List of University of Connecticut people

This is a list of notable alumni and faculty from the University of Connecticut.

Alumni

Arts & entertainment

• Pam Arciero - puppeteer
• Jennifer Barnhart - actor and puppeteer
• Michael Bergin - supermodel
• Beau Billingslea - voice actor and former UConn football player
• Tanisha Brito - former Miss Connecticut and Miss Georgia USA
• Mary Cadorette - actor
• Lui Collins - folk singer-songwriter

• Jennifer Duarte - designer and photographer
• Ned Kahn - environmental artist and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient
• Jeremy Leven - author, director, producer, and screenwriter
• Moby - musician
• Judy Collins - musician
• Julius R. Nasso - film producer
• Peter Niedmann - composer
• Wayne Norman - radio broadcaster
• Ron Palillo - actor
• Laurenţiu Rotaru - bass-baritone opera singer
• Meg Ryan - actress
• Skip Schoolnik - film director and producer
• Brian Schulz, Emmy-winning producer and cinematographer
• Richard Sloan - interpretive dancer and master puppeteer
• Rick Sternbach - Emmy-winning illustrator and visual effects artist
• Tony Todd - actor
• Paige Turco - actress
• Dana Wilson - composer and jazz pianist
• Tom Curran - professional poker player

Athletics

• Swin Cash
• Sue Bird
• Shea Ralph
• Svetlana Abrosimova - forward for the Connecticut Sun
• Ray Allen - 5th pick in the 1996 NBA Draft, currently starting shooting guard for the Boston Celtics
• Hilton Armstrong - NBA 12th pick in 2006 NBA Draft, (New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets) Forward/Center
• Josh Boone - 23rd pick in the 2006 NBA Draft (New Jersey Nets)
• Denham Brown - 40th pick in the 2006 NBA Draft (Seattle Supersonics)
• Scott Burrell - first American draft pick for MLB and NBA...Played in the NBA from 1995-2001
• Caron Butler - NBA 10th pick in 2002 NBA Draft, (Washington Wizards) Guard
• Jesse Carlson - MLB Pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays
• Rajai Davis - MLB Outfielder for the Oakland Athletics
• Walt Dropo - former all-star Major League Baseball first baseman, 1950 MLB Rookie of the Year Award winner (American League)
• Khalid El-Amin - former Chicago Bulls Guard
• Kirk Ferentz - former UConn linebacker and current University of Iowa football head coach. Also former University of Maine football head coach and former Cleveland Browns/Baltimore Ravens offensive line coach
• Alfred Fincher - New Orleans Saints linebacker
• Rudy Gay - NBA 8th overall pick in 2006 NBA Draft, (Memphis Grizzlies) Guard
• Tate George - former basketball player for the New Jersey Nets & Milwaukee Bucks
• Nick Giaquinto - Former NFL tailback, member of the Super Bowl XVII champion Washington Redskins
• Ben Gordon - NBA 3rd pick in 2004 NBA Draft, (Chicago Bulls) Guard
• Jason Grabowski - Major League Baseball Player
• Richard Hamilton - 7th pick in 1999 NBA Draft, (Detroit Pistons) Guard
• Mike Hoffman - NHL Right winger on the Atlanta Thrashers
• Dan Iassogna - current Major League Baseball umpire
• Asjha Jones - center/power forward for the Connecticut Sun.
• Travis Knight - Former NBA player, 29th pick in 1996 NBA Draft, Center
• Brian Kozlowski - Former NFL fullback/tight end
• Todd Krygier - Former NHL left-winger for the Hartford Whalers, Washington Capitals & Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
• Rebecca Lobo - former WNBA player and current ESPN analyst
• Donyell Marshall - 4th pick in 1994 NBA Draft
• Mpho Moloi - midfielder for the Houston Dynamo
• Charles Nagy - former all-star Major League Baseball pitcher
• Emeka Okafor - 2nd pick in 2004 NBA Draft, (Charlotte Bobcats) Power Forward
• Kevin Ollie - NBA guard for the(Philadelphia 76ers)
• Dan Orlovsky - Detroit Lions quarterback
• Tom Penders - head men's basketball coach at the University of Houston
• Damani Ralph - former Chicago Fire player and current FC Rubin Kazan striker
• Bobby Rhine - defensive player for FC Dallas
• Jennifer Rizzotti - former pro basketball player and current University of Hartford women's head coach
• Clifford R. Robinson - basketball player for the New Jersey Nets
• Sam Rutigliano - former Cleveland Browns head coach
• Bob Schaefer - bench coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers and former manager for the Kansas City Royals
• Chris Smith - former Minnesota Timberwolves Guard
• Bob Staak - former Wake Forest University and NBA coach
• Shane Stafford - Arena Football League quarterback
• Diana Taurasi - guard for the Phoenix Mercury
• Shavar Thomas - soccer player for the Kansas City Wizards
• Pete Walker - Toronto Blue Jays pitcher
• Charlie Villanueva - NBA 11th pick in 2003 NBA Draft, (Milwaukee Bucks) Forward
• Jake Voskuhl - NBA center currently playing for the(Charlotte Bobcats)
• Marcus Williams - NBA 22nd pick in 2006 NBA Draft, (New Jersey Nets) Guard
• Tamika Williams - forward for the Connecticut Sun

Authors and journalists

• Virginia DeJohn Anderson - historian, author of Creatures of Empire
• Elizabeth Bear (Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky) - author
• Robert D. Kaplan - journalist and Atlantic Monthly editor
• Bobbie Ann Mason - novelist and literary critic
• Leigh Montville - sports journalist
• Michael North - author and UCLA Professor
• Les Payne, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• Tim Page, Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic and biographer of Dawn Powell
• Ann Lane Petry - author
• Joel Rosenberg - author
• Mark J. Roy - author of photohistory of UConn
• Elaine Scarry - author and Harvard University professor
• Lewis Turco - poet and writing teacher

Business & industry

• Robert Diamond - president & CEO of Barclays Bank
• Randal A. Nardone - COO & Co-Founder, Fortress Investment Group
• George Harrison - senior vice president at Nintendo
• John Klein - chairman, CEO, and president of People's Bank
• Jim Masur - CFO of Babson Capital
• Stewart Rosenberg - CEO and president of Bio-Investigations Ltd.
• David Schreff entertainment and sports executive, former President, Marketing and Media for the National Basketball Association, former President, COO of Marvel Entertainment
• George Kruglov - Deloitte
• T. Scott Case - Co-founder of Priceline.com
• Dona D. Young - chairman, CEO, and president of The Phoenix Companies

Diplomacy, government & politics

• Bona Arsenault - former Canadian Member of Parliament
• Richard Calder - prominent CIA official
• Her Excellency Prof. Dr.Tansu Çiller - first female Prime Minister of Turkey
• Joe Courtney- Democratic U.S. Congressman
• Charles A. Duelfer - head of the Iraq Survey Group
• Samih Farsoun - academic and Arab-American activist
• Aaron Field - speaker of the Jewish National Assembly
• Sam Gejdenson - former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives
• Robert Giaimo - former U.S. Representative who helped create the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Washington Metro
• Hajim al-Hassani - speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly
• Eliot A. Jardines - Assistant Deputy Director of U.S. National Intelligence for Open Source Intelligence
• Thomas Joseph Meskill - former Republican U.S. Representative and Governor for Connecticut
• Shaun McNally - Democratic politician
• Chris Murphy - Democratic U.S. Congressman
• David Valesky - Democratic member of the New York State Senate
• Sam Webb - chairman of the Communist Party USA

Education

• Stanley F. Battle - president of Coppin State University
• Scott S. Cowen - president of Tulane University
• Thomas C. Duffy - deputy dean of the Yale School of Music
• Martha Piper - immediate past president and vice chancellor of the University of British Columbia
• Joseph W. Polisi - president of The Juilliard School
• Florence Roisman - Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis professor and social activist
• Timothy Perry Shriver - teacher and philanthropist
• Kevin Swick - early childhood education theorist

Law

• Joette Katz - Associate Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court
• Edward Kennedy, Jr. - lawyer and son of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy
• Rosemary S. Pooler - Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Kevin O'Connor - U.S. Attorney for the State of Connecticut, Chief of Staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
• Vicki Melchiorre - Senior Assistant State's Attorney - Hartford, CT

Military

• Paul A. Yost, Jr. - former United States Coast Guard Commandant

Miscellaneous

• Carolyn Runowicz - president of the American Cancer Society
• Gene C. Young - noted Civil Rights Movement activist

Science

• Franklin Chang-Diaz - astronaut and physicist
• Carol A Fowler - Noted speech scientist and CEO of Haskins Laboratories
• Toby Grotz - electrical engineer and Nikola Tesla expert
• David Lee - Nobel Prize-winning physicist
• Kevin B. MacDonald - evolutionary psychology theorist
• Richard Mastracchio - astronaut and engineer
• Peter Noznick - food chemist
• Massimo Pigliucci - outspoken anti-creationism scientist
• Philip Rubin - CEO and senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories
• Yuwen Zhang - Expert in thermal science, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Missouri

Faculty

Current

• Robert L. Birmingham - Professor of Law
• Ann Charters - Beat scholar who worked with Jack Kerouac to write his biography (Professor of English)
• Cornelia Hughes Dayton - historian, author of Women Before the Bar
• Kenneth Fuchs - Grammy-nominated composer and head of the Department of Music (School of Fine Arts)
• Robert A. Gross - historian, author The Minutemen and their World
• John Edward Kaminski - turfgrass pathologist
• Wally Lamb - best-selling author (Associate Professor of Creative Writing; also a UConn graduate)
• Richard Normand Langlois - economist (Professor of Economics)
• Nicholas Leadbeater - Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
• Dr. Lester Lipsky' - Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, also a UConn graduate
• Dr. Robert Mc Cartney' - Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduates, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• Ronald Mallett - researcher in time travel (Professor of Physics)
• Ruth Mason - international tax scholar
• Ruth Millikan - philosopher of language (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy)
• Sam Pickering - teacher portrayed by Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society (Professor of English)
• Michael Pikal - Pfizer Distinguished Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutical Technology & Professor of Pharmaceutics
• Joseph Renzulli gifted education theorist
• Carolyn D. Runowicz - president of the American Cancer Society and director of the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center (UConn Health Center)
• Charles Schlueter - trumpeter
• Wayne Worcester - author and journalist (Professor of Journalism)
• Maureen Croteau - author and journalist (Professor of Journalism)
• Xiangzhong "Jerry" Yang - world animal cloning leader and director of the Center for Regenerative Biology (Professor of Animal Science)

Former

Note: Years and official titles are given when possible.

• Ann Beattie, author
• Albert Francis Blakeslee, botanist (when it was still Connecticut Agricultural College)
• Francelia Butler, author and renowned expert on children's literature (Professor of English, 1968-1992)
• Lien Chan, former vice president of the Republic of China (Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1967-1968)
• Roy D'Andrade, developer of cognitive anthropology
• Richard Eberhart, poet
• J. A. Scott Kelso, neuroscientist (Professor of Psychology and Biobehavioral Sciences)
• Susan Kinsolving, poet
• Myron W. Krueger, computer scientist (Professor of Computer Science, 1974-85)
• Karen Kuppermann, noted historian
• Alvin Liberman, Famous Speech scientist {Professor of Psychology)
• Richard Popkin, philosophy historian
• Gideon Rodan, biochemist and osteopath (School of Dental Medicine, 1970 to 1985)
• Harold Seidman, legendary political scientist and public administration expert (Professor of Political Science, 1971-1984)
• Paul N. Siegel, noted Marxist (Professor of English Literature)
• Edmund Ware Sinnott, botanist and prolific author (Professor of Botany and Genetics, 1915-1928)
• Ian Stewart, mathematician (Visiting Professor of Mathematics, 1977-1978)
• Rex Warner, author and translator (Professor of Classics, 1962-1973)
• Fujia Yang, physicist (Visiting Professor of Physics)