It might come as a surprise to you that the famous people on this list are or were followers of the Mormon religion. Some of the people on this list might shock you.
Chelsea Handler
Handler was raised by a Mormon mother and a Jewish father.
Amy Adams
Amy Adams was raised Mormon, though her family left the church after her parents divorced.
Roseanne Barr
Roseanne Barr's first public performances were lecturing to LDS churches in Utah, when she was six.
David Archuleta
Archuleta described his experience on American Idol as "in a way, a [Mormon] mission."
Christina Aguilera
Aguilera's parents apparently met at BYU.
Ryan Gosling
"We were brought up pretty religious. My mother admits it: She says, you were raised by a religious zealot. She's different now, but at the time, it was a part of everything - what they ate, how they thought."
Gladys Knight
Gladys Knight converted to Mormonism as a way of escaping her gambling addiction.
Jewel
Jewel was raised Mormon, but stopped attending church when she was young.
Orson Scott Card
This one's for the nerds. (And, for the super-nerds, Brandon Sanderson is also Mormon.)
Andy Reid
Aaron Eckhart
Eliza Dushku
Glenn Beck
Harry Reid
Jon Heder
Julianne Hough
Katherine Heigl
Ken Jennings
Paul Walker
Ricky Schroder
Todd Heap
Wilford Brimley
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