- Gary Williams
Gary B. Williams (born March 4, 1945 in Collingswood, New Jersey, United States) is the current head coach of the University of Maryland's Men's basketball team.
- Ron Walters
Ron Walters was born in Wichita, Kansas, on July 20, 1938. Walters is known throughout the world for his knowledge of African American politics and leadership and his writing. He is currently director of the African American Leadership Institute and Scholar Practitioner Program, Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, and respected professor in government and politics at the University of Maryland.
- Michael A'Hearn
Michael F. A'Hearn is an astronomer and professor at the University of Maryland who was the principal investigator for the NASA Deep Impact mission. He received his bachelors in science at Boston College and his Ph.D in Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin. He has aided in the development of systems for surveying abundances in coments as well as techniques for determining the sizes of cometary nuclei which uses opitical and infared measurments.
- Ralph Friedgen
Ralph Harry Friedgen (b. April 4, 1947 in Harrison, New York) has been the head coach of the University of Maryland Terrapins football team since the 2001 season.
- Len Bias
Leonard Kevin Bias (November 18, 1963 - June 19, 1986) was an American college basketball player who suffered a fatal cardiac arrhythmia that resulted from a cocaine overdose less than 48 hours after being selected by the Boston Celtics in the 1986 NBA Draft. Bias was the second player selected in the draft, after Brad Daugherty of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Bias was known to his family, friends, teammates, …
- Tom Davis
Dr. Thomas "Dr. Tom" Davis (born December 3, 1938)is a former college men's basketball coach. The Ridgeway, Wisconsin native was the head coach at LaFayette College, Boston College, Stanford University, the University of Iowa, and Drake University from 1971-2007. He earned his bachelor's degree from University of Wisconsin-Platteville, master's degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison and his doctorate from University of Maryland.
- Juan Dixon
Juan Dixon (born October 9 1978 in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.) is an American professional basketball player currently with the NBA's Toronto Raptors. Dixon rebounded from a traumatic childhood to make the NBA. Both his mother, Juanita, and father, Phil, were heroin addicts, and both died of AIDS-related illnesses before Dixon was 17 years old. Dixon was raised by his grandparents Roberta and Warnick Graves in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Jeong H. Kim
Dr. Jeong H. Kim is a Korean-American electrical engineer and administrator who, since 2005, has served as President of Bell Labs. Jeong Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea. He came to the U.S. from Korea with his father and step-mother at the age of 14. He began school in Anne Arundel County, Maryland with no knowledge of English. At sixteen, he left home and supported himself with odd jobs while he completed high school.
- Nariman Farvardin
Nariman Farvardin became dean of the A. James Clark University in 2001, after serving five years as chair of the department of electrical and computer engineering. He joined the university in January 1984, as a professor of electrical and computer engineering with a joint appointment with the Institute of System Research. Dean Farvardin was also a visiting professor at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France, during 1990-91.
- Steve Blake
Steven Hanson Blake (born February 26, 1980 in Hollywood, Florida) is an American professional basketball player at the point guard position. Currently, he plays for the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers; previously he played for the Washington Wizards, Portland Trail Blazers, Milwaukee Bucks and Denver Nuggets.
- Brenda Frese
Brenda Frese is the current women's basketball team head coach at the University of Maryland. During her four years as head coach, she reversed the team's losing record and guided it to win the 2006 Women's National Championship.
- Aaron McGruder
Aaron McGruder (born May 29, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American cartoonist best known for writing and drawing "The Boondocks", a Universal Press Syndicate comic strip about two young African-American brothers from inner-city Chicago now living with their grandfather in a sedate suburb. Through the leftist Huey (named after Huey P. Newton) and his younger brother Riley, a gangsta-wannabe, …
- Vernon Davis
Vernon Leonard Davis (born January 31, 1984 in Washington, D.C.) is an NFL tight end for the San Francisco 49ers. Vernon is nicknamed "The Duke", a nickname shared with his father. Vernon went to college at University of Maryland which he chose over Florida, Purdue, Miami, and Virginia.
- Joe Smith
Joseph Leynard Smith (born July 26 1975, in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls in the NBA. His height is listed as 6'10". Smith attended Maury High School and played at the University of Maryland. He was selected by the Golden State Warriors as the first overall pick of the 1995 NBA Draft. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 1995-96 season. Smith is a power forward.
- Ira Berlin
Ira Berlin is an American historian, a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, and a past President of the Organization of American Historians. Berlin is the author of such books as "Many Thousands Gone" and "Generations of Captivity". He has written extensively on American history and the larger Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Berlin has focused in particular on the history of slavery.
- Kevin Plank
Kevin A. Plank (born August 13, 1972 in Kensington, Maryland) is an American entrepreneur and businessperson. In 1996 he founded Under Armour, a sports apparel brand. A football player with the University of Maryland who eventually became special teams captain for the Terrapins, Plank thought up the idea because he "got tired of having to change out of the sweat-soaked T-shirts he wore under his jersey, …
- Michael Williams
Michael Williams (born 6 July 1947) is currently the Kreiger-Eisenhower Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and chair of the department. Williams is a noted epistemologist, and has significant interest in philosophy of language, Wittgenstein, and the history of modern philosophy. He is particularly well known for his work on philosophical skepticism. In his books (1992) and (2001), Williams performs what he calls a "theoretical diagnosis" of skepticism, …
- Lefty Driesell
Charles "Lefty" Driesell (born December 25, 1931) is a retired college basketball coach. Driesell grew up in Norfolk, Virginia, where he attended Granby High School. The famous left-hander attended Duke University from 1950 to 1954, playing basketball under coach Harold Bradley. He began his coaching career as a junior varsity coach at Granby High School in Norfolk in 1954, and then took over as varsity coach the next year.
- John S. Toll
John S. Toll is a physicist and well-known educational administrator. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Yale in 1944, after which he served in the Navy in World War II. He finished his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton in 1952. He then moved to the University of Maryland, where he became Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy in 1953. During his tenure as Chair, he was responsible for a major increase in size and quality of the department.
- Chris Wilcox
Chris Ray Wilcox (born September 3 1982 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Seattle SuperSonics of the NBA. He previously played for the Los Angeles Clippers and collegiately at the University of Maryland, where he helped the Terrapins win their first NCAA championship. While at Whiteville High School in Whiteville, North Carolina, he led the basketball team to the 2A State Championship in 1999.
- Anthony Johnson
Anthony Mark Johnson (born October 2, 1974 in Charleston, South Carolina) is an American professional basketball player, currently with the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA. Johnson is a 6'3" (1.91 m) point guard. After leading Stall High School to the South Carolina AA football championship, he received a basketball scholarship at the College of Charleston, where his older brother Stephen was a standout years earlier.
- Sasho Cirovski
Sasho Cirovski (1954-) is a United States soccer coach of Ethnic Macedonian origins, who led his University of Maryland team to the NCAA championship in 2005.
- Gene Roberts
Gene Roberts is an American journalist and instructor in journalism. Roberts was executive editor of "The Philadelphia Inquirer" from 1973 to 1991 and managing editor of "The New York Times" from 1994 to 1997. Although famously a man of few spoken words, Roberts is widely viewed by his peers as among the most influential of late 20th Century journalists.
- Jenny Preece
Jenny Preece is the Dean of the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, as of 2006. She researches online communities and is known for her work on what makes such a community successful, and how usability factors interact with socialibility in online communities.
- Jeffrey Herf
Dr. Jeffrey Herf is a professor of history at the University of Maryland. His specialty is in 20th century European intellectual history, especially in Germany. Herf received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1980. Before joining the faculty at the University of Maryland, he taught at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He has published essays in "The New Republic", "Die Zeit", "Partisan Review" and elsewhere.
- Keith Booth
Keith Booth (born October 9, 1974 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a former professional basketball player. Booth played his college basketball at the University of Maryland from 1994 to 1997. Heavily recruited by Coach Gary Williams, he was the first player from Baltimore City in many years to play for Maryland. After the resignation of Williams' predecessor, Bob Wade, due to NCAA violations, …
- Kent Norman
Kent L. Norman is an American cognitive psychologist and an expert on Computer Rage. He graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1969 and earned a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Iowa in 1973. In 1983, Norman co-founded the Laboratory for Automation Psychology and Decision Processes (LAPDP) as an affiliate of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) and the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).
- Thomas R. Holtz Jr.
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. is a vertebrate paleontologist and senior lecturer at the University of Maryland's Department of Geology. He has published extensively on the phylogeny, morphology, ecomorphology, and locomotion of terrestrial predators, especially on tyrannosaurids and other theropod dinosaurs. He is the author or co-author of "Saurischia", "Basal Tetanurae", and "Tyrannosauroidea" in the second edition of "The Dinosauria", …
- Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik (born July 3, 1945) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (B.S., 1967), Harvard University (M.A., 1969) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1972). He joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut in 1972, and took up his present post at University of Maryland in 2003. He has been a prominent contributor to the syntax literature within a Chomskian framework, …
- Lee Jones
Lee Jones is the author of "Winning Low-Limit Hold 'em" and a contributor of poker articles to Card Player Magazine. Jones earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Duke University in North Carolina in 1978, and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1983. From October 2003 to April 2007, Jones worked as the cardroom manager of the PokerStars online poker cardroom.
- Norbert Hornstein
Norbert Hornstein is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. Working within a generative framework, he has worked on the nature of logical form, and has recently proposed that control should, like raising, be analyzed in terms of movement. Hornstein graduated from McGill University in 1975 and took his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1979. He has been at the University of Maryland since 1986.
- Sam Hollenbach
Sam Hollenbach (born September 9, 1983 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania) is an American football quarterback with the Washington Redskins. In high school, he played under his father, Jeff, a former Illinois quarterback, at Pennridge High School. He played collegiately at the University of Maryland. He signed a contract with the Redskins as an undrafted rookie free agent on April 30, 2007. He was released by the redskins on Monday, July 16, 2007.
- Marvin Mandel
Marvin Mandel (b. April 19, 1920), a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 56<sup>th</sup> Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1969 to 1979. He was Maryland's first, and to date only Jewish governor. Mandel was born in Baltimore, Maryland and attended the Baltimore City Public Schools. He also attended Baltimore City College before receiving his law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law.
- Mark Turner
Mark Turner is a cognitive scientist, linguist, and author. He is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. He was previously Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Turner has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, …
- Tom Brown
Thomas William Brown (born December 12, 1940 in Laureldale, Pennsylvania) was an American football safety in the NFL. He started for the Green Bay Packers in the first two Super Bowls and later played for the Washington Redskins. He played college football for the University of Maryland.
- Chris McCray
Chris McCray (born May 27 1984 in Capitol Heights, Maryland) is an American professional basketball player formerly of the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA. A 6' 5", 192-lb guard, he attended and played basketball collegiately at the University of Maryland, but dismissed from the team after he was found academically ineligible. He was not selected in the 2006 NBA Draft, but signed a free agent contract with the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks in September 2006, …
- Azriel Rosenfeld
Professor Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld (February 19, 1931 - February 22, 2004) was an American Research Professor, a Distinguished University Professor, and Director of the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, where he also held affiliate professorships in the Departments of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Psychology. He held a Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University (1957), …
- Randy White
Randy Lee White (born January 15, 1953 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was an American football player. He attended the University of Maryland from 1971-1974, and played professionally for the Dallas Cowboys from 1975-1988. He is a member of both the college and professional football halls of fame.
- Nik Caner-Medley
Nik Caner-Medley (born October 20th, 1983 in Portland, Maine) is a professional basketball player for the Artland Dragons of Germany. He attended the University of Maryland and Deering High School, where he was named Maine Gatorade Player of the Year, and Mr. Basketball as a senior. He averaged an astounding 35.6 PPG average as a senior and 26.8 PPG as a junior, both good for first in the state
- Gina Kolata
Gina Kolata (born in Baltimore, Maryland, February 25, 1948) is a science journalist for "The New York Times". Her sister was the environmental activist Judi Bari. Kolata studied molecular biology as a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland. She started working for "The New York Times" in the 1980s.