- President and CEO of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics Games.
- Is a Mormon.
- Was the governor of Massachusetts when it became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage.
- His efforts in saving the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics (including turning a $400 million revenue deficit into a $100 million surplus and ensuring their security after the then-recent attacks on 9/11) were so well-regarded that Harvard Business School taught a case study based around his efforts.
- His favourite film are Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and Henry V (1989).
- Governor of Massachusetts, 2 January 2003 - 4 January 2007.
- His father, George Romney, was a candidate for President in 1968, but ultimately lost the nomination to Richard Nixon.
- Lived in France for 2 and a half years in the 1960s and so speaks French.
- Father, with Ann Romney, of five sons: Ben Romney, Craig Romney, Josh Romney, Matt Romney and Tagg Romney.
- Friend of Benjamin Netanyahu, since 1985, when they were both recruited by Boston Consulting Group in Boston.
- Stated in an interview that his favorite novel is "Battlefield Earth" by L. Ron Hubbard.
- He has English, Scottish, German, and distant French, ancestry. Mitt's father was born in Colonia Dublán, Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico, to American parents. One of Mitt's paternal great-grandmothers was German, and Mitt's maternal grandfather was an English immigrant. Through Mitt's maternal grandmother's line, he is a ninth cousin of actor Zach Braff. Mitt and Zach are both descendants of Francis Nurse (c. 1619-1695), and of his wife, Rebecca Nurse (1621-1692), a woman who was hanged in the Salem, Massachusetts, witch trials, after being falsely accused of practicing witchcraft.
- 2012 GOP presidential candidate.
- Son of George Romney and Lenore Romney.
- 1994 Republican U.S. senatorial candidate.
- Uncle of Ronna Romney McDaniel.
- Brother of Scott Romney, Lynn Romney and Jane Romney.
- Republican U.S. senator from Utah, 3 January 2019-present.
- Cousin of Don Bluth.
- Has his look-alike puppet in the French show Les Guignols de l'info (1988).
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