List of people from Berkeley, California

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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 and near Oakland, it includes people who attended Berkeley High School, but not people that attended University of California, Berkeley unless they achieved notoriety while in attendance, and were also residents of the city at the time.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by with reliable sources.

Academia[]

  • Wasiullah Khan – founder of East-West University
  • Margaret Singer – clinical psychologist, professor at UC Berkeley
  • 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
  • Blake R Van Leer – United States Army officer, civil rights advocate, and president of Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Sean Williams �� professor of ethnomusicology

Actors[]

  • Ben Affleck – actor, Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director; born in Berkeley.[1]
  • Robert Culp – actor, screenwriter, voice actor, and director; attended Berkeley High School.[2][3]
  • Augusta Dabney – actress; born and raised in Berkeley[4]
  • Daveed Diggs – actor, screenwriter, film producer, rapper, singer, songwriter; attended Berkeley High School.
  • Whoopi Goldberg – Academy Award-winning actress and television personality; lived in Berkeley for many years.[5]
  • Karen Grassle – actress
  • Nina Hartley – pornographic actress
  • Rita Moreno – actress, dancer; Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award winner
  • Jamieson Price – voice actor
  • Nicole Richie – socialite, reality television personality, fashion designer
  • Rebecca Romijn – model, actress
  • Andy Samberg – actor, Saturday Night Live comedian, member of Lonely Island, attended Berkeley High School[1][6]
  • Jorma Taccone – actor and director, member of Lonely Island, attended Berkeley High School[6]
  • Chris Tashima – actor and filmmaker
  • Sasha Velour – drag queen
  • Wavy Gravy – professional clown, actor, activist, Hog Farm founder
  • Daniel Wu – Hong Kong actor

Chefs, cookbook authors[]

  • Paul Bertolli – chef, cookbook writer, food entrepreneur[7]
  • Narsai David – chef, author, radio and television personality.
  • Ken Hom – chef, author and television-show presenter.
  • Mollie Katzen – cookbook author
  • Jack LaLanne – health and fitness enthusiast
  • Samin Nosrat – chef, food writer, Netflix series host
  • Alice Waters – restaurateur, chef, and activist, originally from Chatham Borough, New Jersey

Crime[]

  • Patty Hearst – newspaper heiress, and kidnap victim
  • Daniel Andreas San Diego – domestic terrorist

Visual artists and designers[]

  • Mai Kitazawa Arbegast – landscape architect[8]
  • Elmer Bischoff – painter
  • Justina Blakeney – designer and author
  • Christopher Brown – painter, printmaker, and professor[9]
  • Alan Chin – artist
  • Daniel Clowes – cartoonist
  • Robert Crumb – cartoonist
  • Jay DeFeo – painter
  • Richard Diebenkorn – painter
  • Lillian Wolock Elliott – fiber artist, textile designer
  • David Lance Goines – artist, calligrapher, typographer, printer, author
  • Michael Heizer – earth artist, sculptor
  • Hans Hofmann – painter, teacher
  • Joseph Holmes – landscape photographer
  • Ynez Johnston – painter, sculptor, printmaker, and born in Berkeley.[10]
  • William Keith – landscape artist
  • Peter Rutledge Koch – letterpress printer, artists book publisher, typographer, designer
  • Ronnie Landfield – painter
  • Dorothea Lange – photographer
  • Sylvia Lark – Seneca painter, printmaker
  • Roger Montgomery – urban designer, architect, Dean University of California, Berkeley
  • Peter Reginato – sculptor
  • Zahara Schatz – sculptor, artist
  • Nancy Selvin – sculptor
  • Jeremy Shafer – origami artist
  • Izzy Sher – sculptor
  • Adrian Tomine – cartoonist
  • Ella Wall Van Leer – American artist, architect and women's rights activist
  • Peter Voulkos – ceramist, sculptor

Business leaders and entrepreneurs[]

  • Eric Allman – computer programmer, author of sendmail, co-founded the company Sendmail, Inc.
  • Anastasia Ashman – writer, producer, co-founder of the startup GlobalNiche.net
  • John Buckman – internet entrepreneur
  • Philo T. Farnsworth – all-electronic television inventor, founder of Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation.
  • John Gage – one of the founders of Sun Microsystems
  • Candido Jacuzzi – inventor of submersible pump
  • Bill Joy – developer of BSD UNIX and co-founder of Sun Microsystems
  • Gordon Moore – co-founder of Intel
  • Eric Schmidt – ex-CEO of Google
  • Dave Winer – software developer and entrepreneur
  • Steve Wozniak – engineer and entrepreneur, Apple Inc. co-founder

Filmmakers[]

Journalists, news media[]

Musicians[]

Politicians, activists, political figures and civil servants[]

  • Jerry Brown – former Mayor of Oakland and long-time Governor of California since 2011; previously served 1975–1983
  • Eldridge Cleaver – political activist, an early leader of the Black Panther Party.
  • Rosebud Denovo – People's Park activist, killed by police.
  • Ann Fagan Ginger – human rights advocate
  • Kamala Harris – Vice President of the United States
  • David Horowitz – 1960s radical turned conservative activist
  • Wayne Hsiung – animal rights activist and co-founder of Direct Action Everywhere
  • Andrew Martinez – social activist
  • Gus Newport – mayor
  • Mariko Peters – Dutch politician and lawyer
  • Robert Reich – politician, political commentator, academic, and writer
  • Friend Richardson – Governor of California, 1923–1926
  • Jerry Rubin – social activist, Yippie
  • Mario Savio – 1960s Free Speech Movement icon
  • Bobby Seale – co-founder of the Black Panther Party
  • Cindy Sheehan – anti-war activist
  • Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer – American artist and architect, women's rights activist
  • August Vollmer – police chief, "the father of modern policing"
  • O. W. Wilson – Berkeley police officer, nationally recognized authority on policing
  • Clement C. Young – Progressive Governor of California, 1927–1931

Scientists, researchers[]

  • Bruce Bolt – seismologist
  • David Brower – environmentalist, and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies, Friends of the Earth (1969), Earth Island Institute (1982), North Cascades Conservation Council, and Fate of the Earth Conferences.
  • Sally Floyd – computer scientist researcher
  • David E. Garfin – scientist, QPNC-PAGE
  • Daniel Kahneman – economist and psychologist researcher
  • Ernest Orlando Lawrence – nuclear physicist
  • Timothy Leary – LSD researcher and promoter
  • Margaret Melhase – co-discoverer of caesium-137
  • Marion Nestle – nutrition scientist
  • Robert Oppenheimer – scientist and head of the Manhattan Project
  • Paul Schuster Taylor – agricultural economist
  • Edward Teller – nuclear physicist, developer of thermonuclear weapons

Sports[]

Writers, poets[]

  • Richard Bozulich – journalist, author, publisher, go expert
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley – author
  • Lenni Brenner – author, lecturer
  • Ernest Callenbach – environmentalist, author of Ecotopia
  • Fritjof Capra – author of The Tao of Physics
  • Michael Chabon – Pulitzer Prize-winning author
  • Sheldon Warren Cheney – author and art critic
  • Frank Chin – author
  • Philip K. Dick – author
  • Robert Duncan – poet
  • Dave Eggers – writer
  • C.S. Forester – author, Horatio Hornblower series and The African Queen
  • Allen Ginsberg – poet
  • June Jordan – poet, novelist, journalist, activist
  • Ursula K. Le Guin – author
  • Wendy Lesser – arts journal editor and critic
  • Michael Lewis – author
  • Joanna Macy – writer, translator of Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Czesław Miłosz – poet, Nobel Prize winner in literature
  • Markos Moulitsas – blogger, author
  • Frank Norris – author of The Octopus
  • Michael Parenti – political analyst, author, lecturer, professor
  • Michael Pollan – author
  • Ruth Reichl – food critic, author
  • Betty Reid Soskin – cofounder of Reid's Records, oldest National Park ranger, author
  • George R. Stewart – author of Earth Abides and Storm
  • Julia Vinograd – poet

Other[]

  • A. Scott Crossfield – naval officer and test pilot.
  • Daniel Ellsberg – military analyst, publisher of Pentagon Papers
  • Walter A. Gordon – first African American to receive a JD from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall, star athlete, Berkeley police officer, attorney, governor of U.S. Virgin Islands, judge
  • Glenn Hauser – DXer and radio host
  • Stanley Hiller – helicopter pioneer
  • Ishi – last of the Yahi
  • Pauline Kael – film critic
  • Josh Kornbluth – monologist and talk show host
  • Adm. Chester Nimitz – Supreme Allied Commander, Pacific Theater, World War II
  • Sam Shankland – chess grandmaster
  • Chris Strachwitz – founder of Arhoolie Records
  • Laura Tyson – economist and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
  • Blake Wayne Van Leer, Commander and Captain in the U.S. Navy. Lead SeaBee program and lead the nuclear research and power unit at McMurdo Station during Operation Deep Freeze.
  • Thornton Wilder – playwright, Our Town
  • Charles Woodruff – U.S. Army brigadier general[12]
  • Janet Yellen – Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

See also[]

  • SF From Marin Highlands3.jpg San Francisco Bay Area portal
  • P vip.svg Biography portal
  • COL-city icon.png Cities portal
  • Flag of California.svg California portal

References[]

  1. ^ a b Knobel, Lance. "Move over Andy Samberg, Ben Affleck is Berkeley boy". Berkeleyside. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  2. ^ Blankstein, Andrew (March 24, 2010). "Actor Robert Culp dies after falling at his Hollywood home". Los Angeles Times.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ Grimes, William (March 25, 2010). "Robert Culp, Star in 'I Spy,' Dies at 79". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  4. ^ "Dabney, Augusta 1918–". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  5. ^ "Whoopi Goldberg selling her Berkeley home for $1.275M". Berkeleyside. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  6. ^ a b c Dinkelspiel, Frances. "Andy Samberg gives his Berkeley mother a gift: the truth about her birth parents". Berkeleyside. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  7. ^ Berne, Amanda (September 28, 2005). "Paul Bertolli leaves Oliveto". SFGATE. Retrieved July 31, 2021.
  8. ^ "Mai K. Arbegast." Contra Costa Times. April 15, 2012: n. pag. Legacy.com. Accessed February 27, 2015.[1]
  9. ^ Landauer, Susan; Gerdts, William H.; Trenton, Patricia (November 10, 2003). The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture. University of California Press. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-520-23938-8.
  10. ^ "Ynez Johnston's Lively and Evocative Compositions". Broad Strokes: The National Museum of Women in the Arts' Blog. August 2, 2011. Retrieved December 30, 2017.
  11. ^ "Jeff Stevens Stats". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved November 26, 2012.
  12. ^ "Recent Deaths: Charles A. Woodruff". The Weekly Caledonian. St. Johnsbury, VT. August 25, 1920. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
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