List of former or dissident Mormons

This is a list of well-known Mormon dissidents or other members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who have either been excommunicated or have resigned from the church – as well as of individuals no longer self-identifying as LDS and those inactive individuals who are on record as not believing and/or not participating in the church. While the church doesn't regularly provide information about excommunication or resignation, those listed here have made such information public. In a very few cases, the list below may include former adherents of other Latter Day Saint movement denominations who have ceased identifying as members of the Church, as well.

See: List of Latter-day Saints for current members of the LDS Church.

Former and inactive members

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=Artists, actors, and entertainment figures=

Kevin Abstract, rapper, singer-songwriter, director, and founding member of Brockhampton{{Cite web|title=Talking Family with Kevin Abstract|url=https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/video/american-boyband-talking-family-with-kevin-abstract/5953fa86b742e6b35cb607ae|access-date=2020-08-23|website=Viceland|language=en-us|archive-date=2020-10-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027063113/https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/video/american-boyband-talking-family-with-kevin-abstract/5953fa86b742e6b35cb607ae|url-status=live}}
Amy Adams, actress known for roles in Enchanted, Doubt, The Fighter{{cite web |url= http://amyadamsblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/artful-dodger-adams-reveals-just-what.html |title= The artful dodger: Adams reveals just what she wants |last= Parsi |first= Navid |work= Time Out Chicago |date= 6 March 2008 |access-date= 9 April 2012 |archive-date= 6 November 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111106145618/http://amyadamsblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/artful-dodger-adams-reveals-just-what.html |url-status= live }}

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Christina Aguilera is a singer who was raised in an LDS home but Aguilera has not self-identified as Mormon.{{cite book|last1=Govan|first1=Chloe|title=Christina Aguilera|year= 2013|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=9781783050390|pages=5–6, 197|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ojADAwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1|access-date=24 October 2021|archive-date=28 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028022750/https://books.google.com/books?id=ojADAwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Thunell|first1=Pete|title=Here's the skinny on LDS celebrity urban legends|url=http://universe.byu.edu/2000/11/28/column-heres-the-skinny-on-lds-celebrity-urban-legends/|work=Daily Universe|publisher=Brigham Young University|date=28 November 2000|quote=I first heard this one out in New York when a friend told me Aguilera's parents met at BYU and her father was a member out on Staten Island. I did a little research on some of her Web sites (which proved to be pretty embarrassing in the newsroom) and found out her parents' names were Fausto and Shelly. I called up the BYU Alumni Association and found out that a Fausto Aguilera and his wife Shelly were at BYU in 1979. The best address I could find for Fausto was Staten Island which, coincidentally, is where Christina was born in 1980 (according to Rolling Stone, her parents later split up when she was seven). ... "Larry" got me the number of Christina's old home teacher, Tom Duty, back when she was nine and living in Pennsylvania.|access-date=1 July 2020|archive-date=3 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703141535/https://universe.byu.edu/2000/11/28/column-heres-the-skinny-on-lds-celebrity-urban-legends/|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Whitney|first1=Alyse|title=Is Christina Aguilera Mormon? You Asked, We Answered!|url=http://www.wetpaint.com/is-christina-aguilera-mormon-you-asked-we-answered-737894/|work=WetPaint|publisher=FunctionX Inc.|date=22 November 2012|access-date=1 July 2020|archive-date=2 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200702032115/http://wetpaint.com/is-christina-aguilera-mormon-you-asked-we-answered-737894/|url-status=live}}
Corbin Allred, American actor. He starred in the motion picture Saints and Soldiers and the 1997–1998 television series Teen Angel.
David Archuleta, American pop singer{{Cite web |title=David Archuleta on Stepping Back from Mormon Church After Coming Out as Queer: 'I Feel Liberated' |url=https://people.com/music/david-archuleta-steps-back-from-mormon-church-after-coming-out-as-queer/ |access-date=2022-12-01 |website=Peoplemag |language=en}}
Hal Ashby, director of New Hollywood films such as Shampoo and Being There{{cite book |last= Harris |first= Mark |date= 2008 |title= Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood |publisher= Penguin |page= 203 }}
Tal Bachman, son of Randy Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) and Canadian musician known for his 1999 hit song, "She's So High"{{cite web|url=http://www.postmormon.org/exp_e/index.php/pomopedia/My_Abbreviated_Exit_Story/|title=My Abbreviated Exit Story – Post-Mormon Scrapbook|access-date=8 November 2016|archive-date=15 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115051312/http://www.postmormon.org/exp_e/index.php/pomopedia/My_Abbreviated_Exit_Story/|url-status=live}}
Randy Bachman, Canadian musician and founder of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive{{cite web|title=Randy Bachman|publisher=Brigham Young University|url=https://mormonartsstg.lib.byu.edu/people/randy-bachman/}}
Belladonna, American pornographic actress[http://www.oneangrygirl.net/Belladonna.htm Belladonna: A Mormon Girl Gets Her Start in the Adult Movie Business] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090504224923/http://www.oneangrygirl.net/Belladonna.htm |date=2009-05-04 }}.
Dustin Lance Black, screenwriter and producer, 2009 Oscar for Best Screenplay for Milk{{cite magazine| title = Sex, guys, and videotape: 'reality' filmmaker Dustin Lance Black talks about turning the camera on himself—and on five young gay men out for fun—in On the Bus| date = June 25, 2002| magazine = The Advocate| first = Chuck| last = Kim}}
Gutzon Borglum, sculptor most noted for the heads of U.S. presidents on Mount Rushmoreleft the church with his family when they moved to Nebraska; George Thomas Kurian, American Studies Association, Encyclopedia of American studies, Volume 3, 142 (Grolier Educational, Nov 1, 2001){{ISBN?}}
Wilford Brimley, actor known for Cocoon, The Firm, Quaker Oats commercials, and Liberty Medical "diabeetus" meme{{Cite web|url = https://www.deseret.com/1992/10/9/19009564/actor-angry-at-pressure-on-voters|title = Actor Angry at Pressure on Voters|date = 9 October 1992|access-date = 4 May 2020|archive-date = 28 October 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211028022759/https://www.linkedin.com/countserv/count/share?callback=jQuery35108208986810421106_1635388077204&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.deseret.com%2F1992%2F10%2F9%2F19009564%2Factor-angry-at-pressure-on-voters&format=jsonp&_=1635388077205|url-status = live}}
Win Butler, frontman for the band Arcade Fire{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/nov/28/arcade-fire-interview-sean-ohagan |title= Arcade Fire: 'The clichéd rock life never seemed that cool to us' |last= O'Hagan |first= Sean |work= The Observer |date= 27 November 2010 |access-date= 5 April 2012 |archive-date= 13 October 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161013082842/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/nov/28/arcade-fire-interview-sean-ohagan |url-status= live }}
Ed Catmull, animation pioneer and president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation{{cite news |title=Animation pioneer Ed Catmull wants the boss to get out of the way of creativity |last=Harvey |first=Tom |date=April 24, 2017 |newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune |url=https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=5187215&itype=CMSID |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209233726/http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=5187215&itype=CMSID |archive-date=December 9, 2017 |access-date=April 30, 2020}}
Johnny Cunningham, brother of Phil, and member of Silly Wizard{{citation needed|date=November 2012}}
Phil Cunningham, Scottish folk musician,{{cite web |url=http://living.scotsman.com/music/Interview-Phil-Cunningham-.4932184.jp |title= Latest Lifestyle News | the Scotsman|website=living.scotsman.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100512191020/http://living.scotsman.com/music/Interview-Phil-Cunningham-.4932184.jp |archive-date=May 12, 2010}} member of Silly Wizard
Cytherea, American pornographic actress.{{cite web|url=http://lasvegascitylife.com/sections/news/cytherea%E2%80%99s-comeback-rise-and-fall-mormon-girl-who-charted-new-course-adult |title=Cytherea's Comeback|website=lasvegascitylife.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006034935/http://lasvegascitylife.com/sections/news/cytherea%E2%80%99s-comeback-rise-and-fall-mormon-girl-who-charted-new-course-adult?i |archive-date=October 6, 2014|access-date=September 5, 2018}}
Brian Keith Dalton, the creator, producer and main character of Mr Deity. He coined the term "Formon" for "former Mormon" in 1996.{{cite web |url=http://mormonstories.org/?p=1286 |title=205–206 Mr. Deity's Brian Dalton |first=John |last=Dehlin |date=October 20, 2010 |work=Mormon Stories |access-date=22 November 2010 |archive-date=27 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127030032/http://mormonstories.org/?p=1286 |url-status=live }}
Eliza Dushku, actress known for roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Tru Calling, Dollhouse{{cite web|url=http://www.maximonline.com/articles/index.aspx?a_id=4046&src=fc |title=Faith No More |author=Paul Young |date=May 2001 |publisher=Maxim Online |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930180956/http://www.maximonline.com/articles/index.aspx?a_id=4046&src=fc |archive-date=2007-09-30 }}{{Cite news|url=http://www.sltrib.com/topics/1538737-155/dushku-curtis-judy-mormon-buffy-daughter|title=Eliza Dushku of 'Buffy,' 'Dollhouse' shares Comic Con stage with mom|last=McFall|first=Michael|newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune|language=en-US|access-date=2016-10-16|archive-date=2016-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022053232/http://www.sltrib.com/topics/1538737-155/dushku-curtis-judy-mormon-buffy-daughter|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/04/eliza-dushku-mitt-romney-mormon.html|title=Eliza Dushku Recalls Her Childhood Crush on Mitt Romney|newspaper=Daily Intelligencer|access-date=2016-10-16|archive-date=2021-10-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028022749/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/04/eliza-dushku-mitt-romney-mormon.html|url-status=live}}
Richard Dutcher, independent filmmaker and actor known for films God's Army, God's Army 2: States of Grace, Brigham City{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0244756/|title=Richard Dutcher|website=IMDb|access-date=8 November 2016|archive-date=22 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022051901/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0244756/|url-status=live}}
Aaron Eckhart, Golden Globe Award-nominated actor known for roles in Thank You for Smoking, The Dark Knight, Erin Brockovich{{cite magazine |url= https://ew.com/article/2006/03/17/aaron-eckhart-unfiltered/ |title= Aaron Eckhart Unfiltered |last= Kirschling |first= Gregory |date= 17 March 2006 |magazine= Entertainment Weekly |access-date= 5 April 2012 |archive-date= 7 October 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081007204703/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1174151_2,00.html |url-status= live }}
Mindy Gledhill, singer songwriter{{cite web|url=https://wheatandtares.org/2019/01/27/previewing-rabbit-hole-by-mindy-gledhill/|title=Wheat and Tares|date=27 January 2019|access-date=1 Feb 2020|archive-date=1 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200201202949/https://wheatandtares.org/2019/01/27/previewing-rabbit-hole-by-mindy-gledhill/|url-status=live}}{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPfjJb-jXwc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/BPfjJb-jXwc |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|title=Mormon Stories Interview|access-date=1 Feb 2020}}{{cbignore}}
Tyler Glenn, lead singer for the American rock band Neon Trees{{Cite news|url=http://www.mormonstories.org/tylerglenn|title=631–633: Tyler Glenn of Neon Trees|date=2016-04-14|newspaper=Mormon Stories|language=en-US|access-date=2016-10-16|archive-date=2016-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014115519/http://www.mormonstories.org/tylerglenn/|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/arts/music/popcast-tyler-glenn-gay-mormon-excommunication.html|title=Popcast: Tyler Glenn, a Gay Mormon Pop Star at the Crossroads|last=Ganz|first=Caryn|date=2016-10-07|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-10-16|archive-date=2017-10-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005101710/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/arts/music/popcast-tyler-glenn-gay-mormon-excommunication.html|url-status=live}}
Ryan Gosling, Academy Award-nominated actor known for roles in Half Nelson, The Notebook, Drive{{Cite web|url=http://www.beliefnet.com/entertainment/movies/2007/10/in-love-with-a-real-doll?p=2|title=In Love with a Real Doll|website=www.beliefnet.com|access-date=2016-10-16|archive-date=2016-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019022928/http://www.beliefnet.com/entertainment/movies/2007/10/in-love-with-a-real-doll?p=2|url-status=live}}
Leigh Harline, Hollywood composer, known most notably for "When You Wish Upon a Star""When You Wish Upon A Star: The Musical Legacy of Utah Composer Leigh Harline". Sandra Dawn Brimhall and Dawn Retta Brimhall. Utah Historical Quarterly. Vol. 85, no. 2 ,
Annette Haven, American former pornographic actress{{Cite web|url=http://www.annettehaven.net|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306080757/http://www.annettehaven.net/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-03-06|title=Annette Haven |date=2012-03-06|access-date=2018-07-21}}
Katherine Heigl, American actress{{Cite news|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865615597/Katherine-Heigl-talks-primetime-premiere-motherhood-Mormon-roots-and-Utah-home.html|title=Katherine Heigl talks primetime premiere, motherhood, Mormon roots and Utah home|last=Eyring|first=Emily|date=2014-11-17|newspaper=DeseretNews.com|access-date=2016-10-17|archive-date=2016-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018211546/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865615597/Katherine-Heigl-talks-primetime-premiere-motherhood-Mormon-roots-and-Utah-home.html|url-status=dead}}
Jessica Holmes, Canadian comedian[http://www.vistamagonline.com/articles/page.php?s=jessica_holmes Interview with Vista Magazine]{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Julianne Hough, dancer, actress, singer, songwriter {{cite web |title=Celebrities Who Grew Up Mormon and Revealed Their Experiences |first=Sara |last=Donnellan |date=February 7, 2023 |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/stars-who-grew-up-mormon-what-theyve-said-about-the-church |website=Us Weekly}}/
Neil LaBute, playwright{{cite web|url=http://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php?p=1873|title=An Interview with Neil LaBute|date=19 January 2005|access-date=8 November 2016|archive-date=28 September 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928014410/http://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php?p=1873|url-status=live}}
Bert McCracken, of the rock band The Used{{Cite web|url=http://loudwire.com/the-used-bert-mccracken-past-present-future|title=The Used's Bert McCracken on Time, Philosophy + More|website=Loudwire|date=12 March 2014 |access-date=2016-10-16|archive-date=2019-04-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416025931/https://loudwire.com/the-used-bert-mccracken-past-present-future/|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1456134/now-that-the-used-are-no-longer-using-life-is-unreal|title=Now That The Used Are No Longer Using, Life Is 'Unreal'|newspaper=MTV News|access-date=2016-10-16|archive-date=2018-10-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002201927/http://www.mtv.com/news/1456134/now-that-the-used-are-no-longer-using-life-is-unreal/|url-status=dead}}{{Cite news|url=http://fasterlouder.junkee.com/the-useds-bert-mccracken-im-brave-courageous-courteous-careful-loyal-thrifty-and-kind/837297|title=The Used's Bert McCracken: 'I'm brave, courageous, courteous, careful, loyal, thrifty and kind'|date=2014-04-24|newspaper=FasterLouder|language=en-US|access-date=2016-10-16|archive-date=2016-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018220024/http://fasterlouder.junkee.com/the-useds-bert-mccracken-im-brave-courageous-courteous-careful-loyal-thrifty-and-kind/837297|url-status=dead}}
David Petruschin is a drag queen with the stage name "Raven" and was raised Mormon.{{cite news|last1=Hollenbach|first1=Shawn|title=Devout Mormon Mother Speaks About Her Drag Queen Son|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/shawnh5/devout-mormon-mother-speaks-about-her-drag-queen-s-3re8|work=BuzzFeed|date=16 August 2011|access-date=1 July 2020|archive-date=1 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701233536/https://www.buzzfeed.com/shawnh5/devout-mormon-mother-speaks-about-her-drag-queen-s-3re8|url-status=live}}
Sue-Ann Post, Australian comedian{{Cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/stories/s1582425.htm?sydney |title=ABC (Australia) |website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=2008-01-25 |archive-date=2007-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311130815/http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/conversations/stories/s1582425.htm?sydney |url-status=live }}
Kevin Rahm, actor known for his television roles as Kyle McCarty on Judging Amy, Lee McDermott on Desperate Housewives, and Ted Chaough on Mad Men{{cite web|url=http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/53107914-80/rahm-desperate-housewives-lee.html.csp|title=Kevin Rahm would like to go out in 'Desperate' glory|publisher=The Salt Lake City Tribune|access-date=2017-08-05|archive-date=2016-03-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325074348/http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/53107914-80/rahm-desperate-housewives-lee.html.csp|url-status=live}}
Dan Reynolds (singer), singer for rock band Imagine Dragons{{Cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/imagine-dragons-dan-reynolds-talks-privilege-lgbtq-rights-mental-health-and-why-society-is-broken-173257409.html|title=Imagine Dragons' Dan Reynolds talks privilege, LGBTQ rights, mental health, and why 'society is broken'|date=8 January 2020 |access-date=2020-09-11|archive-date=2020-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200911172608/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/imagine-dragons-dan-reynolds-talks-privilege-lgbtq-rights-mental-health-and-why-society-is-broken-173257409.html|url-status=live}}
Wayne Sermon, guitarist for rock band Imagine Dragons{{Cite web|url=https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast/wayne-and-alex-sermon-our-journey-with-imagine-dragons-and-mormonism/|title=1181–1185: Wayne and Alex Sermon - Our Journey with Imagine Dragons and Mormonism|date=7 October 2019 |access-date=2020-05-08|archive-date=2020-09-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918141714/https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast/wayne-and-alex-sermon-our-journey-with-imagine-dragons-and-mormonism/|url-status=live}}
Will Swenson, actor and singer{{Cite web |title=Hair's Will Swenson on Pantsless Acting and His Former Career in LDS Cinema |last=Milzoff |first=Rebecca |date=March 31, 2009 |url=https://www.vulture.com/2009/03/hairs_will_swenson_on.html |access-date=November 9, 2023 |website=Vulture |quote=I don't practice Mormonism at all anymore, but I grew up in a Mormon family.}}
Brendon Urie, of rock band Panic! at the Disco{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/panic-at-the-disco-s-frontman-brandon-urie-on-enthusiasm-being-a-mormon-sinatra-and-his-one-man-band-a6911286.html|title=Panic! At The Disco's frontman on being the only original member left|date=2016-03-04|newspaper=The Independent|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-10-16|archive-date=2017-03-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317151907/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/panic-at-the-disco-s-frontman-brandon-urie-on-enthusiasm-being-a-mormon-sinatra-and-his-one-man-band-a6911286.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=http://davidatlanta.com/2014/08/out-to-win-panic-at-the-disco-frontman-brendon-urie-takes-on-westboro-talks-gay-past-and-lapsed-mormonism|title=Out to Win: Panic! at the Disco frontman Brendon Urie takes on Westboro, talks 'gay' past and lapsed Mormonism – David Atlanta|website=davidatlanta.com|access-date=2016-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019155027/http://davidatlanta.com/2014/08/out-to-win-panic-at-the-disco-frontman-brendon-urie-takes-on-westboro-talks-gay-past-and-lapsed-mormonism/|archive-date=2016-10-19|url-status=dead}}
Janet Varney, American actress and podcasterThe JV Club #29: nerdist.com/the-jv-club-29-cara-santa-maria/
Paul Walker, actor known for role in The Fast and the Furious film series{{cite web |url= http://www.chacha.com/question/is-paul-walker-a-member-of-the-latter-day-saints-church |title= Is Paul Walker a member of the Latter-day Saints' church? |work= ChaCha.com |access-date= 9 April 2012 |archive-date= 21 October 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131021194609/http://www.chacha.com/question/is-paul-walker-a-member-of-the-latter-day-saints-church |url-status= live }}
Alex Winters, BBC children's TV presenter{{Cite news|url=http://www.mormonstories.org/alex-winters|title=669-670: How U.K./BBC TV Star Alex Winters (CBeebies) Lost his Mormon Faith – Mormon Stories|work=Mormon Stories|access-date=2018-07-21|language=en-US|archive-date=2017-10-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013221308/http://www.mormonstories.org/alex-winters/|url-status=live}}
La Monte Young, composer and musician.{{cite web |title=Questions about La Monte Young, music, and mysticism |url=https://blog.oup.com/2012/04/q-and-a-la-monte-young-music-mysticism-grimshaw/ |website=OUPblog |language=en |date=10 April 2012}}
Mahonri Young, sculptor and grandson of Brigham YoungMahonri Young: His Life and Art; Thomas Toone, Signature Books, 1997
Warren Zevon, singer/songwriter{{cite journal|last1=Fricke|first1=David|title=Warren Zevon and the Art of Dying|journal=Rolling Stone|date=November 28, 2002|issue=910|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/warren-zevon-and-the-art-of-dying-20021128|access-date=5 May 2016|archive-date=5 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505033636/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/warren-zevon-and-the-art-of-dying-20021128|url-status=live}}

=Business figures=

Bruce Bastian, businessman and philanthropist, co-created WordPerfect software.
Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. CheeseLearmouth, Michael (September 16, 1999). "No Pain, No Game". Metro. Retrieved 7 June 2015
George S. Eccles, CEO of First Security Bank and philanthropist{{Cite web|url=http://signaturebookslibrary.org/leaving-the-fold-01/|title=Leaving the Fold – 01 ||access-date=2020-05-05|archive-date=2020-04-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430065620/http://signaturebookslibrary.org/leaving-the-fold-01/|url-status=live}}
Marriner Eccles, CEO of First Security Bank and Chairman of the Federal Reserve SystemBeckoning Frontiers: Public and Personal Recollections. Marriner Eccles. Alfred Knopf, 1951.{{ISBN?}}{{page?|date=February 2025}}
Jim Jannard, sunglasses designer and founder of Oakley, Inc.{{Cite web|url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-16-tm-38675-story.html|title = A trip to Planet Oakley|website = Los Angeles Times|date = 16 March 1997|access-date = 2020-05-29|archive-date = 2020-12-02|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201202044926/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-16-tm-38675-story.html|url-status = live}}
Bryan Johnson (entrepreneur), Founder of Braintree, Venmo and Kernel
Wilson McCarthy, head of the Denver & Rio Grande RailroadBagley, Will. Always A Cowboy: Judge Wilson McCarthy and the Rescue of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. Salt Lake City [Utah]: University of Utah Press, 2008. {{ISBN?}}{{page?|date=February 2025}}

=Sports figures=

Merlin Olsen, NFL star turned TV star {{Cite web|url=https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2010/03/about-merlins-mormonism |title=About Merlin's Mormonism... |website=getreligion.org |date=March 15, 2010 |access-date=December 1, 2022}}
Mark Schultz (wrestler), Olympic Wrestling Champion.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9iA77Sx2JI|title=Olympic Champion Wrestler Mark Schultz Leaves Mormonism {{!}} Mormon Stories Podcast|last=Dehlin|first=John|website=youtube.com|date=28 December 2022 |language=en|access-date=2022-12-29}}
Benji Schwimmer, the winner of the 2006 So You Think You Can Dance show.

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=Scholars=

Wayne C. Booth, American literary critic and professor of English{{citation |title= Confessions of an Aging, Hypocritical Ex-Missionary |first= Wayne C. |last= Booth |journal= Sunstone |date= March 1998 |pages= 25–36 |url= https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/109-25-36.pdf |access-date= 2014-10-22 |archive-date= 2016-03-04 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304130751/https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/109-25-36.pdf |url-status= live }}
Paul D. Boyer, biochemist and Nobel Laureate{{cite web|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|url=https://www.nasonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/boyer-paul.pdf|page=2|title=Paul Delos Boyer|last1=Clarke|first1=Steven G.|last2=Eisenberg|first2=David S.}}
William Jasper Kerr, president of Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University) from 1907 to 1932{{cite web | author=Tom Bennett | author2=George Edmonston Jr. | title=Chapter 19: 'An odd mix of triumph and embarrassment'... Kerr begins his presidency | work=Carry Me Back: A History of Oregon State University (1856–1999) | publisher=Oregon State University Alumni Association | date=October 26, 2001 | url=http://www.osualum.com/s/359/index.aspx?sid=359&gid=1&pgid=532 | access-date=2014-07-17 | archive-date=2014-07-24 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724051714/http://www.osualum.com/s/359/index.aspx?sid=359&gid=1&pgid=532 | url-status=live }}
Spencer L. Kimball, dean of the University of Utah law school, son of Mormon prophet Spencer W. Kimball{{citation | first = Edward L. | last = Kimball | authorlink=Edward L. Kimball | title = Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball | year = 2005 | location = Salt Lake City | publisher = Deseret Book | page=75}}
Kip Thorne, theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate{{cite web|author1=Rory Carroll|title=Kip Thorne: physicist studying time travel tapped for Hollywood film|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jun/21/kip-thorne-time-travel-scientist-film|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited|access-date=30 October 2014|date=21 June 2013|quote=Thorne grew up in an academic, Mormon family in Utah but is now an atheist. 'There are large numbers of my finest colleagues who are quite devout and believe in God, ranging from an abstract humanist God to a very concrete Catholic or Mormon God. There is no fundamental incompatibility between science and religion. I happen to not believe in God.'|archive-date=30 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141030060414/http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/jun/21/kip-thorne-time-travel-scientist-film|url-status=live}}
Lynn Wilder, Christian author and former Brigham Young University (BYU) professor who has written an ex-Mormon memoir{{Cite web|url=http://www.unveilingmormonism.com/bio|title=Ex-mormon Christians United For Jesus {{!}} Sharing Biblical truth in love {{!}} Bio|website=www.unveilingmormonism.com|language=en|access-date=2018-07-21|archive-date=2018-07-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722041158/http://www.unveilingmormonism.com/bio|url-status=live}}

=Politics=

Rocky Anderson, 33rd mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, 2000–2008Rocky Anderson, "A Call for Compassion", Dialogue – A Journal of Mormon Thought (Vol. 42 No. 2 Summer 2009), pp. v–vii
Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister New Zealand, 2017–2023{{cite news|url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11789352|title= The politics of life: The truth about Jacinda Ardern|last= Knight|first= Kim|work= The New Zealand Herald|date= 29 January 2017|access-date= 15 August 2017|archive-date= 19 August 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170819110750/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11789352|url-status= live}}
Frank J. Cannon, U.S. Senator from Utah{{citation |first= Kenneth |last= Godfrey |contribution-url= http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/c/CANNON_FRANK.html |contribution= Cannon, Frank J. |editor-last= Powell |editor-first= Allan Kent |year= 1994 |title= Utah History Encyclopedia |location= Salt Lake City |publisher= University of Utah Press |isbn= 0874804256 |oclc= 30473917 |access-date= 2013-10-31 |archive-date= 2013-11-01 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131101222936/http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/c/CANNON_FRANK.html |url-status= dead }}
Jim Dabakis, Utah state senator.{{cite news|last1=Horowitz|first1=Jason|title=Gay activist using Utah as a political laboratory|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gay-activist-using-utah-as-a-political-laboratory/2012/11/26/02dcfaba-333b-11e2-9cfa-e41bac906cc9_story.html|newspaper=Washington Post|date=26 November 2012|access-date=1 July 2020|archive-date=11 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211030643/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gay-activist-using-utah-as-a-political-laboratory/2012/11/26/02dcfaba-333b-11e2-9cfa-e41bac906cc9_story.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Loftin|first1=Josh|title=Gay Utah Democratic boss Jim Dabakis moves beyond sexuality|url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/700167468/Gay-Utah-Democratic-boss-Jim-Dabakis-moves-beyond-sexuality.html|work=Deseret News|publisher=LDS Church|date=31 July 2011|access-date=1 July 2020|archive-date=1 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201085218/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/700167468/Gay-Utah-Democratic-boss-Jim-Dabakis-moves-beyond-sexuality.html|url-status=dead}}
James "Bo" Gritz, controversial former United States Army Special Forces officer{{cite web |url=http://www.bogritz.com/biography.htm |title=Biography |year=2004 |publisher=Bo Gritz |access-date=February 27, 2009 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130825161517/http://bogritz.com/biography.htm |archive-date=August 25, 2013 }}
Abby Huntsman, political commentator and great-granddaughter of Apostle David B. HaightDehlin, John. "661: Abby Huntsman and Carrie Sheffield and their Transitions Out of Mormonism". Mormon Stories. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
Jon Huntsman Jr., former Utah governor, former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, China, and Russia, and grandson of Apostle David B. Haight{{cite news |first=Bethany |last=Rodgers |date=November 14, 2019 |title=Jon Huntsman's entry into Utah governor's race sets up a 'showdown for the ages,' says political scientist |newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune |url=https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/11/14/jon-huntsman-says-hes-not/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417143216/https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/11/14/jon-huntsman-says-hes-not/ |archive-date=2020-04-17 |access-date=April 30, 2020}}
Sonia Johnson, feminist activist.

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Kate Kendell, attorney and activist, former director of National Center for Lesbian Rights.{{citation|url=http://www.nclrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=About_Staff_KateKendell|title=About NCLR {{ndash}} Kate Kendell, Esq., Executive Director|work=Nclrights.org|publisher=National Center for Lesbian Rights|access-date=19 August 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110819122815/http://www.nclrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=About_Staff_KateKendell|archive-date=19 August 2011}}
Alfred W. McCune, railroad builder, mine operator, and politicianMalmquist, p. 173; "The New Salt Lake 'Herald'." The Deseret Weekly. June 6, 1891.
Sterling McMurrin, U.S. Commissioner of Education in the Kennedy administration, provost of the University of Utah, and philosopher{{Cite web|url=http://signaturebookslibrary.org/sterling-m-mcmurrin/|title=Matters of Conscience ||access-date=2020-05-02|archive-date=2020-04-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200422153451/http://signaturebookslibrary.org/sterling-m-mcmurrin/|url-status=live}}
Culbert Olson, twenty-ninth governor of California{{Cite news|url=http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article8038305.html|title=Op Images: Sharing stories of state's atheist, pacifist governor|newspaper=sacbee|access-date=2016-10-18|archive-date=2016-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019044311/http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article8038305.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=http://governors.library.ca.gov/29-olson.html|title=Governors of California – Culbert Olson|last=Library|first=California State|website=governors.library.ca.gov|access-date=2016-10-18|archive-date=2021-10-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028022750/https://governors.library.ca.gov/29-olson.html|url-status=live}}
Esther Peterson, Assistant Secretary of Labor in the Kennedy administration and consumer advocate{{Cite web|url = https://bycommonconsent.com/2007/09/03/from-the-archives-remembering-esther-peterson/|title = From the archives: Remembering Esther Peterson|date = 3 September 2007|access-date = 12 May 2020|archive-date = 16 November 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191116012050/https://bycommonconsent.com/2007/09/03/from-the-archives-remembering-esther-peterson/|url-status = live}}
Pro-Life (born Marvin Richardson), politician known for his opposition to abortion and for changing his name to reflect his views{{Cite web|url=http://prolifeidaho.com/about/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622062122/http://prolifeidaho.com/about/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-06-22|title=About|date=2012-06-22|access-date=2018-07-21}}
Calvin Rampton, three-term Utah governor
Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State and former Senator from Florida{{cite web|url=http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/23/sen-marco-rubios-religious-journey-catholic-to-mormon-to-catholic-to-baptist-and-catholic/?hpt=hp_t3|title=Sen. Marco Rubio's religious journey: Catholic to Mormon to Catholic to Baptist and Catholic|last=Marrapodi|first=Erin|date=February 23, 2012|publisher=CNN|access-date=February 24, 2012|archive-date=March 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301073459/http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/23/sen-marco-rubios-religious-journey-catholic-to-mormon-to-catholic-to-baptist-and-catholic/?hpt=hp_t3|url-status=dead}}
Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to multiple U.S. Presidents {{cite web | url=https://www.deseret.com/1991/3/11/18909608/when-utahn-talks-bush-listens | title=When Utahn Talks, Bush Listens | date=11 March 1991 }}
Carrie Sheffield, writer and political analyst{{citation |first= Carrie |last= Sheffield |date= 17 June 2012 |title= Why Mormons flee their church |url= http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-06-17/mormon-lds-ex-mormon/55654242/1 |newspaper= USA Today |access-date= 2014-06-12 |archive-date= 2014-05-28 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140528044607/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-06-17/mormon-lds-ex-mormon/55654242/1 |url-status= live }}
Kyrsten Sinema, U.S. Senator from Arizona{{Cite news|url=http://www.standard.net/Lifestyle/2013/01/03/Congress-first-openly-bisexual-member-grew-up-Mormon-graduated-from-BYU.html|title=Congress' first openly bisexual member grew up Mormon, graduated from BYU|last=Standard-Examiner|work=Standard-Examiner|access-date=2017-06-11|archive-date=2015-11-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151122194752/http://www.standard.net/Lifestyle/2013/01/03/Congress-first-openly-bisexual-member-grew-up-Mormon-graduated-from-BYU.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/us/kyrsten-sinema-arizona-senator.html|date=2018-11-12|title=Kyrsten Sinema Declared Winner in Arizona Senate Race|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=2020-08-16|last=Romero|first=Simon|archive-date=2020-06-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625031708/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/us/kyrsten-sinema-arizona-senator.html|url-status=live}}
Misty Snow, political candidate; first transgender nominee for a major U.S. political party to the nation's Senate{{cite news|last1=Greene|first1=David|title=Misty Snow Aims To Be The Nation's First Transgender Senator|url=https://www.npr.org/2016/07/05/484756556/misty-snow-aims-to-be-the-nation-s-first-transgender-senator|website=npr.org|publisher=KUER 90.1|quote=Snow: You know, I was raised LDS myself so I kind of know that culture. Most of my family's LDS. A lot of my friends are LDS. ... I didn't, like, have a lot of support to transition when I was younger, so I ended up doing it kind of more, like, a more – like, over the last few years. ... Yeah. When I was, like (unintelligible) I didn't have support from my mother to transition and, you know, so I put that off for a long time.|access-date=2020-07-01|archive-date=2018-01-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101082330/https://www.npr.org/2016/07/05/484756556/misty-snow-aims-to-be-the-nation-s-first-transgender-senator|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Canham|first1=Matt|title=Utah's Misty Snow makes history as Democrats' transgender Senate nominee|url=http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=4060147&itype=CMSID|work=The Salt Lake Tribune|date=29 June 2016|quote=Misty K. Snow is the first transgender nominee from a major party to run for a U.S. Senate seat and she is among the first transgender people to run for Congress.|access-date=1 July 2020|archive-date=3 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703071224/https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=4060147&itype=CMSID|url-status=live}}
Obert C. Tanner, founder of the O.C. Tanner Company, philanthropist, and philosophy professorConscience and Community: Sterling M. McMurrin, Obert C. Tanner, and Lowell L. Bennion. Robert Alan Goldberg, L. Jackson Newell, Linda King Newell. University of Utah Press, 2018.
Morris Udall, Arizona Congressman and presidential candidatePerry, James M., reporter, National Observer, "This Fella from Arizona", in Audubon, November 1981, pp. 64–73, National Audubon Society, as reproduced on the Morris K. Udall website section – MS 325 – of the University of Arizona Library Manuscript Collection, retrieved July 23, 2018
Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Arizona congressman, environmental activist, attorney, and author{{cite web |title=Stewart Udall Sequence I: The Conscience of a Jack Mormon |work=Thoughts on Things and Stuff |date=July 15, 2015 |url=http://thoughtsonthingsandstuff.com/stewart-udall-sequence-i-the-conscience-of-a-jack-mormon/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108122836/http://thoughtsonthingsandstuff.com/stewart-udall-sequence-i-the-conscience-of-a-jack-mormon/ |archive-date=2020-11-08 |access-date=April 30, 2020}}
Tom Udall, U.S. Senator for New Mexico{{Cite web|url=http://www.moderatebutpassionate.com/2011/09/brother-udalls-home-teacher.html|title=Brother Udall's Home Teacher|access-date=2020-05-01|archive-date=2020-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805101313/http://www.moderatebutpassionate.com/2011/09/brother-udalls-home-teacher.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url = https://bycommonconsent.com/2008/09/21/mormons-in-the-next-congress-part-ii/|title = Mormons in the Next Congress, Part II|date = 22 September 2008|access-date = 1 May 2020|archive-date = 17 February 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200217164434/https://bycommonconsent.com/2008/09/21/mormons-in-the-next-congress-part-ii/|url-status = live}}
Jenny Wilson (politician), Salt Lake County Mayor{{Cite web|url=https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast/jenny-wilson/|title=950–951: Jenny Wilson – Democratic Candidate for US Senate|date=28 June 2018 |access-date=2020-05-25|archive-date=2020-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014235346/https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast/jenny-wilson/|url-status=live}}
Ted Wilson (mayor), former Salt Lake City mayor
Carl Wimmer, member of the Utah House of Representatives from 2006 to 2012{{cite news | author=Lee Davidson | title=Ex-Utah rep Carl Wimmer: God guided me away from Mormonism | work=Salt Lake Tribune | date=November 12, 2013 | url=http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57052278-78/wimmer-says-church-lds.html.csp | access-date=2014-07-16 | archive-date=2016-12-18 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161218165030/http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57052278-78/wimmer-says-church-lds.html.csp | url-status=live }}

=Miscellaneous=

Heather Armstrong, blogger, dooce.com{{cite news|last=Lieber|first=Chavie|title=She was the 'queen of the mommy bloggers.' Then her life fell apart|url=https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/4/25/18512620/dooce-heather-armstrong-depression-valedictorian-of-being-dead|newspaper=Vox|date=April 25, 2019|access-date=July 7, 2019|archive-date=August 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801115415/https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/4/25/18512620/dooce-heather-armstrong-depression-valedictorian-of-being-dead|url-status=live}}
Martha Nibley Beck, daughter of Mormon scholar Hugh Nibley and author of bestseller Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith.
Sarissa Hahn, Entrepreneur
Steve Benson, cartoonist and grandson of LDS Church president Ezra Taft Benson{{cite web | author=Benson, Steve | title=Hey! You Been Told 'Bout GA Gold? | date=June 9, 2008 | work=The Mormon Curtain | url=http://www.mormoncurtain.com/topic_stevebenson_section5.html#pub_-504730549 | access-date=July 29, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710124248/http://www.mormoncurtain.com/topic_stevebenson_section5.html#pub_-504730549 | archive-date=July 10, 2009 | url-status=dead }}
Patrick Califia, sexuality writer
Brian Evenson, American writer of literary and popular fiction{{cite news | author=Elaine Jarvik | title=Ex-LDS author says art, church clash | work=Deseret News | date=August 12, 2006 | url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/645192575/Ex-LDS-author-says-art-church-clash.html?pg=all | access-date=2014-08-01 | archive-date=2014-10-22 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022005546/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/645192575/Ex-LDS-author-says-art-church-clash.html?pg=all | url-status=dead }}
Vardis Fisher, "Lost Generation" author of Children of God and the Testament of ManVardis Fisher{{Circular reference|date=May 2020}}
Laci Green sex educator and online video creator for Seeker and MTV.{{cite magazine|url=https://time.com/4258291/30-most-influential-people-on-the-internet-2016/|title=The 30 most influential people on the internet|author=Time staff|date=March 16, 2016|magazine=Time|access-date=March 16, 2016|archive-date=March 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190313113830/http://time.com/4258291/30-most-influential-people-on-the-internet-2016/|url-status=live}}
Alyssa Grenfell, American YouTuber and author.{{Cite book |last1=Dehlin |first1=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Msxx0AEACAAJ |title=How to Leave the Mormon Church: An Exmormon's Guide to Rebuilding After Religion |last2=Grenfell |first2=Alyssa |date=2024-01-07 |publisher=Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp |isbn=979-8-9893105-1-7 |language=en}}
Johnny Harris, American journalist and YouTuber{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTMsfOcHiJg|website=YouTube|date=June 11, 2021|title=Why I Left The Mormon Church}}
Carolyn Tanner Irish, bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America{{cite web|url=http://webserver.desnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595045756,00.html|title=Bishop Irish comes full circle|date=29 February 2004|access-date=8 November 2016|archive-date=27 September 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927185059/http://webserver.desnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595045756,00.html|url-status=live}}
Walter Kirn, literary editor of GQ{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4964686&ft=1&f=1033|title=Writer Walter Kirn, on a 'Mission to America'|newspaper=NPR.org|access-date=8 November 2016|archive-date=8 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108195500/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4964686&ft=1&f=1033|url-status=live}}
Grant H. Palmer, lifelong employee of the Church Educational System and author of An Insider's View of Mormon Origins (2003)
Levi Peterson, author of The Backslider{{Cite web|url=http://signaturebookslibrary.org/levi-peterson/|title=Leaving the Fold – 04 ||access-date=2020-05-12|archive-date=2015-04-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150424012720/http://signaturebookslibrary.org/levi-peterson/|url-status=live}}
Arthur Pratt, tenth child of LDS Apostle Orson Pratt and Sarah Pratt, deputy U.S. marshal{{cite journal |last = Van Wagoner |first = Richard S. |author-link = Richard S. Van Wagoner |title = Sarah Pratt: The Shaping of an Apostate |journal = Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought |volume = 19 |number = 2 |pages = 79, 90–92 |year = 1986 |url = http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2Fdialogue&CISOPTR=19553&REC=12&CISOBOX=Sarah+Pratt+Bennett+Goddards+highly+improbable |access-date = 2008-07-09 |archive-date = 2008-12-27 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081227083419/http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2Fdialogue&CISOPTR=19553&REC=12&CISOBOX=Sarah+Pratt+Bennett+Goddards+highly+improbable |url-status = live }}
Sarah M. Pratt, critic of plural marriage, first wife of Apostle Orson Pratt
Jeremy Runnells, author of a widely-circulated letter critical of the LDS Church.David Noyce "Author of 'Letter to a CES Director' resigns from Mormon church" The Salt Lake Tribune Published: June 20, 2016 online at:https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2016/06/21/author-of-letter-to-a-ces-director-resigns-from-mormon-church/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112025946/http://www.sltrib.com/religion/2016/06/21/author-of-letter-to-a-ces-director-resigns-from-mormon-church/ |date=2020-11-12 }}
Cara Santa Maria, American science correspondent and podcaster{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a6CXvBu8RI|title=Cara Santa Maria @ Apostacon 2014|last=Apostacon Team|date=31 October 2014|access-date=8 November 2016|via=YouTube|archive-date=22 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022082505/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a6CXvBu8RI|url-status=live}}
William Shunn, science fiction writer{{cite web|url=http://www.shunn.net/bio/|title=About William Shunn |access-date=8 November 2016|archive-date=5 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130205062933/http://www.shunn.net/bio/|url-status=live}}
Julia Murdock Smith, adopted daughter of Joseph Smith{{cite journal | author=Sunny McClellan Morton | title=The Forgotten Daughter: Julia Murdock Smith | date=Fall 2002 | journal=Mormon Historical Studies | volume=3 | issue=2 | pages=49, 54 | url=http://mormonhistoricsites.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MHS3.2Fall2002JuliaMurdockSmith.pdf | access-date=2014-07-29 | archive-date=2014-10-22 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022004452/http://mormonhistoricsites.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MHS3.2Fall2002JuliaMurdockSmith.pdf | url-status=live }}
Virginia Sorensen, "Lost Generation" novelist of A Little Lower Than The Angels{{Cite web|url=http://www.ldsfilm.com/writers/Virginia_Sorensen_Bio.html|title=Virginia Sorensen|access-date=2020-05-05|archive-date=2020-01-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200123021603/http://www.ldsfilm.com/writers/Virginia_Sorensen_Bio.html|url-status=live}}
Jerald and Sandra Tanner, writers, researchers and critics of the LDS Church* [http://www.utlm.org/testimony/chworldtestimony.htm Testimony from Jerald and Sandra] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120507231521/http://www.utlm.org/testimony/chworldtestimony.htm |date=2012-05-07 }}
Lynne Kanavel Whitesides, feministThe September Six were six LDS (Mormons) members who were excommunicated or disfellowshipped in September 1993 for speaking against Church doctrine and leadership. See also Mormon Alliance.

Excommunicated members

Lavina Fielding Anderson, scholar, writer, editor, and feminist
Martha Beck, sociologist, life coach, best-selling author, and columnist for O, The Oprah Magazine{{cite book|title=Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith|last=Beck|first=Martha N|publisher=Three Rivers Press|year=2006|isbn=978-0-307-33599-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/leavingsaintshow00beck_0}}
Arthur Gary Bishop, serial killer and child molester{{cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html|title=Slayer of Five Boys Is Executed in Utah By Injection of Drugs|last=Ap|date=11 June 1988|access-date=8 November 2016|via=NYTimes.com|archive-date=9 February 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209030954/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html|url-status=live}}
Fawn M. Brodie, biographer and history professor{{cn|date=November 2024}}
Jason Derek Brown, 489th fugitive to be placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list{{cite web|url=http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/stories/Phoenix-local-news-091608-brown-fbi-spotted-utah.833c2886.html |title=Valley killer on FBI most wanted list spotted in Utah |publisher=AZfamily |access-date=September 18, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920004834/http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/stories/Phoenix-local-news-091608-brown-fbi-spotted-utah.833c2886.html |archive-date=September 20, 2008 }}
Ted Bundy convicted serial killer and rapist{{cn|date=November 2024}}
John Dehlin, founder of the Mormon Stories podcast{{Cite news|url=https://www.ksl.com/?sid=33422568&nid=148&title=john-dehlin-excommunicated-from-lds-church|title=Mormon Stories founder Dehlin's spread of 'false concepts' results in excommunication from LDS Church {{!}} KSL.com|access-date=2018-07-21|language=en|archive-date=2018-07-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722011919/https://www.ksl.com/?sid=33422568&nid=148&title=john-dehlin-excommunicated-from-lds-church|url-status=live}}
James J. Hamula, former LDS general authority{{Cite news|url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865686362/LDS-Church-leaders-release-excommunicate-Elder-James-J-Hamula.html|title=LDS Church leaders release, excommunicate Elder James J. Hamula|last=Walch|first=Tad|date=2017-08-08|work=DeseretNews.com|access-date=2018-07-21|language=en|archive-date=2018-07-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722015859/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865686362/LDS-Church-leaders-release-excommunicate-Elder-James-J-Hamula.html|url-status=dead}}
Mark Hofmann, double murderer and an expert forger; "considered by forensic experts to be the best forger yet caught"{{citation |first= Linda |last= Sillitoe |author-link= Linda Sillitoe |contribution= Hofmann, Mark |contribution-url= http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/h/HOFMANN_MARK.html |editor-last= Powell |editor-first= Allan Kent |year= 1994 |title= Utah History Encyclopedia |location= Salt Lake City, Utah |publisher= University of Utah Press |isbn= 0874804256 |oclc= 30473917 |access-date= 2013-10-31 |archive-date= 2017-01-13 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170113125834/http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/h/HOFMANN_MARK.html |url-status= live }}
Helmuth Hübener, opponent of the Third Reich;{{cite book|first=Barbara|last=Beuys|title=Vergeßt uns nicht: Menschen im Widerstand, 1933–1945| publisher=Rowohlt Verlag|location=Berlin|year=1987|isbn=3-498-00511-1|page=488|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=URofAAAAMAAJ |via=Google Books|language=German |trans-title=Don't Forget Us: People in the Resistance, 1933–1945}} posthumously reinstated by the LDS Church in 1946{{cite book|first=Richard |last=Lloyd Dewey|title=Hübener vs Hitler|publisher=Academic Research Foundation|location=Provo, Utah|date=2003|isbn =9780929753133|pages=174–175|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=29U6AAAACAAJ|url-access=limited}}
Sonia Johnson, feminist and a Peace and Freedom Party presidential nominee{{cite web|url=http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/UU_EAD,1830|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707232004/http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/UU_EAD,1830|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 July 2012|title=CONTENTdm Title|access-date=8 November 2016}}
Kate Kelly, lawyer and feminist, advocate of woman holding the priesthood{{citation |first= Kristen |last= Moulton |url= http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/58104587-78/church-kelly-women-ordain.html.csp |title= Kelly laments her 'painful' excommunication from Mormon church |newspaper= The Salt Lake Tribune |date= June 23, 2014 |access-date= June 25, 2014 |archive-date= June 26, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140626031952/http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/58104587-78/church-kelly-women-ordain.html.csp |url-status= live }}
Ogden Kraut, independent Mormon fundamentalist author{{cite news | author=Sara Israelsen | title=Suit blames firing on religion | work=Deseret News | date=June 22, 2006 | url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/640188930/Suit-blames-firing-on-religion.html?pg=all | access-date=2014-07-17 | archive-date=2014-08-12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812062048/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/640188930/Suit-blames-firing-on-religion.html?pg=all | url-status=dead }}
Deborah Laake, wrote an ex-Mormon memoir.{{cite web |title=Secret grief |author=Sterling, Terry Greene |date=October 27, 2000 |url=http://archive.salon.com/people/feature/2000/10/27/laake/index.html?CP=YAH&DN=110 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120701131819/http://archive.salon.com/people/feature/2000/10/27/laake/index.html?CP=YAH&DN=110 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 1, 2012 |work=Salon.com |access-date=July 1, 2010 }}
George P. Lee, former LDS general authority, convicted child molester{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/03/us/mormons-oust-first-indian-in-the-hierarchy.html|title=Mormons Oust First Indian in the Hierarchy|last=AP|work=The New York Times |date=3 September 1989 |access-date=2018-07-21|language=en|archive-date=2019-06-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605085720/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/03/us/mormons-oust-first-indian-in-the-hierarchy.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=50019546&itype=CMSID|title= The Salt Lake Tribune|access-date=2018-07-21|language=en-US|archive-date=2018-07-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722011516/http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=50019546&itype=CMSID|url-status=live}}
Bob Lonsberry, writer and talk radio host, expelled for "bad conduct" prior to 2001, has since rejoined{{Cite web|url=http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=725&go=4|title=Bob lonsberry dot com|access-date=2019-07-22|archive-date=2018-09-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180924110348/http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=725&go=4|url-status=live}}
David Charles Manners, British writer and charity co-founder{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046l690|title=Roz Chalmers, Merlin Holland, David Charles Manners, David Waterman, Midweek – BBC Radio 4|access-date=8 November 2016|archive-date=22 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022051902/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b046l690|url-status=live}}
Leonard Matlovich, Bronze Star Medal recipient and gay US Air Force veteran{{cite book|last1=Quinn|first1=D. Michael|author-link=D. Michael Quinn|title=Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example|date=1996|publisher=University of Illinois Press|via=Google Books|isbn=978-0252022050|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UXVj398JvnsC|page=442}}{{cite book | last=Estes | first=Steve | year=2007 | title=Ask & Tell: Gay and Lesbian Veterans Speak Out | publisher=University of North Carolina Press | isbn=9780807831151 | pages=185–187 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KSD0viQFs_cC&q=Matlovich&pg=PA185|via=Google Books}}
Richard McCoy Jr., hijacker of a United Airliner passenger jet for ransom in 1972{{citation |first= Musika |last= Farnsworth |date= April 2011 |title= Skyjacker—the Richard McCoy Jr. Story – Part 2 |url= http://parachutistonline.com/feature/skyjacker%E2%80%94-richard-mccoy-jr-story-part-2 |journal= Parachutist |publisher= United States Parachute Association |volume= 52 |number= 4 |access-date= 2014-06-25 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141022004514/http://parachutistonline.com/feature/skyjacker%E2%80%94-richard-mccoy-jr-story-part-2 |archive-date= 2014-10-22 |url-status= dead }}
Brent Lee Metcalfe, LDS Historian{{cn|date=November 2024}}
Teresa Nielsen Hayden, essayist and science fiction editor, lapsed at time of excommunication{{cite web|url=http://nielsenhayden.com/GodandI.html|title=God and I|first=Teresa|last=Nielsen Hayden|access-date=8 November 2016|archive-date=4 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170104090636/http://nielsenhayden.com/GodandI.html|url-status=live}} First published in Telos 3, 1980.
Connell O'Donovan, American historian, biographer, and genealogist{{Cite journal |date=2006 |title=About the Authors of this Volume |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43200255 |journal=John Whitmer Historical Association Journal |volume=26 |pages=340–343 |jstor=43200255 |issn=0739-7852 }}
D. Michael Quinn, LDS historian
Denver Snuffer, Utah lawyer and author of books on LDS doctrine{{cite news | last=Fletcher Stack |first=Peggy|author-link=Peggy Fletcher Stack | title=Controversial Mormon writer gets the word: He's out of the church | newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune | date=September 12, 2013 | url=http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsfaithblog/56861798-180/church-snuffer-book-lds.html.csp | access-date=2014-07-17 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702212042/http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsfaithblog/56861798-180/church-snuffer-book-lds.html.csp | archive-date=2014-07-02 | url-status=dead }}
Simon Southerton, molecular biologist{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Mormons-excommunicate-Australian-author/2005/08/05/1123125884160.html |newspaper=The Age|location=Melbourne|date=5 August 2005|title=Mormons excommunicate Australian author}}
Paul Toscano, attorney and author
Dan Vogel, LDS Historian{{cn|date=November 2024}}
George D. Watt, secretary to Brigham Young and compiler of the Journal of Discourses{{cite book | author=Ronald G. Watt | chapter=Watt, George D. |editor=Arnold K. Garr |editor2=Donald Q. Cannon |editor3=Richard O. Cowan | title=Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History | year=2000 | location=Salt Lake City, Utah | publisher=Deseret Book}}
Ann Eliza Young, ex-wife of Brigham Young{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/portraitandbiog01pubgoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/portraitandbiog01pubgoog/page/n451 458]|quote=ann eliza young.|title=Portrait and Biographical Record of Northern Michigan: Containing Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Together with Biographies of All the Presidents of the United States|date=1 January 1895|publisher=Record Publishing Company|access-date=8 November 2016|via=Internet Archive}}

References

Category:Latter Day Saint movement lists

Category:People excommunicated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints