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 Gary Ridgway. 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 writers and the death place of many athletes, and religious figures. 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 city is the core of the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which had a population of 1,257,936 at the 2020 census. Salt Lake City is further situated within a larger metropolis known as the Salt Lake City–Ogden–Provo Combined Statistical Area, a corridor of contiguous urban and suburban development stretched along a 120-mile (190 km) segment of the Wasatch Front, comprising a population of 2,746,164, making it the 22nd largest in the nation. With a population of 200,133 in 2020, it is the 117th most populous city in the United States. It is also the central core of the larger of only two major urban areas located within the Great Basin. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 1869 and 1999, Salt Lake City was the birth place of 53 globally memorable people, including Neal Cassady, Stephen Covey, and Gary Ridgway. Additionaly, 19 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: 68.75
Rank: 1
Stephen Covey
WRITER
1932 - 2012
HPI: 67.34
Rank: 2
Gary Ridgway
EXTREMIST
1949 - Present
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 3
Loretta Young
ACTOR
1913 - 2000
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 4
Frank Borzage
FILM DIRECTOR
1894 - 1962
HPI: 63.71
Rank: 5
Kim Peek
CELEBRITY
1951 - 2009
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 6
Wilford Brimley
ACTOR
1934 - 2020
HPI: 63.02
Rank: 7
John Warnock
BUSINESSPERSON
1940 - 2023
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 8
Robert Walker
ACTOR
1918 - 1951
HPI: 61.31
Rank: 9
Craig Venter
BIOLOGIST
1946 - Present
HPI: 60.90
Rank: 10
Jerry Buss
BUSINESSPERSON
1933 - 2013
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 11
Mack Swain
ACTOR
1876 - 1935
HPI: 59.10
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Salt Lake City
Go to all RankingsRichard Harrison
ACTOR
1936 - Present
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 16
Paul McCarthy
PAINTER
1945 - Present
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 21
Gail Halvorsen
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1920 - 2022
HPI: 51.74
Rank: 24
Clayton Christensen
BUSINESSPERSON
1952 - 2020
HPI: 50.27
Rank: 29
Joi Lansing
ACTOR
1929 - 1972
HPI: 45.33
Rank: 38
Kaycee Stroh
ACTOR
1984 - Present
HPI: 36.27
Rank: 49
Ryne Sanborn
HOCKEY PLAYER
1989 - Present
HPI: 33.48
Rank: 51
Andrea Howard
ACTOR
1947 - Present
HPI: 24.93
Rank: 53
People Deceased in Salt Lake City
Go to all RankingsBrigham Young
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1801 - 1877
HPI: 76.14
Rank: 1
Dick Fosbury
ATHLETE
1947 - 2023
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 2
Frederick Herzberg
PSYCHOLOGIST
1923 - 2000
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 3
Larry Scott
ATHLETE
1938 - 2014
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 4
Harry Reems
ACTOR
1947 - 2013
HPI: 61.32
Rank: 5
Jerry Sloan
BASKETBALL PLAYER
1942 - 2020
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 6
Thomas S. Monson
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1927 - 2018
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 7
Emma Abbott
SINGER
1850 - 1891
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 8
Orrin Hatch
POLITICIAN
1934 - 2022
HPI: 52.82
Rank: 9
Henry Eyring
CHEMIST
1901 - 1981
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 10
Lorenzo Snow
POLITICIAN
1814 - 1901
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 11
Gordon B. Hinckley
POLITICIAN
1910 - 2008
HPI: 51.59
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Deceased in Salt Lake City
Go to all RankingsEzra Taft Benson
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1899 - 1994
HPI: 49.41
Rank: 15
Bob Clotworthy
ATHLETE
1931 - 2018
HPI: 46.12
Rank: 16
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Salt Lake City were actors (16), writers (3), businesspeople (3), athletes (3), and politicians (3), while most who died were athletes (5), religious figures (4), politicians (4), psychologists (1), and actors (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, Roseanne Barr, and Richard Harrison. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Salt Lake City, including Loretta Young, Wilford Brimley, and Robert Walker.
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.