• Maurice Abravanel (1903 - 1993) Music Director of the Utah Symphony.
• Danny Ainge (1959 - ) BYU Basketball star.  Former NBA player/coach.
• Roseanne Barr (1952 - ) Comedian and actress of television’s Roseanne; born in Salt Lake City.
• Reva Beck Bosone (1895 - 1983) Utah's first woman member of Congress, rights activist.
• John Moses Browning (1855 - 1926) Gun Maker.
• 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.

• Philo Farnsworth (1906 - 1971) Inventor of the television.

• Edwin Jacob (Jake) Garn (1932 - ) Senator, Astronaut.

• Orrin Hatch ( 1934 - ) U.S. Senator.

• Jon Huntsman Sr. (1937 - ) Philanthropist and state's most successful entrepreneur.

• 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.

• J. Willard Marriott (1900 - 1985) Founder of the Marriott restaurant and hotel chain.  Also founded the A&W restaurant chain.

• Dale Murphy (1956 - ) Baseball player who played for the Atlanta Braves.

• 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 LeRoy Parker “Butch Cassidy” (1887-1915?) Famous outlaw that robbed banks and trains of the Old West; born in Beaver.

• Robert Redford (1937 - ) Actor and founder of the Sundance Institute.

• Wallace Stegner (1909 - 1993) Author.

• Reed Smoot (1862 - 1941) First Mormon elected to U.S. Senate.

• 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.

• Steve Young (1961 - ) Football quarterback who helped the San Francisco 49ers win three Super Bowl championships; born in Salt Lake City.

More Famous People of Utah

• Maude Adams actress, Salt Lake City
• Frank Borzage film director, producer, Salt Lake City
• Barney Clark heart patient, Provo
• Laraine Day actress, Roosevelt
• Bernard De Voto writer, Ogden
• Avard Fairbanks sculptor, Provo
• Anthony Geary actor, Coalville
• John Gilbert actor, Logan
• Howard A. Jarvis social reformer, Magna
• David M. Kennedy government official, Randolph
• David McKay religious leader, Huntsville
• Peter Skene Ogden fur trader, trapper
• Merlin Olsen football player, Logan
• Ivy Baker Priest U.S. treasurer, Kimberley
• Lee Greene Richards painter, Salt Lake City
• Richard Richards GOP chairman, Ogden
• Roseanne Barr actress, Salt Lake City
• Virginia Sorensen author, Provo
• Mack Swain actor, Salt Lake City
• Everett Thorpe painter
• Robert Walker actor, Salt Lake City
• Marie Windsor actress, Marysville
• James Woods actor, Vernal
• Loretta Young actress, Salt Lake City