List of Latter Day Saints - Educators and Scholars

Educators and Scholars

• David A. Bednar, president of Brigham Young University-Idaho (1997–2005)
• Michael T. Benson, president of Southern Utah University (2006–present)
• Richard Bushman, professor of history emeritus at Columbia University
• Stanford Cazier, president of California State University, Chico (1971–1979) and Utah State University (1979–1992)
• Clayton Christensen, Robert and Jane Cizik professor of business administration at Harvard Business School
• Kim B. Clark, Brigham Young University-Idaho president, 2005–present; dean of Harvard Business School (1995–2005); professor
• Henry B. Eyring, president of Ricks College (1972–77), associate professor of business at Stanford University, Sloan visiting faculty fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Harvey Fletcher, head of physical research at Bell Laboratories, developed modern science of acoustics. He was the first to demonstrate stereophonic transmission and stereophonic recording. In 1939 while working with Leopold Stokowski, he presented a concert featuring stereophonic recording to a capacity crowd in Carnegie Hall in New York. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir was heard singing in three dimension to this vast audience
• Gordon Gee, president of Ohio State University
• Jeffrey R. Holland, commissioner of church education; Brigham Young University president (1980–1989)
• Rex E. Lee, Brigham Young University president (1989–1995); inaugural J. Reuben Clark Law School dean; United States Solicitor General
• Karl G. Maeser, Brigham Young University president (1876–1892)
• Robert J. Matthews, scriptural scholar and Brigham Young University dean (1926–2009)
• Neal A. Maxwell, commissioner of church education, executive vice president of the University of Utah
• Dean Lowe May, historian, University of Utah, author and documentary filmmaker
• Whitney K. Newey, Econometrician and Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Hugh Nibley, Brigham Young University professor, scholar, writer
• Dallin H. Oaks, Brigham Young University president (1971–1980); justice of Utah Supreme Court (1980–1984)
• V. Lane Rawlins, Washington State University president (2000–2007)
• Cecil O. Samuelson, Brigham Young University president (2003–present)
• Eric B. Shumway, Brigham Young University-Hawaii president (1994–2007)
• Steven C. Wheelwright, Brigham Young University-Hawaii president