List of Famous people born in Oregon, United States of America
Laura Allen
Laura Allen is an American actress. She starred as Lily Tyler during the first two seasons of the USA Network show The 4400.
Marsha J. Pechman
Marsha J. Pechman is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Bill Bowerman
William Jay Bowerman was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc. Over his career, he trained 31 Olympic athletes, 51 All-Americans, 12 American record-holders, 22 NCAA champions and 16 sub-4 minute milers. He disliked being called a coach and during his 24 years at the University of Oregon, the Ducks track and field team had a winning season every season but one, attained 4 NCAA titles, and finished in the top 10 in the nation 16 times. As co-founder of Nike, he invented some of their top brands, including the Cortez and Waffle Racer, and assisted in the company moving from being a distributor of other shoe brands to one creating their own shoes in house.
Tucker Knight
Levi Rolla Cooper is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Tucker.
Evan Dunham
Evan Neil Dunham is an American professional mixed martial artist competing in the lightweight division. He is perhaps best known for 21-fight tenure in the Ultimate Fighting Championship which spanned over a decade.
Preacher Lawson
Preacher Lawson is an American comedian. He is known for being a finalist on the 12th season of America's Got Talent. He returned for America's Got Talent: The Champions, where he finished in 5th place overall.
Justin Wilcox
Justin Draper Wilcox is an American football coach and former player. Since 2017, he is the head football coach at the University of California, Berkeley.
Robert Freeman Smith
Robert Freeman Smith, commonly known as Bob Smith, was an American Republican politician who represented Oregon in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995 and from 1997 to 1999.
Gordon Scott
Gordon Scott was an American film and television actor known for his portrayal of the fictional character Tarzan in five films of the Tarzan film series from 1955 to 1960. Gordon Scott was the eleventh Tarzan, starting with Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle (1955). He was "discovered" poolside, and offered "a seven-year contract, a loin cloth, and a new last name."
Kathleen Hanna
Kathleen Hanna is an American singer, musician, artist, feminist activist, pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, and punk zine writer. In the early-to-mid-1990s she was the lead singer of feminist punk band Bikini Kill, before fronting Le Tigre in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Since 2010, she has recorded as The Julie Ruin.