- Jessica Litman
Jessica Litman is a widely known expert on copyright law and author of "Digital Copyright" (2001), which traces the history of lobbying that led to the passage of the DMCA. She is currently Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, after having been professor of law at Wayne State University Law School from 1990-2006. Litman has testified before Congress and served on multiple governmental and legal boards, including the Copyright Society of the USA, … - Frank H. Wu
Frank H. Wu is the author of "Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White', "which argues for a new paradigm of civil rights that includes people of all backgrounds rather than relying on a black-white paradigm and that addresses forms of racial discrimination that are not obvious but subtle. He has appeared in the media and on the college lecture circuit, coming to public attention for his debates on affirmative action against Dinesh D'Souza and Ward Connerly, … - John Corvino
John Corvino, (born 1969) is an American author and lecturer in philosophy at Wayne State University. John Corvino attended St. John's University where he obtained his B.A. in 1990, with a Ph.D University of Texas at Austin in 1998. He is currently in the Department of Philosophy at Wayne State University where he is an assistant professor in philosophy; He is up for tenure this year. Reviewing "Same Sex" in the "Times Literary Supplement", … - Joe Schwarz
John J. H. "Joe" Schwarz, M.D. (born November 15, 1937), a Republican from Michigan, was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2004. He represented the state's 7th Congressional district from January 2005 to January 2007. (map) - Wayne Dyer
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (born May 10, 1940 in Detroit, Michigan) is a popular American self-help advocate, author and lecturer. His 1976 book "Your Erroneous Zones" has sold over 30 million copies and is one of the best-selling books of all time. It is said to have "[brought] humanistic ideas to the masses". - Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress, comedian, writer and producer. Tomlin's body of work, which has spanned over 40 years, has garnered her several Tony Awards and Emmy Awards, as well as a Grammy Award. - Barbara-Rose Collins
Barbara-Rose Collins is a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Collins was born in Detroit, Michigan, graduated from the public schools there and attended Wayne State University. She was a member of the Detroit Region I public school board, 1971–1973; a member of the Michigan State House of Representatives, from the 21st District, 1975–1981; and a member of the Detroit City Council, 1982–1991. - Donald Byrd
Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (born December 9, 1932) is an American jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter, born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Cass Technical High School. He performed with Lionel Hampton before finishing high school. After playing in a military band during a term in the United States Air Force, he obtained a bachelor's degree in music from Wayne State University and a master's degree from Manhattan School of Music. - Stephen M. Ross
New York City-based real estate developer Stephen M. Ross is founder, chairman and CEO of The Related Companies, L.P. (TRC) The developer of numerous high-profile projects in New York City and around the nation, TRC is best known for its historic 2.8 million-square-foot $1,700,000,000 Time Warner Center, which has transformed Columbus Circle into one of New York’s premier destinations. - Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 - June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Born in Lima, Ohio, he studied music at Kentucky State College and Wayne State University before playing in Detroit at the beginning of his career. - Steven Shaviro
Steven Shaviro is an American cultural critic. His most widely read book is "Doom Patrols", a "theoretical fiction" that outlines the state of postmodernism during the early 1990s, using poetic language, personal anecdotes, and creative prose. Additionally, Shaviro has written a book about film theory, "The Cinematic Body", which examines the dominance of Lacanian tropes in contemporary academic film theory. - Barrett Watten
Barrett Watten (born September 18, 1948) is an American poet, editor, and educator often associated with the Language poets. Since 1994, Watten has taught modernism and cultural studies at Wayne State University in Detroit. Other areas of research include postmodern culture and American literature; poetics; literary and cultural theory; visual studies; the avant-garde and digital literature. He is married to the poet Carla Harryman. - Melvin Small
Melvin Small (1939)is a distinguished professor of history at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan after receiving his BA from Dartmouth College. Over the past two decades he has concentrated his research and writing on the postwar era, with an emphasis on the Vietnam War, the antiwar movement, and presidents Johnson and Nixon. - Ruth Johnson
Ruth Johnson is a Michigan politician. She is the County Clerk / Register of Deeds for Oakland County, and was the 2006 Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor as the running mate of Dick DeVos. Since the election she has tried to distance herself from DeVos on several levels, because of this some experts think she will run for statewide office in 2010, either as governor or Secratery of State. Johnson was an Oakland County Commissioner from 1988 to 1998, … - Jerry Bergman
Dr Gerald R. "Jerry" Bergman is an American young earth creationist. He is an active supporter of the (ACM) anti-cult movement. He is also known for his stance against Jehovah's Witnesses. - Maryann Mahaffey
Maryann Mahaffey was a member of the Detroit City Council. She was born in Burlington, Iowa. She was first elected to the Council in 1973. She served as Council President Pro Tempore from 1978 to 1982, and again from 1998 until 2001. She was President of the City Council from 1990 until 1998 and 2002 until 2005, when she announced her retirement from the Council, effective January 2006. She died a few months later on July 27, 2006 from leukaemia, aged 81. - Casey Kasem
Casey Kasem (born Kemal Amin Kasem on April 27 1932, in Detroit, Michigan, USA, of Palestinian/Lebanese heritage) is an American radio personality and voice actor. He currently hosts four weekly syndicated radio programs based on the popular American Top 40 franchise, which he founded in 1970. "American Top 20 with Casey Kasem", "American Top 10 with Casey Kasem", "Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 70s", … - Damon Keith
Damon Jerome Keith (b. July 4, 1922) is a Senior Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Keith has served on the Court of Appeals since 1977 and previously served as Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Keith is a graduate of West Virginia State College (B.A. 1943), Howard University School of Law (J.D. 1949), and Wayne State University Law School (L.L.M. 1956). - Tony Brown
William Anthony Brown (born April 11, 1933) is an American journalist, academian and businessman. He is best known as the commentator of the long running syndicated television show, Tony Brown's Journal. In 1959, he received a BA in Sociology from Wayne State University. In 1961, he received an MA in Psychiatric Social Work from Wayne State University. He is a former faculty member at Central Washington University and Federal City College. - Carla Harryman
Carla Harryman (born 1952) is an American poet and playwright sometimes associated with the Language poets. Harryman was born and raised in Orange, California and studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara and San Francisco State University. In 1978, she co-founded the Poets' Theater in San Francisco. The theatre survived until 1984 and staged experimental plays, including a number written by Harryman. - Tom Skerritt
Thomas Alderton Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an Emmy Award-Winning American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and more than 200 television episodes (half "Picket Fences"). - Charles Baxter
Charles Baxter is a writer's writer. Mention his name in a crowd of authors and most will voice an appreciation for at least one of his books; many will simply rave. But it wasn't until Baxter's third novel that large numbers of mainstream readers discovered the joys of his writing. A 2001 National Book Award finalist, The Feast of Love "is as precise, as empathetic, as luminous as any of Baxter's past work," the New York Times cheered. - Jeffrey Tambor
Jeffrey Michael Tambor (born July 8, 1944) is an American actor most recently noted for his on role as George Bluth Sr. on the television series "Arrested Development". - Peter Karmanos Jr.
Peter Karmanos, Jr. (born in Detroit, Michigan) is the CEO of Compuware Corporation and owner of the Carolina Hurricanes, Plymouth Whalers, and Florida Everblades hockey franchises. He donated money to the Prentis Cancer Center, which was later renamed the Karmanos Cancer Institute in 2001 in memory of his wife Barbara Ann Karmanos, who died of breast cancer in 1989. Born into a Greek immigrant family Karmanos did not start speaking English until he was in grade school. - Carmella Sabaugh
Carmella Sabaugh (born August 3, 1938), American politician, is the County Clerk/Register of Deeds for Macomb County, Michigan, and the 2006 Democratic candidate for Michigan Secretary of State. She was born of Italian-American Catholic parents as Carmella Visconti in Detroit. She was orphaned at age eight and raised by an aunt and uncle. She graduated in 1956 from Denby High School, and attended Wayne State University and Western Michigan University. - Ernie Hudson
Ernie Hudson (born December 17 1945) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Winston Zeddemore in the "Ghostbusters" film series, and as Sergeant Albrecht in the cult movie The Crow. - Curtis Fuller
Curtis DuBois Fuller (born in Detroit, December 15, 1934) is a United States hard bop trombonist. Fuller's parents were Jamaican and died when he was young, so as a result he was raised in an orphanage. While in Detroit he was a schoolfriend of Paul Chambers and Donald Byrd, and also knew Tommy Flanagan, Thad Jones and Milt Jackson. After army service between 1953 and 1955 (when he played in a band with Chambers and brothers Cannonball and Nat Adderley), … - Ananda Prasad
Ananda Shiv Prasad is a biochemist specialising in the rôle of zinc in the human metabolism. Prasad was born in Buxar, Bihar, India in 1928. He studied first at Patna Medical College in Bihar, before going on to take his doctorate at the University of Minnesota. He worked in Iran before moving to the United States, joining Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan in 1963 as an assistant professor of medicine and director of haematology. - Dave Marsh
Dave Marsh (born March 1, 1950) is an American music critic. Growing up in the environs of Detroit, Michigan, he attended Wayne State University but failed to graduate. Marsh was a co-founder of "Creem" magazine in Detroit, and he also wrote for "Newsday", "The Village Voice", and "Rolling Stone" magazine. He also edited "Rock and Roll Confidential", a newsletter about rock music and social issues. - Larry Brilliant
Dr. Lawrence (Larry) Brilliant is a medical doctor, epidemiologist, technologist, author and philanthropist. Born in Detroit, Michigan (May 5, 1944), he received his undergraduate training as well as his MPH (Masters in Public Health) from the University of Michigan and his M.D. from Wayne State University. He moved to California for his internship at the Pacific Medical Center, and developed thyroid cancer from which he recovered. - John Kline
Dr. John Kline is a retired Harlem Globetrotter (1953-1959) who founded the Black Legends of Professional Basketball in 1996. Before playing for the Globetrotters, Kline played at Wayne State University during the 1950s. Still active, Kline currently plays in an over-70 basketball league. - Arthur Danto
Arthur Coleman Danto (b. 1924) is an American art critic, professor and philosopher. Arthur C. Danto was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1924, and grew up in Detroit. After spending two years in the Army, Danto studied art and history at Wayne University (now Wayne State University) and then pursued graduate study in philosophy at Columbia University. From 1949 to 1950, Danto studied in Paris on a Fulbright scholarship under Maurice Merleau-Ponty, … - William D. Ford
William David Ford was a U.S. Representative from Michigan. Ford was born in Detroit and attended Henry Ford Trade School, Melvindale High School, Nebraska State Teachers College, and Wayne State University. He interrupted his studies to serve in the United States Navy during World War II, 1944–1946. He also served in the United States Air Force Reserve from 1950 to 1958. After the war, he received a B.A. from the University of Denver in 1949, … - Bob Fitrakis
Bob Fitrakis (born November 29, 1955) is a Professor of Political Science in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department at Columbus State Community College, as well as the Editor of The Free Press (freepress.org). He has a Ph.D in political science from Wayne State University and a J.D. from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. An investigative journalist, he is the author of eleven books, … - David Small
David Small (born February 12, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American author and illustrator. He was only 2 years old when he began drawing. So he earned a bachelor of fine arts degree at Wayne State University and a master of fine arts degree at Yale University. In 2001 he won the Caldecott Medal for "So You Want to Be President?". He also earned a 1998 Caldecott Honor for "The Library", written by Sarah Stewart, his wife. Mr. - Carl Djerassi
Carl Djerassi, is a chemist, novelist, and playwright best known for his contribution to the development of the first oral contraceptive pill (OCP). He participated in the invention in 1951, together with Mexican Luis E. Miramontes and Hungarian George Rosenkranz, of the progestin norethindrone—which, unlike progesterone, remained effective when taken orally and was far stronger than the naturally occurring hormone. - Joseph Weizenbaum
Joseph Weizenbaum (Berlin, January 8, 1923) is a professor emeritus of computer science at MIT. Born in Berlin to Jewish parents, he escaped Nazi Germany in 1936, emigrating with his family to the United States. He started studying mathematics in 1941 in the US, but his studies were interrupted by the war, during which he served in the military. Around 1950 he worked on analog computers, and helped create a digital computer for Wayne State University. - Shlomo Sawilowsky
Shlomo S. Sawilowsky (b. 1954) is Professor of Educational Statistics and Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he has won many teaching and research awards. He was awarded the 1985 Florida Educational Research Association & 1986 American Educational Research Association State/Regions Distinguished Paper Award, titled "The Rank Transform", with co-author R. Clifford Blair. - Nikhil Dhurandhar
Dr. Nikhil V. Dhurandhar is a university professor who found the first human virus to be associated with human obesity. He has published details about the human adenovirus AD-36, the "obesity virus". He has since coined the term infectobesity. Dhurandhar works at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. - Chad Everett
Chad Everett (born June 11, 1936) is an American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and television series but is probably best known for his role as Dr. Joe Gannon in the 1970s television drama " Medical Center".
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