The following is a list of prominent people who were born in the U.S. state of Utah, live in Utah, or for whom Utah is a significant part of their identity.
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- Simon Bamberger â first Democratic governor of Utah; only Jewish governor of Utah
- Dean Baker (born 1958) â macroeconomist
- Lee Barnes (1906âÂÂ1970) â pole vaulter, gold medalist in 1924 Olympics
- Roseanne Barr â comedian, television actress, writer, talk-show host
- Earl W. Bascom (1906âÂÂ1995) â rodeo champion, inventor, artist, sculptor, Utah Sports Hall of Fame inductee
- Bruce Bastian â computer programmer, co-founder of WordPerfect company, philanthropist, on the board of directors of the Human Rights Campaign
- Zane Beadles â lineman for the Jacksonville Jaguars
- Linda Bement (1942âÂÂ2018) â Miss USA and Miss Universe 1960
- Robert Foster "Bob" Bennett â Republican United States senator from Utah
- Ezra Taft Benson â 13th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1985âÂÂ1994; United States Secretary of Agriculture
- Jaime Bergman â actress, model, 1999 Playboy Playmate
- Arnie Beyeler â first base coach for the Boston Red Sox
- Don Bluth (born 1937) â animator
- Frank Borzage â film director and actor
- Reva Beck Bosone â Utah's first female member of Congress
- Elaine Bradley â musician; member of rock band Neon Trees
- Shawn Bradley â former NBA center, one of the tallest players in NBA history
- Stewart Bradley â linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles
- Juanita Brooks â historian and author
- John Moses Browning (1855âÂÂ1926) â firearms designer
- Val Browning (1895âÂÂ1994) â business magnate, philanthropist, and gun innovator
- John Buck (born 1980) â catcher for the Miami Marlins
- Ted Bundy â serial killer who attended the S. J. Quinney College of Law (not born in Utah, but lived there)
- Nolan Bushnell (born 1943) â video game designer, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese
- Jerry Buss (1933âÂÂ2013) â businessman, real estate investor and chemist, owned the Los Angeles Lakers
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- Daniel C. Jackling â founded the Utah Copper Co. in 1903, starting what became the world's largest open-pit mine
- Ken Jennings â 74-time Jeopardy! champion
- Jewel (born Jewel Kilcher, 1974) â singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress, and poet
- Scott Johnson â creator of Extralife webcomic and podcast network Frogpants Studios
- Megan Joy â singer, American Idol Season 8 finalist
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- Dallin H. Oaks â lawyer, jurist, Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Darcy Olsen â president and chief executive officer of the Goldwater Institute
- Merlin Olsen (1940âÂÂ2010) â former NFL football player, actor on Little House on the Prairie and star of NBC's Father Murphy
- Osmond family â family music group The Osmonds
- Alan Osmond (born 1949) â singer
- Donny Osmond (born 1957) â singer, actor, television host
- Jay Osmond (born 1955) â singer
- Jimmy Osmond (born 1963) â singer, actor, businessman
- Marie Osmond (born 1959) â singer, actress, television host
- Merrill Osmond (born 1953) â singer
- Wayne Osmond (born 1951) â singer
- Wayne Owens (1937âÂÂ2002) â attorney, U.S. congressman from Utah
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- Matt Salmon â U.S. representative from Arizona
- Kyle Sampson â former chief of staff and counselor for United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
- Brandon Sanderson â author, selected to complete Robert Jordan's fantasy series The Wheel of Time
- Cael Sanderson â wrestler from Heber City, Utah, gold medalist in the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Harold Schindler (1929âÂÂ1998) â Utah historian
- Dalton Schultz â tight end for the Dallas Cowboys
- Byron Scott â NBA shooting guard; head coach for the New Jersey Nets, New Orleans Hornets, and Cleveland Cavaliers
- Brent Scowcroft â National Security Advisor to presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush
- Ryan Seaman â drummer in the rock band Falling in Reverse
- Jerry Sloan â basketball player, Hall of Fame head coach for the Utah Jazz; longest-tenured coach in American professional sports
- Elizabeth Smart â kidnapped as a girl from her bedroom in Salt Lake City in 2002; child safety activist
- George Albert Smith â 8th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Joseph Fielding Smith â 10th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Lucky Blue Smith (born 1998) â model and drummer
- Reed Smoot â U.S. senator, served almost thirty years in Congress, ten as chairman of the Finance Committee
- Sril â artist
- Wallace Stegner â historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist
- Branden Steineckert â former drummer of The Used, drummer for Rancid
- Stanley Smith Stevens â psychologist; founded Harvard's Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory; credited with Stevens' power law
- John Stockton â Hall of Fame point guard for the Utah Jazz, holds the NBA records for career assists and steals
- Picabo Street â champion alpine ski racer with the U.S. Ski Team
- Xavier Su'a-Filo â guard for the Dallas Cowboys
- Bruce Summerhays â professional golfer; mission president for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Jane Summerhays â actress
- George Sutherland â English-born American jurist and political figure; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, 1922âÂÂ1938
- Kelly Sweet â adult contemporary singer
- May Swenson (1913âÂÂ1989) â poet
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