Gary Cunningham (born c. 1940/1941) is an American former basketball player, coach, and college athletics administrator.
He left to become an associate professor and athletic director at Western Oregon State College, citing a love of administration more than coaching.
In 1965 he was the coach of the UCLA freshman team that featured high school All-Americans Lew Alcindor and Lucius Allen.
The freshmen defeated the UCLA varsity, rated number-one in the nation, by a score of 75 to 60 in the first game ever played at Pauley Pavilion.
Cunningham retired in the summer of 2008 after 13 years as the athletic director at the University of California, Santa Barbara.