The following is a partial list of notable residents, past and present, from Hillsboro, Oregon , United States. A separate list of people from Oregon is available.
Samuel Huston
Tiffeny Milbret
Erik Ainge , football player[ 4]
Wally Backman , World Series champion with the Mets, baseball player[ 5]
Bob Beall , baseball player[ 6]
Scott Brosius , baseball player[ 7]
Scott Brow , baseball player who won the 1993 World Series with the Toronto Blue Jays
Jim Evenson , football player
Thomas Garrigus , Olympic shooting athlete[ 8]
Darrall Imhoff , basketball player[ 9]
Josh Inman , Olympic rower[ 10]
Scott Kozak , football player[ 11]
Mitch Meeuwsen , football player[ 12]
Tiffeny Milbrett , soccer player[ 13]
Vern Olsen , baseball player[ 14]
Ben Petrick , baseball player[ 15]
Roddy Piper , professional wrestler[ 16]
Clifford R. Robinson , basketball player[ 9]
Scott Rueck , women's basketball coach[ 17]
Ad Rutschman , Hall of Fame football coach[ 6]
Wes Schulmerich , baseball player[ 18]
James Withycombe
George R. Bagley , lawyer and judge[ 19]
Rick Dancer , politician and news anchor[ 20]
Leon S. Davis , politician[ 21]
George W. Ebbert , pioneer[ 22]
David Edwards , politician who served in the Oregon House[ 23]
Daniel Gault , educator, newspaperman, and state legislator[ 24]
William G. Hare , politician[ 25]
H. T. Hesse , politician[ 26]
David Hill , pioneer and city namesake[ 27]
Derrick Kitts , politician who served in the Oregon House[ 28]
Shawn Lindsay , attorney and politician[ 29]
George W. Patterson , politician[ 30]
Paul L. Patterson , former Oregon governor[ 31]
D. O. Quick , state legislator[ 32]
Edward Schulmerich , banker and politician[ 33]
Samuel Thurston , first Congressional delegate from Oregon[ 34]
Thomas Tongue , former Oregon Supreme Court justice[ 35]
William H. Wehrung , politician and businessman[ 36]
James Withycombe , former Oregon governor[ 37]
Savannah Outen
Kelly AuCoin , actor[ 38]
Cesar Barone , serial killer[ 39]
Genevieve Bell , anthropologist for Intel[ 40]
Cecilee Russell Essary, Residents' Interhall Congress advisor at the University of Arkansas [ 41]
Peggy Y. Fowler , CEO of Portland General Electric [ 42]
Judi Hofer , businessperson[ 43]
David Larsen , actor[ 44]
Savannah Outen , singer[ 45]
Tommy Overstreet , country music singer[ 46]
Norman Ralston , aviator[ 47]
John W. Shute , banker[ 48]
Albert E. Tozier , journalist[ 49]
Mary Ramsey Wood , "Mother Queen of Oregon"[ 50]
Bryce Zabel , writer/producer, former chairman of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences [ 51]
^ a b c d e f g h i j "Mayors: City of Hillsboro", The Hillsboro Argus , October 19, 1976, The Hub, p. 6.
^ a b c Mayors Archived 2016-02-02 at the Wayback Machine . City of Hillsboro. Retrieved on June 20, 2015.
^ Anderson, David R. "How to Grow: The big question for Hillsboro", The Oregonian , October 19, 2000, West Zoner p. 19.
^ Fentress, Aaron (April 28, 2008). "Oregon, state of the QB union". The Oregonian . pp. C1.
^ Hunt, John (June 26, 2005). "Baseball in his blood". The Oregonian . pp. C1.
^ a b Maves, Jr., Norm. "Hillsboro reunion showcases '60s greats", The Oregonian , August 17, 1988, p. D4.
^ Syken, Bill (June 21, 2004). "Sports Illustrated 50th Anniversary: Sports in America; Oregon: Numbers". Sports Illustrated : 45.
^ "Garrigus wins silver in shooting at Olympics", The Hillsboro Argus , October 19, 1976.
^ a b Eggers, Kerry (September 3, 2008). "After final buzzer, Oregon's still home" . The Portland Tribune . Retrieved 2009-04-01 .
^ Binder, Doug (August 8, 2008). "A few medals, and plenty of dreams". The Oregonian . pp. D1.
^ "Scott Kozak NFL Injuries: Signings, Trades & more" . www.foxsports.com . Retrieved 22 March 2018 .
^ Horowitz, Gary (December 27, 2004). "Meeuwsen's play anything but quiet". Statesman Journal . pp. 1B.
^ Herzog, Boaz (July 12, 2007). "Lopez, Ellertson earn World Cup spots". The Oregonian . pp. D1.
^ "Deaths: Ex-Cubs pitcher Vern Olsen dies". Los Angeles Times . July 14, 1989. p. 8.
^ "Former Rockies catcher Ben Petrick thrilled to be back in baseball" . The Denver Post . Associated Press. 2013-07-19. Retrieved 2022-11-06 .
^ Dundas, Zach. "Return of the Piper" Archived 2009-05-19 at the Wayback Machine , Willamette Week , May 16, 2001. Retrieved on November 24, 2008.
^ Schnell, Lindsay (January 22, 2010). "George Fox's Scott Rueck carves path as one of Oregon's best young basketball coaches" . The Oregonian . Retrieved 5 July 2010 .
^ "Wes Schulmerich Stats" . Baseball Almanac . Retrieved 2009-04-01 .
^ Gaston, Joseph ; George H. Himes (1912). The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912 . Vol. 2. S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. pp. 845โ846.
^ Sowell, John (June 5, 2008). "Dancing away from politics" . The News-Review . Retrieved 2009-09-07 .
^ Newbry, Earl T. (May 21, 1954). "Leon S. Davis" . Official Voters' Pamphlet for the Republican Party Primary Nominating Election (Washington County): 14.
^ Corning, Howard M. Dictionary of Oregon History . Binfords & Mort Publishing , 1956. p. 78.
^ Parks, Casey (August 18, 2011). "Hillsboro legislator-turned-director David Edwards films his first movie: 'Nightscape' " . The Oregonian . Retrieved August 18, 2011 .
^ Gaston, Joseph; George H. Himes (1912). The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912 . Vol. 3. S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. pp. 288โ289.
^ Colmer, Montagu, and Charles Erskine Scott Wood. 1910. History of the Bench and Bar of Oregon . Portland, Or: Historical Pub. Co. p. 147-148.
^ "Oregon: Washington County Breeders Meet" . Guernsey Breeders Journal . 18 : 297. 1920.
^ "Final Edition: Hillsboro's Old Leaders". Oregon Journal . February 12, 1957. p. 1.
^ "Derrick Kitts" . Summary . Project Vote Smart. Retrieved December 21, 2011 .
^ Giegerich, Andy (July 6, 2010). "Edwards drops out of House race, endorses Ainge" . Portland Business Journal .
^ State Central Committee, Republican League of Oregon, ed. (1896). Republican League register, a record of the Republican Party in the state of Oregon . Register Pub. Co. p. 258 . oregon republican league.
^ "Paul Linton Patterson" . Governors of Oregon . Oregon State Library. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2009-04-04 .
^ Lang, Herbert O. (1885) History of the Willamette Valley, Being a Description of the Valley and Its Resources, with an Account of Its Discovery and Settlement by White Men, and Its Subsequent History Together with Personal Reminiscences of Its Early Pioneers . G.H. Himes, Book and Job Printer, pp. 849-850.
^ Carey, Charles Henry. History of Oregon . Pioneer Historical Publishing Company, 1922. Vol. 3. p. 153.
^ Hines, H.K. (1893). An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon . The Lewis Publishing Co.: Chicago.
^ "T.H. Tongue, ex-state high court Justice, dies". The Oregonian . June 1, 1994. p. B04.
^ Gaston, Joseph; George H. Himes (1912). The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912 . Vol. 2. S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. p. 590.
^ "County governors both die in office", Hillsboro Argus , October 19, 1976.
^ Swisher, Larry (July 4, 2003). "After false starts, AuCoin carves out rich life after Congress". The Daily Astorian .
^ "Adolph James Rode" (PDF) . Department of Psychology . Radford University. Retrieved 14 April 2018 .
^ Rogoway, Mike (July 30, 2010). "More VC fuel for Oregon, Rainn Wilson shoots back: Silicon Forest week in review" . The Oregonian . OregonLive.com. Retrieved 31 July 2010 .
^ "Advisors โ RIC" . ric.uark.edu . Retrieved 2022-11-13 .
^ Zipkin, Amy. The Boss: Powered by Math. The New York Times , July 16, 2006.
^ Friedman, Nicole; Gunderson, Laura; Schmidt, Brad (December 15, 2013). "Judi Hofer, former Meier & Frank executive, passes away at 73" . The Oregonian/OregonLive . Retrieved 26 July 2015 .
^ Mandel, Michelle (November 23, 2004). "Riding good vibrations from Hillsboro to Broadway". The Oregonian . pp. E1.
^ "Artists Incubator: Savannah Outen" , Radio Disney , Retrieved July 9, 2009.
^ Tommy Overstreet's Official MySpace Page . Retrieved on November 24, 2008.
^ McNichol, Bethanye (July 27, 1995). "West Zoner: Our Town: Hillsboro Community Close Up". The Oregonian . p. 1.
^ Portrait and Biographical Record of Portland and Vicinity Oregon. Containing original sketches of many well known citizens of the past and present . Chicago: Chapman Pub. Co., 1903. p. 381-2.
^ Corning, Howard M. (1989) Dictionary of Oregon History . Binfords & Mort Publishing. p. 246.
^ Putnam, George (January 1908). "Oregon's oldest woman who passed away at age of 120" . Capitol Journal .
^ Carlin, Peter Ames (September 29, 2002). "The red carpet ride: It's a long stretch limo from Oregon to Hollywood, where Bryce Zabel ushers in the Emmys". The Oregonian . pp. D1.