List of Famous people born in Oregon, United States of America
George Olsen
George Edward Olsen Sr. was an American bandleader.
Danny Way
Danny Way is an American professional skateboarder, company owner and rallycross driver who has been awarded Thrasher magazine's "Skater of the Year" award twice. He is known for extreme stunts, such as jumping into a skateboard ramp from a helicopter; that was featured on the cover of Transworld Skateboarding magazine. Matt Hoffman has been credited for pioneering megaramps, including one that Danny Way used to jump the Great Wall of China on a skateboard.
Craig Wasson
Craig Wasson is an American actor. He made his film debut in Rollercoaster (1977). He is best known for his roles as Jake Scully in Brian DePalma's Body Double (1984), and Neil Gordon in Chuck Russell's A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987). For his role as Danilo Prozor in Arthur Penn's Four Friends (1981), he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
Johnny Ray Gill
Johnny Ray Gill is an American stage and screen actor.
Joseph Poindexter
Joseph Boyd Poindexter was the eighth Territorial Governor of Hawaii and served from 1934 to 1942.
Julien Josephson
Julien Josephson was an American motion picture screenwriter. His career spanned between 1914 and 1943. He was a native of Roseburg, Oregon.
Don Barclay
Don Barclay was an American actor, artist and caricaturist whose many roles stretched the period from the Keystone Cops in 1915 to Mary Poppins in 1964 and whose many paintings and caricatures of celebrities filled establishments worldwide and are archived in the Library of Congress.
RJD2
Ramble Jon Krohn, better known by his stage name RJD2, is an American musician based in Columbus, Ohio. He is the owner of record label RJ's Electrical Connections. He has been a member of groups such as Soul Position, MHz Legacy, and Icebird. According to Wired, his stage name derives from Star Wars droid R2-D2.
Ernest Haycox
Ernest James Haycox was an American author of Western fiction.
Harold Young
Harold Young was an American film director, editor, and occasional actor.