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.

• John Coolidge Adams – Composer
• Ben Affleck – Actor, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and movie director
• Eric Allman – Computer programmer, author of sendmail
• 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/producer of cultural entertainment
• Craig Barron – Filmmaker and Visual Effects Supervisor
• Lowell Bergman – Award-winning journalist, former producer of CBS 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 – Renowned Seismologist
• Richard Bozulich – Journalist, Author, Publisher, go expert
• Marion Zimmer Bradley – Author
• Lenni Brenner – Author, Lecturer
• David Brower – Environmentalist
• Peter Buck – Guitarist for R.E.M.
• John Buckman – Internet entrepreneur
• Fritjof Capra – author of "The Tao of Physics" and other non-fiction works
• Emilio Castillo – musician
• Michael Chabon – Author
• Sheldon Warren Cheney – Author and art critic
• Alan Chin – Artist
• Frank Chin – Author
• Eldridge Cleaver – Political activist
• Daniel Clowes – Cartoonist
• Aaron Cometbus – Punk anthropologist
• Tre Cool – Drummer for punk rock band Green Day
• Francis Ford Coppola – Academy Award-winning movie producer, director, screenwriter, and vintner
• A. Scott Crossfield – Aviator
• Robert Crumb – Cartoonist
• Robert Culp – Actor
• Jay DeFeo – Painter
• Richard Diebenkorn – Painter
• Philip K. Dick – Author
• Mike Dirnt – Bassist of Green Day
• Robert Duncan – Poet
• Adam Duritz – Singer/songwriter, Counting Crows
• Dave Eggers – Writer
• Daniel Ellsberg – Military analyst, publisher of the Pentagon Papers
• John Fahey – Noted guitarist
• John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival Singer/songwriter
• Tom Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival Singer/songwriter
• C.S. Forester – Author, Horatio Hornblower series and The African Queen
• Rodney Franklin Jazz Pianist
• Matt Freeman – Member of punk rock bands Rancid and Operation Ivy
• John Gage – one of the founders of Sun Microsystems
• Richard Gere – Actor
• Allen Ginsberg – Poet
• Whoopi Goldberg – Academy Award-winning actress and comedian
• Benny Green, jazz pianist
• Nina Hartley – Pornographic actress
• Glenn Hauser – Nationally known DXer
• Davey Havok – Singer for AFI
• Patty Hearst – Newspaper heiress and famous kidnap victim
• Michael Heizer, earth artist, sculptor
• Stanley Hiller, helicopter pioneer
• Gregory Hoblit – Film and television director
• Hans Hofmann – Painter, teacher
• Ken Hom – Chef
• David Horowitz – 1960s radical turned conservative activist
• Eddie House — NBA player for the Miami Heat, Los Angeles Clippers, Milwaukee Bucks, Charlotte Bobcats, Sacramento Kings, Phoenix Suns, New Jersey Nets, and the Boston Celtics
• Charlie Hunter – Jazz musician
• David Immerglück – Guitarist, Counting Crows
• Ishi – Last of the Yahi
• Candido Jacuzzi – Inventor of submersible pump
• Bill Joy – Developer of BSD UNIX and co-founder of Sun Microsystems
• June Jordan, Caribbean American poet, novelist, journalist, biographer, dramatist, teacher and committed activist
• Pauline Kael – Movie critic
• William Keith – Landscape artist
• Theodore Kaczynski – aka the Unabomber
• Molly Katzen – Cookbook author, chef
• Josh Kornbluth – Monologist and talk show host
• Stephen "Doc" Kupka – musician
• Jack LaLanne – Health and fitness enthusiast, born in San Francisco
• Ronnie Landfield – Painter
• Dorothea Lange – photographer
• Timothy Leary – LSD researcher and promoter
• Ursula K. Le Guin – Author
• Phil Lesh – Former Grateful Dead bassist
• Michael Lewis – Author
• Larry Livermore – Writer, musician, founder of Lookout Records
• 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
• Brandon McCartney – Artist
• Country Joe McDonald – Singer/songwriter
• Dave Mello – Former 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
• Roger Montgomery – Urban designer, architect, Dean University of California, Berkeley
• Norman Mineta – American Transportation Secretary
• Gordon Moore – Co-founder of Intel
• Rita Moreno actress, dancer
• Markos Moulitsas blogger, author
• Huey P. Newton – Black Panther Party
• 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 folksinger
• 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
• Nicole Richie – Socialite, Reality Star
• Michael Ritchie, film director
• Rosalie Ritz – Courtroom artist, reporter
• John Linton Roberson – Underground writer/cartoonist
• Rebecca Romijn – Model, actress
• Galen Rowell – Photographer, writer
• Jerry Rubin – Social activist, Yippie
• Andy Samberg – 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 The Lonely Island
• Zahara Schatz – Sculptor, artist
• Jeremy Shafer, origami artist
• Cindy Sheehan – Anti-war activist
• Izzy Sher – Sculptor
• Margaret Singer – Clinical psychologist and a former professor of psychology at the UC Berkeley
• Tabitha Soren – MTV News reporter
• George R. Stewart – Author of the novels Earth Abides and Storm
• Chris Strachwitz – Founder of Arhoolie Records
• Jorma Taccone – Actor and director
• Chris Tashima – Actor and filmmaker
• Edward Teller – Nuclear physicist, thermonuclear weapons
• Chang-Lin Tien – the 8th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1990–1997) who was the first Asian American and Chinese American to head a major United States university
• Nick 13 – Tiger Army vocalist/guitarist
• Adrian Tomine – Cartoonist
• Phil Tippett – Academy award winning special effects legend
• Amani Toomer – Wide Receiver for the New York Giants
• Lars Ulrich – Metallica drummer
• Kyle Vincent – Singer/Songwriter/Author
• Peter Voulkos – Ceramist, Sculptor
• Jay Ward – Creator of the animated television series Crusader Rabbit, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and George of the Jungle
• Alice Waters – Restaurateur, chef, and activist
• Wavy Gravy – Clown emissary to Planet Earth extraordinaire, Hog Farm founder
• Thornton Wilder – Playwright (Our Town, etc.)
• Helen Wills – Tennis champion
• Pete Wilson – Former governor of California
• Dave Winer – software developer and entrepreneur
• Charlie Winton – Publisher
• Daniel Wu – Hong Kong Actor
• 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