Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City ranks 233rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Łódź, Bangkok, and Hiroshima Prefecture. Memorable people born in Salt Lake City include Neal Cassady, Stephen Covey, and Robert Walker. Memorable people who died in Salt Lake City include Brigham Young, Dick Fosbury, and Frederick Herzberg. Salt Lake City has been the birth place of many actors, and businesspeople and the death place of many religious figures, and athletes. Salt Lake City is located in United States.
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the county seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in the state. The population was 199,723 at the 2020 census, while the Salt Lake City metropolitan area has an estimated 1.3 million residents and is the 46th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. It is also part of the larger Salt Lake City–Ogden–Provo combined statistical area, an urban corridor along a 120-mile (190 km) segment of the Wasatch Front with a population of approximately 2.8 million. It is one of the principal urban centers within the Great Basin, along with Reno, Nevada. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 1869 and 1999, Salt Lake City was the birth place of 55 globally memorable people, including Neal Cassady, Stephen Covey, and Robert Walker. Additionaly, 20 globally memorable people have passed away in Salt Lake City including Brigham Young, Dick Fosbury, and Frederick Herzberg.
People Born in Salt Lake City
Go to all RankingsNeal Cassady
WRITER
1926 - 1968
HPI: 69.94
Rank: 18
Stephen Covey
WRITER
1932 - 2012
HPI: 69.00
Rank: 23
Robert Walker
ACTOR
1918 - 1951
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 30
Wilford Brimley
ACTOR
1934 - 2020
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 31
Frank Borzage
FILM DIRECTOR
1894 - 1962
HPI: 64.94
Rank: 26
Gary Ridgway
EXTREMIST
1949 - Present
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 5
Loretta Young
ACTOR
1913 - 2000
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 20
Kim Peek
CELEBRITY
1951 - 2009
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 22
Bob Bennett
POLITICIAN
1933 - 2016
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 34
Craig Venter
BIOLOGIST
1946 - Present
HPI: 62.82
Rank: 48
Paula Hawkins
POLITICIAN
1927 - 2009
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 29
Mack Swain
ACTOR
1876 - 1935
HPI: 60.31
Rank: 14
Newly Added People Born in Salt Lake City
Go to all RankingsWhitney Wolfe Herd
BUSINESSPERSON
1989 - Present
HPI: 42.36
Rank: 17
Zoey Stark
WRESTLER
1994 - Present
HPI: 30.60
Rank: 16
People Deceased in Salt Lake City
Go to all RankingsBrigham Young
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1801 - 1877
HPI: 81.74
Rank: 4
Dick Fosbury
ATHLETE
1947 - 2023
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 19
Frederick Herzberg
PSYCHOLOGIST
1923 - 2000
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 2
Henry Eyring
CHEMIST
1901 - 1981
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 20
Harry Reems
ACTOR
1947 - 2013
HPI: 62.69
Rank: 5
Larry Scott
ATHLETE
1938 - 2014
HPI: 62.27
Rank: 14
Russell M. Nelson
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1924 - 2025
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 3
Thomas S. Monson
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1927 - 2018
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 9
Olene Walker
POLITICIAN
1930 - 2015
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 8
Jerry Sloan
BASKETBALL PLAYER
1942 - 2020
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 10
Emma Abbott
SINGER
1850 - 1891
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 11
Orrin Hatch
POLITICIAN
1934 - 2022
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 18
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Salt Lake City were actors (16), businesspeople (4), writers (3), politicians (3), and athletes (3), while most who died were religious figures (5), athletes (5), politicians (4), psychologists (1), and chemists (1).
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Salt Lake City, including Wilford Brimley, Richard Harrison, and Roseanne Barr. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Salt Lake City, including Robert Walker, Wilford Brimley, and Loretta Young.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Salt Lake City since 1700.