List of people from Berkeley, California

This is a list of notable people that were born in, or who have lived in, Berkeley, California. It includes people who attended Berkeley High School, but not people that attended University of California, Berkeley unless they achieved notoriety while at UC Berkeley, and were also residents of the city at the time.

• John Coolidge Adams – composer
• Samuel Carl Adams – composer
• Ben Affleck – actor, Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director
• Eric Allman – computer programmer, author of sendmail
• Mai Kitazawa Arbegast – landscape architect^[1]
• 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 and producer
• Craig Barron – filmmaker and visual effects supervisor
• Lowell Bergman – television journalist, former producer of 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 – seismologist
• Richard Bozulich – journalist, author, publisher, go expert
• Marion Zimmer Bradley – author
• Lenni Brenner – author, lecturer
• Eric John Brock – historian
• David Brower – environmentalist
• Peter Buck – guitarist for R.E.M.
• John Buckman – internet entrepreneur
• Fritjof Capra – author of "The Tao of Physics"
• Emilio Castillo – musician
• Michael Chabon – author
• Sheldon Warren Cheney – author and art critic
• Alan Chin – artist
• Frank Chin – author
• Eldridge Cleaver – political activist
• John Cipollina – guitarist. Famous with Quicksilver Messenger Service in the 60's
• Daniel Clowes – cartoonist
• Aaron Cometbus – documentarian of the Punk rock music world
• Tre Cool – drummer for punk rock band Green Day
• Francis Ford Coppola – Academy Award-winning producer, director and screenwriter; vintner
• A. Scott Crossfield – aviator
• Robert Crumb – cartoonist
• Robert Culp – actor
• Jay DeFeo – painter
• Richard Diebenkorn – painter
• Rosebud Denovo, People's Park activist killed by police
• Philip K. Dick – author
• Mike Dirnt – bassist of Green Day
• Rockmond Dunbar – actor
• Robert Duncan – poet
• Adam Duritz – singer/songwriter, Counting Crows
• Dave Eggers – writer
• Daniel Ellsberg – military analyst, publisher of Pentagon Papers
• John Fahey – guitarist
• John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Tom Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival
• 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
• Allen Ginsberg – poet
• Whoopi Goldberg – Academy Award-winning actress and TV personality
• Karen Grassle actress
• Benny Green, jazz pianist
• Nina Hartley – pornographic actress
• Glenn Hauser – DXer
• Davey Havok – singer for AFI
• Patty Hearst – newspaper heiress and 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
• 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, poet, novelist, journalist, activist
• Pauline Kael – film 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

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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

References