List of Utahns

List of notable and famous Utahns:

• Cytheria, porn star born in Salt Lake City and raised in West Valley City
• Maude Adams - One of the most beloved and successful Broadway stage actresses of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most noted for her title role in Peter Pan.
• Florence Ellinwood Allen - First woman to serve on a state supreme court and the second woman to serve as a federal judge.
• John Amaechi - American/English NBA player for the Utah Jazz (2001–2003), sports broadcaster, and political activist. In 2007, he publicly announced that he is gay and became the first player associated with the NBA to make his orientation a public matter.
• Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson - Democratic mayor of Salt Lake City (2000–2008), liberal activist, environmentalist, and former ACLU attorney.
• David Archuleta - American Idol Season 7 runner-up.
• Julianne Hough and Derek Hough - Professional ball room dancers on Dancing with the Stars
• Hal Ashby - Cinema director; films include Being There, The Last Detail, Harold and Maude.
• Roseanne Barr - Comedian, television actress, writer, talk-show host.
• Earl W. Bascom - artist/sculptor, actor, inventor, rodeo champion, Utah Sports Hall of Fame inductee.
• Bruce Bastian - Computer programmer, co-founder of the WordPerfect Software Company, multi-millionaire philanthropist and member of the board of directors of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the U.S.'s largest Gay and Lesbian political action committee.
• Ezra Taft Benson - 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1985 until his death on May 3,1994 and was United States Secretary of Agriculture for both of the administrations of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
• Robert Foster "Bob" Bennett - Republican United States Senator from Utah.
• Kurt Bestor - American composer, arranger, and performer.
• John Moses Browning - Designer of popular firearms like the M2 .50 caliber machine gun and the Colt Model 1911 .45 semi-automatic handgun.
• Ted Bundy - Notorious Serial Killer attended law school in SLC.
• Nolan Bushnell - Founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese.
• Orson Scott Card - Science fiction author.
• Neal Cassady - Icon of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, he served as the inspiration for the character of Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's classic On the Road (born in Salt Lake City).
• Butch Cassidy - Outlaw.
• Marriner Eccles - Banker, economist, and Chairman of the Federal Reserve during the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations, he became one of the architects of Roosevelt's New Deal efforts to end the Great Depression; the Eccles Building which houses the Federal Reserve is named after him.
• Faye Dunaway - attended high school in Tooele.
• Richard Paul Evans - American author best-known for his novel The Christmas Box.
• Philo Farnsworth - Inventor of the electronic television.
• John D. Fitzgerald - Author of The Great Brain series of children's books. Also famous for his book Papa Married A Mormon, describing his Utah roots.
• Harvey Fletcher - Famous American physicist. He was credited with the invention of the hearing aid and the audiometer. Also known as "the father of stereophonic sound."
• Jake Garn - Former U.S. Senator and astronaut, he was the first member of Congress in space.
• Wilbert L. Gore - Co-inventor of Gore-tex fabrics.
• Gordon B. Hinckley - 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1995 until his death on January 27,2008.
• Tracy Hickman - Writer, co-creator of the famous D&D campaign setting Dragonlance and associated novels.
• Joe Hill - Socialist, radical labor activist, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (spent much of his life in Utah).
• Jon Huntsman, Sr. - Businessman, philanthropist.
• Jon Huntsman, Jr. - Governor of Utah 2005–present.
• Ken Jennings - Jeopardy! champion.
• Jewel - Musician, author.
• Thomas Kearns - U.S. Senator from Utah (1901–1905), owned both the Silver King Coalition Mine in Park City, and the Salt Lake Tribune, Utah's largest newspaper. Also built the Kearns-St.Ann's Orphanage and the Kearns Building. The Kearns Mansion is now the Utah's Governor's Mansion, the largest in the United States. A city called Kearns was named after him near Taylorsville.
• Raymond Knight - son of mining baron Jesse Knight, founder of the town of Raymond, Alberta, Canada, Father of Canadian Stampede, rodeo champion, rancher, world's first rodeo producer and rodeo stock contracter.
• John D. Lee - Early Mormon Church leader. The only man convicted in the Mountain Meadows massacre.
• The Lafferty Brothers (Ron and Dan) - Fundamentalist Mormons convicted of double murder and featured in the book Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer.
• Maddox - Internet satirist and author of The Best Page in the Universe and The Alphabet of Manliness.
• John Willard Marriott - Founder of worldwide hotel business Marriott International, Inc..
• Mark Maryboy - American politician from San Juan County, Utah, and a former Navajo Nation Council Delegate.
• Larry H. Miller - Businessman, philanthropist. Owner of Utah Jazz basketball team.
• Jim Nance - Prominent CBS Sports anchor started career in SLC.
• Donny Osmond - Singer, actor, former talk-show host.
• Marie Osmond - Singer, actor, former talk-show host.
• Neil Papiano - Internationally prominent Los Angeles lawyer.
• Utah Phillips - Radical songwriter, labor activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
• Robert Redford - Actor, director, movie producer, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival (resides in Utah).
• Gary Ridgeway- Notorious Green River Killer from Utah.
• Mitt Romney - Managed the 2002 Winter Olympics,has home in Utah.
• Karl Rove - Political Advisor to George W Bush, Attended U of U.
• Brent Scowcroft - National Security Advisor to presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush.
• Wallace Earle Stegner - Historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist; the Wallace Stegner Center for Environmental Law at the University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law was named after him.
• John Stockton - American professional basketball player (retired), regarded as one of the best point guards of all time, holding the NBA records for career assists and steals by considerable margins, spent his entire career (1984–2003) as a point guard for the Utah Jazz of the NBA.
• U.S. Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland - English-born American jurist and political figure raised in Springville, Utah, he was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Warren G. Harding where he served as an Associate Justice from 1922 to 1938.
• Sam Walton - Walmart Founder, served in Military at Ft Douglas.
• Mike Weir - Professional golfer.
• Terry Tempest Williams - Author, environmentalist.
• James Woods - born in Vernal, Utah
• Mahonri Young - Sculptor and artist.
• Steve Young - Hall of Fame quarterback for San Francisco 49ers, won NFL's Most Valuable Player award 1992 and 1994, direct descendant of Brigham Young.
• David Zabriskie cyclist, stage winner in all three grand tours, yellow jersey holder, national time trial champion.
• Anthony Geary - Actor in several daytime television series.
• Henry Eyring - Internationally noted theoretical chemist who proposed theories on which future Nobel Prize winners based their work.