Notable People from Oregon

Jim Pepper

American Kaw-Muscogee Creek jazz musician (1941-1992)

Wendell Wyatt

American politician (1917–2009)

Harold Elmer Anthony

American zoologist (1890-1970)

Harry Everett Smith

American visual artist, experimental filmmaker, record collector, bohemian, mystic, and largely self-taught student of anthropology (1923–1991)

Edwin Reinecke

American politician (1924–2016)

Paul Wexler

American actor (1929-1979)

Terry Carr

American writer and editor (1937-1987)

Judi Meredith

American actress (1936-2014)

Frederick Steiwer

Lawyer, Politician and United States Army officer (1883-1939)

Jean Carmen

American actress (1913-1993)

Robert A. Johnson

American writer and psychologist (1921-2018)

Jeanne M. Holm

United States general (1921–2010)

Ken Williams

American baseball player

Robert Blanche

American actor (1962-2020)

Jack Nichols

American basketball player (1926-1992)

Lee Morse

American singer (1897-1954)

Consuelo Kanaga

American photographer and writer (1894–1978)

Blanche Bates

American actress (1873-1941)

John F. Nugent

American politician (1868-1931)

John Callahan

cartoonist (1951–2010)

James T. Goodrich

American neurosurgeon (1946-2020)

Harrison Greene

actor (1884-1945)

Charles O. Porter

American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1919-2006)

George Olsen

American bandleader (1893-1971)

Ballard MacDonald

American lyricist (1882–1935)

Julien Josephson

American screenwriter (1881–1959)

Arthur Chin

American World War II flying ace (1913–1997)

Norton Simon

American art collector (1907-1993)

Richard Threlkeld Cox

American physicist

Gerald Pearson

American physicist

Wally Boag

American performer (1920–2011)

Thelma Parr

actress (1906-2000)

George Shaw

American footballer (1933-1998)

Daniel S. Kemp

American chemist (1936–2020)

Booth Colman

American actor

Corinne Barker

American actress

Virginia Admiral

American painter and poet (1915-2000)

Portland Hoffa

American actress (1905-1990)

John Alexander Simpson

American physicist and science educator, veteran of the Manhattan Project (1916-2000)

Art Barr

American professional wrestler (1966–1994)

Armand Lohikoski

Finnish filmmaker

Dallas McKennon

American actor (1919–2009)

Herbert Henri Jasper

Canadian neurologist, psychologist, physiologist, anatomist, and chemist (1906–1999)

Bob Johnson

American actor and voice actor (1920-1993)

Arthur F. Wright

American sinologist (1913-1976)

Denny Moyer

American boxer

Robert N. Stanfield

American politician, Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives and Senator for Oregon (1877–1945)

Herbert Kerrigan

American high jumper (1879–1959)

Chico Vaughn

American basketball player (1940-2013)

Marcia Van Dyke

American violinist and actress