23 Famous People You Didn’t Know Were Mormon
It’s not just Mitt Romney, you guys. Mormons are everywhere! Here are some of the more well-known ones.
2. Aaron Eckhart
3. Amy Adams
Amy Adams was raised Mormon, though her family left the church after her parents divorced.
4. Andy Reid
6. David Archuleta
Archuleta described his experience on American Idol as “in a way, a [Mormon] mission.”
7. Eliza Dushku
8. Gladys Knight
Gladys Knight converted to Mormonism as a way of escaping her gambling addiction.
9. Glenn Beck
10. Harry Reid
11. Jewel
Jewel was raised Mormon, but stopped attending church when she was young.
12. Jon Heder
13. Julianne Hough
14. Katherine Heigl
15. Ken Jennings
16. Orson Scott Card
This one’s for the nerds. (And, for the super-nerds, Brandon Sanderson is also Mormon.)
17. Paul Walker
18. Ricky Schroder
19. Roseanne Barr
Roseanne Barr’s first public performances were lecturing to LDS churches in Utah, when she was six.
20. Ryan Gosling
“We were brought up pretty religious. My mother admits it: She says, you were raised by a religious zealot. She’s different now, but at the time, it was a part of everything - what they ate, how they thought.”
21. Todd Heap
22. Wilford Brimley
23. Bonus: Dishwalla!
24. Bonus: Dishwalla!
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tiffanym9 a year agoMost of the people on this list were just raised Mormon but left the church at some point. Also I know with me being Mormon that some may still believe in everything the church teaches but may not live exactly how the church would like you to live. For example some people may still believe everything but drink or smoke or something like that. Also how could you leave Stephanie Meyer off the list? Mormon ideology is in all the Twilight books. Also you left off Win & Will Butler from Arcade Fire(who were at least raised in the church which I actually talked with them about when I met them in 2007 in Utah), Brandon Flowers from the Killers & Neon Trees.
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valerien a year agoThis has probably been pretty well covered in the previous comments, but I have to say I found this list hilarious. They’re making really liberal use of the term “Mormon” (and if there’s one thing Mormons don’t like, it’s liberals! (Sorry couldn’t help myself)). Plus I’d never heard of 4 of those people.
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kefkai a year ago.. Who didn’t know that Ken Jennings was Mormon? He very publicly said where a large part of his money from his winnings were going, multiple times if I remember correctly. Not that I care about anyone being mormon, but that’s like throwing Tom Cruise and Isaac Hayes onto a Famous people you didn’t know were Scientologists list.
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turtlefeed a year agoI like that Dishwalla song. Also, what about Laurel Thatcher Ulrich? She’s the one responsible for the “Well-behaved women seldom make history” quote you see on all those buttons. She writes excellent history books too.
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davidw15 a year agoA few clarifications, for those keeping score: Ex-Mormons or Non-Practicing (“Inactive”):
1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 14, 17, 19, 20, 22
(12 total) Practicing (“Active”):
4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 21
(10 total) As an “inactive” Mormon myself, I’m all-too-familiar with some Mormons’ comically desperate attempts to identify as Mormon every celebrity with even the slightest whisp of a relationship to the church. Other celebrities misidentified as Mormons include Tom Hanks (whose mother, I think, dated a Mormon briefly when he was a kid) and Steve Martin (no idea where that one came from). Brendon Urie, Brandon Flowers, and Bert McCracken are “inactive” (though I’ve heard Flowers is semi-“active”). I don’t know what it is with emo-ish singers and lapsed Mormonism, but there it is. Steve Young IS a practicing Mormon, and a very famous one at that, so I’m surprised he didn’t show up on this list. As for Dishwalla: Don’t know, don’t really care.
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A5 a year ago
It’s so ironic that in this land of the “free” someone’s religion is still such a major issue It’s an issue when that church spends hundreds of thousands of dollars of their believer’s money to enforce their morality on others. The Mormon church was a major backer of the campaign to overturn gay marriage in California. It seems that they are not so concerned with other’s freedoms. Bigots are hiding behind freedom of religion, and it’s time that religion stopped getting a free pass to try to force their beliefs on other people.
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