# 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
### Artists, actors, and entertainment figures

* Kevin Abstract, rapper, singer-songwriter, director, and founding member of Brockhampton
* Amy Adams, actress known for roles in Enchanted, Doubt, The Fighter
* Christina Aguilera is a singer who was raised in an LDS home but Aguilera has not self-identified as Mormon.
* 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
* Hal Ashby, director of New Hollywood films such as Shampoo and Being There
* Tal Bachman, son of Randy Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) and Canadian musician known for his 1999 hit song, "She's So High"
* Randy Bachman, Canadian musician and founder of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive
* Belladonna, American pornographic actress
* Dustin Lance Black, screenwriter and producer, 2009 Oscar for Best Screenplay for Milk
* Gutzon Borglum, sculptor most noted for the heads of U.S. presidents on Mount Rushmore
* Wilford Brimley, actor known for Cocoon, The Firm, Quaker Oats commercials, and Liberty Medical "diabeetus" meme
* Win Butler, frontman for the band Arcade Fire
* Ed Catmull, animation pioneer and president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation
* Johnny Cunningham, brother of Phil, and member of Silly Wizard
* Phil Cunningham, Scottish folk musician, member of Silly Wizard
* Cytherea, American pornographic actress.
* Brian Keith Dalton, the creator, producer and main character of Mr Deity. He coined the term "Formon" for "former Mormon" in 1996.
* Eliza Dushku, actress known for roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Tru Calling, Dollhouse
* Richard Dutcher, independent filmmaker and actor known for films God's Army, God's Army 2: States of Grace, Brigham City
* Aaron Eckhart, Golden Globe Award-nominated actor known for roles in Thank You for Smoking, The Dark Knight, Erin Brockovich
* Mindy Gledhill, singer songwriter
* Tyler Glenn, lead singer for the American rock band Neon Trees
* Ryan Gosling, Academy 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
* 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, composer and musician.
* Mahonri Young, sculptor and grandson of Brigham Young
* Warren Zevon, singer/songwriter

### Business figures

* Bruce Bastian, businessman and philanthropist, co-created WordPerfect software.
* 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

### Sports figures

* Merlin Olsen, NFL star turned TV star
* Mark Schultz (wrestler), Olympic Wrestling Champion.
* 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 and Nobel Laureate
* William Jasper Kerr, president of Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University) from 1907 to 1932
* 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
* Lynn Wilder, Christian author and former Brigham Young University (BYU) professor who has written an ex-Mormon memoir

### Politics

* Rocky Anderson, 33rd mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, 2000–2008
* Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister New Zealand, 2017–2023
* Frank J. Cannon, U.S. Senator from Utah
* Jim Dabakis, Utah state senator.
* James "Bo" Gritz, controversial former United States Army Special Forces officer
* Abby Huntsman, political commentator and great-granddaughter of Apostle David B. Haight
* Jon Huntsman Jr., former Utah governor, former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, China, and Russia, and grandson of Apostle David B. Haight
* 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
* Sterling McMurrin, U.S. Commissioner of Education in the Kennedy administration, provost of the University of Utah, and philosopher
* Culbert Olson, twenty-ninth governor of California
* Esther Peterson, Assistant Secretary of Labor in the Kennedy administration and consumer advocate
* Pro-Life (born Marvin Richardson), politician known for his opposition to abortion and for changing his name to reflect his views
* Calvin Rampton, three-term Utah governor
* Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator from Florida
* Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to multiple U.S. Presidents
* Carrie Sheffield, writer and political analyst
* Kyrsten Sinema, U.S. Senator from Arizona
* Misty Snow, political candidate; first transgender nominee for a major U.S. political party to the nation's Senate
* Obert C. Tanner, founder of the O.C. Tanner Company, philanthropist, and philosophy professor
* Morris Udall, Arizona Congressman and presidential candidate
* Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Arizona congressman, environmental activist, attorney, and author
* Tom Udall, U.S. Senator for New Mexico
* Jenny Wilson (politician), Salt Lake County Mayor
* Ted Wilson (mayor), former Salt Lake City mayor
* Carl Wimmer, member of the Utah House of Representatives from 2006 to 2012

### Miscellaneous

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

## Excommunicated members

* Lavina Fielding Anderson, scholar, writer, editor, and feminist
* Martha Beck, sociologist, life coach, best-selling author, and columnist for O, The Oprah Magazine
* Arthur Gary Bishop, serial killer and child molester
* Fawn M. Brodie, biographer and history professor
* Jason Derek Brown, 489th fugitive to be placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list
* Ted Bundy convicted serial killer and rapist
* John Dehlin, founder of the Mormon Stories podcast
* James J. Hamula, former LDS general authority
* 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; posthumously reinstated by the LDS Church in 1946
* Sonia Johnson, feminist and a Peace and Freedom Party presidential nominee
* Kate Kelly, lawyer and feminist, advocate of woman holding the priesthood
* Ogden Kraut, independent Mormon fundamentalist author
* Deborah Laake, wrote an ex-Mormon memoir.
* George P. Lee, former LDS general authority, convicted child molester
* Bob Lonsberry, writer and talk radio host, expelled for "bad conduct" prior to 2001, has since rejoined
* David Charles Manners, British writer and charity co-founder
* Leonard Matlovich, Bronze Star Medal recipient and gay US Air Force veteran
* 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
* Connell O'Donovan, American historian, biographer, and genealogist
* D. Michael Quinn, LDS historian
* Denver Snuffer, Utah lawyer and author of books on LDS doctrine
* Simon Southerton, molecular biologist
* Paul Toscano, attorney and author
* Dan Vogel, LDS Historian
* George D. Watt, secretary to Brigham Young and compiler of the Journal of Discourses
* Ann Eliza Young, ex-wife of Brigham Young