This University of Oregon notable alumni includes graduates and current students of the University of Oregon as well as former students who studied at the university but did not obtain a formal degree.
The university opened in 1876 and the first class contained only five members, graduating in 1878.[1] The university has over 195,000 alumni, 10 of whom are Pulitzer Prize winners, and 2 of whom are Nobel laureates.[2] [3]
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
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M.S. Ph.D. | 1972 1975 | Chancellor of UCLA | [4] | ||
B.S. | 1954 | President of Columbia University; former President of University of Michigan | [5] | ||
Ph.D. | President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | [6] | |||
Ph.D. | 1954 | Retired President of San Jose State University | [7] | ||
B.S. | 1979 | Dean of Sauder School of Business at UBC | [8] | ||
Ph.D. | 1975 | President of Brooklyn College | [9] | ||
B.A. M.A. | 1915 1920 | Dean and interim president University of Oregon | [10] | ||
M.B.A. | 1997 | President of Oregon Health Sciences University | [11] [12] | ||
Ph.D. | 1973 | President Emeritus of Trinity Western University | [13] |
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
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B.Arch | 1962 | Founder of BAR Architects and Backen, Gillam & Kroeger | [14] | ||
B.Arch | 1980 | Founder of Allied Works Architecture | [15] | ||
B.Arch | 1977 | VP, designer and architect for Nike | [16] | ||
B.Arch | 1952 | Architect credited with bringing modernist architecture to Bangladesh | [17] | ||
B.Arch | 1967 | First architect to win the National Humanities Medal | [18] | ||
B.IArch | 1961 | RIBA; founder of Rick Mather Architects; trustee of Victoria and Albert Museum | [19] | ||
B.Arch | 1955 | Second African-American to play basketball for the Ducks; founded architecture firm in Seattle | [20] | ||
B.Arch | 1978 | Architect, author of The Not so Big House | [21] | ||
B.Arch | 1981 | Controversial architect | [22] | ||
B.Arch | 1952 | Prolific architect in Oregon | |||
B.IArch | 1960 | Vice Chairman emeritus of Gensler | [23] |
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
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B.F.A | 1981 | President of Comedy Central | [24] | ||
B.S. | 1951 | Retired CEO and Chairman emeritus of Procter & Gamble | [25] | ||
M.A. | 1985 | President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation | [26] | ||
B.S. | 1980 | Marketing guru | [27] | ||
M.A. | 1974 | Co-founder of Borland International; founder and president of Palo Alto Software, Inc. | [28] | ||
B.S. M.Ed. | 1934 1953 | Co-founder of Nike, Inc. | [29] | ||
B.S. | 1971 | CEO of Columbia Sportswear Company | [30] | ||
B.S. | 1970 | Founder of Aldus; creator of PageMaker and desktop publishing | [31] | ||
M.A. | 1932 | Co-founder and President of CARE | [32] | ||
B.A. | 1981 | Founder and CEO of SPARQ | [33] | ||
attended | CEO of Meyer Corporation | [34] | |||
B.A. | 1983 | President and CEO of Palm, Inc. | [35] | ||
B.B.A. | 1951 | Former chairman and CEO of U.S. Bancorp; former president of US National Bank of Oregon | [36] | ||
B.S. | 1998 | CEO of Chronicle, an Alphabet company | [37] | ||
B.A. | 1948 | Founder and president emeritus of Portland Trail Blazers | [38] | ||
B.S. | 2003 | Senior Vice President of Global Policy and Communications at Uber | [39] | ||
B.A. M.B.A. | 1986 1992 | Former president of Intel Corporation | [40] | ||
B.S. | 1997 | Former CEO of MySpace | [41] | ||
1964 | Co-founder of Rogue Ales | [42] | |||
attended | Former Athletic Director of the University of Oregon, Chairman emeritus and former CEO of Arrowhead General Insurance Agency | [43] | |||
B.B.A | 1959 | Co-founder, chairman, and former CEO of Nike, Inc. | [44] | ||
Ph.D. | 1972 | Founder, retired president, chairman and CEO of MediaOne | [45] | ||
B.S. | 1979 | General Manager for the New Orleans Saints | [46] | ||
1974 | CEO of La Opinión and ImpreMedia, LLC | [47] | |||
B.Arch | 1999 | Co-founder of WeWork | [48] | ||
B.A. | 1944 | Principal owner of Golden State Warriors | [49] | ||
B.S. | 1972 | President and CEO of Papé Group; President and Chairman of Liberty Financial Group | [50] | ||
M.B.A. | 1976 | Chairman and CEO of Gucci | [51] | ||
B.S. | 1978 | Chairman and former CEO of Tech Data | [52] | ||
B.S. | 1953 | Co-founder and CEO of Columbia Management, established Oregon's first mutual fund | [53] | ||
B.A. | 1994 | Director of Product Marketing of Nintendo of America | [54] | ||
B.A. | 1978 | Co-founder and President of Widmer Brothers Brewing Company | [55] | ||
B.A. | 1917 | Co-founder of Reader's Digest | [56] | ||
B.S. | 1967 | Co-founder of advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy | [57] | ||
B.S. | 1964 | Stock trader, author of How to Prosper in the Coming Good Years | [58] |
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference |
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B.A. | 1991 | Stand-up comedian; former consultant for Sex and the City; author of He's Just Not That Into You and It's Called a Breakup Because it's Broken | [59] [60] | |
attended | Stand-up comedian and juggler | [61] | ||
attended | Actor (Petticoat Junction) | [62] | ||
1957 | Emmy Award-winning producer (Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Munsters) and screenwriter (The Bullwinkle Show, A Little Romance) | [63] | ||
attended | Emmy Award-winning Actor (Modern Family) | [64] | ||
B.S. | 1964 | Emmy Award-winning television producer, writer, and novelist (The A-Team, The Greatest American Hero); founder and chairman of Cannell Studios | [65] | |
1973 | Movie producer (Face/Off, Broken Arrow) | [66] | ||
B.F.A. | 1960 | Painter and graphic artist based in New York City | [67] | |
M.F.A. | 1984 | Producer (Mulan) | [68] | |
attended | 1962-63 | Actor (The Big Lebowski, Road House) | [69] | |
B.S. | 1964 | Writer, producer, and actor (Beverly Hills Cop II, The Hunt for Red October) | [70] [71] | |
B.S. | 1970 | Academy Award-winning set designer (Bugsy, Waterworld, The Truman Show, O Brother, Where Art Thou?) | [72] | |
attended | Actor (WKRP in Cincinnati, About Schmidt) | [73] | ||
B.F.A | 1980 | Academy Award Winning visual effects artist (Blade Runner 2049) | [74] | |
B.A. | 1980 | Academy Award-winning editor (JFK, Born on the Fourth of July) | [75] | |
B.F.A. | 1951 | Academy Award-winning writer (Call Me by Your Name); Director (A Room with a View, Howards End); co-founder of Merchant Ivory Productions | [76] | |
B.F.A. | 1985 | Actor (Stargate SG-1), graduated from the University as a three-time All-American football player under the name Doug Judge | [77] | |
B.S. | 1969 | Actor, Julian Crane on the NBC soap opera Passions | [78] | |
B.S. | 2007 | Actress, (The Last Ship, San Andreas) | [79] | |
B.S. | 1997 | Actress, Sweet Dee on the FX TV show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | [80] | |
B.S. | 1976 | Actor, George Hazard on the ABC miniseries North and South, Beaches, Eight Men Out, Charmed, Wildfire | ||
B.A. | 2009 | Author and Actor, What the Constitution Means to Me | [81] | |
B.S. | 1967 | Producer (Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Bad Boys, Crimson Tide, The Rock) | [82] | |
attended | Actor (M*A*S*H) | [83] | ||
B.S. | 1985 | Star Trek writer | [84] | |
1996 | Executive Producer (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Wild) Producer (Stoker and Shame) | |||
2011 | Director of photography (Icarus) | |||
Ph.D. | 1994 | Playwright, stage director | [85] | |
B.A. | 1993 | Film editor (The Kids Are All Right, Prom) | [86] | |
B.A. | 1993 | 2004 Tony Award winner for the musical Avenue Q | [87] | |
B.Arch | 1997 | Hong Kong movie star (New Police Story) | [88] | |
B.A. | 1976 | Television producer, director, and writer | [89] | |
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
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B.A. M.F.A. | 1966 1968 | Native American poet, novelist | [90] | ||
M.A. | 1973 | Poet | [91] | ||
M.F.A. | 1992 | Poet | [92] | ||
B.A. | 1923 | Writer of Western fiction; his story "Stage to Lordsburg" was made into the 1939 movie Stagecoach | [93] | ||
B.A. | 1935 | Poet and publisher of the literary journal Kayak | [94] | ||
B.S. | 1957 | Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion | [95] | ||
M.F.A. | 1993 | Novelist, Native Speaker; director of Princeton University's Creative Writing program | [96] | ||
B.A. | 1986 | Author of Fight Club, Choke, and Lullaby | [97] | ||
B.A. | Author and poet: 1994 Queensland Premier's Poetry Award, The Cave After Saltwater Tide – winner, 2012 Western Australian Premier's Award, My Planets Reunion Memoir – winner, 2013 Canadian Children's Book Centre Best Book for Teens and Kids, Bringing Down the Wall – winner | [98] [99] | |||
M.A. | 1979 | Author of outdoor guide books | [100] | ||
M.F.A. | 1996 | Poet | [101] | ||
B.S. M.A. | 1918 1919 | Professor and novelist | [102] | ||
B.S. Ph.D. | 1989 1998 | Novelist and Memoirist | [103] |
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
M.A. | 1965 | Composer, author, and former professor of music at Dartmouth College | [104] | ||
B.S. | 1975 | Jazz musician | [105] | ||
B.S. | 2002 | Guitarist and keyboardist for Death Cab for Cutie | [106] | ||
M.Ed. | 1971 | Jazz pianist | [107] | ||
B.Mus. | 1986 | Bass player for King Crimson | [108] | ||
B.Mus. | 2005 | Singer and producer | [109] | ||
B.A. | 1987 | Blues musician | [110] | ||
M.S. Ph.D. | 1993 1996 | Musician; cognitive scientist; sound designer for Chris Isaak and Joe Satriani | [111] | ||
attended | Author, lead singer of The Decemberists | [112] | |||
B.S. | 1963 | Composer; founding member and bassist of Oregon | [113] | ||
D.M.A. | 1972 | Retired director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir | [114] | ||
B.S. | 2004 | Lead singer of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies | [115] | ||
B.S. | 1976 | Composer, record producer | [116] | ||
B.Mus. | 1963 | Composer; founding member of Oregon |
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
M.A. | 1978 | Art historian and museum director | [117] | ||
M.F.A. | 1936 | Art preservationist and promoter, awarded the Meritorious Service Medal | [118] | ||
B.A. | 1946 | Painter and printmaker | [119] | ||
M.F.A. | 2006 | Master weaver, owner of Eugene Textile Center and Glimakra USA | [120] | ||
M.F.A. | 1991 | Artist and Printmaker | [121] | ||
M.F.A. | 1957 | Architect, ceramist, sculptor | [122] | ||
B.A. | 1981 | Comic artist and journalist | [123] | ||
M.F.A. | Artist | [124] | |||
M.F.A. | 1968 | Painter and sculptor | [125] | ||
M.F.A. | 1968 | Painter, sculptor and landscape architect | [126] | ||
B.S. | 1984 | Photographer | [127] |
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
B.S. | 1977 | Pulitzer Prize winner (1997 Seattle Times) | [128] | ||
B.S. | 1983 | Pulitzer Prize winner (2001 Oregonian, 2006 Oregonian with Doug Bates) | [129] | ||
1968 | Pulitzer Prize winner (2006 Oregonian with Rick Attig) | ||||
B.S. | 1994 | Former publisher for the National Rifle Association; author of outdoor-related magazine articles | [130] | ||
B.A. | 1978 | The Today Show anchor; co-host of Dateline NBC | [131] | ||
B.S. | 1982 | Pulitzer Prize winner (1993 LA Times with staff, 1995 LA Times with staff, 2000 Rocky Mountain News with photo staff) | [132] | ||
1984 | ESPNEWS and SportsCenter anchor | [133] | |||
B.S. | 1990 | Broadcast journalist for WJLA-TV, the ABC-affiliated television station in Washington, D.C. | [134] | ||
M.A. | Journalist | [135] | |||
1981 | Journalist; four-time Emmy Award winner; three-time Peabody Award winner | [136] | |||
attended | StarCraft II professional commentator and player | [137] | |||
attended | 1977-1979 | Syndicated radio talk show host, political pundit (KEX (AM), FOX News) | [138] | ||
B.S. | 1986 | Broadcast journalist for WGN America | [139] | ||
M.S. | 1975 | Journalist | [140] | ||
M.A. | 1980 | Emmy Award-winning filmmaker for National Geographic Television; author (Islands Under Fire) | [141] | ||
M.F.A. | Owner of The New Republic. Co-founder of Mother Jones. Editor-in-chief of Tin House Magazine. | [142] | |||
1963 | Pulitzer Prize winner (1981 Longview Daily News with staff) | ||||
1967 | Pulitzer Prize winner (1980 The Boston Globe) | ||||
B.S. | 1975 | Journalist; first openly gay reporter on a major American newspaper (the San Francisco Chronicle); author of three best-selling non-fiction books: The Mayor of Castro Street, And the Band Played On, and Conduct Unbecoming | [143] | ||
B.A. | 1986 | Pulitzer Prize winner (1994 Dallas Morning News with staff) | |||
B.S. | 1994 | Pulitzer Prize winner (1997 Seattle Times with Eric Nalder and Deborah Nelson) | [144] | ||
B.S. | 1984 | Pulitzer Prize winner (2001 Oregonian with Julia Sullivan-Springhetti, Kim Christensen, and Richard Read) | |||
M.S. | 1978 | Journalist; editor; winner of Gerald Loeb Award; was editor of the Willamette Week one of his reporters made it the only weekly to ever win the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting (2005, Nigel Jaquiss) | [145] |
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
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B.A. | 1931 | Historian, Hunter College | [146] | ||
Ph.D. | 1991 | Archaeologist | [147] | ||
M.A. | 1987 | History professor at Truman State University, award-winning author | [148] | ||
Fredrik Logevall | Historian, Pulitzer Prize winner | ||||
B.A. | 1942 | Professor emeritus of European History at University of California, Berkeley | [149] | ||
M.A. | 1926 | History professor at Lincoln University in Missouri; first African American to graduate from the University of Oregon | [150] | ||
Ph.D. | 1978 | Professor at California Institute of Integral Studies | [151] | ||
M.L.S. | Former president of Chinese American Librarians Association from 1992 to 1993, multicultural services and outreach services librarian | [152] |
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
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B.S. | 1951 | Brigadier general, USMC; veteran of three wars | [153] | ||
LL.D. | 1889 | Recipient of the Medal of Honor | [154] | ||
1896 | Major General, US Army | [155] | |||
B.S. | 1955 | Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral, US Navy | [156] | ||
B.S. | 1948 | Sergeant in Easy Company of the 101st Airborne; was in Stephen E. Ambrose's book Band of Brothers, made into an HBO miniseries | [157] | ||
B.S. | 1927 | General, US Army | [158] | ||
M.D. | 1946 | Lieutenant General, US Army | [159] | ||
J.D. | 1976 | Major General, US Army | [160] | ||
B.S. | 1940 | General, US Army | [161] | ||
attended | Rear Admiral, US Navy | [162] | |||
B.A. | Lieutenant, WAVES, US Navy; Colonel, United States Air Force | [163] | |||
B.S. | 1986 | Brigadier General, US Army | [164] | ||
attended | 1943 | [165] [166] | |||
B.S. | 1940–42, 1947 | Brigadier General, US Army | [167] |
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|
B.A. | 1974 | President of the Marshall Islands | [168] | |
B.B.A | 1972 | Prime minister of Sri Lanka | [169] | |
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference |
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attended | Former Governor of Oregon | [170] | ||
B.A. | 1963 | Former Governor of Oregon and mayor of Portland, Oregon | ||
1932 | Former Governor of Oregon | |||
B.A. | 1923 | Former Governor of Idaho and former US Senator | [171] | |
M.D. | 1973 | Former Governor of Oregon | ||
B.S. | 1990 | Governor of Oregon | [172] | |
B.S. | 1936 | Former Governor of Oregon; television reporter and commentator for KGW and KATU in Portland | ||
LL.B | 1895 | Former Governor of Oregon | ||
B.A. J.D. | 1923 1926 | Former Governor of Oregon; President of the Oregon State Senate | ||
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
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B.S. | 1878 | Former Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice | [173] | ||
J.D. | 1977 | Oregon Supreme Court Justice | [174] | ||
1885 | Former Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice | ||||
B.A. J.D. | 1949 1951 | Former Oregon Supreme Court Justice | |||
B.A. | 1964 | Chief Justice of Idaho Supreme Court; former Attorney General of Idaho | [175] | ||
1912 | Former Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice | ||||
1894 | Former federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in Portland | ||||
B.S. LL.B | 1951 1957 | Former Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice | |||
Hollie Pihl | Bachelor's of ? | Circuit Court Judge | [176] | ||
J.D. | 1984 | Oregon Court of Appeals Judge | [177] | ||
J.D. | 1937 | Former Oregon Supreme Court Justice | |||
J.D. | 1977 | Oregon Supreme Court Justice | |||
B.A. | 1906 | Oregon Supreme Court Justice pro tempore | [178] |
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
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B.A. | 1900 | Former US Representative from Oregon | [179] | ||
B.S. | 1954 | Former Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada | |||
LL.B | 1917 | Former US Senator from Oregon | |||
B.A. | 1985 | Former California State Senator | [180] | ||
B.S. J.D. | 1980 1983 | US Representative from Oregon | |||
M.L.S. | 1975 | Former Oregon State Senator | |||
M.A. | 1977 | US Representative from Oregon | |||
Ph.D. | 1968 | Former Oregon State Senator | |||
B.S. | 1921 | US Representative from Oregon | |||
B.A. | 1922 | Former Oregon State Senator and US Representative from Oregon | |||
B.A. | 1973 | Oregon State Senator | |||
B.A. | Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada (2015-); Member of Provincial Parliament in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (2003-2011) | [181] | |||
B.A. | 1939 | Former US Representative from Oregon | |||
M.A. | Japan's second longest-serving legislator | [182] | |||
M.A. | 1974 | Oregon State legislator | [183] | ||
1910 | Former US Representative from Oregon | ||||
attended | Former US Representative from California | [184] | |||
B.A. | 1901 | Former US Representative from Oregon | [185] | ||
1896 | Former US Senator from Oregon | ||||
B.A. | 1929 | First woman US Senator from Oregon | |||
1935 | Former US Senator from Oregon | ||||
M.S. | 1949 | Former US Representative from Utah | [186] | ||
J.D. | 1932 | Former US Representative from Oregon | [187] | ||
D.M.D. | 1957 | Former US Representative from California | [188] | ||
B.A. | |||||
B.A. | 1944 | Former US Senator and member of House of Representatives from Delaware; legislative sponsor of the individual retirement account plan, the Roth IRA, named for him; served as Chairman of U.S. Senate Committee on Finance | |||
B.S. | 1949 | Former US Senator from Illinois | |||
Ph.D. | Former member of the Wyoming House of Representatives and administrator at the University of Wyoming | [189] | |||
B.S. | 1996 | Political activist and former state legislator | [190] | ||
Vic Snyder | M.D. | 1979 | Former US Representative from Arkansas | [191] | |
B.A. | 1906 | Former US Senator from Oregon | [192] | ||
attended | US Representative from Texas | [193] | |||
B.S. | 1981 | US Representative from Oregon | |||
B.S. | 1952 | Former US Representative from Oregon | [194] | ||
attended | Oregon State Senator | ||||
LL.B. | 1941 | Former US Representative from Oregon | |||
J.D. | 1974 | US Senator and former Representative from Oregon |
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
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B.A. | 2002 | Former Mayor of Portland, Oregon | [195] [196] | ||
1996 | Former Mayor of Santa Cruz, California | [197] | |||
1991 | Mayor of Sitka, Alaska | [198] | |||
Ph.D. | 1962 | Former mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | [199] | ||
B.S. | 1965 | Former mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon | [200] | ||
M.A. | 1962 | Mayor of Kampala, Uganda | [201] | ||
M.Arch | 1985 | Former Mayor of Victoria, British Columbia | [202] | ||
1943 | Former mayor of Portland, Oregon | [203] | |||
B.S. | 1966 | Former mayor of Seattle, Washington | [204] |
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
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B.S. | 1980 | U.S. Ambassador to Portugal | [205] | ||
1959 | Former U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas | [206] | |||
LL.B | 1900 | International war criminal and influential Japanese Foreign Minister during World War II | [207] | ||
B.A. | 1979 | Former U.S. Ambassador to the Cote d'Ivorie, Nigeria, and Republic of Mali | [208] | ||
B.A. | 1968 | U.S. Ambassador to the United Republic of Tanzania | [209] | ||
B.A. | 1963 | Former U.S. Ambassador to the Lao People's Democratic Republic | [210] | ||
M.A. | 1991 | Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland and Polish Ambassador to Iran | [211] | ||
M.A. | 1973 | Former U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia | [212] |
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
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B.S. | 1970 | Women's rights activist in Saudi Arabia | [213] | ||
B.A. | 1959 | Whistleblower responsible for ending the unethical Tuskegee syphilis experiment | |||
attended | Civil Rights activist | ||||
J.D. | 1960 | Former Secretary of Energy and former Secretary of the Interior for the Reagan administration | [214] | ||
B.A. | 1959 | Former Acting Director of the CIA, 1 September–6 November 1991. Former Deputy Director of the CIA 20 March 1989 – 2 March 1992. | [215] | ||
LL.B. | 1964 | Former Attorney General of Oregon | [216] | ||
B.A. | 1971 | First woman to have received an electoral vote in a US presidential election; one of the founders of the Libertarian Party | [217] | ||
B.A. | 1981 | City of Portland Commissioner | [218] | ||
M.P.A. | 1995 | Current Party Secretary (de facto leader) of Ho Chi Minh City. Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education. | [219] [220] | ||
B.S. J.D. | 1971 1975 | Attorney General of Oregon | [221] | ||
attended | Women's Suffrage activist | ||||
B.S. | 1947 | Disability rights activist | |||
Postdoc | 1995 | Former Attorney General of Oregon | [222] | ||
B.A. LL.B. | 1937 1939 | Activist against discriminatory laws against Japanese Americans during World War II | [223] | ||
B.S. | 1984 | 52nd United States Secretary of the Interior, serving in the Trump administration. U.S. representative for Montana's at-large congressional district from 2015 until 2017. | [224] |
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
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Ph.D. | 1982 | Author of science and mathematics | [225] | ||
Bachelors | 1933 | Neurologist and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | [226] | ||
B.S. | 1987 | Physiologist; co-founder of Symphonix Devices Inc., which pioneered the development of middle ear implants | [227] | ||
M.S. | 1993 | Computer scientist, Python developer, and author | [228] | ||
B.S., M.S. | 1987 | Software engineer, creator of the Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development software development methodologies, also named agile software development | [229] | ||
B.A. | 1971 | Biochemist
| [230] | ||
Ph.D. | 1967 | Theoretical biologist; pioneer in image processing; Professor of Radiology at University of Manitoba | [231] | ||
M.A. | 1926 | Co-winner of 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics, co-inventor of the transistor | [232] | ||
Ph.D. | 1968 | Founding member and former president of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America | [233] | ||
B.S. | 2004 | Developed devices to measure the solar wind used on the Parker Solar Probe and other unmanned spacecraft | [234] | ||
M.S. Ph.D. | 1969 | Professor emeritus of computer science at CSU Stanislaus | [235] | ||
Postdoc | Neuroscientist in numerical cognition | [236] | |||
Ph.D. | 1977 | Researcher and Distinguished Professor of Optometry, Indiana University Bloomington | [237] | ||
PhD | 1982 | Psychologist at Stanford University | [238] | ||
B.A. | 1971 | Psychiatrist and proponent of assisted suicide | [239] | ||
M.S. Ph.D. | 1972 1975 | Professor of cognitive science; Pulitzer Prize winner for general non-fiction (1980); author of Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid | [240] | ||
M.S. Ph.D. | Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication | [241] | |||
M.S. Ph.D. | 1993 1996 | Cognitive scientist | [242] | ||
M.D. | 1894 | Early female physician; women's suffrage activist | [243] | ||
B.A. | 1914 | Co-winner of 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | [244] | ||
Ph.D. | 1985 | Biologist and noted science blogger | [245] | ||
Ph.D. | 1985 | Biochemist
| [246] | ||
Postdoc | 1985 | Neuroscientist | [247] | ||
Ph.D. | 1968 | Psychologist, former professor at Oregon Health Sciences University | [248] | ||
M.A. | 1925 | Physicist, known for work on antimatter | [249] | ||
M.A. | 1932 | Physicist, known for work on Manhattan Project | |||
Ph.D. | 1981 | Discovered the CLOCK gene | [250] | ||
B.S. | 1979 | President of the American Medical Association, 2014–15 | [251] | ||
B.A. | Software engineer and consultant; founder of the information technology consulting firm Wirfs-Brock Associates; inventor of Responsibility-Driven Design | [252] |
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
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B.S. | 1977 | Former NBA forward | |||
B.S. | 1966 | Former NBA guard-forward | |||
attended | NBA forward for the Golden State Warriors | ||||
1991 | Former NBA guard | ||||
B.S. | 2007 | NBA guard for the Phoenix Suns | |||
attended | NBA swingman for the Memphis Grizzlies | ||||
B.S. | 1987 | Current head basketball coach at Gonzaga University | |||
1939 | Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame member | ||||
WNBA forward for the Chicago Sky; first-round pick in the 2020 WNBA draft. Two-time recipient (2018, 2020) of the Katrina McClain Award as the top power forward in NCAA Division I women's basketball. | |||||
B.S. | 1926 | Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame member; former basketball Head Coach for the Oregon Ducks and Yale Bulldogs | |||
B.A. M.A. | 2019 2020 | Current WNBA player with the New York Liberty; top pick in the 2020 WNBA draft; recipient of multiple NCAA Division I national player of the year awards in 2019 and 2020 | [253] [254] [255] | ||
B.S. | 2004 | Former NBA forward with the Portland Trail Blazers | |||
1980 | Former NBA head coach, current NBA executive | ||||
B.S. M.S. | 1964 1973 | Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame member; architect of March Madness | [256] | ||
2002 | Former NBA guard with the New York Knicks | ||||
B.S. | 1977 | Former basketball head coach for the Oregon Ducks | |||
B.S. | 1976 | Former NBA guard | |||
1955 | Former NBA forward | ||||
1971 | Former NBA forward. Also notable as father of current NBA forward Kevin Love and younger brother of Beach Boys founding member Mike Love. | ||||
B.S. | 1985 | Former NBA center | |||
attended | |||||
B.A. | 2020 | WNBA forward for the Dallas Wings; chosen second (behind Ionescu) in the 2020 WNBA draft. 2020 recipient of the Cheryl Miller Award as the top small forward in NCAA Division I women's basketball. | [257] | ||
1939 |
Full list of former University of Oregon players who have played football professionally
Full list of former University of Oregon players who are currently playing in the NFL
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
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NFL tight end | |||||
1964 | Former Pro Bowl NFL quarterback | [258] | |||
B.A. | 1998 | Pro Bowl NFL punter with the Washington Redskins | [259] | ||
attended | 2008 | Pro Bowl NFL safety for the Carolina Panthers | |||
B.S. | 2008 | Safety for the New England Patriots[260] | |||
B.S. | 2006 | NFL quarterback with the San Diego Chargers | |||
B.S. | 1969 | Former head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs | |||
B.S. | 2007 | NFL quarterback with the Philadelphia Eagles | |||
2000 | NFL running back with the New York Giants | ||||
2000 | NFL quarterback with the St. Louis Rams | ||||
B.S. | 1977 | Pro Football Hall of Fame member; former six-time Pro Bowl NFL quarterback; ABC television sports announcer | |||
1975 | Former three-time Pro Bowl NFL tight end | ||||
B.S. | 1962 | Former NFL safety for the Dallas Cowboys | |||
NFL guard for the Detroit Lions | [261] | ||||
B.S. | 1960 | Former AFL / NFL safety for the Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders | |||
Former NFL wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers | |||||
B.S. | 2002 | Former NFL quarterback with the Detroit Lions, Miami Dolphins, Atlanta Falcons and New Orleans Saints | |||
B.S. | 2013 | NFL wide receiver with the Philadelphia Eagles. | |||
B.S. | 1924 | Former football, basketball, and baseball head coach for the Oregon Ducks | |||
1956 | Former Pro Bowl NFL running back | ||||
2011 | |||||
2011 | NFL running back with the Miami Dolphins. Doak Walker Award winner | ||||
2010 | NFL linebacker with the Philadelphia Eagles | ||||
2010 | NFL wide receiver with the Philadelphia Eagles | ||||
attended | Head coach of the SMU Mustangs; former head coach of the Atlanta Falcons and Hawaii Warriors | ||||
attended | Pro Football Hall of Fame member; former NFL running back for the New York Giants | ||||
Oregon Ducks quarterback | |||||
1975 | Former NFL defensive end for the New York Giants | ||||
B.S. | 1950 | Former head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the USC Trojans | |||
1987 | Former NFL quarterback | ||||
B.S. | 1998 | Former NFL cornerback | |||
2002 | NFL running back with the Detroit Lions | ||||
1990 | NFL quarterback and offensive coordinator | ||||
2002 | Former NFL defensive back with the Los Angeles Rams, New Orleans Saints and Oakland Raiders | ||||
Former NFL guard with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Washington Redskins | .[262] | ||||
attended | Two-time Pro Bowl NFL defensive tackle with the Detroit Lions | ||||
B.S. | 1981 | Former head coach of the San Francisco 49ers | |||
B.S. | 2004 | NFL defensive tackle with the Miami Dolphins | |||
B.S. | 1955 | Former head coach of the Seattle Seahawks | |||
1977 | Former two-time Pro Bowl NFL center with the San Francisco 49ers and San Diego Chargers | ||||
B.Ed | 1972 | Former four-time Pro Bowl NFL wide receiver, Emmy Award-winning sportscaster | |||
B.S. | 1964 | Pro Football Hall of Fame member; former ten-time Pro Bowl; five-time All-Pro NFL cornerback | |||
B.S. | 2006 | NFL tight end with the Carolina Panthers | |||
B.S. | 1960 | Former head coach of the Los Angeles Rams and USC Trojans | |||
attended | 1991 | Former quarterback and sports nutrition author | |||
B.S. | 2008 | NFL offensive tackle with the Kansas City Chiefs | |||
B.S. | 1999 | Former NFL quarterback | |||
attended | Former NFL halfback | ||||
B.S. | 2005 | NFL offensive tackle for the San Francisco 49ers | |||
B.S. | 1963 | Former head coach of the California Golden Bears and the Arizona State Sun Devils | |||
attended | NFL running back with the Carolina Panthers | ||||
attended | 2013 | NFL running back with the Kansas City Chiefs | |||
B.S. | 1976 | Offensive coordinator of the Cleveland Browns; former head coach of the San Diego Chargers, Washington Redskins and Oakland Raiders | |||
2008 | Pro Bowl NFL center with the Seattle Seahawks | ||||
B.S. M.S. | 1949 1951 | Pro Football Hall of Fame member, former nine-time Pro Bowl NFL quarterback | |||
B.S. | 1982 | Former NFL linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers | |||
1965 | Pro Football Hall of Fame member, former seven-time Pro Bowl NFL linebacker | ||||
NFL tight end with the New Orleans Saints | |||||
2006 | NFL wide receiver with the Cleveland Browns | ||||
attended | Former NFL tight end with the New York Giants | ||||
attended | Former CFL defensive back | ||||
B.S. | 1986 | Pro Football Hall of Fame member, former seven-time Pro Bowl NFL offensive lineman |
See also: List of University of Oregon Olympians.
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
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2010 | 2012 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the 4 × 400 m relay | ||||
Ph.D. | 1986 | 1972 Summer Olympics bronze medalist in the 800m | [263] | ||
B.S. M.Ed. | 1934 1953 | Former track and field head coach for the Oregon Ducks | |||
B.Sc. | 1955 | Canadian sprinter and proponent of fitness and sports medicine | [264] | ||
attended | 1984 Summer Olympics gold medalist; 1988 Summer Olympics silver medalist in the 800m | ||||
B.S. | 1960 | 1960 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the 400m and 4x400 relay | |||
1980 | Record setting long-distance runner | ||||
B.S. M.Ed. | 1956 1962 | 1964 Summer Olympics bronze medalist in the 5000m; former track and field head coach for the Oregon Ducks | |||
B.A. | 2010 | World record holder in the decathlon with 9045 points in 2015 and the heptathlon with 6499 points in 2010, 6568 points in 2011 and 6645 points in 2012; 2012 Summer Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the decathlon | [265] | ||
B.S. | 1986 | Two-time Olympian, record-setting hammer thrower | |||
LL.B | 1913 | 1912 Summer Olympics bronze medalist in the 100m hurdles | |||
B.S. | 1931 | 1932 Summer Olympics silver medalist in the 5000m | |||
B.S. | 2010 | Javelin thrower at the 2012 Summer Olympics | [266] | ||
M.S. | 1963 1968 | 1964 Summer Olympics bronze medalist in the 100m, world record holder | |||
1908 | 1908 Summer Olympics silver medalist in the long jump | [267] | |||
B.S. | 1974 | Record setting long-distance runner, Olympian | |||
attended | 1941 | 1936 Summer Olympics silver medalist in the 200m | |||
B.A. | 2009 | 2012 Summer Olympics silver medalist in the 10,000 meters; inaugural winner of the Bowerman Award | [268] | ||
B.A. | 1981 | Marathon runner and coach | |||
B.S. | 2012 | Canadian record holder in the heptathlon with 6808 points in 2015 and the indoor pentathlon with 4881 points in 2016; 2016 World Indoor Track and Field Championships gold medalist in the pentathlon; 2016 Summer Olympics Bronze medalist in the heptathlon | [269] [270] [271] | ||
B.S. | 1973 | World record holder in the discus throw; 1976 Summer Olympics gold medalist; 1984 Summer Olympics silver medalist in the discus throw |
Name | Degree(s) | Year(s) | Notability | Reference | |
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2011 | Major League Baseball pitcher for the Seattle Mariners | ||||
B.S. | 1953 | Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder for the Cleveland Indians | [278] | ||
B.S. | 1981 | First woman to reach the North Pole on foot and by dogsled | |||
B.A. | 2016 | Volleyball player | |||
Golfer, winner of the 2023 U.S. Open | [279] | ||||
Major League Baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |||||
B.S. | 1999 | Professional golfer | |||
attended | 1968 | Ice Hockey Coach and Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame | [280] | ||
B.S. | 2004 | NCAA wrestler, retired professional MMA fighter for the UFC's Lightweight Division | [281] [282] | ||
Former snowboarding coach; suspended for 10 years for sexual misconduct | |||||
1978 | 1984 Summer Olympics silver medalist in wrestling | [283] | |||
B.S. | 1939 | Baseball Hall of Famer second baseman with the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians | |||
M.S. Ph.D. | 1959 1962 | Director of physical education at the University of British Columbia, inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, member of the Order of Canada | [284] | ||
1977 | Professional golfer | ||||
attended | NCAA collegiate wrestler; professional MMA fighter formerly with the WEC and Bellator | [285] | |||
Israeli Olympic gymnast | |||||
Major League Baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |||||
1971 | MLB first overall draft pick in 1972 by the San Diego Padres | ||||
1962 | Professional golfer | ||||
Major League Baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |||||
B.S. | 2001 | NCAA All-American and U.S. Olympic team alternate wrestler, Retired professional mixed martial artist, former UFC, Bellator MMA Middleweight, Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight title challenger | [286] [287] | ||
Ph.D. | Founder of the International Paralympic Committee | [288] [289] | |||
attended | 1984 Summer Olympics gold medalist in men's volleyball | [290] | |||
Rugby union player | |||||
B.A. | 1967 | 1960 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay in swimming | |||
Ph.D. | Golfer and golf instructor |