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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. - 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, … - 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, … - 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. - 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, … - 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. - 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, … - Peter Jacobsen
Peter Erling Jacobsen (born March 4, 1954) is an American professional golfer. - 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. - 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, … - Kendra James
Kendra James was an African American Oregon woman whose death in a 2003 shooting sparked a controversy over the use of deadly force in the Portland Police Bureau. James was stopped by three police officers, including Officer Scott McCollister. Three other people in the car with her were arrested. During a check for outstanding warrants, James-who had a criminal record and a drug problem-attempted to flee the scene. McCollister tried to pull her out of the car, … - Bill Schonely
Bill Schonely (b. June 1, 1929 in Norristown, Pennsylvania) was the first play-by-play announcer for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association. He began in the team's inaugural season in 1970. Schonely coined phrases that became synonymous with the Blazermania phenomenon in Oregon, including "Rip City", "Bingo Bango Bongo", "Climb the golden ladder", "Lickety brindle up the middle", … - Sam Coomes
Sam Coomes is an American musician, and currently half of the Portland-area indie band Quasi, along with drummer and ex-wife Janet Weiss. Coomes was also a member of the mid 1980s folk revival band The Donner Party and replaced Brandt Peterson as the bassist for the 1990s Portland grunge band, Heatmiser. - Obo Addy
Obo Addy (b. 1936) is an Ghanaian drummer and dancer who was one of the first native African musicians to bring the fusion of traditional folk music and Western pop music known as "worldbeat" to Europe and then to the Pacific Northwest of the United States in the late 1970s. He currently teaches music at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. - Tina Kotek
Tina Kotek is an American politician from the state of Oregon. A Democrat, she serves as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives. In 2006, she was elected to the House from the 44th District in North and Northeast Portland. She won a competitive three-way Democratic primary election with over half the vote. In the general election, she faced only nominal Republican opposition, defeating her opponent by a margin of almost four-to-one. - Greg Sage
Greg Sage was the principal songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist for the influential Portland, Oregon-based punk rock band The Wipers. Greg Sage's first appearance was on pro-wrestler Beauregarde's full length album. Sage's dark lyrics were rife with references to confusion and severe alienation. His songs took unexpected turns and were typified by fractured melodic passages punctuated by massive, clean, intricate guitar parts. - Matt Wagner
Matt Wagner (born 1961) is an American comic book writer and artist best known as the creator of two irregular series, "Mage" and "Grendel". He has also worked on comics featuring the Demon and Batman as well as titles including "Sandman Mystery Theatre" and most recently "Trinity", a DC Comics limited series featuring Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, as well as painting covers for Green Arrow. Wagner was born in Pennsylvania. - Mary Starrett
Mary Starrett (born 1954, Brooklyn, New York) is the National Political Communications Director of the Constitution Party. Previously, she was a candidate for Governor of Oregon (with the Constitution Party of Oregon), and a commentator and talk show host. She graduated from Emerson College, earning a bachelor's degree in speech communications. For many years, Starrett worked for numerous television stations throughout the country. - Will Vinton
Will Vinton (born 1948) is a director and producer of animated films. He was born in McMinnville, Oregon, near Portland. He has won an Oscar for his work, and several Emmy Awards and Clio Awards for the work of his studio. - 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. - Jeff Jahn
Jeff Jahn is a critic, curator, artist, blogger and composer based in Portland, Oregon, USA. Curator of art exhibitions like Play (2002), The Best Coast (2003), Symbiont Synthetic (2003) and Fresh Trouble(2005). His agenda has been to consistently challenge Portland's young and dynamic art scene in terms of international levels of seriousness, content and excitement. - Kim Rhodes
Kimberly "Kim" Rhodes (born June 7, 1969 in Portland, Oregon) is an American actress most famous for her roles of Cindy Harrison in the soap opera series "Another World" and "As The World Turns" and Carey Martin in the Disney Channel sitcom "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" - Trevor Crowe
Trevor Crowe (born November 17, 1983, in Portland, Oregon) is a baseball player who is currently a top prospect in the Cleveland Indians organization. He started the 2007 season as the Akron Aeros' starting center fielder. After an unsuccessful experiment at second base beginning in late August of 2006, Crowe was moved permanently back to the outfield, rotating between all 3 outfield positions. - Suzanne Bonamici
Suzanne Bonamici is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Oregon. She represents District 34 (Washington County) in the Oregon House of Representatives. Bonamici was first elected in 2006 and serves on the Judiciary Committee, Consumer Protection Committee (Vice Chair), Health Care Committee and Health Care Subcommittee on Health Policy (Vice Chair). Bonamici is a graduate of the University of Oregon and University of Oregon School of Law. - Alex Frost
Alex Frost is a young actor from Portland, Oregon. He has performed on Gus Van Sant's Columbine based film "Elephant", which was awarded the Palme d'Or prize in 2003. Since "Elephant", Alex has worked on 3 additional films, "The Queen of Cactus Cove", "The Lost" and "The Standard". He has also appeared in an episode in Season 3 of "NCIS" called "Ravenous". He currently lives in Los Angeles, California. - Mike Hawash
Maher Mofeid "Mike" Hawash is a Palestinian-born American engineer now serving a 7-year prison sentence for conspiring to aid the Taliban in fighting against U.S. forces and their allies in Afghanistan. Six weeks after 9/11, Hawash had secretly traveled to China with a group of Portland-area Muslims, dubbed the Portland Seven, with the intent of entering Afghanistan to aid the Taliban. Hawash and his co-conspirators were unable to reach Afghanistan due to visa problems, … - Ryan Cochrane
Ryan Cochrane (born August 8, 1983 in Portland, Oregon) is an American football (soccer) player, who currently plays for Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer. Cochrane attended La Salle High School near Portland, Oregon and played three years of college soccer at Santa Clara University, from 2001 to 2003. In his final year, Cochrane was named a second-team All American, and was a Hermann Trophy semifinalist. - Edward Howard
Edward Daniel Howard (November 5, 1877-January 2, 1983) was born in Cresco, Iowa and became Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Davenport, Iowa before being transferred to Oregon in 1926. When he became archbishop of his historic see it was still called "Oregon City", but in 1928 the name was changed to "Portland in Oregon" to reflect what had long become the main city in the state, and differentiate that Portland from the one in Maine, …
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