List of Famous people born in Oregon, United States of America

Thomas Mann

First Name Thomas
Last Name Mann
Born on September 27, 1991 (age 34)

Thomas Randall Mann Jr. is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the films Project X (2012), Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), and Kong: Skull Island (2017).

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Casey Martin

First Name Casey
Last Name Martin
Born on June 2, 1972 (age 53)

Casey Martin is an American professional golfer and the current men's golf head coach at the University of Oregon.

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Douglas Engelbart

First Name Douglas
Last Name Engelbart
Born on January 30, 1925
Died on July 2, 2013 (aged 88)

Douglas Carl Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer. He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly while at his Augmentation Research Center Lab in SRI International, which resulted in creation of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces. These were demonstrated at The Mother of All Demos in 1968. Engelbart's law, the observation that the intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential, is named after him.

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Forrest Smithson

First Name Forrest
Last Name Smithson
Born on September 26, 1884
Died on November 24, 1962 (aged 78)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Forrest Custer Smithson was an American athlete, winner of 110 m hurdles at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

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Joel David Moore

First Name Joel
Last Name Moore
Born on September 25, 1977 (age 48)
Height 189 cm | 6'2

Joel David Moore is an American character actor and director. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Moore studied acting in college before relocating to Los Angeles to pursue a film career. His first major role was as Owen Dittman in the 2004 comedy DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, followed by roles in the comedy Grandma's Boy (2006), Terry Zwigoff's Art School Confidential (2006), and the independent slasher film Hatchet (2006).

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Chief Joseph

First Name Chief
Last Name Joseph
Born on March 3, 1840
Died on September 21, 1904 (aged 64)

Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, popularly known as Chief Joseph, Young Joseph, or Joseph the Younger, was a leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States, in the latter half of the 19th century. He succeeded his father Tuekakas in the early 1870s.

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Nicholas Edwards

First Name Nicholas
Last Name Edwards
Born on July 31, 1992 (age 33)

Nicholas "Nyk" Edwards is a Japanese–American singer and actor from Hillsboro, Oregon. He is the winner of the October 11th, 2011 and October 7, 2012 broadcasts of the Japanese singing competition Nodojiman The World.

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Carl Barks

First Name Carl
Last Name Barks
Born on March 27, 1901
Died on August 25, 2000 (aged 99)

Carl Barks was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his work in Disney comic books, as the writer and artist of the first Donald Duck stories and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck. He worked anonymously until late in his career; fans dubbed him The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist. In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

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Tommy Ford

First Name Tommy
Last Name Ford
Born on March 20, 1989 (age 37)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Tommy Ford is a World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. He specializes in giant slalom and super-G; his best World Cup result to date is a first place finish at a giant slalom event in December of 2019. He has represented the US in two Winter Olympics and four World Championships.

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Cecil D. Andrus

First Name Cecil
Last Name Andrus
Born on August 25, 1931
Died on August 24, 2017 (aged 85)

Cecil Dale Andrus was an American politician who served fourteen years as the Governor of Idaho. A Democrat, he also served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1977 to 1981 during the Carter Administration. Andrus lost his first gubernatorial election in 1966, but won four and his 14 years as governor is the most in state history. He is the most recent Democrat to have held the office.

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