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Top 10 Famous People You Didn’t Know Were Mormons

Freedom of religion or belief, including the ability to worship in peace and security, is a universal human right. It is a Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Everyone has the right to freedom of conscience and religion.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says that everyone in the United States has the right to practice his or her religion, or no religion at all. Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. In the article are the top ten famous people you didn’t know were Mormons.

1. Truman O. Angell

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Truman Osborn Angell was an American architect who served many years as the official architect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was the brother-in-law of Brigham Young. He was a member of the vanguard company of Mormon pioneers that entered the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847.

Truman designed the Salt Lake Temple, the Lion House, the Beehive House, the Utah Territorial Statehouse, the St. George Utah Temple, and other public buildings. Angell’s modifications to the Salt Lake Tabernacle are credited with perfecting the acoustics for which the building is famous.

2. Joseph Parker

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Joseph Dennis Parker is a New Zealand professional boxer. He held the WBO heavyweight title from 2016 to 2018. At the regional level, he has held multiple heavyweight championships, including the WBO Oriental, Africa, and Oceania titles; as well as the PABA, OPBF, and New Zealand titles.

As an amateur, he represented New Zealand at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the super-heavyweight division, and narrowly missed qualification for the 2012 Summer Olympics. All in all, Parker was a Mormon.

3. Larry Scott

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Larry Dee Scott the Legend and the Golden Boy of America was an IFBB professional bodybuilder. He won the inaugural 1965 Mr Olympia competition and defended the crown at the 1966 Mr Olympia contest before retiring. He retired at 28 which shocked the world. However, it was a reasonable retirement because he wanted to focus on his second marriage. Larry was a Mormon.

4. Casey Patterson

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Well, Casey Patterson was a Mormon if you never about him. He is a professional American beach volleyball player based out of Huntington Beach, CA. Patterson and his former teammate, Jake Gibb, also a Mormon, were named the USAV Team of the Year as well as AVP Team of the Year for 2013.

Casey himself was named AVP Best Offensive Player in 2013. He has had a total of fifteen 1st-place finishes during his professional career. Patterson and Gibb competed for the United States in beach volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

5. Billy Casper

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William Earl Casper Jr. was an American professional golfer. He was one of the most prolific tournament winners on the PGA Tour from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. Casper started as a caddie and emerged from the junior golf hotbed of San Diego, where golf could be played year-round, to rank seventh all-time in career Tour wins with 51, across 20 years between 1956 and 1975.

He won three major championships and represented the United States on a then-record eight Ryder Cup teams. He also holds the U.S. record for career Ryder Cup points won. After reaching age 50, Casper regularly played the Senior PGA Tour and was a winner there until 1989. Casper developed businesses in golf course design and management of golf facilities after retiring.

6. Chyna

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Chyna born Joan Marie Laurer was an American professional wrestler, bodybuilder and television personality. She first became famous and popular in the World Wrestling Federation WWE in 1997, where she was billed as “The Ninth Wonder of the World” since André the Giant was already billed as the eighth.

She was also the first woman to participate in the Royal Rumble match and King of the Ring tournament, in addition to becoming the number one contender to the WWF which currently is WWE Championship.

She is considered one of the biggest stars of the Attitude Era. Chyna appeared in Playboy magazine twice, plus numerous television shows and films. She was considered a sex symbol. In 2019, Chyna was posthumously entered into the WWE Hall of Fame as a member of D-Generation X, making her the first woman to be inducted as a part of a group or team.

7. Brian Crane

Brian Crane is an American cartoonist who created Pickles, a comic strip featuring a retired couple, Earl and Opal Pickles, their family, and their family pets, Muffin (cat) and Roscoe (dog). Brian began drawing at an early age, according to accounts by his mother and hoped to grow up to be a comic strip artist.

Crane served a mission in Uruguay and graduated with a BA degree from Brigham Young University in 1973. He was first a graphic designer and art director, working for publishing companies, art studios and advertising agencies. This was because he never knew he had the writing talent or ability to create new content daily.

When he got near the age of forty he began reminiscing about his childhood dream of doing a newspaper comic strip, so he created Pickles, a strip about an elderly couple, their daughter, their grandson, and their pets.

8. Ricky Schroder

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Richard Bartlett Schroder is an American actor and filmmaker. As a child actor billed as Ricky Schroder he debuted in the film The Champ (1979), for which he became the youngest Golden Globe award recipient, and went on to become a child star on the sitcom Silver Spoons.

He has continued acting as an adult, usually billed as Rick Schroder, notably as “Newt” on the Western miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989) and in the crime-drama series NYPD Blue. He made his directorial debut with the film Black Cloud (2004) and has produced several films and television series including the anthology film Locker 13 and the war documentary The Fighting Season.

 9. Jonathan Browning

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Jonathan Browning was an American inventor and gunsmith. He began his career as a blacksmith. By 1824 Browning switched to becoming a gunsmith after an apprenticeship with Samuel Porter in Nashville.

He began producing firearms independently by 1831 and shortly thereafter invented a “sliding breech” repeating rifle also called a Harmonica gun between 1834 and 1842 while living in Quincy, Illinois. Each Harmonica gun took two weeks to manufacture by hand and the cost of each was $24.00.

10. Jeffry Flake

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Jeffry Lane Flake is an American politician and diplomat who is the current U.S. Ambassador to Turkey. A member of the Republican Party, Flake served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013 and in the United States Senate from 2013 to 2019, representing Arizona.

He was nominated by Democratic president Joe Biden and confirmed by the Senate for his ambassador post on October 26, 2021. He presented his credentials to Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan at the Presidential Complex of the Republic of Turkey in Ankara on January 26, 2022.