Notable Alumni and Faculty
- Bonnie Baxter – Current professor of biology whose ecologic studies of the Great Salt Lake have been profiled on BBC and PBS NOVA
- Greg Gagne – co-authored Operating System Concepts, one of the most widely-used operating systems textbooks in the world.
- David Litvack 1994 – Utah State House Representative for the 26th district and Alumni Board member.
- Heather McPhie – Freestyle skier, member of the US Olympic Team for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
- Les Brown (American football) – Tight End for the Miami Dolphins
- Nick More – Recipient of the 2008 Carnegie Foundation Utah Professor of the Year.
- Jeffrey Nielsen – Current professor of Philosophy, best known for his dismissal from BYU for criticizing the LDS Church's opposition of gay marriage.
- Geoff Stradling – Hollywood composer and orchestrator for TV series and movies. Stradling frequently works on movie scores with Ladd McIntosh, a former Westminster professor who led the Westminster Jazz Band to numerous awards in the early 1970s .
- Richard D. Wood – A noted American molecular biologist and winner of the Meyenburg Prize for identification of proteins involved in repairing DNA after ultraviolet irradiation .
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