List of University of Connecticut people

Academics

Arts and entertainment

• Pam Arciero – puppeteer^[3]
• Jennifer Barnhart – actor and puppeteer^[4][5]
• Michael Bergin – supermodel
• Beau Billingslea – voice actor and former UConn football player^[6]
• Tanisha Brito – former Miss Connecticut and Miss Georgia USA^[7]
• Jackie Burns – Broadway actress
• Sharon Butler — painter and publisher of NYC art journalTwo Coats of Paint
• Mary Cadorette – actor
• Judy Collins – musician
• Lui Collins – folk singer-songwriter^[8]
• Andrea Dromm – actress
• Justin Foley – drummer for Killswitch Engage
• Patrick Earl Hammie – contemporary figurative artist^[9]
• Ned Kahn – environmental artist and MacArthur Fellowship recipient^[10]
• Jeremy Leven – author, director, producer, and screenwriter^[11]
• Michelle Lombardo – model^[1]
• Donny Marshall – television sports broadcaster
• Forrest McClendon – actor^[12]
• Moby – singer-songwriter, musician^[1]
• Bobby Moynihan – actor and comedian^[1]
• Julius R. Nasso – film producer
• Peter Niedmann – composer
• Ron Palillo – actor^[1]
• Morris Pleasure – composer, musician
• Toni Press-Coffman – playwright
• Meg Ryan – actress^[1]
• Skip Schoolnik – film director and producer
• Brian Schulz – Emmy-winning producer and cinematographer
• Leslie Silva – actress
• Rick Sternbach – Emmy-winning illustrator and visual effects artist
• Austin Stowell – actor
• Tony Todd – actor
• Diane Tuft – photographer
• Tristan Couvares – reality TV star ^[13]
• Paige Turco – actress
• Robert Wendel – composer and conductor
• Brad Williams – puppeteer
• Dana Wilson – composer and jazz pianist
• Kim Zolciak – television personality^[1]

Authors, journalists and commentators

• Elizabeth Bear (Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky) – author
• Richard Bernstein – journalist and author
• Leslie Brody – non-fiction author
• P. W. Catanese – author
• Robert D. Kaplan – author and essayist
• Leigh Montville – sports journalist
• Ann Lane Petry – novelist^[1]
• Randall Pinkston – news correspondent^[14]
• Joel Rosenberg – science fiction author
• Lewis Turco – poet
• David Ushery – WNBC news anchor

Business and industry

• Elizabeth B. Amato – Executive Vice President: United Technologies
• Doug Bernstein – co-founder: Melissa & Doug
• Robert Diamond – former CEO: Barclays; co-founder: Atlas Mara Limited
• Clifford Grodd – former president and CEO: Paul Stuart^[15]
• George Harrison – former Senior Vice President of Marketing: Nintendo
• Bob Kaufman – co-founder: Bob's Discount Furniture^[1]
• Kathleen Murphy – President: Fidelity Personal Investing at Fidelity Investments
• Timothy Shriver – Chairman: Special Olympics; member of Kennedy Family^[1]
• William S. Simon – former Executive Vice-President: Walmart
• Randal A. Nardone – Co-founder, Principal: Fortress Investment Group
• Wade Binford - Former Vice President of Marketing, Philips Medical Systems, NA ^30

Diplomacy, government, law, and politics

Military

• Samuel Jaskilka – former United States Marine Corps General and Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
• Kenneth North – former United States Air Force Brigadier General
• Paul A. Yost, Jr. – former United States Coast Guard Commandant

Sports

Current

• Yaakov Bar-Shalom – Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Gina Barreca – humor author, contributor to The Hartford Courant, blogger for The Chronicle of Higher Education and Psychology Today, and professor of English Literature and feminist theory
• Jc Beall – Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
• Robert L. Birmingham – Professor of Law
• Ann Charters – Beat scholar who worked with Jack Kerouac to write his biography (Professor of English)
• Kenneth Fuchs – Grammy-nominated composer and former head of the Department of Music (School of Fine Arts)
• Johann Peter Gogarten – evolutionary biologist working on horizontal gene transfer
• Robert A. Gross – historian, author of The Minutemen and their World
• Wally Lamb – best-selling author (Associate Professor of Creative Writing; also a UConn graduate)
• Guozhen Lu - professor of mathematics; mathematician known for contributions to harmonic analysis, geometric analysis, and partial differential equations
• Richard Normand Langlois – economist (Professor of Economics)
• Earl MacDonald – Director of Jazz Studies, jazz composer, arranger, pianist, former musical director for Maynard Ferguson
• Ronald Mallett – researcher in time travel (Professor of Physics)
• Ross Miller – literary critic and biographer for Philip Roth and nephew of playwright Arthur Miller
• Ruth Millikan – philosopher of language (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy)
• Ravindra Nanda – Chair of the Division of Orthodontics at University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine
• Olu Oguibe – Professor of Painting and author of The Culture Game
• Sam Pickering – teacher portrayed by Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society (Professor of English)
• Joseph Renzulli – gifted education theorist
• Julian Rotter – psychologist who developed social learning theory and locus of control (Emeritus Professor of Psychology)
• Merrill Singer – Medical Anthropologist who was involved in the creation of critical medical anthropology and syndemics theory (Professor of Anthropology)
• Mark C. Urban – Biologist working on extinction risk from global warming and evolutionary ecology (Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

Former

Note: Years and official titles are given when possible.

• Ann Beattie – author
• Albert Francis Blakeslee – botanist (when it was still Connecticut Agricultural College)
• Taylor L. Booth – Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
• Francelia Butler – author and 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
• Victor Denenberg – developmental psychobiologist
• Richard Eberhart – poet
• James C. Faris – anthropologist (Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies)
• Brison D. Gooch – historian of 19th-century Europe, taught at UC prior to 1973
• 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)
• Everett Carll Ladd – political scientist, Director of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (1964–1999)
• Glenn J. Lesniak – U.S. Army Major General
• Alvin Liberman – speech scientist (Professor of Psychology)
• Ovide F. Pomerleau – psychologist (Professor of Psychiatry [Psychology], 1979–1985)
• Richard Popkin – philosophy historian
• Gideon Rodan – biochemist and osteopath (School of Dental Medicine, 1970 to 1985)
• Charles Schlueter – trumpeter
• Harold Seidman – political scientist and public administration expert (Professor of Political Science, 1971–1984)
• 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)
• Wayne Worcester – author and journalist (Professor of Journalism)
• Fujia Yang – physicist (Visiting Professor of Physics)
• Xiangzhong "Jerry" Yang – world animal cloning leader and director of the Center for Regenerative Biology (Professor of Animal Science)