Award-nominated actor known for roles in Half Nelson, The Notebook, Drive Leigh Harline, Hollywood composer, known most notably for "When You Wish Upon a Star" Annette Haven, American former pornographic actress Katherine Heigl, American actress Jessica Holmes, Canadian comedian Julianne Hough, dancer, actress, singer, songwriter Neil LaBute, playwright Bert McCracken, of the rock band The Used David Petruschin is a drag queen with the stage name "Raven" and was raised Mormon. Sue-Ann Post, Australian comedian who wrote The Confessions of an Unrepentant Lesbian Ex-Mormon 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 Dan Reynolds (singer), singer for rock band Imagine Dragons Wayne Sermon, guitarist for rock band Imagine Dragons Will Swenson, actor and singer Brendon Urie, of rock band Panic! at the Disco Janet Varney, American actress and podcaster Paul Walker, actor known for role in The Fast and the Furious film series Alex Winters, BBC children's TV presenter La Monte Young, extremely influential avant-garde composer of minimalist and drone music Mahonri Young, sculptor and grandson of Brigham Young Warren Zevon, singer/songwriter Business Figures Bruce Bastian served as a church missionary to Italy, graduated from BYU, and married in a church temple before coming out. He and a BYU professor developed and co-founded WordPerfect software for word processing. Belladonna, American pornographic actress Wilford Brimley, actor known for Cocoon, The Firm, Quaker Oats commercials, and Liberty Medical "diabeetus" meme Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese George S. Eccles, CEO of First Security Bank and philanthropist Marriner Eccles, CEO of First Security Bank and Chairman of the Federal Reserve System Jim Jannard, sunglasses designer and founder of Oakley, Inc. Bryan Johnson (entrepreneur), Founder of Braintree, Venmo and Kernel Wilson McCarthy, head of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Kip Thorne, theoretical physicist, co-founder of the LIGO gravitational wave project, and Nobel Laureate Sports Figures Merlin Olsen, NFL star turned TV star Mark Schultz (wrestler), Gold medal winning wrestler. 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 William Jasper Kerr, president of Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University) from 1907-1932 Spencer L. Kimball, dean of the University of Utah law school, son of Mormon prophet Spencer W. Kimball Politics