List of Portlanders
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The following is a partial list of Portlanders, people from or with connections to Portland, Oregon; a separate list of people from Oregon is available:
- Addy, Obo, worldbeat musician originally from Ghana
- Alexakis, Art, member of Everclear
- Armstrong, Garner Ted, televangelist
- Auel, Jean M. Author of Clan of The Cave Bear
- Beard, James, food expert
- Belluschi, Pietro, architect
- Benson, Simon, philanthropist, logging innovator
- Bias, Stacy, Fat Activist, editor of TechnoDyke.Com (http://www.technodyke.com), founder of FatGirl Speaks (http://www.fatgirlspeaks.com)
- Blanc, Mel, cartoon voice actor (What's up Doc?)
- Brandon, Terrell, Grant H.S. and NBA All-Star
- Callahan, John, perversely controversial cartoonist [1] (http://www.callahanonline.com/)
- Charles, Clive, soccer coach
- Cleary, Beverly, children's author
- Couch, John H., sea captain and early merchant who platted the Alphabet District
- Cox, Joseph Buford, inventor of the Cox Chipper Chain, which made chainsaws practical
- Crane, Larry, publisher of Tape Op
- Cunningham, Ward, inventor of wiki
- Diebenkorn, Richard, painter
- Doleac, Michael, Central Catholic and NBA Miami Heat star
- Duniway, Abigail Scott, radical, suffragist, and publisher/editor of Portland newspaper The New Northwest
- Dunn, Katherine, author, "Geek Love"
- Dunleavy, Jr., Mike, Jesuit H.S. and NBA Golden State Warriors star
- Elliot, Sam, Actor
- Engelbart, Douglas, inventor of the computer mouse
- Fafara, Stanley, child actor
- Fitzpatrick, Brad, Creator of Livejournal
- Fosbury, Dick, high jumper
- Fullerton, C. Gordon, Astronaut and member of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
- Ghormley, Robert Lee, World War II naval officer
- Glisan, Rodney, U.S. Army surgeon on the Oregon frontier
- Groening, Matt, The Simpsons cartoonist
- Harding, Tonya, figure skater
- Harman, Katie, 2002 Miss America
- Harrison, Lou, composer
- Harrison, Michael Allen, Musician
- Havelka, Steve, Pokey the Penguin creator and man of the times
- Haynes, Todd, filmmaker
- Hill, Joe, radical labor activist
- Holbrook, Stewart, author and artist
- Hudson, Bill, Musician, Singer/Songwriter, Producer
- Hudson, Brett, Musician, Singer/Songwriter, Producer
- Hudson, Mark, Musician, Singer/Songwriter, Producer
- Jacobsen, Peter, PGA golfer (and high school classmate of Matt Groening)
- Jones, Fred, Barlow H.S. and NBA Indiana Pacers star, 2004 NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Champion
- Katz, Vera, former mayor (left office January 2005)
- The Kingsmen, musicians ("Louie Louie")
- Lampman, Ben Hur, writer, editor at The Oregonian, Oregon poet laureate
- Lauderdale, Thomas M., musician, Pink Martini
- Le Guin, Ursula K., science fiction/fantasy author
- Love, Courtney, actress and musician
- MacMillan, Shannon, U.S. soccer player
- Malkmus, Stephen, member of seminal indie-rock band, Pavement
- Margolin, Phillip, writer and lawyer
- McMenamin, Mike and Brian, brewpub owners
- Milbrett, Tiffeny, U.S. soccer player
- Montgomery, Lisa Kennedy, former MTV VJ 1992-1996
- Munson, Ona, actress, played Belle Watling in Gone With the Wind
- Murphy, Dale, former Atlanta Braves star
- Ngo, Thomas, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist
- Palahniuk, Chuck, writer, author of Fight Club and an idiosyncratic guide to and memoir of the city, Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon (ISBN 1400047838)
- Pauling, Linus, Nobel Prize-winning chemist
- Phillips, Henry F., inventor of the Phillips-head screw
- Potter, Tom, former police chief and current mayor (took office January 2005)
- Powell, Jane, actress/singer
- Ray, Johnnie, musician
- Reed, John, journalist
- Ross, Alex, comic book artist
- Rothko, Mark, artist
- Sacco, Joe, graphic novel journalist
- Schaeffer, Rebecca, actress, whose murder in 1989 led to anti-stalking laws
- Schwartz, Randal L., author of many Perl books and magazine articles, and convicted computer criminal
- Sleater-Kinney, musicians [2] (http://www.wweek.com/flatfiles/allstories.lasso?xxin=3023)
- Smith, Elliott, folk singer
- Spanbaeuer, Tom, author
- Stafford, William, poet
- Stoudamire, Damon, Wilson H.S. and Portland Trail Blazer
- Street, Picabo, U.S. Olympian, skiing
- Struthers, Sally, actress born and raised in Portland
- Torvalds, Linus, creator of the Linux kernel and resident
- Trope, Zoe, teenage author
- Van Sant, Gus, filmmaker
- Veysey, Brian, depression-era documentarian
- Vinton, Will, claymation animator
- Wagner, Lindsay, the Bionic Woman
- Watt, Marie, contemporary sculptor
- Wemme, E. Henry, businessman
- White, Minor, influential photographer