Presidents
General Ulysses S. Grant -- 1860s (before presidency)
Rutherford B. Hayes - - - - - September 30, 1880
Benjamin Harrison - - - - - May 5, 1891
Theodore Roosevelt (after presidency) - - - - - May 21, 1903
William Howard Taft - - - - - October 12, 1911
Woodrow Wilson - - - - - September 16, 1919
Harry S. Truman - - - - - - 1948
Dwight Eisenhower, ....October 7, 1952
Richard Nixon ---1964
John F. Kennedy ---- 1960 (before presidency)
Herbert Hoover resided in Salem in his youth. He returned many times, lastly in 1955

Others
Susan B. Anthony- - - - - - - - - 1871
General William Sherman - - - - - 1876
John Philip Sousa’s Band - - - - - October 11, 1902
John L. Sullivan - - - - - June 20, 1905
Knute Rockne - - - - - July 2, 1925
William Jennings Bryan - - - - - several times
General John J. Pershing - - - - - January 21, 1920
Clark Gable - - - - - 1920s
Charles Lindbergh - - - - -1927
Dwight D. Eisenhower (presidential campaign swing as candidate) - - - - - October 7, 1952
Mary Pickford (visited then-Governor Paul Patterson) - - - - - 1953
John F. Kennedy (as U.S. Senator) - - - - - 1959/1960
Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong - - - - - 1959
Anthropologist Margaret Mead - - - - - several times
John F. Kennedy (presidential campaign swing as candidate) - - - - - September 7, 1960
Joe Louis - - - - - January, 1961
Sonny and Cher - - - - - 1964
Robert Kennedy (presidential campaign swing) - - - - - 1968
Atheist leader Madalyn Murray O’Hair - - - - 
 October 23, 1968
Actor James Drury (visited his hometown of Salem) - - - - - August 18, 1972
Roy Rogers - - - - - 1972
Jack Nicholson - - - 1975
Jerry Falwell - - - - - May 19, 1981
James Garner (filming TV movie in Salem) - - - - - 1986
Smother Brothers - - - - - 1988
Dolly Parton - - - - - - - - -1989
Bill Bob Thornton - - - - 2001
Bruce Willis - - - - - - - - 2001
Michael Moore- - - - - - -2005