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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
- 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
- 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
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