Notable People from Oregon

Ann T. Bowling

American geneticist

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)

Terry Carr

American writer and editor (1937-1987)

Edwin Reinecke

American politician (1924–2016)

Paul Wexler

American actor (1929-1979)

Frederick Steiwer

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

Jean Carmen

American actress (1913-1993)

Jeanne M. Holm

United States general (1921–2010)

Judi Meredith

American actress (1936-2014)

Ken Williams

American baseball player

Robert Blanche

American actor (1962-2020)

Jack Nichols

American basketball player (1926-1992)

Robert A. Johnson

American writer and psychologist (1921-2018)

Lee Morse

American singer (1897-1954)

Blanche Bates

American actress (1873-1941)

Consuelo Kanaga

American photographer and writer (1894–1978)

John F. Nugent

American politician (1868-1931)

John Callahan

cartoonist (1951–2010)

James T. Goodrich

American neurosurgeon (1946-2020)

Harrison Greene

actor (1884-1945)

George Olsen

American bandleader (1893-1971)

Dallas McKennon

American actor (1919–2009)

Ballard MacDonald

American lyricist (1882–1935)

Julien Josephson

American screenwriter (1881–1959)

Norton Simon

American art collector (1907-1993)

Charles O. Porter

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

Richard Threlkeld Cox

American physicist

Arthur Chin

American World War II flying ace (1913–1997)

Wally Boag

American performer (1920–2011)

Thelma Parr

actress (1906-2000)

George Shaw

American footballer (1933-1998)

Daniel S. Kemp

American chemist (1936–2020)

Gerald Pearson

American physicist

Booth Colman

American actor

Corinne Barker

American actress

Portland Hoffa

American actress (1905-1990)

Virginia Admiral

American painter and poet (1915-2000)

John Alexander Simpson

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

Armand Lohikoski

Finnish filmmaker

Arthur F. Wright

American sinologist (1913-1976)

Herbert Henri Jasper

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

Bob Johnson

American actor and voice actor (1920-1993)

Denny Moyer

American boxer

Art Barr

American professional wrestler (1966–1994)

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)

Steve Raines

American actor (1916–1996)

Mickey Lolich

American professional baseball player, Major League Baseball pitcher