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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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Phil Cunningham Amy Adams

### Artists, actors, and entertainment figures

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

The singer Aguilera in a 2006 performance

* Christina Aguilera is a singer who was raised in an LDS home but Aguilera has not self-identified as Mormon.[3][4][5]
* 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[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[citation needed]
* 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

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* 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

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* 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.

Former Mormon Misty Snow[59] ran as the first transgender person nominated by a major party for the U.S. Senate.[60]

### Scholars

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* Wayne C. Booth, American literary critic and professor of English[61]
* Paul D. Boyer, biochemist and Nobel Laureate[62]
* William Jasper Kerr, president of Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University) from 1907 to 1932[63]
* Spencer L. Kimball, dean of the University of Utah law school, son of Mormon prophet Spencer W. Kimball[64]
* Kip Thorne, theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate[65]
* Lynn Wilder, Christian author and former Brigham Young University (BYU) professor who has written an ex-Mormon memoir[66]

### Politics

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* Rocky Anderson, 33rd mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, 2000–2008[67]
* Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister New Zealand, 2017–2023[68]
* Frank J. Cannon, U.S. Senator from Utah[69]
* Jim Dabakis, Utah state senator.[70][71]
* James "Bo" Gritz, controversial former United States Army Special Forces officer[72]
* Abby Huntsman, political commentator and great-granddaughter of Apostle David B. Haight[73]
* Jon Huntsman Jr., former Utah governor, former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, China, and Russia, and grandson of Apostle David B. Haight[74]
* Sonia Johnson, feminist activist.

National Center for Lesbian Rights executive director Kate Kendell

* Kate Kendell, attorney and activist, former director of National Center for Lesbian Rights.[75]
* Alfred W. McCune, railroad builder, mine operator, and politician[76]
* Sterling McMurrin, U.S. Commissioner of Education in the Kennedy administration, provost of the University of Utah, and philosopher[77]
* Culbert Olson, twenty-ninth governor of California[78][79]
* Esther Peterson, Assistant Secretary of Labor in the Kennedy administration and consumer advocate[80]
* Pro-Life (born Marvin Richardson), politician known for his opposition to abortion and for changing his name to reflect his views[81]
* Calvin Rampton, three-term Utah governor[53]
* Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State and former Senator from Florida[82]
* Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to multiple U.S. Presidents [83]
* Carrie Sheffield, writer and political analyst[84]
* Kyrsten Sinema, U.S. Senator from Arizona[85][86]
* Misty Snow, political candidate; first transgender nominee for a major U.S. political party to the nation's Senate[59][60]
* Obert C. Tanner, founder of the O.C. Tanner Company, philanthropist, and philosophy professor[87]
* Morris Udall, Arizona Congressman and presidential candidate[88]
* Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Arizona congressman, environmental activist, attorney, and author[89]
* Tom Udall, U.S. Senator for New Mexico[90][91]
* Jenny Wilson (politician), Salt Lake County Mayor[92]
* Ted Wilson (mayor), former Salt Lake City mayor[92]
* Carl Wimmer, member of the Utah House of Representatives from 2006 to 2012[93]

### Miscellaneous

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* Heather Armstrong, blogger, dooce.com[94]
* 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[95]
* Patrick Califia, sexuality writer
* Brian Evenson, American writer of literary and popular fiction[96]
* Vardis Fisher, "Lost Generation" author of Children of God and the Testament of Man[97][circular reference]
* Laci Green sex educator and online video creator for Seeker and MTV.[98]
* Alyssa Grenfell, American YouTuber and author.[99]
* Johnny Harris, American journalist and YouTuber[100]
* Carolyn Tanner Irish, bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America[101]
* Walter Kirn, literary editor of GQ[102]
* 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[103]
* Arthur Pratt, tenth child of LDS Apostle Orson Pratt and Sarah Pratt, deputy U.S. marshal[104]
* Sarah M. Pratt, critic of plural marriage, first wife of Apostle Orson Pratt[104]
* Jeremy Runnells, author of a widely-circulated letter critical of the LDS Church.[105]
* Cara Santa Maria, American science correspondent and podcaster[106]
* William Shunn, science fiction writer[107]
* Julia Murdock Smith, adopted daughter of Joseph Smith[108]
* Virginia Sorensen, "Lost Generation" novelist of A Little Lower Than The Angels[109]
* Jerald and Sandra Tanner, writers, researchers and critics of the LDS Church[110]
* Lynne Kanavel Whitesides, feminist[111]

## Excommunicated members

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* Lavina Fielding Anderson, scholar, writer, editor, and feminist[111]
* Martha Beck, sociologist, life coach, best-selling author, and columnist for O, The Oprah Magazine[112]
* Arthur Gary Bishop, serial killer and child molester[113]
* Fawn M. Brodie, biographer and history professor[citation needed]
* Jason Derek Brown, 489th fugitive to be placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list[114]
* Ted Bundy convicted serial killer and rapist[citation needed]
* John Dehlin, founder of the Mormon Stories podcast[115]
* James J. Hamula, former LDS general authority[116]
* Mark Hofmann, double murderer and an expert forger; "considered by forensic experts to be the best forger yet caught"[117]
* Helmuth Hübener, opponent of the Third Reich;[118] posthumously reinstated by the LDS Church in 1946[119]
* Sonia Johnson, feminist and a Peace and Freedom Party presidential nominee[120]
* Kate Kelly, lawyer and feminist, advocate of woman holding the priesthood[121]
* Ogden Kraut, independent Mormon fundamentalist author[122]
* Deborah Laake, wrote an ex-Mormon memoir.[123]
* George P. Lee, former LDS general authority, convicted child molester[124][125]
* Bob Lonsberry, writer and talk radio host, expelled for "bad conduct" prior to 2001, has since rejoined[126]
* David Charles Manners, British writer and charity co-founder[127]
* Leonard Matlovich, Bronze Star Medal recipient and gay US Air Force veteran[128][129]
* Richard McCoy Jr., hijacker of a United Airliner passenger jet for ransom in 1972[130]
* Brent Lee Metcalfe, LDS Historian[citation needed]
* Teresa Nielsen Hayden, essayist and science fiction editor, lapsed at time of excommunication[131]
* Connell O'Donovan, American historian, biographer, and genealogist[132]
* D. Michael Quinn, LDS historian[111]
* Denver Snuffer, Utah lawyer and author of books on LDS doctrine[133]
* Simon Southerton, molecular biologist[134]
* Paul Toscano, attorney and author[111]
* Dan Vogel, LDS Historian[citation needed]
* George D. Watt, secretary to Brigham Young and compiler of the Journal of Discourses[135]
* Ann Eliza Young, ex-wife of Brigham Young[136]

## See also

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

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