List of University of Maryland, Baltimore County people

Academia

Arts

• Maurice Berger – research professor and chief curator of the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
• Jason Burik – Lego artist
• Irene Chan – artist and architect[1]
• Tim Finin – author, conference organizer; winner of 2009 IEEE Technical Achievement award
• Mantle Hood – ethnomusicologist
• Kevin Kallaugher – artist-in-residence, cartoonist for The Baltimore Sun, and recipient of the 2015 Herblock Prize[2]
• Kathy O'Dell – art historian, theorist, curator, arts advocate, author
• Stuart Saunders Smith – percussionist and composer
• William H. Thomas – researcher of geriatric medicine and elder care
• Stan Vanderbeek – experimental filmmaker
• Fred Worden – filmmaker involved in experimental cinema since the 1970s

Anthropology

• Robert A. Rubinstein – cultural anthropologist who bridges the areas of political and medical anthropology

Chemistry

• Ramachandra S. Hosmane – organic chemist with over 150 peer-reviewed research publications in international journals

English

• Gloria Oden – Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet

Gender and women's studies

• Anne Brodsky – Director of the Gender and Women's Studies Program
• Carole McCann – researches reproductive politics, cultural politics of gender, sexuality, race and science, and U.S. women's history

Geography and environmental systems

• Erle Ellis – ecologist studying human-environmental changes from local to global scales, including anthropogenic biomes and the Anthropocene.

History

• Kate Brown – 2009 Guggenheim Fellow

Health sciences

• Anthony M. Johnson – Deputy Director of the Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and the Environment project based at Princeton University
• Alan Sherman – chess team faculty advisor[3][4]
• William H. Thomas – Physician and professor at the UMBC Erickson School of Aging and creator of the Senior Emergency Department.

Information technology

• Tülay Adalı – Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering whose research interests include signal processing, machine learning, and bioinformatics
• Tim Finin – computer scientist focused on the applications of artificial intelligence to problems in information systems, has contributed to natural language processing, expert systems, the theory and applications of multiagent systems, the semantic web, and mobile computing[5][6][7]
• Anupam Joshi – leading expert in computer security who is an Oros Family Professor, chair of the CSEE Department, and director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity.
• Samuel J. Lomonaco Jr. – computer scientist and mathematician who specialises in quantum computing, algebraic coding theory, cryptography, numerical computation and symbolic computation
• Andrew Sears – computer scientist focused on issues related to human-computer interaction including mobile computing, speech recognition, information technology accessibility, and situationally-induced impairments and disabilities
• Alan Sherman – computer scientist whose research interests include security of voting systems, cryptology, information assurance, and discrete algorithms

Journalism

• Christopher Corbett – former news editor and reporter with the Associated Press; adviser for UMBC's student newspaper, The Retriever Weekly

Law

• Rabia Chaudry – attorney for Adnan Syed

Mathematics

• Manil Suri – mathematician and writer of a trilogy of novels all named for Hindu gods

Psychology

• Stephen E. Braude – parapsychologist and temporal logic researcher
• Ellen Handler Spitz – writer and researcher on psychology, children, and the arts

Physics

• Chen Yung-Jui – fellow of Optical Society of America and Photonics Society of Chinese Americans, senior member of IEEE and member of American Physical Society
• Anthony M. Johnson – ultra-fast nonlinear optics, Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America, former President of the Optical Society of America
• Valerie Thomas – scientist and inventor; invented the illusion transmitter, for which she received a patent in 1980

Political science

• Mary Pat Clarke – member of the Baltimore City Council since 1975
• Thomas Schaller – talk show host and political commentator
• Adam Yarmolinsky – academic, educator, author; political appointee who served in numerous capacities in the Kennedy, Johnson and Carter administrations

Alumni

Arts and entertainment

Johnathon Schaech at the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

• Dean Alexander – award-winning photographer based in Baltimore[8]
• Mario Armstrong – Emmy Award-winning radio and television talk show host, appears as a digital lifestyle expert on The Today Show, CNN and HLN
• Brian Dannelly – director of Saved! and the Showtime series Weeds
• Shari Elliker – talk show host and radio personality on WBAL (AM) radio
• Steven Fischer – two-time Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker
• Tony Harris – news anchor for Al Jazeera English and Discovery Communications
• Robert Mugge – documentary filmmaker focused primarily on music and musicians
• Jeremy Penn – artist, painter
• Johnathon Schaech – MTV Movie Awards-nominated actor, starred in Hollywood movies Prom Night, Quarantine, Takers, Road House 2: Last Call
• Hadieh Shafie – contemporary visual artist[9]
• Kathleen Turner – Academy Award-nominated actress, starred in Hollywood movies Body Heat, Romancing the Stone, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Matthew VanDyke – documentary filmmaker, revolutionary, and former journalist; gained notoriety during the Libyan Civil War as a foreign fighter on the side of the uprising and as a prisoner of war
• Sherry Vine – Project Runway star
• Peter K. Wood – professional magician and illusionist

Music

• Lafayette Gilchrist – jazz pianist[10]
• Scott Liss – singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and frontman of the Asbury Park, New Jersey-based band the Sixty-Six
• Andy Stack – one of the founding members of the band Wye Oak

Business

• Serge Mayifuila – owns congoglobal.com and is a member of Congolese NGOs Arche de L'Unite and APEMA
• Drew Westervelt – creator of Hex Performance; current NLL attack for the Colorado Mammoth; Major League Lacrosse attack for the Chesapeake Bayhawks[11][12] Associated Black Charities; former board member of the Baltimore City Public Schools[13]
• Siamak Baharloo - entrepreneur and e-commerce expert in the healthcare space

Chess

• Pascal Charbonneau – Canadian Grandmaster of chess, financial analyst
• Greg Shahade - chess International Master, founded the United States Chess League
• Tal Shaked – chess Grandmaster, best known for winning the World Junior Championship in 1997; now a software engineer for Google

Culinary

Duff Goldman, owner of Charm City Cakes and star of Ace of Cakes on Food Network

• Duff Goldman – chef, owner of Charm City Cakes, star of the show Ace of Cakes on Food Network; graduated with a degree in history
• Geof Manthorne – cake decorator, star of the show Ace of Cakes on Food Network

Literature

• Bassey Ikpi – spoken-word poet, writer, and mental health advocate

Education

• James P. Clements – 15th president of Clemson University[14] and 23rd president of West Virginia University

Government and politics

Mark Doms, nominated to be the Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs by President Barack Obama in 2012

• Samuel Ankama – Namibian politician, traditional leader, and educator
• Gail H. Bates – member of the Maryland House of Delegates[15]
• Jon S. Cardin – former member of the Maryland House of Delegates
• Ron Dillon, Jr. – politician and former Chairman of the County Council of Anne Arundel County, Maryland
• Mark Doms – Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs for the United States Department of Commerce
• Adrienne A. Jones – first African-American female to serve as Speaker Pro Tem in the Maryland House of Delegates
• Allan Kittleman – county executive of Howard County, Maryland, and former senate minority whip
• Ari Ne'eman – member of the National Council on Disability (Presidential-appointed position) and disability rights advocate
• Dan Patrick – radio talk show host, politician, and current Lieutenant Governor of Texas
• Victoria L. Schade – former member of the Maryland House of Delegates
• Paul W. Comfort – Head of the Maryland Transit Administration

Medicine

• Jerome Adams – Surgeon General of the United States August 2017–present
• Sylvia Trent-Adams – Surgeon General of the United States April 2017 – August 2017
• Diana West – leading lactation consultant, noted author in the field of breastfeeding
• Blair Grubb- Professor of Medicine and noted researcher on Postural Tachycardia Syndrome
• Kizzmekia Corbett - viral immunologist at the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIAID NIH) 2014–present

Technology

• Sean Carton – head of the Center for Digital Communication, Culture, and Commerce at the University of Baltimore; founder of the web development company Carton Donofrio[16]
• Tamara G. Kolda – applied mathematician and Distinguished Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Joseph Reagle – academic and author focused on technology and Wikipedia; Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University; faculty associate at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Baseball

Marla Streb came in first place at the Sea Otter Enduro 2014.

Kadeem Dacres currently plays for the Louisville City FC.

• Zach Clark – pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles
• Wayne Franklin – retired pitcher for the Houston Astros (2000–2001), Milwaukee Brewers (2002–2003), San Francisco Giants (2004), New York Yankees (2005), and Atlanta Braves (2006); bats and throws left-handed; manager of the Pittsburg Mettle of the Pacific Association of Professional Baseball Clubs
• Bob Mumma – UMBC's baseball coach[17]
• Jay Witasick – Vice President of Sports Management at the Warner Companies; professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball 1996–2007

Basketball

• Jairus Lyles – Point guard for Utah Jazz (2018 – current). Led men's basketball team in historic win over No. 1 seed Virginia in the 2018 NCAA Men's basketball tournament.

Equestrian

• Lawrence W. Jennings – Thoroughbred racehorse trainer

Mountain biking

• Marla Streb – professional mountain bike racer, two-time winner of the Single Speed World Championship

Lacrosse

• Dan Marohl – National Lacrosse League (NLL) forward for the Philadelphia Wings[18]
• Steve Marohl – NLL forward for the Baltimore Thunder and the Pittsburgh Crossefire; Major League Lacrosse (MLL) attack for the Baltimore Bayhawks[18]
• Brendan Mundorf – NLL forward for the New York Titans; MLL forward for the Denver Outlaws[19]
• Peet Poillon – Professional lacrosse player for the Chesapeake Bayhawks
• Jeff Ratcliffe – NLL forward for the New York Titans[20]
• Drew Westervelt – Professional lacrosse player for the Colorado Mammoth

Soccer

• Pete Caringi – professional soccer player, played for the Oklahoma City Energy and Baltimore Bohemians
• Kadeem Dacres – professional soccer player, played for Louisville City FC
• Kevin Gnatiko – professional soccer player, played for Crystal Palace Baltimore
• Levi Houapeu – professional soccer player, played for Rochester Rhinos
• Brian Rowland – Canadian professional indoor-soccer player; played for the Canada men's national soccer team
• Matt Watson – professional soccer player, played for the Chicago Fire Soccer Club
• Steve Zerhusen – goalkeeper for the North American Soccer League

Swimming

• Mehdi Addadi – swimmer in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
• Mohamed Hussein – swimmer in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro

Track and Field

• Cleopatra Borel – track & field athlete competing in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro

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16. Sean Carton
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