#1Famous people · Cedar City
Cedar City counts 12 famous people, first among them Mike Leavitt
Mike Leavitt, the American politician, is the most widely known, written about in 20 languages. For every 10,000 residents there are 3.1 on the list, well above the typical Utah town’s 0.5. 6 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. Fewer than a quarter of the 120 towns in Utah with famous people list more.
Born here
12
notable people
Best known
Mike Leavitt
in 20 Wikipedia languages
First
1907
Helen Foster Snow
Youngest
1997
Riley Griffiths
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
What stands out about Cedar City’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Cedar City’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1980s, at 3.
Politics & LawWriting & ArtsSportsFilm, TV & StageNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Cedar City
Two of the three are leaders.
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#3Politics & Law
Celeste Maloy
born 1981American lawyer and Utah land rights advocate
11 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Known for
What Cedar City is known for
Compared with the usual town, writers and artists are the most over-represented field, at 2.5 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Cedar City
The other 9 span the years 1907 to 1997.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Cedar City and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (5)
- Mike Leavitt: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Celeste Maloy: CelesteMaloy2023, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Helen Foster Snow: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mitch Talbot: PositivelyCleveland on Flickr (Original version) UCinternational (Crop), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan Singer: Uyvsdi, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons