- Earl Blumenauer
United States Congressman Earl Blumenauer , a Lewis and Clark law school graduate, will deliver the commencement address. ... United States Representative Earl Blumenauer represents Oregon"as third congressional district in Portland. The former Portland commissioner and state representative first was elected to Congress in 1996.
- Harrell Fletcher
Harrell Fletcher is an artist in Portland, Oregon who creates socially engaged interdisciplinary projects. Harrell now is on the faculty of Portland State University in the Art Department. He has exhibited at SF MoMA, the de Young Museum, The Berkeley Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF, The Drawing Center, Socrates Sculpture Park and Smackmellon in NYC, DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture Show in Houston, PICA in Portland, OR, CoCA in Seattle, WA, …
- Jerry Glanville
Jerry Glanville (born October 14, 1941 in Perrysburg, Ohio) is a career American football coach who is currently the head coach for Portland State University. While at Northern Michigan University, Glanville played middle linebacker. In 1964, he graduated from Northern Michigan.
- Barbara Roberts
Barbara K. Roberts (born on December 21, 1936 in Corvallis, Oregon) is a Democratic politician. She served as Governor of Oregon from 1991 to 1995, the first and, to date, only woman to be elected to that office. Roberts is a fourth generation Oregonian and grew up in Sheridan, Oregon, where she graduated from Sheridan High School. She attended Portland State University from 1961 to 1964 and, later, …
- Diana Abu-Jaber
Diana Abu-Jaber is the author of the novels Arabian Jazz and Crescent . Crescent was awarded the 2004 PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award and was named one of the twenty best novels of 2003 by The Christian Science Monitor. Arabian Jazz won the 1994 Oregon Book Award and was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
- Melanie Mitchell
Melanie Mitchell is a scientist who has worked at the Santa Fe Institute and Los Alamos National Laboratory. She received her PhD in 1990 from the University of Michigan under Douglas Hofstadter and John Holland, for which she developed the Copycat cognitive architecture. She has also critiqued Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science". She is the author of "An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms" (ISBN 0-262-63185-7), …
- Carolyn Davidson
Carolyn Davidson is the creator of the Nike swoosh.
- Kate Brown
Kate Brown, is a Democratic American politician and attorney serving in the Oregon State Senate, and the first woman to serve as Senate Majority Leader. She has been Majority Leader since 2004. Brown represents Oregon's 21st senate district, which includes portions of Northeast and Southeast Portland and Milwaukie.
- 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.
- Ken Bone
Ken Bone is the head men's basketball coach at Portland State University.
- Mouse Davis
Darrel "Mouse" Davis (born September 6, 1932 in Palouse, Washington) is a veteran high school, college, and professional football coach. He helped to popularize the use of the the Run & Shoot offense.
- Bryan Johanson
Bryan Johanson (born 1951) is an American classical guitarist & composer. He was born in Portland, Oregon and is recognized as a composer of modern works. Johanson has performed, recorded and published works internationally. Johanson's works have won major awards from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival and School, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, UCLA and The Esztergom International Guitar Festival.
- Diane Linn
Diane Linn was the County Chair of Oregon's Multnomah County from January 2003 to January 2007. Her four year term as Chair of the five member Multnomah County Board of Commissioners began in January 2003, after she'd won the previous November's election. When she ran for reelection in 2006, she was defeated in the primary election by Ted Wheeler. Under her watch and direction, in March 2004, …
- Molly Gloss
Molly Gloss (born 20 November, 1944) is an American writer currently best known for science fiction works. Her novel "Wild Life" won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for work that explores or expands notions of gender. She has also received a 1996 Whiting Award as well as the PEN Center West Fiction Prize. Another notable novel is "The Dazzle of Day", which concerns Quakers on a multigenerational starship. She has taken classes from Ursula K. Le Guin, …
- June Jones
June Sheldon Jones, III (born February 19, 1953, Portland, Oregon) is an American football coach, formerly with the Atlanta Falcons and currently with the University of Hawaiʻi.
- Tim Walsh
Tim Walsh is a college football coach, and is currently the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Army Black Knights. Prior to Army, Walsh was the head football coach at Portland State University from 1993 to 2007. His 14 years at Portland State, in which he compiled a win-loss record of 90-68 and guided the Vikings from a Division II program to a Division I-AA contender.
- Ime Udoka
Ime Udoka (pronounced EE-may you-DOE-kuh) (born August 9, 1977 in Portland, Oregon) is an American professional basketball player of partial Nigerian descent. He is currently a free agent. Udoka, a small forward, attended Portland's Jefferson High School and Portland State University where he starred for the Vikings. He started his professional basketball career by playing in the NBDL with the Charleston Lowgators.
- Charles Moose
Charles Alexander Moose (born 1953 in New York, New York) served as the 15th Montgomery County, Maryland, Police Chief from August 2, 1999, to June 18, 2003, when he resigned to write a book about the Beltway sniper attacks that occurred during his time as Montgomery County Police Chief. During October 2002, he became internationally known as the primary official in charge of the efforts to apprehend the Beltway snipers.
- Neil Lomax
Neil Vincent Lomax (born February 17, 1959 in Portland, Oregon) is a former American Football quarterback. Lomax was a standout college player at Portland State University, going from fifth-string freshman quarterback on partial scholarship to emergency starter to NCAA legend. By the end of his college career, Neil Lomax held 90 NCAA records, including one game where he threw for seven touchdown passes in a single quarter. He was drafted fifth by the-then St.
- Katie Harman
Katie Harman from Gresham, Oregon is a classical vocalist and stage actress; who is most well known for being Miss America 2002 and former Miss Oregon 2001. Since completing her duties as Miss America, she played Kathie in "The Student Prince" with the Gold Coast Opera in Florida. She also played Barbarina in "Le nozze di Figaro ossia la folle giornata". As a vocalist, she's performed with pianist André Watts with the Shreveport Symphony and others.
- Neal Keny-Guyer
Keny-Guyer joined Mercy Corps in 1994 as Chief Executive Officer. During his leadership, Mercy Corps has emerged as a leading international relief and development agency with programs in more than 35 countries, over 2,500 staff, and an annual operating budget of $200 million.
- Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis (born February 11, 1983 in Seaside, California) is an American football tight end for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. He was signed as an undrafted free agent out of Portland State University. He also attended Fresno City College. He graduated from Seaside High School in Seaside California.
- Richard Sanders
Richard ("Rick") Sanders (January 20 1945 - October 18 1972) was an Olympic wrestler from the United States. He won the a silver medal in both the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games and the 1972 Munich Olympic Games in Germany. After the Munich Olympics, he was killed on October 18, 1972 while hitch-hiking to Greece when a Land Rover he was riding in hit a bus head-on in Yugoslavia. He had been wrestling since a freshman at Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon.
- Freeman Williams
Freeman Williams (born May 15 1956, in Los Angeles, California, United States) was a college and professional basketball player. He was the 1978 NCAA Men's Basketball Division I scoring champion, and the Portland State University all-time scoring leader. Williams was the NCAA Division I national men's basketball individual scoring leader in 1977 and 1978. Williams was a consensus second team All-American in 1978. He is second in Division 1 history in scoring, …
- Jeff Lahti
Jeffrey Allen Lahti (born October 8, 1956, in Oregon City, Oregon) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He is an alumnus of Portland State University. Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 5th round of the 1978 MLB amateur draft, Lahti would make his Major League Baseball debut with the St. Louis Cardinals on June 27, 1982, and appear in his final game on April 24, 1986. Lahti was a member of the St.
- 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, …
- Christopher Howell
Christopher Howell is an American poet who has published eight books of poetry. Since 1975 he has served as the director and principal editor for Lynx House Press. Howell is also editor of Willow Springs and director of the Eastern Washington University Press, he is on the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing faculty at Eastern Washington University.
- Shaun Bodiford
Shaun Bodiford (born May 4, 1982 in Federal Way, Washington) is a wide receiver and kick returner for the Green Bay Packers of the NFL. He was waived off the Detroit Lions. He attended Portland State University.
- Paul H. Emmett
Paul Hugh Emmett (September 22, 1900 - April 22, 1985) was an American chemical engineer born in Portland, Oregon. After completing his baccalaureate at Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University), Emmett went on to the California Institute of Technology, where he earned his Ph.D. He was also a classmate and close friend of Linus Pauling at both institutions. In 1976, Emmett married Pauling's sister, Pauline. Dr.
- Terence Knox
Terence Knox (16 December 1946 -) is an American actor. He was born in Richland, WA as Terry Davis, and attended Washington State University and Portland State University. He is best known for his roles as Dr. Peter White in the TV show St. Elsewhere and Sgt. 'Zeke' Anderson in the series Tour of Duty. He has guest-starred in numerous other shows and has appeared in several movies. He was an Inland Gloves amateur boxing champion, with 56 wins and 1 loss.
- Lawrence Leighton Smith
Lawrence Leighton Smith, a conductor and pianist, was born April 8, 1936 in Portland, Oregon. He studied piano with Ariel Rubinstein in Portland and Leonard Shure in New York. He earned bachelor's degrees from Portland State University in 1956 and Mannes College of Music in 1959. He also earned a doctorate from the University of Louisville in1992. He won first prize in the Mitropoulos International Conducting Competition in 1964.
- Jessica Carlson
Jessica Carlson is a beauty queen from Oregon who has competed in the Miss USA pageant. Carlson won the Miss Oregon USA 2005 title in the state pageant held in Redmond, Oregon in late 2004. She had previously placed in the top ten in the Miss Oregon 2004 pageant the same year. Carlson represented Oregon in the Miss USA 2005 pageant broadcast live from Baltimore, Maryland in April 2005. She did not place in the nationally televised pageant, …
- Petr Paucek
Petr Paucek RNDr., Ph.D. is a Czech-born biophysicist who studies structure and function of mitochondrial cation transporters and channels, with emphasis on the ATP-dependent K+ channel in cardiac and brain mitochondria; receptor properties and their role in cellular signaling, bioenergetics and pharmacology. His current appointments are: *2005 - present (Nov 2006) The Biotechnology Center of Maine, Fairfield, Maine *2002 - present (Nov 2006) Associate Professor of Biology, …
- Gregory Baker Wolfe
Gregory Baker Wolfe (born Los Angeles, California) was a United States diplomat during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and later President of two urban institutions of higher education, Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, and Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida. Wolfe was president of Florida International University from 1979 through 1986, …
- Bobby Singh
Bobby Singh (born November 21 1975) is a professional Canadian football and American football guard. Born in Fiji and raised in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, he attended the University of Hawaii and Portland State University. After stints in the NFL and XFL, he returned to Canada and played five years in the CFL with the Calgary Stampeders and BC Lions, winning the Grey Cup in 2006 with the Lions.
- Gordon Riese
Gordon Riese is a former college baseball pitcher in the 1960s who was inducted into the Portland State University Hall of Fame in 1997. He has spent the last 28 years as a Pac-10 Conference football official. He was the line judge during the 1982 Stanford-California game when "The Play" helped California win, 25-20. Riese later worked as a referee in the Pac-10 and was the head of the officiating crew that worked the first Bowl Championship Series championship game, …
- Dale A. Kunkel
Dale A. Kunkel is Director of Absolute Return and Hedge Fund Strategies for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. This $5 billion foundation was created by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel Corporation, and concentrates on providing funding in areas such as science and environmental conservation. Kunkel is responsible for the operation of the foundation's hedge fund investment activities.
- Craig Hickman
Craig Hickman is a computer programmer, photographer, and Professor of Art at the University of Oregon, where he teaches courses on programming for artists and digital imaging. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Portland State University and a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Washington, Seattle. He is especially known for creating Kid Pix, a drawing program marketed toward children.
- 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, …
- Dan Frantz
Daniel Lee Frantz (born July 9, 1977 in Vancouver, Washington) is an American football kicker for the Chicago Rush of the Arena Football League. He played football collegiately at Portland State University. He has also played for the San Jose SaberCats.