List of University of Maryland, College Park people

This is a list of notable alumni, faculty, and benefactors of the University of Maryland, College Park.

Academia

*David A. Bader, 1996, Professor of Computing at Georgia Tech
*Kenneth C. Catania, Neurobiologist at Vanderbilt University, MacArthur Fellowship awarded in 2006
*Donald West Harward, served as the sixth president of Bates College
*Richard Herman, 1967, Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
*Charlene Drew Jarvis, President of Southeastern University
*Simon Asher Levin, Professor of Ecology at Princeton University and winner of Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences
*Jacqueline Liebergott, President of Emerson College
* Patrick J. Maney, Dean of college of arts and sciences at Boston College
*Manning Marable, 1976, Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at Columbia University
*Tobin J. Marks, 1966, Professor of Material Science and Engineering at Northwestern University, awarded the 2005 National Medal of Science
*Shen Chun-shan, 1961, President of Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University from 1993 to 1997
*Arnold L. Rheingold , Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego
*Michael Rustad, Intellectual Property author, Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School
*Lida Lee Tall, Sixth principal/president of State Teachers College at Towson (now Towson University)

Arts and entertainment

*Karen Allen, Actress in (Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Raiders of the Lost Ark)
*Mike Auldridge, Grammy Award winning musician
*Carmen Balthrop, Internationally recognized soprano and faculty member, performed at the White House, the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall
*Mike Ciardi, Film producer ("Miracle, The Rookie")
*Larry David, Actor, writer and producer ("Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Seinfeld")
*Cedric Dent, Singer, composer and arranger for influential acapella group Take 6
*Michael Ealy, Actor ("Barbershop", "")
*Alan Heitz, Actor ("Grounded for Life", "The Suite Life of Zach and Cody","Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Frasier")
*Jim Henson, Creator of the Muppets
*Jason Kravits, Actor ("The Practice")
*Beth McCarthy, Saturday Night Live director from 1995-2006, 30 Rock director
*Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks creator of series
*Peter Mehlman, Writer and co-executive producer ("Seinfeld")
*Michael Olmert, Writer and three-time Emmy Award winner for his work on the Discovery Channel. Current professor of English at the University of Maryland
*David Silverman,(attended) animator, director, producer on The Simpsons, director of The Simpsons Movie, and co-director of Monsters Inc.
*David Simon, Creator, producer, and co-writer of "The Wire (TV series)"and creator of ""
*Bitty Schram, Actress (Monk)
*Mark Schwahn, Creator of "One Tree Hill"
*Tiffany Taylor, Playboy Playmate (November 1998)
*Diane Wiest, Actress, two time Academy Award winner

Business

* Robert Basham, Co-founder and COO of Outback Steakhouse
*Gail Berman, Former president of Paramount Pictures
*Eric F. Billings, Chairman and CEO of both Friedman Billings Ramsey and FBR Capital Markets Corporation
*Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google
* Robert D. Briskman, Co-founder of SIRIUS Satellite Radio
* Alan Carey, Senior vice president of Pepsico
*A. James Clark, President of Clark Construction, namesake of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering
* Rick Eng, COO of Legg Mason Capital Management
*Carly Fiorina, Former Chairperson and CEO of Hewlett-Packard
* David Goldfarb, Chief Strategy Officer at Lehman Brothers
*Rajesh Hukku, Chairman and Managing Director of i-flex solutions limited
*Ross M. Jackman, responsible for Sales & Trading of MUNICIPALS at UBS AG
*Hugh Newell Jacobsen, world renowned architect and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
*Jeong H. Kim, President of Lucent's Bell Labs
*Chris Kubasik, CFO of Lockheed Martin
*Samuel J. LeFrak, Chaired the LeFrak Organization, one of the largest private building firms in the world
* William Longbrake,Washington Mutual Vice Chairman
* Neil Moskowitz, CFO and Head of Global Finance, Administration, and Operations at Credit Suisse
* Preston Padden, Executive Vice President, The Walt Disney Company
*Lou Pai, Former CEO of Enron Energy Services
*Kevin Plank, Founder of Under Armour athletic apparel company
* Jesus Rangel, Vice President, corporate relations, Anheuser-Busch
* Harvey Sanders, President, Chairman, and CEO of Nautica
* Richard Schaeffer, Chairman of NYMEX Holdings and the New York Mercantile Exchange
* Michelle Singletary, Business columnist for The Washington Post
*Robert H. Smith, Real estate developer, namesake of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business
*Ed Snider, Owner of the Philadelphia Flyers and the Philadelphia 76ers
*Daniel Snyder,(attended) Owner of the Washington Redskins, Chairman of the Board of Six Flags
* Jonathan Gentry, Founder/past CEO of IHOP

Faculty

*Nariman Farvardin, Provost
*Clayton Daniel Mote, President

Government and public policy

Governors

*Harry R. Hughes, Governor of Maryland from 1979 to 1987

U.S. Senators

*Joseph Tydings, former U.S. Senator from Maryland
*Millard Tydings, former U.S. Senator from Maryland who introduced legislation in 1920 to create the University of Maryland

U.S. Congressmen

*Dennis Cardoza, U.S. Congressman from California
*William F. Goodling, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
*Steny Hoyer, U.S. Congressman from Maryland and House Majority Leader of the 110th United States Congress, chief sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act
*Parren Mitchell, former U.S. Congressman from Maryland
*Dutch Ruppersberger, U.S. Congressman from Maryland

tate Senators

*David R. Brinkley, Maryland State Senator
*John W. Derr, former Maryland State Senator
*Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr., long-standing president of the Maryland Senate
*Charles H. Smelser, (1942) former Maryland State Senator

tate Delegates

*Saqib Ali, member of Maryland House of Delegates
*Patrick N. Hogan, (2002) former member of Maryland House of Delegates
*Thomas E. Hutchins, former State Delegate and former Maryland State Police Superintendent
*James M. Kelly, (1988) special assistant to President Bush, former Maryland Delegate.
*Tony McConkey, member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
*William Daniel Mayer, former member of the Maryland House of Delegates
*Justin Ross, member Maryland House of Delegates.
*James E. Rzepkowski, (1993) former member of Maryland House of Delegates
*John F. Slade III, (1967) former member of Maryland House of Delegates
*Paul S. Stull, member Maryland House of Delegates.

International Figures

*Nguyen Si Binh, Vietnamese American Chairman of the People's Action Party of Vietnam
*Shirley Thomson, Director of the Canada Council

U.S. Diplomats and Ambassadors

*Prudence Bushnell, U.S. Diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala and Kenya
*Joseph Gildenhorn, former U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland
*David M. Satterfield, U.S. Diplomat in the Middle East, and is now Senior Advisor on Iraq for the Secretary of State

Judicial

*Mary Stallings Coleman, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan
* W. Louis Hennessy, Associate Judge 4th District of Maryland, former member of Maryland House of Delegates

U.S. Government Officials

*Gordon England, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, former Secretary of Navy and deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
*Sean McCormack, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and U.S. State Department Spokesman
*Faryar Shirzad, advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush
*Jeff Trandahl, executive director of the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, former Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives

Others

*Karen L. Haas, 33rd Clerk of the United States House of Representatives

Journalism (print and broadcast)

*Rishi Barran, Sports anchor for CBS21 in Harrisburg, Pa.
*Art Bell, founder and longtime host of the radio program, Coast to Coast AM
*Bonnie Bernstein, network TV sports reporter
*Carl Bernstein, Watergate journalist
*Tim Brant, sportscaster for ABC
*Jerry Ceppos, former vice president for news operations for Knight Ridder newspapers
*Tina Cervasio, television sportscaster for the New England Sports Network.
*Kiran Chetry, former Fox News Channel personality and current CNN American Morning co-host
*Norman Chad, sports writer, ESPN personality
*Frank Cho, drew comic strip for the "The Diamondback" and creator of the comic strip and comic book Liberty Meadows
*Connie Chung, news anchor with CBS, NBC, and CNN
*Sarah Cohen, Pulitzer Prize winner, The Washington Post
*Heidi Collins, Anchor, CNN
*Brian Crecente, videogame columnist for the Rocky Mountain News and editor of Gawker-owned videogame blog Kotaku
*Giuliana DePandi, television host, E! News Live
*Jon D. Franklin, journalist for the "Baltimore Evening Sun", two-time Pulitzer Prize winner (1979 for Feature Writing, 1985 for Exploratory Journalism)
*Greg Gaston, Anchor for Fox13 in Memphis, TN. Television play-by-play voice for the University of Memphis Tigers Basketball and Football games. Co-Host of Middays radio show on Sports56 WHBQ.
*Jane Healy, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of "The Orlando Sentinel"
*Jeannie Jones, Radio Personality for 93.9 WKYS
*Jack Kelley, former USA Today reporter
*Gayle King, Editor-At-Large "O, The Oprah Magazine", TV personality, journalist, host of XM Radio program
*Tim Kurkjian, ESPN commentator/analyst and writer
*Andrew Levine, "Washington Post" sportswriter
*Mark McEwen, TV personality and former weatherman for "CBS Morning News" and "The Early Show"
*Aaron McGruder, creator of comic strip The Boondocks
*Robert M. Parker, Jr., wine critic
*Jimmy Roberts, reporter for NBC
*Drew Sterne Creator,Executive Producer, and Co-Host of Radio Talk Show, Fritz and Schlomo, 88.1FM WMUC
*Bert Sugar, boxing writer and historian
*Scott Van Pelt, anchor for the television show "SportsCenter" on the ESPN network
*Jim Walton, President and CEO of CNN
*Pam Ward, Co-anchor, ESPN and ESPN2
*DeWayne Wickham, writer and USA Today syndicated columnist

Literature

*Kofi Aidoo, Ghanaian author
*John Glad, Russian literature expert and eugenicist
*Joe Haldeman, science fiction writer, best known for The Forever War
*Jeffrey Kluger, writer, best known for co-writing "" with Jim Lovell, the book the movie Apollo 13 is based on
*Gina Kolata, Award-Winning Author and science journalist for The New York Times
*Munro Leaf, author
*Lloyd McCoy, writer and imaginist
*George Pelecanos, mystery writer
*Robert G. Pielke, Alternate history fiction and author of
*Michael J. Varhola, author of several history books and founder of publishing company Skirmisher Publishing LLC

cience and technology

*Michael W. Barwick, Physician (Class of 1995)
*Sergey Brin, Co-Founder and Technology President of Google
*Robert D. Briskman, co-founder of SIRIUS Satellite Radio
*George Dantzig, mathematician
*Raymond Davis Jr., winner of the 2002 Physics Nobel Prize
*Charles Fefferman, mathematician and winner of the Fields Medal
*Robert Fischell, inventor and physicist, UMCP benefactor
*Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator
*Herbert Hauptman, winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Lorraine M. Herger, B.Sc., (electrical engineering), 1982, Research Director of the IBM Austin Research Laboratory (Texas), 2004-(ongoing). Previously worked at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1992-2004
*George J. Laurer, inventor of the Universal Product Code (UPC)
*Russell Marker, inventor of octane rating system
*William McCool, NASA astronaut, killed on Columbia mission STS-107
*David M. Mosser, world renowned immunologist and professor, Founding Director of Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, Founder and CEO of LeukoSight, Inc
*Roger M. Owen, inventor of Rogerspot
*Judith Resnik, Ph.D. 1977, NASA astronaut, killed on Challenger mission STS-51-L
*Paul W. Richards, NASA astronaut who flew on Discovery mission STS-102
*Raymond St. Leger, world renowned mycologist, author, and professor
*Tim Sweeney, computer game programmer and founder of Epic Games

ports

Basketball

*Len Bias, basketball player
*Steve Blake, professional basketball player for the Portland Trailblazers
*Keith Booth, former National Basketball Association (NBA) player and current assistant coach, University of Maryland basketball
*Brad Davis, former NBA player
*Juan Dixon, professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards
*Len Elmore, former professional NBA player turned TV sports analyst for the ESPN network
*Steve Francis, NBA player for the Houston Rockets
*Sarunas Jasikevicius, professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers and Euroleague champion with FC Barcelona (once) and Maccabi Tel Aviv (twice)
*Albert King, former NBA player
*John Lucas II former NBA player and coach, tennis player and coach
*Tom McMillen, former professional NBA player and Congressman in the United States House of Representatives
*Terence Morris, former NBA player
*Joe Smith, NBA player for the Oklahoma City Thunder
*Gene Shue, former NBA player, coach, general manager
*Chris Wilcox, NBA player for the Oklahoma City Thunder
*Buck Williams, former NBA player
*Gary Williams, head coach, University of Maryland men's basketball
*Walt Williams, former NBA player
*Tony Massenburg NBA player for the Washington Wizards

Football

*Rob Abiamiri, NFL player for the Baltimore Ravens at tight end
*Steve Atkins, former NFL player for the Green Bay Packers as a running back
*Jess Atkinson, former NFL player for the Washington Redskins and New York Giants as a kicker.
*Bob Avellini, former NFL player for the Chicago Bears at quarterback
*Eric Barton, NFL player for the New York Jets as a linebacker
*Lloyd Burriss, former NFL player and All Pro with the Kansas City Chiefs at strong safety
*Jon Condo, NFL player for the Oakland Raiders as a long snapper
*Curome Cox, NFL player for the Denver Broncos as a strong safety
*Vernon Davis, NFL tight end for the San Francisco 49ers
*Jeff Dugan, NFL player with the Minnesota Vikings as a tight end
*Darren Drozdov, Former NFL player and professional wrestler
*Boomer Esiason, former NFL quarterback turned television broadcaster. Led Cincinnati Bengals to Super Bowl XXIII
*Domonique Foxworth, Professional football player for the Atlanta Falcons as a cornerback
*Melvin Fowler, NFL player for the Buffalo Bills as a center
*Ralph Friedgen, head coach, University of Maryland football
*Jared Gaither, NFL player for the Baltimore Ravens as an offensive lineman
*Stan Gelbaugh, former NFL player with the Seattle Seahawks at quarterback
*Kevin Glover, former NFL player and All Pro for the Detroit Lions as a center
*E.J. Henderson, Professional football player for the Minnesota Vikings as a linebacker
*Stephon Heyer, NFL player for the Washington Redskins as an offensive tackle
*Eric Hicks, NFL player for the Kansas City Chiefs as a defensive end
*Shaun Hill, NFL player for the San Francisco 49ers as a quarterback
*D'Qwell Jackson, Professional football player for the Cleveland Browns as a linebacker
*Kris Jenkins, Professional football player for the Carolina Panthers, played in Super Bowl XXXVIII. Plays defensive tackle.
*Leon Joe, NFL linebacker with the Chicago Bears. Played in Super Bowl XLI.
*Stan Jones, former NFL player, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee as a lineman.
*LaMont Jordan, Professional football player for the Oakland Raiders as a running back.
*William Kershaw, NFL player for the Kansas City Chiefs as a linebacker
*Jermaine Lewis, former NFL player for the Baltimore Ravens as a wide receiver
*Gerrick McPhearson, NFL player for the New York Giants as a cornerback
*Shawne Merriman, Professional football player and first round draft pick of the 2005 NFL Draft by the San Diego Chargers, 2005 NFL Rookie Defensive Player of the Year at outside linebacker.
*Scott Milanovich, former NFL player for the New England Patriots at quarterback
*Derrick Miller, NFL player for the Oakland Raiders as a tight end
*Matt Murphy, NFL player for the Buffalo Bills as a tight end
*Renaldo Nehemiah, former NFL player for the San Francisco 49ers as a wide receiver. Holds 13 records in track and field.
*Rich Parsons, NFL player with the Oakland Raiders at wide receiver
*Bruce Perry, former NFL player with the Philadelphia Eagles as a running back
*Frank Reich, former NFL player at quarterback. Hold both NFL and NCAA records for leading his team to victory from the largest deficits.
*Lewis Sanders NFL player with the Atlanta Falcons at cornerback
*Chad Scott, NFL player with the New England Patriots at cornerback
*Randy Starks, Professional football for the Tennessee Titans at defensive tackle
*Mike Tice, former NFL player at tight end and erstwhile head coach of the Minnesota Vikings.
*John Tice, former NFL player with the New Orleans Saints at tight end. Younger brother of Mike.
*Al Wallace, NFL player for the Carolina Panthers as a defensive end. Played in Super Bowl XXXVIII
*Randy White, former professional football player for the Dallas Cowboys, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
*Timothy Wilson, former NFL player and All Pro for the Houston Oilers at fullback
*Madieu Williams, NFL player for the Minnesota Vikings at free safety
*Frank Wycheck, former NFL player and All Pro at tight end

Other

*Deane Beman, commissioner, PGA Tour, 1974–1994, inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame
*Dominique Dawes, gymnast for the 1992, 1996, 2000 U.S. Olympics team
*Maurice Edu, 2007 MLS first overall draft pick of Toronto FC
*Fred Funk, professional golfer on the PGA Tour
*Charlie “King Kong” Keller, All-Star Major League Baseball player, 1939–1952
*Renaldo Nehemiah, former 110m hurdle world record holder
*Jim O'Brien, current Indiana Pacers head coach (MBA from the University of Maryland)
*Chris Seitz, 2007 MLS first-round draft pick of Real Salt Lake, Member of the 2007 US Under-20 Men's National Team
*Taylor Twellman, professional soccer player for the New England Revolution and United States men's national soccer team
*Morgan Wootten, Basketball Hall of Fame Member, winningest coach in high school basketball history for DeMatha Catholic High School

Miscellaneous

*Thomas R. Norris, retired United States Navy SEAL and awarded Medal of Honor
*Valerie Solanas, who attempted to assassinate Andy Warhol

Others

This list is intended to capture the notable benefactors and other people connected with the University of Maryland, College Park, but who are not famous alumni or faculty.

*Glenn L. Martin, benefactor. Institute of Technology is named for him. Aircraft pioneer.
*Theodore R. McKeldin. Main library is named for him. Politician, including being the Governor of Maryland.
*Philip Merrill, benefactor. College of Journalism is named for him. Media mogul.
*Susan Carroll Schwab, current U.S. Trade Representative, former dean of the School of Public Policy