List of people from Traverse City, Michigan
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Traverse City
The following is a list of notable people associated with Traverse City, Michigan. These people were born or lived in Traverse City.
- Thomas R. Plough (born 1941), sociologist and president of North Dakota State University and Assumption College
- Scott Schwenter (born 1968), professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Ohio State University
Activism
- Chasten Buttigieg (born 1989), writer, teacher, and LGBT+ activist[1]
- Helen Milliken (1922–2012), activist, environmentalist, and first lady of Michigan
- Pun Plamondon (1945–2023), left-wing activist
Crime
- Charles L. Meach (1947–2004), serial killer
Industry
- John T. Parsons (1913–2007), engineer[2]
- Eugene Power (1905–1993), entrepreneur
- Frank L. Stulen (1921–2010), engineer and mayor of Traverse City in 1961[3]
Law
- Pearl M. Hart (1890–1975), attorney
- Thomas G. Power (born 1950), judge and member of the Michigan House of Representatives
Media
Art
- Eric Daigh (born 1977)
- Anna Fidler (born 1973)
- Michael Huey (born 1964)
- Barbara McGuire, painter, jewelry designer, and clay artist
- Ezra Winter (1886–1949), muralist
- George Wurtzel (born 1954), craftsman and woodworker
Film, television, and theater
- Kate Botello, television and radio personality
- Jeremy Davies (born 1969), actor
- Carol Duvall (1926–2023), television personality
- Michael Moore (born 1954), director, screenwriter, producer, and author[4]
- Bill Morey (1919–2003), actor[5]
- Carter Oosterhouse (born 1976), television personality
- Pat Paulsen (1927–1997), comedian, satirist, and actor
- Julius H. Steinberg (1847–1943), theater entrepreneur
- Martha Teichner (born 1948), CBS News correspondent
- Barry Watson (born 1974), actor
- David Wayne (1914–1995), actor
Music
- Bob James (born 1939), pianist, arranger, and record producer[6]
- Angela Josephine (born 1967), singer-songwriter and musician
- Matt Noveskey (born 1976), singer-songwriter and bassist in bands Blue October and Harvard of the South[7]
- Wilson Sawyer (1917–1979), composer, arranger, and musician
- Mel Schacher (born 1951), bassist in band Grand Funk Railroad
- Claudia Schmidt (born 1953), singer-songwriter and musician[8]
- Billy Strings (born 1992), bluegrass musician[9]
Bands
- The Accidentals (formed 2012)
- Salem (formed 2006)[10][11]
Print media
- M. E. C. Bates (1839–1905), writer, journalist, and newspaper editor[12]
- Clara Nettie Bates (1876–1966), editor, writer, and clubwoman[13]
- Mary K. Buck (1841–1901), author
- Alma Routsong (1924–1996), novelist
- Harold Sherman (1898–1987), novelist and lecturer
- Doug Stanton, author, journalist, lecturer, and screenwriter
- Craig Thompson (born 1975), graphic novelist
Military
- Demas T. Craw (1900–1942), United States Air Force officer and posthumous Medal of Honor recipient
- Michael Carey (born 1960), United States Air Force officer
- Guy Fort (1879–1942), brigadier general in the Philippine Army under control of the United States Army Forces in the Far East
- Alden G. Glauch (1919–2015), major general in the United States Air Force
Politics
National
- Pete Buttigieg (born 1982), former United States Secretary of Transportation, former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and candidate for President of the United States in 2020.[14]
- Robert P. Griffin (1923–2015), U.S. representative, senator, and Michigan Supreme Court justice
State
- Jason Allen (born 1963), member of Michigan House of Representatives and Michigan Senate
- Morgan Bates (1806–1874), 19th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan
- Betsy Coffia (born 1977), member of the Michigan House of Representatives
- James E. Defebaugh (1926–2014), member of the Michigan House of Representatives
- Michael Dively (born 1938), member of the Michigan House of Representatives
- Kevin Elsenheimer (born 1965), member of the Michigan House of Representatives and judge
- Arnell Engstrom (1897–1970), member of the Michigan House of Representatives
- George A. McManus Jr. (1930–2024), member of the Michigan Senate
- James T. Milliken (1882–1952), mayor of Traverse City and member of the Michigan Senate
- James W. Milliken (1848–1908), member of the Michigan Senate
- William Milliken (1922–2019), 44th and longest-serving Governor of Michigan[15]
- Howard Walker (born 1954), member of the Michigan House of Representatives and Michigan Senate
Local
- Derek Bailey (1972–2021), chairman of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians
- Perry Hannah (1824–1904), founding father and first mayor of Traverse City, and member of the Michigan House of Representatives
Religion
- Carol Gilbert (born 1947), Dominican religious sister and anti-nuclear activist
