List of Famous people born in Oregon, United States of America
Dennis Dunaway
Dennis Dunaway is an American musician, best known as the original bass guitarist for the rock band Alice Cooper . He co-wrote some of the band's most notable songs, including "I'm Eighteen" and "School's Out".
Victor G. Atiyeh
Victor George Atiyeh was an American politician who served as the 32nd Governor of Oregon from 1979 to 1987. He was also the first elected governor of Syrian descent in the United States.
Leonard Stone
Leonard Stone was an American character actor who played supporting roles in over 120 television shows and 35 films.
Lije Sarki
Nick Lyon
Nick Lyon is a Los Angeles-based film director and screenwriter. A native of Pocatello, Idaho, he spent 9 years in Germany where he attended the renowned Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
Jessy J
Jessica Arellano, better known by her stage name Jessy J, is an American musician in the Smooth jazz music genre.
Jeremy Maxwell
Daniel S. Kemp
Daniel Schaeffer Kemp was an American organic chemist, an emeritus professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kemp's work was focused on the synthesis and conformational analysis of peptides. He developed several chemical ligation strategies and methods for templating the formation of helices and sheets. The eponymous Kemp's triacid and the Kemp elimination reaction are among his developments. He was the author of an organic chemistry textbook. He died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts.
Time Winters
Max Records
Maxwell Records is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Max in the film Where the Wild Things Are, for which he won the 2009 Young Artist Award for Best Leading Young Actor in a Feature Film, and as Slater Pedulla in The Sitter. He starred in the lead role of John Wayne Cleaver in the 2016 film titled I Am Not A Serial Killer based on the Dan Wells' 2009 novel of the same name which received positive reviews and ratings. He has also appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show.