List of University of Connecticut people
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This is a list of notable alumni and faculty from the University of Connecticut.
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[edit] Alumni
[edit] Arts & entertainment
- Pam Arciero - puppeteer
- Jennifer Barnhart - actor and puppeteer
- Michael Bergin - supermodel
- Tanisha Brito - former Miss Connecticut and Miss Georgia USA
- Mary Cadorette - actor
- Nikki Carlisle - pornographic actor (currently attending)
- Lui Collins - folk singer-songwriter
- Julius R. Nasso - film producer
- Peter Niedmann - composer
- Ron Palillo - actor
- Laurenţiu Rotaru - bass-baritone opera singer
- Skip Schoolnik - film director and producer
- Rick Sternbach - Emmy-winning illustrator and visual effects artist
- Dana Wilson - composer and jazz pianist
[edit] Athletics
- Ray Allen - NBA All-Star
- Khalid El-Amin - former Chicago Bulls guard
- Josh Boone - 23rd pick in the 2006 NBA Draft (New Jersey Nets)
- Scott Burrell - first American draft pick for MLB and NBA
- Kirk Ferentz - former UConn linebacker and current University of Iowa football coach
- Asjha Jones - center/power forward for the Connecticut Sun
- Mpho Moloi - midfielder for the Houston Dynamo
- Charles Nagy - former all-star Major League Baseball pitcher
- 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 and former manager for the Kansas City Royals
- 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
- Tamika Williams - forward for the Minnesota Lynx
[edit] Business & industry
- Robert Diamond - president, Barclays Bank
- George Harrison - senior vice president at Nintendo
- John Klein - chairman, CEO and president of People's Bank
[edit] Diplomacy, government & politics
- Bona Arsenault - former Canadian Member of Parliament
- Richard Calder - prominent CIA official
- Tansu Çiller - first female Prime Minister of Turkey
- 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 State Senator and U.S. Congressman-elect
- David Valesky - Democratic member of the New York State Senate
- Sam Webb - chairman of the Communist Party of the United States of America
[edit] Education
- Stanley F. Battle - president of Coppin State 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
- Florence Roisman - Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis professor and social activist
- Timothy Perry Shriver - teacher and philanthropist
- Kevin Swick - early childhood education theorist
[edit] 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
[edit] Military
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Gene C. Young - noted Civil Rights Movement activist
[edit] Science
- Franklin Chang-Diaz - astronaut and physicist
- Toby Grotz - electrical engineer and Nikola Tesla expert
- David Lee - Nobel Prize-winning physicist
- Kevin B. MacDonald - evolutionary psychology theorist
- Peter Noznick - food chemist
- Massimo Pigliucci - outspoken anti-creationism scientist
- Philip Rubin - CEO and senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories
[edit] Authors and academics
- Virginia DeJohn Anderson - historian, author of Creatures of Empire
- Robert D. Kaplan - journalist and Atlantic Monthly editor
- Bobbie Ann Mason - novelist and literary critic
- Michael North - author and UCLA Professor
- Ann Lane Petry - author
- Elaine Scarry - author and Harvard University professor
- Lewis Turco - poet and writing teacher
[edit] Faculty
[edit] Current
- Gina Barreca - columnist and humorist (Professor of Literature and Feminist Theory)
- 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
- Wally Lamb - best-selling author (Associate Professor of Creative Writing; also a UConn graduate)
- Richard Normand Langlois - economist (Professor of Economics)
- Ronald Mallett - researcher in time travel (Professor of Physics)
- Ruth Millikan - philosopher of language (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy)
- Sam Pickering - teacher portrayed by Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society (Professor of English)
- Carolyn D. Runowicz - president of the American Cancer Society and director of the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center (UConn Health Center)
- Wayne Worcester - 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)
[edit] 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, passed way in 2000}
- Richard Popkin, philosophy historian
- 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)
