- Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris), is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Wonder has recorded more than thirty Top 10 hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards (a record for a solo artist), plus one for lifetime achievement, won an Academy Award for Best Song and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame.
- Theodore Huebner Roethke
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963). Born in Saginaw, Michigan, Roethke was the son of a greenhouse owner; greenhouses figure prominently in the imagery of his poems. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan in 1929, where he also earned an M.A. in 1936 after graduate study at Harvard. He taught at several universities, coached two varsity tennis teams, and settled at the University of Washington in 1947.
- Monty Brown
Montaque N "Monty" Brown (born April 13, 1970)is an American professional wrestler and former National Football League linebacker. He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment where he wrestles for the ECW brand under the ring name "The Alpha Male" Marcus Cor Von, though he is also known for his time with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as "The Alpha Male" Monty Brown.
- Stephen Lynch
Stephen Andrew Lynch (born July 28 1971), is an American stand-up comedian, musician and Tony Award-nominated actor known for witty, comical, and sometimes quite disturbing lyrics. Lynch has released one studio album and two live albums along with a live DVD. He appeared on his own "Comedy Central Presents" special and starred in the Broadway adaptation of "The Wedding Singer".
- Charles Rogers
Charlie Rogers (born May 23, 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan) is an American football wide receiver, currently a free agent in the NFL. He was originally selected by the Detroit Lions with the second overall pick of the 2003 NFL Draft out of Michigan State University. He is nicknamed "Mister Rogers" after the children's TV personality Fred Rogers.
- Muddy Waters
Frank "Muddy" Waters (January 30 1923 - September 20 2006) was an American college football coach best known for his years at Hillsdale College from 1954 to 1973 and at Michigan State University from 1980 to 1982. Born in Chico, California, Waters grew up in Wallingford, Connecticut. He played as a fullback for Michigan State from 1946 to 1949, under the training of coaches Charlie Bachman and Clarence "Biggie" Munn.
- Jason Richardson
Jason Anthoney "J-Rich" Richardson (born January 20 1981, in Saginaw, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player, currently playing shooting guard for the National Basketball Association's Charlotte Bobcats. He recently played for the Golden State Warriors, from whom he was traded June 28, 2007 after six years with the team. The Warriors drafted him with the 5th overall pick in the 2001 NBA Draft out of Michigan State University.
- Kenyon Martin
Kenyon Lee Martin, is an American professional basketball player. Nicknamed 'K-Mart', he currently plays at power forward for the National Basketball Association's Denver Nuggets. After participating in two games, Martin missed the entire 2006-07 NBA season because of a damaged right knee which required microfracture surgery, his second such surgery in 1½ years. He is expected to come back in the 2007-2008 season.
- Stuart Schweigert
Stuart Schweigert (b. June 21, 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan) is a professional American football player. Schweigert graduated from Purdue University, and began his professional career with the Oakland Raiders in 2005. He was drafted in the 3rd round of the 2004 NFL Draft While at Purdue Stuart (often referred to as Stuuuuuuuuuu by the student section) collected 17 career interceptions, obliterating the previous school career record mark of 11.
- Anthony Roberson
Anthony Roberson (born February 14 1983, in Saginaw, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player formerly of the NBA's Golden State Warriors. He spent part of the 2006-07 season with the Warriors before being waived in early January 2007. A 6'2" point guard, Roberson attended the University of Florida. Undrafted, he signed with the Memphis Grizzlies in August 2005.
- Louis Campau
Louis Campau was an important figure in the early settlement of two important Michigan cities. He established the first trading post at what is today Saginaw, Michigan as early as 1815 and played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Saginaw in 1819. The Treaty was made between Gen. Lewis Cass and Native American tribes of the Great Lakes region (principally the Ojibwe, but also the Ottawa and Potawatomi)Michigan.
- S. Epatha Merkerson
Sharon Epatha Merkerson (born November 28, 1952) is a Tony Award-nominated and Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Emmy Award-winning American actress. She is known for her roles as Reba the Mail Lady on "Pee Wee's Playhouse" in the 1980s, and as the no-nonsense supervisor, Lt. Anita Van Buren (1993-present) on the long-running television crime drama "Law & Order", in the 1990s. At present she has been on the show longer than any other cast member.
- Darvin Ham
Darvin Ham (born July 23 1973 in Saginaw, Michigan) is a professional basketball player formerly in the NBA. He attended Saginaw High School and Texas Tech University, where he gained national attention by shattering the backboard on a slam dunk during the 1996 NCAA Tournament against the University of North Carolina. The dunk shifted momentum for Texas Tech, catapulting them to the first sweet sixteen in school history.
- Bob Buhl
Robert Ray Buhl (August 12 1928 - February 16 2001) was an American right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played with the Milwaukee Braves (1953-62), Chicago Cubs (1962-66) and Philadelphia Phillies (1966-67). A native of Saginaw, Michigan, in a 15-year career Buhl posted a 166-132 record with 1288 strikeouts and a 3.55 ERA in 2587 innings. He pitched 111 complete games and compiled 20 shutouts.
- Henry Morrison Flagler
Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2 1830 - May 20 1913) was an American tycoon, real estate promoter, railroad developer and Rockefeller partner in Standard Oil. He was a key figure in the development of the eastern coast of Florida along the Atlantic Ocean and was founder of what became the Florida East Coast Railway. He is known as the father of Miami, Florida.
- Isham Jones
Isham Jones (31 January, 1894 - 19 October, 1956) was a United States bandleader, violinist, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter. Jones was born in Coalton, Ohio, grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, where he started his first band. In 1915 he moved to Chicago, Illinois, which remained his base through 1924. After that he toured England before reestablishing himself in New York City.
- Ferdinand Brucker
Ferdinand Brucker was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Brucker was born in Bridgeport, Michigan, where he attended the common schools. He was a member of the State militia 1878-1881. He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1881, was admitted to the bar the same year, and commenced practice in Saginaw. He was an alderman of East Saginaw, 1882-1884, a judge of the probate court of Saginaw County, 1888-1896, …
- Brian D'Arcy James
Brian d'Arcy James is an actor and musician from Saginaw, Michigan. He received a Tony Award nomination in 2002 for his portrayal of Sidney Falco in the production of "Sweet Smell of Success" on Broadway, co-starring with John Lithgow. He also received an Obie Award for his performance in the one-man play "The Good Thief" by Conor McPherson. Brian's other Broadway credits include "Titanic", Lincoln Center's "Carousel", …
- Tim McCoy
Tim McCoy (born April 10, 1891 - died January 29, 1978) was an American actor. Born Timothy John Fitzgerald McCoy in Saginaw, Michigan, he became a major film star most noted for his roles in Western films. He was so popular with youngsters as a cowboy star that he appeared on the cover of Wheaties cereal boxes. For his contribution to the film industry, McCoy was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- Robert G. Heft
Robert G. (Bob) Heft (born in Saginaw, Michigan) is a designer of the 50-star flag, and one of the proposed designs for a 51-star flag for the United States of America. He spent his childhood in Lancaster, Ohio, where he created the flag as a school project. He designed the current U.S. flag in 1958 while living with his grandparents. He was 17 years old at the time and did the flag design as a class project. He unstitched the blue field from a family 48-star flag, …
- James Reed
James Reed (born February 3, 1977 in Saginaw, Michigan) is an American football nose tackle for the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs. The New York Jets drafted him in the seventh round of the 2001 NFL Draft out of Iowa State University. At Iowa State he helped get the Cyclones there first bowl win ever. He played under legendary coach Dan McCarney. On April 17, 2007, Reed was re-signed to the Chiefs with a three-year contract.
- Deeandre Hulett
DeeAndre Hulett (born December 29, 1980 in Saginaw, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player. After playing collegiately at College of the Sequoias, he was selected by the Toronto Raptors in the 2000 NBA Draft. His playing positions areshooting guard and small forward.
- Mark Macon
Mark L. Macon (born April 14 1969, in Saginaw, Michigan) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Denver Nuggets in the 1st round (8th overall) of the 1991 NBA Draft. Macon played for the Nuggets and Detroit Pistons in 6 NBA seasons, averaging 6.7 ppg in his career. He played collegiately at Temple University alongside of future pros Aaron McKie and Eddie Jones.
- Sonny Stitt
Edward "Sonny" Stitt (February 2 1924 - July 22 1982) was an American jazz saxophonist. He was a quintessential saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom and was also one of the most prolific saxophonists of his generation, recording over 100 records in his lifetime. He was nicknamed the "Lone Wolf" by jazz critic Dan Morgenstern in tribute to his relentless touring and his devotion to jazz.
- Sam Sword
Sam Lee-Arthur Sword (born December 4, 1974 in Saginaw, Michigan) is a former American football linebacker who played for the Oakland Raiders and the Indianapolis Colts of the NFL. He played college football at the University of Michigan.
- Matthew Glave
Matthew Glave (born in Saginaw, Michigan) is an American film and television actor. He has appeared in a multitude of popular television shows, including recurring roles as Deputy Bud Skeeter on "Picket Fences", Dr. Dale Edson in "ER", and Colonel Paul Emerson in "Stargate SG-1". Glave has also appeared in "Cheers", "NYPD Blue", "X-Files", and "CSI", "Charmed", among others.
- Lem Tucker
Lemuel Tucker (born May 26, 1938; died March 2, 1991) was an American journalist. Born in Saginaw, Michigan, Tucker graduated Central Michigan University in 1960. Tucker was one of the first African Americans to work as a television network reporter. He began his career at NBC in 1965 as a general assignment news correspondent, and served as news director at WOR-TV in New York City from 1970 to 1971. He moved to ABC in 1972 and to CBS in 1977, …
- Wilber Marion Brucker
Wilber Marion Brucker (June 23, 1894-October 28, 1968) was an American Republican politician. Born in Saginaw, Michigan, he served as a Republican governor of Michigan from 1931 to 1933 and as the United States Secretary of the Army between 1955 and 1961.
- Richard Mudd
Richard Dyer Mudd (b. January 24 1901, Washington, D.C. - d. May 21 2002) was the grandson of Sarah Frances Dyer Mudd and Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd who was convicted in aiding John Wilkes Booth upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Richard Dyer Mudd attended Gonzaga College High School. He earned a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in 1921, followed by a master's of art in 1922. He earned his medical degree from Georgetown in 1926, …
- Terry McDaniel
Terence Lee McDaniel (born February 8, 1965 in Saginaw, Michigan), is a former professional American football player who was selected by the Los Angeles Raiders in the 1st round (9th overall) of the 1988 NFL Draft. A 5'10", 177-lb. cornerback from the University of Tennessee, McDaniel played in 11 NFL seasons from 1988 to 1998. A five-time Pro Bowl selection from 1992 to 1996, McDaniel had 35 career interceptions for 667 yards and 6 touchdowns.
- Florence Knoll
Florence Knoll Bassett (born May 24, 1917) is an American architect and furniture designer who studied under the likes of Mies van der Rohe and Eero Saarinen. She was born in Saginaw, Michigan as "Florence Schust" and is known in familiar circles simply as "Shu". She graduated from Kingswood School in 1934. In 1943 she joined with her husband Hans Knoll in redirecting Hans's furniture company more toward a modernist, Scandinavian style.
- E. Irving Couse
Eanger Irving Couse was an artist and founding member of the Taos artists colony in Taos, New Mexico. Couse was born in Saginaw, Michigan, where he first started drawing the Chippewa Indians who lived nearby. Couse attended the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Academy of Design, New York. He left for Paris to study at the École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian under Bouguereau.
- Alfonso Boone
Alfonso Boone (b. January 11 1976, Saginaw, Michigan) is an American football defensive tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs of the NFL. He was selected by the Detroit Lions in the 7th round (253 overall) 2000 NFL Draft out of Mt. San Antonio College (Mt. SAC), a Junior College in Walnut California.
- Frank Emerson
Frank Collins Emerson (26 May 1882 - 18 February 1931) was the Governor of the US state of Wyoming from 1927 until his death. Born in Saginaw, Michigan, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1904. Emerson was the Wyoming State Engineer from 1919 until his election as governor. In the 1926 election for Governor, he defeated Nellie Tayloe Ross, the first woman governor in the United States.
- Robert Armstrong
Robert Armstrong (November 20 1890-April 20 1973) was a film actor probably best remembered for his role as Carl Denham in the 1933 version of "King Kong" by RKO Pictures. He uttered the screen's second most famous exit quote, "'Twas beauty killed the beast," at the film's end. (An exit line eclipsed in fame only by Clark Gable's riposte, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" in 1939 at the conclusion of "Gone with the Wind".) Months later, …
- Stephen Potter
Ensign Stephen Potter, USN (26 December 1896 – 25 April 1918) was a U.S. Navy officer and early Naval Aviator, who was killed in action during World War I. He was a member of the second Yale University unit which left college in April 1917 to enter naval aviation. He was a native of Saginaw, Michigan.
- Laurie Perry Cookingham
Laurie Perry Cookingham, more commonly known as L.P. Cookingham or L. Perry Cookingham, (October 23, 1896-July 22, 1992) was a noted public administrator in the United States having served as City Manager of Kansas City, Missouri for 19 years, a tenure longer than anyone else has served as city manager in any city in the United States.
- Fred Dustin
Fred Dustin (October 12 1866 - May 15 1957) was a writer focusing on the American West, in particular George Armstrong Custer and The Battle of the Little Bighorn. Dustin was born in Glens Falls, New York to James and Jennie E. (Green) O'Donnell. His mother died soon after his birth and he was sent to live with his aunt, Sara, who was married to Ira Dustin, whose last name Fred legally assumed. When he was 15, Fred Dustin left school and went to work in a lumber yard.
- Carl M. Williams
Carl M. Williams was a member of the State House of Representatives in the Michigan Legislature for three terms (2001-2006). Prior to serving as state representative, Williams was elected to the Saginaw city council—an office which he held from November 11, 1991 until April 17, 2000. Saginaw's city charter prohibits currently serving members of the city council from seeking any other elective office.
- Clifton Ryan
Clifton Ryan is an American football defensive tackle who currently plays for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Rams in the fifth round (154th overall) of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played collegiately at Michigan State.