Infamous Michiganders
- Jim Bakker, scandal-ridden televangelist (born in Muskegon)
- Abe Bernstein, Prohibition-era gangster (born in New York; moved to Detroit)
- Ivan Boesky, inside trader (born in Detroit)
- Tony Chebatoris (1898–1938), murderer, bank robber and the only person executed for a crime in Michigan's history
- Charles Coughlin (1891-1979), anti-Semitic, pro-Hitler priest (born in Hamilton, Ontario; moved to Birmingham)
- Hawley Harvey Crippen, murderer (and first criminal to be captured with the aid of wireless communication (born in Michigan, caught in England)
- Leon Czolgosz (1873-1901), assassin of President William McKinley (born in Detroit)
- Sile Doty (1800–1876), burglar, horse thief (born in Vermont, spent later years in Michigan)
- Andrew Kehoe (1872–1927), Bath School disaster bomber
- Jack Kevorkian, physician infamous for assisted suicides (born in Pontiac)
- John List, mass murderer (born in Bay City)
- John Mitchell, conspiratorial Attorney General during Watergate under President Richard Nixon (born in Detroit)
- Terry Nichols, Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator (born in Michigan)
- The Purple Gang, 1920s organized crime group in Detroit
- Reed Slatkin, perpetrator of the largest Ponzi scheme in the United States since that conducted by Ponzi himself (born in Detroit)
- Eddie Slovik - last U.S. soldier executed for desertion (born in Detroit, raised in Dearborn)
- Aileen Wuornos, murderer made famous as the subject of the 2003 film "Monster" starring Charlize Theron (born in Rochester)
- John Norman Collins "co-ed killer". Lived in Ypsilanti, Michigan
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“The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.”
—Tacitus (c. 55–c. 120)