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Notable People

People and history that shaped Oregon's North Coast, drawn from public sources.

Marques Brownlee, known as MKBHD, built a YouTube tech review channel with more than 20 million subscribers. A profile of…

By Dana Whitcomb · Sep 20, 2026

The four-masted bark Peter Iredale ran aground near the Columbia's mouth in 1906. Its captain and crew all survived, and…

By Dana Whitcomb · Sep 20, 2026

Italian-born artist Attilio Pusterla designed the sgraffito frieze that spirals up the 1926 Astoria Column, telling the region's history in…

By Corey Lindqvist · Aug 9, 2026

Andy Jassy built Amazon Web Services from a small team, then succeeded Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO in 2021. A…

By Corey Lindqvist · Jul 25, 2026

Coast Guard Air Station Astoria, in Warrenton, flies MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters on rescue missions along the coast and over the…

By Megan Harlow · Jul 5, 2026

Finnish immigrants in Astoria formed the Union Fishermen's Cooperative Packing Company in 1897 to take control of their catch and…

By Corey Lindqvist · Jun 23, 2026

A profile of Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon in 1994, started Blue Origin, bought The Washington Post and became one…

By Megan Harlow · May 29, 2026

The cook and food writer James Beard spent childhood summers at Gearhart and wrote about the clams, crab and berries…

By Dana Whitcomb · Apr 12, 2026

Satya Nadella has led Microsoft since 2014. A look at his path from Hyderabad to Redmond, the big deals of…

By Joel Koskinen · Apr 2, 2026

Astoria is named for John Jacob Astor, the fur trader whose Pacific Fur Company founded a post at the Columbia's…

By Joel Koskinen · Apr 1, 2026