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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.
Academia
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.
Andy Baraghani – chef, cookbook author, recipe developer and former food editor.
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
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
Sidney Gordin – painter, sculptor, professor
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
Filmmakers
Journalists, news media
Musicians
John Coolidge Adams – composer and conductor of
classical music and
opera
Samuel Adams – composer of contemporary classical,
electronic ,
electroacoustic
Billie Joe Armstrong – singer-songwriter, actor, guitarist, and lead singer of the Berkeley-based punk rock band
Green Day
Tim Armstrong – member of
punk rock bands
Rancid ,
Transplants and
Operation Ivy
Emit Bloch – songwriter, guitarist, journalist
Peter Buck – guitarist for
R.E.M.
Emilio Castillo – musician
John Cipollina – guitarist,
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Tre Cool – drummer of the band
Green Day
Martha Davis - rock and new wave singer-songwriter
Mike Dirnt – bassist of
Green Day
Rockmond Dunbar – actor
Adam Duritz – singer-songwriter,
Counting Crows
John Fahey – guitarist
John Fogerty – musician of
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Tom Fogerty – musician of
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Gabriela Lena Frank –
Grammy -winning composer,
Grammy -nominated pianist
Rodney Franklin – jazz pianist
Matt Freeman – member of
punk rock bands
Rancid and
Operation Ivy
Benny Green – jazz pianist
Davey Havok – singer for
AFI
Charlie Hunter – jazz musician
David Immerglück – guitarist,
Counting Crows
KSHMR – EDM producer and DJ
Stephen "Doc" Kupka – musician
Phil Lesh –
Grateful Dead bassist
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
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
Nick 13 – vocalist, guitarist
Joaquín Nin-Culmell –
composer , concert pianist, UC professor (emeritis), brother of
Anaïs Nin
The Pack – rap group
Gwydion Pendderwen – born Thomas deLong, American Wiccan folk singer
Lenny Pickett –
Saturday Night Live band leader, saxophone player
Joshua Redman – jazz saxophonist
Malvina Reynolds – singer, songwriter
Joe Satriani –
heavy metal /
hard rock guitarist and teacher
Akiva Schaffer – comedy writer, film director, and singer/songwriter of
The Lonely Island , attended Berkeley High School
[6]
Charles Seeger – musician, UC musicologist, pacifist, and father of folk singer
Pete Seeger
Tessa Seymour – cellist
Charles Shere – composer
Alex Skolnick – jazz and metal guitarist, writer
Asa Taccone – founder and lead singer of band
Electric Guest
Grace Vamos – composer
Kyle Vincent – singer, songwriter, author
Phyllida Ashley – woman pianist
Politicians, activists, political figures and civil servants
Jerry Brown – former
Mayor of Oakland and
Governor of California 2011–2019; 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
Fred Ross, Jr. - Labor organizer, 1947-2022
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.
Owen Chamberlain - particle physicist, UC Berkeley
Hans Albert Einstein - UC professor of hydraulic engineering (1947-73), son of physicist
Albert Einstein
Sally Floyd – computer scientist researcher
David E. Garfin – biophysicist
Albert Ghiorso - nuclear physicist, discoverer of twelve elements,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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 – theoretical physicist and head of the
Manhattan Project
Glenn T. Seaborg - chemist, professor UC Berkeley
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 –
Hugo Award winning-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
Clarence H. McNeil – U.S. Army major general
[12]
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
John S. Winn , U.S. Army brigadier general
[13]
Charles Woodruff – U.S. Army brigadier general
[14]
Janet Yellen – Chair of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve
See also
References
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a
b Knobel, Lance (July 12, 2010).
"Move over Andy Samberg, Ben Affleck is Berkeley boy" . Berkeleyside . Retrieved July 31, 2021 .
^ Blankstein, Andrew (March 24, 2010).
"Actor Robert Culp dies after falling at his Hollywood home" . Los Angeles Times .
^ 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 .
^
"Dabney, Augusta 1918–" . Encyclopedia.com . Retrieved July 31, 2021 .
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"Whoopi Goldberg selling her Berkeley home for $1.275M" . Berkeleyside . June 22, 2015. Retrieved July 31, 2021 .
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Dinkelspiel, Frances (January 9, 2019).
"Andy Samberg gives his Berkeley mother a gift: the truth about her birth parents" . Berkeleyside . Retrieved July 31, 2021 .
^ Berne, Amanda (September 28, 2005).
"Paul Bertolli leaves Oliveto" . SFGATE . Retrieved July 31, 2021 .
^ "Mai K. Arbegast." Contra Costa Times. April 15, 2012: n. pag. Legacy.com. Accessed February 27, 2015.
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^ 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 .
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"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 .
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"Jeff Stevens Stats" . Baseball Almanac. Retrieved November 26, 2012 .
^ Davis, Henry Blaine Jr. (1998).
Generals in Khaki . Raleigh, NC: Pentland Press. pp. 264–265.
ISBN
1571970886 .
OCLC
40298151 – via
Google Books .
^ E.M.L. (June 10, 1940).
"Obituary, John Sheridan Winn" . Seventy-first Annual Report of the Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy . Newburgh, New York: Moore Printing Company. p. 165 – via West Point Digital Library.
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"Recent Deaths: Charles A. Woodruff" .
The Weekly Caledonian . St. Johnsbury, VT. August 25, 1920. p. 4 – via
Newspapers.com .
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