- Mario Capecchi
Mario Capecchi , Ph.D. Distinguished Professor Co-Chairman of Human Genetics Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- J. Reuben Clark
Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr. (1871-1961) was an American attorney, civil servant, and a prominent leader (General Authority) in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was born September 1, 1871, in Grantsville, Utah. Clark was a prominent attorney in the Department of State, and Undersecretary of State for president Calvin Coolidge. In 1930 Clark was appointed ambassador to Mexico.
- Jim Boylen
Jim Boylen is the current head coach of the University of Utah, a position he accepted on March 26, 2007. The Utah job will be his first head coaching position after spending over a decade as an assistant at both the NBA and NCAA levels. He replaces Ray Giacoletti, who was fired from Utah on March 3, 2007. Prior to joining Utah, Boylen spent two years at Michigan State University as the Spartans top assistant under Tom Izzo.
- Kyle Whittingham
Kyle Whittingham (b. November 21,1959 in San Luis Obispo, California) is the head football coach of the University of Utah Utes. Prior to becoming the head coach at Utah, Whittingham served as Utah's defensive coordinator for 10 seasons. He was named head coach of Utah after Urban Meyer left for the University of Florida in 2004.
- Henry Harpending
Henry C. Harpending (1944-) is an anthropologist and population geneticist at the University of Utah, where he is a Distinguished Professor. Harpending has broken new ground in anthropology and human biology interpreting genetic and morphometric variation within and between human populations with mathematically based models, examining hypotheses such as population growth, divergence, and gene flow. Harpending is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Jon Huntsman Jr.
Jon Huntsman , Sr., W�59, was profiled in an article about the most influential people in Utah. The article focused on Huntsman�s incredible philanthropy, noting that Time magazine listed him as the sixth-largest philanthropist in the United States. Huntsman also chairs Wharton�s Board of Overseers, in addition to serving as chairman of International Services for the American Red Cross. ( Deseret News, 5/15/01 )
- Andrew Bogut
Andrew Michael Bogut (born November 28, 1984) is an Australian professional basketball player. He currently plays for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association. Bogut was selected first overall by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2005 NBA Draft. The 7'0", 245 lb (2.13 m, 111 kg) forward/center was a star at the University of Utah for two years before declaring for the draft. Bogut is the first Australian to be drafted first overall.
- Alex Smith
Alex Smith (born May 22, 1982) in Nassau, Bahamas is an NFL tight end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was drafted in the 3rd round, pick #71 in the 2005 NFL Draft. He attended Stanford University and is also commonly confused with Alex Smith, the quarterback from the University of Utah who was drafted #1 overall in 2005. His father is former NFL player, Ed Smith who played defensive end for the Denver Broncos in the 1970's.
- Karl Rove
Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush. He has headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. For most of his career prior to his employment at the White House, Rove was a political consultant. Rove's election campaign clients have included George W. Bush (2000 and 2004 presidential elections, 1994 and 1998 Texas gubernatorial elections), …
- Urban Meyer
Urban F. Meyer (born July 10, 1964 in Ashtabula, Ohio) is currently the head football coach at the University of Florida. He is best known for leading Florida to the 2006 Southeastern Conference Championship and later the BCS National Championship. Previously, as head coach at the University of Utah and Bowling Green State University, he led the Utes and the Falcons each to two of their greatest seasons in school history.
- Stanley Pons
Stanley Pons (born in 1943, Valdese, NC) is an electrochemist best known for his work with Martin Fleischmann on cold fusion in the 1980s and '90s. The two met while Pons was a graduate student in Professor Alan Bewick's group at the University of Southampton where he earned his PhD in 1978. On March 23, 1989, while Pons was a researcher at the University of Utah, …
- Martin Fleischmann
Martin Fleischmann, FRS (born 1927, Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia) is an electrochemist at the University of Southampton. He is best known for his controversial work with his former graduate student Stanley Pons on cold fusion using palladium in the 1980s and '90s. On March 23, 1989, while Pons was a researcher at the University of Utah, he and Fleischmann announced the experimental production of cold fusion [1] -- a result previously thought to be unattainable.
- Rick Majerus
Rick Majerus (born February 17 1948 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin) is the men's basketball head coach at Saint Louis University. He has coached at Marquette University from 1983 to 1986, Ball State University from 1987 to 1989, and University of Utah from 1989-2004. Majerus gradutated from Marquette University High School in 1966 and then attended Marquette, where he tried-out as a walk-on in the 1967 season. He did not play for Marquette, but stayed on as a student assistant.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Michael K. Young
Michael K. Young is President of the University of Utah. President Young began his tenure as the 14th president of the University of Utah in August 2004. Prior to his appointment at the University of Utah, he was Dean and Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at The George Washington University Law School (1998-2004).
- Eric Weddle
Eric Weddle (born January 4, 1985) is a American football safety for the San Diego Chargers. He grew up in Alta Loma, California. Currently he wears the same jersey number on the Chargers, #32, that he wore at the University of Utah.
- Lyle Campbell
Lyle Campbell is a linguist who is considered to be one of the foremost experts on Native American languages, especially the Mayan and Uto-Aztecan language families, as well as in historical linguistics. In addition to his expertise in Mesoamerican languages, he is also an expert on Finno-Ugric languages. He is presently Professor of Linguistics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and the director of the University's Center for American Indian Languages (CAIL).
- Lavell Edwards
LaVell Edwards (born October 11, 1930 in Orem, Utah) is a former American football coach of Brigham Young University (BYU). In 1984, Edwards' BYU Cougars went 12-0 and won the National Championship. Edwards played football for Utah State University and earned a Masters degree at the University of Utah prior to coaching at BYU.
- Andre Miller
Andre Lloyd Miller (born March 19, 1976 in Los Angeles, California) is an American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA. Miller played collegiately at the University of Utah for four years. His performance in 1998, including a very rare NCAA Tournament triple double, lead the Utes to the NCAA championship game where they lost to Kentucky. At Utah, Miller played with Keith Van Horn and Michael Doleac who also play in the NBA.
- Ray Giacoletti
Ray Giacoletti (born April 14, 1962 in Peoria, Illinois) is a former men's basketball coach. He played collegiate basketball at Minot State University in North Dakota from 1980-1984, where he was a four-year letterman and a team captain for two seasons. He received his degree in physical education in 1985. Giacoletti was a finalist for the Naismith Coach of the Year Award in 2005, he was also named the 2005 Playboy National Coach of the Year.
- Daria Bijak
Daria Eva Bijak, is an German Gymnast from Koeln. Bijak is a two time German National Champion (2005, 2006) and has competed for Germany at 3 World Championships. (2002, 2003, 2005) She will make her 4th World Championships appearance in October 2006, where she has been named to the German team to compete in Aarhus, Denmark. Bijak placed a very respectable 8th in the All Around competition at the 2005 World Championships, her best reuslt to date.
- Elaine Elliott
Elaine Elliott is the head women's basketball coach at the University of Utah. She is the winningest coach in school history, having compiled a career record of 463-186. She has led the school to 14 NCAA Tournament appearances, including an Elite Eight in 2005. They came within 3 points of knocking out the National Champions. She has recorded 17 20 win seasons as well.
- Neal A. Maxwell
Neal Ash Maxwell (July 6, 1926-July 21, 2004) was an Apostle and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1981 until his death. Maxwell was ordained an apostle by N. Eldon Tanner on July 23 1981, following the calling of Gordon B. Hinckley as a counselor in the First Presidency. He was sustained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the church on October 3, 1981.
- Bernie Machen
Dr. James Bernard "Bernie" Machen (born 26 March 1944) is an American professor and academic administrator. As of 2004, he is the president of the University of Florida. Before starting at Florida in 2004, he was president of the University of Utah. Machen was born in Greenwood, Mississippi and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Vanderbilt University for his undergraduate studies. He attended Saint Louis University for his DDS, …
- Keith van Horn
Keith Adam Van Horn (born October 23 1975, in Fullerton, California) is an American basketball player who last played for the Dallas Mavericks. Van Horn graduated from Diamond Bar High School and played for the University of Utah. He was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers with the second pick in the 1997 NBA Draft. Van Horn has played for the New Jersey Nets, the Philadelphia 76ers, the New York Knicks, the Milwaukee Bucks and the Dallas Mavericks.
- 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.
- 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.
- Gregory Cochran
Gregory Cochran is a physicist and adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Utah who has developed some new ideas in evolutionary medicine and genetic anthropology. Cochran is known for several controversial theories. Cochran is an occasional contributor to the genetics blog "Gene Expression"
- Jake Garn
Edwin Jacob Garn (born October 12, 1932) is an American politician, a member of the Republican Party, and served as a U.S. Senator representing Utah from 1974 to 1993. Garn became the first sitting member of the United States Congress to fly in space when he flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a Payload Specialist during NASA mission STS-51-D (April 12-April 19, 1985).
- Agha Shahid Ali
Agha Shahid Ali was an English poet of Kashmiri ancestry and upbringing. His poetry collections include "The Half-Inch Himalayas", "A Nostalgist's Map of America", "The Country Without a Post Office", "Rooms Are Never Finished" (finalist for the National Book Award, 2001). His last book was "Call Me Ishmael Tonight", a collection of English ghazals.
- Scott M. Matheson
Scott Milne Matheson (January 8, 1929 - October 7, 1990), served as Governor of Utah from 1977 to 1985, and is the most recent Democrat to serve in that position. Popular enough to have likely won a third term as governor, Matheson chose instead to retire to private practice. He then became the chair of the Democratic National Policy Commission. Matheson was born on January 8, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois to Mormon parents Scott Milne and Adele Adams Matheson.
- Henry B. Eyring
Henry Bennion Eyring (b. May 31 1933) is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Born in Princeton, New Jersey, Eyring is the second child born to noted chemist Henry Eyring and his wife Mildred Bennion. Following the death of Church President Howard W. Hunter, Eyring was sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church on April 1 1995 and ordained an Apostle later that same week.
- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin was ordained an Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on October 9, 1986. He was sustained and set apart as an Assistant to the Council of the Twelve Apostles on April 4, 1975 and served in that capacity until he was called to the First Quorum of the Seventy in April 1976. He was set apart in the Presidency of the First Quorum of the Seventy August 28, 1986, where he was serving when called to be an Apostle.
- Ted Wilson
Ted Lewis Wilson was mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA from 1976 until July, 1985. He won three elections. Wilson resigned during his third term to become the director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah where he held an adjunct assistant professorship of Political Science. His terms were noted by an election in May, 1980 to change the five member commission form of government to a mayor/council form.
- 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, …
- James E. Talmage
James Edward Talmage (September 21, 1862-July 27, 1933) born in Hungerford, England was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1911 until his death in 1933. He studied chemistry and geology at Lehigh University, Johns Hopkins University, and Illinois Wesleyan University for nonresident work. Dr. Talmage was elected to life membership in several learned societies, …
- Cecil O. Samuelson
Cecil Osborn Samuelson, Jr. (b. August 1, 1941) has been the 12th president of Brigham Young University since May 1, 2003. Prior to this appointment he had been a professor of medicine at the University of Utah, dean of the school of medicine there, and vice president of health services. Samuelson's full-time service to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began in 1994 when he was made a General Authority and appointed to the First Quorum of the Seventy.
- John Warnock
John Warnock (b. October 6, 1940) is an American computer scientist best known as the co-founder with Charles Geschke of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company. Although retired as CEO in 2001, he still co-chairs the board with Geschke. Warnock was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has a B.S. in mathematics and philosophy, an M.S. in mathematics, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, all from the University of Utah.
- M. Russell Ballard
Melvin Russell Ballard, Jr. (b. October 8, 1928 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American businessman and a religious leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was called to serve in the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1985. His public addresses often deal with the Mormon pioneers and their heritage. As a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, Ballard is accepted by the church membership as a prophet, seer, and revelator.