- Jack Portland
Jack Frederick Portland was a defenceman in the NHL from 1933 - 1943. Jack Portland was a versatile athlete who, as a youngster, won the Dominion schoolboy championship for high jumping in 1930. But Portland could also play hockey. He developed his skills in Collingwood, Ontario and then signed a two-year deal worth $3,500 with the Montreal Canadiens. He skated with the legendary Howie Morenz and Aurel Joliat. - Sam Adams
Sam Adams is an elected official in Portland, Oregon in the United States. In 2004 he was elected to the Portland City Council, defeating attorney Nick Fish. - Rene Portland
Maureen "Rene" Muth Portland is a former head women's basketball coach best known for her 27-year tenure with the Penn State Lady Lions basketball team. Her career resume includes 21 NCAA tournament appearances including a Final Four appearance in 2000, five Big Ten Conference championships and two conference tournament titles. Portland is one of nine women's basketball coaches to have won 600 or more games at a single school, with a career record of 606-236 at Penn State. - Gus van Sant
Gus Van Sant Jr. (born July 24, 1952 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American Academy Award nominated film director, photographer, musician, and author. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon. His early career was devoted to directing television commercials in the Pacific Northwest. Openly gay, he has dealt unflinchingly with homosexual and other marginalized subcultures without being particularly concerned about providing positive role models. - Elliott Smith
Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith was an Academy Award-nominated American singer-songwriter and musician. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass, harmonica and drums. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and use of multi-tracking to create vocal harmonies. Although Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and died in Los Angeles, California, … - Chris Brown
Christopher Brown (born March 10, 1977 in Portland, Oregon) is an American soccer midfielder and forward who currently plays for Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer. Chris is an alum of Jesuit High School in Portland Oregon where he played soccer under the guidance of Dave Nicholas, varsity coach for the crusaders. Brown played college soccer at the University of Portland from 1995 to 1998, scoring a total of 33 goals in his four years there, … - Tom Potter
Tom Potter is the Mayor of the city of Portland, Oregon in the United States. He was elected in 2004, and his term ends in 2008. He was Portland's police chief in the early 1990s. On November 2, 2004, Potter defeated Portland City Commissioner Jim Francesconi in the non-partisan Portland mayoral race. Potter was inaugurated on January 3, 2005, succeeding Mayor Vera Katz (who had served for three terms, but did not run for a fourth.) Francesconi, … - William Penn
Sir William Penn (April 23, 1621 - September 16, 1670) was an English admiral, and the father of William Penn, founder of the colony of Pennsylvania. The state of Pennsylvania is named in his honor (and not, as is often supposed, in honor of his son, the Quaker leader.) Penn was born in St. Thomas Parish, Bristol. In the First Anglo-Dutch War, he served in the navy of the Commonwealth of England, commanding squadrons at the battles of the Kentish Knock (1652), Portland, … - Derek Anderson
Derek Matthew Anderson (born June 15, 1983 in Portland, Oregon) is an NFL quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. - Ron Wyden
Ronald Lee Wyden (born May 3, 1949) is Oregon 's senior United States Senator . He is a member of the Democratic Party . He was born in Wichita, Kansas . Before his election to the Senate in 1996, he served 15 years in the U.S. House of Representatives . Wyden attended the University of California, Santa Barbara on a basketball scholarship before receiving his B.A. with distinction from Stanford University. - Jeff Merkley
Jeff Merkley is the Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives. Merkley, a Democrat, represents House District 47, located in eastern Multnomah County within the Portland city limits. Merkley grew up within the boundaries of his district, graduating from David Douglas High School. He earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and a Master of Public Policy degree from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. - Bill Keller
Bill Keller (born January 18 , 1949 ) is executive editor of The New York Times . Bill Keller attended the Roman Catholic Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, California . After graduating from Pomona College in 1970 where he began his journalistic career by founding an independent newspaper called The Collage , he was a reporter in Portland with The Oregonian , the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report , and at The Dallas Times Herald . - 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. - 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. - Kate Brown
Kate Brown, is an attorney serving in the Oregon State Senate, and, since 2004, the first woman to serve as Senate Majority Leader. A Democrat, she represents Oregon's 21st State Senatorial District, which includes portions of Northeast and Southeast Portland and Milwaukie. After a childhood spent mostly in Minnesota, Senator Brown earned a B.A. in Environmental Conservation with a certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder, … - Manny Delcarmen
Manuel (Manny) Delcarmen (born February 16, 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States) is a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the Boston Red Sox. A graduate of West Roxbury High School, where he was the salutatorian, Delcarmen was a second-round draft pick by Boston in 2000; he was the first draftee from a Boston public high school in 34 years and made his debut with the Red Sox on July 27, 2005. - 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. - David Wu
David Wu (born April 8 , 1955 ) is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Oregon , representing the state's first congressional district . His district includes a small section of western Multnomah County, Oregon and all of Yamhill , Columbia , Clatsop and Washington counties. He is the first Chinese-American to be elected to the US Congress. Wu was born in Taiwan , and moved to the United States with his family in 1961. - Richard Williams
Richard Williams (November 15, 1836-June 19, 1914) was a United States Congressman representing Oregon's at large congressional district. Williams was born in Findlay, Ohio and attended Ohio public schools before moving to Oregon in 1851. He attended Willamette University in Salem, and was admitted to the bar in 1857. He practiced law in Kerbyville before moving to Portland in 1865. Williams ran as a Republican for Congress in 1874, but lost to Democrat La Fayette Lane. - Viktor Khryapa
Viktor Khryapa (pronounced vic-tor ka-RY-hap-pa) (born August 3 1982, in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (present-day Ukraine)) is a Ukrainian professional basketball player in the NBA. He was the 22nd overall selection of the 2004 NBA Draft, chosen by the New Jersey Nets and subsequently traded to the Portland Trail Blazers. Then on June 28, 2006, he was traded to the Chicago Bulls along with Tyrus Thomas, … - James Russell
James Russell (born 1931 in Bremerton, Washington) is an American inventor. He earned a BA in physics from Reed College in Portland in 1953. He joined General Electric's nearby labs in Richland, Washington, where he initiated many types of experimental instrumentation. He designed and built the first electron beam welder. In 1965, Russell joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of Battelle Memorial Institute in Richland, … - Tara Jane O'Neil
Tara Jane O'Neil (often known as TJO) is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, engineer, and painter, based out of Portland, Oregon. Since her first solo record in 2000, Tara has collaborated with a diverse community of friends and advisers, scoring theater productions and short films, playing improvised shows, and working with dancers and painters. She's worked with the likes of Papa M, Ida, and Jackie O MF. Her music has allowed her to travel far, … - Isaac Brock
Isaac Brock (born on July 9, 1975 in Issaquah, Washington) is the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the American indie rock band Modest Mouse, as well as his side project band, Ugly Casanova. Brock currently resides in Portland, Oregon. His style of singing is notable for his often complex word play, vocal pitching and unique sense of humor and rhythm. - Scott Wilson
Scott Wilson (1870-1942) was a judge on United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1929 to 1942. Scott Wilson was born on January 11, 1870, in Falmouth, Maine. He graduated from Bates College in Maine in 1892 and then studied at the University of Pennsylvania. Wilson read the law in 1895 and was engaged in private practice in Portland, Maine from 1895-1918. Wilson was the city solicitor of Deering, Maine in 1899 and assistant attorney of Cumberland County, … - Peter Jacobsen
Peter Erling Jacobsen (born March 4, 1954) is an American professional golfer. - Rob Neyer
Rob Neyer is a baseball author and, since 1996, a columnist for ESPN.com. Until 2004, Neyer's work was available without subscription, but it is now part of the Insider service and can be read only upon payment. A disciple of sabermetrics legend Bill James, his column is an outlet for everyday fans to gain from the insight that statistics-centered analysis can offer. Neyer's statistical analysis often finds him at odds with other ESPN columnists, … - John Kroger
John Kroger is a professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland and possible candidate for Oregon Attorney General in 2008. Kroger is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School and served in the United States Marine Corps. Before teaching law, he was a Deputy Policy Director of Bill Clinton's 1992 Presidential Campaign, legislative assistant to Tom Foley and Chuck Schumer, senior policy analyst at the U.S. Treasury Department, and federal prosecutor. - Charles Lewis
Charles Lewis is a non-profit director and businessperson from the U.S. state of Oregon. In 1998, Lewis established Ethos Music Center in Portland. In 2006, Lewis started a private, for-profit business called Portland Duck Tours. - Ron Saxton
Ronald L. Saxton (born 1954, Albany, Oregon) is a lawyer and Republican politician in Oregon. He graduated from Albany High School in 1972, earned a bachelors degree from Willamette University in 1976 and a juris doctor at from University of Virginia School of Law in 1979. Saxton helped to co-found the Ater Wynne law firm in 1990. From 1990 to 2000 he served as the chairman of the firm. - Neil Goldschmidt
Neil Goldschmidt has served as Governor, Mayor of its major city, U.S. Cabinet Secretary, and executive officer of a Fortune 500 corporation. Today he has a small consulting firm focused primarily on strategic planning and problem solving for national and international businesses. He serves a limited number of clients on a continuing basis. In addition, he chairs Drug Strategies, Inc. and the Oregon Children's Foundation. - Kason Gabbard
Kason Ronald Gabbard (born April 8, 1982 in Oxford, Ohio) is a starting pitcher who plays for the Boston Red Sox. He bats and throws left handed. A 29th-round draft pick in 2000, Gabbard started the 2006 season with Double-A Portland and posted a 9-2 record with a 2.57 ERA in 13 starts. Promoted to Triple-A Pawtucket on June 23, he went 1-3 with a 4.97 ERA in five starts. He earned a promotion to the Boston Red Sox on July 21 to replace Tim Wakefield, … - Tony Furtado
Tony Furtado is an award-winning banjo player and slide guitar player of Portuguese and Italian heritage who was born in Pleasanton, California. A two time winner of the National Banjo Championship in Winfield, Kansas (1987 & 1991). He has released 13 albums and played with and opened for such notable musicians as Greg Allman,Jerry Douglas,Keith Richards,Eric Johnson,Derek Trucks,Alison Krauss, The String Cheese Incident,Little Feat, Leftover Salmon, and Taj Mahal. - Paul Gaustad
Paul Michael Gaustad (born February 3, 1982 in Fargo, North Dakota, United States) is a professional ice hockey center who currently plays for the Buffalo Sabres of the NHL. Gaustad was drafted in the 7th round (220th overall) by the Sabres in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft. In the off-season Paul lives in Portland, Oregon. He also played for the Portland Winter Hawks of the WHL. Prior to joining Portland in 99-00, Gaustad started the season playing for a Tier II team in Burnaby, … - Rick Emerson
Rick Emerson is a radio personality most famous for The Rick Emerson Show, which was broadcast on a number of radio stations in Portland, Oregon and was nationally syndicated for a period from 1998-2001. The show began a new run on KCMD-AM 970 "Solid State Radio," formerly branded as Johnson 970, on March 13th, 2006. Emerson is also program director for AM 970. - Chris Funk
Chris Funk is a member of the Portland, Oregon, indie rock band, The Decemberists. He is originally from Valparaiso, Indiana. He plays guitar, pedal steel, piano, violin, the theremin and many other instruments. Funk joined the band after attendance at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. His alter-ego on The Decemberists website is Crutchy McGee. After the trailer with all their equipment and merchandise was stolen in 2005, … - Nigel Jaquiss
Nigel Jaquiss (born 1962) is a journalist who won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, for his work exposing former Governor of Oregon Neil Goldschmidt's alleged sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl while he was mayor of Portland, Oregon. His story was published in "Willamette Week" in May 2004. Jaquiss graduated from Dartmouth College in 1984; he spent eleven years as a Wall Street and Singapore-based crude oil trader, working for Cargill, … - Glen Moore
Glen Moore (born October 28, 1941 in Portland, Oregon) is a jazz bassist who occasionally performs on piano, flute and violin. His performing career began at age 14 with the "Young Oregonians" in Portland, Oregon where he met and played with native American saxophonist, Jim Pepper. He graduated with a degree in History and Literature from the University of Oregon. His formal bass instruction started after college with Jerome Magil in Portland, … - Tom Grant
Tom Grant (born 22 February, 1946, Portland, Oregon) is an American smooth jazz pianst and vocalist. He is often referred to as the Pacific Northwest's most renowned musical artist. - Dan Clarke
Dan Clarke is a British auto racing driver born October 4, 1983 in Mexborough. A veteran of British Formula Ford where he won the prestigious Formula Ford Festival, he moved up the British Formula Three Championship in 2005 in a team part owned by Kimi Räikkönen, Räikkönen Robertson Racing, and finished 5th overall, taking one win at Castle Combe.With a series of impressive tests he was signed to drive in the Champ Car World Series for CTE Racing - HVM, … - Zeb Atlas
Zeb Atlas (born October 1970 in Portland, Oregon) is a male bodybuilder, model and softcore erotic performer.
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