Born in Salt Lake City
- Loretta Young (1913-2000) Television actress and Academy Award winner.
- Maude Adams (1872–1953) Broadway stage actress noted for her title role in Peter Pan
- Karl Alvarez (born 1964), musician, Descendents, ALL, The Lemonheads
- Tony Anselmo (born 1967), Disney animator, voice of Donald Duck (1985-present)
- Roseanne Barr (born 1952), actress, stand-up comedian
- Mick Morris (born 1978), musician, Eighteen Visions
- Jaime Bergman (born 1975), Actress, former Playmate
- Nolan Bushnell (born 1943), founder of Atari and game industry pioneer
- Neal Cassady, (born 1926), Notable influencer of the Beat movement
- Roy Castleton (born 1885), major league baseball player
- Clayton M. Christensen (born 1952), professor at Harvard Business School
- Cytheria, porn star born in Salt Lake City and raised in West Valley City
- Matthew Davis (born 1978), actor
- Patrick Fugit (born 1982), actor
- John Fulton, writer
- John W. Gallivan, (born 1915), newspaper publisher
- Viola Gillette, comic opera singer, contralto
- W. Dan Hausel (born 1949), hall-of-fame martial arts grandmaster, notable geologist, writer
- William "Big Bill" Haywood, labor leader
- Steve Konowalchuk (born 1972), former NHL player
- Zach Lund (born 1979), skeleton racer
- Maddox (writer) (born 1978), writer
- Claude Rex Nowell aka Corky King (born 1944), founder of Summum
- Louis R. Nowell (1915–2000), Los Angeles City Council member, 1963–77
- Ralph Olsen, former NFL player
- Elizabeth Smart (born 1987), kidnap victim
- Dave Smith (born 1947), former NFL player
- Wallace Thurman, writer
- Pete Van Valkenburg, former NFL player
- Craig Venter (born 1946), geneticist and entrepreneur
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Famous quotes containing the words born in, born, salt, lake and/or city:
“Don Pedro. To be merry best becomes you; for, out o’ question, you were born in a merry hour.
Beatrice. No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under than was I born.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“Like a canoe route across the great lake on whose shore
One is left trapped, grumbling not so much at bad luck as
Because only this one side of experience is ever revealed.
And that meant something.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“You’ve been trying to keep an honest accounting of city monies. You’ve been dealing with politicians. You’ve been standing up for your own rights, haven’t you? Naturally you landed in jail.”
—Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)