First woman to win the NRA Sharpshooter title. The National Womens Outdoor Pistol Champion from 1955 to 1959. In addition, she had been the National Womens Indoor Pistol Champion from 1952 to 1959. According to The American Rifleman, at the time she held 17 of 30 recognized National Women’s Pistol records.

Inventor and developer of medical ultrasound devices. His early inventions are on permanent display in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History.

Born in Aberdeen, Gerry served in his long career as Chief Justice, then as a State of Washington Supreme Court Justice. Retired in 2011.

Chairman, Seattle Branch Federal Reserve Bank

Founder of the city of Aberdeen, Washington

A U.S. Olympic Fencer, he later went on to train swordsmanship in Hollywood and was known as “Hollywood’s Swashbuckler to the Stars”.

Conceived by Frank Lamb and George Weyerhaeuser, Clemons timber stand was the first acreage to be declared a “Tree Farm”.

Before founding the Boeing Airplane Company in 1916, the aerospace engineer began as a timber company owner in Hoquiam at the age of 22.

A well known Northwest artist, who studied silk screening with Elton Bennett.

Born in Hoquiam, Morey was the author of many children’s books: most recognized as the creator of Gentle Ben and Kavik the Wolf Dog.

NCAA and NFL football star, and 2004 Professional Football Hall of Fame inductee.

Named in 2004 to host of the nationally broadcast daily sports radio talk show called “The Herd,” on ESPN Radio. Named 2005 Sports Illustrated Radio Personality of the Year. — www.ESPNradio.com.

Many believe, based on evidence found that Sir Francis Drake visited the Pacific Northwest coast during his voyage from 1577 to 1580, and was the first European to enter Grays Harbor in the year 1579.

Songwriter and lead singer for the musical group Nirvana. Revolutionized rock music in 1992, with what came to be known as “grunge music.”

Major General, US Army, deceased. At the time of his retirement , he was the most highly decorated member of all US armed forces currently on active duty. Inducted as a Distinguished Member of the Special Forces Regiment, April 5, 2012.

Awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1988. Contributed to major breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer and AIDS, and in transplant research.

An American football player head coach at Cal State University, Northridge, San Jose State University, and Stanford. He also served as the head coach the World League of American Football (WLAF) and is the father of John Elway, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback.

Electronics industry pioneer. One of the “Traitorous Eight” founders of Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957, which created the first mass-produced integrated circuit, an ancestor to the modern-day computer chip.

Son of Fred Goddard, served in management of Tele-Vue, Cable Division of CBS, and Viacom Cable. His father, Fred was one of the founders of the first cable television system in the U. S., around 1950, developed in Aberdeen by Homer Bergen, Fred Goddard, Bob and Elroy McCaw.

NFL All-American Tight End for the University of Washington Football Huskies. Starting Tight End for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1995 to 2002, and the Houston Texans 2003 to 2010.

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Appeared in the Disney movie, The Pirates of the Caribbean, ( 2003) as the ship is the “HMS Interceptor.”

In 1994, the ship was featured Star Trek: The Next Generation Movie. — The Daily World, September 27, 2002.

Owned by the Grays Harbor Historical Seaport Authority. Constructed, and home port of Aberdeen.

Famous silk screen artist from the Pacific Northwest with work depicting much of the history of Grays Harbor. His daughter, Barbara Bennett promotes his serigraphs in Hoquiam, Washington.

United States Congressman from the Third Congressional District of Washington State from 1912 to 1932. Perhaps most well-known as the father of immigration policy.

Awarded the Medal of Honor while serving with the First North Dakota Infantry during the Philippine Insurrection of 1899-1901 that grew out of the Spanish–American War.

World-renowned choreographer and one of the most celebrated people in modern dance. 1991 recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship. Honored as Distinguished Alumnus of Mills College.

Nationally renowned trainer of world recognized boxers. Trainer for Pete Rademacher, Olympic Gold Medal victor in 1956 and the Heavyweight Title Match with Floyd Patterson in 1957. Managed Harry “Kid” Matthews, Eddie Cotton, Greg Haugen, John Palaki, and other boxing contenders.

“Rod the Rifle,” specialized in long-range accurate shooting and played as a star guard for Seattle University who then went on to play in the NBA for the Seattle Sonics.

First American to venture into the harbor, which was named after him by his crew, on May 7, 1792.

Former CEO of Kaiser Jeep Corporation, and Kaiser Industries Corporation. Founder of Girard Winery, Napa Valley, California.

The “Bear Man” was known for his “encyclopedic knowledge and understanding of the American Black Bear.” He wrote three books on bear hunting and bear damage control.

Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, 1945. Former President, Medal of Honor Society. He was the youngest member of the US Navy to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor in WW II, featured personality in Tom Brokaw’s best selling book, The Greatest Generation.

Assistant Chief Designer for America’s first intercontinental ballistic missile, the Atlas Rocket. Former President, Convair Division, General Dynamics. Assistant Secretary of Navy under President Nixon.

Considered one of the leading dry point etching artists in the world. “Published several books containing etchings, pen and ink, and watercolors, as well as graphic arts and illustrations.

Rip Caswell is a popular sculptor in both contemporary and realistic styles and is considered an authority in wildlife art. He is often sought after to judge competitions and presenting at seminars. His website: www.caswellgallery.com.

Novelist. Author of Laugh and Lie Down and The Land of Plenty.

“The band played at the Elks National Convention in Chicago in 1973, and wowed the crowd.” — The Daily World. They served from 1973 through the mid-2000’s, performing at the annual Elks National Convention.

Recognized for his contributions to crystallography, chemistry, and biochemistry of calcium phosphate compounds, Walter Brown pioneered studies in physicochemical properties of mineralized tissues, such as teeth and bone, creating the foundation for modern research on diseases in dental caries, osteoporosis and arteriosclerosis, and in the topical fluoride treatments for teeth.

Considered the most innovative sculptor of the 20th Century. View his historically important sculpture here: https://calder.org/.

Deputy to Secretary of Defense; CEO, Champion Paper and Fiber Company.

Head basketball coach for the Oregon State University Beavers from 1990 to 1995. In 1990, the Beaverswere 22-7 and tied for the Pac-10 Championship. He was named Pac-10 Coach of the Year and District Coach of the Year (by the National Association of Basketball Coaches).

World-renowned photographer, famous for his use of shadows. 1990 recipient of a John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Fellowship.

Known in the boxing world as the “Aberdeen Assassin,” barely lost a world title bout with the champion, Tommy Loughran at Madison Square Garden in 1928.

Motherwell is one of the world’s most recognized American Abstract Expressionist painters with works displayed at Guggenheim Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, Prado Museum (Madrid), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and others. Awarded the National Medal of Arts by President George Bush in 1989.

Airplane industry pioneer. “In 1918, commanded the unit that flew the inaugural load of US Air Mail from New York to Washington D. C.” In 1923, founded Consolidated Aircraft in Buffalo, New York.

A leading authority on wastewater treatment with over 100 publications, 29 United States patents, and many innovations to improve water quality.

Awards and recognition for his work include the Samuel Arnold Greeley Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers (1996), American Academy of Environmental Engineers, Kappe Lecture Award (1997), and the Thomas R. Camp Medal from the Water Environment Federation (2008).

Captain, US Navy, retired. Former Commander of U. S. Navy Command College, Newport, Rhode Island.

Served 22 years as Chairman of the Quinault Indian Nation. National spokesman for Native Americans. Served as President of the National Tribal Chairman’s Association, and two terms as President of the National Congress of American Indians.

Coxswain on the University of Washington 8-man crew that represented the United States in the 1936 Olympics.

The crew embarrassed Hitler by beating the German crew for the Olympic Gold Medal in Grunau, Germany.

Aberdeen philanthropists who left their fortune to the E. K. and Lillian Bishop Foundation. Since 1972, the foundation has contributed over $52,000,000 in grants and scholarships. Most have been for projects and students in Grays Harbor County.

The driving force, and the only remaining member of the original Doobie Brothers musical group. Contributed many of the classic Doobie Brothers hit songs. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.

Captain, US Navy, retired. US Naval Academy graduate, Nuclear Submarine Commander, CEO of numerous nuclear power plants in the eastern United States.

Internationally renowned author of serging, sewing and home decoration publications—now retired.

One time Associate Producer, “48 Hours,” “20/20” and “PrimeTime Live.” In 2002, Sun was nominated for a National News Emmy Award for a “48 Hours” story on 9/11 families. She is also a winner of the Edward R. Murrow journalism award and Cinema in Industry Award.

Founder and former CEO of G. I. Joe’s Department Stores.

Appointed to Board of Regents, University of Washington, for the term of 1998 to 2003. Retired CEO and President of Kramer, Chin and Mayo, Inc., a Seattle engineering firm.

He and his wife opened a 100-bed orphanage in China in the fall of 2002.

Boxing Middleweight Champion of the World, July 1936.

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Nationally acclaimed attorney. One of five finalists for 1991 National Trial Lawyer of the Year.Founding member and Past President of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice (220-2003)Recipient of the 2003 Pursuit of Justice Award by the American Bar Association. Featured attorney in Fighting for Public Justice. Listed in Best Lawyers in America. (2006 and 2007).

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Writer and publisher of classical opera and concerto music.

Father and daughter, World Champion Log Rollers. At the World Championships in 1961, Russ and Diane won the Trick and Fancy Division, Russ won the Old Timer Title (over 45 years), Diane won the Women’s World Championship.

Executive with Fortune Magazine in the 1940’s. Pioneered television advertising for NBC in 1950. Vice President, New York Stock Exchange in 1953.

One of three trainers for the U.S. Soccer Team - 2002 World Cup. Trainer for the U. S. Men’s Olympic Soccer Team - 2000. Trainer for US Men’s National Soccer Team - 2008.

Pioneer in medical imaging: functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and Position Emission Tomography (PET) for the study of human brain organization and function in health and disease.Recipient of the Karl Spencer Lashley Award from the American Philosophical Society for his contributions to brain imaging (1998).

Five time recipient of Northwest Bowlers Association, Bowler of the Year award.

Currently holds a number of world unicycling records, but also must hold the record for breaking unicycle records.

Ryan started his career at local radio stations: KXRO, then The Harbor's New Country KIX 95.3 as Afternoon Host and later, the Program Director. Ryan later in his career, went on to become Vice President of Promotion & Marketing, BMLG Records, in the 1990s in Nashville, Tennessee.

Captain, US Navy, retired. Served as Commanding Officer and Director U. S. Naval Applied Science Laboratory (1966 -1971) during development of the navigation systems for Polaris submarines. Noted for his heroic actions that saved many during a WW II accident aboard the USS Pennsylvania.

Recipient of the Frances M. Pipkin Award of the American Physical Society (1999), or extensive contributions to precision measurements in science, especially searches for a permanent electric dipole moment of the neutron and atoms, measurements of atomic parity violation, and tests of spatial symmetries and quantum mechanics, including observation of the vacuum Casimir Effect.

Botanist, timberman, inventor, and founder of Lamb Grays Harbor Company. Pioneer member of the Sierra Club and member of President Theodore Roosevelt’s White House Conference on Natural Resources (1908).

American actor, animal trainer, and breeder. He and his brother Frank are best remembered for training dogs for motion pictures and television.Their collie, Pal, became the original Lassie, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Lassie Come Home (1943), the Lassie TV series (1954-1974), and trained Spike for the 1957 feature film Old Yeller (1957). - Wikipedia

Hollywood actor 1944-1959. Starred, or was featured, in 38 motion pictures and over 600 television shows.

Winner of the United States Amateur Golf Championship in 1939 and 1941, and was on Walker Cup Teams in 1947 and 1948.

Captain, US Navy, retired. U. S. Naval Academy class of 1958. Served on, and commanded several diesel and nuclear submarines during his 30 year naval career. Served as director of Computer Systems Department at the Naval War College Center for War Gaming.

Nationally acclaimed amateur golfer. Ten time Washington State Women’s Amateur Golf Champion. Winner of the Senior Amateur Championship of America at Sea Island, Georgia (2005). Qualified to play in 25 USGA Championships, including three USGA Women’s Opens.

Congressional Medal of Honor Winner, Civil War for single-handedly capturing the flag of the Georgia Infantry. His act was credited with breaking the morale of a formidable unit of the Confederate Army.

Named Outstanding Elementary Teacher of America” (1975), and has received various other honors throughout her career.

Universally recognized astrophysicist. Tenured professor, Wellesley College: Investigated binary star systems and currently working with data from the Hubble Space Telescope under a research grant from NASA’s Space Telescope Institute

Songwriter and bass guitar player, for the music group Nirvana. Revolutionized Rock Music in 1992, with what came to be known as “grunge music.”

Winner of several karate competition awards including; nine gold medals at the AAU National Junior Olympics, Des Moines, Iowa; gold medal at the 2004 World Karate Federation World Championship in Las Vegas, Nevada; 2004 Presidential Medal from President George W. Bush. She has also appeared in three movies, and several television shows.

Standford professor and author of six books, he was awarded the Institute of Operations Research and Management Sciences INFORMS Expository Award, for setting an exemplary standard of exposition in his Introduction to Operations Research textbook (2004).

Winner of the NAIA National Swimming Championships in the 100 and 200 yard butterfly events for the University of Puget Sound (1987). Inductee to the University of Puget Sound Hall of Fame (2003).

Co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics (1996) for his discovery of the point at which Helium-3 becomes a super fluid. The discovery now serves as a model for scientists studying the “Big Bang Theory” of the development of the universe. Recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship (1981).

Appointed to the University of Washington Board of Regents – the first woman to hold that position (1917). Elected president of the UW Regents (1923), she was the first woman in the nation to hold such an office at a major university.

United States Congressman from the Third Congressional District of Washington State, from 1947 until he died on the floor of congress in 1960.

Around 1950, a the first cable television system was developed in Aberdeen by Homer Bergen, Fred Goddard, Bob McCaw and Elroy McCaw.

Nationally known writer of books on cooking seafood. Has published six books, including Seafood Twice a Week.

Played for Cleveland Naps (Indians) 1911-14, Boston Red Sox 1914-16, Philadelphia Athletics 1918, Washington Nationals (Senators) 1925.

Ranked in “The 100 Greatest Tribe Players of all Time” by the Cleveland Indians (2001).

NFL television football announcer. Former Head Coach of Oakland Raiders, NFL player, and inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame (2006).

Author of over 30 books including biographies of Kurt Cobain, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and John Lennon. Books documenting the crew and passengers of the Titanic, and the plight of the Lost Boys of the Sudan.

Recipient of multiple honors. The NAACP awarded him its highest literary honor, The Image Award (2012), for his biography on famed Olympic athlete Jesse Owens. The previous year, his biography on Malcolm X was nominated, finishing in top five.

John began his career as a paperboy, later as a reporter for the Aberdeen High Ocean Breeze, then later as a Daily World Reporter. Retired in 2008, John went on to head the Legacy Dept. for the Secretary of State as a state historian.