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.