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

Kenneth Ross MacKenzie together with Dale R. Corson and Emilio Segrè, synthesized the element astatine, in 1940. MacKenzie received his PhD under Ernest Lawrence at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Lawrence, MacKenzie, and their colleagues devised the first cyclotron. He was a professor of physics at UCLA, where he and Reg Richardson built UCLA's first cyclotron and later a bevatron. MacKenzie devised MacKenzie buckets which are plasma sources created by lining vacuum chamber walls with permanent magnets of alternating polarity to suppress plasma electron losses, that are widely used to this day. He later traveled around the world, helping to troubleshoot various country's cyclotron problems. Later in life, he studied plasma physics and dark matter.

Ehren Kenneth McGhehey is an American stunt performer and actor. He is best known as one of the crew members of the reality stunt show Jackass.

Michael A. Rich is an American screenwriter best known for his writing on sports-related films.

Lorry I. Lokey is an American businessperson and philanthropist. A native of Portland, Oregon, he founded the company Business Wire in 1961 and has donated in excess of $700 million to charities, with the majority of the money given to schools. He resides in San Francisco, California.

Christopher Lee Thompson is an American former competition swimmer who won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the men's 1,500-meter freestyle. He was the second American swimmer to break the 15-minute mark in the 1,500-meter freestyle, and held the American record for four years.

Alexander Robert Frost is an American actor best known for his role in Elephant and Drillbit Taylor.

James Patrick "Mash" Dutton, Jr. is an engineer, NASA astronaut pilot of the Class of 2004, and a former test pilot in the US Air Force with the rank of colonel.

D. Scott Davis is an American businessman and the chairman of the board of directors United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS). He was the company's chief executive officer until August 30, 2014.

Earl Francis Blumenauer is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Oregon's 3rd congressional district since 1996. A member of the Democratic Party, his district includes most of Portland east of the Willamette River. Blumenauer previously spent over 20 years as a public official in Portland, including serving on the Portland City Council from 1987 until 1996, when he succeeded Ron Wyden in the U.S. House of Representatives, who had been elected to the U.S. Senate following the resignation of Bob Packwood.

Ann A. Kiessling is an American reproductive biologist and one of the leaders in human parthenogenic stem cell research at The Bedford Research Foundation. She was an associate professor in teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School from 1985 until 2012.