Notable Alumni
- Les AuCoin (graduated 1969) – was Oregon’s U.S. Representative from the First Congressional District from 1975 to 1992
- William A. Barton (graduated 1969) – noted Oregon personal injury attorney and author
- Rick Dancer
- Daniel Gault (attended Tualatin Academy) – educator, newspaperman, and state legislator
- Alfred Carlton Gilbert (graduated in 1902 from the Tualatin Academy) – Olympian and inventor of the Erector Set
- William A. Hilliard (graduated 1952) – editor of The Oregonian
- Augustus C. Kinney, longtime physician in Astoria, Oregon, and noted expert on tuberculosis at the turn of the 20th century
- Olaus Murie (graduated 1912) – conservationist and mammalogist
- Harvey W. Scott (graduated 1863) – the first graduate of Pacific, editor of The Oregonian
- Thomas H. Tongue (graduated 1868) – U.S. Representative for Oregon's First Congressional District
- Calvin Leroy Van Pelt (graduated 1949) - World War II veteran
- Nancy Wilson (non-degree, 1976) – lead guitarist and vocalist in the classic rock group “Heart”
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