- Phil Knight
Philip H. Knight (born February 24, 1938) is the co-founder and former CEO of Nike, Inc. and the owner of Laika Entertainment House (formerly Will Vinton Studios). Knight is also known for his monetary support of the University of Oregon, where he received his bachelor's degree in accounting in 1959. Knight received his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1962.
- Bill Bowerman
William J. Bowerman (born February 19, 1911 in Fossil, Oregon, died December 24, 1999) was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc. He was a very successful track and field coach, having trained 31 Olympic athletes, 51 All-Americans, 12 American record-holders, 24 NCAA champions, and 16 sub-4 minute milers. During his 24 years as coach at the University of Oregon, the track and field team had a winning season every season but one, …
- Galen Rupp
Galen Rupp is an American cross-country and track and field athlete. He is one of the nation's top young distance runners, having set important junior national and American high school records while competing for Portland, Oregon's Central Catholic High School. In 2004 he broke Gerry Lindgren’s 40-year old U.S. junior record for 5,000 meters by almost seven seconds, running 13:37.91 for the distance. Rupp also holds the U.S. high school record for 3,000 meters at 7:49.16, …
- Mike Bellotti
Robert Michael Bellotti (b. December 21, 1950 in Sacramento, California) has been the head coach of the University of Oregon football team since 1995. He has led the Ducks to nine winning seasons in ten years, missing a bowl game for the second time in 2004. His accomplishments at Oregon include an 11-1 season and #2 national ranking in 2001. He was previously the head coach at Chico State University in California and Woodland High School in Woodland, CA.
- Jonathan Stewart
Jonathan "Snoop" Stewart (born March 21, 1987 in Fort Lewis, Washington), is a running back who plays for The University of Oregon.
- Ernie Kent
Ernie Kent (Born January 22, 1955 in Rockford, Illinois) is the current head men's basketball coach at the University of Oregon. He has been the Ducks' coach since he replaced Jerry Green after Green left for University of Tennessee after the 1996-97 season. Prior to becoming head coach at Oregon, Kent was an assistant at Stanford University and also coached at St. Mary's as well as abroad in Saudi Arabia.
- Wayne Morse
Wayne Lyman Morse was a United States Senator from Oregon from 1945 until 1969. He made a filibuster for 22 hours and 26 minutes in 1953 protesting the Tidelands Oil legislation, which at the time was the longest filibuster in Senate history. Morse was born to a farming family in Verona, Wisconsin, who imbued the political beliefs of Robert M. LaFollette, Sr. in their children.
- Don Read
Don Read was a college football coach at University of Oregon, Oregon Institute of Technology, Portland State University, and University of Montana. From 1968 to 1971 and from 1981 to 1985, he led the Vikings to a 39-52-1 record. From 1974 to 1976, he guided the Oregon Ducks to a 9-24 record. His best success came at Montana, where he went 85-36, including three 11 win seasons.
- Peter Defazio
Peter Anthony DeFazio (born May 27, 1947) is an American politician. He serves as a Democratic U.S. Representative from Oregon, representing the. DeFazio is currently serving his 11th term. He is Oregon's most senior member of Congress, which makes him the dean of Oregon's House of Representatives delegation. DeFazio serves on the Transportation and Infrastructure, Homeland Security, and Natural Resources committees, …
- Maarty Leunen
Maarty Leunen (born September 3, 1985 in Vancouver, Washington) is an American college basketball player. A 6'9", 215 pound forward at the University of Oregon, he is a key reason why the Oregon Ducks reached the Elite 8 in the 2007 NCAA Division I tournament. The junior is currently averaging 10.9 ppg and 8.3 rpg.
- Paul Slovic
Paul Slovic (b. 1938) is a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and the president of the Decision Research group. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Michigan in 1964. Slovic has studied psychological heuristics with frequent coauthors Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky and Thomas Gilovich, and first theorized the affect heuristic.
- Aaron Brooks
Aaron Jamal Brooks (born January 14, 1985) is an American basketball point guard who was selected 26th overall in the 2007 National Basketball Association Draft by the Houston Rockets. He had a college basketball career at the University of Oregon.
- Mark Johnson
Mark L. Johnson (born 24 May 1949 in Kansas City, Missouri) is Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is well-known for contributions to embodied philosophy, cognitive science and cognitive linguistics, some of which he has coauthored with George Lakoff such as "Metaphors We Live By". However, he has also written extensively on philosophical topics such as John Dewey, Kant and ethics.
- Garrett Epps
Garrett Epps (born in 1950 in Richmond, Virginia) is an award-winning legal scholar, novelist, and journalist. He currently is the Orlando J. and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law at the University of Oregon. Epps has written two novels, including "The Shad Treatment", which won the Lillian Smith Book Award, as well as the nonfiction books "To An Unknown God: Religious Freedom on Trial", …
- Steve Novick
Steve Novick is a Democratic Party candidate for the United States Senate in 2008 from the state of Oregon. He is an attorney and former US Department of Justice litigator who led the Love Canal case on behalf of the United States government. He is an advocate of progressive taxation and reforming the Internal Revenue Code to abolish the distinction between ordinary income (earned from labor) and capital gains income (earned from the exploitation of wealth).
- Bev Smith
Bev Smith (born April 4 1960) is the head women's basketball coach at the University of Oregon. She has held that position since 2001, replacing controversial coach Jody Runge, and has posted an 83-69 record. Her 2004 team made the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament, after finishing 2nd in the Pacific Ten Conference. In that season, her 2nd 20-win season, Oregon defeated Texas Christian University to advance to the 2nd round.
- 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.
- Kellen Clemens
Roy Kellen Clemens (born June 6, 1983 in Burns, Oregon) is a current American football quarterback for the New York Jets. He was drafted in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played high school football for the Burns Hilanders and led them to the Oregon state 3A championship game in 1999. Clemens played college football at the University of Oregon. He was a senior during the 2005 season, …
- Tajuan Porter
Tajuan Marquis Porter (Born March 9, 1988) is a freshman guard at Oregon. He is considered one of the top freshmen in the country. He is most notable for his exceptional game against Portland State. Against the Vikings, he scored 38 points, including 10-12 from 3-point field goal range. The 10 3-point field goals shattered the single game Oregon record. His 100 made three-point field goals is an Oregon single-season record, …
- Norv Turner
Norval Eugene "Norv" Turner (born May 17, 1952 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina) is the head coach for the National Football League's San Diego Chargers. He also has served as head coach of the Washington Redskins and the Oakland Raiders, and as offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys, San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins, and San Francisco 49ers.
- John Robinson
John Alexander Robinson (born July 25, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American football coach best-known for his two stints as head coach for the University of Southern California (USC) football team and for his tenure as head coach of the Los Angeles Rams, an NFL football team. Robinson coached at USC from 1976-1982 and again from 1993-1997, putting up a career record as a college head coach of 104-35-4, for a winning percentage of .741.
- Luke Ridnour
Lucas Robin (Luke) Ridnour (born February 13 1981 in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) is an American professional basketball player for the Seattle SuperSonics of the NBA. He was born in Idaho and grew up in Blaine, Washington.
- 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.
- Luke Jackson
Luke Ryan Jackson (born November 6, 1981 in Eugene, Oregon), is an American professional basketball player for the Toronto Raptors. The tenth overall pick in the 2004 NBA Draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers, Jackson has thus far spent most of his career on the injured list with knee tendinitis and back spasms.
- Amit Goswami
Amit Goswami is a theoretical nuclear physicist and member of The University of Oregon Institute for Theoretical Physics since 1968, teaching physics for 32 years. After a period of distress and frustration in his private and professional life starting at the age 38, his research interests shifted to quantum cosmology, quantum measurement theory, and applications of quantum mechanics to the mind-body problem.
- Greg Walden
Gregory "Greg" Walden (born January 10, 1957, in The Dalles, Oregon) is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Oregon and represents its, which covers more than two-thirds of the state (generally, east of the Cascades.) Walden earned a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Oregon in 1981. He is the son of Paul E. Walden, three-term Oregon state representative. Walden and his wife, Mylene, live in Hood River with their son Anthony.
- Jordan Kent
Jordan Russell Kent (born July 24, 1984 in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) is an American football wide receiver currently playing for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League. Prior to playing for the Seahawks, Kent attended the University of Oregon where he lettered in football, basketball, and track and field. Kent was the first athlete to letter in three sports at the University of Oregon since the 1940s.
- Bryce Taylor
Bryce Taylor is an American college basketball player at the University of Oregon. The 6'5", 205 pound junior guard is currently averaging 14.6 ppg and 5.1 rpg.
- Ray Hyman
Ray Hyman (born June 23, 1928, Chelsea, Massachusetts) is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, and a noted critic of parapsychology. While attending Boston University as a young man, he also worked as a magician and mentalist, impressing the head of his department (among others) with his palm reading. He obtained a doctorate in psychology from Johns Hopkins University in 1953, and then taught at Harvard for several years.
- John Frohnmayer
John E. Frohnmayer is a politician from the U.S. state of Oregon. He was the fifth chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, a program of the United States government. He was appointed by President George H. W. Bush in 1989, and served until 1992.
- Ben Westlund
Bernard (Ben) J. Westlund II was born in Long Beach, California on September 3, 1949, and raised in Lake Oswego. He attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, graduating in 1972 with degrees in education and history. He worked as a business analyst in Portland before moving to Central Oregon, where he helped start a successful mining venture and then became a rancher and agribusinessman, selling cattle genetics through his company, High Country Herefords.
- Steve Miller
Steve Miller was the President and CEO of the Professional Bowlers Association until the fall of 2005. He retired from Nike as director of global sports marketing relations in September 2000, after nine years with the company. While at Nike, Miller held several positions including director of athletics, director of U.S. sports marketing, director of sports marketing for the Asia Pacific region, and director of NCAA sports marketing.
- Gary Zimmerman
Gary Wayne Zimmerman (born December 13, 1961 in Fullerton, California) is a former American football offensive lineman in the NFL. Zimmerman played for the Minnesota Vikings from 1986-1992, and for the Denver Broncos from 1993-1997. He attended the University of Oregon and was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 2002. Before his NFL career Zimmerman played with the Los Angeles Express of the USFL from 1984-1985 where he was introduced to coach Russ A. Molzahn.
- Malik Hairston
Malik Hairston is an American college basketball player at the University of Oregon. The 6'6", 200 pound junior guard averaged 13 ppg and 6.1 rpg during the 2006-2007 season.
- John Bellamy Foster
John Bellamy Foster is an American journalist, sociologist, essayist and eco-socialist, as well as editor of the "Monthly Review", a prominent Marxist magazine. Foster is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon in Eugene. He has written widely on political economy and has established a reputation as an environmental sociologist and eco-socialist.
- Haloti Ngata
Etuini Haloti Moala Ngata (pronounced na-ta) (born January 21, 1984 in Inglewood, California) is a football player for the Baltimore Ravens. Ngata, of Tongan ancestry, was a starting defensive tackle for the University of Oregon before he entered the 2006 NFL Draft when he was drafted by the Ravens with the 12th pick in the first round, who acquired the pick from the Cleveland Browns for their first round pick and a sixth round pick.
- Vicki Walker
Vicki Walker (Born on May 29, 1956 in Monroe, Washington) is a politician from the U.S. state of Oregon and a member of the Democratic Party. She has been elected to political office in both houses of the Oregon Legislature. Walker is known as an advocate for utility customers and as an outspoken critic of influential former Governor Neil Goldschmidt.
- Ann Aiken
Ann L. Aiken (born December 29, 1951) is a United States District Court judge for the District of Oregon. Aiken was born in Salem, Oregon and graduated from the University of Oregon in 1974, Rutgers University in 1976, and the University of Oregon School of Law in 1979. She was a district judge in Oregon from 1988 to 1992, a circuit judge in Oregon from 1992 to 1997.
- Fred Jones
Frederick (Fred) Terrell Jones (born March 11 1979) is an American professional basketball player who plays at the shooting guard position for the New York Knicks of the NBA.
- Barry Lopez
Barry Holstun Lopez is an American essayist, poet, fiction writer and prose stylist whose work is best known for its ecological concerns. He began attending the University of Notre Dame in 1966 and earned a graduate degree there in 1968. He went on to further graduate study at the University of Oregon (1969-1970). Lopez has been described as “the nation’s premier nature writer” by the San Francisco Chronicle.