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Graduate Schools /
University of Maryland, College Park |
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Lists of Distinguished People |
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Alumni
Famous University of Maryland Alumni include:
- Carmen Balthrop, soprano
and faculty member
- Gail Berman, chair of Fox
Network
- Bonnie Bernstein, network TV sports reporter
- Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
- Dennis Cardoza, U.S. Congressman
- Connie Chung, news
anchor-woman with CBS, NBC, and CNN
- Mark Ciardi, film producer (Miracle, The Rookie)
- Mary Stallings
Coleman, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan
- Larry David, actor, writer and producer ("Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Seinfeld")
- Gordon England, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security
- Boomer Esiason, former NFL quarterback turned television broadcaster.
- Charles Ferrerman,
mathematician and winner of the Fields Prize
- Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard
- Robert Forward, physicist who authored 200 research papers, and
science fiction writer known for 11 novels, including Dragon's Egg
- Joe Haldeman, science fiction writer, best known for The Forever War
- Herbert Hauptman, winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets
- Steny Hoyer, U.S. Congressman from Maryland, chief sponsor of the
Americans with Disabilities Act
- Jack Kelley, former USA
Today reporter
- William McCool, NASA astronaut, killed on Columbia mission STS-107
- Aaron McGruder, creator of comic strip The Boondocks
- Nguyen Si Binh, Vietnamese American Chairman of the People's Action Party of Vietnam
- Robert M. Parker, Jr., wine critic
- George Pelecanos, mystery writer
- Judith Resnik, Ph.D. 1977, NASA
astronaut, killed on Challenger mission STS-51-L
- David Simon, creator of Homicide: Life on the Street
- Kathleen Turner, Academy Award nominated movie actress, twice winner of the Golden Globe
- Scott Van Pelt, anchor for the television show SportsCenter on the ESPN network
- Randy White, former professional football player for the Dallas Cowboys,
Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
Faculty
Well-known faculty (past and present) include:
- Michael Brin,
mathematician
- David S. Broder, journalist, winner of Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
- Rachel Carson, ecologist and author of Silent Spring.
- Michael E. Fisher,
winner of Wolf Priz in physics
- Peter Miller, historian and
MacArthur Fellow.
- Serguei Novikov, mathematician, winner of Fields Medal in 1970.
- Michael Olmert, Emmy award winning filmmaker.
- Robert L. Park, physicist, anti-pseudoscience activist.
- Bill Phillips, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in
Physics.
- Georges Rey, philosopher.
- George Ritzer, sociologist.
- Roald Sagdeev, physicist,
former science advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev
- Julian Simon, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute.
- John S. Toll, physicist and well-known educational administrator.
- James A. Yorke, a founding father of chaos theory, winner of Japan Prize in 2003.
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Interesting Fact |
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When P.T. Barnum donated money to Tufts University, he did so on the condition that the school's mascot be named after his beloved elephant. The Tufts University mascot has been the "Jumbos" ever since. |
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Did you know... |
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The MyPlan.com Famous Alumni Directory has information on where hundreds of celebrities have gone to college. |
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