St. Louis Park is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota and a first-ring suburb of Minneapolis. The population was 44,126 at the 2000 census. St. Louis Park is the birthplace and childhood home of movie directors Joel and Ethan Coen. Other notable former residents of St. Louis Park include New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, author/satirist Al Franken, songwriter Dan Israel, songwriter Peter Himmelman, guitarist Sharon Isbin, and writer Pete Hautman.

The Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, which has a major collection of antique radio and television equipment, is also in the city. Items range from radios produced by local manufacturers to the Vitaphone system used to cut discs carrying audio for the first "talkie," The Jazz Singer.