The following is a partial list of notable residents, past and present, from

Bend, Oregon Bend is a city in and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is the principal city of the Bend Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bend is Central Oregon's largest city, with a population of 99,178 at the time of the 2020 U.S ...

, a city in Central Oregon in the western part of the United States of America. A separate list of people from Oregon is available. *

Broda Otto Barnes Broda Otto Barnes (14 April 1906 – 1 November 1988) was an American physician and professor of medicine who studied endocrine dysfunction, particularly hypothyroidism. In the 1970s, Barnes published several books arguing that hypothyroid ...

, physician,

hypothyroidism Hypothyroidism (also called ''underactive thyroid'', ''low thyroid'' or ''hypothyreosis'') is a disorder of the endocrine system in which the thyroid gland does not produce enough thyroid hormone. It can cause a number of symptoms, such as po ...

researcher * Shannon Bex, member of the musical group Danity Kane * Mohini Bhardwaj, Olympic gymnast * Drew Bledsoe, former

NFL The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the major ...

quarterback *

Luke Musgrave Lucas Stone Musgrave (born September 2, 2000) is an American football tight end for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Oregon State. He is the nephew of football coach Bill Musgrave. Ear ...

, tight end for the

Green Bay Packers The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC North, North division. It ...

Ian Boswell Ian Boswell (born February 7, 1991) is an American off-road cyclist, who competes in gravel bike racing for the Wahoo Frontiers team. Prior to this, Boswell competed as a road racing cyclist between 2010 and 2019 for (2010), (2011–2012), (20 ...

, racing cyclist for * Allie Brosh, author, '' Hyperbole and a Half'' *

Pat Cashman Patrick Cashman (born September 16, 1950) is an American comedian and television and radio personality based in the Seattle metropolitan area. Early life and education Born and raised in Bend, Oregon. He has a younger brother named Mike Cashm ...

, comedian, television and radio personality * John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Corporation; part-time resident *

John Clem Clarke John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

, painter and

college football College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States. Unlike most ...

player for the Oregon State Beavers football team *

Ray W. Clough Ray William Clough, (July 23, 1920 – October 8, 2016), was Byron L. and Elvira E. Nishkian Professor of structural engineering in the department of civil engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the founders of the finite ...

, professor emeritus at UC-Berkeley, founder of the finite element method *

Kent Couch Kent Couch is an American cluster balloonist who drew international interest for his flights across the state of Oregon. Cluster balloon flights Couch, a 47-year-old gas station owner, first flew in July 2007 riding a lawnchair elevated by 105 ...

, lawn-chair balloonist * Adam Craig, professional mountain bike racer and Olympian * Kiki Cutter, Olympic and World Cup ski champion * Thomas Del Ruth, cinematographer * Nate Doss, professional disc golfer and brewer; three-time

PDGA The Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the promotion and sustainable growth of disc golf. The PDGA is the global governing body of disc golf. The organization promotes the ...

World Champion * Brian Dunning, science author and film producer; runs Skeptoid Inc * Ashton Eaton, 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medalist, world record holder in both the

decathlon The decathlon is a combined event in Athletics (sport), athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek language, Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ...

and

heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hept ...

* Alan Embree, former Major League Baseball player * Myrlie Evers-Williams, civil rights activist * Ben Ferguson, professional snowboarder * Jon Fogarty, professional race car driver currently with GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing * Tommy Ford, professional ski racer and Olympian * Matthew Fox, television actor on the series '' Lost'' * Michael Garrison, electronic musician * Jere Gillis, former NHL player *

Scott Goldblatt Scott Daniel Goldblatt (born July 12, 1979) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist who specialized in freestyle events. While swimming primarily in the lead position of the 4 x 200 freestyle relay, Goldblatt took a ...

, 2000 Olympic silver medalist, 2004 Olympic gold medalist in swimming * Paul Hait, Olympic gold medalist * Ray Hatton, college professor, author, and long-distance runner * Chris Horner, pro road racing cyclist, winner of the

2013 Vuelta a España The 2013 Vuelta a España was the 68th edition of the race. Chris Horner won the 2013 Vuelta at the age of 41 on 15 September 2013, becoming the oldest ever Grand Tour winner. Horner beat his nearest challenger, Italian Vincenzo Nibali, by finis ...

* Steve House, mountain climber, first non-European winner of Piolet d'Or Award * Stan Humphries, former NFL quarterback * Dave Hunt, founder of the Berean Call ministry *

Sara Jackson-Holman Sara Jackson-Holman is an American singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles, CA. Born in 1988 or 1989, she is a classically trained pianist; her style has been compared to that of Feist, Adele, and Lana Del Rey. Her songs have been used in episodes o ...

, singer-songwriter * Valarie Jenkins, professional disc golfer and brewer; four-time

World Champion * Jason Keep, basketball player * Donald M. Kerr, conservationist and founder of the High Desert Museum * Rustin R. Kimsey, Episcopalian bishop * Gary Lewis, outdoor writer for ESPN, author and TV host * Ryan Longwell, NFL place kicker * Gerry Lopez, Hawaiian surfing legend and film actor ("Conan the Barbarian") *

Robert D. Maxwell Robert Dale Maxwell (October 26, 1920 – May 11, 2019) was a United States Army combat soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration for valor—the Medal of Honor—for his heroism in France during World War II. Ear ...

, Medal of Honor recipient *

Donald L. McFaul Donald Lewis McFaul (20 September 1957 – 20 December 1989) was a United States Navy SEAL killed in action at Paitilla Airfield during Operation Just Cause, the 1989 United States invasion of Panama. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Hea ...

U.S. Navy SEAL The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the United States Navy, U.S. Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the United States Naval Special Warfare Command, Naval Special Wa ...

killed in Panama in 1989 * J. Patrick Metke, politician and businessman *

Jourdan Miller Jourdan Miller (born October 6, 1993) is an American fashion model, best known for winning the twentieth cycle of ''America's Next Top Model''. She is also the only female model to have won a cycle that included male models; the other two cycl ...

, fashion model and winner of '' America's Next Top Model'', cycle 20 * Chino Moreno, musician and lead singer of Deftones *

William A. Niskanen William Arthur Niskanen (; March 13, 1933 – October 26, 2011) was an American economist. He was one of the architects of Reaganomics, President Ronald Reagan's economic program and contributed to public choice theory. He was also a long-time ch ...

, former chairman of the

Council of Economic Advisers The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is a United States agency within the Executive Office of the President established in 1946, which advises the President of the United States on economic policy. The CEA provides much of the empirical resea ...

in the Reagan administration; former chairman of the Cato Institute * Paul Phillips, professional poker player *

George P. Putnam George Palmer Putnam (September 7, 1887 – January 4, 1950) was an American publisher, writer and explorer. Known for his marriage to (and being the widower of) Amelia Earhart, he had also achieved fame as one of the most successful promoters in ...

, publisher; husband of

Amelia Earhart Amelia Mary Earhart ( , born July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937; declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer and writer. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many oth ...

* Jeremy Roloff, TV personality, ''Little People Big World'' * Grant Rosenberg, TV writer-producer and author *

Laurenne Ross Laurenne Ross (born August 17, 1988) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. She specialized in the speed events of downhill and super G. Born in Edmonton, Alberta in Canada, Ross was on skis at age two at the Snow Vall ...

, Olympic alpine ski racer * Beckie Scott, 2002 Olympic gold medalist in cross country skiing * Derek Sitter, founder/former owner of Volcanic Theatre Pub and actor/filmmaker * John Spence, first American combat frogman *

David Stoliar David Stoliar (31 October 1922 – 1 May 2014) was the sole survivor of the Struma disaster, in which the torpedoed and sank the Holocaust refugee ship in the Black Sea in the early morning of 24 February 1942. All of the other estimated 781 Jew ...

, sole survivor of the

Struma disaster The ''Struma'' disaster was the sinking on 24 February 1942 of a ship, , that had been trying to take nearly 800 Jewish refugees from Romania in World War II, Axis-allied Romania to Mandatory Palestine. She was a small iron-hulled ship of only ...

Conrad Stoltz Conrad Stoltz (born 23 October 1973) is a triathlete from South Africa. He is a four time XTERRA Triathlon World Champion and a three time ITU Cross Triathlon World Champion. Career Stoltz was born in Lydenburg, South Africa and calls Stellen ...

, three-time

XTERRA The Nissan Xterra is a truck-based compact SUV manufactured and marketed by Nissan from 1999–2015 across two generations; the first (1999–2004) sharing a platform as well as front bumper, hood, A-pillar, windshield and front doors with the N ...

off-road triathlon champion * Byron A. Stover, businessman and state legislator * Mickey Tettleton, former Major League Baseball player *

Andy Tillman Andrew Charles Tillman (born 1952) is one of the founders of the llama industry in the United States. He is an expert on llama and alpaca health, selective breeding, and marketing. Tillman is the co-founder of the International Llama Associati ...

, llama rancher, businessman, and author *

Ryan Trebon Ryan Trebon (born March 5, 1981) is a retired American bicycle racer, born in Loma Linda, California. He specialized in cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing. In cyclo-cross, Trebon captured the 2004 and 2006 U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross series ch ...

, professional mountain bike and cyclocross racer *

April Genevieve Tucholke April Genevieve Tucholke ( ) is an American author based in Georgia. She is best known for the Gothic horror novel ''Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea'' and its sequel '' Between the Spark and the Burn'', as well as a dark young adult mys ...

, novelist *

Andreas Wecker Andreas Wecker (born 2 January 1970 in Staßfurt) is a former German gymnast who had a long and successful career. He was European, World and Olympic champion. His greatest achievement was the gold medal on high bar at the 1996 Summer Olympics ...

, Olympic horizontal bar gold medalist in 1996 * Gary Zimmerman, NFL player, inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2008

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