Notable People
- In 1983, future Academy Award nominated filmmaker Todd Field attended SOU on a music scholarship.
- SOU Professor Emeritus Lawson Inada was named Oregon Poet Laureate in 2006, a position that had been vacant since poet William Stafford vacated the post in the early 1990s.
- Actor Ty Burrell graduated from SOU with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1993.
- Actor Joel Moore graduated from SOU with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2001.
- Agnes Baker Pilgrim, spiritual elder of the Takelma tribe and chairperson of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers graduated in 1985.
- Juan Carlos Romero Hicks director of CONACyT
- UFC fighter Rick Story
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