40.7500° N, 111.8833° W
SALT LAKE CITY
Most Famous People Born in Salt Lake City, United States
- Notable people
- 739
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1940
- Most distinctive
- Church 26.0×
Salt Lake City has the most denominationally distinctive profile in the country: a Church count better than twenty-five times the global baseline, a Missionary bench not far behind, and a Religious cluster reinforcing them — essentially the LDS hierarchy and its worldwide mission system rendered as a statistic. Outside the temple, the Skier roster runs through Alta and Deer Valley, and a quieter Novelist vein catches the Mormon-letters generation out of the Utah publishing scene.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Salt Lake City during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Salt Lake City Is Known For
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Actor is Salt Lake City's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (79).
Salt Lake City over-indexes on church — 26.0× the global rate.
Salt Lake City under-produces painter — only 0.7× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Salt Lake City's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Frank Borzage
1894 - 1962
Natacha Rambova
1897 - 1966
Spencer W. Kimball
1895 - 1985
Margaret Livingston
1895 - 1984
Earle Hodgins
1893 - 1964
Gordon Jennings
1896 - 1953
Wallace F. Bennett
1898 - 1993
George Jeske
1891 - 1951
Ora Carew
1893 - 1955
Barney McGill
1890 - 1942
Ben Moreell
1892 - 1978
Joseph Conrad Chamberlin
1898 - 1962
John K. Cannon
1892 - 1955
Vera Sisson
1891 - 1954
Belle S. Spafford
1895 - 1982
Dick Romney
1895 - 1969
Willis William Ritter
1899 - 1978
Wilhelm D. Styer
1893 - 1975
Milton Romney
1899 - 1975
S. Dilworth Young
1897 - 1981
G. Ott Romney
1892 - 1973
Joseph Fielding Smith (presiding patriarch)
1899 - 1964
Frank W. Asper
1892 - 1973
Victor Matson
1895 - 1972
Sidney B. Sperry
1895 - 1977
Cavendish W. Cannon
1895 - 1962
Thomas Chalmers Vint
1894 - 1967
Grant Whytock
1894 - 1981
Donald Jahraus
1892 - 1963
Sherman L. Lowe
1894 - 1968
Sid Marcus
1897 - 1979
Lawrence Clayton
1891 - 1949
Joseph L. Wirthlin
1893 - 1963
Florence E. Ware
1891 - 1972
Joe Conway
1898 - 1945
Morton T. Seligman
1895 - 1967
Carl Peterson (American football)
1897 - 1964
John M. Wallace
1893 - 1989
Adiel F. Stewart
1897 - 1960