- Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12 1947, better known as Mitt Romney), was the 70th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Elected in 2002, Romney served one term and did not seek re-election in 2006; his term ended January 4, 2007. Romney has started his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, having formally announced his candidacy on February 13, 2007. He made his announcement at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
- Orrin Hatch
Orrin Grant Hatch (born March 22, 1934) is a Republican United States Senator from Utah, serving since 1977. Hatch is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, where he serves on the subcommittees on International Trade, Taxation and IRS Oversight, and Health Care. Hatch is also on the Select Committee on Intelligence, where he is the Ranking Republican, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, …
- Karl Malone
Karl "The Mailman" Anthony Malone (born July 24 1963, in Bernice, Louisiana) is a retired American professional basketball player. He was nicknamed in college as the "Mailman" for his consistency ("the mailman always delivers") and his work in the post. Malone twice won the NBA Most Valuable Player award. He is generally considered one of the greatest power forwards in NBA history, and has scored the second most points in NBA history, …
- Joseph Fielding Smith
Joseph Fielding Smith was Presiding Patriarch and a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1942 until 1946. Smith should not be confused with his grandfather, Joseph F. Smith, nor his uncle, Joseph Fielding Smith, both of whom served as Apostles and later as Presidents of the Church. Smith was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of LDS Apostle Hyrum M. Smith and Ida Elizabeth Bowman. He went to school at the University of Utah, …
- Jacques Rogge
Count Jacques Rogge (born May 2, 1942 in Ghent, Belgium) is by profession an orthopedic surgeon. He is the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Born in Ghent, Dr. Count Rogge competed in yachting in the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, and played on the Belgian national rugby union team. Rogge served as president of the Belgian Olympic Committee from 1989 to 1992, and as president of the European Olympic Committees from 1989 to 2001.
- Ralph Becker
Ralph E. Becker Jr. (born May 30, 1952) is an American politician and attorney who is currently serving as the Minority Leader of the Utah State House of Representatives. He is a Democrat and represents House District 24 in Salt Lake City.
- Jim Matheson
James David "Jim" Matheson (born March 21 1960) is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the second district of Utah since 2001 (map). Matheson, a Democrat, represents a district in which President George W. Bush won 67% of the vote in 2004.
- Bruce R. McConkie
Bruce Redd McConkie (July 29, 1915-April 19, 1985) was an influential theologian and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. McConkie served in the First Council of the Seventy of the LDS Church from 1946 until his calling to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1972, where he served until his death in 1985.
- Heber J. Grant
Heber Jeddy Grant (November 22, 1856 - May 14, 1945) was the seventh President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church; see also Mormonism). He was ordained an apostle on October 16, 1882, on the same day as George Teasdale. Grant served as Church President from 1918 to his death in 1945, which makes him the longest-serving President during the twentieth century.
- Parley P. Pratt
Parley Parker Pratt (12 April 1807-13 May 1857) (commonly known as Parley P. Pratt) was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of The Quorum of Twelve Apostles from 1835 until his murder in 1857. He served in the Quorum with his younger brother, Orson Pratt. He was a productive missionary, poet, religious writer and longtime editor of the religious publication "The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star".
- Steve Young
Jon Steven Young (born October 11 1961 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA), is a former quarterback for the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Los Angeles Express of the short-lived United States Football League. He was named the Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl XXIX, and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, the first left-handed quarterback to be so honored.
- Sven Kramer
Sven Kramer (born April 23, 1986 in Heerenveen) is a Dutch long track speed skater. He is the current Dutch, European, and World Allround Champion. He also is the reigning world champion and world record holder on the distances 5,000 m, 10,000 m and the teampursuit.
- Erben Wennemars
Egbert Rolf ("Erben") Wennemars is a Dutch speed skater. He specializes in the sprint and middle distances of 500, 1000 and 1500 meters. Erben Wennemars was the first skater who skated the 1500 m faster than 1:50.00. His 1:49.89 in the summer of 1997 however, was not regarded as an official world record. During the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano where Wennemars was qualified for the 500, …
- Claudia Pechstein
Claudia Pechstein (born 22 February 1972 in East Berlin) is a German speed skater. With a total of five Olympic gold medals, two silver and two bronze medals, she is the most successful German Winter Olympian of all time. Also her team mates Anni Friesinger and Gunda Niemann are very successful. Pechstein is the first female Winter Olympian to win medals in five consecutive Olympics (1992-2006), …
- Richard Paul Evans
Richard Paul Evans (born October 11, 1962 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American author. Evans graduated with a B.A. degree from the University of Utah in 1984. While working as an advertising executive he wrote a Christmas story for his children. Unable to find a publisher or an agent, he self-published the work in 1993 as a paperback novella entitled "The Christmas Box". He distributed it to book stores in his community.
- Rob Bishop
Robert William "Rob" Bishop (born July 13 1951) is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He is the representative for the First District of Utah (map). He served on the Rules Committee until the 2006 elections. Bishop was born in Kaysville, Utah, and received a B.A. from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in 1974. He was a teacher and a legislative lobbyist, and was a member of the Utah State House of Representatives from 1979 until 1995.
- Jeremy Wotherspoon
Jeremy Lee Wotherspoon (born October 26, 1976 in Humboldt, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian speed skater. Wotherspoon was born in Humboldt, Saskatchewan but grew up in Red Deer, Alberta. He first became involved in speedskating after signing up for a power skating class in an effort to improve his ice hockey skills. Initially, Wotherspoon competed in both short track and long track events. He eventually chose long track as a specialty and climbed through the junior ranks, …
- Simon Ammann
Simon Ammann (born June 25, 1981 in Grabs) is a Swiss ski jumper. He grew up in Unterwasser where his parents still live. He currently lives in Schindellegi, Switzerland. He made his debut as a 16-year-old unknown during the 1997-1998 Ski jumping World Cup season. Ammann qualified for the 1998 Nagano Olympic Games, where he finished 35th. Before the 2002 Winter Olympics, he crashed and suffered injuries.
- George Albert Smith
George Albert Smith (April 4, 1870 - April 4, 1951) was an influential religious leader and the eighth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Biographer and historian S. George Ellsworth has called him an example of "Christlike living." Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Smith was the son of John Henry Smith, also an apostle in the LDS Church, and Sarah Farr Smith. His Grandfather, for whom he was named, was George Albert Smith, or more commonly, …
- Chris Jones
Christopher Jones is a videogame designer. He is most famous for his series of interactive movies starring the hard-boiled, out of his time gumshoe Tex Murphy (played by Chris Jones himself), a private investigator that lives in the San Francisco of the middle of the 21st century. During the 1990's Chris co-owned Access Software with Bruce Carver until it was sold to Microsoft in 1999 after which Chris continued to work in the studio on titles for XBox and PC.
- Brian David Mitchell
Brian David Mitchell (born October 18, 1953) is a suspect in the 2002 Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case. He and his wife Wanda Ileen Barzee, have been indicted by a Utah grand jury for kidnapping Smart from her Salt Lake City, Utah home, and keeping her in their custody until the following year, when she was discovered. His trial on these charges has been postponed indefinitely, following a court ruling that he is not mentally competent to stand trial.
- Derek Parra
Derek Parra (born March 15, 1970) is a Mexican-American speed skater from San Bernardino, California who won two medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics, held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Parra was originally a world champion inline speed skater. Following the lead of KC Boutiette, he switched to ice skating in the late 1990s as it was the only way he would have a chance of going to the Olympics as a speed skater. Parra's most successful season was from 2001 to 2002.
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Uchtdorf was born to ethnic Germans Karl Albert Uchtdorf and Hildegard Else Opelt Uchtdorf in Moravská Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (today Ostrava, Czech Republic). Uchtdorf first entered the aviation industry as a pilot, …
- Joe Sakic
Joseph Steve Sakic (born July 7, 1969 in Burnaby, British Columbia) is a professional ice hockey center who has played his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche franchise. In his 18-year tenure, Sakic has won two Stanley Cups, various NHL trophies and has been voted into 13 NHL All-Star Games. He is regarded as one of the strongest team leaders to ever play in the league, …
- Joey Cheek
William Joseph Cheek (born June 22 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina) is an American speed skater and former inline speed skater. He specializes in the short and middle distances. Cheek's breakthrough was in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. During that tournament he won the bronze medal in the 1,000 meters and he missed the podium in the 1,500 meters by 0.08 seconds.
- Anton Sikharulidze
Anton Tarielyevich Sikharulidze was born October 25, 1976. He is a Russian pairs figure skater, currently professional and partnered with Yelena Berezhnaya. With Berezhnaya, he won a silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and a gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. This gold was later shared with Canadian pair Jamie Salé and David Pelletier after much controversy regarding the judging of the long program of that competition.
- Scott McCoy
Scott McCoy is an American politician and attorney from Utah. A Democrat, he is a member of the Utah State Senate, representing the state's 2nd senate district in Salt Lake City (map), which includes Temple Square.
- Jenny Wolf
Jenny Wolf, born January 31 1979 in Berlin, is a German ice speed skater who is the current world record holder, at 37.04 seconds, for the women's 500 m in long track speed skating. On March 10, 2007 at the ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships in Salt Lake City, UT she broke the world record for the women's 500 m in her second race. She finished 6th on the 500 m in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, and 10th on the same distance in Salt Lake City.
- Stephen Covey
Stephen R. Covey (born October 24 1932 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is the author of the international best selling book, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", first published in 1989. Other books he has written include "First Things First", "Principle-Centered Leadership" and "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families". His latest book is "The 8th Habit", published in 2004.
- Fritz Strobl
Fritz Strobl (born August 24, 1972 in Lienz) is an Austrian alpine skier. He won the gold medal in the downhill competition at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, USA. He won a silver medal at the 2007 Alpine Skiing World Championships in the men's Super-G. He retired at the end of the 2006/2007 season
- David Zabriskie
David Zabriskie (born January 12, 1979 in Salt Lake City) is a professional road bicycle racer from the United States who rides for Team CSC. His main strength is individual time trials and his career highlights include stage wins in all three Grand Tour stage races, as well as the US National Time Trial Championship.
- Jennifer Rodriguez
Jennifer Rodriguez (born June 8, 1976 in Miami, FL) is a Cuban-American speed skater. She started her career as an artistic roller skater, winning multiple national championships and placing second and third at world championships. Later she switched to inline speed skating and became world champion in 1993. In 1996 she made another career move by giving it a try on ice, in order to have a chance to make the Olympic Team.
- Destiny Norton
Destiny Anne Norton (November 30 2000 - July 16 2006) was a five year old Salt Lake City child who was the subject of an intensive search by about 5,000 community volunteers and hundreds of local and federal law enforcement officers following her disappearance from her home on July 16 2006. Destiny had been last seen as she left her home after arguing with her parents about going to bed. She lived in a small ranch house with her mother and father, …
- Jan Bos
Jan Bos (born March 29, 1975 in Harderwijk, The Netherlands) is a speedskater and sprint cyclist. In 1998 he became world champion sprint and he won the silver medal that year on the 1000 meter sprint during the Winter Olympics in Nagano. In 2002 he won the silver medal on that same distance in Salt Lake City. In 2004 he competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, in the team sprint track cycling event, together with his brother Theo Bos, …
- Chris Witty
Christine ("Chris") Diane Witty (born June 23 1975 in West Allis, Wisconsin) is an American speed skater and cyclist and participated in the Olympic Games in both sports. However, she is more successful in skating. She is specialized in the short and middle distances, the 1000 and 1500 meters and won medals at these distances at the 1998 Winter Olympics. In 2002 she achieved her biggest success; she won the Olympic gold medal at the 1000 meters in Salt Lake City, …
- Johann Mühlegg
Johann Mühlegg is a German-born top level cross-country skier who has competed in international competitions first representing Germany and then Spain, after becoming a Spanish citizen in 1999. He was excluded and disqualified from the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City due to doping. Mühlegg participated for Germany in the 1992, 1994, and 1998 Winter Olympics, though he began having trouble with the country's ski federation in 1993.
- Michael Greis
Michael Greis is a German Olympic gold medalist in biathlon. Greis first competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, finishing 15th and 16th in the 10 km sprint and 12.5 km pursuit events in the biathlon. Greis won the World Cup in the individual category in 2004-2005, and was a member of the winning 4 x 7.5 km relay team in the 2004 Biathlon World Championships, and took silver in the individual 20 km category at the 2005 World Championships.
- Andrus Veerpalu
Andrus Veerpalu is an Estonian cross country skier who competed from 1993 to 2006. On February 17, 2006 he won his second Winter Olympics gold medal (in 15 km cross country skiing; his previous gold medal is from the Salt Lake City games), becoming the fourth Estonian to have won two Olympic gold medals (Kristjan Palusalu, Erika Salumäe and Kristina Šmigun are the first three). He is the most successful Olympic athlete from Estonia with three medals.
- Gina Bachauer
Gina Bachauer, (b. May 21, 1913) (d. August 22, 1976) born in Athens, Greece, was a Greek classical pianist and wife of Alec Sherman, who toured extensively in the United States and Europe. Bachauer gave her first recital in Athens, at the age of 8. Her first concert with an orchestra was in 1932, when she was 20 years old. Before she died in 1976, she gave hundreds of concerts - including 630 for the Allied troops in the Middle East during World War II.
- Cytherea
Cytherea (born September 27, 1981, in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States) is an American pornographic actress and model. She is best known for her female ejaculations or "squirting" during orgasm.