Bill Self

Billy Eugene Self Jr. is an American basketball coach. He is the head men's basketball coach at the University of Kansas, a position he has held since 2003. During his 20 seasons as head coach, he has led the Jayhawks to 17 Big 12 regular season championships, including an NCAA record 14 consecutive Big 12 regular season championships, some of which were shared (2005–2018). He has also led the Jayhawks to four NCAA Final Four appearances, the 2008 NCAA championship and 2022 NCAA championship. Self was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017. At the end of the 2021–22 season, Self had the 18th most wins among Division I coaches in NCAA history and 4th among active head coaches. He is the second-winningest coach in Kansas history, behind only Hall of Famer Phog Allen and is the only coach in Kansas history to lead Kansas to multiple NCAA Tournament National Championships.

27 December 1962

Born on the same birth date (27 December 1962): John Kampfner • Mark Few • Sherri Steinhauer

Born on the same birth day (27 December): Bill Goldberg • David Shepherd (umpire) • Deuce McAllister • Donald Nally • Maurice De Waele • Ok Taec-yeon • Pascale Dorcelus

Born in the same month (December 1962): Alain Blondel • Ben Browder • Ben Watt • Berry van Aerle • Felicity Huffman • Fred Rutten • Galina Malchugina • Imad Mughniyeh • Janine Turner • Jeffrey Donaldson • John Kampfner • John de Wolf • Mike Golic • Nivek Ogre • Nixon Kiprotich • Rex Ryan • Richard Bacon (politician) • Simon Hodgkinson • Tammy Jackson • Tyrone Corbin • Vinnie Dombroski