Name | Worked | Position and notability | Reference |
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Ira S. Allison | | Professor of geology, namesake of Lake Allison, author | |
Edward Allworth | 1925–1963 | Former secretary of the OSU Alumni Association; former secretary of the Memorial Union Board of Governors; former manager of the Memorial Union; Medal of Honor recipient | [4] |
John B. Anderson | 1986 | Former visiting professor; former U.S. Representative of Illinois (1961–1981); presidential candidate in the 1980 presidential election | [5] |
Scott Baker | ?– | Associate Director of the Marine Mammal Institute | [6] |
Kelly Benoit-Bird | 2004–2018 | | [7] |
Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch | 1964 | Visiting professor of mathematics in 1964; worked mainly on combinatorial methods and questions in real analysis, such as the Kakeya needle problem and the Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension | [8] |
Marcus Borg | 1979– | Professor of philosophy; biblical scholar | [9] |
Ernest J. Briskey | 1979–1986 | Former dean of agriculture and food science researcher | [10] |
James Cassidy | 2004– | Instructor of soil science; a founding member of the band Information Society | [11] |
Sharyn Clough | 2003– | Associate professor of philosophy; author of two books | [12] |
Jack Corliss | 1977–1983 | Former professor of oceanography; contributed to the discovery of black smokers and the resulting contributions to the theory on the origin of life | [13] |
Brent Dalrymple | 1994–2001 | Former dean of the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences; author; member of United States National Academy of Sciences; winner of National Medal of Science | [14] |
Tracy Daugherty | 1986–2013 | Author and Biographer in the College of Liberal Arts; Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography | [15] |
John R. Dellenback | 1949–1951 | Former professor, former U.S. Representative of Oregon (1967–1975) | [16] |
Sigmund Eisner | | Professor emeritus, Chaucer scholar | [17] |
Kelly Falkner | 1992-2011 | Former Professor, College of Earth, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences | [18] |
Sally Hacker | 1977-1991 | Sociologist | [19] |
Joel Hedgpeth | 1965–1973 | Former director of the Yaquina Biological Laboratories of the OSU Marine Science Center; marine biologist; environmentalist; author | [20] |
Octave Levenspiel | 1966–1991 | Emeritus Professor of chemical engineering; author of five books; member of National Academy of Engineering | [21] |
Ted Lewis | ?–1993 | Former professor of computer science; author of 30 books; former Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Software magazine and Computer magazine | [22] |
Jane Lubchenco | 1977– | Professor of zoology; ecologist; member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.; in 2009 was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the first woman to serve as the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | [23] |
Bernard Malamud | 1949–1961 | Former professor; author; Pulitzer Prize recipient for novel The Fixer, later to be made into an Academy Award-nominated film | [24] |
Ed McClanahan | 1958–1962 | Former English professor; author of eight novels; essayist | [25] |
Conde McCullough | 1916–1919 | Former professor of engineering; designed most of Oregon's coastal bridges along U.S. Route 101 | [26] |
Lois Sather McGill | 1945—1983 | first female faculty member in the Department of Food Science and Technology | [27] |
Joseph Millar | ?— | English professor, author, and poet | [28] |
Alvin O'Konski | 1929–1931 | Former professor, former U.S. Representative of Wisconsin (1943–1973) | [29] |
Linus Pauling | 1922 | Former undergraduate faculty; 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; 1962 Nobel Peace Prize recipient; the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes | [30] |
William Luther Pierce | 1962–1965 | Former assistant professor of physics; author of two books; later a notable white supremacist | [31] |
George Poinar Jr. | 1995– | Professor of entomology; his work extracting DNA from insects fossilized in amber was the inspiration for the novel and film Jurassic Park | [32] |
Dana Reason | 2008- | Director of the Popular Music Studies Program and acclaimed Canadian pianist and composer | [33] |
Heidi Schellman | 1957 | Professor of Physics, Head of Physics Department, particle physicist | [34] |
Katharine Jefferts Schori | | 26th Presiding Bishop of the US Episcopal Church; earned B.S. in biology from Stanford University in 1974, a M.S. in oceanography in 1977 and a Ph.D. in oceanography in 1983, from Oregon State University; visiting assistant professor at OSU's Department of Religious Studies; visiting scientist at OSU's Department of Oceanography | [35] |
| 1987-2021 | Horticulturist | [36] |
Douglas Warrick | | Assistant professor of biophysics; has had two papers published in Nature | [37] |
Angelicque White | 2009–2018 | Former Associate Professor in the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences; studies elemental cycling in oligotrophic marine ecosystems; currently the Director of the Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa | [38] |
Ernest H. Wiegand | 1919–1952 | Former professor of food science, developed the modern Maraschino cherry | [39] |
William Appleman Williams | 1968–1986 | Former history professor; author; historian | [40] |
Roger J. Williams | ?–1939 | Former professor of chemistry; author of 22 books; discovered several B vitamins and pantothenic acid; former member of the United States National Academy of Sciences; President of the American Chemical Society | [41] |
James Withycombe | 1898–1914 | Former director of the OSU College Experiment Station, former Governor of Oregon (1915–1919) | [42] | |
Name | Worked | Position and notability | Reference |
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F. King Alexander | 2020-2021 | 20th President of Oregon State University | |
Benjamin L. Arnold | 1872–1892 | 3rd President of Oregon State University | [43] |
Frank L. Ballard | 1940–1941 | 10th President of Oregon State University | |
John M. Bloss | 1892–1896 | 5th President of Oregon State University | |
John V. Byrne | 1984–1995 | 16th President of Oregon State University | |
Joseph Emery | 1872 | 2nd President of Oregon State University (acting) | |
William A. Finley | 1865–1872 | 1st President of Oregon State University | |
Thomas M. Gatch | 1897–1907 | 7th President of Oregon State University | |
Francois A. Gilfillan | 1941–1942 | 11th President of Oregon State University (acting) | |
James H. Jensen | 1961–1969 | 13th President of Oregon State University | |
Rebecca Johnson | 2021- | 21st President of Oregon State University (acting) | |
William Jasper Kerr | 1907–1932 | 8th President of Oregon State University | |
John D. Letcher | 1892 | 4th President of Oregon State University (acting) | |
Robert W. MacVicar | 1970–1984 | 15th President of Oregon State University | |
Henry B. Miller | 1896–1897 | 6th President of Oregon State University | |
George W. Peavy | 1932–1940 | 9th President of Oregon State University (acting from 1932 to 1934) | |
Edward John Ray | 2003—2020 | 19th and current President of Oregon State University | [44] |
Paul G. Risser | 1995–2002 | 17th President of Oregon State University | |
August L. Strand | 1942–1961 | 12th President of Oregon State University | |
Timothy P. White | 2002–2003 | 18th President of Oregon State University (acting) | [45] |
Roy A.Young | 1969–1970 | 14th President of Oregon State University (acting) | | |
Name | Worked | Position and notability | Reference |
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Dee Andros | 1965–1975 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | [53] |
Joe Avezzano | 1980–1984 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team; current special teams coach for the Las Vegas Raiders | |
Bill Bloss | 1893, 1897 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | |
Tommy Code | 1896 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | |
Sam Dolan | 1911–1912 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | |
Paul Downing | 1895 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | |
Dennis Erickson | 1999–2002 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team; former head coach of the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers; current head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils football team | |
Craig Fertig | 1976–1979 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | |
Fred Herbold | 1902 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | |
Guy Kennedy | 1894 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | |
Dave Kragthorpe | 1985–1990 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | |
Thomas L. McFadden | 1903 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | |
Sol Metzger | 1909 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | |
F. S. Norcross | 1906–1908 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | |
Jerry Pettibone | 1991–1996 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | |
Joseph Pipall | 1916–1917 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | |
Tommy Prothro | 1955–1964 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team; College Football Hall of Fame member | |
Mike Riley | 1997–1998, 2003—2014 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team; former head coach of the San Diego ChargersCurrent University of Nebraska–Lincoln head coach | |
George Schildmiller | 1910 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | |
Paul J. Schissler | 1924–1932 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | |
Allen Steckle | 1904–1905 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | |
Highland Stickney | 1899 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | |
Lon Stiner | 1933–1942, 1945–1948 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | |
Kip Taylor | 1949–1954 | Former head coach of the Oregon State Beavers football team | | |