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This list of University of Utah people includes notable alumni, non-graduate former students, faculty, staff, and former university presidents. The
University of Utah , located in
Salt Lake City ,
Utah , is a
flagship
public
space-grant
research university . The school is notable for having been one of the first four nodes of the
ARPANET and the first node outside of
California , as well as forming the first
computer graphics research group.
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The University of Utah offers more than 100 undergraduate majors and more than 92 graduate degree programs, and includes three professional graduate schools: the
University of Utah School of Medicine , the
David Eccles School of Business , and the
S.J. Quinney College of Law .
[3] The enrollment for 2016 was 23,789
undergraduate and 8,071 graduate students, with 1,505 full-time faculty members and 5,230 staff.
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Notable alumni
Law and government
Ross "Rocky" Anderson –
Mayor ,
Salt Lake City (2000–2008)
Norman H. Bangerter –
Governor of Utah (1985–1993)
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)
Robert Braithwaite – Utah Fifth Circuit Court Judge (1987–2003)
Marsha K. Caddle - Barbados' Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment
Anson Vasco Call II – first Mayor of
Afton, Wyoming ; served nine terms; graduated with the first class in 1875
Adam M. Duncan – founder of the Utah branches of the
ACLU and the
NAACP
William T. Fairbourn – Major General in the Marine Corps
Karl A. Fox – senior staff economist in the
U.S. Council of Economic Advisers (1953–1955),
Fellow of the American Statistical Association
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 (1974–1993), and
Astronaut
Larry Echo Hawk –
Idaho Attorney General (1991–1995), head of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs (2009–2012)
Jon Huntsman Jr. – Governor of Utah (2005–2009),
United States Ambassador to Russia
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)
Herbert B. Maw – Governor of Utah (1941–1949)
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)
Cal Rampton – Governor of Utah (1965–1977)
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
Judy Shelton – economic advisor to
Donald Trump
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
Olene Walker – Governor of Utah (2003–2005)
Heber Manning Wells – Governor of Utah (1896–1905)
Bob Wright – Utah lawyer, Republican gubernatorial candidate in 1980, biographer of David O. McKay
Michael Zimmerman – former
Chief Justice of the
Utah Supreme Court
Patrick Reimherr - Lawyer, Political Advisor to
Ben McAdams and
Tom Perez
Business
Humanities and fine arts
Life and physical sciences
Mathematics
Computer science
Robert Adamson –
computer scientist ; developed Gener/OL, one of the first
interpreted
programming 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
David M. Beazley – author of Python Essential Reference , the
SWIG software tool for creating Python C extensions, and the
PLY parsing tool; fellow of the
Python Software Foundation and two-time awardee of the
IEEE Gordon Bell Prize
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
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Edwin Catmull – co-founder of
Pixar
Jim Clark – computer scientist;
entrepreneur ; founder of several technology companies, including
Silicon Graphics, Inc. ,
Netscape Communications Corporation ,
myCFO , and
Healtheon
Frank Crow – computer scientist; developed
anti-aliasing methods for computer graphics
Alan L. Davis – computer architect, associate director of the University of Utah School of Computing
Alyosha Efros – computer vision researcher and winner of the
ACM Prize in Computing
David Evans – computer scientist and graphics pioneer; co-founder of
Evans & Sutherland
Olivier Faugeras –
computational neuroscientist and computer vision researcher, member of the
French Academy of Sciences and the
French Academy of Technologies , and recipient of the 2014 Okawa Prize
Justin Frankel – developed
Winamp media player and
gnutella
peer-to-peer network; founder of
Cockos Incorporated , which creates music production and development software such as the
REAPER
digital audio workstation
Henry Fuchs – computer scientist; member of the
National Academy of Engineering
Amy Ashurst Gooch – developed
Gooch shading for
non-photorealistic rendering
Henri Gouraud – computer scientist; inventor of
Gouraud shading
Charles D. Hansen – co-editor of
The Visualization Handbook
Paul Hudak – co-designer of the
Haskell programming language
Robert Royce Johnson – computer engineer, inventor of the
Johnson counter , and Utah computer science professor
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
Gordon Kindlmann – developed the
tensor glyph
Miriah Meyer – computer scientist, pioneer in
interactive visualization for
basic research
Martin Newell – computer scientist and graphics pioneer; creator of the
Utah Teapot
Frederic Parke – made the first
3D animation of a human face
Bui Tuong Phong – computer scientist; inventor of the
Phong reflection model and the
Phong shading interpolation method
Jim Waldo – lead software architect of
Jini , CTO of
Harvard University
John Warnock – computer scientist; co-founder of
Adobe Systems Inc.
Telle Whitney , CEO and President of the
Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
Engineering
Medicine
Media
Education
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
Golden State Warriors ; first overall pick in the
2005 NBA draft ; left early for the NBA and did not graduate
Garett Bolles -
Denver Broncos
offensive lineman
Anthony Brown – NFL
offensive lineman
Carlon Brown - basketball player, 2013-14
top scorer in the Israel Basketball Premier League
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
Will Clyburn - professional basketball player, 2016
top scorer in the Israel Basketball Premier League , 2019
EuroLeague Final Four MVP
C. J. Cron –
MLB first baseman
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
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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
Scott Garson – college basketball coach
Jordan Gross – former NFL
offensive lineman
Dominique Hatfield – NFL
defensive back
Manny Hendrix – former NFL
cornerback
Brian Johnson NFL and College Football coach
Jack Johnson – former NFL
offensive tackle
Jeff Judkins – former
NBA player
Kyle Kuzma –
Washington Wizards forward
Hilary Lindh –
FIS Alpine World Ski Champion and
1992 Winter Olympic medalist
Joe Machnik –
National Soccer Hall of Fame ,
Fox Sports broadcaster
John Madsen – wide receiver
Oakland Raiders
Billy McGill – All-American basketball player and NBA
Andre Miller – Former NBA guard,
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 – former NFL
linebacker
Sean O'Connell –
mixed martial artist
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Ralph Olsen – former NFL
defensive end
Tenny Palepoi – NFL defensive end
Jakob Pöltl –
San Antonio Spurs 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
Dick Romney – member of the
College Football Hall of Fame
George Seifert – former NFL head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Carolina Panthers
Chris Shelton – MLB baseball player, first baseman
Alex Smith – former
Washington Redskins
quarterback , first 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 – biathlete who competed at the 1964 and 1968 Winter Olympics
George Theodore – Played for the
Utes baseball team and earned a
Master of Social Work in 1978
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Shona Thorburn –
Minnesota Lynx seventh overall pick of 2006 WNBA Draft
Dakarai Tucker (born 1994) - basketball player for
Hapoel Haifa of the
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Keith Van Horn – former NBA player
Danny Vranes – former NBA player
Eric Weddle – former safety for the
Los Angeles Rams
Larry Wilson – Pro Football Hall of Fame member; All-Pro free safety
Delon Wright –
Dallas Mavericks guard
Music and entertainment
Religion
Criminals
Notable faculty
Humanities and fine arts
Margaret "Peggy" Battin - Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Ethics
Ellen Bromberg – Distinguished Professor of dance, choreography, and ballet
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
Katharine Coles – third
poet laureate of Utah, director of
Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute
Charles E. Dibble (1909–2002) – Distinguished Professor of Anthropology (1939–78),
Mesoamericanist scholar
Nadja Durbach - Professor of British History, Guggenheim winner
Craig Dworkin - Professor of English, poet, critic, and editor
Leslie Pickering Francis - Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Law
Eric Hinderaker - Professor of Early American History
Scott Jarvis - Professor of Linguistics and expert in lexical diversity
Jesse D. Jennings –
archaeologist and
anthropologist
Dean L. May - (1938-2003) Professor of History
Elijah Millgram - Professor of philosophy former Guggenheim Fellow.
Lance Olsen - Professor, novelist, and poet.
Jacqueline Osherow - Professor and poet.
Sarah Projansky – professor in the department of
film and
media studies and professor in the department of
gender studies
Paisley Rekdal - Professor and poet, currently serving as Poet Laureate of Utah.
Willis W. Ritter – former United States federal judge
Clarice Short – poet and professor of English
Ronald Smelser – professor of history,
Holocaust educator and author of
The Myth of the Eastern Front
Terry Tempest Williams – author, conservationist, and activist
Life and physical sciences
Mathematics
Mladen Bestvina – major contributor to the field of
geometric group theory , fellow of the
American Mathematical Society , three-time medalist at the
International Mathematical Olympiad , and visiting scholar at the
Institute for Advanced Study
Herbert Clemens – two-time
invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians ,
Sloan Fellow , visiting scholar at the
Institute for Advanced Study , and proved that a cubic
three-fold is in general not a
rational variety
Kenneth M. Golden – considered the "Indiana Jones of mathematics" for his work and expeditions to study
polar sea ice , Fellow of the
Explorers Club ,
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , and
American Mathematical Society
Christopher Hacon – fellow of the
American Mathematical Society , received
Cole Prize for work in higher dimensional
birational geometry
Roger Horn – co-developed the
Bateman–Horn conjecture and co-wrote the standard-issue Matrix Analysis textbook with
Charles Royal Johnson
Fern Hunt – member of the Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee of the
US Department of Energy and recipient of the
Arthur S. Flemming Award for Outstanding Federal Service for her work in mathematical biology, stochastic modeling, and parallel computing
James Keener – pioneer in the field of mathematical physiology and cardiology and
SIAM fellow
János Kollár – received
Cole Prize for contributions to the
minimal model program for
threefolds in
algebraic geometry
Graeme Milton – received
SIAM Ralph E. Kleinman Prize for contributions to the field of modeling composite materials,
SIAM fellow , and
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship recipient
Wiesława Nizioł –
Invited Speaker at the 2006
International Congress of Mathematicians
Engineering and computer science
Donald A. Dahlstrom – elected member of the
National Academy of Engineering for his work on liquid-solids separation with the
hydrocyclone
David C. Evans – founder of the
computer science department at the university; graphics pioneer and co-founder of
Evans & Sutherland
Alexandra Illmer Forsythe – author of the first computer science textbook
Anthony C. Hearn – developed the
REDUCE
computer algebra system , co-founder of
CSNET computer network
John M. Hollerbach – editor of the
International Journal of Robotics Research , co-founder of the International Symposium on Robotics Research, and co-inventor of the Utah/MIT dexterous
hand
Stephen Jacobsen – distinguished professor and founder of
Sarcos , a robotics company that is now part of
Raytheon
Christopher R. Johnson – founding director of the
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute , recipient of the
IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award , and recipient of the
Utah Governor's Medal for Science and Technology
Steven Kistler – inventor of
aerogels , the lightest known solid material
Jan D. Miller – distinguished professor in
metallurgical engineering holding over 30 patents on methods for processing
oil sands , resin recovery from Utah coal, and air-sparged
hydrocyclone technology
Elliott Organick – educator considered "the foremost expositor writer of computer science"
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Suhas Patil –
computer scientist ;
entrepreneur ; founder of
Cirrus Logic , a fabless
semiconductor company
John Regehr – developed the C compiler
fuzzer
Csmith , the
Clang C compiler
integer overflow sanitizer, and widely-read blog Embedded in Academia
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
Suresh Venkatasubramanian – developed the notion of
t-closeness in
differential privacy and the widely-read
Geomblog
Anil Virkar –
ISI Highly Cited researcher in
ceramic engineering and
fuel cells , Member of the
National Academy of Inventors and the
National Academy of Engineering
Ling Zang – member of
American Association for the Advancement of Science ,
[19]
National Academy of Inventors ,
[20] Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, USTAR Professor and founder of Vaporsens.
[21] He is serving as the Director Board Of Directors at
Gentex Corporation .
Medicine
Balamurali Ambati – ophthalmologist, child prodigy who wrote a book on AIDS at age 11 and completed his MD at age 17
Brenda L. Bass – distinguished professor of biochemistry focusing on
RNA silencing , Member of the
National Academy of Sciences
Mario Capecchi – 2007
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Susan Horn – pioneer in clinical
biostatistics
Janet Iwasa –
data visualization designer for
molecular processes
Erik M. Jorgensen – lead researcher in the genetics field for finding more than 30 genes involved in synaptic function,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Willem Johan Kolff – pioneer of
hemodialysis and in the field of
artificial organs
Jindřich Kopeček – distinguished professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and bioengineering and pioneer in
drug delivery
Kathi Mooney – distinguished professor of nursing
Russell M. Nelson –
physician and
cardiothoracic surgeon; President of the LDS Church
Richard A. Normann – distinguished professor of bioengineering, inventor of the
Utah Electrode Array interface for studying parallel information processing in
sensory corteces , and co-founder of the
brain implant company
Cyberkinetics which developed
BrainGate
John M. Opitz –
developmental biologist who defined the concept of the developmental field in humans, and discovered and delineated
Smith–Lemli–Opitz syndrome ,
Opitz–Kaveggia syndrome ,
Opitz G/BBB syndrome ,
Bohring–Opitz syndrome , and other autosomal and X-linked conditions
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
Mark Skolnick – founder of
Myriad Genetics
Dixon M. Woodbury – epilepsy researcher, former chairman of the Department of Pharmacology and distinguished professor of Physiology and Pharmacology at the School of Medicine
Shuping Wang (1959–2019) – Medical researcher associated to
HIV in blood collection at Immunology and Pathology, Dermatology, Nephrology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy Labs.
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Economics and political science
Social and behavioral sciences
Sports
Other
University presidents
See also
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