Captain Jefferson Hunt Mormon Battalion (1800-1900) He lead the Mormon Battalion from Council Bluffs, Iowa to San Diego, California in 1846. In 1848, he lead a group of settlers from Salt Lake City to established a Mormon colony in San Bernardino. In 1853, he was...
Paul Holton Chief Wiggles Paul Holton, better known as “Chief Wiggles,” is the founder of Operation Give, a humanitarian organization that ships toys, medicine, and educational supplies to children in war-torn and devastated nations throughout the world. President...
Colonel Gail Halvorsen USAF (retired) He was perhaps the most famous pilot of the Berlin airlift. While delivering supplies to the Templehof airport during 1948 and 1949, Halvorsen began parachuting packages of chewing gum and chocolates to Berlin children, earning...
James Fletcher (1919-1991) NASA Administrator He was the administrator of NASA who gained the approval to develop the Space Shuttle as the follow-on human space flight effort. He also served as NASA administrator a second time, following the loss of the Space...
Colonel Bernard F. Fisher USAF (retired) Coronel Bernard was an A-1E pilot during the Vietnam War. During a run over the A-Shau Valley 10 Mar 1966, supporting the ground based Special Forces, enemy resistance shot down his wingman, Major Wayne Myers. Without time to...
Corporal Harold Engstrom U.S. Army He grew up in Arizona and served a full-time mission to Holland and Belgium. He graduated from Univeristy of Utah and began teaching high school English. After September 11, 2001, he switched careers and joined the Army. He is...
Ron Dittemore Former Director Space Shuttle Program Shortly before their marriage, he and his fiancé became members of The Church. He is a high councilor in the Friendswood, Texas Stake. Announces his resignation, 23 Apr 2003
Lieutenant Colonel Larry Chesley USAF (retired) POW “I am a Mormon and I believe deeply in my religion. It was one of the strengths I clung to during those dark days. I believe in a God who is like a Father, One who cares about His children. I had a patriarchal...
James Cawley US Marine Staff Sergeant Staff Sergeant James Wilford Cawley, was killed in Iraq on Saturday, March 29, 2003 defending the freedom that he so cherished. Jim was a loyal American and believed strongly in the cause for which he fought. He was serving as...
Lieutenant General Bruce Carlson USAF (active) Gen. Bruce Carlson a four-star general serves as Commander, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The command conducts research, development, test and evaluation, and provides acquisition...
Jon Beesley Jon Beesley was the Chief Test Pilot for Lockheed Martin in the F-35 program. I’ll include some links below. He served as the Fort Worth Stake President. When he retired from Lockheed, he served as a mission president in Alaska. Popular Mechanics...
Richard B. Wirthlin economist He is best known as President Reagan’s strategist and pollster. At the White House, he was a close and trusted advisor to President Reagan. He directed all of the President’s opinion surveys, analyzed trends and regularly...
Roger Porter economist He served for more than a decade in senior economic policy positions in the White House, most recently as Assistant to the President for Economic and Domestic Policy from 1989-1993. He served as Director of the White House Office of Policy...
Kim Peek mega-savant 1951-2009 Kim Peek, inspired the 1988 movie “Rain Man,” Peek, Died when he was 58, He was likely the world’s most famous savant, enduring mental handicaps while at the same time possessing extraordinary gifts of memory and...
Sandy Petersen computer game designer He is a member of the Gaming Hall of Fame (1990), and was involved in the production of such award winning game titles as Civilization,Doom, Doom 2, Quake, Rise of Rome, Age of Kings, The Conquerors, Age of Empires 3, and The War...
Drew Major computer software engineer He helped develop the original NetWare, and has played an integral role in designing and developing every release of the Network Operating System which seems to be everywhere. In 2000, Drew was inducted into the Computer Hall of...
Robert G. Freeman Oracle Consultant Robert is a Principal Engineer and Team Manager at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He is the author of eleven popular Oracle books including the best selling Oracle RMAN Backup and Recovery series and the Oracle...
Bernard Daines Creator of new and innovative cluster computing solutions In 1999 Time magazine did an article on the 100 people most likely to influence the next century and included Bernard on the list. Daines is widely recognized as instrumental in pioneering ...
Edwin Catmull computer animation Computer animation pioneer; co-founder of Pixar From CNN A COMPANY like Pixar wasn’t what Ed Catmull had in mind when he first hatched his plan to use computers to make animated films. But in hindsight, this company...
Alan Ashton computer software engineer Dr. Ashton deserves credit for his pioneering work in word processing that has forever changed the way we use computers. Since selling his ownership in WordPerfect he has built Thanksgiving Point. Ashton is the grandson of late...
Homer R. Warner Medical Scientist He pioneered many areas of computer applications in medicine. Homer R. Warner, MD, PhD, a prominent physician and researcher at Intermountain Healthcare and the University of Utah — who was regarded worldwide as the “Father of Medical...
Dr. Jarvis “Jay” Edwin Seegmiller Pioneer in the field of human genetics Seegmiller was one of the country’s leading researchers in intermediary metabolism, with a focus on purine metabolism and inherited metabolism. He worked in the field of human biochemical...
Robert Rey, MD, MPP Cosmetic surgeon Featured on Dr. 90210 He came to the U.S. as a troubled youth on a cargo ship and is now known for liposuction and breast augmentations on the rich and famous in Beverly Hills. His last act on his native soil of Sao Paulo,...
