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 Minnesota Lynx
*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. [ [http://www.wnba.com/playerfile/asjha_jones/bio.html Asjha Jones profile] , Women's National Basketball Association. Accessed September 6, 2007.]
*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 Schref 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

cience

*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 [http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=25099 ""] - Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, also a UConn graduate
*Dr. Robert Mc Cartney [http://www.cse.uconn.edu/cse_fac-rm.htm ""] - 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)

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