Berkeley (surname)

Berkeley is a surname. It is also used, uncommonly, as a given name. The name is a habitation name from Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, itself derived from Old English beorce léah meaning birch lea. People with the name include:

• The Berkeley family of England
  • Baron Berkeley
  • Berkeley Baronets
  • Anne Berkeley, Baroness Berkeley, the lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife
  • Elizabeth Berkeley, Countess of Ormond, the wife of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond and daughter of the above
• Anthony Berkeley Cox or Anthony Berkeley, a writer
• Ballard Berkeley (1904-1988), an English actor
• Busby Berkeley, a film choreographer
• Edmund Berkeley, a mathematician and computer scientist, founder of the Association for Computing Machinery and inventor of the first personal computer, Simon
• Elizabeth Berkeley, the wife of Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort
• Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753), an Anglo-Irish philosopher
• George Berkeley (MP) (1680-1746), a MP for Cover (1720-1734)
• Humphrey Berkeley (1926-1994), a British politician
• John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1602-1678)
• John Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1663-1697), an English admiral
• Jon Berkeley, an author and illustrator
• Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989), an English composer
• Mary Berkeley (courtier), the mistress of Henry VIII and mother of his son, John Perrot
• Matthew Berkeley (born 1987), an English footballer
• Michael Berkeley (born 1948), a British composer and broadcaster
• Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803-1889), an English cryptogramist and clergyman
• Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt (1718-1770), a Member of Parliament and governor of Virginia Colony
• Reginald Berkeley (politician) (1890–1935), a British Liberal Party Member of Parliament 1922–1924
• Reginald Berkeley (writer) (1881–1936), an English writer of film scripts
• Theresa Berkeley, London madam
• Sir William Berkeley (governor) (1605-1677), a governor of Virginia
• Sir William Berkeley (Royal Navy officer) (1639-1666), an English naval officer and admiral
• Vivian Berkeley, a Canadian blind lawn bowling champion and 1996 paralympic silver medalist
• Xander Berkeley (born 1955), an American actor
• Berkeley Breathed, a cartoonist and illustrator

See also

• Berkley (disambiguation)
• Lord Berkeley (disambiguation)
• George Berkley (disambiguation)
• Barclay