Notable Heart Mountain Internees
- Kathryn Doi (born 1942), Associate Justice of the California Second District Court of Appeals.
- Frank S. Emi (1916–2010), civil rights activist.
- Sadamitsu "S. Neil" Fujita (1921–2010), graphic designer who served in the 442nd Infantry Regiment.
- Bill Hosokawa (1915–2007), author and journalist.
- George Ishiyama (1914–2003), businessman and former president of Alaska Pulp Corporation. Also interned at Topaz.
- Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1943–2000), an author and civil and social justice advocate.
- Yosh Kuromiya (born 1923), Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee member who resisted the draft on constitutional grounds and promotes understanding of the Nisei draft resisters in film and public forums.
- Robert Kuwahara (1901–1964), animator.
- Norman Mineta (born 1931), United States Secretary of Transportation under George W. Bush and United States Secretary of Commerce under Bill Clinton.
- Lane Nakano (1925–2005), an American soldier turned actor
- Fusataro Nakaya (born 1886), medical doctor (1916 graduate of University of Illinois Medical College), member of California Medical Association, Vice President of Los Angeles Japanese Association
- Albert Saijo (1926–2011), a poet
- Nyogen Senzaki (1876–1958), a Rinzai Zen monk who was one of the 20th century's leading proponents of Zen Buddhism in the United States.
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