Notable people

• Bobby Anet, college basketball guard who helped guide the University of Oregon to win the inaugural NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament championship in 1938–39 attended Astoria High school.^[65]
• Jona Bechtolt, is an electronic musician and multimedia artist raised in Astoria.
• Del Bjork, a professional American football offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL). He played two seasons for the Chicago Bears (1937–1938).
• Brian Bruney, Major League Baseball relief pitcher.^[66]
• Marie Dorion, the only female member of an overland expedition sent by the Pacific Fur Company to Fort Astoria in 1810.^[67]
• Clark Gable, actor, began his career at the Astoria Theatre in 1922.^[68]
• Jerry Gustafson, football player.^[69]
• Darrell Hanson, American politician in the state of Iowa.
• Michael Hurley, American singer/songwriter.^[70]
• Duane Jarvis, American guitarist and singer/songwriter.
• Wally Johansen, a college basketball guard who played for the University of Oregon when it won the inaugural NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament championship in 1938–39.
• Consuelo Kanaga, a photographer and writer who became well known for her photographs of African-Americans.
• Brandon Keating, a digital media entrepreneur who discovered and signed several of today's top YouTube stars.
• Augustus C. Kinney, a physician and scientist, was a leading expert on tuberculosis.
• Kenneth Koe, chemist of Chinese descent, helped develop sertraline, which was branded and sold as Zoloft.
• Carl W. Leick, a German born architect who moved to Astoria. His Astoria designs include the Captain George Flavel House, the Clatsop County Courthouse, and the Grace Episcopal Church.^[71]
• Armand Lohikoski, American born – Finnish movie director and writer.
• Robert Lundeen, American businessperson, most notable for his association with the College of Engineering at Oregon State University (OSU) and Tektronix Inc.^[72]
• Ranald MacDonald, first man to teach the English language in Japan and one of the interpreters between the Tokugawa shogunate and Commodore Perry when the latter made his trips to Japan on behalf of the US government in the early 1850s.
• Holly Madison, Playboy Magazine model and one of Hugh Hefner's ex-girlfriends,^[73] born in Astoria but left before her 2nd birthday.
• Donald Malarkey, World War II U.S. Army soldier of the 101st Airborne Division who was portrayed in the TV series Band of Brothers.^[74]
• Royal Nebeker, American painter and print maker. Lived and worked in Astoria for 30 years.
• Albin W. Norblad, Attorney in the U.S. state of Oregon, and a judge of the Oregon Circuit Court for the 3rd judicial district.
• Kerttu Nuorteva, A Soviet intelligence agent during World War II. Daughter of Santeri Nuorteva.
• Santeri Nuorteva, Finnish socialist politician and journalist, who edited Toveri ("The Comrade") in Astoria in 1912–1913.^[75] Father of Kerttu Nuorteva.
• Maila Nurmi, a.k.a. 1950s TV horror hostess Vampira and co-star of Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space attended Astoria High School in the late 1930s.^[76]
• Leroy E. "Ed" Parsons, referred to as the "Father of Cable Television"; he developed one of the first community antenna television stations (CATV) in the United States in Astoria.^[77]
• Mike Pecarovich, American college football coach, lawyer, and actor.
• Jordan Poyer, NFL football player, raised in Astoria and played for Astoria teams.^[78]
• Ken Raymond, an expert in bioinorganic and coordination chemistry.
• Sacagawea, a Lemhi Shoshone. The only female member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific in 1804–06.
• Arnie Sundberg, American weightlifter who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.
• Gary Wilhelms, American politician who was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives.
• Stanley Paul Young, American biologist.^[79]
• Eric Zener, American photorealist artist best known for figure paintings of lone subjects, often in or about swimming pools.

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