Famous Downriver Residents or Natives
- Steve Avery (Trenton/Taylor), professional baseball player
- Lucille Ball (Wyandotte), actress
- Kitty Bartholomew (Grosse Ile), author and HGTV show host
- Joe C. (Taylor), Kid Rock sidekick
- Lloyd Carr (Riverview), former University of Michigan head football coach
- Archie Clark (Ecorse), former NBA basketball player
- Dann Florek (Flat Rock), actor
- Max Gail (Grosse Ile), actor
- Bob Guiney (Riverview), appeared on The Bachelor
- William S. Knudsen (Grosse Ile), automotive industry executive and U.S. Army General
- Charley Lau (Romulus), former MLB hitting coach (d. 1984)
- Bud Lynch (Wyandotte), Public address announcer of The Detroit Red Wings
- Eric Lynch (Woodhaven), former NFL fullback
- Lee Majors (Wyandotte), actor
- Bill Morrison (Lincoln Park), co-creator of Bongo Comics
- Kevin Nash (Trenton), pro Wrestler and actor
- Ransom E. Olds (Grosse Ile), automotive industry pioneer
- Heinz Prechter (Grosse Ile), automotive industry businessman
- Mary Lynn Rajskub (Trenton), actress
- Brian Rafalski (Wyandatte), former NHL hockey player
- J. J. Putz (Trenton), relief pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks
- James Swan (Grosse Ile), actor, author
- Chester Taylor (River Rouge), NFL Running Back for the Chicago Bears - currently, formerly: Minnesota Vikings, Baltimore Ravens
- Rob Tyner (Lincoln Park), MC5 vocalist
- Cameron Waterman (Grosse Ile), inventor of the outboard motor
- John Varvatos (Allen Park), fashion designer
- Jennifer Valoppi (Allen Park), Newscaster
- Vickie Winans (Ecorse), Gospel Singer
- Derek St. Holmes (Riverview), Guitarist for Ted Nugent and vocalist on recorded version of "Stranglehold"
- Tom Tresh (Allen Park), MLB Rookie of the Year, 1962; Played for NY Yankees & Detroit Tigers
- Paul Assenmacher (Allen Park), Major League Pitcher in the 1980s and 1990s
- Andy Green (Trenton), NHL Hockey Player for the New Jersey Devils
- Bob Kuzava (Wyandotte/Grosse Ile), professional baseball player, New York Yankees pitcher
- Thomas Nadeau (Trenton), professional midget.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous, residents and/or natives:
“Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)
“From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth; but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but with the necessary conveniences so much sought after in Europe; they are happy in not knowing the use of them.”
—James, Captain Cook (1728–1779)