Gordon B. Hinckley

(1910-2008) Fifteenth president of the LDS church, under whose leadership the church has experienced record worldwide growth, temple construction and secular visibility as it sweeps into the 21st century.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

Jon M. Huntsman, Sr.is Founder and Executive Chairman of Huntsman Corporation, a global manufacturer and marketer of specialty chemicals. Forty years ago, Mr. Huntsman began a small entrepreneurial plastics packaging business. Originally known for pioneering innovations in packaging and, later, for rapid and integrated growth in petrochemicals, its operating companies today manufacture chemical products used in a wide range of …

Daniel Jackling

(1859 – 1956) The father of Utah copper mining, Jackling helped found the Utah Copper Co. in 1903. Figuring that mining would only be profitable with the open-pit method of ore recovery, he began in Bingham Canyon what was to become the world’s largest open-pit mine. Kennecott eventually bought the mine, and copper became king in Utah.

Spencer W. Kimball

(1895–1985) Presiding over the LDS church in 1978, Kimball had a revelation negating the church’s ban on black males in the priesthood, and as a result opened the door to membership growth throughout the world. With the revelation, the world’s perception of Utah and Utah’s perception of the world in regard to race changed.

Charles Warner Lockerbie

Utah’s bird man recognized more than 300 bird calls. Charles Warner Lockerbie was born January 7, 1879, near Mankato, Minnesota, to William and Belle Garrett Lockerbie. At age eleven he moved with his mother and sister to Salt Lake City to live with his maternal grandparents. Growing up near the Jordan River he developed an intense interest in its wildlife, …

Karl Malone

(1963 –    ) Easily the most recognized athlete in Utah’s history. As a career member of the Utah Jazz and twice voted NBA’s most valuable player, Malone has provided the state unprecedented global notoriety and a sense of unity.

David Daniel Marriott

Jay M. Haymond Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Dan Marriott was born in Bingham, Tooele County, on 2 November 1939. He attended public schools in Sandy and graduated from Jordan High School in 1958. He attended the University of Utah and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1967; he later earned a certificate from the American College of Life …

Scott M. Matheson

John McCormick Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Scott M. Matheson was born 8 January 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, a son of Scott Milne and Adele Adams Matheson. He soon moved with his family to Parowan, Utah, and, when he was five years old, to Salt Lake City, where his father became Assistant U.S. Attorney for Utah. Matheson graduated from Salt Lake …

Russell Lowell Maughan

In 1924 he made the first coast-to-coast flight in a day. “Circling high in the sky above the Golden Gate before making a perfect landing on Crissy field, Lieutenant Russell L. Maughan, tonight brought to a wonderful close his third attempt at spanning the United States by airplane within the limits of dawn and dusk of the same day.” So …

William Henry McDougall

This journalist survived shipwreck and imprisonment to become a priest. Twice a Japanese prisoner during World War II, nearly drowned in the Pacific when his ship was sunk, an innovative and energetic newspaperman, recipient of a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard and a Pulitzer Prize nomination, William H. McDougall found enough adventure and achievement in life to satisfy almost anyone. Yet …