List of people from Berkeley, California
This is a list of notable people that were born in, or who have lived in, Berkeley, California. Located in the San Francisco Bay area near Oakland, it includes people who attended Berkeley High School, but not people that attended University of California, Berkeley unless they achieved notoriety while at UC Berkeley, and were also residents of the city at the time.
- John Coolidge Adams – composer
- Samuel Carl Adams – composer
- Ben Affleck – actor, Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director
- Eric Allman – computer programmer, author of sendmail
- Mai Kitazawa Arbegast – landscape architect[1]
- Billie Joe Armstrong – guitarist and vocalist of punk rock band Green Day
- Tim Armstrong – member of punk rock bands Rancid, Transplants and Operation Ivy
- Anastasia Ashman – writer and producer
- Craig Barron – filmmaker and visual effects supervisor
- Lowell Bergman – television journalist, former producer of 60 Minutes
- Elmer Bischoff – painter
- Harrod Blank – documentary filmmaker and son of Les Blank
- Les Blank – documentary filmmaker
- Emit Bloch – songwriter, guitarist, journalist
- Bruce Bolt – seismologist
- Richard Bozulich – journalist, author, publisher, go expert
- Marion Zimmer Bradley – author
- Lenni Brenner – author, lecturer
- Eric John Brock – historian
- David Brower – environmentalist
- Peter Buck – guitarist for R.E.M.
- John Buckman – internet entrepreneur
- Fritjof Capra – author of The Tao of Physics
- Emilio Castillo – musician
- Michael Chabon – Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Sheldon Warren Cheney – author and art critic
- Alan Chin – artist
- Frank Chin – author
- John Cipollina – guitarist, Quicksilver Messenger Service
- Eldridge Cleaver – political activist
- Daniel Clowes – cartoonist
- Aaron Cometbus – documentarian of the Punk rock music world
- Tre Cool – drummer for punk rock band Green Day
- Francis Ford Coppola – Academy Award-winning producer, director and screenwriter; vintner
- A. Scott Crossfield – aviator
- Robert Crumb – cartoonist
- Robert Culp – actor
- Jay DeFeo – painter
- Rosebud Denovo, People's Park activist killed by police
- Philip K. Dick – author
- Richard Diebenkorn – painter
- Mike Dirnt – bassist of Green Day
- Rockmond Dunbar – actor
- Robert Duncan – poet
- Adam Duritz – singer/songwriter, Counting Crows
- Dave Eggers – writer
- Daniel Ellsberg – military analyst, publisher of Pentagon Papers
- John Fahey – guitarist
- John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Tom Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival
- C.S. Forester – author, Horatio Hornblower series and The African Queen
- Gabriela Lena Frank – Grammy-winning composer, Grammy-nominated pianist
- Rodney Franklin – jazz pianist
- Matt Freeman – member of punk rock bands Rancid and Operation Ivy
- John Gage – one of the founders of Sun Microsystems
- David E. Garfin – scientist
- Allen Ginsberg – poet
- Whoopi Goldberg – Academy Award-winning actress and TV personality
- Karen Grassle – actress
- Benny Green – jazz pianist
- Chick Hafey – baseball Hall of Famer
- Mark Hamill – actor, voice actor, and writer from the Star Wars series of movies
- Nina Hartley – pornographic actress
- Glenn Hauser – DXer
- Davey Havok – singer for AFI
- Patty Hearst – newspaper heiress and kidnap victim
- Michael Heizer – earth artist, sculptor
- Stanley Hiller –helicopter pioneer
- Gregory Hoblit – film and television director
- Hans Hofmann – painter, teacher
- Joseph Holmes – landscape photographer
- Ken Hom – chef
- David Horowitz – 1960s radical turned conservative activist
- Eddie House — NBA player
- Charlie Hunter – jazz musician
- David Immerglück – guitarist, Counting Crows
- Ishi – last of the Yahi
- Candido Jacuzzi – inventor of submersible pump
- June Jordan – poet, novelist, journalist, activist
- Bill Joy – developer of BSD UNIX and co-founder of Sun Microsystems
- Pauline Kael – film critic
- Theodore Kaczynski – aka the Unabomber
- Molly Katzen – cookbook author, chef
- William Keith – landscape artist
- Josh Kornbluth – monologist and talk show host
- Stephen "Doc" Kupka – musician
- Jack LaLanne – health and fitness enthusiast
- Ronnie Landfield – painter
- Dorothea Lange – photographer
- Ursula K. Le Guin – author
- Timothy Leary – LSD researcher and promoter
- Phil Lesh – Grateful Dead bassist
- Wendy Lesser – editor and critic
- Michael Lewis – author
- Lil B – rapper, author, fashion designer, composer
- Larry Livermore – writer, musician, founder of Lookout Records
- Brandon McCartney (Lil B or the BasedGod) – rapper, record producer, author, activist and motivational speaker
- Country Joe McDonald – singer/songwriter, and activist
- Joanna Macy – writer, translator of Rainer Maria Rilke
- Billy Martin – baseball player and manager
- Andrew Martinez – social activist
- Ed Masuga – singer, musician, and songwriter
- Dylan Mattingly – composer
- Dave Mello – drummer for ska punk band Operation Ivy
- Jesse Michaels – ska punk singer/songwriter for Operation Ivy and Common Rider
- Czesław Miłosz – poet, Nobel Prize winner in literature
- Norman Mineta – U.S. Transportation Secretary
- Roger Montgomery – urban designer, architect, Dean University of California, Berkeley
- Wes Montgomery – jazz guitarist
- Gordon Moore – co-founder of Intel
- Rita Moreno – actress, dancer; Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award winner
- Markos Moulitsas – blogger, author
- Walter Murray – gridiron football player
- Huey P. Newton – member of Black Panther Party
- Nick 13 – vocalist, guitarist
- Adm. Chester Nimitz – World War II commander of U.S. Pacific forces
- Joaquin Nin-Culmell – UC professor (emeritis), composer, brother of Anaïs Nin
- Frank Norris – author of The Octopus
- Lisa Onodera – film producer, Picture Bride, The Debut, Americanese
- Robert Oppenheimer – scientist and head of the Manhattan Project
- The Pack – rap group
- Michael Parenti – political analyst, author, lecturer, professor
- Gwydion Pendderwen – born Thomas deLong, American Wiccan folk singer
- Mariko Peters – Dutch politician and lawyer
- Lenny Pickett – Saturday Night Live band leader, saxophone player
- Michael Pollan – author
- Richard Pryor – comedian, actor
- Joshua Redman – jazz saxophonist
- Peter Reginato – sculptor
- Robert Reich – politician, academic, writer, and political commentator
- Malvina Reynolds – singer, songwriter
- Nicole Richie – socialite, reality TV personality
- Michael Ritchie – film director
- Rosalie Ritz – courtroom artist, reporter
- Terrell Roberts – NFL player
- Rebecca Romijn – model, actress
- Doug Rowell – director, producer
- Galen Rowell – photographer, writer
- Jerry Rubin – social activist, Yippie
- Andy Samberg – actor, Saturday Night Live comedian
- Joe Satriani – heavy metal/hard rock guitarist and teacher
- Mario Savio – 1960s Free Speech Movement icon
- Akiva Schaffer – director and songwriter of The Lonely Island
- Zahara Schatz – sculptor, artist
- Eric Schmidt – ex-CEO of Google
- Bobby Seale – co-founder, Black Panther Party
- Charles Seeger – UC musicologist, pacifist, and father of folk singer Pete Seeger
- Tessa Seymour – cellist
- Jeremy Shafer – origami artist
- Sam Shankland – chess player
- Cindy Sheehan – anti-war activist
- Izzy Sher – sculptor
- Margaret Singer – clinical psychologist, professor at UC Berkeley
- Alex Skolnick – jazz and metal guitarist, writer
- Tabitha Soren – MTV News reporter
- Jeff Stevens – Major League Baseball pitcher[2]
- George R. Stewart – author of Earth Abides and Storm
- Chris Strachwitz – founder of Arhoolie Records
- Asa Taccone – founder and lead singer of band Electric Guest
- Jorma Taccone – actor and director
- Chris Tashima – actor and filmmaker
- Edward Teller – nuclear physicist, developer of thermonuclear weapons
- Chang-Lin Tien – 8th Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley (1990–1997), first Asian American and Chinese American to head a major United States university
- Adrian Tomine – cartoonist
- Phil Tippett – Academy Award-winning special effects artist
- Amani Toomer – wide receiver for the New York Giants
- Laura Tyson – economist and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
- Kyle Vincent – singer, songwriter, author
- Peter Voulkos – ceramist, sculptor
- Jay Ward – creator of animated TV series Crusader Rabbit, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and George of the Jungle
- Alice Waters – restaurateur, chef, and activist
- Wavy Gravy – professional clown, activist, Hog Farm founder
- Thornton Wilder – playwright, Our Town
- Sean Williams – professor of ethnomusicology
- Helen Wills – tennis champion
- Pete Wilson – former governor of California
- Dave Winer – software developer and entrepreneur
- Charlie Winton – publisher
- Steve Wozniak – engineer and entrepreneur, Apple Inc. co-founder
- Daniel Wu – Hong Kong actor
- Janet Yellen – Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- Clement C. Young – Progressive Governor of California, 1927–1931
- Saul Zaentz – film and music producer
- Rami Zur – Olympic sprint canoer
See also
- List of Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) people
- List of Nobel laureates associated with University of California, Berkeley
- List of University of California, Berkeley faculty
- List of University of California, Berkeley alumni
References
- ↑ "Mai K. Arbegast." Contra Costa Times. 15 Apr. 2012: n. pag. Legacy.com. Accessed 27 Feb 2015.
- ↑ "Jeff Stevens Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
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