List of people from Berkeley, California

This is a list of notable people that were born in, or who have lived in, Berkeley, California.

*John Coolidge Adams – composer
*Billie Joe Armstrong – guitarist and lead singer for punk rock band Green Day
*Tim Armstrong – Member of punk rock bands Rancid, Transplants and Operation Ivy
*Anastasia Ashman – Writer
*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
*Bruce Bolt – Renowned Seismologist
*Richard Bozulich – Journalist, Author, Publisher, go expert
*Marion Zimmer Bradley – Author
*Lenni Brenner – Author, Lecturer
*David Brower – Environmentalist
*John Buckman – Internet entrepreneur
*Emilio Castillo – musician
*Michael Chabon – Author
*Daniel Clowes – Cartoonist
*Tre Cool – Drummer for punk rock band Green Day
*Francis Ford Coppola – Filmmaker and vintner
*Robert Crumb – Cartoonist
*Robert Culp – Actor
*Shirley Dean – Local Politician
*Jay DeFeo – Painter
*Richard Diebenkorn – Painter
*Philip K. Dick – Author
*Albina Digaeva – co-founder of Chechnya Advocacy Network
*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 – Actress and comedian
*Glenn Hauser – Nationally known DXer
*Davey Havok – Singer for AFI
*Patty Hearst – Newspaper heiress and famous kidnap victim
*Michael Heizer, earth artist, sculptor
*Gregory Hoblit – Film and television director
*Hans Hofmann – Painter, teacher
*Ken Hom – Chef
*David Horowitz – 1960s radical turned conservative activist
*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
*Pauline Kael – Movie critic
*Theodore Kaczynski – "aka" the Unabomber
*Josh Kornbluth – Monologist and talk show host
*Stephen "Doc" Kupka – musician
*Jack LaLanne – Health enthusiast
*Ronnie Landfield – Painter
*Dorothea Lange – photographer
*Timothy Leary – LSD researcher and promoter
*Ursula K. Le Guin – Author
*Phil Lesh – Former Grateful Dead bassist
*Larry Livermore – Writer, musician, founder of Lookout Records
*Joanna Macy – Writer, translator of Rainer Maria Rilke
*Matt Malley Bassist, Counting Crows
*Billy Martin – Baseball player and manager
*Andrew Martinez – Social activist
*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
*Czeslaw Milosz poet, Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
*Roger Montgomery – Urban designer, architect, Dean University of California, Berkeley
*Norman Mineta – U.S. Transportation Secretary
*Gordon Moore – Co-founder of Intel
*Rita Moreno actress, dancer
*Huey P. Newton – Black Panther Party
*Alan Chin – Artist
*Adm. Chester Nimitz – WWII 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
*Lenny Pickett – Saturday Night Live band leader, saxophone player
*Joshua Redman – Jazz musician
*Peter Reginato – Sculptor
*Nicole Richie – Socialite, Reality Star
*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
*Zahara Schatz – Sculptor, artist
*Adam Sessler – Host of G4tv's Xplay
*Cindy Sheehan – Anti-war activist
*Margaret Singer – Clinical psychologist and a former professor of psychology at the UC Berkeley
*George R. Stewart – Author of the novels "Earth Abides" and "Storm"
*Chris Strachwitz – Founder of Arhoolie Records
*Chris Tashima – Actor and filmmaker
*Edward Teller – Nuclear physicist, thermonuclear weapons
*Chang-Lin Tien – the 8th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1990–97) who was the first Asian American and Chinese American to head a major U.S. university
*Nick 13 – Tiger Army vocalist/guitarist
*Adrian Tomine – Cartoonist
*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
*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
*Clement C. Young – Progressive Governor of California, 1927-1931
*Saul Zaentz – Film producer
*Daniel Wu – Hong Kong Actor
*Charlie Winton – Publisher
*Justin Yee – Member of a pop punk band Last Minute Surrender; and amateur skateboarder from Market Mondays

ee 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