- Jane Lubchenco
Lubchenco will serve as head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Much of her research has focused on climate change, ecosystems, and marine reserves. She was also one of the scientists that launched the think tank Climate Central ( www.climatecentral.org ).
- Mike Riley
Mike Riley (b. 1952 Wallace, Idaho) is the head coach of the Oregon State University Beavers football program, returning to the job after a stint in the NFL as the head coach of the San Diego Chargers. Riley was 14-34 in three seasons as head coach. His last game was indicative of his last season, as the Chargers played well, but one poor play turned the tide. The 2001 Chargers ended their season in Week 16, with a loss to the Seattle Seahawks, …
- Marcus Borg
Marcus Borg held the Hundere Chair in Religion and Culture in the Philosophy Department at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. Now retired, he has been described by The New York Times as "a leading figure of his generation of Jesus scholars," and has been interviewed on many nationally-aired TV and radio programs. Borg was born in Park River, ND, and spent part of his youth in Fergus Falls, MN.
- Jacoby Ellsbury
Jacoby McCabe Ellsbury (born September 11, 1983, in Madras, Oregon) is a minor league baseball player who is currently the # 1 prospect in the Boston Red Sox organization and rated as the # 33 prospect for 2007 by Baseball America. He was originally drafted, but not signed, by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 23rd round of the 2002 MLB entry draft and in 2005 was drafted by Boston, 23rd overall, in the entry draft out of Oregon State University.
- Darlene Hooley
Darlene Hooley (born April 4 1939 in Williston, North Dakota) is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon and represents the 5th Congressional District. Hooley resides in West Linn, Oregon. In the 2006 election, Hooley won re-election to a sixth term, defeating Republican Mike Erickson, Green Paul Aranas and Constitution candidate Douglas Patterson.
- Alexis Serna
Alexis Serna (born February 8, 1985 in Upland, California) is the starting placekicker for the Oregon State University football team, the Oregon State Beavers. He won the 2005 Lou Groza Award which recognized him as the best placekicker in the nation.
- Yvenson Bernard
Yvenson Bernard [pronounced 'EVAN-son'] (born October 25, 1984 in Boynton Beach, Florida) is an American football running back for the Oregon State Beavers football team. He is entering his senior season at OSU in 2007.
- Jay John
Jay John is the current men's basketball head coach of the Oregon State Beavers at Oregon State University (2002—).
- Chad Johnson
Chad Johnson (born January 9, 1978 in Miami, Florida), is an American football wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League. The Bengals drafted Johnson from Oregon State University in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft.
- Steve Johnson
Clarence Stephen (Steve) Johnson (born November 3 1957, in Akron, Ohio) is an American professional basketball player, who played for numerous teams. He played the power forward and center positions. He was generally regarded as a good low-post offensive player, but as a poor defender and rebounder (and as a foul-prone player as well).
- Brooke Wilberger
Brooke Carol Wilberger (born February 20, 1985 in Fresno, California) is a woman who is believed to have been abducted from Corvallis, Oregon on the morning of May 24, 2004. A freshman at Brigham Young University in Utah, she was cleaning lamp posts in the parking lot of the Oak Park Apartments on the edge of the Oregon State University campus while on summer break at the time of her disappearance. In Fall 2004, Wilberger was falsely impersonated on the MySpace website.
- Sara Jean Underwood
Sara Jean Underwood (born 26 March 1984) is an American model and student. She first appeared as the cover model for the October 2005 issue of "Playboy". She went on to become Playmate of the Month for July 2006 and 2007 Playmate of the Year in the June 2007 issue of the men's magazine. She is a senior at Oregon State University. She is a native of Portland, Oregon and graduated from Scappoose High School in 2002.
- George Poinar Jr.
George O. Poinar, Jr. is an entomologist and writer. He is most famous for popularizing the idea of extracting DNA from insects fossilized in amber, an idea which received widespread attention when adapted by Michael Crichton for the book and movie "Jurassic Park". Poinar earned a B.S. and M.S. at Cornell University, and remained there for his doctoral studies, receiving a Ph.D. in biology in 1962. He spent many of his years of research at University of California, …
- Terry Baker
Terry Wayne Baker (born May 5, 1941 in Pine River, Minnesota) is a former quarterback for the Oregon State University football team. He played for them through the 1960-1962 seasons. He is most notable for winning the 1962 Heisman Trophy. During that season, he threw for 3,476 yards and 23 touchdowns. In addition to winning the Heisman in 1962, he also won the Maxwell Award, was a consensus first team All-American, …
- William Oefelein
William Anthony "Bill" Oefelein (born March 29, 1965 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia) is an American Naval officer and former NASA astronaut. He flew as pilot of the STS-116 space shuttle mission.
- Jim Wilson
James George "Jim" Wilson (born December 29, 1960 in Corvallis, Oregon) is a retired Major League Baseball player. He played as first baseman and as a designated hitter. He was drafted out of Oregon State University by the Cleveland Indians in the 2nd round of the 1982 amateur draft, and played for the Indians in 1985. He later signed as a free agent with the Seattle Mariners on March 1, 1988, playing for them in the 1989 season.
- Ralph Miller
Ralph H. Miller was a college men's basketball coach. The Chanute, Kansas native coached at Wichita State University (1951-1964), University of Iowa (1964-1970) and Oregon State University (1970-1989), compiling a 657-382 (.632) overall record in 38 seasons combined. He was enshrined to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach on May 3, 1988.
- James Allen
James Deshaune Allen (born November 11, 1979 in Portland, Oregon) is an NFL linebacker for the New Orleans Saints. He was selected in the 3rd round (82nd overall) in the 2002 NFL Draft and has been playing for the New Orleans Saints since then. He played for Oregon State University during his college career.
- Don Johnson
Donald Spore Johnson was a Major League Baseball second baseman for the Chicago Cubs from 1943 to 1948. A native of Chicago, Illinois, he attended Oregon State University before beginning his professional baseball career. Johnson's best seasons were during World War II. In 1944, a season in which he had a career-high 71 runs batted in, he was selected for the All-Star Game. In 1945 he was an important part of the last Cubs team to win a pennant, …
- Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 - March 18, 1986) was an American writer.
- Mike Hass
Mike Hass (born January 2, 1983 in Portland, Oregon) is an American wide receiver. He currently plays for the NFL's Chicago Bears.
- Jen-Hsun Huang
Jen-Hsun Huang co-founded NVIDIA Corporation in April 1993 and has served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors since its inception. Under his leadership, NVIDIA has become one of the largest fabless semiconductor companies in the world.
- Jim Clark
James K. Clark is a former American football guard who played for the Washington Redskins of the NFL from 1952–1953. He played college football at Oregon State University, and played in 20 games over two seasons for the Redskins.
- Pellom McDaniels
Pellom McDaniels III (born February 21, 1968 in San Jose, California) is a former NFL defensive end who played from 1993-1999. Pellom was the first child of Pellom and Mary McDaniels. Raised by his working class maternal grandparents, from them he learned his work ethic and drive to be successful. He displayed an early interest in the fine and applied arts, …
- Dick Fosbury
Richard Douglas ("Dick") Fosbury (born March 6, 1947) is an American athlete who revolutionized the high jump using a back-first technique, now known as the Fosbury Flop. His method was to sprint diagonally towards the bar, then curve and leap backwards over the bar. Dick Fosbury, born in Portland, Oregon, first started experimenting with this new technique at age 16, while attending high school in Medford, Oregon.
- Nick Barnett
Nicholas Alexander Barnett (born May 27, 1981 in Barstow, California) is an American Football linebacker who currently plays for the Green Bay Packers of the NFL. The Packers drafted him out of Oregon State University in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft with the 29th overall selection. Many consider Barnett to be a strong and consistent football player. He is in his fourth year in the league.
- Rich Brooks
Rich Brooks (born August 20, 1941, Forest, California, United States) is an American football coach, who is currently the head football coach for the University of Kentucky. Brooks is best known for spending 18 seasons at the University of Oregon, and winning the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award for national coach of the year after leading Oregon to the Rose Bowl in 1994.
- Brent Dalrymple
G. Brent Dalrymple is an American geologist, author of "The Age of the Earth" and "Ancient Earth, Ancient Skies", and National Medal of Science winner. He taught at Oregon State University until 2001, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Timothy Budd
Timothy Budd is an associate professor of computer science at Oregon State University. He is the author of more than a dozen books on object-oriented programming, data structures, and Leda, a multi-paradigm programming language, some of which are published in additional languages. Budd also previously won the Oregon State University College of Engineering's Loyd Carter Award, the Young Investigator Award, and is a former Fulbright Scholar.
- Scott Anderson
Scott Richard Anderson (born August 1, 1962, in Corvallis, Oregon) is a former professional baseball player who played Major League Baseball for the Texas Rangers in 1987, the Montreal Expos in 1990, and the Kansas City Royals in 1995. Anderson was drafted in the 7th round of the 1984 amateur draft, after playing for Oregon State University in college. Now retired from baseball, Anderson lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
- Slats Gill
Amory T. "Slats" Gill (May 1, 1901 - April 5, 1966) was a men's basketball and baseball coach at Oregon State University, his alma mater.
- James Cassidy
James Cassidy (also known as Jim Cassidy and Jim Kazmeyer) is one of the founding members of the band Information Society. He played bass and keyboards with the band from its beginning in the early 1980s until 1992 and the release of Information Society's final album as a trio, Peace and Love, Inc. After the band dissolved, Cassidy left the music business altogether and enrolled in Mt. Hood Community College, at Gresham, Oregon, …
- Dallas Buck
Dallas Buck (Born November 11, 1984, in Newberg, Oregon) is a Minor League Baseball player and former All-American baseball pitcher who played for the Oregon State Beavers of Oregon State University in college. He throws a fastball, changeup, curveball, and his strike-out pitch, the slider.
- Kevin Gunderson
Kevin Gunderson (Born September 16, 1984 in Portland, Oregon) is a Minor League Baseball pitcher who played for the Oregon State Beavers of Oregon State University before being drafted by the Atlanta Braves
- John Ensign
John Eric Ensign (born 25 March 1958) is the junior United States Senator from Nevada. He is a member of the Republican Party, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee and was recently re-elected in the 2006 midterm elections.
- Mike Rich
Mike Rich (born 1959) is an American screenwriter best known for his writing on sports-related films. A graduate of Oregon State University, Rich began his media career as a news reporter for a Portland radio station. In 1998 he was awarded a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his first film script "Finding Forrester". Most recently, he wrote "The Nativity Story", about the birth of Jesus.
- Brent Barry
Brent Robert Barry (born December 31, 1971 in Hempstead, New York) is an American professional basketball player currently with the NBA's San Antonio Spurs. He is known by his nickname, "Bones", and stands 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m). Barry is the son of Hall of Famer Rick Barry, and is arguably the best player of the four basketball-playing Barry sons, the others being (from oldest) Scooter, Jon, and Drew. Brent, the second youngest, has also played for the Los Angeles Clippers, …
- Dee Andros
Demosthenes "Dee" Konstandies Andrecopoulos (October 17, 1924 - October 22 2003), was the former head football coach for the University of Idaho from 1962-64, and for Oregon State University from 1965-75. He compiled a 51-64-1 record during his tenure at OSU. Andros became the athletic director at Oregon State following his career as a head coach, staying until 1985. In his 11 Civil War games, he won 9 of them.
- Sabby Piscitelli
Sabby Piscitelli, born August 24th, 1983 in Boca Raton, Florida is an American football strong safety for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He played football for the Oregon State Beavers, leading them to a ten win season and Sun Bowl berth in his 2006 senior season. He was selected in the second round by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2007 NFL Draft.
- Randy Couture
Randy Duane Couture (born June 22, 1963) is a Greco-Roman wrestler, folkstyle wrestler, and professional mixed martial arts fighter. He is the current UFC Heavyweight Champion and a member of the UFC Hall of Fame. He is the only athlete to have held championship titles in both the heavyweight and light heavyweight divisions of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, as well as the only five-time champion in UFC history, earning him the nicknames "The Natural" and, …