Non-native Long-time Salt Lake City Resident, Present or Former
- Harold Ross (1892-1951) American journalist and founder of The New Yorker magazine
- Robert Redford (born 1936) Founder of the Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Channel
- Maurice Abravanel (1903–1993), influential Utah Symphony conductor
- Heather Armstrong (born 1975), blogger, dooce.com
- Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. (born 1950) American vocalist and conductor
- Stevie Nicks (born 1948), American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac
- Roma Downey (born 1960), Irish actress, singer, and producer, best known as Monica, the main character of the TV series Touched by an Angel
- Lily Eskelsen (born 1955), vice-president of the National Education Association
- Jake Garn (born 1934), U.S. Senator representing Utah (1974–1993)
- Gregg Hale, former guitarist for the platinum UK band Spiritualized
- Orrin G. Hatch (born 1934), U.S. Senator representing Utah (1977–present)
- George C. Hatch (born 1919), cable television pioneer
- Ammon Hennacy (1893–1970), anarchist organizer
- Karl Malone (born 1963), former professional basketball player for Utah Jazz (1985–2003)
- James Merendino (born 1967), filmmaker (SLC Punk!)
- Ken Jennings (born 1974), Jeopardy! champion
- Dick Nourse (born 1940), popular television news anchor (1964-2007)
- Karl Rove (born 1950), Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush
- Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), Pulitzer prize winning novelist and nature writer
- John Stockton (born 1962), former professional basketball player for Utah Jazz (1984–2003)
- Ruth Todd (born 1962), popular television news anchor
- Brigham Young (1801–1877), founder of Salt Lake City, President of the LDS Church
- Belladonna (born 1981), Porn star
- David Archuleta (born 1990) American Idol Season 7 runner-up, Artiste
- Merlin Olsen (1940-2010) American football player in the National Football League, NFL commentator, and actor
- Steve Young (born 1961) NFL Quarterback for the 49ers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Ivan Sutherland (born 1938), American computer scientist, Internet pioneer and co-founder of Evans & Sutherland
- Lee Mantle, United States Senator from Montana
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Famous quotes containing the words salt, lake, city and/or present:
“At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Such were the first rude beginnings of a town. They spoke of the practicability of a winter road to the Moosehead Carry, which would not cost much, and would connect them with steam and staging and all the busy world. I almost doubted if the lake would be there,—the self-same lake,—preserve its form and identity, when the shores should be cleared and settled; as if these lakes and streams which explorers report never awaited the advent of the citizen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“This city is neither a jungle nor the moon.... In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies. Close up, it is a fairly legible printed circuit, a transistorized labyrinth of beastly tracks, a data bank for asthmatic voice-prints.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“Oh! what a poor thing is human life in its best enjoyments!—subjected to imaginary evils when it has no real ones to disturb it! and that can be made as effectually unhappy by its apprehensions of remote contingencies as if it was struggling with the pains of a present distress!”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)