Religious Leaders
- Frederic Baraga, Roman Catholic missionary, bishop and Ojibway and Ottawa grammarian (born in present-day Slovenia; settled among the Native American mission at Arbre Croche (now Cross Village, Michigan)
- D. M. Canright, early leader of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (born in Kinderhook)
- D. Stanley Coors, American Bishop of the Methodist Church (born in Pentwater)
- Daniel Dolan, Traditional Catholic bishop (born in Detroit)
- Walter Elliott, 19th century Roman Catholic priest whose writing sparked the Americanism heresy (born in Detroit)
- James Aloysius Hickey, Cardinal and Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington (born in Midland)
- Bruce R. McConkie, prominent Apostle and theologian of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born in Ann Arbor)
- Josh McDowell, leading Evangelical Christian apologist and author (born in Battle Creek and grew up in Union City, Michigan)
- Warith Deen Mohammed (1933–2008), son of Elijah Muhammad, leader of American Society of Muslims, born in Hamtramck
- Wallace Fard Muhammad, founder of Nation of Islam (birthplace debated; moved to Detroit and founded his first mosque there)
- Thomas Gumbleton, Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop (born in Detroit)
- Henry Churchill King, theologian, president of Oberlin College and member of the King-Crane Commission on the status of Palestine (born in Hillsdale)
- Baba Rexheb, Moslem leader and mystic, founder of the Bektashi Sufi lodge in Taylor (born in what is now Albania; fled to Taylor)
- Edmund Szoka, President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State (born in Grand Rapids)
- John A. Trese, priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit (born in St. Clair, Michigan)
- Allen Henry Vigneron, Roman Catholic Bishop of Oakland in California (born in Mount Clemens)
- Geerhardus Vos, theologian known as the "Father of Reformed Biblical Theology" (born in the Netherlands; moved to Grand Rapids)
- Ellen G. White, founding member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (born in Maine, settled in Battle Creek with husband James)
- James Springer White, founding member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (born in Palmyra, Maine, settled in Battle Creek)
- Rabbi Sherwin Wine, founder of the Society for Humanistic Judaism (born in Detroit)
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