Notable Alumni of University of Oregon [Sorted List]

1. PZ Myers

1957-. (aged 69)

blogger biologist university teacher zoologist

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.

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2. Jevon Holland

2000-. (aged 26)

American football player

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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3. Alex Tizon

1959-2017 (aged 58)

journalist writer

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...

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4. Daniel Levitin

1957-. (aged 69)

composer record producer journalist neuroscientist music journalist

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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5. Ralph Towner

1940-2026 (aged 86)

bandleader pianist composer jazz guitarist recording artist

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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6. Ann Bancroft

1955-. (aged 71)

teacher explorer

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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7. Max Unger

1986-. (aged 40)

American football player

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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8. Jessica Hull

1996-. (aged 30)

runner athletics competitor

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...

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9. Peter DeFazio

1947-. (aged 79)

politician

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...

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10. Li Ang

1952-. (aged 74)

writer

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....

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11. Jenna Prandini

1992-. (aged 34)

long jumper sprinter

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,...

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12. Gayle Forman

1970-. (aged 56)

writer children's writer journalist magazine writer

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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13. Lee Bollinger

1946-. (aged 80)

writer educator lawyer university teacher

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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14. Jodie Taylor

1986-. (aged 40)

association football player

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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15. Marc Laidlaw

1960-. (aged 66)

writer science fiction writer novelist screenwriter

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.

16. John McKay

1956-. (aged 70)

lawyer

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...

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17. Colin Meloy

1974-. (aged 52)

composer singer-songwriter singer songwriter

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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18. Joe Sacco

1960-. (aged 66)

comics artist

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...

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19. Kat Bjelland

1963-. (aged 63)

singer songwriter guitarist

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...

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20. Royce Freeman

1996-. (aged 30)

American football player

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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21. Susan Ruttan

1948-. (aged 78)

film actor actor television actor

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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22. Luke Ridnour

1981-. (aged 45)

basketball player

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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23. Jim Loscutoff

1930-2015 (aged 85)

basketball player basketball coach

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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24. Hilda Heine

1951-. (aged 75)

politician

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...

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25. Scott McGough

1989-. (aged 37)

baseball player

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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26. Matthew Centrowitz

1989-. (aged 37)

athletics competitor

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...

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27. Charles Walker

1967-. (aged 59)

politician

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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28. Jeremiah Masoli

1988-. (aged 38)

gridiron football player American football player Canadian football player

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...

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29. Brianne Theisen-Eaton

1988-. (aged 38)

athletics competitor

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...

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30. Troy Brown Jr

1999-. (aged 27)

basketball player

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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31. Kent Beck

1961-. (aged 65)

writer computer scientist software engineer engineer programmer

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...

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32. Jon Lindstrom

1957-. (aged 69)

screenwriter television actor film producer actor film actor

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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33. Peter Hollens

1982-. (aged 44)

composer record producer YouTuber songwriter singer

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...

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34. Marissa Neitling

1984-. (aged 42)

film actor actor television actor

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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35. Aaron Brooks

1990-. (aged 36)

baseball player

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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36. Chris Duarte

1997-. (aged 29)

basketball player

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...

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37. Kenneth Bae

1968-. (aged 58)

missionary

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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38. Mike Nolan

1959-. (aged 67)

coach American football player American football coach

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...

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39. Peter Lam

1957-. (aged 69)

film producer businessperson politician

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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40. Satou Sabally

1998-. (aged 28)

basketball player

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...

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41. Michael Franks

1944-. (aged 82)

mandolinist jazz guitarist songwriter guitarist recording artist

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...

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42. Arik Armstead

1993-. (aged 33)

basketball player American football player

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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43. Nguyen Thien Nhan

1953-. (aged 73)

politician

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...

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44. Alberto Salazar

1958-. (aged 68)

track and field coach athletics competitor athlete ultramarathon runner long-distance runner

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...

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45. Kayvon Thibodeaux

2000-. (aged 26)

American football player

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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46. Stan Love

1949-2025 (aged 76)

basketball player

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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47. Gordon Scott

1926-2007 (aged 81)

film actor actor television actor

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...

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48. Larry R. Williams

1942-. (aged 84)

investor writer

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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49. Ahmad Rashad

1949-. (aged 77)

sports commentator television actor American football player

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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50. Tinker Hatfield

1952-. (aged 74)

businessperson designer

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...

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51. Penei Sewell

2000-. (aged 26)

American football player

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...

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52. Dan Fouts

1951-. (aged 75)

American football player

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...

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53. Tyler Dorsey

1996-. (aged 30)

basketball player

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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54. Kiko Alonso

1990-. (aged 36)

American football player

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...

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55. DeForest Buckner

1994-. (aged 32)

American football player

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...

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56. Douglas Hofstadter

1945-. (aged 81)

university teacher writer physicist computer scientist philosopher

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...

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57. Chris Boucher

1993-. (aged 33)

basketball player

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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58. Wyndham Clark

1993-. (aged 33)

golfer

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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59. Galen Rupp

1986-. (aged 40)

long-distance runner athletics competitor marathon runner

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...

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60. Yōsuke Matsuoka

1880-1946 (aged 66)

diplomat politician

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...

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61. Ron Wyden

1949-. (aged 77)

basketball player politician

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...

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62. Jordan Bell

1995-. (aged 31)

basketball player

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...

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63. Stephen J. Cannell

1941-2010 (aged 69)

television actor film director actor television producer writer

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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64. Payton Pritchard

1998-. (aged 28)

basketball player

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...

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65. Douglas Engelbart

1925-2013 (aged 88)

inventor

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...

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66. Edgar Buchanan

1903-1979 (aged 76)

television actor dentist actor film actor

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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67. James Ivory

1928-. (aged 98)

screenwriter film director director film producer

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...

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68. Donald Malarkey

1921-2017 (aged 96)

writer

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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69. Ryan Zinke

1961-. (aged 65)

business executive naval officer businessperson politician

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...

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70. Dillon Brooks

1996-. (aged 30)

basketball player

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...

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71. Howard Hesseman

1940-2022 (aged 82)

film actor comedian television actor

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...

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72. Ann Curry

1956-. (aged 70)

television presenter news presenter journalist

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...

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73. Ashton Eaton

1988-. (aged 38)

combined track and field event athlete

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...

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74. Ken Kesey

1935-2001 (aged 66)

essayist novelist writer amateur wrestler children's writer

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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75. Steve Prefontaine

1951-1975 (aged 24)

long-distance runner athletics competitor

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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76. LeGarrette Blount

1986-. (aged 40)

American football player

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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77. Bill Bowerman

1911-1999 (aged 88)

athletics competitor track and field coach entrepreneur

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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78. Bol Bol

1999-. (aged 27)

basketball player

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...

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79. Christopher Judge

1964-. (aged 62)

actor television actor screenwriter film actor dub actor

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...

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80. Bo Nix

2000-. (aged 26)

American football player

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...

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81. Sabrina Ionescu

1997-. (aged 29)

basketball player

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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82. Lindsay Wagner

1949-. (aged 77)

model television actor actor film actor

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...

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83. David Ogden Stiers

1942-2018 (aged 76)

television actor television director actor voice actor conductor

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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84. Daniel Wu

1974-. (aged 52)

film director film producer actor film actor

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+...

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85. Kaitlin Olson

1975-. (aged 51)

television actor comedian voice actor actor film actor

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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86. Phil Knight

1938-. (aged 88)

writer philanthropist businessperson entrepreneur

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...

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87. Chuck Palahniuk

1962-. (aged 64)

science fiction writer screenwriter writer novelist essayist

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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88. June Jones

1953-. (aged 73)

American football player American football coach Canadian football player

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,...

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89. Mark Few

1962-. (aged 64)

basketball coach basketball player

Mark Norman Few is an American college basketball coach who has been the head coach at Gonzaga University since 1999.

90. Paul Simon

1941-. (aged 85)

record producer composer actor film actor guitarist

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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91. Ty Burrell

1967-. (aged 59)

stage actor television actor voice actor actor film actor

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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92. Tyler Shough

1999-. (aged 27)

American football player

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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93. Chael Sonnen

1977-. (aged 49)

amateur wrestler promoter podcaster politician mixed martial arts fighter

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....

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94. Tina Kotek

1966-. (aged 60)

politician

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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95. Walter Houser Brattain

1902-1987 (aged 85)

physicist inventor

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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96. Sam Elliott

1944-. (aged 82)

stage actor actor voice actor film producer film actor

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...

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97. John Madden

1936-2021 (aged 85)

sports commentator American football player American football coach

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...

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98. Witold Waszczykowski

1957-. (aged 69)

historian diplomat university teacher politician

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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99. Dinesh Gunawardena

1949-. (aged 77)

trade unionist politician

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...

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100. Ralf Stegner

1959-. (aged 67)

politician

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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