- Geno Auriemma
Geno Auriemma (born March 23, 1954 in Montella, Italy) is an Italian-American basketball coach, best known as the head coach of the University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team, in which capacity Auriemma has led the Huskies to five National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I national championships (in 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2004) and has garnered five national Naismith College Coach of the Year awards.
- Jim Calhoun
The beginning of what has become one of college basketball's greatest coaching achievements-transforming the University of Connecticut into one of the nation's elite programs-was launched in May of 1986 when Jim Calhoun was named head coach. ... Jim Calhoun 's overall career record for national postseason tournament competition is a remarkable 51-20 (39-16 in NCAA play, 12-4 in NIT play).
- Sue Bird
Suzanne Brigit Bird (born October 16, 1980) is a professional women's basketball player. A high school star from Christ The King RHS, she went on to become a key part of the national champion University of Connecticut team, the first player to be picked in the 2002 WNBA Draft and an Olympic gold medalist. She currently plays for the Seattle Storm in the WNBA. She is not related to NBA legend Larry Bird. Bird was born in Syosset, New York.
- Emeka Okafor
Chukwuemeka Ndubuisi Okafor, abbreviated as Emeka Okafor (born September 28, 1982, in Houston, Texas), is an American professional basketball player playing at power forward and center for the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association. Prior to the NBA, Okafor attended Houston's Bellaire High School, and the University of Connecticut.
- Ben Gordon
Benjamin (Ben) Gordon (born April 4, 1983 in London, England, UK) is an American National Basketball Association player for the Chicago Bulls. He played shooting guard for the University of Connecticut in college and grew up in Mount Vernon, New York.
- Rebecca Lobo
Rebecca Rose Lobo (born October 6, 1973 in Southwick, Massachusetts) is a television basketball analyst and a former player in the professional Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997 to 2003. Lobo, at 6' 4", played the center position for much of her career.
- Marcus Williams
Marcus Darrell Williams (born December 3, 1985 in Los Angeles, California) is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's New Jersey Nets. In the 2006 NBA Draft, he was the 22nd player selected in the 1st round. Prior to the NBA, he played for the Connecticut Huskies. During his college career, he was known for his tremendous court vision and excellent passing.
- Maya Moore
Maya Moore (born June 11, 1989) is an American basketball forward for Collins Hill High School in Suwanee, Georgia, and the winner of the 2006 Naismith Prep Player of the Year. Moore, a native of Jefferson City, Missouri, had her first exposure to basketball at the age of three. Her mother mounted a hoop on the back door of their apartment to prevent her from running around the apartment.
- Hasheem Thabeet
Hashim Thabit Manka (born February 16, 1987 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) is a Tanzanian college basketball player for the University of Connecticut Huskies. He is known as Hasheem Thabeet, as his name was Americanized from Swahili. At 7'3" and 265 lbs, Thabeet is the tallest player to ever play for the Huskies..
- Swin Cash
Swintayla Marie Cash (born on September 22, 1979), better known as Swin Cash is an American Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) player who plays for the Detroit Shock. A prolific scorer and rebounder, as well as a capable ball handler and defender, she helped lead the University of Connecticut women's basketball team to national titles in 2000 and 2002. In her second WNBA season, she led the Detroit Shock to their first ever WNBA title.
- Rudy Gay
Rudy Carlton Gay, Jr. (born August 17, 1986) in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American professional basketball player currently with the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies. Gay played collegiately at the University of Connecticut.
- Barbara Turner
Barbara Turner (born June 8 1984) is a professional basketball player in the WNBA, currently playing for the Seattle Storm. Turner attended college at the University of Connecticut and graduated in 2006. Following her collegiate career, she was selected 11th overall in the 2006 WNBA Draft by the Seattle Storm.
- Ronald Mallett
Ronald L. Mallett, Ph.D. is a professor of physics in the University of Connecticut. Mallett was born in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, on March 3, 1945. When he was 10 years old, his father died, at age 33, of a massive heart attack. Inspired by a Classics Illustrated comic book version of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, Mallett resolved to travel back in time to save his father, which became his life's dream. In 1973, he received a Ph.D. from Penn State University.
- Hilton Armstrong
Hilton Armstrong, Jr. (born November 23, 1984 in Peekskill, New York) is a former forward/center for the University of Connecticut Huskies. He was selected by the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets (who have since dropped the Oklahoma City label) with the 12th overall pick in the 2006 NBA Draft. He is known for his shotblocking and athleticism for a big man.
- Rashad Anderson
Rashad Shaheed Anderson (born November 9 1983 in Lakeland, Florida) is an American professional basketball player who plays for Egaleo AO in Greece. He previously played guard/forward for the UConn Huskies.
- Dan Orlovsky
Dan Orlovsky (born August 18, 1983 in Shelton, Connecticut) is a quarterback for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. The Lions drafted Orlovsky in the fifth round (145th overall) of the 2005 NFL Draft after his successful career at the University of Connecticut.
- Peter Turchin
Peter Turchin is a specialist in population dynamics and mathematical modeling of historical dynamics. He was born in Moscow in 1958. In 1975 he entered the School of Biology of the Moscow State University and studied there till 1977 when his father, a Soviet dissident scientist Valentin Turchin, was extradicted from the USSR. He got his B.A. in Biology from the New York University (cum laude) in 1980. He got his Ph.D. in Zoology in 1985 from Duke University.
- Chris Smith
Chris G. Smith (born May 17 1970, in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an American former professional basketball player. He is the University of Connecticut Huskies's career leader in scoring with 2,145 points. He is the top Husky scorer in Big East history with 1,140 points, leader in career three-point field goals with 242 and one of only two UConn players to score at least 500 points in three different seasons. Smith is also a member of the UConn Basketball All Century Team.
- Donyell Marshall
Donyell Lamar Marshall (born May 18, 1973 in Reading, Pennsylvania USA) is an American professional basketball player currently with the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers. His great uncle is Hall-of-Fame American football player Lenny Moore. A graduate of Reading High in Reading, Pennsylvania, the 6'9", 230 lb. forward was selected after his junior year at the University of Connecticut by the Minnesota Timberwolves as the fourth overall pick of the 1994 NBA Draft.
- Kevin Ollie
Kevin Jermaine Ollie (born December 27 1972, in Dallas, Texas) is an American professional basketball player currently with the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers. Prior to his professional career, Ollie starred at the University of Connecticut. After his college playing days were over, he joined the Connecticut Pride of the Continental Basketball Association. After that, he has spent 7 years in the NBA with 10 different teams.
- 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, …
- Gina Barreca
Gina Barreca is a humorist and professor of literature and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut. Author of five books and editor of fourteen others, Dr. Barreca has also published articles in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Chicago Tribune, The Harvard Business Review, The Hartford Courant, The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, The Orlando Sentinel, Ms. Magazine, The Common Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Cosmopolitan.
- Terry Caulley
Terry Caulley (born June 22, 1984) is an American Football running back. He played college football at Connecticut. Despite sitting out the 2003 and 2004 seasons with a knee injury, he has racked up 2,928 rushing yards including 29 touchdowns. In 2003, Caulley had a breakout game against the University at Buffalo, rushing for 236 yards. Despite having a successful college career, he did not get drafted in the 2007 NFL Draft.
- Jennifer Rizzotti
Jennifer Rizzotti (born May 15 1974 in White Plains, New York) is a former collegiate and professional basketball player. From 1992-1996, she starred on the women's basketball team at the University of Connecticut. She also played for the New England Blizzard of the now defunct American Basketball League. She is currently in her seventh season as the head women's basketball coach at the University of Hartford, …
- Khalid El-Amin
Khalid El-Amin (born April 25, 1979 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American professional basketball player. He was a member of the 1999 UConn men's basketball team that won the NCAA championship. He is originally from Minnesota where he played for North High School in Minneapolis. In 2000, he was selected in the 2nd round by the Chicago Bulls of the NBA Draft and played 50 games for them, averaging 6.3 points and 2.9 assists per game.
- Svetlana Abrosimova
Svetlana Abrosimova (born July 9 1980) is a Russian female basketball player who has played in college, the Olympics, and in professional leagues. She currently plays for the Minnesota Lynx in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She is usually called by her nickname, "Sveta". Abrosimova was born Svetlana Olegovna Abrosimova on July 9, 1980 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to Oleg and Ludmilla Abrosimov.
- Massimo Pigliucci
As professor of ecology and evolution, he does research and teaching at SUNY-Stony Brook when he is not pursuing his interests in philosophy of science at the same institution.
- George Blaney
George Blaney (born November 12, 1939 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American basketball coach. After playing basketball at the College of the Holy Cross during the late 1950s and early 1960s, the 6'1" Blaney spent one season with the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association. From 1972 to 1994, he served as head coach of Holy Cross, compiling a 357-276 overall record. He currently works as an assistant coach for the University of Connecticut.
- Karl Hobbs
Karl Hobbs is the head coach of the George Washington University Colonials men's basketball team. He has won two Atlantic 10 Conference championships, and has led the Colonials to three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. Hobbs is known for his high-energy, frenetic coaching style. He often spends entire games pacing up and down the sidelines yelling and whistling to his players.
- Jake Voskuhl
Robert Jacob Voskuhl (born November 1 1977 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a professional basketball player, currently playing center for the Charlotte Bobcats. Voskuhl attended the University of Connecticut from 1996-2000, where he was the starting center on the school's 1999 NCAA National Championship team. The squad also featured current NBA star Richard "Rip" Hamilton. He became a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity while an undergraduate.
- Michael Turvey
Michael T. Turvey is the Board of Trustees' Distinguished Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Connecticut and a Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut. He is best known for his pioneering work in ecological psychology and locomotion|action. He is the founder of the "Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action". His research spans a number of areas including: dynamic touch and haptics, …
- Scott Burrell
Scott David Burrell (born January 12, 1971 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American professional basketball player who won an NBA Championship with the Chicago Bulls in 1998. He was also the first American athlete to be a first round draft-pick of two major sporting organizations (the NBA and MLB). A 6'7" multi-sport star at Hamden High School in Connecticut, Burrell was drafted by baseball's Seattle Mariners during his senior year.
- Kenneth Fuchs
Kenneth Fuchs (1956 -) is an American composer, conductor and music administrator. He is currently Head of the Department of Music and Professor of Composition at the University of Connecticut. Fuchs received his Bachelor of Music degree (1979) in composition from the University of Miami and his Master of Music (1983) and Doctor of Musical Arts (1988) degrees from the Juilliard School in New York City.
- Travis Knight
Travis Knight (born September 13 1974 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American professional basketball player who was selected by the Chicago Bulls in the 1st round (29th overall) of the 1996 NBA Draft. A 7'0" center from the University of Connecticut, Knight played in 7 NBA seasons from 1996 to 2003. He played for the Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics and New York Knicks. In his NBA career, Knight played in 371 games and scored a total of 1,276 points.
- Tate George
Tate Claude George (born May 29 1968 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the New Jersey Nets with the 22nd overall pick in the 1990 NBA Draft from the University of Connecticut. He played a total of four years in the NBA for the Nets and Milwaukee Bucks averaging 4.2 points per game in his career. George is best remembered for his miraculous buzzer-beating shot to defeat Clemson in the 1990 NCAA Tournament.
- Jeff Green
Jeffrey Lynn Green (born August 28, 1986) is an American professional men's basketball player, formerly in the NCAA. He attended Georgetown University where he was in his junior year, before deciding to enter the 2007 NBA Draft. Green was selected fifth overall by the Boston Celtics, who then traded his rights to to the Seattle SuperSonics.
- Deon Anderson
Deon Anderson is a fullback for the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL. He attended the University of Connecticut and the Avon Old Farms School. He was drafted in the 6th round of the 2007 NFL Draft.
- Ruth Millikan
Ruth Garrett Millikan (1933-) is a well-known American philosopher of biology, psychology, and language. She was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize and gave the "Jean Nicod Lectures" in Paris in 2002. Millikan earned her PhD from Yale University where she studied under Wilfrid Sellars. She and Paul Churchland are often considered leading proponents of "right wing" (i.e., individualistic) Sellarsianism.
- Donny Marshall
Donny E. Marshall (born July 17 1972, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers the 2nd round (39th overall) of the 1995 National Basketball Association Draft. A 6'7" small forward from the University of Connecticut (after graduating from Federal Way High School in Federal Way, WA), Marshall played in five NBA seasons.
- Kelly Schumacher
Kelly Schumacher is an American professional basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for the Phoenix Mercury. After her junior season at the University of Connecticut, she competed with USA Basketball as a member of the gold medal-winning Jones Cup Team that compiled a 4-0 record in Taipei. In her professional career she plays in Spanish League in Arranz Burgos, Perfumerías Avenida and now in UB F.C.Barcelona