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

Daniel Kountz is an American actor and realtor. He got his first taste of acting in the third grade, when he played "Tiny Tim" in a school play. He now resides in Los Angeles, California.

Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine was an American long-distance runner who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics. While running for the Oregon Track Club, Prefontaine set American records at every distance from 2,000 to 10,000 meters, as he prepared for the 1976 Olympics. Prefontaine's career, alongside those of Jim Ryun, Frank Shorter, and Bill Rodgers, generated considerable media coverage, which helped inspire the 1970s "running boom." He died when aged 24 in an automobile accident near his residence in Eugene, Oregon. One of the premier track meets in the world, the Prefontaine Classic, is held annually in Eugene in his honor. Prefontaine's celebrity and charisma later resulted in two 1990s feature films about his short life.

Kendrick L. Bourne is an American football wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Eastern Washington.

June Sheldon Jones III is an American football coach and former player who served as head coach and general manager of the Houston Roughnecks. Jones was the head football coach at the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 1999 to 2007 and was the head football coach at Southern Methodist University (SMU) from 2008 to 2014, before resigning on September 8, 2014. Previously, he coached in the National Football League (NFL): a three-year tenure as head coach of the Atlanta Falcons from 1994 to 1996 and a ten-game stint as interim head coach of the San Diego Chargers in 1998; he also spent 1½ seasons as head coach of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Canadian Football League (CFL).

Mark August Helfrich is an American football coach who is currently an analyst for Fox Sports. He was the head coach for the University of Oregon from 2013 to 2016 before getting fired after a 4–8 record in the 2016 season. He most recently served as the offensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears from 2018 to 2019.

Travis Andrew Knight is an American animator, producer, director, and former rapper who has worked as the lead animator for stop-motion animation studio Laika, and directed the films Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) and Bumblebee (2018).

Jacob Hollister is an American football tight end for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL).

Damon Lamon Stoudamire is an American retired professional basketball player and the current head men's basketball coach at the University of the Pacific. The 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m), 171 lb (78 kg) point guard was selected with the 7th overall pick by the Toronto Raptors in the 1995 NBA draft and won the 1995–96 NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He played collegiately at the University of Arizona, and professionally for the Toronto Raptors, Portland Trail Blazers, Memphis Grizzlies and San Antonio Spurs.

Neal Martin Falls was an American suspected serial killer who was shot and killed in self-defense by Heather Saul, a sex worker in Charleston, West Virginia. Falls had been stopped by police in over twenty states during his life but did not incur any serious criminal charges. Only after his death did police discover evidence possibly tying Falls to other crimes.

Cathy Anne McMorris Rodgers is an American politician who is the U.S. Representative for Washington's 5th congressional district, which encompasses the eastern third of the state and includes Spokane, the state's second largest city. A Republican, McMorris Rodgers previously served in the Washington House of Representatives. From 2013 to 2019, she was the Chair of the House Republican Caucus.