 I bet you didn't know where Michael Jordan was born. A lot of people think it was in Wilmington, North Carolina, but that's wrong. That's actually where he was raised. On February 17th of 1963, Michael Jordan was actually born in Brooklyn, New York to James and Dolores Jordan. The couple was living in Brooklyn at the time and decided to move to North Carolina a few years later after Michael Jordan was born. Subscribe so you can tell your friends.