- Terri Irwin
Terri Raines Irwin, AM (born July 20, 1964) is an American-born naturalist, the widow of Australian naturalist Steve Irwin, and owner of Australia Zoo at Beerwah, Queensland, Australia. She co-starred with her husband on "The Crocodile Hunter", their unconventional television nature documentary series, as well as their spinoff series, "The Crocodile Hunter Diaries" and the "Croc Files". She has lived in Australia since 1992, when she married Irwin.
- Kitty Piercy
"Kitty" Piercy is the current mayor of Eugene, Oregon, sworn in January of 2005. The press dubbed Piercy's election part of a "shift to the left" for the Eugene City Council.
- Justin King
Justin King is a virtuoso guitarist from Eugene, Oregon. Justin is renowned for his percussive acoustic style which mixes elements of Flamenco, Jazz, Celtic, Classical, African, Mainstream and Rock Music.
- Suzanne Swift
Suzanne Swift (July 15 1984 -) is a Specialist in the United States Army. She is most noted for going AWOL from the Army when she received new orders to deploy to Iraq, after her charges of sexual assault from her first deployment had continued to go unanswered.
- John Zerzan
John Zerzan (born 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. His works criticise (agricultural) civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of prehistoric humans as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Some of his criticism has extended as far as challenging domestication, language, symbolic thought (such as mathematics and art) and the concept of time.
- Paul Wright
Paul Wright is an American singer, author and musician originally from Eugene, Oregon. His debut LP was called "Fly Away" recorded in Oregon with Christopher Stevens. He graduated from Northwest Christian College with a degree in Communications. He was the starting point guard for the basketball team and won two national championships. Wright has lived in Martha's Vineyard, Nashville and San Diego. His latest record is called "Sunrise to Sunset".
- Tracy Bonham
Tracy Bonham (born 16 March 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a Grammy-nominated American musician best known for her single "Mother Mother". Raised in Eugene, Oregon, Bonham is a classically trained violinist and pianist. She received two Grammy nominations in 1997 for Best Alternative Performance and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Today, Bonham splits her time between the U.S. West Coast and Brooklyn, New York.
- Danny Ainge
Daniel Ray Ainge (born March 17, 1959 in Eugene, Oregon, USA) is a former professional basketball and baseball player who played in the NBA for the Boston Celtics, Sacramento Kings, Portland Trail Blazers, and Phoenix Suns, and also in Major League Baseball for the Toronto Blue Jays. He is currently the Executive Director of Basketball Operations for the Celtics.
- Grace Llewellyn
Grace Llewellyn is the Welsh author of several books on homeschooling and unschooling. Her best known book is "The Teenage Liberation Handbook" (ISBN 0-9629591-7-0), which she was inspired to write after three years of teaching. She has written three other books and runs the "Not Back to School Camp" where several activities are offered and campers can choose what they find interesting, in keeping with the philosophy of unschooling.
- Corin Tucker
Corin Tucker (born November 9 1972) is a singer and guitarist, best known for her work with rock band Sleater-Kinney.
- David Ogden Stiers
David Ogden Stiers (born October 31, 1942) is an American character actor, voice actor and musician, most noted for his role in the television sitcom "M*A*S*H", and the science fiction drama "The Dead Zone". A connoisseur of classical music, Stiers has been a guest conductor for over 50 orchestras in North America and maintained a position as Associate Conductor of The Newport Symphony Orchestra and the Ernest Bloch Music Festival.
- Nate Jaqua
Nate Jaqua (born Jonathan Jaqua on October 28, 1981 in Eugene, Oregon) is an American soccer forward, who currently plays for the Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer. Jaqua is a graduate of South Eugene High School, where he led his team to two Midwestern League titles and one co-championship with North Bend in 1996. South Eugene took home an Oregon Class 4A state title in 1998.
- Harold Reynolds
Harold Craig Reynolds (born November 26, 1960 in Eugene, Oregon) is a former second baseman in Major League Baseball. He was a native of Corvallis, Oregon and graduated from Corvallis High School. As such, he was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1998. He was a studio analyst on ESPN's "Baseball Tonight" from 1996-2006. Reynolds also was a commentator for ESPN's coverage of the College World Series and Little League World Series.
- Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson (b. June 3, 1943, Peoria, Illinois) is an American runner, running coach, writer, and former chief editor of "Runner's World" magazine. He currently writes for "Marathon & Beyond" magazine, and since 1982, a weekly column entitled "Joe Henderson's Running Commentary". He has authored and coauthored more than two dozen books about the sport of running and fitness, including the best-selling "Marathon Training".
- Gregory Yob
Gregory Yob was an American computer game designer. Gregory was born in Eugene, Oregon. An article about his experiment on simulating gravitational fields with droplets of water on a soap bubble was published in "Scientific American" in December 1964, under "The Amateur Scientist". His one published game, "Hunt the Wumpus" (1972), written while he was attending University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, is one of the earliest adventure games.
- Kailee Wong
Kailee Wong (born May 23, 1976 in Eugene, Oregon) is a former linebacker in the NFL. Recruited by Bill Walsh, and subsequently played collegiately as an All-American at Stanford University. He attended North Eugene High School in Eugene, Oregon. His high school coach was Mike Jodoin; when Walsh recruited Wong, the stipulation being that he would not have to play offense, despite being a record-setting fullback at the high school level.
- Craig Wasson
Craig Wasson (b. March 15, 1954 in Eugene, Oregon, USA) is an American actor who starred in movies and on television. His first feature film was in the 1977 film "Rollercoaster". Later on, he starred in the 1984 suspense movie "Body Double" as Jake Scully, his other big role came in 1987 in the hit horror film "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors" as Dr. Neil Gordon. Craig's most recent film is the 2006 film "Akeelah and the Bee".
- Jim Torrey
Jim Torrey was a Republican candidate for the 2006 Oregon State Senate. He was defeated by incumbent Vicki Walker. Previously, he served eight years as mayor of Eugene, Oregon.
- Zoot Horn Rollo
Bill Harkleroad (aka Zoot Horn Rollo) was guitarist for Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. After recording "some of the most unusual music ever committed to vinyl," he left in 1973 with several other band members to form Mallard. His book, "Lunar Notes", describes some of the tensions between Captain Beefheart and band members, which contributed to the split. He was born in Palmdale, California.
- Kenny Moore
Kenneth ("Kenny") Clark Moore (born December 1, 1943 in Eugene, Oregon) is an American athlete and journalist. At the University of Oregon, Moore was one of Bill Bowerman's finest distance runners. After college, Moore ran in the Olympic marathon at both Mexico City and Munich. He failed to win a medal, however, finishing fourth in 1972. After his track career, Moore became a journalist and screenwriter.
- Blake Stepp
Blake Roy Stepp is an American basketball player who graduated from Gonzaga University and was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2004 NBA Draft. He appeared in a handful of 2004-05 preseason games with the Wolves, but did not manage to make the final cut. He then spent the 2004/05 season playing in Belgrade, Serbia with KK Partizan. During the offseason Stepp joined Valencia BC (Pamesa) in the Spanish League (ACB) for the 2005/06 season.
- Eric A. Stillwell
Eric A. Stillwell (b. 1962, Okinawa, Japan) is a producer and writer who has worked on a number of television series, made-for-television movies, and motion pictures, including numerous "Star Trek" series and motion pictures. Stillwell graduated from the University of Oregon in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in Political Science.
- Anthony Wynn
Anthony Wynn (born 1962, Eugene, Oregon) is an author and playwright. His background includes service in the U.S. Air Force, SHAPE and NATO, the Gulf War (Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm) in Saudi Arabia, and work as a Federal employee for the U.S. Air Force Reserve in Portland, Oregon.
- Brandon Beemer
Brandon Beemer (born in Eugene, Oregon on February 27, 1980) is an American actor. Beemer plays Shawn-Douglas Brady on "Days of our Lives" and made his debut in the role on September 28, 2006. He replaced Jason Cook, who had played the role since October 1999. He worked as a driver at the local Coca-Cola bottling plant.
- Jan Vandertuin
Jan VanderTuin is a bicycle designer and community organizer, who established Human Powered Machines in 1991, in Eugene, Oregon, United States. His primary interest is in relieving urban congestion by building load-carrying workbikes and in working with the community through education of youth in learning about building workbikes. Human Powered Machines produces many types of vehicles including recumbents, utility trailers, folding bicycles, …
- Stephen Stageberg
Stephen Stageberg is an American distance runner. He is also an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Mary Washington.
- Raymond Mikesell
Raymond Mikesell was an economics professor at the University of Oregon and the last surviving economist from the Bretton Woods conference. Mikesell was born in Eaton, Ohio. He received a bachelor's degree from Ohio State University (OSU) and, in 1939, received a doctorate in economics from OSU. During World War II, Mikesell became an adviser to Assistant Treasury Secretary Harry Dexter White. White led the United States' efforts to rebuild the global economy after the war.
- Wendell Wyatt
Wendell Wyatt (b. June 15, 1917) was a Republican United States Representative from Oregon's 1st congressional district who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1964 until 1975.
- Greg Graham
Greg Graham is the head men's basketball coach at Boise State University.
- Jon Jaqua
Jon V. Jaqua (born September 10, 1948 in Eugene, Oregon) was an American football safety in the NFL for the Washington Redskins. He played college football for Lewis & Clark College.
- Mark Budz
Mark Budz is an American science fiction writer. Budz was born on November 1, 1960 in Cherry Hills, New Jersey into a family that traveled prodigiously. In the late 1980s, Mark moved to Oregon to become a full-time writer. Although he began by writing short stories, Mark became interesting in science fiction and wrote a number of novels in this subject, such as "Clade" and "Crache".
- Kimberley Glasco
Kimberley Glasco (born on November 27, 1960 in Eugene, Oregon) is a Canadian ballerina. In 1998, Glasco launched a wrongful dismissal suit against the National Ballet of Canada as a result of artistic director James Kudelka dropping her from the company roster, allegedly because Glasco had questioned the allocation of funds for Kudelka's version of "Swan Lake". In arbitration, Kudelka was ordered to reinstate the ballerina, …
- Eugene Mosher
Gene Mosher (born January 13, 1949 in Watertown, New York) is best known for inventing the graphic touchscreen point of sale computer and is a pioneer of human-computer interaction, including application-specific GUIs and network computing. Mosher is a 1966 graduate of Xaverius College in Borgerhout, Belgium and received a Bachelor's degree in Social Anthropology from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in 1972.
- Fred von Appen
Fred von Appen is a retired American football coach. von Appen is known for his head coaching stint with the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from 1996-1998 and for serving as an assistant coach on a number of NFL and college coaching staffs. von Appen began his coaching career in 1964 at his at his alma mater, Linfield College in Oregon. He earned a master’s degree in secondary education at Linfield in 1965.
- Randy Layton
Randy Layton (September 4, 1959 -) is an American record producer, songwriter, and head of the Alternative Records label, which released albums by The 77's, Robert Vaughn, Steve Scott, Two Pound Planet, and several others. His father, Sonny Richter, was a guitarist who was first featured on 1949 recordings with MGM artist Sam Nichols, then over the years worked with Cliffie Stone, …
- Spencer
I am 14 years old, i go to South Eugene High School and I'm 5"8'. I play basketball, baseball, and football. Lloyd Banks.
- Michelle Jacobson
Living in Sierra Vista! Never thought I would be here. I thought I would be on a beach with a beautiful ocean. Some how I ended up with a whole lot of beach just no ocean! Have two beautiful girls that are my life. I am looking for Mr. Right if he does exist and I hope he does. I want a someone who is sincere and romantic I LOVE romance. So hopefully he is out there waiting to bump into me one day! If not oh well life goes on.
- Richard Barnett
- Dustin
Dustin Selman is a mild mannered programmer who resides in the wonderful metropolis of.
- David Trammell
I've lived in Eugene since I was 5, except for 2 years I spent in Idaho for college(which I would not recommend to anybody). I love it here. No matter where I travel, I always want to come back eventually. My middle name's Brandon in case you're interested (you're not, I can tell). I've worked for the same company, Symantec, for 9 years.