Notable People from Oregon

Keith Christopher

actor/singer (1957-1998)

Happy Smith

American baseball player (1883–1961)

Julia Butler Hansen

American politician (1907-1988)

Phil Rogers

Welsh potter

James B. Thayer

United States military officer and businessman

Dallen Bounds

American serial killer (1971-1999)

Ray Strong

American artist (1905-2006)

Lauren Gale

American basketball player (1917-1996)

Ivor Darreg

American composer (1917-1994)

Ben Harrell

United States Army general

Jules Eckert Goodman

American writer

Hollie Pihl

American judge

Bill Naito

businessman (1925-1996)

Helen Savier DuMond

American painter (1872–1968)

Lloyd Nosler

American film director

Sally Bush

American photographer (1860–1946)

David R. Kingsley

United States Army Air Forces Medal of Honor recipient (1918-1944)

Dean F. Bryson

American politician (1910-1995)

Amparito Farrar

American opera singer (1893-1989)

Yellow Wolf

Nez Perce warrior, born 1855, died 1935, fought in Nez Perce War with Chief Joseph, subject of book "Yellow Wolf: My Life"

Elias Porter

American psychologist

David Favrholdt

Danish philosopher (1931-2012)

Albert Bilicke

American real estate broker (1861-1915)

William Cameron McKay

Physician and military guide from Oregon.

Scott D. Sundberg

American botanist (1954-2004)

Jacob DeShazer

Awarded both the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Purple Heart (1912-2008)

Loren R. Kaufman

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient

Karen Schmeer

American film editor (1970–2010)

Len Younce

American football player (1917-2000)

Ellis W. Carter

American cinematographer (1906-1964)

Kenneth N. Taylor

American writer

Marion Eugene Carl

US Marine Corps general and flying ace

Carolyn B. Shelton

politician

John R. Isbell

American mathematician

Mendel Sachs

physicist

Clayton Jacobson II

Norwegian-American inventor

Martin Hynes

American actor and director

Robert G. Thompson

American politician (1915–1965)

Edward Alan Knapp

Physicist and Director of the National Science Foundation

Max Steineke

American petroleum geologist

Gordon Jones

American baseball player and coach (1930-1994)

Edward Kelly

Catholic bishop

Vic Sears

American football player (1918-2006)

Louis Albert Banks

American Methodist minister and religious writer

Matthew B. Brown

American historian

Charles Crookham

American judge (1923-2004)

Maureen Murphy

American swimmer

Cliff Chambers

American baseball player

Ed Wilkinson

American baseball player

Walter C. Winslow

American judge