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==Notable residents== [[File:Edsel Bryant Ford.jpg|thumb|[[Edsel Ford]] of Grosse Pointe was the son of [[Henry Ford]] and served as the President of the [[Ford Motor Company]].]] [[File:Roy D. Chapin hec.19010.jpg|thumb|[[Roy D. Chapin]] of Grosse Pointe was the founder of the [[Hudson Motor Car Company]] and served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce.]] * [[Gregg Alexander]]: [[New Radicals]] frontman, best known for their single "[[You Get What You Give (song)|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 architecture|Georgian]] style Chapin house, built in 1927. In 1956, Henry Ford's grandson [[Henry Ford II]] purchased the home.<ref name="GPH"/> * [[Andrea Deck]]: actress * [[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]] * [[Prince Fielder]]: former Detroit Tiger; grew up in [[Grosse Pointe Park]] while [[Cecil Fielder|his father]] was playing for the Tigers * [[Edsel Ford]] and Eleanor Clay Ford: 1100 Lake Shore Drive; Edsel was son of [[Henry Ford]]; public tours * [[Henry Ford II]]: 160 {{Not a typo|Provencal}} Rd.; grandson of Henry Ford<ref name="GPH"/> * [[Martha Firestone Ford]]: owner of the [[Detroit Lions]]; granddaughter of [[Harvey Samuel Firestone]] * [[William Clay Ford Sr.|William Clay Ford]]: grandson of Henry Ford * [[William Clay Ford Jr.]]: great-grandson of Henry Ford * [[Alexander Grant (Upper Canada politician)|Alexander Grant]]: 18th-century [[Lieutenant Governor of Ontario|Administrator (Lt. Governor)]] of [[Upper Canada]] and [[Provincial Marine|Royal Navy]] Commander * [[John 5 (guitarist)|John 5]]: guitarist and songwriter * [[Russell A. Alger]]: United States Senator, and Secretary of War * [[Henry B. Joy]]: president of [[Packard Motor Car Company]] * [[Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy]]: Federal District Court Judge, later appointed to the [[Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals]] * [[Edie Parker|Edie Kerouac-Parker]]: first wife of [[Jack Kerouac]] * [[Aaron Krickstein]] (born 1967): tennis player, world # 6 * [[George Lothrop]]: Attorney General of Michigan, and later U.S. Ambassador to Russia * [[Kirk Maltby]]: forward for the Detroit Red Wings * [[Stephen Murphy III]]: Federal District Court Judge; United States Attorney in Detroit * [[Serge Obolensky]]: Russian aristocrat, American paratrooper in WWII, and businessman * [[Roger Penske]]: founder of Penske Automotive Group * [[Carly Piper]]: Olympic swimmer; won gold medal in Athens in 2004 for the 4 Γ 200 m freestyle relay * [[Sharon Elery Rogers]], composer * [[J.K. Simmons]]: [[Academy Award]] winning Actor * [[Quinn XCII]]: Singer and songwriter * [[Corey Tropp]]: forward for the [[Buffalo Sabres]] * [[Ralph Wilson]]: owner of the [[Buffalo Bills]]; long-time Shores resident * [[Meg White]]: member of [[The White Stripes]]; born in Grosse Pointe Farms * [[G. Mennen Williams]]: Governor and Chief Justice of the [[Michigan Supreme Court]] * [[Marianne Williamson]]: Democratic candidate for President of the United States of America<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/1g64KbAU2Lc Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20190731225959/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g64KbAU2Lc Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g64KbAU2Lc&t=16| title = 'Dark Psychic Force': Williamson Sounds Off On Race, Reparations {{!}} NBC News | website=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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