List of former or dissident Mormons explained

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

Artists, actors, and entertainment figures

• Kevin Abstract, rapper, singer-songwriter, director, and founding member of Brockhampton^[1]
• Amy Adams, actress known for roles in Enchanted, Doubt, The Fighter^[2]

• Christina Aguilera is a singer who was raised in an LDS home but Aguilera has not self-identified as Mormon.^{[3] [4] [5]}
• David Archuleta, American pop singer^[6]
• Hal Ashby, director of New Hollywood films such as Shampoo and Being There^[7]
• Tal Bachman, son of Randy Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) and Canadian musician known for his 1999 hit song, "She's So High"^[8]
• Randy Bachman, Canadian musician and founder of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive^[9]
• Belladonna, American pornographic actress^[10]
• Dustin Lance Black, screenwriter and producer, 2009 Oscar for Best Screenplay for Milk^[11]
• Gutzon Borglum, sculptor most noted for the heads of U.S. presidents on Mount Rushmore^[12]
• Wilford Brimley, actor known for Cocoon, The Firm, Quaker Oats commercials, and Liberty Medical "diabeetus" meme^[13]
• Win Butler, frontman for the band Arcade Fire^[14]
• Ed Catmull, animation pioneer and president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation^[15]
• Johnny Cunningham, brother of Phil, and member of Silly Wizard
• Phil Cunningham, Scottish folk musician,^[16] member of Silly Wizard
• Cytherea, American pornographic actress.^[17]
• Brian Keith Dalton, the creator, producer and main character of Mr Deity. He coined the term "Formon" for "former Mormon" in 1996.^[18]
• Eliza Dushku, actress known for roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Tru Calling, Dollhouse^{[19] [20] [21]}
• Richard Dutcher, independent filmmaker and actor known for films God's Army, God's Army 2: States of Grace, Brigham City^[22]
• Aaron Eckhart, Golden Globe Award-nominated actor known for roles in Thank You for Smoking, The Dark Knight, Erin Brockovich^[23]
• Mindy Gledhill, singer songwriter^{[24] [25]}
• Tyler Glenn, lead singer for the American rock band Neon Trees^{[26] [27]}
• Ryan Gosling, Academy Award-nominated actor known for roles in Half Nelson, The Notebook, Drive^[28]
• Leigh Harline, Hollywood composer, known most notably for "When You Wish Upon a Star"^[29]
• Annette Haven, American former pornographic actress^[30]
• Katherine Heigl, American actress^[31]
• Jessica Holmes, Canadian comedian^[32]
• Julianne Hough, dancer, actress, singer, songwriter ^[33]
• Neil LaBute, playwright^[34]
• Bert McCracken, of the rock band The Used^{[35] [36] [37]}
• David Petruschin is a drag queen with the stage name "Raven" and was raised Mormon.^[38]
• Sue-Ann Post, Australian comedian^[39]
• 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^[40]
• Dan Reynolds (singer), singer for rock band Imagine Dragons^[41]
• Wayne Sermon, guitarist for rock band Imagine Dragons^[42]
• Will Swenson, actor and singer^[43]
• Brendon Urie, of rock band Panic! at the Disco^{[44] [45]}
• Janet Varney, American actress and podcaster^[46]
• Paul Walker, actor known for role in The Fast and the Furious film series^[47]
• Alex Winters, BBC children's TV presenter^[48]
• La Monte Young, composer and musician.^[49]
• Mahonri Young, sculptor and grandson of Brigham Young^[50]
• Warren Zevon, singer/songwriter^[51]

Business figures

• Bruce Bastian, businessman and philanthropist, co-created WordPerfect software.
• Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese^[52]
• George S. Eccles, CEO of First Security Bank and philanthropist^[53]
• Marriner Eccles, CEO of First Security Bank and Chairman of the Federal Reserve System^[54]
• Jim Jannard, sunglasses designer and founder of Oakley, Inc.^[55]
• Bryan Johnson (entrepreneur), Founder of Braintree, Venmo and Kernel
• Wilson McCarthy, head of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad^[56]

Sports figures

• Merlin Olsen, NFL star turned TV star ^[57]
• Mark Schultz (wrestler), Olympic Wrestling Champion.^[58]
• Benji Schwimmer, the winner of the 2006 So You Think You Can Dance show.

Scholars

• Wayne C. Booth, American literary critic and professor of English
• Paul D. Boyer, biochemist, Nobel Laureate^[59]
• William Jasper Kerr, president of Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University) from 1907 to 1932^[60]
• Spencer L. Kimball, dean of the University of Utah law school, son of Mormon prophet Spencer W. Kimball
• Kip Thorne, theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate^[61]
• Lynn Wilder, Christian author and former Brigham Young University (BYU) professor who has written an ex-Mormon memoir^[62]

Politics

• Rocky Anderson, 33rd mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, 2000–2008^[63]
• Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister New Zealand, 2017–2023^[64]
• Frank J. Cannon, U.S. Senator from Utah
• Jim Dabakis, Utah state senator.^{[65] [66]}
• James "Bo" Gritz, controversial former United States Army Special Forces officer^[67]
• Abby Huntsman, political commentator and great-granddaughter of Apostle David B. Haight^[68]
• Jon Huntsman Jr., former Utah governor, former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, China, and Russia, and grandson of Apostle David B. Haight^[69]
• Sonia Johnson, feminist activist.

• Kate Kendell, attorney and activist, former director of National Center for Lesbian Rights.
• Alfred W. McCune, railroad builder, mine operator, and politician^[70]
• Sterling McMurrin, U.S. Commissioner of Education in the Kennedy administration, provost of the University of Utah, and philosopher^[71]
• Culbert Olson, twenty-ninth governor of California^{[72] [73]}
• Esther Peterson, Assistant Secretary of Labor in the Kennedy administration and consumer advocate^[74]
• Pro-Life (born Marvin Richardson), politician known for his opposition to abortion and for changing his name to reflect his views^[75]
• Calvin Rampton, three-term Utah governor^[53]
• Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator from Florida^[76]
• Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to multiple U.S. Presidents ^[77]
• Carrie Sheffield, writer and political analyst
• Kyrsten Sinema, U.S. Senator from Arizona^{[78] [79]}
• Misty Snow, political candidate; first transgender nominee for a major U.S. political party to the nation's Senate^{[80] [81] [82]}
• Obert C. Tanner, founder of the O.C. Tanner Company, philanthropist, and philosophy professor^[83]
• Morris Udall, Arizona Congressman and presidential candidate^[84]
• Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Arizona congressman, environmental activist, attorney, and author^[85]
• Tom Udall, U.S. Senator for New Mexico^{[86] [87]}
• Jenny Wilson (politician), Salt Lake County Mayor^[88]
• Ted Wilson (mayor), former Salt Lake City mayor^[88]
• Carl Wimmer, member of the Utah House of Representatives from 2006 to 2012^[89]

Miscellaneous

• Heather Armstrong, blogger, dooce.com^[90]
• 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^[91]
• Patrick Califia, sexuality writer
• Brian Evenson, American writer of literary and popular fiction^[92]
• Vardis Fisher, "Lost Generation" author of Children of God and the Testament of Man^[93]
• Laci Green sex educator and online video creator for Seeker and MTV.^[94]
• Johnny Harris, American journalist and YouTuber^[95]
• Carolyn Tanner Irish, bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America^[96]
• Walter Kirn, literary editor of GQ^[97]
• 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^[98]
• Arthur Pratt, tenth child of LDS Apostle Orson Pratt and Sarah Pratt, deputy U.S. marshal^[99]
• Sarah M. Pratt, critic of plural marriage, first wife of Apostle Orson Pratt^[99]
• Jeremy Runnells, author of a widely-circulated letter critical of the LDS Church.^[100]
• Cara Santa Maria, American science correspondent and podcaster^[101]
• William Shunn, science fiction writer^[102]
• Julia Murdock Smith, adopted daughter of Joseph Smith^[103]
• Virginia Sorensen, "Lost Generation" novelist of A Little Lower Than The Angels^[104]
• Jerald and Sandra Tanner, writers, researchers and critics of the LDS Church^[105]
• Lynne Kanavel Whitesides, feminist^[106]

Excommunicated members

• Lavina Fielding Anderson, scholar, writer, editor, and feminist^[106]
• Martha Beck, sociologist, life coach, best-selling author, and columnist for O, The Oprah Magazine^[107]
• Arthur Gary Bishop, serial killer and child molester^[108]
• Fawn M. Brodie, biographer and history professor
• Jason Derek Brown, 489th fugitive to be placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list^[109]
• Ted Bundy convicted serial killer and rapist
• John Dehlin, founder of the Mormon Stories podcast^[110]
• James J. Hamula, former LDS general authority^[111]
• Natasha Helfer, sex therapist^[112]
• Mark Hofmann, double murderer and an expert forger; "considered by forensic experts to be the best forger yet caught"
• Helmuth Hübener, opponent of the Third Reich;^[113] posthumously reinstated by the LDS Church in 1946^[114]
• Sonia Johnson, feminist and a Peace and Freedom Party presidential nominee^[115]
• Kate Kelly, lawyer and feminist, advocate of woman holding the priesthood
• Ogden Kraut, independent Mormon fundamentalist author^[116]
• Deborah Laake, wrote an ex-Mormon memoir.^[117]
• George P. Lee, former LDS general authority, convicted child molester^{[118] [119]}
• Bob Lonsberry, writer and talk radio host, expelled for "bad conduct" prior to 2001, has since rejoined^[120]
• David Charles Manners, British writer and charity co-founder^[121]
• Richard McCoy Jr., hijacker of a United Airliner passenger jet for ransom in 1972
• Brent Lee Metcalfe, LDS Historian
• Teresa Nielsen Hayden, essayist and science fiction editor, lapsed at time of excommunication^[122]
• Orson Pratt Jr., first son of Apostle Orson Pratt^[99]
• D. Michael Quinn, LDS historian^[106]
• Denver Snuffer, Utah lawyer and author of books on LDS doctrine^[123]
• Simon Southerton, molecular biologist lapsed at time of excommunication^[124]
• Paul Toscano, attorney and author^[106]
• Dan Vogel, LDS Historian
• James Walker, president of Watchman Fellowship (watchman.org)
• George D. Watt, secretary to Brigham Young and compiler of the Journal of Discourses^[125]
• Ann Eliza Young, ex-wife of Brigham Young^[126]

See also

• Criticism of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Ex-Mormon
• Exmormon Foundation
• Groups within Mormonism
• Irreligion
• List of former atheists and agnostics
• List of former Christians
  • List of former Protestants
  • List of former Roman Catholics
• List of former Muslims
• Mormon spectrums of orthodoxy and practice
• Non-denominational
• Spiritual but not religious

Notes and References

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4. News: Thunell. Pete. Here's the skinny on LDS celebrity urban legends. Daily Universe. Brigham Young University. 28 November 2000. 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.. 1 July 2020. 3 July 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200703141535/https://universe.byu.edu/2000/11/28/column-heres-the-skinny-on-lds-celebrity-urban-legends/. live.
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31. News: Katherine Heigl talks primetime premiere, motherhood, Mormon roots and Utah home. Eyring. Emily. 2014-11-17. DeseretNews.com. 2016-10-17. 2016-10-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20161018211546/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865615597/Katherine-Heigl-talks-primetime-premiere-motherhood-Mormon-roots-and-Utah-home.html. live.
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