List of University of Utah people

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This list of University of Utah people includes notable alumni, non-graduate former students, faculty, staff, and former university presidents. The University of Utah, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a flagship public space-grant research university. The school is notable for having been one of the first four nodes of the ARPANET and the first node outside of California, as well as forming the first computer graphics research group. [1] [2]

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The University of Utah offers more than 100 undergraduate majors and more than 92 graduate degree programs, and includes three professional graduate schools: the University of Utah School of Medicine, the David Eccles School of Business, and the S.J. Quinney College of Law. [3] The enrollment for 2016 was 23,789 undergraduate and 8,071 graduate students, with 1,505 full-time faculty members and 5,230 staff. [4]

Notable alumni

Famous U of U Alumni
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Bob Bennett
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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Gordon B. Hinckley
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Orson Scott Card
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Alan C. Kay
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Ralph Hartley
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David Neelman
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Andre Dyson
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John Warnock
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Jamal Anderson
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Keith Van Horn
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Virginia Cutler
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Ed Catmull

Law and government

Business

Humanities and fine arts

Life and physical sciences

Mathematics

Computer science

Engineering


Medicine

Media

Education

Athletics

Music and entertainment

Religion

Criminals

Notable faculty

Notable U of U faculty
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Paisley Rekdal
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Mario Capecchi
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Ivan Sutherland

Humanities and fine arts

Life and physical sciences

Mathematics

Engineering and computer science

Medicine

Economics and political science

Social and behavioral sciences

Sports

Other

University presidents

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