The 15 Most Famous BYU Alumni

Quarterbacks, novelists, a game-show record holder and a TV pioneer went through the same Provo campus. Choose the name that carries furthest.

1. 1
   Steve Young

   Hall of Fame 49ers quarterback and Super Bowl XXIX MVP who starred at BYU.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Ty Detmer

   BYU's 1990 Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback.
   927pts
3. 3
   Mark Rober

   BYU mechanical engineering graduate who went to NASA's JPL and then to YouTube stardom.
   877pts
4. 4
   Jon Heder

   Napoleon Dynamite himself, a film made by fellow BYU students.
   709pts
5. 5
   Mitt Romney

   BYU valedictorian who became Massachusetts governor, a presidential nominee and a Utah senator.
   709pts
6. 6
   Danny Ainge

   Two-time NBA champion with the Celtics and later their president of basketball operations.
   600pts
7. 7
   Dan Reynolds

   Imagine Dragons frontman, who attended BYU before the band broke through.
   600pts
8. 8
   Aaron Eckhart

   Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight, who earned his film degree at BYU.
   600pts
9. 9
   Jim McMahon

   Record-setting BYU passer who won Super Bowl XX with the 1985 Chicago Bears.
   466pts
10. 10
    Brandon Sanderson

    Fantasy author of Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive, who also teaches writing at BYU.
    466pts
11. 11
    Ken Jennings

    Jeopardy! champion of 74 straight games and later the show's host.
    0pts
12. 12
    Philo Farnsworth

    Inventor of the first fully electronic television system, who studied at BYU in the 1920s.
    0pts
13. 13
    Jimmer Fredette

    2011 national player of the year whose deep threes started 'Jimmermania'.
    0pts
14. 14
    Stephenie Meyer

    Author of the Twilight saga, a BYU English graduate.
    0pts
15. 15
    Taysom Hill

    The New Orleans Saints' do-everything quarterback, tight end and special-teamer.
    0pts

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