Who are some famous people from Wayne county Utah?

Answer 1

One famous person from Grand County is Lenny Walterscheid. He went to high school in Moab and played for the Chicago Bears.

Answer 2

Allen Taylor, died Dec 5 1891 in Loa, age 77. Appointed Captain of a Hundred in the Brigham Young Company of 1848, in which he led 597 people across the plains to the Salt Lake Valley. The following year, in 1849, he led his own company of 446 people across the plains.

Answer 3

Adams, Maude

Allred, Corbin

Ashby, William Hal

Actress

Actor

Film Director, Academy Award

(B)

Baer, Parley

Bennion, Lowell L.

Borzage, Danny

Actor

Author/Educator/philosopher

Actor

Bangerter, Norman H.

Black Hawk

Borzage, Frank

Governor

Warrior/Chief

DirectorActor

Barr, Roseanne

Blood, Henry H.

Bradley, Shawn

Actress

7th Governor

Basketball

Bennett, Robert F.

Bosone, Reva Beck

Brimley, Wilford

U.S. Senator (Four-term)

1st Congresswoman

Actor

Bennett, Wallace F.

-

*Browning, J. Moses

U.S. Senate (1951-75)

-

Inventor, firearms

(C)

Cassidy, Butch

Christensen, William F.

Curtis, Keene

Leroy Parker (Outlaw)

American Ballet

Actor

Chambers, Tom

Cook, Melvin A.

Stephen R. Covey

Basketball

Explosives

Author/Speaker

(D)

Dallin, Cyrus Edwin

Davis, Matthew

De Voto, Bernard

Sculptor

Actor

Writer

Dansie, Tucker

Day, Laraine

Ducoto, Andrew

Actor, Director, Writer

Actress

Actor

(E)

Eccles, Marriner

-

Edwards, LaVell

First Security

-

Football Coach

(F)

Farnsworth, Philo T.

Fletcher, Harvey

Fraughton, Edward J.

Television

Physicist

Inventor/Sculptor

Fairbanks, Avard

Foley, Steffani

Frear, Jon

Actor/Model/Author

Fugit, Patrick

Sculptor

-Actress

Actor

Fitch, Maud

-

Fullmer, Gene

WWI Ambulance Driver

-

Boxer

(G)

Garn, Jake

Geary, Anthony

Gilbert, John

Senator/Astronaut

Actor

Actor

-

Heber J. Grant

-

-

LDS Church President

-

(H)

Hatch, Orrin

Hinckley, Gordon

Huntsman, Jon M.

United States Senator

15th LDS Prophet

Chemicals

Held, John Jr.

Hough, Julianne

Hutchins, Colleen

Illustrator

Singer, Actress, Dancer

Miss America

(J)

-

Jenkins, Ab

-

-

Land Speed Record

-

(K)

Kearns, Joseph

-

Kimball, Spencer W.

Actor

-

12th LDS President-

(L)

Layne, Rex

Lee, J. Bracken

Lopez, Danny

Boxing

Governor, Mayor

Boxing

-

Lind, Don Leslie

-

-

Astronaut

-

(M)

McKay, David Oman

Miller, Larry H.

Monson, Thomas S.

LDS Pres., Civic Leader

Business Man

16th LDS Prophet

Marriott, Daniel David

Monson, David Smith

Morrison, Walter Frederick

House of Reps.

Statesman

Inventor of the Frisbee

Marriott, J. Willard

-

Moss, Frank E. (Ted)

Hotel Chain

-

U.S. Senator

(N)

-

Nelson, Portia (Betty Mae)

-

-

Actress/Author

-

(O)

Olsen, Merlin

Osmond, Donny

Osmond Family

Football

Singer

Singers

Olsen, Moroni

Osmond, Donny & Marie

Osmond, Marie

Actor

Talk Show Hosts

Singer

Osborn, Kassidy

Osborn, Kelsi

Osborn, Kristyn

Country Music

Country Music

Country Music

(P)

Pocatello

Peterson, Esther

Priest, Ivy Baker

Indian Chief

Consumer Advocate

Treasurer/Eisenhower

(R)

Rampton, Calvin

Richards, Lee G.

Robertson, Leroy

3 Term Dem. Gov

Painter

Composer

Richards, Alma

-

Rosenblatt, Joseph

Athlete

-

Philanthropist

(S)

Scowcroft, Brent

Smith, George Albert

Swain, Mack

Ford-Bush-Nixon

LDS President

Actor

-

Smoot, Reed

-

-

First Native Born Senator

-

(T)

-

Tanner, Obert C.

-

-

Businessman/Professor

-

(W)

Wakara (Walker)

Walker, Robert

Wire, Lester

Indian Chief

Actor

Traffic Light

Wahlen, George Edward

Watkins, Arthur Vivian

Woods, James

Congressional Medal

Statesman

Actor/Producer

-

Windsor, Marie

-

-

Actress

-

(Y)

Young, Loretta

Young, Mahonri

Young, Steve

Actress

Sculptor

Football

Other "Utahns" not born in Utah

Return to: Famous Utahns born in Utah

(A)

Abravanel, Maurice

-

Ashley, William Henry

Director of the Utah Symphony

-

Fur Trader/Politician

(B)

Bamberger, Simon

Benson, Ezra Taft

Brooks, Juanita

Governor

LDS Pres., Ag Sec/Eisenhower

Historian

Bonneville, Benjamin

-

Bridger, James

Explorer

-

Frontiersman

(C)

Cannon, Martha M. Hughes

Connor, Patrick E.

Capecchi, Mario R.

Physician, 1st female senator

Soldier/Father of Utah Mining

Nobel Prize Physiology & Medicine

Cannon, George Q.

-

Carson, Kit

LDS Pres., Statesman

-

Trapper, Scout, Indian Agent, Soldier

(D)

Dempsey, Jack

-

Dern, George H.

Boxer

-

Bussiness, Mining, Politition

(E)

Eccles, David

-

Engen, Alf

First Multimillionaire

-

Skiing

(F)

Fields, Debbie

Fremont, John C.

Friberg, Arnold

Mrs. Fields Cookies

Exprorer

Artist

(G)

Goodyear, Miles

-

Gunnison, John Williams

Mountain Man

-

Explorer/Frontiersman

(H)

Hamblin, Jacob

Hill, Joe

Hoskaninni

Missionary, Homesteader

Folk Hero/Labor Martyr

Indian Chief

-

Hyde, Orson

-

-

LDS Apostle/Pioneer/Statesman

-

(J)

Jackling, Daniel

-

Johnston, Albert S.

Copper Mining

-

Army Soldier

(K)

Kearns, Thomas

Kimball, Heber C.

Knight, Jesse

Silver Mine/Legislator

LDS Apostle

Mining Magnate

-

Kolff, Willem J.

-

-

Artificial Heart

-

(L)

Layton, Christopher

Lee, Harold B.

Lee, John D.

Body Guard-Mormon Battalion

LDS Church President

Mountain Meadow Massacre

(M)

Maeser, Karl G.

Malone, Karl

Matheson, Scott M.

Educator/byu

Basketball

Governor

-

Miller, Johnny

-

-

Golf

-

(N)

-

Nibley, Charles W.

-

-

LDS Pres./Bussiness man

-

(O)

Ogden, Peter Skene

O'Grady, Scott

Ouray

Mountain Man

Heroic Fighter Pilot HAFB

Indian Chief

(P)

Packard, Milan

Pratt, Orson

Pratt, Romania Bunnell

Pioneer/Mining

Explorer/Settler

Opthalmologist

Powell, John Wesley

Pratt, Parley P.

Provost, Etienne

Explorer/Surveyor

Explorer/Settler

Trader-Trapper

(R)

*Redford, Robert

Rockwell, O. Porter

Rove, Carl Christian

Actor/Sundance Institute

Frontiersman

Political Advisor, Commentator

Richards, Willard

Rogers, Aurelia S.

Ruess, Everett

LDS Historian

LDS Primary

Artist, Wilderness Proponent

(S)

Schindler, Harold M.

Smith, Jesse N.

Stansbury, Capt. Howard

Historian/journalist

Pioneer

Civil Engineer

Shipp, Ellis Reynolds

Snow, Erastus

Stegner, Wallace

Early Dr. of Medicine

LDS Apostel

Novelist

Singer, John

Snow, Lorenzo

Stockton, John

Fundamentalist

LDS Prophet

Basketball

Smith, Jedediah S.

Spry, William

Sutherland, George

Trailblazer, Brigade Leader

Governor

Supreme Court

(T)

Talmage, James E.

-

Taylor, John

Educator, Scientist

-

LDS Prophet

(W)

Weber, John Henry

Wells, Sharlene

Widtsoe, John A.

Fur Trade/Trapper

Miss America

Educator, Scientist, Church Leader

Wells, Emmeline B.

-

Woodruff, Wiford

Women's Suffrage Leader

-

Pioneer, LDS Church Prophet

(Y)

-

Young, Brigham

-

-

Pioneer/Statesman

-

Answer 4

What native wildlife is found in duchesne county.

Answer 5

Some famous actors from the state of Utah are Robert Adamson, Parley Baer, and Danny Borzage. Other famous people from Utah are Harvey Fletcher, Roseanne Barr, and Emily Dunn.

Answer 6

Allison Holker is a famous person from Utah, but she is famous outside of Utah as well.

Answer 7

Buch Cassidy is kind of one.

Answer 8

famous people in Uintah county

Answer 9

Lenny walterschied.