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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.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Salt Lake City during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 81 notable births.

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 church26.0× the global rate.

Salt Lake City under-produces painter — only 0.7× the global rate.

  1. Actor79
  2. Politician66
  3. Football55
  4. Lawyer27
  5. Writer26
  6. Basket25
  7. Baseball21
  8. Sport17
  1. Church1026.0×
  2. Missionary1418.9×
  3. Religious1116.4×
  4. Skier84.2×
  5. Novelist82.7×
  6. Basket252.7×
  7. Baseball212.5×
  8. Screenwriter82.5×
  1. Painter130.7×
  2. Football550.7×

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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Showing 66 of 739 notable people

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Paula Hawkins

1927 - 2009

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Bob Bennett (politician)

1933 - 2016

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Matt Salmon

Born 1958

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Frank Moss (politician)

1911 - 2003

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Jim Matheson

Born 1960

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James V. Hansen

1932 - 2018

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Chris Cannon

Born 1950

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Frank J. Cannon

1859 - 1933

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Wallace F. Bennett

1898 - 1993

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Elbert D. Thomas

1883 - 1953

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Florence Prag Kahn

1866 - 1948

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Heber Manning Wells

1859 - 1938

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John L. Harmer

1934 - 2019

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Leslie Byrne

Born 1946

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David Smith Monson

Born 1945

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Jenny Wilson (politician)

Born 1965

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David Nelson (Utah activist)

Born 1962

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Ted Wilson (mayor)

Born 1939

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Michael K. Winder

Born 1976

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Marian Bergeson

1925 - 2016

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George Hill (Idaho politician)

1868 - 1958

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Jerry Anderson (politician)

Born 1935

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Jim Bird

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Gene Davis (politician)

Born 1945

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Berta Gardner

Born 1954

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Janet Trujillo

-

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James Dunnigan (politician)

Born 1953

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V. Lowry Snow

Born 1950

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Edwin Q. Cannon

1918 - 2005

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Carl Wimmer

Born 1975

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Steven Harris (politician)

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Paul Van Dam

Born 1937

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Karen Mayne

-

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Sheryl Allen

Born 1943

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Earl Tanner

Born 1950

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William W. Taylor

1853 - 1884

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Linden Bateman

Born 1940

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Rulon S. Wells

1854 - 1941

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Carl W. Duckworth

1955 - 2018

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Fred Cox (politician)

Born 1961

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Pete Goicoechea

Born 1949

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Misty Snow

Born 1985

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Elizabeth Pugsley Hayward

1854 - 1942

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Cary Smith (politician)

Born 1950

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Charles E. Johnson (government official)

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Ezra Thompson

1850 - 1923

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Jay Seegmiller (politician)

Born 1958

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Warren Hardy

Born 1963

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Jani Iwamoto

-

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Lynn D. Stewart (politician)

Born 1941

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Pete Suazo

Died 2001

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Martin H. Weight

1855 - 1920

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Patrick McDonald (politician)

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Richard J. Carling

Born 1937

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Dennis P. Hession

Born 1950

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H. L. Jensen

Born 1928

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Jim Keysor

1927 - 2014

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Derek Kitchen

-

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John M. Wallace

1893 - 1989

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Richard Snelgrove

Born 1955

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Adiel F. Stewart

1897 - 1960

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Richard P. Morris

1855 - 1925

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A. Pratt Kessler

1905 - 1984

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Mike Kroger

Born 1951

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Charles A. Hunt

-

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Anita Yeckel

1942 - 2015

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