100 Notable alumni of
University of Oregon
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The University of Oregon is 118th in the world, 53rd in North America, and 51st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Oregon sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Sam Elliott
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- stage actoractorvoice actorfilm producerfilm actor
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Samuel Pack Elliott is an American actor. With a career spanning over five decades of film and television, he is recognized for his deep sonorous voice. Elliott has received various accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild Award and a National Board of Review Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
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Kaitlin Olson
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- television actorcomedianvoice actoractorfilm actor
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Kaitlin Willow Olson McElhenney is an American actress and comedian. She is best known for her roles as Deandra "Sweet Dee" Reynolds in the FXX comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (since 2005) and Morgan Gillory in the ABC crime comedy drama series High Potential (since 2024).
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John Madden
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- sports commentatorAmerican football playerAmerican football coach
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John Earl Madden was an American professional football coach and sports commentator in the National Football League (NFL). He served as the head coach of the Oakland Raiders from 1969 to 1978, leading them to eight playoff appearances, seven division titles, seven AFL/AFC Championship Game appearances, and the franchise's first Super Bowl title in Super Bowl XI. Never having a losing season, Madden holds the highest winning percentage among NFL head coaches who coached at least 100 games. He is considered one of the greatest coaches of all time.
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Ty Burrell
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- stage actortelevision actorvoice actoractorfilm actor
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Tyler Gerald Burrell is an American actor. Burrell is best known for playing Phil Dunphy on the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020), for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and five Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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Chael Sonnen
- Enrolled in the University of Oregon
- 1997-2001 graduated with Bachelor of Science in sociology
- Occupations
- amateur wrestlerpromoterpodcasterpoliticianmixed martial arts fighter
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Chael Sonnen is an American sports commentator, mixed martial arts (MMA) analyst, submission grappling promoter, and retired mixed martial artist. Beginning his MMA career in 1997, Sonnen competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he became a top contender in both the light heavyweight and middleweight divisions and challenged for both the UFC Light Heavyweight and UFC Middleweight Championships. Sonnen has also fought in World Extreme Cagefighting, Pancrase, and most recently for Bellator MMA. Sonnen is often considered one of the best mixed martial artists never to have won a major MMA world championship and one of the sport's greatest trash-talkers.
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Phil Knight
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- writerphilanthropistbusinesspersonentrepreneur
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Philip Hampson Knight is an American billionaire businessman who is the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Nike, Inc., a global sports equipment and apparel company. He was previously its chairman and CEO. As of October 2025, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$35.4 billion. He is also the owner of the stop motion film production company Laika. Knight is a graduate of the University of Oregon and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was part of the track and field club under coach Bill Bowerman at the University of Oregon with whom he would later co-found Nike.
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Chuck Palahniuk
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- science fiction writerscreenwriterwriternovelistessayist
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Charles Michael Palahniuk is an American novelist who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He has published 19 novels, three nonfiction books, two graphic novels, and two adult coloring books, as well as several short stories. His first published novel was Fight Club, which was adapted into a film of the same title.
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Lindsay Wagner
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- modeltelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Lindsay Jean Wagner is an American actress. Wagner is best known for her leading role in the American science fiction television series The Bionic Woman (1976–1978), in which she portrayed character Jaime Sommers. She first played the role on the series The Six Million Dollar Man. The character became a pop culture icon of the 1970s. For this role, Wagner won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Dramatic Role in 1977 – the first for an actor or actress in a science fiction series. Wagner began acting professionally in 1971 and has maintained a lengthy acting career in a variety of film and television productions to the present day.
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David Ogden Stiers
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- television actortelevision directoractorvoice actorconductor
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David Allen Ogden Stiers was an American actor and conductor. He appeared in numerous productions on Broadway, and originated the role of Feldman in The Magic Show, in 1974.
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Daniel Wu
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- film directorfilm produceractorfilm actor
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Daniel Neh-Tsu Wu is a Hong Kong-American actor. He is known as a "flexible and distinctive" leading actor in the Chinese language film industry. Since his film debut in 1998, he has been featured in over 60 films. A three-time Golden Horse Award nominee, he also starred in the AMC martial arts drama series Into the Badlands and the Disney+ wuxia action comedy American Born Chinese.
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Bol Bol
- Occupations
- basketball player
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Bol Manute Bol is a South Sudanese–American professional basketball player for the TNT Tropang 5G of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks. A son of basketball player Manute Bol, who was known for being one of the tallest players in NBA history, Bol was born in Khartoum, Sudan, but was raised in the Kansas City area from a young age. In high school, Bol was considered one of the best players in the class of 2018, having been rated a consensus five-star recruit and earning McDonald's All-American honors. A center listed at 7 feet 3 inches (2.21 m), he is one of the tallest players in NBA History.
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Christopher Judge
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- actortelevision actorscreenwriterfilm actordub actor
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Christopher Judge is an American actor. He is best known for playing Teal'c in the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007). He is also the second actor to portray Kratos in the God of War video game series, playing the role in God of War (2018) and its sequel God of War Ragnarök (2022). He also provided the voice of Magneto in X-Men: Evolution. He attended the University of Oregon on a football scholarship and was a Pacific-10 Conference player.
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Bo Nix
- Enrolled in the University of Oregon
- Studied in 2022
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Bo Chapman Nix is an American professional football quarterback for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played his first three seasons of college football for the Auburn Tigers, winning SEC Freshman of the Year in 2019. During his last two seasons, Nix was a member of the Oregon Ducks and won Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year in 2023 after leading the FBS in passing touchdowns.
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Sabrina Ionescu
- Enrolled in the University of Oregon
- 2016-2020 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Sabrina Elaine Ionescu is an American professional basketball player for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She is widely considered one of the greatest three-point shooters in WNBA history and is credited with improving the popularity of women's basketball.
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Ken Kesey
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- essayistnovelistwriteramateur wrestlerchildren's writer
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Kenneth Elton Kesey was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.
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Steve Prefontaine
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- long-distance runnerathletics competitor
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Steve Roland Prefontaine was an American long-distance runner who set American records at every distance from 2,000 to 10,000 meters from a period of 1973 to 1975. He competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics, and he was preparing for the 1976 Olympics with the Oregon Track Club at the time of his death in 1975.
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LeGarrette Blount
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- American football player
- Biography
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LeGarrette Montez Blount is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons. He played college football at the University of Oregon after transferring from East Mississippi Community College. Not selected in the 2010 NFL draft, he began his NFL career as an undrafted free agent.
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Bill Bowerman
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- athletics competitortrack and field coachentrepreneur
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William Jay Bowerman was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike. Over his career, he trained 31 Olympic athletes, 51 All-Americans, 12 American record-holders, 22 NCAA champions and 16 sub-4 minute milers.
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Dillon Brooks
- Occupations
- basketball player
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Dillon Brooks is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks, where he was named a consensus second-team All-American and earned conference player of the year honors in the Pac-12 in 2017. Brooks was selected in the second round of the 2017 NBA draft. He began his career with the Memphis Grizzlies, earning NBA All-Defensive Second Team honors in 2023. He was traded to the Houston Rockets in July 2023 and was later dealt to the Suns after two seasons with Houston.
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Howard Hesseman
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- film actorcomediantelevision actor
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Howard Hesseman was an American actor known for his television roles as burned-out disc jockey Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati (for which he earned two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series) and the lead role of history teacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class. He appeared regularly on television and in film from the 1970s to 2010s, with his other noteworthy roles including Sam Royer (the husband of lead character Ann Romano) in the last two seasons of One Day at a Time and a supporting role as Captain Pete Lassard in the film Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985).
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Ann Curry
- Occupations
- television presenternews presenterjournalist
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Ann Curry is an American retired journalist, who has been a reporter for more than 45 years, focused on war zones and natural disasters. She has reported from wars in Kosovo, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Afghanistan, Darfur, Congo, and the Central African Republic, as well as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Her appeal via Twitter regarding the latter disaster topped the site's "most powerful" list and was credited for helping speed the arrival of humanitarian planes.
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Ashton Eaton
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- combined track and field event athlete
- Biography
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Ashton James Eaton is a retired American decathlete and two-time Olympic champion, who holds the world record in the indoor heptathlon event. Eaton was the second decathlete (after Roman Šebrle) to break the 9,000-point barrier in the decathlon, with 9,039 points, a score he bettered on August 29, 2015, when he beat his own world record with a score of 9,045 points, and remains the only person to exceed 9,000 points twice. His world record was broken on September 16, 2018, by Frenchman Kevin Mayer, who became the third man to pass the 9,000-point barrier, with a total of 9,126 points.
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James Ivory
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- screenwriterfilm directordirectorfilm producer
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James Francis Ivory is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was a principal in Merchant Ivory Productions along with Indian film producer Ismail Merchant (his domestic and professional partner) and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The trio made film adaptations of stories by authors such as E.M. Forster and Henry James. Their body of work is celebrated for its elegance, sophistication, literary fidelity, strong performances, complex themes, and rich characters.
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Donald Malarkey
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- writer
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Donald George Malarkey was an American politician and soldier who served as a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army during World War II. Malarkey was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Scott Grimes.
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Ryan Zinke
- Enrolled in the University of Oregon
- In 1984 graduated with Bachelor of Science in geology
- Occupations
- business executivenaval officerbusinesspersonpolitician
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Ryan Keith Zinke is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative for Montana's 1st congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, Zinke served in the Montana Senate from 2009 to 2013 and as the U.S. representative for the at-large congressional district from 2015 to 2017. He served as the United States secretary of the interior under president Donald Trump from 2017 until his resignation in 2019 following a series of ethics inquiries.
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Stephen J. Cannell
- Enrolled in the University of Oregon
- In 1964 graduated with Bachelor of Science in journalism
- Occupations
- television actorfilm directoractortelevision producerwriter
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Stephen Joseph Cannell was an American television producer, writer, novelist, actor, and founder of Cannell Entertainment (formerly Stephen J. Cannell Productions) and The Cannell Studios.
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Payton Pritchard
- Occupations
- basketball player
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Payton Michael Pritchard is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks, where he earned second-team all-conference honors in the Pac-12 as a sophomore. Pritchard was a finalist for the Naismith College Player of the Year in his senior year. Selected 26th overall in the 2020 NBA draft by the Celtics, Pritchard reached the NBA Finals with the team in both 2022 and 2024, securing a championship in 2024. In 2025, he was named NBA Sixth Man of the Year.
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Douglas Engelbart
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- inventor
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Douglas Carl Engelbart was an American engineer, inventor, and a pioneer in many aspects of computer science. He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly while at his Augmentation Research Center Lab in SRI International, which resulted in creation of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces. These were demonstrated at The Mother of All Demos in 1968. Engelbart's law, the observation that the intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential, is named after him.
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Edgar Buchanan
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- television actordentistactorfilm actor
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William Edgar Buchanan II was an American actor with a long career in both film and television. He is most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, and The Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s.
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Jordan Bell
- Occupations
- basketball player
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Jordan Trennie Bell is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Indiana Mad Ants of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks. As a junior in 2017, Bell earned second-team all-conference honors in the Pac-12, when he was also named the conference's Defensive Player of the Year. He was drafted in the second round of the 2017 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls. Bell won his first championship in his rookie season when the Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2018.
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Yōsuke Matsuoka
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
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Yōsuke Matsuoka was a Japanese diplomat and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Empire of Japan during the early stages of World War II. He is best known for his defiant speech at the League of Nations in February 1933, ending Japan's participation in the organization. He was also one of the architects of the Tripartite Pact and the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact in the years immediately prior to the outbreak of war.
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Ron Wyden
- Enrolled in the University of Oregon
- In 1974 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- basketball playerpolitician
- Biography
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Ronald Lee Wyden is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Oregon, a seat he has held since 1996. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until 1996. Upon the death of Representative Don Young in 2022, Wyden became the dean of the West Coast's Congressional delegation. He is the dean of Oregon's congressional delegation and serves as the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee. Known for his libertarian-leaning stances within the Democratic Party, Wyden has been a prominent advocate for privacy rights, internet freedom, and limiting government surveillance, positioning him as a defender of civil liberties.
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Douglas Hofstadter
- Enrolled in the University of Oregon
- In 1976 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterphysicistcomputer scientistphilosopher
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Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American cognitive and computer scientist whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, strange loops, ambigrams, artificial intelligence, and discovery in mathematics and physics. His 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, and a National Book Award (at that time called The American Book Award) for Science. His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.
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Chris Boucher
- Years
- 1993-.. (age 33)
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Christopher Boucher is a Saint Lucian-Canadian professional basketball player who last played for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Born in Saint Lucia, he played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks.
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Wyndham Clark
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- golfer
- Biography
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Wyndham Robert Clark is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. Clark had a breakout year in 2023; he won his first PGA Tour title at the Wells Fargo Championship in May and his first major championship at the 2023 U.S. Open the following month.
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Mark Few
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- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Mark Norman Few is an American college basketball coach who has been the head coach at Gonzaga University since 1999.
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Galen Rupp
- Occupations
- long-distance runnerathletics competitormarathon runner
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Galen Rupp is an American long-distance runner. He competed in the Summer Olympics in 2008 in Beijing, 2012 in London, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro and 2021 in Tokyo. He won the silver medal in the men's 10,000 meters in London and the bronze medal in the men's marathon in Rio de Janeiro. Rupp competed for the University of Oregon and trained under Alberto Salazar as a member of the Nike Oregon Project. He won the 2017 Chicago Marathon, becoming the first American to do so since Khalid Khannouchi in 2002. Rupp won the marathon at the 2020 United States Olympic Trials (marathon) in Atlanta with a time of 2:09:20, and qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, where he finished eighth.
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Dan Fouts
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Daniel Francis Fouts is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League (NFL) throughout his 15-season career (1973–1987). After a relatively undistinguished first five seasons in the league, Fouts came to prominence as an on-field leader during the Chargers' Air Coryell period. He led the league in passing yards every year from 1979 to 1982, throwing for over 4,000 yards in the first three of these—no quarterback had previously posted consecutive 4,000-yard seasons. Fouts was voted a Pro Bowler six times, first-team All-Pro twice, and in 1982 he was the Offensive Player of the Year. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993, his first year of eligibility.
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Tyler Dorsey
- Enrolled in the University of Oregon
- Studied in 2015-2017
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Tyler Quincy Dorsey is a Greek-American professional basketball player for Olympiacos of the Greek Basket League and the EuroLeague. He is also a member of the Greek national basketball team. He plays at the shooting guard position. After graduating from Maranatha High School, in Pasadena, California, he played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks.
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Kiko Alonso
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Kristian "Kiko" Alonso is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon Ducks and was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the second round of the 2013 NFL draft. He was traded four times in his NFL career, which is tied with Eric Dickerson and Brandin Cooks for an NFL record.
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DeForest Buckner
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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DeForest George Buckner is an American professional football defensive tackle for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon Ducks, and was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the first round of the 2016 NFL draft. With the 49ers, Buckner made a Pro Bowl and was a second-team All-Pro selection in 2019. With the Colts, he was selected to the first-team All Pro in 2020 and made the Pro Bowl in 2021 and 2023.
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Ahmad Rashad
- Occupations
- sports commentatortelevision actorAmerican football player
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Ahmad Rashad is an American sportscaster and former professional football wide receiver. He was the fourth overall selection of the 1972 NFL draft, taken by the St. Louis Cardinals. He was known as Bobby Moore before changing his name in 1973.
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Tinker Hatfield
- Occupations
- businesspersondesigner
- Biography
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Tinker Linn Hatfield Jr. is an American designer of numerous Nike athletic shoe models, including the Air Jordan 3 through Air Jordan 15, the twentieth-anniversary Air Jordan XX, the Air Jordan XXIII, the 2010 (XXV), the 2015 Air Jordan XX9 (XXIX), and other athletic sneakers including the world's first "cross training" shoes, the Nike Air Trainer. Hatfield is Nike's Vice President for Design and Special Projects and oversees Nike's "Innovation Kitchen". For his many innovative designs and numerous creations over more than three decades, Hatfield is considered a legend of design.
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Penei Sewell
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Penei Elama Sewell is an American Samoan professional football offensive tackle for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon Ducks, winning the Outland and Morris trophies in 2019. Sewell was selected with the seventh overall pick by the Lions in the first round in the 2021 NFL draft. He earned four Pro Bowl selections from 2022 to 2025, and was a first-team All-Pro in 2023, 2024, and 2025. He is the brother of Nephi and Noah Sewell, who both have also played professional football.
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Stan Love
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Stanley S. Love was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA). He played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks.
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Gordon Scott
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Gordon Scott was an American film and television actor known for his portrayal of the fictional character Tarzan in five films (and one compilation of three made-as-a-pilot television episodes) of the Tarzan film series from 1955 to 1960. Gordon Scott was the 11th Tarzan, starting with Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle (1955). He was "discovered" poolside, and offered "a seven-year contract, a loin cloth, and a new last name."
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Larry R. Williams
- Occupations
- investorwriter
- Biography
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Larry Richard Williams is an American author, stock and commodity trader, and 1970s–80s political candidate in the state of Montana. He is the father of actress Michelle Williams.
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Arik Armstead
- Occupations
- basketball playerAmerican football player
- Biography
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Arik Armstead is an American professional football defensive end for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon Ducks and was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the first round of the 2015 NFL draft.
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Nguyen Thien Nhan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nguyễn Thiện Nhân is a Vietnamese economist, engineer, professor and politician. He is currently a member of the National Assembly representing Ho Chi Minh City, where he served as its party secretary (de facto mayor) from 2017 until his retirement in 2020. A member of the 11th and 12th Politburo of the Communist Party, he previously served as Chairman of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front from 2013 to 2017 and as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education during Nguyễn Tấn Dũng's premiership. Prior to entering national politics, he worked as a systems engineer in the military before pivoting to academia and then serving in the municipal administration of Ho Chi Minh City, where he was its deputy mayor from 2001 to 2006. He received a BS and a PhD in Cybernetics from the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in East Germany and the Military Medical Academy of Vietnam.
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Alberto Salazar
- Occupations
- track and field coachathletics competitorathleteultramarathon runnerlong-distance runner
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Alberto Salazar is an American former track coach and long-distance runner. Born in Cuba, Salazar immigrated to the United States as a child with his family, living in Connecticut and then in Wayland, Massachusetts, where Salazar competed in track and field in high school. Salazar won the New York City Marathon three times in the early 1980s, and won the 1982 Boston Marathon in a race known as the "Duel in the Sun". He set American track records for 5,000 m and 10,000 m in 1982. Salazar was later the head coach of the Nike Oregon Project. He won the IAAF Coaching Achievement Award in 2013.
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Tina Kotek
- Enrolled in the University of Oregon
- In 1990 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in religious studies
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christine Kotek is an American politician who has served since 2023 as the 39th governor of Oregon. A member of the Democratic Party, Kotek served from 2007 to 2022 as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from the 44th district and from 2013 to 2022 as speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives.
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Ralf Stegner
- Enrolled in the University of Oregon
- Studied in 1984-1985
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ralf Stegner is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag for the constituency of Pinneberg since the 2021 elections.
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Kayvon Thibodeaux
- Enrolled in the University of Oregon
- Studied in 2019
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Kayvon Thibodeaux is an American professional football edge rusher for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). A native of Los Angeles, he was named USA Today's High School Football Defensive Player of the Year in 2018.
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Peter Lam
- Occupations
- film producerbusinesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Peter Lam Kin-ngok, GBM GBS is a Hong Kong businessman and billionaire who has developed a reputation in Hong Kong's business, media, and entertainment industry, as well as in Asia's hospitality and food and beverage industries.
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Satou Sabally
- Enrolled in the University of Oregon
- 2017-2020 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Isatou "Satou" Sabally is a German-American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for the Phantom of Unrivaled. She started playing as an amateur in the German second division, and later in the 1. Damen-Basketball-Bundesliga. Retaining her NCAA eligibility, she moved to the US in 2017 and played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks. During her three years with Oregon, Sabally contributed to the Ducks winning three regular-season and two tournament Pac-12 championships, and reaching their first-ever NCAA tournament Final Four in 2019. After her junior season, she entered the 2020 WNBA draft and was selected second overall by the Dallas Wings. Sabally spent five seasons with the Wings, winning the WNBA Most Improved Player Award and earning an All-WNBA First Team nomination in 2023, and becoming a two-time All-Star (2021, 2023). In 2025, she was traded to the Phoenix Mercury.
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Michael Franks
- Occupations
- mandolinistjazz guitaristsongwriterguitaristrecording artist
- Biography
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Michael Franks is an American singer and songwriter. He has recorded with a variety of well-known artists, such as Peggy Lee, Dan Hicks, Patti Austin, Art Garfunkel, Brenda Russell, Claus Ogerman, Joe Sample, and David Sanborn. His songs have been recorded by Gordon Haskell, Shirley Bassey, The Carpenters, Kurt Elling, Diana Krall, Patti LaBelle, Lyle Lovett, The Manhattan Transfer, Leo Sidran, Veronica Nunn, Carmen McRae, Ringo Starr and Natalie Cole.
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June Jones
- Occupations
- American football playerAmerican football coachCanadian football player
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June Sheldon Jones III is an American football coach and former player who was most recently the offensive coordinator of the Seattle Sea Dragons. Jones was the head football coach at the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 1999 to 2007, and was the head football coach at Southern Methodist University (SMU) from 2008 until he resigned on September 8, 2014. He coached in the National Football League (NFL) for three years as head coach of the Atlanta Falcons from 1994 to 1996, plus a ten-game stint as interim head coach of the San Diego Chargers in 1998; he also spent 1+1⁄2 seasons as head coach of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Canadian Football League (CFL). Jones was the general manager and head coach of the Houston Roughnecks.
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Aaron Brooks
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Aaron Jamal Brooks is an American professional basketball coach and former player. He was selected 26th overall in the 2007 NBA draft. Brooks won the NBA Most Improved Player Award for the 2009–10 season.
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Chris Duarte
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Christopher Theoret Duarte is a Canadian-Dominican professional basketball player for Unicaja of the Spanish Liga ACB and the Champions League. He played college basketball for the Northwest Florida State Raiders and the Oregon Ducks. At Northwest Florida State, he was named NABC NJCAA Player of the Year in 2019. At Oregon, he received the 2021 Jerry West Award as the nation's top collegiate shooting guard. He was selected 13th overall by the Indiana Pacers in the 2021 NBA draft. Duarte was selected to NBA All-Rookie Second Team honors.
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Kenneth Bae
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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Kenneth Bae is a South Korean-born American Evangelical Christian missionary. Convicted by North Korea on charges of planning to overthrow the government, he was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment in April 2013. Bae was released on November 8, 2014, along with fellow American Matthew Todd Miller.
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Mike Nolan
- Occupations
- coachAmerican football playerAmerican football coach
- Biography
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Michael Tullis Nolan is an American football coach. Nolan previously served as a head coach for the San Francisco 49ers, and a defensive coordinator for the National Football League (NFL)'s Baltimore Ravens, New York Jets, Washington Redskins, New York Giants, Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins, Atlanta Falcons, and Dallas Cowboys. Nolan is a former linebackers coach for the Denver Broncos, San Diego Chargers, and New Orleans Saints.
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Jon Lindstrom
- Occupations
- screenwritertelevision actorfilm produceractorfilm actor
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Jon Robert Lindstrom is an American actor, writer, director, producer, and musician. He is well known for his roles of Kevin Collins and Ryan Chamberlain on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital and its spin-off Port Charles. In 2024 his debut novel Hollywood Hustle, published February 6 by Crooked Lane Books, is an official USA Today Bestseller.
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Tyler Shough
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Tyler James Shough is an American professional football quarterback for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon Ducks, Texas Tech Red Raiders and Louisville Cardinals. Shough was selected by the Saints in the second round of the 2025 NFL draft.
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Peter Hollens
- Occupations
- composerrecord producerYouTubersongwritersinger
- Biography
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Peter James Hollens is an American singer-songwriter, producer and entrepreneur. He has been involved with a cappella music since 1999 when he and Leo da Silva founded the University of Oregon's a cappella group, On The Rocks, known as the first official collegiate a cappella group in Oregon. He regularly releases new music videos to his YouTube channel. With over 9+ million followers and over 3 million subscribers, his content has received over a billion total views since 2011.
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Marissa Neitling
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Marissa Lee Neitling is an American actress, known for her roles in the TV series The Last Ship (2014-2018) as Kara Foster, and the film San Andreas (2015) as Phoebe.
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Troy Brown Jr
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Troy Randall Brown Jr. is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Adelaide 36ers of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL). He played one season of college basketball for the Oregon Ducks before being selected with the 15th overall pick by the Washington Wizards in the 2018 NBA draft.
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Witold Waszczykowski
- Enrolled in the University of Oregon
- Studied in 1989-1991
- Occupations
- historiandiplomatuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Witold Jan Waszczykowski is a Polish politician. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2015 and 2018. Waszczykowski was a Member of the Sejm (2011–2019), and has been a Member of the European Parliament to 2024.
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Kent Beck
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- writercomputer scientistsoftware engineerengineerprogrammer
- Biography
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Kent Beck is an American software engineer and the creator of extreme programming, a software development methodology that eschews rigid formal specification for a collaborative and iterative design process. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto, the founding document for agile software development. Extreme and Agile methods are closely associated with Test-Driven Development (TDD), of which Beck is perhaps the leading proponent.
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Jeremiah Masoli
- Occupations
- gridiron football playerAmerican football playerCanadian football player
- Biography
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Jeremiah Taeatafa Masoli is an American professional football quarterback who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL) as an undrafted free agent in 2011. He played college football at the City College of San Francisco, University of Oregon, and the University of Mississippi. Masoli has also been a member of the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League (UFL), and the Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, and Ottawa Redblacks of the CFL.
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Brianne Theisen-Eaton, née Theisen, is a retired Canadian track and field athlete who competed in the heptathlon and women's pentathlon. She won the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Theisen-Eaton holds the Canadian record for the heptathlon with 6,808 points, as well as the indoor pentathlon with a score of 4768 points. Theisen-Eaton is a heptathlon silver medallist from the 2013 World Championships and 2015 World Championships, as well as a pentathlon silver medalist from the 2014 World Indoor Championships. She is the first and only Canadian woman to podium in the multi-events at the World Championships. Theisen-Eaton won Commonwealth Games gold in the heptathlon at Glasgow 2014 and was the 2016 World Indoor Champion in the pentathlon. She also won a bronze medal as part of the women's 4 x 400 m relay at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto.
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Hilda Heine
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hilda Cathy Heine is a Marshallese educator and politician. She has served as the president of the Marshall Islands since 2024, having previously served from 2016 to 2020. Heine was the first woman to lead any sovereign country in Micronesia and the first person from the Marshall Islands to earn a doctorate. Prior to entering politics, she worked as a teacher and counselor at Marshall Islands High School and then as a women's rights activist with her organization Women United Together Marshall Islands.
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Scott McGough
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Scott Thomas McGough is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in MLB for the Miami Marlins, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Athletics and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
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Matthew Centrowitz
- Occupations
- athletics competitor
- Biography
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Matthew Centrowitz Jr. is an American middle-distance runner, who specializes in the 1500 metres. He won a gold medal in the event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He also achieved a bronze medal at the 2011 World Championships and a silver medal at the 2013 World Championships. Centrowitz is a five-time national champion in the 1500 m at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
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Paul Simon
- Enrolled in the University of Oregon
- Studied in 1945-1946
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachernewspaper editorhistorianpublisher
- Biography
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Paul Martin Simon was an American author and politician from Illinois. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1985 and in the United States Senate from 1985 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, he unsuccessfully ran for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination.
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Charles Walker
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Sir Charles Ashley Rupert Walker KBE is a British politician who served as chair of the House of Commons Procedure Committee from 2012 to 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Broxbourne in Hertfordshire from 2005 to 2024.
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Royce Freeman
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Royce Deion Freeman is an American professional football running back. He played college football for the Oregon Ducks, earning third-team All-American honors in 2015.
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Susan Ruttan
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Susan Diane Ruttan is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Roxanne Melman on L.A. Law (1986–1993), for which she was nominated four times for a Primetime Emmy Award.
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Luke Ridnour
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Lukas Robin Ridnour is an American former professional basketball player who played 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks.
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Jim Loscutoff
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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James Loscutoff Jr. was a professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A forward, Loscutoff played on seven Celtics championship teams between 1956 and 1964.
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Colin Meloy
- Occupations
- composersinger-songwritersingersongwriter
- Biography
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Colin Patrick Henry Meloy is an American musician, singer-songwriter and author best known as the frontman of the Portland, Oregon, indie folk rock band the Decemberists. In addition to vocals, he performs with an acoustic guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bouzouki, harmonica and percussion instruments.
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Joe Sacco
- Enrolled in the University of Oregon
- Studied journalism
- Occupations
- comics artist
- Biography
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Joe Sacco is a Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist. He is credited as the first artist to practice rigorous, investigative journalism using the comics form, also referred to as comics journalism. His work documenting Palestinian life in Gaza and the West Bank was awarded the National Book Award in 1996 and was compiled in the graphic narrative Palestine (2001). His other notable monographs include Footnotes in Gaza (2009) which won a Ridenhour Book Prize. Other notable works include Safe Area Goražde (2000) and The Fixer (2003) on the Bosnian War. In 2020, Sacco released Paying the Land, published by Henry Holt and Company.
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Kat Bjelland
- Occupations
- singersongwriterguitarist
- Biography
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Katherine Lynne Bjelland is an American former musician. She rose to prominence as the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the alternative rock band Babes in Toyland, which she formed in 1987. She has been noted for her unusual vocal style alternately consisting of shrill screams, whispering, and speaking in tongues, as well as for her guitar playing style, which incorporates "jagged" tones with "psychotic rockabilly rhythms".
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Jodie Taylor
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Jodie Lee Taylor is an English former professional footballer who last played as a striker for Arsenal of WSL. She began her club career with local team Tranmere Rovers and had brief spells in her home country with Birmingham City and Lincoln Ladies. A well-travelled player, she has also played abroad in the United States, Canada, Australia, Sweden and France.
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Marc Laidlaw
- Occupations
- writerscience fiction writernovelistscreenwriter
- Biography
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Marc Laidlaw is an American writer. Until 2016, he was a writer for the video game company Valve, where he worked on the Half-Life and Portal series.
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John McKay
- Occupations
- American football coachAmerican football player
- Biography
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John Harvey McKay was an American football coach. He was the head coach at the University of Southern California (USC) from 1960 to 1975 and of the National Football League's Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1976 to 1984. In sixteen seasons at USC, McKay compiled a record of 127–40–8 (.749) and won nine AAWU/Pac-8 conference titles. His teams made eight appearances in the Rose Bowl, with five wins. Four of his squads captured national titles (1962, 1967, 1972, 1974).
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Lee Bollinger
- Enrolled in the University of Oregon
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in political science
- Occupations
- writereducatorlawyeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Lee Carroll Bollinger is an American attorney and academic administrator who served as the 19th president of Columbia University from 2002 to 2023, as the 12th president of the University of Michigan from 1997 to 2001, and as 14th dean of the University of Michigan Law School from 1987 to 1994.
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Peter DeFazio
- Enrolled in the University of Oregon
- In 1977 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Peter Anthony DeFazio is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Oregon's 4th congressional district from 1987 to 2023. He is a member of the Democratic Party and is a founder of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. A native of Massachusetts and a veteran of the United States Air Force Reserve, he previously served as a county commissioner in Lane County, Oregon. On December 1, 2021, DeFazio announced he would not seek reelection in 2022.
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Li Ang
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Shih Shu-tuan, pen name Li Ang (Chinese: 李昂), is a Taiwanese feminist writer. After graduating from Chinese Culture University with a degree in philosophy, she studied drama at the University of Oregon, after which she returned to teach at her alma mater. Her major work is The Butcher's Wife (殺夫: 1983, tr. 1986), though she has written many other novels. Feminist themes and sexuality are present in much of her work. Many of her stories are set in Lukang.
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Jenna Prandini
- Occupations
- long jumpersprinter
- Biography
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Jenna Elizabeth Prandini is an American track and field athlete who has competed in both sprinting and long jump. She is a two-time national champion at 200 meters (2015, 2018), and a two-time Olympian in 2016 and 2020. She won a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics as part of the United States 4 × 100 m relay team, and won a gold medal with the US 4 × 100 m relay at the 2022 World Athletics Championships.
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Gayle Forman
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writerjournalistmagazine writer
- Biography
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Gayle Forman is an American young adult fiction author, best known for her novel If I Stay, which topped the New York Times best sellers list of Young Adult Fiction and was made into a film of the same name.
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Ann Bancroft
- Occupations
- teacherexplorer
- Biography
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Ann Bancroft is an American author, teacher, adventurer, and public speaker. She was the first woman to finish a number of expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1995.
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Max Unger
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Maxwell McCandless Unger is an American former professional football player who was a center in the National Football League (NFL) for 10 seasons. He played college football for the Oregon Ducks and was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the second round of the 2009 NFL draft. Unger was the starting center for the Seahawks in Super Bowl XLVIII.
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Dinesh Gunawardena
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Dinesh Chandra Rupasinghe Gunawardena is a Sri Lankan politician who served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 2022 to 2024. He also held the positions of Minister of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils and Local Government. Gunawardena has been leader of the left-wing Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) party since 1983, was briefly the de facto leader of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna from 2022 to 2023, and has taken cabinet positions under several previous governments, including Leader of the House from 2020 until 2022.
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Jessica Hull
- Occupations
- runnerathletics competitor
- Biography
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Jessica Hull is an Australian middle- and long-distance runner. In the 1500m, she won the silver medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics and the bronze medal at the 2025 World Athletics Championships. Hull holds Oceanian records in the 800m, 1000m, 1500m, mile, and 3000m, as well as the short-track (indoor) records for the mile and 3000m. Hull is the fifth-fastest woman in history over 1500m and holds the world record in the seldom-run 2000m. She won bronze medals in the 3000m at the 2025 World Indoor Championships and in the mixed relay at the 2023 World Cross Country Championships. Hull won a gold medal at the 2026 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in the mixed relay. Hull is a six-time Australian national champion, having won three titles each in the 1500m and 5000m. A graduate of the University of Oregon, Hull was a two-time individual NCAA Division I champion and has run professionally for Nike since 2019.
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Jevon Holland
- Occupations
- American football player
- Biography
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Jevon Holland is a Canadian-American professional football safety for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon Ducks, and was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 2021 NFL draft.
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Walter Houser Brattain
- Occupations
- physicistinventor
- Biography
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Walter Houser Brattain was an American solid-state physicist who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and William Shockley for their invention of the point-contact transistor. Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states.
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Alex Tizon
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Tomas Alexander Asuncion Tizon was a Filipino-American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. His book Big Little Man, a memoir and cultural history, explores themes related to race, masculinity, and personal identity. Tizon taught at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. His final story, titled "My Family's Slave", was published as the cover story of the June 2017 issue of The Atlantic after his death, sparking significant debate.
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Daniel Levitin
- Enrolled in the University of Oregon
- 1992-1996 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in psychology
- Occupations
- composerrecord producerjournalistneuroscientistmusic journalist
- Biography
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Daniel Joseph Levitin, FRSC is an American-Canadian polymath, cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, musician, and record producer. He is the author of four New York Times best-selling books, including This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies.
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Ralph Towner
- Occupations
- bandleaderpianistcomposerjazz guitaristrecording artist
- Biography
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Ralph Towner was an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He played the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, electric FRAME guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion, trumpet, and French horn.
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PZ Myers
- Occupations
- bloggerbiologistuniversity teacherzoologist
- Biography
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Paul Zachary Myers is an American biologist and activist who founded and writes the Pharyngula science and atheism blog. He is associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota Morris (UMM) where he works in the field of developmental biology. He is a critic of intelligent design, the creationist movement, and pseudoscience.
