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. The university has over 195,000 alumni, 10 of whom are Pulitzer Prize winners, and two of whom are Nobel laureates.Points of Pride
Academic administration Name Degree(s) Year(s) Notability Reference M.S.Ph.D. 19721975 Chancellor of UCLAUCLA Chancellor Biography B.S. 1954 President of Columbia University; former president of University of Michigan Ph.D. President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ph.D. 1954 President emeritus of San Jose State UniversitySan Jose State presidents’ gallery Ph.D. 1975 President of Brooklyn College B.S. 1979 Dean of Sauder School of Business at UBC B.A.M.A. 19151920 Dean and interim president, University of Oregon M.B.A. 1997 President of Oregon Health Sciences University Ph.D. 1973 President emeritus of Trinity Western University
Architecture and design Name Degree(s) Year(s) Notability Reference B.Arch 1962 Founder of BAR Architects and Backen, Gillam & Kroeger B.Arch 1980 Founder of Allied Works Architecture B.Arch 1977 VP, designer and architect for Nike B.Arch 1952 Architect credited with bringing modernist architecture to Bangladesh B.Arch 1967 First architect to win the National Humanities Medal B.IArch 1961 RIBA; founder of Rick Mather Architects; trustee of Victoria and Albert Museum B.Arch 1955 Second African-American to play basketball for the Ducks; founded architecture firm in Seattle B.Arch 1978 Architect, author of The Not so Big House B.Arch 1981 Controversial architect B.Arch 1952 Prolific architect in Oregon B.IArch 1960 Vice chairman emeritus of Gensler
Business and finance Name Degree(s) Year(s) Notability Reference B.F.A 1981 President of Comedy Central M.A.1985 President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Janet Rae-Dupree: Innovation Should Mean More Jobs, Not Less New York Times, January 3, 2009 B.S. 1980 Marketing guru attended Founder of MTR Western and the Meridian Group M.A. 1974 Co-founder of Borland International; founder and president of Palo Alto Software, Inc. B.S.M.Ed. 19341953 Co-founder of Nike, Inc. B.S. 1971 CEO of Columbia SportswearTim Boyle bio on Columbia Sportswear B.S. 1970 Founder of Aldus; creator of PageMaker and desktop publishing M.A. 1932 Co-founder and president of CARE B.A. 1981 Founder and CEO of SPARQ attended CEO of Meyer Corporation B.A. 1983 President and CEO of Palm, Inc. B.S. 1998 CEO of Chronicle, an Alphabet company B.A. 1948 Founder and president emeritus of Portland Trail Blazers B.S. 2003 Senior vice president of Global Policy and Communications at Uber B.A.M.B.A. 19861992 Former president of Intel Corporation B.S.1997Former CEO of MySpace 1964 Co-founder of Rogue Ales B.B.A 1959 Co-founder, chairman, and former CEO of Nike, Inc. B.S. 1979 General manager of the New Orleans Saints 1974 CEO of La Opinión and ImpreMedia, LLC B.Arch 1999 Co-founder of WeWork B.A. 1944 Principal owner of Golden State Warriors M.B.A. 1976 Chairman and CEO of Gucci B.S. 1953 Co-founder and CEO of Columbia Management, established Oregon's first mutual fundUniversity of Oregon News Releases B.A. 1994 Director of Product Marketing of Nintendo of America B.A. 1917 Co-founder of Reader's Digest B.A. 1978 Co-founder and president of Widmer Brothers Brewing Company B.S. 1967 Co-founder of advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy B.S. 1964 Stock trader, author of How to Prosper in the Coming Good YearsGlobal Investor Bookshop: Larry Williams Biography
Fine arts and entertainment
Film, television and performing arts Name Degree(s) Year(s) Notability Reference 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 BrokenAbout Greg Behrendt website. attended Stand-up comedian and juggler attended Actor (Petticoat Junction) 1957 Emmy Award-winning producer (Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Munsters) and screenwriter (The Bullwinkle Show, A Little Romance) attended Emmy Award-winning actor (Modern Family) B.S. 1964 Emmy Award-winning television producer, writer, and novelist (The A-Team, The Greatest American Hero); founder and chairman of Cannell Studios 1973 Movie producer (Face/Off, Broken Arrow) B.F.A. 1960 Painter and graphic artist based in New York City M.F.A. 1984 Producer (Mulan) attended 1962-63 Actor (The Big Lebowski, Road House) B.S. 1964 Writer, producer, and actor (Beverly Hills Cop II, The Hunt for Red October)University Awards, Larry Ferguson attended Actress (The Children's Hour, Honestly, Celeste!)"Mary Finney Shares Top Honors in Broadway Play". The Spokesman-Review. March 18, 1956. pt. III, p. 22. Retrieved November 2, 2024. B.S. 1970 Academy Award-winning set designer (Bugsy, Waterworld, The Truman Show, O Brother, Where Art Thou?) attended Actor (WKRP in Cincinnati, About Schmidt)The New York Times movies biography: Howard Hesseman B.F.A 1980 Academy Award Winning visual effects artist (Blade Runner 2049) B.A. 1980 Academy Award-winning editor (JFK, Born on the Fourth of July)Allmovie biography: Joe Hutshing 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 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 B.S. 1969 Actor, Julian Crane on the NBC soap opera PassionsGina MatthewsB.A.1990Producer (13 Going on 30, What Women Want, Urban Legend, Isn't It Romantic) and writer (Popular) B.S. 2007 Actress (The Last Ship, San Andreas) B.S. 1997 Actress, Sweet Dee on the FX TV show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia 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 B.S. 1967 Producer (Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, Days of Thunder, Bad Boys, Crimson Tide, The Rock) attended Actor (M*A*S*H)Allmovie biography: David Ogden Stiers B.S. 1985 Star Trek writer Ph.D. 1994 Playwright, stage director B.A. 1993 Film editor (The Kids Are All Right, Prom) B.A. 1993 2004 Tony Award winner for the musical Avenue Q B.Arch 1997 Hong Kong movie star (New Police Story, Into the Badlands, Warcraft) B.A. 1976 Television producer, director, and writer
Literature Name Degree(s) Year(s) Notability Reference B.A.M.F.A. 19661968 Native American poet, novelist M.A. 1973 Poet M.F.A. 1992 PoetEugene Gloria official website B.A. 1923 Writer of Western fiction; his story "Stage to Lordsburg" was made into the 1939 movie Stagecoach B.A. 1935 Poet and publisher of the literary journal KayakGrimes, William. "George Hitchcock, Kayak Magazine Founder, Dies at 96", The New York Times, September 4, 2010. Accessed September 5, 2010. B.S. 1957 Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion M.F.A. 1993 Novelist, Native Speaker; director of Princeton University's Creative Writing program B.A. 1986 Author of Fight Club, Choke, and Lullaby B.A. Author and poet; 1994 Queensland Premier's Poetry Award; 2012 Western Australian Premier's Award; 2013 Canadian Children's Book Centre Best Book for Teens and Kids Western Australian Premier's Book Awards - 2012 Winners M.A. 1979 Author of outdoor guide books M.F.A. 1996 Poet B.S. Ph.D. 19891998 Novelist and memoirist
Music Name Degree(s) Year(s) Notability Reference M.A. 1965 Composer, author, and former professor of music at Dartmouth College B.S. 1975 Jazz musician B.S. 2002 Guitarist and keyboardist for Death Cab for Cutie M.Ed. 1971 Jazz pianist B.Mus. 1986 Bass player for King Crimson B.A. 1983 Bandleader, singer, guitarist for Helmet B.Mus. 2005 Singer and producer B.A. 1987 Blues musician M.S.Ph.D. 19931996 Musician; cognitive scientist; sound designer for Chris Isaak and Joe Satriani attended Author, lead singer of The Decemberists B.S. 1963 Composer; founding member and bassist of Oregon D.M.A. 1972 Retired director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir B.S. 2004 Lead singer of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies B.S. 1976 Composer, record producer B.Mus. 1963 Composer; founding member of Oregon
Visual arts Name Degree(s) Year(s) Notability Reference M.A. 1978 Art historian and museum director M.F.A. 1936 Art preservationist and promoter, awarded the Meritorious Service Medal B.A. 1946 Painter and printmaker M.F.A.2006Master weaver, owner of Eugene Textile Center and Glimakra USA M.F.A. 1991 Artist and printmaker M.F.A. 1957 Architect, ceramist, sculptor B.A. 1981 Comic artist and journalist M.F.A. Artist M.F.A. 1968 Painter and sculptor M.F.A. 1968 Painter, sculptor and landscape architect B.S. 1984 Photographer
Journalism and media Name Degree(s) Year(s) Notability Reference B.S. 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner (2001 Oregonian, 2006 Oregonian with Doug Bates) B.A. 1978 The Today Show anchor; co-host of Dateline NBCMSNBC biography B.S. 1994 Former publisher for the National Rifle Association; author of outdoor-related magazine articles 1984 ESPNEWS and SportsCenter anchor B.S. 1990 Broadcast journalist for WJLA-TV, the ABC-affiliated television station in Washington, D.C. M.A. Journalist 1981 Journalist; four-time Emmy Award winner; three-time Peabody Award winner B.A. 2017 Photographer and journalist; founder of Black Women Photographers; official photo editor for the office of US Vice President Kamala Harris attended StarCraft II professional commentator and player attended 1977–1979 Syndicated radio talk show host, political pundit (KEX (AM), FOX News)Willamette Week B.S. 1986 Broadcast journalist for WGN Americahttp://nancyloo.net/about/ M.S. 1975 Journalist M.A. 1980 Emmy Award-winning filmmaker for National Geographic Television; author (Islands Under Fire) M.F.A. Owner of The New Republic; co-founder of Mother Jones; editor-in-chief of Tin House Magazine 1963 Pulitzer Prize winner (1981 Longview Daily News with staff)UO Pulitzer Prize Winners B.S. 1975 Journalist; first openly gay reporter at a major American newspaper (the San Francisco Chronicle); author of three best-selling nonfiction books: The Mayor of Castro Street, And the Band Played On, and Conduct Unbecoming B.S. 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner (1997 Seattle Times with Eric Nalder and Deborah Nelson) 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)
History and humanities Name Degree(s) Year(s) Notability Reference B.A. 1931 Historian, Hunter CollegeAmerican Historical Association: LaWanda Fenlason Cox Ph.D. 1991 Archaeologist M.A. 1987 History professor at Truman State University, authorFredrik LogevallHistorian, Pulitzer Prize winner B.A. 1942 Professor emeritus of European History at University of California, Berkeley M.A. 1926 History professor at Lincoln University in Missouri; first African American to graduate from the University of Oregon Ph.D. 1978 Professor at California Institute of Integral Studies M.L.S. Former president of Chinese American Librarians Association 1992–1993, multicultural services and outreach services librarian
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