List of people from Saginaw, Michigan explained

The following is a list of notable people associated with Saginaw, Michigan. These people were born or lived in Saginaw.

Artists

• E. Irving Couse (1866–1936), painter; founding member of the Taos Society of Artists
• Curtis Harding (born 1979), singer, and songwriter
• Robert Nickle (1919–1980), visual artist, collagist
• Bernard C. Wetzel (1876–1952), architect, raised in Saginaw^[1]

Business, academic, and labor figures

• Sewell Avery (1874–1960), chairman of U.S. Gypsum Corporation and Montgomery Ward
• Edward G. Begle (1914–1978), mathematician specializing in topology; director of the School Mathematics Study Group, credited with developing what came to be known as new math
• Wellington R. Burt (1831–1919), wealthy industrialist
• Harold J. Grimm (1901–1983), professor of history and expert on Protestant Reformation
• Nafe Katter (1927–2014), professor of theatre at the University of Connecticut

Writers and journalists

• George F. Lewis, journalist, proprietor of newspapers
• Doug Peacock (born 1942), author, grizzly bear expert, lecturer
• Theodore Roethke (1908–1963), poet

See also

• List of mayors of Saginaw

Notes and References

1. Book: Marquis, Albert Nelson . The Book of Detroiters;. . 1908 . A. N. Marquis . 474–475 . en . Wetzel, Bernard C..