List of University of Maryland, Baltimore County people

This is a list of people associated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Anthropology

 * Robert A. Rubinstein – cultural anthropologist

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
 * Tim Finin – author, conference organizer
 * Mantle Hood – ethnomusicologist
 * Kevin Kallaugher – artist-in-residence, cartoonist for The Baltimore Sun
 * Kathy O'Dell – art historian
 * 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

Chemistry

 * Ramachandra S. Hosmane – organic chemist

Education

 * Mavis Sanders, professor of education; director of Sherman Center for Early Learning in Urban Communities 2017–2021

Engineering

 * Keith Bowman – materials scientist and dean of the UMBC College of Engineering and Information Technology

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

Health sciences

 * Anthony M. Johnson – Deputy Director of the Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and the Environment project
 * Alan Sherman – chess team faculty advisor
 * William H. Thomas – physician and professor at the UMBC Erickson School of Aging; creator of the Senior Emergency Department

History

 * Kate Brown – 2009 Guggenheim Fellow
 * Warren I. Cohen – diplomatic historian, sinologist, former president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

Information technology

 * Tülay Adalı – Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
 * Tim Finin – computer scientist working on AI, knowledge representation, and reasoning
 * Anupam Joshi – expert in computer security
 * Samuel J. Lomonaco Jr. – computer scientist and mathematician
 * Andrew Sears – computer scientist focused on issues related to human-computer interaction
 * Houbing Song - Information Systems professor focused on cyber-physical systems, AI, and machine learning
 * Alan Sherman – computer scientist

Journalism

 * Christopher Corbett – former news editor and reporter with the Associated Press

Law

 * Rabia Chaudry – attorney for Adnan Syed

Mathematics

 * Manil Suri – mathematician and writer of a trilogy of novels

Physics

 * Chen Yung-Jui – fellow of Optical Society of America and Photonics Society of Chinese Americans
 * Sebastian Deffner – quantum thermodynamics
 * Anthony M. Johnson – ultra-fast nonlinear optics
 * Valerie Thomas – scientist and inventor

Political science

 * Mary Pat Clarke – member of the Baltimore City Council
 * Thomas Schaller – talk show host and political commentator
 * Adam Yarmolinsky – academic, educator, author

Psychology

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

Arts and entertainment

 * Dean Alexander – photographer based in Baltimore
 * Mario Armstrong – radio and television talk show host
 * Brian Dannelly – director of Saved! and the series Weeds
 * Shari Elliker – talk show host and radio personality
 * Steven Fischer – filmmaker
 * Stavros Halkias – stand-up comedian, podcaster, and co-creator of the Cum Town podcast
 * Tony Harris – news anchor for Al Jazeera English and Discovery Communications
 * Robert Mugge – documentary filmmaker
 * Jeremy Penn – artist, painter
 * Johnathon Schaech – actor
 * Scott Seiss – actor, comedian and TikToker
 * Hadieh Shafie – contemporary visual artist
 * Brian Shannon – graphic designer
 * Kathleen Turner – Academy Award-nominated actress
 * Matthew VanDyke – documentary filmmaker, revolutionary, and former journalist
 * Sherry Vine – Project Runway star
 * Peter K. Wood – professional magician and illusionist

Business

 * Drew Westervelt – creator of Hex Performance; NLL attack for the Colorado Mammoth; Major League Lacrosse attack for the Chesapeake Bayhawks Associated Black Charities; former board member of the Baltimore City Public Schools

Chess

 * Pascal Charbonneau – Canadian Grandmaster
 * Greg Shahade – chess International Master, founded the United States Chess League
 * Tal Shaked – chess Grandmaster

Culinary

 * Duff Goldman – chef, owner of Charm City Cakes, star of the show Ace of Cakes
 * Geof Manthorne – cake decorator, star of the show Ace of Cakes

Education

 * James P. Clements – 15th president of Clemson University and 23rd president of West Virginia University

Government and politics

 * Samuel Ankama – Namibian politician, traditional leader, and educator
 * Gail H. Bates – member of the Maryland House of Delegates
 * Jon S. Cardin – former member of the Maryland House of Delegates
 * Paul W. Comfort – Head of the Maryland Transit Administration
 * Thomas E. Dewberry (born 1951) – judge and 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 – Lieutenant Governor of Texas
 * Victoria L. Schade – former member of the Maryland House of Delegates

Literature

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

Medicine

 * Jerome Adams – Surgeon General of the United States
 * Kizzmekia Corbett – viral immunologist at the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
 * Blair Grubb – Professor of Medicine and researcher on Postural Tachycardia Syndrome
 * Sylvia Trent-Adams – Surgeon General of the United States
 * Diana West – author and lactation consultant

Music

 * Lafayette Gilchrist – jazz pianist
 * Andy Stack – founding member of the band Wye Oak

Social sciences

 * Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman – writer, activist, economist; co-founder of The Sadie Collective and Black Birders Week

Baseball



 * 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)
 * Bob Mumma – UMBC's baseball coach
 * Jay Witasick – professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball 1996–2007

Basketball

 * Jairus Lyles – point guard for Utah Jazz (2018)

Equestrian

 * Lawrence W. Jennings – Thoroughbred racehorse trainer

Lacrosse

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

Mountain biking

 * Marla Streb – professional mountain bike racer

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
 * Sammy Kahsai – professional soccer player, played as a midfielder for Maryland Bobcats FC
 * 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

Track and field

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

Technology

 * Sean Carton – head of the Center for Digital Communication, Culture, and Commerce at the University of Baltimore
 * Tamara G. Kolda – applied mathematician and Distinguished Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories
 * Joseph Reagle – academic and author focused on technology and Wikipedia
 * Ralph Semmel – computer scientist and the eighth director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory