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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Leigh Harline
1907 - 1969
Wallace Thurman
1902 - 1934
Joseph Kearns
1907 - 1962
Pablo O'Higgins
1904 - 1983
Lee Barnes
1906 - 1970
Lionel Banks
1901 - 1950
Mark E. Petersen
1900 - 1984
Alvin R. Dyer
1903 - 1977
Leonard Strong (actor)
1908 - 1980
Dorothy Gulliver
1908 - 1997
Rulon Jeffs
1909 - 2002
Stacy Woodard
1902 - 1942
Richard L. Evans
1906 - 1971
William H. Behle
1909 - 2009
Horace Woodard
1904 - 1973
Franklin S. Forsberg
1905 - 2002
David Hempstead
1909 - 1983
Robert Joseph Dwyer
1908 - 1976
J Milton Cowan
1907 - 1993
Ray Abrams (animator)
1906 - 1981
Whit Burnett
1900 - 1972
George Von Elm
1901 - 1961
Henry S. Kesler
1907 - 1997
Robert Milchrist Cannon
1901 - 1976
Wild Bill Longson
1906 - 1982
Gordon Rhodes
1907 - 1960
Alice Marriott
1907 - 2000
Bob Davis (American football coach)
1908 - 1965
Harry Evelyn Dorr Pollock
1900 - 1982
Gordon Slade
1904 - 1974
Milton Petrie
1902 - 1994
Allen V. Astin
1904 - 1984
Mildred J. Berryman
1901 - 1972
Ralph Bingham Cloward
1908 - 2000
J. Reuben Clark III
1908 - 1992
Waáno-Gano
1906 - 1982
Barbara Fealy
1903 - 2000
A. Pratt Kessler
1905 - 1984