Berkeley (surname)
Berkeley is a surname. It is also used, uncommonly, as a given name. The name is a habitation name from Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, itself derived from Old English beorce léah meaning birch lea. People with the name include:
- The Berkeley family of England
- Baron Berkeley
- Berkeley baronets
- Anne Berkeley, Baroness Berkeley, lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife
- Elizabeth Berkeley, Countess of Ormond, wife of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond and daughter of the above
- Anthony Berkeley Cox or Anthony Berkeley, writer
- Ballard Berkeley (1904–1988), English actor
- Busby Berkeley, film choreographer
- Edmund Berkeley, mathematician and computer scientist, founder of the Association for Computing Machinery and inventor of the first personal computer, Simon
- Elizabeth Berkeley, the wife of Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort
- Bishop George Berkeley (1685–1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher
- George Berkeley (1685–1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley, Anglo-Irish philosopher
- George Berkeley (died 1746) (1680–1746), MP for Dover 1720–34
- Grantley Berkeley (1800–1881), British politician, writer
- Humphrey Berkeley (1926–1994), British politician
- John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1602–1678), English soldier
- John Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1663–1697), English admiral
- Jon Berkeley, author and illustrator
- Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989), English composer
- Mary Berkeley (courtier), mistress of Henry VIII and mother of his son, John Perrot
- Matthew Berkeley (born 1987), English footballer
- Michael Berkeley (born 1948), British composer and broadcaster
- Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803–1889), English cryptogramist and clergyman
- Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt (1718–1770), Member of Parliament and governor of Virginia Colony
- Reginald Cheyne Berkeley (1890–1935), British Liberal Party Member of Parliament 1922–1924, then a playwright and scriptwriter
- Theresa Berkeley, 19th century London madam
- Sir William Berkeley (governor) (1605–1677), governor of Virginia
- Sir William Berkeley (Royal Navy officer) (1639–1666), English naval officer and admiral
- Vivian Berkeley, blind Canadian lawn bowling champion and 1996 paralympic silver medalist
- Xander Berkeley (born 1955), American actor
See also
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