet''. The son of Characters in Romeo and Juliet#Lord Montague, Lord Montague and his wife, Characters in Romeo and Juliet#Lady Montague, Lady Montague, he ...

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

Former civil townships

* Erin Township * Lake Township * Sterling Township * Warren Township

Unincorporated communities

* Anchor Bay Gardens * Anchor Bay Harbor * Anchor Bay Shores * Broad Acres * Cady * Chesterfield * Chesterfield Shores * Clifton Mill * Davis * Lakeside * Lottivue * Macomb * Meade * Milton *

Mount Vernon Mount Vernon is the former residence and plantation of George Washington, a Founding Father, commander of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, and the first president of the United States, and his wife, Martha. An American landmar ...

* Point Lakeview * Preston Corners * Ray Center * Saint Clair Haven * Sebille Manor * Shelby * Waldenburg *

Washington Washington most commonly refers to: * George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States * Washington (state), a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A ...

* Wolcott Mills * Yates

Education

School districts:
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/ref> * Almont Community Schools * Anchor Bay School District *

Armada Area Schools Armada Area Schools is a public school district located in Armada, Michigan, United States. The district consists of five schools, Orville C. Krause Early Elementary School, Orville C. Krause Late Elementary School, Armada Middle School, Armad ...

* Center Line Public Schools *

Chippewa Valley Schools Chippewa Valley Schools is a school district with its headquarters located in Clinton Township, Macomb County, Michigan, Clinton Township, Macomb County, Michigan, Macomb County, Michigan. The district encompasses over 27 square miles, partiall ...

* Clintondale Community Schools * East Detroit Public Schools * Fitzgerald Public Schools * Fraser Public Schools * Lakeview Public Schools * Lake Shore Public Schools * L'Anse Creuse Public Schools *

Memphis Community Schools Memphis City Schools (MCS) was the school district operating state school, public schools in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, United States. It was headquartered in the Frances E. Coe Administration Building. On March 8, 2011, residents voted to ...

* Mount Clemens Community School District * New Haven Community Schools * Oxford Area Community Schools * Richmond Community Schools * Rochester Community School District * Romeo Community Schools * Roseville Community Schools *

South Lake Schools South Lake School District is a school district headquartered in St. Clair Shores, Michigan in Greater Detroit. The district serves southern St. Clair Shores and portions of Eastpointe and Grosse Pointe Shores Grosse Pointe Shores (officiall ...

Utica Community Schools Utica Community Schools (UCS) is a public school district located in Macomb County, Michigan in the Metropolitan Detroit area. UCS serves the city of Utica, the majority of Shelby Township, the northern portion of Sterling Heights, and part ...

* Van Dyke Public Schools *

Warren Consolidated Schools Warren Consolidated Schools is a public school district serving the cities of Warren, Michigan, Warren, Sterling Heights, Michigan, Sterling Heights and Troy, Michigan, Troy, Michigan. It operates 25 schools including two specialized partial ...

Warren Woods Public Schools Warren Woods Public Schools is a is a public school district in Metro Detroit. It serves about six square miles of Warren in Macomb County, Michigan Macomb County ( ) is a county on the eastern shore of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is ...

Notable people

Actors and actresses

Dean Cain Dean George Cain ( né Tanaka; born July 31, 1966) is an American actor. From 1993 to 1997, he played Clark Kent / Superman in the TV series '' Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman''. Cain was the host of '' Ripley's Believe It or Not! ...

, actor, Mount Clemens *

Dave Coulier David Alan Coulier ( ; born September 21, 1959) is an American actor, voice actor, and comedian. He is best known for his roles as Joey Gladstone on the ABC sitcom ''Full House'', Peter Venkman on '' The Real Ghostbusters'', and Animal and B ...

, actor/comedian, St. Clair Shores *

Adrienne Frantz Adrienne Danielle Frantz (born June 7, 1978) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She appeared as Amber Moore in ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' (1997–2005, 2010–2012) and ''The Young and the Restless'' (2006–2010, 2013). Career ...

, actress and singer,

Mount Clemens, Michigan Mount Clemens is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 15,697 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the county seat, seat of government of Macomb County, Michigan, Macomb County and part of the Metro Detroit, Det ...

Faye Grant Faye Grant (born July 16, 1957) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Julie Parrish in NBC's science fiction series '' V'' between 1983 and 1985. Early life Grant was born in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. Her father was a pol ...

, actress, St. Clair Shores * Kathleen Rose Perkins, actress, New Baltimore *

Crystal Reed Crystal Marie Reed (born February 6, 1985) is an American actress. She came to prominence playing Allison Argent in the series ''Teen Wolf (2011 TV series), Teen Wolf'' (2011–2014). She departed the series after the third season but made a gue ...

, actress,

Roseville, Michigan Roseville is a city in Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A northern suburb of Detroit, Roseville is located roughly northeast of downtown Detroit. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 47,710. History The first pe ...

Athletes

* George Herbert Allen, coached in the

NFL The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league in the United States. Composed of 32 teams, it is divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The N ...

and

USFL The United States Football League (USFL) was a professional American football league that played for three seasons, 1983 through 1985. The league played a spring/summer schedule in each of its active seasons. The 1986 season was scheduled to be ...

, St. Clair Shores * David Booth, NHL player, Washington Township *

Kyle Connor Kyle David Connor (born December 9, 1996) is an American professional ice hockey player for the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League (NHL). Connor was drafted 17th overall by the Jets in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft. Early life Connor was bo ...

NHL The National Hockey League (NHL; , ''LNH'') is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Cana ...

player for the

Winnipeg Jets The Winnipeg Jets are a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg. The Jets compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division (NHL), Central Division in the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conference. The te ...

Dave Debol David C. Debol (born 27 March 1956) is an American former professional ice hockey player. Debol played 92 games for the NHL Hartford Whalers and 68 games for the WHA Cincinnati Stingers between 1978 and 1981. He was also a member of the Univers ...

, NHL player, St. Clair Shores * Danny DeKeyser, 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. He ...

, NFL Player, Center Line * John DiGiorgio, NFL Player, Macomb, Shelby Township * Sheldon Dries, NHL player, Macomb Twp. * 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. H ...

, NHL player,

* Kevin Hatcher, NHL player, Sterling Heights *

Pat Hentgen Patrick George Hentgen (born November 13, 1968) is an American former professional baseball pitcher, and currently a special assistant with the Toronto Blue Jays organization. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Blue Jays, St. Louis ...

, MLB player,

Bryan Herta Bryan John Herta (born May 23, 1970) is an American race strategist and former race car driver. He currently runs his own team, Bryan Herta Autosport in the NTT IndyCar Series and is the strategist for the #27 Andretti Autosport in the same se ...

, race car driver, Warren *

Matt Hunwick Matthew John Hunwick (born May 21, 1985) is an American former professional ice hockey Defenceman, defenseman. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Boston Bruins, Colorado Avalanche, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsbu ...

, NHL player,

Ron Kramer Ronald John Kramer (June 24, 1935 – September 11, 2010) was an American professional football player who was an end in the National Football League (NFL), primarily for the Green Bay Packers. A member of two NFL champion teams with the Pack ...

, NFL player, Eastpointe *

Craig Krenzel Craig Krenzel (born July 1, 1981) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes. As the starting quarterback, he led thei ...

, NFL player, Sterling Heights * Chad LaRose, NHL player, Fraser * John Mazza, PBA bowler, Shelby Township *

Shirley Muldowney Shirley Muldowney (born June 19, 1940), also known professionally as "Cha Cha" and the "First Lady of Drag racing, Drag Racing", is an American auto racer. She was the first woman to receive a license from the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) ...

, race car driver, Armada *

John Smoltz John Andrew Smoltz (born May 15, 1967), nicknamed "Smoltzie" and "Marmaduke", is an American former baseball pitcher who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1988 to 2009, all but the last year with the Atlanta Braves. An eight-time Ma ...

, MLB player, Warren *

Jim Sorgi James Joseph Sorgi Jr. (born December 3, 1980) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Wisconsin Badgers and was selected by the Indianapo ...

, NFL player, Fraser * Matt Taormina, NHL player, Warren * Michele Van Gorp, WNBA player from

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

, Warren *

Doug Weight Douglas Daniel Weight (born January 21, 1971) is an American professional ice hockey coach, executive, and former player. He is also the former head coach and assistant General manager (ice hockey), general manager for the New York Islanders. Dur ...

, NHL player,

* Mark Wells, member of the 1980 Olympic hockey team, St. Clair Shores * Johnny White, 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 s ...

, MLB player, Roseville * Frank Zombo, NFL player, Sterling Heights * Kyle Cook, NFL player, Macomb Twp. * Steve Oleksy, NHL player, Chesterfield Twp. * Tyler Conklin, NFL player, Chesterfield Twp. *

Sean Murphy-Bunting Sean Murphy-Bunting (formerly Bunting, born June 19, 1997) is an American professional football cornerback for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Central Michigan Chippewas. Early li ...

, NFL Player, Macomb Twp.

Musicians

Kid Rock Robert James Ritchie (born January 17, 1971), known professionally as Kid Rock, is an American musician, singer, rapper, and songwriter. After establishing himself in the Music of Detroit#Hip-hop, Detroit hip-hop scene, he broke through into m ...

Mitch Ryder William Sherille Levise Jr. (born February 26, 1945), known professionally as Mitch Ryder, is an American rock singer who has recorded more than 25 albums over more than four decades. Career Ryder was born on February 26, 1945, in Hamtramck, ...

, Roseville * Justin Jeffre, (''

98 Degrees 98 Degrees (stylized as 98°) is an American vocal group consisting of brothers Nick and Drew Lachey, Jeff Timmons, and Justin Jeffre. Their first Christmas album '' This Christmas'' has sold over two million copies and is widely recognized ...

''), Mount Clemens *

Uncle Kracker Matthew Shafer (born June 6, 1974), also known by his stage name Uncle Kracker, is an American singer and musician. He was previously a turntablist for Kid Rock's backing group Twisted Brown Trucker; since 1999, he has recorded as a solo artis ...

, Harrison Township *

Eminem Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem, is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Regarded as one of the greatest and most influential rappers of all time, he is credited with popula ...

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

Alice Cooper Vincent Damon Furnier (born February 4, 1948), known by his stage name Alice Cooper, is an American rock singer and songwriter whose career spans sixty years. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusion ...

, 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 '' Convertible ...

, 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 N ...

, sportscaster, Armada * Martha Griffiths, Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (1983–1991), Armada * Alex Groesbeck, politician,

Butch Hartman Elmer Earl Butch Hartman IV (born January 10, 1965) is an American animator, illustrator, writer, producer, director, and voice actor. He is best known for creating the animated television series ''The Fairly OddParents'', '' Danny Phantom'', ' ...

, creator of the cartoon show ''

The Fairly OddParents ''The Fairly OddParents'' is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. The series follows the adventures of Timmy Turner, a 10-year-old boy with two Fairy godmother, fairy godparents named List of The Fai ...

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

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...

astronaut An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek (), meaning 'star', and (), meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a List of human spaceflight programs, human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member of a spa ...

, Eastpointe * Howard Wiest, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, Washington Township

References

External links

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Transportation

Air

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Cities

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Notable people

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