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