Michigan

Michigan is a state located in the Great Lakes region of the Midwestern United States. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake". Michigan is the 8th most populous of the 50 United States, with the 11th most extensive total area. Its capital is Lansing, and the largest city is Detroit. Michigan was admitted into the Union on January 26, 1837, as the 26th state.

Michigan has the longest freshwater coastline of any political subdivision in the world, being bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, plus Lake Saint Clair. Michigan is one of the leading U.S. states for recreational boating. The state has 64,980 inland lakes and ponds. A person in the state is never more than six miles (9.7 kilometers) from a natural water source or more than 85 miles (137 kilometers) from a Great Lakes shoreline. It is the largest state by total area east of the Mississippi River.

Michigan is the only state to consist of two peninsulas. The Lower Peninsula, to which the name Michigan was originally applied, is often noted to be shaped like a mitten. The Upper Peninsula (often referred to as "the U.P.") is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, a five-mile (eight-kilometer) channel that joins Lake Huron to Lake Michigan. The two peninsulas are connected by the Mackinac Bridge. While sparsely populated, the Upper Peninsula is economically important due to its status as a tourist destination as well as its abundance of natural resources.

Films and Shows

 * The Happiest Millionaire
 * StarStruck
 * Motorcity

Actors and Crew born in Michigan

 * Curtis Armstrong
 * Dick Beals
 * Kristen Bell
 * Sandra Bernhard
 * Selma Blair
 * Cam Brainard
 * Alison Brown
 * Jerry Bruckheimer
 * Andrew Caldwell
 * Bruce Campbell
 * Larry Joe Campbell
 * Garrett Clayton
 * Alice Cooper
 * Francis Ford Coppola
 * Wally Cox
 * Joan Gerber
 * Sean Giambrone
 * Melissa Gilbert
 * David Alan Grier
 * Judy Greer
 * Elisabeth Harnois
 * Daniel Henney
 * Ernie Hudson
 * Tom Hulce
 * Ken Jeong
 * Casey Kasem
 * Keegan-Michael Key
 * Richard Kiel
 * Martin Klebba
 * Jana Kramer
 * Christine Lahti
 * Piper Laurie
 * Misty Lee
 * Dick Lundy
 * Kaitlyn Maher
 * Madonna
 * Ruth McDevitt
 * Omar Benson Miller
 * Terry O'Quinn
 * Colleen O'Shaughnessey
 * Rob Paulsen
 * Gilda Radner
 * Sam Raimi
 * Michael Raymond-James
 * Andy Richter
 * Martin P. Robinson
 * Diana Ross
 * Terry Rossio
 * Michelle Ruff
 * Roz Ryan
 * Mary Scheer
 * Tom Selleck
 * Stephanie Sheh
 * Dax Shepard
 * J. K. Simmons
 * Sinbad
 * Tom Skerritt
 * Hal Smith
 * David Spade
 * Lily Tomlin
 * Courtney B. Vance
 * Billy West
 * Diamond White