100 Notable alumni of
Utah State University
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Utah State University is 541st in the world, 205th in North America, and 188th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Utah State University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Harry Reid
- Enrolled in Utah State University
- Studied in 1961
- Occupations
- politiciancity attorneylawyer
- Biography
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Harry Mason Reid Jr. was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Nevada from 1987 to 2017. He led the Senate Democratic Caucus from 2005 to 2017 and was the Senate Majority Leader from 2007 to 2015.
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Nolan Bushnell
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineerinventorentrepreneur
- Biography
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Nolan Kay Bushnell is an American businessman and electrical engineer. He established Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre chain. He has been inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame, received the BAFTA Fellowship and the Nations Restaurant News "Innovator of the Year" award, and was named one of Newsweek's "50 Men Who Changed America". He has started more than 20 companies and is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. He is on the board of Anti-Aging Games. In 2012, he founded an educational software company called Brainrush, that is using video game technology in educational software.
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Ardeshir Zahedi
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Ardeshir Zahedi, GCVO was an Iranian politician and diplomat who served as the country's foreign minister from 1966 to 1971, and its ambassador to the United States and the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Steven Ford
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Steven Meigs Ford is an American actor, and the youngest son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford and former First Lady Betty Ford. He is perhaps best known for playing Andy Richards in the soap opera The Young and the Restless.
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Ezra Taft Benson
- Occupations
- prophetpolitician
- Biography
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Ezra Taft Benson was an American farmer, government official, and religious leader who served as the 15th United States Secretary of Agriculture during both presidential terms of Dwight D. Eisenhower and as the 13th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1985 until his death in 1994.
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Jaycee Carroll
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jaycee Don Carroll is an American-born naturalized Azerbaijani former professional basketball player. He has also represented the senior Azerbaijani national team. While playing college basketball for the Utah State University Aggies, he was best known for his scoring prowess, shooting ability, shooting range, and endurance. He has the 2nd highest 3 point field goal percentage in NCAA Division I history. He is the Aggies' all-time scoring leader, and also holds 9 other school records. When he finished his college basketball career, he had the 14th most 3 pointers made, and 52nd most points scored in NCAA DI history.
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Neemias Queta
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Neemias Esdras Barbosa Queta is a Portuguese professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He started playing basketball in 2009 for Barreirense and later played college basketball for the Utah State Aggies. A 7-foot-tall (2.1 m), 250-pound (110 kg) center, he was selected with the 39th overall pick in the 2021 NBA draft, being the first Portuguese player ever drafted. He became the first Portuguese player ever to play in the NBA on 17 December 2021. As a reserve with the 2023-24 Boston Celtics, Queta won an NBA championship.
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Donald Penn
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Donald Ward Penn is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Utah State Aggies, and was signed by the Minnesota Vikings as an undrafted free agent in 2006. Penn was also a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Oakland Raiders, and Washington Redskins.
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Larry Correia
- Occupations
- lecturerwriterscience fiction writernovelist
- Biography
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Larry Correia is an American fantasy and science fiction writer, known for his Monster Hunter International, Grimnoir Chronicles, and Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series. He has authored or co-authored over 30 novels, has over 50 published short works, two collections of stories, and has co-edited four published anthologies.
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Chris Stewart
- Enrolled in Utah State University
- In 1984 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- politicianhistorianwriterbusinesspersonbusiness executive
- Biography
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Christopher Douglas Stewart is an American politician, author, and businessman who served as the U.S. representative for Utah's 2nd congressional district from 2013 until his resignation in 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he is known for his bestsellers Seven Miracles That Saved America and The Miracle of Freedom: Seven Tipping Points That Saved the World, as well as his series The Great and Terrible.
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Evan Mecham
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Evan Mecham was an American businessman and the 17th governor of Arizona, serving from January 5, 1987, until his impeachment conviction on April 4, 1988. A decorated veteran of World War II, Mecham was an automotive dealership owner and occasional newspaper publisher.
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Sondhi Limthongkul
- Enrolled in Utah State University
- Graduated with Master of Arts in study of history
- Occupations
- editorpoliticianjournalisttelevision presentercolumnist
- Biography
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Sondhi Limthongkul is a Thai media proprietor, conspiracy theorist, pro-Beijing anti-democracy reactionary activist, demagogue, and leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD). He was elected leader of the New Politics Party (NPP).
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Sam Merrill
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Samuel Hoskins Merrill is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed “Sammy Buckets,” he was drafted with the last pick of the 2020 NBA draft and acquired by the Milwaukee Bucks, with whom he won an NBA championship. He played college basketball at Utah State University (USU).
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Gary E. Stevenson
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Gary Evan Stevenson is an American religious leader and former businessman who is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He served previously as the church's Presiding Bishop and was the fourteenth man to serve in that position. He has been a general authority of the church since 2008. Stevenson was appointed to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in October 2015. Currently, he is the eleventh most senior apostle in the church.
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Hesham Qandil
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Hesham Mohamed Qandil is an Egyptian engineer and civil servant who was Prime Minister of Egypt from 2012 to 2013. Qandil was appointed as prime minister by President Mohamed Morsi on 24 July 2012 and sworn in on 2 August 2012. Qandil previously served as Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation from 2011 to 2012.
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Anthony Calvillo
- Occupations
- Canadian football playerAmerican football player
- Biography
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Anthony Calvillo is an American professional football coach and former quarterback who is currently the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was professional football's all-time passing yards leader from 2011 to 2020, and is first in all-time CFL passing yards. In his career, he passed for 79,816 yards and is one of ten professional quarterbacks to have completed over 400 touchdown passes (the others being Brett Favre, Warren Moon, Peyton Manning, Dan Marino, Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Philip Rivers, Aaron Rodgers, and Ben Roethlisberger). His passing-yards reign ended in 2020 when Brees surpassed his record.
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Lars Peter Hansen
- Occupations
- university teachereconomiststatisticianpedagogue
- Biography
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Lars Peter Hansen is an American economist. He is the David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, Statistics, and the Booth School of Business, at the University of Chicago and a 2013 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
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Matt Wells
- Occupations
- head coachAmerican football player
- Biography
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Matthew Scribner Wells is an American college football coach and former quarterback. He is the associate head coach, co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Kansas State University. Wells previously served as offensive coordinator and then head coach at Utah State University, where he was named Mountain West Conference coach of the year in 2013 and 2018. Wells was named head football coach at Texas Tech University on November 29, 2018, and led the team until his firing midway through the 2021 season. He also served as an offensive analyst at the University of Oklahoma under head coach Brent Venables during the 2022 and 2023 seasons.
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Kit Armstrong
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Kit Armstrong is an American classical pianist, composer, organist, and former child prodigy of British-Taiwanese parentage.
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Boyd K. Packer
- Occupations
- non-fiction writerreligious leader
- Biography
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Boyd Kenneth Packer was an American religious leader and educator who served as president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 2008 until his death. He also served as the quorum's acting president from 1994 to 2008 and was an apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve from 1970 until his death. He served as a general authority of the church from 1961 until his death.
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Paul Rhoads
- Occupations
- head coach
- Biography
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Paul Robert Rhoads is an American football coach. He is currently a Defensive Analyst at Mississippi State University. A long-time major conference assistant coach and head coach, he is best-known for his seven-year tenure as head coach at Iowa State.
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Jaylen Warren
- Enrolled in Utah State University
- Studied in 2019-2020
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Derrell Jaylen Warren is an American professional football running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Snow College, Utah State and Oklahoma State.
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Bruce Jessen
- Enrolled in Utah State University
- In 1974 studied psychology
- In 1979 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in psychology
- Occupations
- psychologistpriestmilitary personnel
- Biography
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John Bruce Jessen is an American psychologist who, with James Elmer Mitchell, created the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" that were used in the interrogation and torture of CIA detainees and outlined in the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's report on CIA torture. In that report, he was mentioned under the pseudonym "Hammond Dunbar." His company, Mitchell Jessen and Associates, earned US$81 million for its work.
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Elizabeth Dowdeswell
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Violet Elizabeth Dowdeswell OC OOnt is a Canadian civil servant who served as the 29th lieutenant governor of Ontario from 2014 to 2023. As lieutenant governor, Dowdeswell was the viceregal representative of the Crown in Right of Ontario. A champion of civil society, environmental protection, inclusive growth and liberal democracy, she is also the longest-serving lieutenant governor in Ontario's history.
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Mike Simpson
- Enrolled in Utah State University
- In 1972 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- dentistpolitician
- Biography
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Michael Keith Simpson is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Idaho's 2nd congressional district since 1999. The district covers most of the eastern portion of the state, including Idaho Falls, Pocatello, Sun Valley, Twin Falls and the northern two-thirds of Boise. A member of the Republican Party, Simpson was first elected to public office in 1984, and was elected to the House in the 1998 elections, succeeding Mike Crapo. He served as Speaker of the Idaho House of Representatives from 1992 to 1998.
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John Dehlin
- Occupations
- psychologisthistorianpodcaster
- Biography
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John Parkinson Dehlin is an American podcast host. He holds a PhD in psychology. Dehlin founded the Mormon Stories Podcast, as well as several other podcasts, blogs, and websites. He was an influential early participant in the "Mormon blogosphere," and blogs at Patheos.com. He advocates for LGBT rights and other views outside mainstream religious culture. In January 2015, Dehlin was excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
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Quentin L. Cook
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Quentin LaMar Cook is an American religious leader and former lawyer and business executive who is currently a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Currently, he is the seventh most senior apostle in the church.
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Dick Motta
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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John Richard Motta is an American former basketball coach whose career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) spanned 25 years. Motta coached the Washington Bullets to the 1978 NBA Championship, and he won the 1971 NBA Coach of the Year Award with the Chicago Bulls. Motta is eighth all-time with 1,952 games as coach, while ranking 13th in wins and fourth in losses; he has the most wins of eligible coaches not currently inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. In 25 seasons as a coach, he reached the postseason fourteen times.
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Chris Cooley
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Christopher Ken Cooley is an American former professional football player who was a tight end for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Utah State Aggies and was selected by the Redskins in the third round of the 2004 NFL draft.
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Gregory C. Carr
- Occupations
- human rights activist
- Biography
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Gregory C. Carr is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. His main philanthropic venture is the restoration of Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park, which has been ravaged by Mozambican Civil War and environmental destruction. He has pledged more than $100 million over 35 years to restore and protect the park's biodiversity, and to assist communities living adjacent to the park with health care, education and agriculture in a public-private partnership with the government of Mozambique.
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Howard Jarvis
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Howard Arnold Jarvis was an American businessman, lobbyist, and politician. He was a tax policy activist responsible for passage of California's Proposition 13 in 1978.
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Kevin Curtis
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Kevin Devon Curtis is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Utah State Aggies and was selected by the St. Louis Rams in the third round of the 2003 NFL draft. He also played for the Philadelphia Eagles, Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs and Tennessee Titans.
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Eric Hipple
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Eric Ellsworth Hipple is an American public speaker and a former professional football player. He played as a quarterback for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Utah State Aggies.
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L. Tom Perry
- Occupations
- religious leader
- Biography
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Lowell Tom Perry was an American businessman and religious leader who was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1974 until his death.
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Hugh B. Brown
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Hugh Brown Brown was an American attorney, educator, author and leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a member of the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and First Presidency. Born in Utah, Brown held both American and Canadian citizenship.
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Sonia Johnson
- Occupations
- writerpolitician
- Biography
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Sonia Ann Johnson, is an American feminist activist and writer. She was an outspoken supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and in the late 1970s was publicly critical of the position of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), of which she was a member, against the proposed amendment. She was eventually excommunicated from the church for her activities. She went on to publish several radical feminist books, ran for president in 1984, and become a popular feminist speaker.
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David B. Haight
- Years
- 1906-2004 (aged 98)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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David Bruce Haight was an American religious leader and an elected official. Haight was the second oldest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He also served as mayor of Palo Alto, California from 1959 to 1963.
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Mary L. Cleave
- Enrolled in Utah State University
- In 1975 graduated with Master of Science in microbial ecology
- In 1979 graduated with doctorate in environmental engineering
- Occupations
- astronautengineer
- Biography
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Mary Louise Cleave was an American engineer and NASA astronaut. She also served from 2005 to 2007 as NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate.
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Freddy Deeb
- Occupations
- poker player
- Biography
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Kassem Ibrahim "Freddy" Deeb is a Lebanese professional poker player.
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Kenny Guinn
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kenneth Carroll Guinn, was an American businessman, academic administrator, and politician who served as the 27th Governor of Nevada from 1999 to 2007. He previously served as interim president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) from 1994 until 1995. Originally a Democrat, he joined the Republican Party before running for governor.
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Rick Bass
- Occupations
- writernovelist
- Biography
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Rick Bass is an American writer and an environmental activist. He has a Bachelor of Science in Geology with a focus in Wildlife from Utah State University. Right after he graduated, he interned for one year as a Wildlife Biologist at the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company in Arkansas. He then went onto working as an oil and gas geologist and consultant before becoming a writer and teacher. He has worked across the United States at various universities: University of Texas at Austin, Beloit College, University of Montana, Pacific University, and most recently Iowa State University. He has done many workshops and lectures on writing and wildlife throughout his career. Texas Tech University and University of Texas at Austin have collections of his written work.
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Bibhu Mohapatra
- Occupations
- costume designerfashion designer
- Biography
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Bibhu Mohapatra is a New York-based fashion designer and costume designer.
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Jim Cantrell
- Occupations
- racing automobile drivermilitary flight engineer
- Biography
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Jim Cantrell is an American entrepreneur, mechanical engineer and road racer. He is the CEO and co-founder of Phantom Space Corporation, which aims to build space transportation technology. After working at the French Space Agency CNES and the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, he worked as an independent consultant to aerospace companies for fifteen years and was on the founding teams of SpaceX and Moon Express. Cantrell was a consultant for SpaceX and Elon Musk's industry mentor when SpaceX launched in 2002.
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Michael W. Mosman
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Michael Wise Mosman is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. He served as Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon from February 1, 2016, to December 23, 2019. He also served a 7-year term on the FISA Court from May 4, 2013, to May 3, 2020. He previously served as the United States attorney for the same district.
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Norah Al Faiz
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Norah bint Abdullah Al Faiz, also spelled Noura Al Fayez, (born 1956) is the first woman to hold a cabinet-level office in Saudi Arabia. She was vice minister of education from 2009 to 2015.
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Spencer Cox
- Enrolled in Utah State University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political science
- Occupations
- businesspersonpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Spencer James Cox is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 18th governor of Utah since 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the eighth lieutenant governor of Utah from 2013 to 2021. In Fairview, Utah, where Cox lives and was raised, he was elected to the city council in 2004 and then as mayor in 2005. In 2008, he was elected as a Sanpete County commissioner.
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Paula Hawkins
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paula Hawkins was an American politician from Florida. She was the first woman to represent Florida in the U.S. Senate, and as of 2025 the only one to be elected to the Senate from Florida. She was the second woman ever elected to the Senate from the American South. She was the first woman in the country to be elected to a full Senate term without having a close family member who previously served in major public office.
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Arthur Cronquist
- Occupations
- botanist
- Biography
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Arthur John Cronquist was an American biologist, botanist and a specialist on Compositae. He is considered one of the most influential botanists of the 20th century, largely due to his formulation of the Cronquist system as well as being the primary co-author to the Flora of the Pacific Northwest, still the most up to date flora for three northwest U.S. States to date. Two plant genera in the aster family have been named in his honor. These are Cronquistia, a possible synonym of Carphochaete, and Cronquistianthus, which is sometimes included as a group within Eupatorium. The former was applied by R.M. King and the latter by him and Harold E. Robinson.
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Wayne Estes
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Wayne Vernon Estes was an American basketball player. He was a 6'6" (1.98 m) All-American forward for the Utah State Aggies from 1962 to 1965. Wayne is the fourth-leading scorer in Utah State history, with 2,001 points and the fourth-leading rebounder (893). He holds school records for career points per game (26.7), free throws made in a career (469), consecutive 10-point games (64), points in a season (821), points per game in a season (33.7), points in a game (52), and rebounds in a game (28). He was the second leading scorer in the nation in 1965, just behind Rick Barry.
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Phil Johnson
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Philip Donald Johnson is a former college basketball player and a former basketball coach. He played college basketball at Utah State University and Weber State, and has coached collegiately at Weber State University.
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Cornell Green
- Occupations
- basketball playerAmerican football player
- Biography
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Cornell M. Green, is an American former professional football player who was a defensive back for 13 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys on the National Football League (NFL). He did not play college football at Utah State University, but was a two-time All-American as a basketball player for the Aggies, selected in the 1962 NBA draft, but not in the NFL draft.
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Ed Decker
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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John Edward "Ed" Decker is an American counterculture apologist, and evangelist known for his studies, books, and public presentations, of the negative aspects of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and Freemasonry.
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Jim Boatwright
- Occupations
- teacherbasketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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James Earl Boatwright was an American-Israeli professional basketball player, basketball coach, and schoolteacher. He won two EuroLeague championships with Maccabi Tel Aviv, in 1977 and 1981, while reaching the EuroLeague Final another time in 1980. In the 1977 final, he led all scorers with 26 points.
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Craig Jessop
- Occupations
- choir directorconductor
- Biography
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Craig D. Jessop is an American academic, musician and singer best known for his tenure as the music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (Choir) from 1999 to 2008.
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Jay Silvester
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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L. Jay Silvester and participated in college athletics at Utah State University from 1956 to 1959 is an American retired athlete who mainly competed in the discus throw. In this event he finished in fourth, fifth, second and eighth place at the 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, respectively, and won a bronze medal at the 1975 Pan American Games.
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Tom Lackey
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Thomas W. Lackey is an American teacher, law enforcement officer and politician currently serving in the California State Assembly. He is a Republican representing the 34th district, encompassing parts of Antelope Valley, Victor Valley, the San Bernardino Mountains, and the High Desert including Barstow and Twentynine Palms to the Nevada state line. Prior to being elected to the state assembly, he served on the Palmdale Elementary School Board and the Palmdale City Council.
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George Piranian
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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George Piranian was a Swiss-American mathematician. Piranian was internationally known for his research in complex analysis, his association with Paul Erdős, and his editing of the Michigan Mathematical Journal.
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Spencer Butterfield
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Spencer Darren Butterfield is an American professional basketball player who last played for Telenet Giants Antwerp of the BNXT League. In 2017 he won the FIBA Europe Cup Championship with Nanterre 92.
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Kelly Poppinga
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Kelly Scott Poppinga is an American football coach and former player. He is the special teams coordinator and defensive ends coach at Brigham Young University (BYU). He is the younger brother of National Football League (NFL) linebacker Brady Poppinga.
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Harold A. Lafount
- Occupations
- businesspersonpriest
- Biography
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Harold Arundel Lafount was an American businessman who served on the Federal Radio Commission from 1927 to 1934. He was the father of Lenore Romney; the father-in-law of businessman and politician George W. Romney; and the maternal grandfather of businessman and politician Mitt Romney.
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Robert J. Shelby
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Robert James Shelby is an American attorney and judge serving as the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah.
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Shang Fa Yang
- Occupations
- biochemistbotanist
- Biography
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Shang Fa Yang was a Taiwanese-American botanist. He was a professor at the University of California, Davis. He was awarded the 1991 Wolf Prize in Agriculture and was elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences the year before.
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Richard H. Stallings
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Richard Howard Stallings is an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Idaho's 2nd congressional district from 1985 to 1993.
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Kerry Rupp
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Kerry Lee Rupp is an American college basketball coach who is currently an assistant coach at Detroit Mercy. Previously, Rupp was head coach at Louisiana Tech from 2007 to 2011.
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Ali Asghar Soltanieh
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Ali Asghar Soltanieh English pronunciation was Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. He served the position from 1982 to 1987 and for a second term in 2006 until 2013.
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Justin Bean
- Occupations
- basketball playermissionary
- Biography
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Justin Barrus Bean is an American professional basketball player for Alba Berlin of the German Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Utah State Aggies.
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Jan Shipps
- Years
- 1929-.. (age 96)
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Jo Ann Barnett Shipps, known as Jan Shipps, is an American historian specializing in Mormon history, particularly in the latter half of the 20th century to the present. Shipps is generally regarded as the foremost non-Mormon scholar of the Latter Day Saint movement, having given particular attention to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Her first book on the subject was Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition published by the University of Illinois Press. In 2000, the University of Illinois Press published her book Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons, in which she interweaves her own history of Mormon-watching with 16 essays on Mormon history and culture.
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Douglas Kent Hall
- Occupations
- photographernovelistpoet
- Biography
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Douglas Kent Hall was an American writer and photographer. Hall was an art photographer and writer of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, essays and screenplays. His first published photographs were of Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison. And in 1974 his first exhibition of photographs was at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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Tipa Galeai
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Tipa Te'i Galeai is an American professional football defensive lineman who is a free agent. He was signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 2020 following his college football career with the TCU Horned Frogs and the Utah State Aggies.
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William Marion Jardine
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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William Marion Jardine was an American administrator and educator. He served as the United States secretary of agriculture from 1925 to 1929 and as the U.S. minister to Egypt from 1930 to 1933.
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George Dewey Clyde
- Occupations
- engineerpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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George Dewey Clyde was an American politician and the tenth governor of Utah, serving two terms from 1957 until 1965 as a Republican.
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Bryan Fletcher
- Occupations
- Nordic combined skierski jumper
- Biography
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Bryan Fletcher is an American former Nordic combined skier who has competed between 2002 and 2018.
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Shaler Halimon
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Shaler Halimon Jr. was an American basketball player. He played five seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA).
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Gary Wilkinson
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Gary Kristopher Wilkinson is an American retired professional basketball player. He played college basketball at Utah State and has played previously for professional teams in Greece, South Korea, New Zealand, Estonia and Puerto Rico.
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Tyler Whitesides
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Tyler Whitesides is an American writer. He is the author of the middle grade fantasy series Janitors. The series is published by Shadow Mountain Publishing.
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K. Gunn McKay
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Koln Gunn McKay was an American politician who represented the state of Utah. He served from January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1981, beginning in the ninety-second Congress and in four succeeding congresses.
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Marneen Fields
- Occupations
- actorstunt performerfilm actorfilm directortelevision actor
- Biography
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Marneen Lynne Fields is an actress, musician, and former stuntwoman. She has appeared in over 150 movies and TV episodes as an actress, stuntwoman, or both. She has been noted as one of the prominent stuntwomen of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Dyar Miller
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Dyar K. Miller is an American former professional baseball pitcher and coach. A graduate of Utah State, Miller pitched 13 seasons in professional baseball between 1968 and 1984, including seven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, California Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, and New York Mets. After his playing career, Miller coached and instructed for 28 seasons (19 in the St. Louis Cardinals organization), mainly in the minor leagues. He most recently served as the Cardinals' bullpen coach in 2012.
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LaDell Andersen
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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LaDell Andersen was an American college and professional basketball coach.
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Frank Thomas Hines
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Frank Thomas Hines was a United States military officer and head of the U.S. Veterans Bureau (later Veteran's Administration) from 1923 to 1945. Hines took over as head of the Veterans Bureau after a series of scandals discredited the agency. He was considered a "man of stern honesty." In response to the scandals, the field service was "centralized to establish strict controls and accountability."
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Thorpe B. Isaacson
- Years
- 1898-1970 (aged 72)
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Henry Thorpe Beal Isaacson was a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), serving as a counselor in the First Presidency to church president David O. McKay from 1965 to 1970.
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James R. Kearl
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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James R. Kearl is the Abraham O. Smoot Professor of Economics at Brigham Young University (BYU) and a principal figure in establishing the BYU Jerusalem Center.
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Jeffrey T. Leek
- Occupations
- data scientist
- Biography
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Jeffrey Tullis Leek is an American biostatistician and data scientist working as a Vice President, Chief Data Officer, and Professor at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He is an author of the Simply Statistics blog, and runs several online courses through Coursera, as part of their Data Science Specialization. His most popular course is The Data Scientist's Toolbox, which he instructed along with Roger Peng and Brian Caffo. Leek is best known for his contributions to genomic data analysis and critical view of research and the accuracy of popular statistical methods.
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Brad Stephan Gregory
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Brad Stephan Gregory holds the Dorothy G. Griffin Collegiate Chair in European History at the University of Notre Dame. After spending the spring 2002 semester as a visiting scholar with the Erasmus Institute at Our Lady's University, Gregory came to Notre Dame in 2003 after teaching at Stanford University, where he received early tenure in 2001. He became a full professor of history at Notre Dame in 2012. Gregory formerly served as the director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Studies, which was founded in 2008, from 2013 to 2019. Together with Randall C. Zachman, Gregory also serves as the North American editor of the Archive for Reformation History.
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Sixto González
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Sixto A. González Edick was the Director of the Arecibo Observatory from September 29, 2003, to September 15, 2006. Arecibo Observatory was an astronomical observatory located in Puerto Rico. At the time of González's directorship Arecibo was the world's largest single dish radio telescope. González was the first Puerto Rican in the position of Director of the observatory.
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Wayne L. Niederhauser
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wayne Larry Niederhauser is an American politician and certified public accountant from Utah. A Republican, he served as a member of the Utah State Senate from 2006 to 2018, representing the state's 9th senate district in Salt Lake County including the cities of Sandy and Draper. From 2013 to 2019, he served as President of the Utah State Senate.
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James C. King
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 79)
- Enrolled in Utah State University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in political science
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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James C. King is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General. A career Military Intelligence officer, he served on active duty from 1968 to 2001. At the time of his retirement he was serving as the Director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, one of the intelligence agencies of the United States Intelligence Community.
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Nate Kaczor
- Occupations
- American football coachcoachAmerican football player
- Biography
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Nate Kaczor is an American football coach who is a special teams analyst at Kansas State. He previously served as the special teams coordinator for the Tennessee Titans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Washington Commanders.
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Sherman P. Lloyd
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherlawyer
- Biography
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Sherman Parkinson Lloyd was an American lawyer and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Utah between 1963 and 1973.
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Howard S. McDonald
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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Howard Stevenson McDonald was an American university administrator, and president of Brigham Young University and California State University, Los Angeles.
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Julia F. Knight
- Years
- 1940s
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Julia Frandsen Knight is an American mathematician, specializing in model theory and computability theory. She is the Charles L. Huisking Professor of Mathematics at the University of Notre Dame and director of the graduate program in mathematics there.
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Laurence J. Burton
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Laurence Junior Burton was a U.S. Representative from Utah.
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Bernard P. Brockbank
- Years
- 1909-2000 (aged 91)
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Bernard Park Brockbank, Sr. was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1962 to his death. Brockbank was an Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve from 1962 to 1976 and a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy from 1976 to 1980. One of his major contributions was heading the Mormon Pavilion at the New York World's Fair in 1964 and 1965.
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Alice McKennis
- Occupations
- alpine skier
- Biography
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Alice McKennis Duran is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. She specializes in downhill and Super-G speed events.
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Russell Lowell Maughan
- Occupations
- fighter pilot
- Biography
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Russell Lowell Maughan was an officer in the United States Army and a pioneer aviator. His career began during World War I, and spanned the period in which military aviation developed from a minor arm of the Army Signal Corps to the huge Army Air Forces on the verge of becoming a separate service.
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Jerry Stevenson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jerry W. Stevenson is an American politician and a Republican member of the Utah State Senate representing District 6 since 2023. Prior to redistricting he represented District 21 following his January 25, 2010 appointment to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Sheldon Killpack. Stevenson was mayor of Layton from 1994 until 2006.
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Bill Staley
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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William Patrick Staley is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end for five years in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He played a total of 49 games, including two seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals and three with the Chicago Bears
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Larry Bunce
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Lawrence Melvin Bunce is an American former professional basketball player. He was drafted in 1967 by the Seattle SuperSonics in the fourth round of that year's NBA draft, but opted to start and end his professional career in the ABA.
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Rosel H. Hyde
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Rosel H. Hyde served as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) twice under the four different presidents. He was chairman from April 18, 1953, to October 3, 1954, and again from June 27, 1966, to October 31, 1969. He was also acting chairman from April 19, 1954 to October 3, 1954 and again from May 1, 1966 to June 26, 1966. He was the first chairman of the FCC to be reappointed and was also the first chairman to be appointed by a president of a different political party.
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ElRay L. Christiansen
- Years
- 1897-1975 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- priestcellist
- Biography
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ElRay LaVar Christiansen was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1951 until his death.
