Famous People that resided or were
born in Utah
Utah Overview
Utah
State Parks
Utah Trivia
Art
Avard Fairbanks sculptor, Provo
Lee Greene Richards painter, Salt
Lake City
Everett Thorpe painter
Edward J. Fraughton, sculptor
Athletics & Sports
Danny Ainge (1959
- ) BYU Basketball star. Former NBA
player/coach.
David Abbott "Ab"
Jenkins
(1883 - 1956) Driving his "Mormon
Meteor", Jenkins set numerous world
automobile speed records on Utah's
Bonneville Salt Flats between 1932 and
1956.
Karl Malone (1963
- ) Utah Jazz Basketball Star.
Dale Murphy (1956
- ) Baseball player who played for the
Atlanta Braves.
Merlin Olsen football player, Logan
Steve Young (1961
- ) Football quarterback who helped the
San Francisco 49ers win three Super Bowl
championships; born in Salt Lake City.
Authors
Bernard De Voto writer, Ogden
Virginia Sorensen author, Provo
Wallace Stegner
(1909 - 1993) Author.
Business
& Finance
Nolan Kay Bushnell
(1915 - ) Computer programmer who
invented the first coin-operated video
game; born in Ogden.
Marriner Eccles
(1890 - 1977) Built First Security
Corp., helped end Great Depression.
Jon Huntsman Sr.
(1937 - ) Philanthropist and state's
most successful entrepreneur.
J. Willard Marriott
(1900 - 1985) Founder of the
Marriott
restaurant and
hotel
chain.
Also founded the A&W restaurant chain.
Brent
Scowcroft business executive and
consultant;
Entertainment
Maurice Abravanel
(1903 - 1993) Music Director of the Utah
Symphony.
Maude Adams actress, Salt Lake City
Roseanne
Barr (1952
- ) Comedian and actress of television’s
Roseanne; born in Salt Lake City.
Frank Borzage film director, producer,
Salt Lake City
Laraine Day actress, Roosevelt
Anthony Geary actor, Coalville
John Gilbert actor, Logan
Donny Osmond (1957
- ) and Marie Osmond (1959 - )
Singers and dancers that starred in the
Donny and Marie Show, brother and
sister; both born in Ogden.
Robert Redford
(1937 - ) Actor and founder of the
Sundance Institute.
Leroy
Robertson composer;
Mack Swain actor, Salt Lake City
Robert Walker actor, Salt Lake City
Marie Windsor actress, Marysville
James Woods actor, Vernal
Loretta Young actress, Salt Lake City
Historic
Robert LeRoy Parker
“Butch Cassidy” (1887-1915?) Famous
outlaw that robbed banks and trains of
the Old West; born in Beaver.
Peter Skene Ogden fur trader,
trapper
Inventors
John Moses Browning
(1855 - 1926) Gun Maker, Ogden
Philo Farnsworth
(1906 - 1971) Inventor of the
television, Beaver
Edwin Jacob (Jake)
Garn (1932 - ) Senator,
Astronaut, Richfield
Edward J. Fraughton,
inventor
Medicine
Barney Clark heart patient, Provo
Politics & Social Leaders
Reva Beck Bosone
(1895 - 1983) Utah's first woman member
of Congress, rights activist.
Edwin Jacob (Jake)
Garn (1932 - ) Senator,
Astronaut, Richfield
Howard A. Jarvis social reformer,
Magna
Orrin Hatch ( 1934
- ) U.S. Senator.
David M. Kennedy government official,
Randolph
David McKay religious leader,
Huntsville
Ivy Baker Priest U.S. treasurer,
Kimberley
Richard Richards GOP chairman,
Ogden
Reed Smoot first Mormon elected to U.S.
Senate, Salt Lake City
Brigham Young
(1801 - 1877) President of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
(Mormons) that brought the first white
settlers to Utah and founded Salt Lake
City; born in Whittingham, born in
Vermont.
