Faculty
| Name | Worked | Position & Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Allworth | 1925–1963 | Former secretary of the OSU Alumni Association, former secretary of the Memorial Union Board of Governors, former manager of the Memorial Union, and Medal of Honor recipient | |
| John B. Anderson | 1986 | Former visiting professor, former U.S. Representative of Illinois (1961–1981), and presidential candidate in the 1980 presidential election | |
| Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch | 1964 | Was a visiting professor of mathematics in 1964. He worked mainly on combinatorial methods and questions in real analysis, such as the Kakeya needle problem and the Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension. | |
| Marcus Borg | 1979— | Professor of philosophy, biblical scholar | |
| Ernest J. Briskey | 1979–1986 | Former dean of agriculture and food science researcher | |
| Timothy Budd | 1986— | Professor of computer science, author of fourteen books, and noted expert in programming language theory | |
| James Cassidy | ?— | Instructor of soil science, one of the founding members of the band Information Society | |
| Sharyn Clough | 2003— | Associate professor of philosophy and author of two books | |
| Jack Corliss | 1977–1983 | Former professor of oceanography, contributed to the discovery of black smokers and the resulting contributions to the theory on the origin of life | |
| Brent Dalrymple | 1994–2001 | Former dean of the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, author, member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, and winner of the National Medal of Science | |
| John R. Dellenback | 1949–1951 | Former professor, former U.S. Representative of Oregon (1967–1975) | |
| Sigmund Eisner | Professor emeritus, Chaucer scholar | ||
| Joel Hedgpeth | 1965–1973 | Former director of the Yaquina Biological Laboratories of the OSU Marine Science Center, marine biologist, environmentalist, and author | |
| Octave Levenspiel | 1966–1991 | Emeritus Professor of chemical engineering, author of five books, and member of the National Academy of Engineering | |
| Ted Lewis | ?–1993 | Former professor of computer science, author of 30 books, and former Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Software magazine and Computer magazine | |
| Jane Lubchenco | 1977— | Professor of zoology, ecologist, & member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. On March 19, 2009, she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the first woman to serve as the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). | |
| Bernard Malamud | 1949–1961 | Former professor, author, & Pulitzer Prize recipient for his novel The Fixer, later to be made in to an Academy Award-nominated film | |
| Ed McClanahan | 1958–1962 | Former English professor, author of eight novels, & essayist | |
| Conde McCullough | 1916–1919 | Former professor of engineering; designed most of Oregon's coastal bridges along U.S. Route 101 | |
| Joseph Millar | ?— | English professor, author, & poet | |
| Alvin O'Konski | 1929–1931 | Former professor, former U.S. Representative of Wisconsin (1943–1973) | |
| Linus Pauling | 1922 | Former undergraduate faculty, 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry & 1962 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, is the only person ever to win two unshared Nobel Prizes | |
| William Luther Pierce | 1962–1965 | Former assistant professor of physics, author of two books, later a notable white supremacist | |
| George Poinar, Jr. | 1995— | Professor of entomology, his work extracting DNA from insects fossilized in amber was the inspiration for the novel and film Jurassic Park | |
| Katharine Jefferts Schori | Schori is the 26th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States. She earned a Bachelor of Science in biology from Stanford University in 1974, a Master of Science in oceanography in 1977 and a Ph.D. in 1983, also in oceanography, from Oregon State University. She was a visiting assistant professor at Oregon State University's Department of Religious Studies and a visiting scientist at Oregon State University's Department of Oceanography. | ||
| Douglas Warrick | ?— | Assistant professor of biophysics, has had two papers published in Nature | |
| Edward Waymire | 1979– | Professor of mathematics. Since 2011 serves as the president of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability. | |
| Ernest H. Wiegand | 1919–1952 | Former professor of food science, developed a new brine method in 1925 that led to the creation of the maraschino cherry | |
| William Appleman Williams | 1968–1986 | Former history professor, author, and historian | |
| Roger J. Williams | ?–1939 | Former professor of chemistry, author of 22 books, discovered several B vitamins and pantothenic acid, former member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, & President of the American Chemical Society | |
| James Withycombe | 1898–1914 | Former director of the OSU College Experiment Station, former Governor of Oregon (1915–1919) | |
| C. Theo Yerian | ?–? | Former head of the business education department, author, and helped develop the Personal Shorthand writing method |
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