List of University of Utah people

Law and government

Ross "Rocky" Anderson - Mayor, Salt Lake City (2000-2008)

Ralph Becker - Mayor, Salt Lake City (2008-2016)

Bob Bennett - U.S. Senator, R-UT (1993-2011)

Wallace F. Bennett - U.S. Senator, R-UT (1951-1974)

Anson Vasco Call II - first Mayor of Afton, Wyoming; served nine terms; graduated with the first class in 1875

Ray D. Free - Major General in the U.S. Army Reserve and a member of the Utah House of Representatives

E. Jake Garn - former U.S. Senator, R-UT, and Astronaut

Larry Echo Hawk - Idaho Attorney General (1991-1995), head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (2009-2012)

Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. - former Governor of the State of Utah, former United States Ambassador to China

Dale A. Kimball - judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Edward L. Kimball - law professor at the University of Montana, University of Wisconsin, and Brigham Young University

David S. King - U.S. Representative, D-UT (1959-1967)

William H. King - U.S. Senator, D-UT (1917-1941)

George W. Latimer - Original member of the U.S. Court of Military Appeals, member of the Utah Supreme Court, and represented Lt. William Calley Jr. during his court martial for the My Lai incident.

Myron E. Leavitt - Lieutenant Governor of Nevada; Justice, Nevada Supreme Court

Mark Maryboy - politician from San Juan County, Utah; former Navajo Nation Council Delegate

Scott M. Matheson - Governor of Utah (1977-1985)

Oscar W. McConkie, Jr. - attorney for the LDS Church; former president of the Utah State Senate

Frank Moss - U.S. Senator, D-UT (1959-1977)

Joseph Lafayette Rawlins - U.S. Senator, R-UT (1897-1903)

Karl Rove - chief political strategist and adviser to George W. Bush; attended but never graduated

I. Daniel Stewart - Utah Supreme Court justice

Ted Stewart - judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

David N. Sundwall - Executive Director, Utah Department of Health and former Assistant Surgeon General

Elbert D. Thomas - U.S. Senator from Utah (1933-1951)

Clark Waddoups - judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Bob Wright - Utah lawyer, Republican gubernatorial candidate in 1980, biographer of David O. McKay

Michael Zimmerman - former Chief Justice of the Utah Supreme Court

Humanities and fine arts

Craig Arnold - poet

Fawn Brodie - historian and author

Vern Bullough - historian and sexologist

Orson Scott Card - science fiction author, Ender's Game

April Christofferson - novelist

Shannon Hale - author

Andrew Hunt - historian; vegan/animal rights advocate

Glen M. Leonard - historian of Utah and Mormonism

Paul McCarthy - artist

Linda Sillitoe - journalist, poet, and historian

Shelby Steele - author and columnist; research fellow at the Hoover Institution

Wallace Stegner - novelist

LeConte Stewart - artist primarily known for his landscapes of rural Utah; head of the Art Department at the University of Utah, 1938-1956

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich - Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of women and early America

Larry Watson - Milkweed National Fiction Prize-winning author

Robison Wells - novelist

Terry Tempest Williams - author, environmentalist

Susie Wind - Seattle artist, noted for "urban realism"

Don Carlos Young - architect, noted for his work for the LDS Church

Religion

Marvin J. Ashton - Apostle of the LDS Church (1971-1994)

M. Russell Ballard - Apostle of the LDS Church (1985-)

Adam S. Bennion - Apostle of the LDS Church (1953-1958), and Superintendent of Church Schools

H. David Burton - Presiding Bishop of the LDS Church (1995-2012)

Linda K. Burton - President of the Relief Society of the LDS Church (2012-)

J. Reuben Clark - Counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church (1934-1961)

Matthew Cowley - Apostle of the LDS Church (1945-1953)

Henry B. Eyring - Counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church (2007-)

James E. Faust - Counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church (1995-2007)

Susa Young Gates - LDS writer, periodical editor, and women's rights advocate in Utah

Robert D. Hales - Apostle of the LDS Church (1994-)

Gordon B. Hinckley - President of the LDS Church (1995-2008)

Elaine L. Jack - President of the Relief Society of the LDS Church (1990-1997)

Truman G. Madsen - longtime BYU religion professor and author

Neal A. Maxwell - Apostle of the LDS Church (1981-2004); LDS writer

Bruce R. McConkie - Apostle of the LDS Church (1981-2004); LDS author

David O. McKay - President of the LDS Church (1951-1970)

Coleen K. Menlove - President of the Primary organization of the LDS Church (1999-2005)

Joseph F. Merrill - Apostle of the LDS Church (1931-1952); key figure in the development of the Church Educational System

Thomas S. Monson - President of the LDS Church (2008-)

Henry D. Moyle - Counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church (1959-1963)

Dale G. Renlund - Apostle of the LDS Church (2015-)

George F. Richards - President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church (1945–50)

Stephen L Richards - Counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church (1951–59)

B. H. Roberts - General Authority of the LDS Church (1888-1933); historian of Mormonism; politician

Marion G. Romney - Counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church (1972-1985)

Eldred G. Smith - Presiding Patriarch of the LDS Church (1947-1979)

Joseph Fielding Smith - Presiding Patriarch of the LDS Church (1943-1946)

George Albert Smith - President of the LDS Church (1945-1951)

Reed Smoot - Apostle of the LDS Church (1900-1941); U.S. Senator from Utah (1903-1933)

Belle S. Spafford - President of the Relief Society of the LDS Church (1945-1974)

Sidney B. Sperry - longtime BYU religion professor and author

Moses Thatcher - Apostle of the LDS Church (1879-1896)

Barbara W. Winder - President of the Relief Society of the LDS Church (1984-1990)

Joseph B. Wirthlin - Apostle of the LDS Church (1986-2008)

Science and engineering

Robert Adamson - computer scientist; developed Gener/OL, one of the first interpretive languages

Alan Ashton - computer scientist; co-founder of WordPerfect and Thanksgiving Point

Brian A. Barsky - professor at the University of California, Berkeley, working in computer graphics, geometric modeling, optometry, and vision science

Jim Blinn - computer scientist; MacArthur Fellow; known for his work on Carl Sagan's Cosmos documentary and inventing the first method for representing surface textures in graphical images

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw - senior research scientist at The Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, known for his work in the field of artificial intelligence

Bui Tuong Phong - computer scientist; inventor of the Phong reflection model and the Phong shading interpolation method

Jim Clark - computer scientist; entrepreneur; founder of several technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Inc., Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO, and Healtheon

John C. Cook - played a crucial role in establishing the field of ground-penetrating radar

Frank Crow - computer scientist; developed anti-aliasing methods for computer graphics

David Evans - computer scientist and graphics pioneer; co-founder of Evans & Sutherland

Wilbert L. Gore - co-inventor of Gore-Tex fabrics

Henri Gouraud - computer scientist; inventor of Gouraud shading

Ralph Hartley - co-founder of information theory (with Shannon and Hamming); inventor of Hartley transform and Hartley oscillator

Jim Kajiya - computer scientist; developed the frame buffer concept for storing and displaying single-raster images and the rendering equation

Alan Kay - computer scientist; recipient of the Turing Award; credited with the concept of the laptop computer

Martin Newell - computer scientist and graphics pioneer; creator of the Utah Teapot

Calvin Quate - co-inventor of the atomic force microscope

Simon Ramo - father of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

John Warnock - computer scientist; co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc.

Edwin Catmull - co-founder of Pixar

Medicine

T. Brian Callister - physician; health care quality expert

R Adams Cowley - researcher in emergency medicine; pioneer in shock trauma treatment

William DeVries - performed the first successful permanent artificial heart implant

Robert Jarvik - inventor of the artificial heart

Russell M. Nelson - physician and cardiothoracic surgeon; Apostle of the LDS Church

Cecil O. Samuelson - former president of Brigham Young University

Ellis Reynolds Shipp - one of the first female doctors in Utah

Media

T. C. Christensen - Mormon filmmaker

Laura Chukanov - Miss Utah USA 2009

Keene Curtis - stage, film and television actor

Shia Kapos - senior reporter and columnist, Crain's Chicago Business, http://www.ChicagoBusiness.com/kapos

Joseph Kearns - radio, film and television actor

Mills Lane - television judge; boxing referee

Bill Marcroft - radio and television broadcaster; former play-by-play radio announcer for the Utah Utes

Bronzell Miller - actor, NFL player

George Ouzounian, aka Maddox - humorist (attended but did not graduate)

Holly Rowe - sideline reporter for ESPN

Bob Trumpy - former NFL tight end; current sports broadcasting color commentator

Farhang Holakouee - host of popular Iranian radio programs

Education

Merrill J. Bateman - President of Brigham Young University (1996-2003); LDS general authority

Milton Bennion - longtime dean of the school of education

Stanford Cazier - President of California State University, Chico (1971-1979) and Utah State University (1979-1992)

G. Homer Durham - President of Arizona State University (1960-1969); professor and administrator at the University of Utah; and LDS general authority

Teppo Felin - Professor at the University of Oxford

Kathleen Flake - chair of Mormon studies at the University of Virginia

Lily Eskelsen García - vice-president of the National Education Association

Gordon Gee - has been the president of more universities than any other American

Ann Weaver Hart - first female president of Temple University

Francis Longstaff - finance academic

Sterling M. McMurrin - former E.E. Erickson Professor of Philosophy and U of Utah administrator; U.S. Commissioner of Education; Mormon philosopher

Darron Smith

Steven C. Wheelwright - President of Brigham Young University-Hawaii (2007-)

O. Meredith Wilson - President of the University of Oregon (1954-1960) and the University of Montana (1960-1967)

Business

Pete Ashdown - CEO of XMission

Alan Ashton - co-founder of WordPerfect Corp.

Nolan Bushnell - founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese

Edwin Catmull - co-founder of Pixar

Robert L. Chambers - founder and CEO of Envirotech

Dave Checketts - businessman, founder of Sports Capital Partners (attended but did not graduate)

James H. Clark - founder, Silicon Graphics

Stephen R. Covey - business author, consultant

Spencer Eccles - Utah financier and influential philanthropist

Dan Farr - entrepreneur, co-founder of Salt Lake Comic Con

Kendall Garff - founder of Garff Automotive

J. Willard Marriott - founder, Marriott International

J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr. - Chairman of Marriott International

Gretchen W. McClain - CEO of Xylem Inc.

Robert A. "Bob" McDonald - CEO of Procter & Gamble

David Neeleman - JetBlue founder, chairman and former CEO (attended but did not graduate)

Obert C. Tanner - founder of O.C. Tanner Co.; philanthropist; academic philosopher

John Warnock - co-founder of Adobe Systems

Athletics

Jamal Anderson - former NFL running back

Mike Anderson - former NFL running back and 2002 NFL Rookie of the Year

Marv Bateman - former NFL punter

Zane Beadles - Jacksonville Jaguars offensive lineman

Daria Bijak - German gymnast; four-time German World Championships team member (2002, 2003, 2005, 2006); 2008 Olympic Team member

Andrew Bogut - NBA center, most recently with the Cleveland Cavaliers; 1st overall pick in the 2005 NBA Draft; left early for the NBA and did not graduate

Anthony Brown - NFL offensive lineman

Blake Burdette - USA Rugby; current member of the United States National Rugby Team; four-time All-American at Utah

Josh Burkman - former football player; current mixed martial artist formerly with World Series of Fighting and Ultimate Fighting Championship

Jerry Chambers - former NBA player; NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player in 1966

Tom Chambers - former NBA all-star

Norm Chow - college football coach Utah, offensive coordinator; NCAA All-America honorable mention as an offensive line

Michael Doleac - NBA player; AP All-American Honorable Mention and GTE First Team Academic All-American

Andre Dyson - NFL defensive back

Kevin Dyson - former NFL wide receiver

Luther Elliss - former NFL defensive lineman

Charlie Evans - former NFL running back

Manny Fernandez - former NFL player for the Miami Dolphins defensive lineman

Arnie Ferrin - former NBA player, four-time NCAA All-American

Marv Fleming - NFL tight end, first player in NFL history to play in 5 Super Bowls

Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala - former NFL running back

Jordan Gross - former NFL offensive lineman

Manny Hendrix - former NFL cornerback

Alan Holmes - All-American basketball player

Jack Johnson - former NFL offensive tackle

Jeff Judkins - former NBA player

John Madsen - wide receiver Oakland Raiders

Billy McGill - All-American basketball player and NBA

Andre Miller - NBA guard for the Washington Wizards, NCAA All-American

Scott Mitchell - back-up quarterback to Dan Marino on the Miami Dolphins and later started at QB for the Detroit Lions

Charles K. Monfort - Chairman and CEO of the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball

Hanno Möttölä - former player in the NBA and with many European professional teams

Mike Newlin - former NBA player with the Houston Rockets, New Jersey Nets, and New York Knicks

Terry Nofsinger - NFL quarterback for St. Louis in the 1960s

Jared Norris - NFL linebacker

Ralph Olsen - former NFL defensive end

Tenny Palepoi - NFL defensive end

Jakob Pöltl - Toronto Raptors center/forward; left early for the NBA and did not graduate

Ashley Postell - gymnast; balance beam champion; 2002 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Debrecen, Hungary

Aldo Richins - NFL wingback. First Mexican to play in the NFL

Jeff Rolan - 1975 NCAA swimming champion, 100 yard butterfly

Dick Romney - member of the College Football Hall of Fame

Nelson Eric Rowe Jr. - NFL, Philadelphia Eagles Defensive Back, 2nd round pick 2015

George Seifert - former NFL head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Carolina Panthers

Chris Shelton - MLB baseball player, first baseman

Alex Smith - Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, 1st overall pick in the 2005 NFL Draft

Dave Smith - former NFL running back

Kim Smith - Sacramento Monarchs, four-Time Mountain West Conference Player of the Year, 13th pick of 2006 WNBA Draft

Steve Smith Sr. - former NFL wide receiver

Paul Soliai - NFL defensive tackle

Bill Spencer - American biathlete who competed at the 1964 and 1968 Winter Olympics

Shona Thorburn - Minnesota Lynx 7th overall pick of 2006 WNBA Draft

Keith Van Horn - former NBA player

Danny Vranes - former NBA player

Tom Wallisch - newschool skier; winner of the Dumont Cup 2009; SuperUnknown 2007 and AFP World Champion (Men's Slopestyle)

Eric Weddle - safety for the San Diego Chargers

Larry Wilson - NFL Hall of Fame member; All-Pro free safety

Delon Wright - Toronto Raptors guard

Criminal

Ted Bundy - notorious serial killer; briefly attended Utah's law school prior to his 1975 arrest and conviction for kidnapping

Music and entertainment

Peter Breinholt - folk recording artist

Dan Farr - co-founder of Salt Lake Comic Con and technology entrepreneur

Kaskade, born Ryan Raddon - DJ

Steven Sharp Nelson - cellist, member of The Piano Guys

Josh Rosenthal - performing singer/songwriter

Science and engineering

Ralph V. Chamberlin - taxonomist; former Dean of U of U's College of Medicine

Stephen David Durrant - mammalogist specializing in rodents of the Great Basin

David C. Evans - founder of the computer science department at the university; graphics pioneer and co-founder of Evans & Sutherland

Henry Eyring - theoretical chemist; twenty-year dean of the graduate school

Stephen Jacobsen - distinguished professor and founder of Sarcos, a robotics company that is now part of Raytheon

Joseph F. Merrill - first native Utahn to receive a PhD; first principal of the College of Engineering

Thomas J. Parmley - physics professor and chair of the department

Suhas Patil - computer scientist; entrepreneur; founder of Cirrus Logic, a fabless semiconductor company

Peter Stang - editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society; recipient of the National Medal of Science

Thomas Stockham - founder of Soundstream Inc., one of the experts selected to investigate President Richard Nixon's White House tapes

Ivan Sutherland - winner of the Turing Award in 1988 for Sketchpad; co-founder of Evans and Sutherland

Medicine

Mario Capecchi - 2007 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

Erik M. Jorgensen - Head of Jorgensen Lab and University of Utah Brain Institute; lead researcher in the genetics field

Willem Johan Kolff - pioneer of hemodialysis and in the field of artificial organs

Russell M. Nelson - physician and cardiothoracic surgeon; Apostle of the LDS Church

Stefan M. Pulst - Chairman of the Department of Neurology at the University of Utah; chair of the science committee of the American Academy of Neurology

Wolfram Samlowski - oncologist; former director of the Translational Research, Multidisciplinary Melanoma Program at the Huntsman Cancer Institute

Humanities

Jan Harold Brunvand - Emeritus Professor of English; folklorist and urban legends researcher

Lyle Campbell - linguist and leading expert on American Indian languages, Leonard Bloomfield Book Award winner

Paul G. Cassell - former United States federal judge

William Henry Chamberlin - philosopher and theologian; alumnus

Charles E. Dibble (1909–2002) - Distinguished Professor of Anthropology (1939–78), Mesoamericanist scholar

Jesse D. Jennings - archaeologist and anthropologist

Willis W. Ritter - former United States federal judge

Ronald Smelser - professor of history, Holocaust educator and author of The Myth of the Eastern Front

Economics

Minqi Li - renowned political economist

E. K. Hunt - Emeritus Professor of Economics; expert on political economy; author of History of Economic Thought: A Critical Perspective

Sports

Greg Marsden - current coach of the women's gymnastics team

Kyle Whittingham - current coach of the football team

Other

Maud Babcock - first female member of the university's faculty

E. Keith Eddington - artist and graphic designer