Gene Sullivan (April 21, 1931 – February 21, 2002) was an American basketball coach and collegiate athletic director.
Sullivan grew up on the Northwest Side of Chicago and attended the University of Notre Dame.
After serving with the United States Army in the Korean War, he became a boys' basketball coach at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, and guided them to three Chicago Catholic League titles between 1957 and 1967.
When Dee retired in 1971, however, the school hired Digger Phelps as head coach, and a disappointed Sullivan spent the next few years writing a basketball book and running a limousine company.
[2] Sullivan spent the next few years as head of recreational programs for the Chicago Park District.