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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Gordon B. Hinckley
1910 - 2008
Joseph Fielding Smith
1876 - 1972
M. Russell Ballard
Born 1928
Heber J. Grant
1856 - 1945
Mark E. Petersen
1900 - 1984
Rulon Jeffs
1909 - 2002
Sylvester Q. Cannon
1877 - 1943
Belle S. Spafford
1895 - 1982
Florence S. Jacobsen
1913 - 2017
Clarissa S. Williams
1859 - 1930
Clara W. Beebe
1868 - 1927