Grosse Pointe - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

  • Gregg Alexander - New Radicals frontman, best known for their single "You Get What You Give"
  • Anita Baker - Soul singer.
  • Roy D. Chapin - 457 Lake Shore Drive, Hudson Motor Car Company founder, served as United States Secretary of Commerce. Architect John R. Pope designed the Georgian style Chapin house, built in 1927. In 1956, Henry Ford's grandson Henry Ford II had purchased the home.
  • Anna Thompson Dodge (Mrs. Horace E. Dodge) - 12 Lake Shore. Rose Terrace Mansion was demolished in 1976.
  • Horace Dodge - automotive pioneer.
  • John Francis Dodge - Automotive pioneer (80,000+ sq ft home stood vacant for 20 years following his death).
  • Jeffrey Eugenides - Pulitzer Prize winning novelist.
  • Edsel Ford and Eleanor Clay Ford - 1100 Lake Shore Drive, son of Henry Ford. Public tours.
  • Henry Ford II - 160 Provencal Rd., grandson of Henry Ford.
  • Josephine Ford - 248 Provencal Rd., granddaughter of Henry Ford.
  • William Clay Ford - grandson of Henry Ford.
  • William Clay Ford, Jr. - great grandson of Henry Ford.
  • Alexander Grant - 18th century British Great Lakes Naval Commander.
  • Henry B. Joy - president, Packard Motor Car Company.
  • Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy - 1st Republican woman to be appointed to the U.S. federal court system, and fourth woman to be appointed to the federal court system.
  • Edie Kerouac-Parker - 1st wife of Jack Kerouac.
  • George Lothrop - lawyer, Attorney General of Michigan, and later U.S. Ambassador to Russia.
  • Kirk Maltby - forward for the Detroit Red Wings.
  • Stephen Murphy III - appointed by President to U.S. District Court in Detroit; former Presidentially appointed United States Attorney in Detroit; unanimously confirmed to both posts by U.S. Senate.
  • Roger Penske - founder of Penske Automotive Group.
  • Carly Piper - Olympic Swimmer, won Gold Medal in Athens in 2004 for the 4x200m Freestyle Relay
  • Meg White of The White Stripes was born in Grosse Pointe Farms.
  • G. Mennen Williams - Governor and Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.

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