Portland Represent!

wiki list of famous P-towners

The LONG list:

A - E

• Obo Addy, worldbeat musician
• Brad Adkins, artist
• Art Alexakis, member of Everclear
• Goli Ameri, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
• Garner Ted Armstrong, televangelist
• Jean M. Auel, author of The Clan of the Cave Bear
• Thomas J. Autzen, plywood manufacturing innovator, Autzen Stadium benefactor
• Lance Bangs, artist, filmmaker
• James Beard, food expert
• Jona Bechtolt, musician
• Pietro Belluschi, architect
• Brian Michael Bendis, comic book writer
• Simon Benson, philanthropist, logging innovator
• Becca Bernstein, artist
• Mel Blanc, voice actor best known as voice of Bugs Bunny
• Lance Blankenship, retired Major League Baseball player and World Series Champion
• Earl Blumenauer, Democratic U.S. representative
• Chuck Bown and Jim Bown, NASCAR drivers
• Terrell Brandon, NBA all star
• Thom Bray, Riptide actor
• Isaac Brock, co-founder and frontman of Modest Mouse
• Meredith Brooks, singer (Bitch)
• Mel Brown, R&B and jazz drummer
• Carrie Brownstein, musician, guitarist with Sleater-Kinney
• John Callahan, cartoonist
• Clive Charles, soccer coach
• Beverly Cleary, children’s stories author
• Brad Cloepfil, architect
• John H. Couch, sea captain and early merchant who platted the Portland’s NW alphabet district
• Joseph Buford Cox, chainsaw chain inventor
• Tom Cramer, artist
• Larry Crane, publisher of Tape Op
• Ward Cunningham, inventor of wiki
• Chuck Currie, United Church of Christ clergy and long-time homeless advocate
• Michael Curry, costume designer for The Lion King, and designer of the 2002 and 1996 Olympics opening ceremonies
• Farel Dalrymple, comic book artist
• Britt Daniel, musician best known as the lead singer of Spoon
• Valerie Day, member of Nu Shooz
• Walter “Walt” Dawson, political lobbyist
• Paul deLay, blues harmonica player
• Richard Diebenkorn, painter
• Michael Doleac, NBA Miami Heat player
• Abigail Scott Duniway, radical, suffragist, and publisher/editor of Portland newspaper The New Northwest
• Katherine Dunn, author, Geek Love
• Mike Dunleavy, Jr., Jesuit H.S. and NBA Indiana Pacers player
• Dick Egan, baseball player
• Sam Elliott, actor
• Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse
• Marie Equi, physician and anarchist

[edit] F - L

• Harrell Fletcher, artist
• Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LiveJournal
• Dick Fosbury, high jumper, inventor of the Fosbury Flop
• Boaz Frankel, host and creator of Clips & Quips
• Alex Frost, actor
• C. Gordon Fullerton, astronaut and member of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
• Elizabeth Furse, U.S. Congresswoman
• Clark Gable, film actor, best known for Gone with the Wind
• Robert Lee Ghormley, World War II naval officer
• Rodney Glisan, U.S. Army surgeon on the Oregon frontier
• Jacob Golden, musician
• A.C. Green, former NBA player
• Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, Futurama and Life In Hell
• Sean Healy, artist multimedia
• Sally Haley, artist and painter
• Tonya Harding, controversial figure skater and boxer
• Katie Harman, Miss America 2002
• Joey Harrington, NFL quarterback
• Lou Harrison, composer
• Michael Allen Harrison, musician
• Steve Havelka, creator of Pokey the Penguin
• Ernest Haycox, writer
• Todd Haynes, filmmaker
• Susan Helms, astronaut (actually born in North Carolina, but spent most of her childhood in Portland, and considers it her hometown)
• Joe Hill, radical labor activist
• Stewart Holbrook, author and artist
• Matt Hollywood, musician
• Peter Holmstrom, musician
• Bill Hudson, musician, singer/songwriter, producer
• Brett Hudson, musician, singer/songwriter, producer
• Mark Hudson, musician, singer/songwriter, producer
• William Hurt, Academy Award winning actor
• Peter Jacobsen, golfer
• Gary Jarman, musician, singer/songwriter
• Jeff Jahn, curator, critic and artist
• Chris Johanson, artist
• Fred Jones, former Portland Trail Blazers player, 2004 NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Champion
• Miranda July, performance artist, filmmaker
• Louis Kaufman, violinist
• The Kingsmen, musicians, best known for “Louie Louie”
• Ben Hur Lampman, writer, editor at The Oregonian, Oregon poet laureate
• Storm Large, singer, fronts the band Storm and the Balls, contestant on Rock Star: Supernova
• Thomas M. Lauderdale, musician, Pink Martini
• Ursula K. Le Guin, science fiction/fantasy author
• Norman Leyden, arranger, conductor, clarinetist
• Mickey Lolich, major league baseball pitcher
• Courtney Love, actress and musician

[edit] M - S

• Shannon MacMillan, U.S. soccer player
• Stephen Malkmus, band member of Pavement
• Phillip Margolin, writer and lawyer
• Johnny Marr, former guitarist for The Smiths and current guitarist for Modest Mouse
• Ana Matronic, singer
• Dallas McKennon, voice actor best known as voices of Gumby, Pokey, Archie Andrews, Tony the Tiger
• Mike and Brian McMenamin, brewpub owners
• Carlton Mellick III, bizarro fiction author
• Colin Meloy, musician, singer/songwriter, leader of The Decemberists
• James Mercer, musician, singer/songwriter, leader of The Shins
• Tiffeny Milbrett, U.S. soccer player
• Don Miller, author
• Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, former MTV VJ 1992-1996
• Cris Moss, curator and artist
• Ona Munson, actress in Gone with the Wind
• Dale Murphy, former Atlanta Braves star
• Scout Niblett, musician
• Michael Paul Oman-Reagan, artist
• Chuck Palahniuk, writer, author of Fight Club, and idiosyncratic guide to Portland, Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon
• Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
• Johnny Pesky, iconic Boston Red Sox baseball player
• Henry F. Phillips, inventor of the Phillips-head screw
• Roddy Piper, professional wrestler
• Tom Potter, former police chief and current mayor (2005-present)
• Jane Powell, actress/singer
• Ahmad Rashad, former NFL player, television personality
• Johnnie Ray, musician
• John Reed, journalist
• Mel Renfro, defensive back for Dallas Cowboys
• Rozz Rezabek, punk pioneer and vocalist for early Negative Trend and Theatre of Sheep
• Kim Rhodes, actress, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, As the World Turns, Another World
• Raina Rose, folksinger
• Alex Ross, comic book artist
• Mark Rothko, artist
• Greg Rucka, novelist and comic book writer
• Rick Rydell, outdoors writer, novelist, and radio talk show host
• Joe Sacco, graphic novel journalist
• Katee Sackhoff, actress, Battlestar Galactica (2003) and Bionic Woman (2007)
• Curtis Salgado, soul singer
• Rebecca Schaeffer, actress, whose murder in 1989 led to anti-stalking laws
• Randal L. Schwartz, author of Perl programming books and magazine articles, and controversially convicted computer criminal
• Danny Simon, television writer
• Elliott Smith, musician
• Lawrence Leighton Smith, conductor
• Harry Everett Smith, archivist, ethnomusicologist
• Tom Spanbauer, author
• Matthew Stadler, author
• William Stafford, poet
• Damon Stoudamire, San Antonio Spurs star
• Salim Stoudamire, Atlanta Hawks NBA player
• Sally Struthers, actress
• Jon Micah Sumrall, lead singer of the Christian rock band Kutless

[edit] T - Z

• Courtney Taylor-Taylor, musician
• Tommy Thayer, musician, guitarist for KISS
• Craig Thompson, graphic novelist
• Kirk Thornton, notable voice actor
• Linus Torvalds, organizer of the Linux operating system kernel
• Michael Totten, writer, foreign correspondent
• Zoe Trope, teenage author
• Corin Tucker, musician, guitarist with Sleater-Kinney
• Gus Van Sant, filmmaker
• Angela Via, singer/songwriter
• Will Vinton, claymation animator
• Lindsay Wagner, actress best known for The Bionic Woman
• Chris Walla, musician, guitarist of Death Cab for Cutie
• Marie Watt, contemporary sculptor
• Janet Weiss, musician, drummer with Sleater-Kinney
• E. Henry Wemme, businessman
• Minor White, influential photographer
• Brad Wilk, Portland-born drummer of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave
• Craig L. Williams, Emperor XVI Craig Hollywood of the Imperial Court of New York
• Martin Wong, Portland-born painter
• Anthony Wynn, author

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