This page lists notable alumni and students of the University of California, Berkeley. Alumni who also served as faculty are listed in bold font, with degree and year.

Notable faculty members are in the article List of UC Berkeley faculty.

Nobel laureates

See also: List of Nobel laureates associated with UC Berkeley

• Thomas Cech, Ph.D. 1975 - Nobel laureate (1989, Chemistry), for the "discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"
• Steven Chu, Ph.D. 1976 - Nobel laureate (1997, Physics), for the "development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light"; Secretary of Energy in the Obama administration
• Robert Curl, Ph.D. 1957- Nobel laureate (1996, Chemistry), for the "discovery of fullerenes"
• Joseph Erlanger, B.S. 1895 - Nobel laureate (1944, Physiology or Medicine), for "discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres"
• Andrew Fire, B.A. 1978 - Nobel laureate (2006, Physiology or Medicine), for the "discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA"
• William F. Giauque, B.S. 1920, Ph.D. 1922 - Nobel laureate (1949, Chemistry), "for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures"
• Carol W. Greider, Ph.D. 1987 - Nobel laureate (2009, Medicine) "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"; Daniel Nathans Professor and the Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Johns Hopkins University
• David Gross, Ph.D. 1966 - Nobel laureate (2004, Physics), "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"
• Alan Heeger, Ph.D. 1961 - Nobel laureate (2000, Chemistry), "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers"
• Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D. 1961 - Nobel laureate (2002, Economics), "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty"
• Lawrence Klein, B.A. 1942 - Nobel laureate (1980, Economics), "for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies"
• Willis Lamb, B.S. 1934, Ph.D. 1938 - Nobel laureate (1955, Physics)), "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum"
• Robert Laughlin, B.A. 1972 [84704] - Nobel laureate (1998, Physics), for the "discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"
• Yuan T. Lee, Ph.D. 1962 - Nobel laureate (1986, Chemistry), for "contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes"; Professor of Chemistry; Principal Investigator, Materials and Molecular Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory;
• Willard Libby, B.S. 1931, Ph.D. 1933 - Professor of Chemistry, Nobel laureate (1960, Chemistry), "for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science"
• John C. Mather, Ph.D. 1974 - Nobel laureate (2006, Physics), for the "discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"
• Mario Molina, Ph.D. 1972- Nobel laureate (1995, Chemistry)), for "work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone"
• Kary Mullis, Ph.D. 1973 - Nobel laureate (1993, Chemistry), "for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method"
• Douglass North, B.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1952- Nobel laureate (1993, Economics), "for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change"
• Thomas Schelling, B.A. 1944 - Nobel laureate (2005, Economics), "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis"
• Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D. 1937 - Nobel laureate (1951, Chemistry), University Professor of Chemistry, Associate Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Chancellor, Berkeley campus (1958-1961), for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements"
• Hamilton Smith, B.A. 1952 - Nobel laureate (1978, Physiology or Medicine), "for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics"
• Otto Stern, L.L.D 1930 - Nobel laureate (1943, Nobel Prize in Physics), "for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton"
• Henry Taube, Ph.D. 1940 - Nobel laureate (1983, Chemistry ), "for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes"
• Harold Urey, Ph.D. 1923 - Nobel laureate (1934, Chemistry), "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen"
• Selman Waksman, Ph.D. 1918 - Nobel laureate (1952, Physiology or Medicine), "for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis"

Turing Award laureates

The Turing Award is considered to be the "Nobel Prize" of computer science.

• Leonard Adleman B.A. 1968 (mathematics), Ph.D. 1976, the "A" in the RSA encryption algorithm for computer security, co-recipient of the Turing Award in 2002 for the "ingenious contribution for making public-key cryptography useful in practice.".
• Douglas C. Engelbart, B.Eng. 1952, Ph.D. 1955 - Inventor of the computer mouse, recipient of the National Medal of Technology in 2000, pioneer in hypertext and networked computers, recipient of the 1997 Turing Award "for an inspiring vision of the future of interactive computing and the invention of key technologies to help realize this vision."
• Jim Gray, B.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1969 - Recipient of the 2001 Turing Award "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation."
• Butler Lampson, Ph.D. 1967 - computer scientist, founding member of Xerox PARC, major contributor to the development of the personal computer, and recipient of the 1992 Turing Award "for contributions to the development of distributed, personal computing environments and the technology for their implementation: workstations, networks, operating systems, programming systems, displays, security and document publishing."
• Barbara Liskov, B.A. 1961 - first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science (in 1968 at Stanford), creator of CLU, professor at MIT; recipient of the 2008 Turing Award "for contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, and distributed computing."
• Dana Scott, B.S. 1954 - computer scientist, co-recipient of the 1976 Turing Award with Michael O. Rabin, for "the joint paper (with Rabin) "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem", which introduced the idea of nondeterministic machines, which has proved to be an enormously valuable concept. Their (Scott & Rabin) classic paper has been a continuous source of inspiration for subsequent work in this field"; Associate Professor of Math
• Ken Thompson, B.S. EE 1965, M.S. EE 1966 - Co-creator of the Unix operating system and co-recipient of the 1983 Turing Award for the "development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system."
• Niklaus Wirth, Ph.D. 1967 - computer scientist, creator of the Pascal programming language, recipient of the 1984 Turing Award "for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL."

Academia

Chancellors and Presidents

• Douglas J. Bennet, M.A. 1960 - President of Wesleyan University (1995-2007); former CEO of National Public Radio (1983-1993)
• G. Wayne Clough, Ph.D. 1969 - President of Georgia Tech (1994-2008)
• Robert E. Connick, Ph.D. 1942 - Professor of Chemistry, Dean of the College of Chemistry, Vice-Chancellor, UC Berkeley
• Dale R. Corson, Ph.D. 1938 - President of Cornell University (1969-1977)
• Dave Frohnmayer, J.D. 1967 - President of the University of Oregon (1994-present)
• Michael J. Garanzini, S.J., Ph.D. 1986 (joint degree with GTU-Berkeley) - President of Loyola University of Chicago (2001-present)
• David P. Gardner, M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1966 - 15th President of the University of California
• Robert Kennedy, Ph.D. 1974 - President of the University of Maine (2005-present)
• Clark Kerr, Ph.D. 1939 - Professor of Industrial Relations, Chancellor of UC Berkeley (1952-58), President of the University of California (1958-67)
• Lawrence J. Lau, M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1969 - Vice-Chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) (2004-present)
• Shirley A. R. Lewis, B.A. 1960 - first female President of Paine College
• C. Daniel Mote, Jr., B.S. 1959, M.S. 1960, Ph.D. 1963 - President of the University of Maryland, College Park (1998-present)
• Emil M. Mrak, B.S. 1926, M.S, Ph. D 1936 - former Chancellor of the University of California, Davis
• David W. Oxtoby, Ph.D. 1975 - President of Pomona College (2003-present)
• Kenneth Pitzer, Ph.D. 1937 - Dean of the College of Chemistry (1951-60), Professor of Chemistry; President of Rice University (1961-1968) and Stanford University (1969-1971)
• William C. Powers, Jr., B.A. 1967 - President of the University of Texas, Austin (2006-present)
• Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D. 1937 - Chancellor, Berkeley campus (1958-1961) (also listed in the section Nobel laureates)
• Samuel H. Smith, B.S. 1961, Ph.D. 1965 - Eighth President of Washington State University, former Chair of the executive committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association
• Patricia Meyer Spacks, Ph.D. 1955 - President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001-present); Edgar F. Shannon Professor Emerita of English, University of Virginia
• Robert Sproul, B.S. 1913 - President of the University of California, Berkeley (1930-1958)
• Timothy P. White, Ph.D. 1977 - President of the University of Idaho (2004-2008); Chancellor, University of California, Riverside (September 1, 2008-present)

Deans, directors, department heads

• Asad Abidi, M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1981 - Dean of the Lahore University of Management Sciences, member of the National Academy of Engineering.
• Barry C. Barish, B.A. 1957, Ph.D. 1962 - Maxine and Ronald Linde Professor of Physics, emeritus, at Caltech, member of the National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the AAAS, Director of the International Linear Collider, Director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
• Katharine T. Bartlett, J.D. 1975 - Dean and A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law (Dean, 2000-2007)
• Robert O. Briggs, BA 1951 - former Director of the University of California Marching Band (1973-1995).
• George Gerbner, B.A. 1942 - former dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, the founder of cultivation theory
• Connie J.Chang-Hasnain, Ph.D. 1987 - John R. Whinnery Chair Professor, electrical engineering and computer sciences department, Chair, nanoscale science and engineering graduate group, University of California, Berkeley. Fellow of the IEEE, OSA and IEE.
• Michael J. Cima, B.S. 1982, Ph.D. 1986 - Director of the MIT Ceramics Processing Research Laboratory and Sumitomo Electric Industries Chair Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Persis Drell, Ph.D. 1983 - Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
• Robert W. Dutton, B.S. 1966, M.S. 1967, and Ph. D 1970 - Director of Research in the Center for Integrated Systems at Stanford University, Guggenheim Fellow (1988), winner of the 1987 IEEE J. J. Ebers Award, winner in 1996 of the Jack A. Morton Award, recipient in 2000 of the C & C Prize from the Foundation for Communication and Computer Promotion in Japan
• Deborah Estrin, B.S. 1980 - Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, Director of the UCLA Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), Fellow of the ACM, Fellow of the IEEE, and Fellow of the AAAS
• Peter Fisher, B.S. 1983 - MIT Professor of Physics and Head of the Particle and Nuclear Experimental Physics Division at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Barbara J. Grosz, M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1977 - Dean, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study (2008-present); Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences, Harvard University; first tenured female professor at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; elected to National Academy of Engineering (2008)
• Ivan M. Havel, Ph.D. 1971 - Director of the Center for Theoretical Study, Prague, Czech Republic; younger sibling of former dissident and Czech President Václav Havel
• Giles Henderson, Fulbright Scholar 1966-67 - Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
• Harry C. Katz, AB 1973, PhD 1977 - current Dean of Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
• John P. Longwell, B.S. 1940 - Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Associate Director of its Center for Environmental Health Services, developed the well-stirred reactor, member of the National Academy of Engineering, President of The Combustion Institute and recipient of its Sir Alfred C. Egerton Medal in 1974
• Richard Luthy, B.S. 1967, M.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1976 - Chairman of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Stanford University, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Abbas Milani, B.A. 1970 - Hamid and Christian Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University
• Un-Chul Paek, B.S. 1965, Ph.D. 1969 - Dean of the Faculty at the Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Kwangju, Korea, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Daniel A. Rascher, Ph.D. 1997 - Dept. Head and Assoc. Professor of Sport Management, University of San Francisco
• Charles Shank, B.S. 1965, M.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1969 - Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1990-2005)
• Jane Shaw, Ph.D. 1994 - Dean of Divinity, New College, Oxford since 2001 and formerly Dean, Regent's Park College, Oxford
• Bruce A. Wooley, B.S. 1966, M.S. 1968, Ph.D. 1970 - Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Fellow of the IEEE and the President of the IEEE Solid State Circuits Society, IEEE Fortescue Fellow

Professors with endowments or named chairs

• Shadi Bartsch, M.A. 1989, Ph.D. 1991 - Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor of Classics, The University of Chicago
• Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D. 1993 - T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
• William B. Bridges, B.S. 1956, M.S. 1957, Ph.D. 1962 - Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, Caltech
• Stanley Cavell, B.A. 1947 - Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Harvard University
• Sunney I. Chan, B.S. 1957, Ph.D. 1961 - George Grant Hoag Professor of Biophysical Chemistry, Caltech
• Anantha Chandrakasan, B.S. 1989, M.S. 1990, Ph.D. 1994 - Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professorship in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• John H. Cochrane, Ph.D. 1986 - Myron S. Scholes Professor of Finance, The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
• Lizabeth Cohen, M.A. 1981, Ph.D. 1986 - Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Department of History, Harvard University
• Randall Collins, Ph.D. 1969 - Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
• Michael Dawson , B.A. 1982 - John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago
• Mark C. Elliott, Ph.D. 1993 - Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University, a leader in the "New Qing History"
• Arturo Escobar , Ph.D. 1987 - Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Paula Findlen, M.A. 1985, Ph.D. 1989 - Ubaldo Pierotti Professor in Italian History, Stanford University
• Robert H. Frank, M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1972 - Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics, Cornell University, monthly contributor to the "Economic Scene" column of The New York Times
• Susan Gal, M.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1976 - Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, The University of Chicago
• Marcia Inhorn, M.A. 1985, M.P.H. 1988, Ph.D. 1991 - William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, Yale University
• Alice Kaplan, B.A. 1975 - Gilbert, Louis and Edward Lehrman Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University
• Joseph Koerner, Ph.D. 1986 - Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
• Stephen Kotkin, M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1988 - Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Princeton University
• Teresa H. Meng, Ph.D. 1988 - Member, National Academy of Engineering, Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, IEEE Fellow
• Marion Nestle, B.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1968, M.P.H. 1986 - Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University, author of award-winning book Food Politics (2002) and Safe Food (2003); Lifetime Achievement Award from the James Beard Foundation, the food industry's highest honor, in 2003
• Katherine S. Newman, M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1979 - Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
• Ronald Numbers, Ph.D. 1969 - Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Nell Irvin Painter, B.A. 1964 - Edwards Professor Emerita of American History, Princeton University
• Thomas Sargent, B.A. 1964 - Berkley Professor of Economics and Business, New York University
• William H. Sewell, Jr., M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1971 - Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science, The University of Chicago
• Sidney Tarrow, Ph.D. 1965 - Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Sociology, Cornell University
• James L. Watson, Ph.D. 1972 - Fairbanks Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
• Paul Frederick White, B.S. 1970, Ph.D. 1976, M.D. 1977 - Margaret Milam McDermott Distinguished Chair of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Rosalind Williams, M.A. 1967 - Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology, MIT; President, Society for the History of Technology (2005-07)
• Robert Wuthnow, Ph.D. 1975 - Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
• Amnon Yariv, B.S. 1954, M.S. 1956, Ph.D. 1958 - Martin and Eileen Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, Caltech
• Wen-hsin Yeh, Ph.D. 1984 - Richard H. and Laurie C. Morrison Chair Professor in History, University of California, Berkeley

Professors

• Asad Abidi, M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1981 - Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Irma Adelman , Ph.D. 1955 - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
• Özalp Babaoğlu, Ph.D. 1981 - Professor of Computer Science, University of Bologna (Italy)
• Regina Bendix, B.A. 1982 - Professor of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Gottingen (Germany)
• Eran Ben-Joseph, B.A. 1982, Ph.D. 1995 - Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Abraham Bers, B.S. 1953 - Professor of Electrical Engineering Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and principal investigator in its Research Laboratory of Electronics
• Mario Biagioli, M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1989 - Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
• João Biehl, Ph.D. 1999 - Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
• Stephen Bronner, Ph.D. 1975 - Political Theorist, Professor, Rutgers University
• Carlos Bustamante, PhD. 1981 - Professor of Physics, Chemistry and Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
• W. Craig Carter, B.S. 1983, M.S. 1987, Ph.D. 1989 - Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Andrew C.F. Chan, JP , M.B.A. - Professor of Marketing and Director of EMBA Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK); Former Chairman, Consumer Council, Hong Kong
• George W. Chang, PhD. 1967 - Associate Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, UC Berkeley
• John J. Clague, M.A. 1969 - Emeritus Scientist of the Geological Survey of Canada, Professor of Earth Sciences at Simon Fraser University
• Dalton Conley, B.A. 1990 - University Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, New York University
• David Tom Cooke, B.A. 1994 - Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, UC Davis Medical Center
• Stephanie Coontz, B.A. 1966 - Professor of History and Family Studies at Evergreen State College, author of the award-winning books The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (1992) and Marriage, A Social History (2005)
• Ernest G. Cravalho, B.S. 1961, M.S. 1962, Ph.D. 1967 - MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Van Buren N. Hansford Faculty Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Claudio Donoso, B.S. 1969 - Universidad austral de Chile Professor of forestry and forest ecology
• Robert D. English, B.A. 1980 - Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California
• Cynthia Enloe, M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1967 - Research Professor of International Development and Women's Studies, Clark University
• Amitai Etzioni, Ph.D. 1958 - University Professor, George Washington University
• Ben Finney, B.A. 1955 - University of Hawaii professor of anthropology, co-founder of the Polynesian Voyaging Society
• Andrew A. Frank, B.S. 1955, M.S. 1958 - Professor of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, UC Davis; the father of modern plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV)
• Sandra M. Gustafson, Ph.D. 1993 - Associate Professor of English, University of Notre Dame
• Lynne Hanley, Ph.D. - literary critic
• Susanna Hecht, M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1982 - Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA; a founder of "Political Ecology" approach to forestry; Guggenheim Fellow (2008)
• George M. Homsy, B.S. 1965 - Professor of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Sally P Horn, Ph.D. 1986 - Professor, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Chalmers Johnson, B.A. 1953, M.A. 1957, Ph.D. 1961 - author, professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego, president, and co-founder of the Japan Policy Research Institute
• Steven G. Kellman, M.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1972 - Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Texas at San Antonio, film critic and author of Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth (2005) and Perspectives on Raging Bull (1994)
• Elizabeth Lloyd, B.A. 1991 - Senior Lecturer ICT in Education, Kingston University, London
• Brian MacWhinney, B.A. 1965, M.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1974 - Professor of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University; leading researcher in the field of language acquisition
• Peter Marcuse, Ph.D. 1972 - Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University, son of Herbert Marcuse
• Yoky Matsuoka, B.S. 1993 - Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle; a leader in emerging field of neurobotics, which has led to pioneering developments in rehabilitation and prosthetics; MacArthur Fellow (2007)
• Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, B.S. 1970, M.S. 1972, Ph.D. 1975 MSE - Professor of Metallurgy and Geo-Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Charles B. Perrow, B.A. 1953, M.A. 1955, Ph.D. 1960 - Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Yale University
• James Petras, M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1967 - Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Binghamton University and political activist
• Marshall Poe, (M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1993) - Associate Professor of Russian and World History, University of Iowa; co-founder and former editor of academic journal Kritika; author of popular history book Everyone Knows Everything: The Rise of WikiWorld and the Democratization of Knowledge (2008)
• Noreen Reist, B.A. 1982 - Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University
• Josiah Royce, B.A. 1875 - philosopher, professor at Harvard University
• Deborah Tannen, M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1979 - Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University
• Augustine Thompson, O.P., Ph.D. 1988 - Professor of Religious Studies and History, University of Virginia
• Carl E. Thoresen, B.A. 1955 - Professor of Education, and by Courtesy, Psychology, and Psychiatry (Emeritus) at Stanford University
• Yi-Fu Tuan, Ph.D. 1957 - Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Wayne S. Vucinich, B.A. 1936, M.A. 1937, Ph.D. 1941 - a founding "father" of Russian and East European Studies, Professor of History, Stanford University

Arts and media

Architecture

• Julia Morgan, B.S. 1894 - architect, designed the Hearst Castle for newspaper businessman William Randolph Hearst
• Vladimir Ossipoff, B.A. 1931 - Russia-born "master of modern Hawaiian architecture"
• Peter Walker, B.S. 1955 - landscape architect, commissions include the World Trade Center Memorial and the Sony Center in Berlin

Books

• Amir Aczel, B.A. 1975, M.S. 1976 - popular mathematics writer, author of the bestseller Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem, former professor of history at Bentley College, Guggenheim Fellow in 2004
• Robert Baer (attended) - former CIA case officer, author of the memoir See No Evil (2003), which served as the basis of the movie Syriana (2005). George Clooney's Academy Award winning performance is loosely based on Baer
• Mischa Berlinski, B.A. 1998 - novelist, author of Fieldwork (2007)
• Kate Braverman, B.A. 1971 - poet, novelist; author of Lithium for Medea and Palm Latitudes
• David Brock, B.A. 1985 - political author (The Real Anita Hill [1993], Blinded by the Right [2002], The Republican Noise Machine [2004])
• Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, B.A. 1973, B.A. 1975, M.A. 1977, M.F.A. 1978 - multimedia artist; author of Dictee (1982)
• Jeff Chang, B.A. 1989 - hip-hop journalist and political activist; author of Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (2005) (American Book Award)
• James Chapman, B.A. 1978 - novelist
• Beverly Cleary, B.A. 1938 - author of books for children and young adults
• Sara Davidson, 1962 - author
• Tiffanie DeBartolo, B.A. 1992 - author of God-Shaped Hole and How To Kill A Rock Star, and writer/director of Dream For An Insomniac
• Philip K. Dick (attended) - science fiction author whose stories were made into the movies Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck, Screamers and A Scanner Darkly
• Joan Didion, B.A. 1956 - writer, author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), The White Album (1979), and The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Ph.D. 1984, writer, author of Mistress of Spices (1997), Sister of My Heart (1999) and The Palace of Illusions (2008).
• Robert Dunn, B.A. 1972 - novelist, publisher, musician. Author of Meet the Annas (2007) and Pink Cadillac (2002)
• Karen Joy Fowler, B.A. 1972 - writer, author of The Jane Austen Book Club (2004) (later made into a movie of the same name starring Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, and Kathy Baker)
• Barbara Guest, B.A. 1943 - sole female member of the modernist New York School of poets; awarded the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Poetry Society of America (1999)
• Christopher Kasparek, 1966 - author, translator
• Maxine Hong Kingston, B.A. 1962 - author, Senior Lecturer, recipient of 1997 National Humanities Medal awarded by President of the United States Bill Clinton
• Harry Lawton, B.A. 1949 - novelist, author of Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt (1960), later made into a movie, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, starring Robert Redford
• Jack London (attended 1896-1897) - novelist
• Bryan Malessa, B.A. 1999 - novelist, author of The Flight (2007)
• Greil Marcus, B.A. 1967, M.A. 1968 - cultural and music critic; author of Mystery Train (1975) and Lipstick Traces (1989)
• Terry McMillan, B.A. 1986 - author of Waiting to Exhale [1992] (later made into a film of the same name starring Whitney Houston) and How Stella Got Her Groove Back [1996] (later made into a film of the same name starring Angela Bassett)
• Dhan Gopal Mukerji - first successful Indian man of letters in the United States of America
• Frank Norris (attended 1890-1894) - American novelist; author of McTeague (1899), which became the basis for the classic 1924 silent film Greed
• Parker Palmer, Ph.D. 1970 - writer, author of The Courage to Teach (1997), Let Your Life Speak (2000), and A Hidden Wholeness (2004)
• Mary Pipher, B.A. 1969 - author, expert on culture and mental health; author of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, which was a best seller for over three years; author of the New York Times best seller The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families to Enrich Our Lives
• John V. Robinson, B.A. 1995 - photographer and folklorist, 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, Author of several books, including [http://www.amazon.com/Spanning-Strait-Building-Alfred-Memorial/dp/0974412414 Spanning the Strait: Building the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge (2004)
• Anneli Rufus, B.A. 1981 - journalist and author of many books, including Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto
• Louis Sachar, B.A. 1976 - author, Holes (1998), Sideways Stories From Wayside School series
• Mona Simpson, B.A. 1979 - novelist (Anywhere But Here, later made into a film of the same name starring Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman), Guggenheim Fellow, professor at Bard College; biological sister of Steve Jobs (co-founder of Apple Computer)
• Rebecca Solnit, M. Jour. 1984 - author, cultural historian, and activist; books include Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2000) and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (2003)
• Irving Stone, B.A. 1923 - novelist, Lust for Life[1934] (later made into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Kirk Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh) and The Agony and the Ecstasy [1961] (later made into a film of the same name starring Charleton Heston as Michelangelo)
• William T. Vollmann, (attended) - novelist
• Frank Warren, B.S. - founder of the PostSecret Project
• Robert Penn Warren, M.A. 1927 - novelist, poet; author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book All the King's Men (1946) , later made into a movie of the same name which won three Academy Awards
• Shawn Wong, B.A. 1971 - novelist, author of American Knees [1995] (made into the film, Americanese, released in 2009)

Music

• Gregory Abbott - composer and musician. Sang Shake You Down, in 1986, which reached #1 on Billboard
• Suzanne Ciani, M.A. 1970 - composer
• Les Claypool - bassist and singer of Primus
• Stewart Copeland, drummer of The Police
• Henry Cowell (attended 1914) - composer
• Marié Digby (attended) - singer-songwriter
• Adam Duritz (attended) - lead singer of Counting Crows
• Jewlia Eisenberg, B.A. 1998 - musician, cofounder of Charming Hostess
• Davey Havok (attended) - lead singer of AFI
• Robert Hurwitz - C.E.O. of Nonesuch Records
• Susanna Hoffs, B.A. 1980 - lead singer of The Bangles
• Georgeann Honegger, B.A. 1951 - pianist
• Ivan Ilić, B.A. 2001 - American pianist of Serbian descent based in Paris
• Andrew Imbrie, M.A. 1947 - composer
• Stephan Jenkins, B.A. 1987 - lead singer and songwriter of the band Third Eye Blind
• Michael Kang - a multi-instrumentalist for the jam band The String Cheese Incident
• Jonathan Kramer, Ph.D. 1969 - composer
• Phil Lesh, (attended) - bass guitarist of the band Grateful Dead
• Ed Masuga, B.A. 2002 – singer, musician, and songwriter
• Jose-Luis Orozco, B.A. 1976 - singer-songwriter
• Jade Puget, B.A. 1996 - guitarist of AFI
• Belinda Reynolds, B.A. 1990 - classical composer
• Malvina Reynolds, Ph.D. 1938 (also B.A., M.A.) - folk/blues singer-songwriter
• Terry Riley, M.A. 1961 - composer

Newspapers and magazines

• Joan Acocella, B.A. 1966 - dance critic, The New Yorker
• Scott Adams, M.B.A. 1986 - creator of Dilbert
• John Battelle, B.A. 1987, M.Jour. 1992 - Co-founder of Wired magazine

• Susan Berman, M.B.A. 1969 - author (Easy Street, Lady Las Vegas), newspaper reporter, magazine writer (New York)
• Max Boot, B.A. 1992 - conservative columnist and author
• Glenn Dickey, B.A. 1958 - sports columnist and author – San Francisco Chronicle (1963-2004) and San Francisco Examiner (2004-present)
• Pauline Esther Friedman, (attended, class of 1938) - a.k.a Abigail Van Buren ("Dear Abby")
• Rube Goldberg, 1904 - cartoonist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1948
• Marguerite Higgins, 1941 - journalist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1951, honored on a commemorative postal stamp issued by the United States Post Office
• Pauline Kael, B.A. 1940 - film critic, The New Yorker
• Joseph W. Knowland, B.A. 1953 - former publisher Oakland Tribune
• Jean LemMon - editor of Better Homes and Gardens magazine
• Wendy Lesser, M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1982 - cultural critic; founding editor of The Threepenny Review
• Zuzana Licko, B.A. 1984 - co-founder of Emigre magazine and type foundry
• Jan McGirk, B.A. 1972 - foreign correspondent and cyberpundit for British press
• Tim McGirk, B.A. 1974 - investigative journalist for Time magazine, war correspondent and Al Qaeda expert
• Maureen Orth, B.A. 1964 - author and writer for Vanity Fair magazine
• Stephan Pastis, B.A. 1989 - creator of Pearls Before Swine

• Adrian Tomine, B.A. 1996 - comic artist, Optic Nerve; regular illustrator for The New Yorker and other magazines
• Deborah Treisman, B.A. 1992 - fiction editor, The New Yorker
• Rudy VanderLans, B.A. 1984 - co-founder of Emigre magazine and type foundry
• Jann Wenner (attended) - Founder of Rolling Stone magazine
• Ed Wong, M.Jour./M.A. 1998 - reporter, The New York Times

Non-fictional broadcasting

• Margot Adler, B.A. 1968 - NPR correspondent, host of NPR's Justice Talking
• Robert Bazell, B.A. 1967 - NBC News' Chief Science and Health Correspondent
• Roxy Bernstein ?? 1996 - California Golden Bearssports announcer
• Jeffrey Brown, B.A. 19?? - Senior Correspondent on the PBS news program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
• Peter Chernin, B.A. 1974 - President of News Corporation and CEO of the Fox Group
• Christine_Chen, BA 1990, journalist, former news Anchor for KSTW and KCPQ-TV (both in Seattle, Washington]], winner of 2 Emmy Awards (1996 and 2002 ); principal of marketing communications consulting company Chen Communications
• Liz Claman, B.A. 1985 - CNBC Morning Call co-anchor
• Sumi Das, B.A. 1993 - CNN national correspondent based in Washington, D.C.
• Lisa Gonzales, B.A. 1998- KOVR CBS 13 Morning/ Afternoon News Anchor in Sacramento, California
• Corey Flintoff, B.A. 1970 - NPR Foreign Desk Correspondent and former host of NPR's All Things Considered
• Greg Gutfeld, B.A. 1987 - blogger and host of the late night talk show, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld on the Fox News Channel.
• Brianna Keilar, B.A. 2001 - Graduated with Phi Beta Kappa in Mass Communication & Psychology, former MTV correspondent, and currently a CNN correspondent
• Renée Montagne, B.A. 1973 - co-host of NPR's Morning Edition
• Kent Ninomiya, B.A. 1988 - TV news anchor (KSTP-TV), reporter, executive.
• Suchin Pak, B.A. 1997 - MTV correspondent
• Troy Roberts, B.A. 1984 - CBS News correspondent
• Michael Savage, Ph.D. 1978 - conservative radio talk show host, Savage Nation
• Linda Schacht, B.A. 1966, M.A. 1981 - journalist, winner of two Emmy Awards for broadcast journalism; lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
• Leroy Sievers, B.A. 19?? - news journalist, executive producer of news program Nightline, winner of 12 national news Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards
• Steve Somers, B.A. 1965 - WFAN overnight host
• Lisa Stark, B.A. 1978 - ABC News correspondent
• Kristen Sze, B.A. 1990 - TV news anchor for KGO-TV (in the San Francisco Bay area), former New York correspondent for Extra
• Michele Tafoya, B.A. 1988 - sports television reporter for ABC Sports and ESPN
• Morgan Webb, B.A. 2000 - Co-host of X-Play on G4
• Gwendolyn Wright, M.Arch. 1974, Ph.D. 1978 - co-host of popular PBS TV series History Detectives; professor of architecture, history, and art history at Columbia University; Guggenheim Fellow (2004-05)

Film, Television, & Theatre

• Kathy Baker, B.A. 1977 - three-time Emmy Award winning actress (Picket Fences [TV series, 1992-1996)]; The Right Stuff [1983], Edward Scissorhands [1990], The Cider House Rules [1999], Cold Mountain [2003])
• Jeffrey Berg, B.A. 1969, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of entertainment talent agency International Creative Management, member of the board of directors at Oracle Corporation, President of the Executive Board of the College of Letters and Sciences
• Bill Bixby (attended) - director, actor (The Incredible Hulk)
• Esther Lee, B.A. 2011 - actor (Pirates [2009])
• Guy Branum, B.A. 1998- Head Writer of X-Play
• Golden Brooks, B.A. 1994 - film and television actress; appeared on UPN sitcom, Girlfriends; studied literature and sociology with an emphasis on media representation of minorities at UC Berkeley
• John Cheng, 1996 - producer, Code Name: The Cleaner http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462229/
• John Cho, B.A. 1996 - actor (American Pie [1999], Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle [2004])
• Jeff Cohen, B.S. 1996 - former actor (Chunk in The Goonies), currently entertainment lawyer
• Roxann Dawson, B.A. 1980 - actress (B'Elanna Torres on the television series Star Trek: Voyager), director, author, playwright
• Ralph Edwards, B.A. 1935 - national television host and producer
• Jon Else, B.A. 1968 - Prix Italia winner (The Day After Trinity), Emmy Award winner, nominated twice for the Academy Award, 1999 winner of the Sundance Film Festival Filmmaker's Trophy, MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow, cinematographer on the Academy Award winning Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, professor of journalism at UC Berkeley
• Charles H. Ferguson, B.A. 1978 - director of documentary film on the American occupation in Iraq No End in Sight (2007), former fellow at the Brookings Institution, lifelong member of the Council on Foreign Relations, co-founder of Vermeer Technologies Incorporated (acquired by Microsoft for $133 million), founder and president of Representational Pictures
• Carl Franklin, B.A. 1971 - film director (One False Move [1992], Devil in a Blue Dress [1995], High Crimes [2002], Out of Time [2003])
• Takashi Fujimoto, B.A. 1962 - Cinematographer and director of photography; Boston Society of Film Critics Award in 1991 for work on Silence of the Lambs, National Society of Film Critics Award in 1996 for Devil in a Blue Dress
• Peter Gethers (attended 1970-1972) - screenwriter and author of bestselling Norton the cat trilogy
• Amos Gitai, Ph.D. (Architecture) 1986 - Israeli film director (Field Diary [1982], Eden [2001], Free Zone [2005])
• Karen Grassle, B.A. 1965 - actress, best known for her role as Caroline Ingalls (the mother) on the Little House on the Prairie television series
• Mark Goodson, B.A. 1937 - television producer who specialized in game shows
• David Herrera, B.A. 2004 - Music Video Director for Rebus101 Films Inc (Andrew Bird, Mnemonic, Zap Mama, Michael Zapruder, Radiohead, Vagabond Opera), and co-writer of Security with Rob Nilsson. Current President of Cal Alumni in Arts & Entertainment Club
• Edith Head, B.A. in French 1918 - costume designer, winner of eight Academy Awards and nominated for 34 Academy Awards
• William Hung (attended) - Contestant on American Idol
• Chris Innis, B.A. (Film) 1988 - film editor, American Gothic , The Hurt Locker, G.I. Jane (Associate Editor)
• Oren Jacob, B.S. 1992, M.S. 1995 - Pixar Animation Studios technical director
• Stacy Keach, B.A. 1963 - actor, narrator of documentaries from National Geographic and Nova
• Adam Lamberg (Class of 2006) - actor (Lizzie McGuire)
• Sanaa Lathan, B.A. 1992 - actress (Blade [1998], Something New [2006]; Tony Award nomination [2004], Raisin in the Sun)
• Quentin Lee, B.A. 1992 - Asian-American film director (Shopping for Fangs [1997], Drift [2001], Ethan Mao [2004])
• Joshua Marston, B.A. 1990 - film director (Maria Full of Grace [2004])
• Quinn Martin, B.A. 1949 - television producer (The Fugitive, The Streets of San Francisco)
• Jerry Mathers, B.A. 1974 - actor (Leave it to Beaver)
• Freida Lee Mock, B.A. 1961 - documentary filmmaker, winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1995 (for Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision)
• Errol Morris (attended philosophy graduate program 1973-1975) - documentary film director (The Thin Blue Line [1988], Fog of War [2003])
• Shirin Neshat, B.A. 1979, M.F.A. 1982 - Iranian-American filmmaker, video artist, and photographer; 1999 Venice Biennale First Prize Winner
• Gregory Peck, B.A. 1939 - actor, won the Academy Award for portrayal of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), nominated for the Oscar four other times; served as president of the Screen Actors Guild
• Chris Pine, B.A. 2002 - actor (Star Trek, The Princess Diaries 2, Smokin' Aces)
• Walter Plunkett, B.A. 1923 - Academy Award winning costume designer
• James Schamus, B.A. 1982, M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 2003 - screenwriter and movie producer known for his frequent collaborations with Ang Lee on movies (The Wedding Banquet [1993] and Eat Drink Man Woman [1994], and the Academy Award winning movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [2000] and Brokeback Mountain [2005]), professor at Columbia University
• Andrew Schneider, B.A. 1973 - screenwriter and executive producer, co-winner of an Emmy Award in 1992 for Northern Exposure
• Brett Simon, M.F.A. 2002, Ph.D. 2003 - director, Assassination of a High School President
• Randi Mayem Singer, B.A. 1979 - writer and producer, Mrs. Doubtfire (starring Robin Williams and Sally Field), Jack and Jill
• George Takei, 1959 (attended, later transferred to UCLA) - actor (Star Trek)
• Nancy Tellem, B.A. 1975 - President of CBS Paramount Television Network Entertainment Group
• Morgan Webb, B.A. 2001- Host of X-Play
• Audrey Wells, B.A. 1981 - screenwriter (The Truth About Cats & Dogs [1996], starring Uma Thurman and Janeane Garofalo) and director (Under the Tuscan Sun [2003], starring Diane Lane)
• Aaron Woolfolk, B.A. 1992 - film director, screenwriter The Harimaya Bridge

Business

See also: Science and technology, Haas School of Business.

Founders and co-founders

• Tom Anderson, B.A. 1998 - Creator and founding member of social networking website MySpace (acquired by News Corporation for $580 million)
• Stephen D. Bechtel, 1954 (honorary) - Founder of engineering services company Bechtel Corporation
• Brian Behlendorf - co-founder of the web server software developer Apache Group, co-founder and former president of the Apache Software Foundation, co-recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery Software System Award in 1999, member of the board of directors of the Mozilla Foundation, co-founder and chief technology officer of CollabNet
• Joan Blades, B.A. 1977 - Co-founder of After Dark "flying-toaster" screensaver and video game company Berkeley Systems (acquired by Sierra Online for $13 million), co-founder of political activist group MoveOn.org
• Richard C. Blum, B.S. 1958, M.B.A. 1959 - Investment banker (Blum Capital Partners), founder of the philanthropic American Himalayan Foundation, Regent of the University of California
• Richard Bolt B.A. 1933, M.A. 1937, Ph.D. 1939 - Professor at MIT and Internet pioneer and businessman, founder of the groundbreaking computer company Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN)
• Eric Brewer, B.S. EECS 1989 - Co-founder of web search engine company Inktomi (acquired by Yahoo! for $235 million), tenured professor at UC Berkeley, director of Intel Research Berkeley
• Gary Chevsky - Co-founder of web search engine company Ask.com, where he served as the chief software architect of its natural language processing search engine
• Weili Dai, B.A. Computer Science 1984 - Co-founder (with husband Sehat Sutardja MS 1983, PhD 1988 EECS and brother-in-law Pantas Sutardjai MS 1983, PhD 1988 ) of broadband technology company Marvell Technology Group, a billion dollar company on the NASDAQ-100; namesake of Sutardja-Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus
• James Dao, B.S. EECS 1960 - founder and CEO of Genyous Biomed (Automated Quantitative Cytometry cancer detection), founder and former CEO of ETEC Systems (scanning electron microscope R&D company)
• Dennis DeAndre, B.A. Business - Founder of LoopNet, a NASDAQ-listed commercial real estate listing services company.
• Stephanie DiMarco, B.S. Business 1979 - Co-founder (with Steve Strand, B.S. EECS 1979) and CEO of billion-dollar NASDAQ-listed financial software company Advent Software
• Lee Felsenstein, B.S. EECS 1972 - pioneer in the personal computer industry, founder of Community Memory, designer of the Osborne 1 computer, and influential leading mediator of the Homebrew Computer Club, from which would emerge 23 companies, including Apple Computer
• Donald Fisher, B.S. 1951 - Founder and Chair of NYSE-listed clothing retailer The Gap
• Rob Fulop, B.S. CS 1980 - engineer at video game company Atari, developed Atari 2600 versions of Missile Command and Night Driver, co-founder of video game company Imagic, Billboard "Video game Designer of the Year" in 1983, co-founder of video game company PF Magic (known for creating the first virtual pets such as Dogz)
• Coleman Fung, B.S. IEOR 1987 - co-founder of database middleware software company OpenLink Software, namesake of the Coleman Fung Risk Management Research Center at UC Berkeley
• Robert Gaskins, M.A. 1974 - Creator of the software application PowerPoint (acquired by Microsoft for $14 million as its "first significant software acquisition")
• Steve Gibson (attended) - Founder of computer software security company Gibson Research Corporation and co-host of Security Now!
• Daniel Goldman, B.A. 1998 - Founder of online gaming company Total Entertainment Network, which became Pogo.com and was acquired by Electronic Arts
• Diane Greene, MS CS 1988 - Co-founder (with husband Mendel Rosenblum MS 1989, PhD 1992 and Edward Wang BSEECS 1983, MS 1988, PhD1994) of VMWare
• John Hanke, MBA 1996 - founder and CEO of Internet geography services company Keyhole, Inc. (acquired by Google, and whose flagship project was renamed to Google Earth)
• F. Warren Hellman, BA 1955, Founder of Hellman & Friedman and Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates (today Matrix Partners, with $2.4 billion under management). Former president, chairman, head of Investment Banking Division of Lehman Brothers.
• Mike Homer, B.S. 1981 - Co-founder and former CEO of networking company Kontiki (acquired by VeriSign for $62 million)
• Kai Huang, B.A. 1994 - Co-founder and president of video game company RedOctane (publisher of Guitar Hero and acquired by Activision for $99.9 million)
• James Hong, BS 1995, MBA 1999- co-founder (with Jim Young, BS 1994, MS 1997) of Internet rating site Hot Or Not (acquired by Avid Life Media for $20 million )
• Bill Joy, M.S. 1982 - Co-founder of NASDAQ-listed computer software and hardware manufacturer Sun Microsystems
• Gene Kan, B.S. 1997 - Founder of distributed search engine InfraSearch (acquired by Sun Microsystems for approximately $10 million)
• Daryn Lau, B.S. EE 1986 - Senior vice-president and general manager of semiconductor company Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, co-founder of semiconductor company ZettaCom (acquired by Integrated Device Technology for $35 million)
• James Lau, B.A. Math and C.S. 1981 - Co-founder and executive vice-president of computer network storage company NetApp (on the NASDAQ-100); recipient of a Lifetime Achievement award from the UC Berkeley School of Engineering
• Brian P.Y. Liu (BS Biochemistry) - Chairman and co-founder (along with attorney Robert Shapiro) of Internet-based self-help legal documents company LegalZoom
• Thomas J. Long, B.S. 1932 - Founder of pharmaceutical retailer Longs Drugs (acquired by CVS Caremark for $2.54 billion)
• Hong Llang Lu, B.S. 1978 - Founder and CEO of NASDAQ-listed billion-dollar Fortune 1000 networking company UTStarcom (named by the World Economic Forum to its Technology Pioneers list)
• Brian Maxwell, B.A. 1975 - Founder of energy bar food company PowerBar (acquired by Nestlé for $375 million)
• Steve McCanne, B.S. 1990, Ph.D. 1996 - Co-developer of Internet broadband technology MBone, co-founder of Internet broadband technology company FastForward Networks (acquired by Inktomi for $1.3 billion), co-founder and current CTO of Riverbed Technology, former assistant professor at UC Berkeley
• Milo Medin, B.S. 1985 - Founder of Internet broadband company @home Network, which was eventually acquired by AT&T for $307 million
• Sanjay Mehrotra, B.S. 1978, M.S. EE 1980 - Co-founder, president, and chief operating officer of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor flash memory company SanDisk
• Gordon E. Moore, B.S. 1950 - Co-founder of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company Intel , the originator and namesake of Moore's Law, recipient of the 1990 National Medal of Technology
• Kate and Laura Mulleavy, B.A. 2001 - studied art history and English, respectively; founders of clothing and fashion accessories brand Rodarte.
• Michael Olson, B.A. 1991, M.A. 1992 - CEO of commercial Apache Hadoop vendor Cloudera; former CEO of database software company Sleepycat Software (acquired in 2006 by Oracle Corporation), one of the original authors of database software BerkeleyDB
• Robert S. Pepper, B.S. 1957, M.S. 1959, Ph.D. 1961 - Founder and CEO of Level One Semiconductor, acquired by Intel for $2.11 billion
• Kim Polese, B.S. 1984 (biophysics) - CEO of software company SpikeSource; the original product manager of the Java programming language at Sun Microsystems; co-founder and former CEO of software company Marimba (acquired by BMC Software for $239 million)
• In Sik Rhee, B.S. EECS 1993 - Co-founder (with Marc Andreessen) of software company LoudCloud(which was renamed to Opsware and was acquired by HP for $1.6 billion)
• Warren Robinett, M.S. C.S. 1976 - Originator of Easter eggs, co-founder of edutainment software company The Learning Company (acquired by Mattel for $3.8 billion)
• Mendel Rosenblum, MS 1989 , PhD 1992 - Co-founder (with wife Diane Greene MS CS 1988 and Edward Wang BSEECS 1983, MS 1988, PhD1994) of VMWare
• John Schaeffer, 1971 - Founder of NASDAQ-listed solar energy retailer Real Goods Solar and the Solar Living Center
• John Scharffenberger, 1973 - namesake and co-founder of chocolate company "Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker" (acquired by Hershey's for approximately $20 million )
• Ronald V. Schmidt, B.S. EECS 1966, M.S. EECS 1968, Ph.D. EECS 1971- "the man who brought Ethernet to the masses" while a researcher at XEROX Parc, co-founder and chief technology officer of semiconductor electronics firm SynOptics, Vice President at Bell Labs/Lucent
• Jim Simons, Ph.D. 1972 - mathematician, philanthropist, founder of the $20 billion hedge fund management company Renaissance Technologies
• James Solomon, B.S. EE and M.S. EE 19?? - Founded electronic design automation company SDA Systems (which became the NASDAQ-listedCadence Design Systems); winner of the Phil Kaufman Award in 1997.
• Masayoshi Son, B.A. 1980 - Founder and CEO of venture capital company Softbank Capital
• Paul Stephens, B.S. 1967, M.B.A. 1969 - Investment banker, co-founder of Robertson Stephens & Company
• Steve Strand, B.S. EECS 1979 - Co-founder (with Stephanie DiMarco, B.S. Business 1979) of billion-dollar NASDAQ-listed financial software company Advent Software
• Sehat Sutardja, M.S. 1983, Ph.D. 1988 EECS - Co-founder (with wife Weili Dai BA Computer Science 1984 and brother Pantas Sutardjai MS 1983, PhD 1988) of broadband technology company Marvell Technology Group , a billion dollar company in the NASDAQ 100; namesake of Sutardja-Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus
• Pantas Sutardja, B.S. 1983, M.S. 1985, Ph.D. 1988 EECS - Co-founder (with brother Shat Sutardjai MS 1983, PhD 1988 and sister-in-law Weili Dai BA Computer Science 1984) of Marvell Technology Group ; namesake of Sutardja-Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus
• Ralph Ungermannn, B.S.E.E. 1964 - Co-founder of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company Zilog (the company whose Z80 architecture was used in the CPU for the handheld video game units Nintendo Game Boy, Nintendo Game Boy Color , and Nintendo Game Boy Advance)
• Craig Walker, B.A. 1988, J.D. 1995 - Co-founder and CEO of Internet software company GrandCentral (acquired by Google for $50 million)
• Robert Walker, B.S. EE 1958 - co-founder of NYSE-listed semiconductor ASIC company LSI Logic
• Edward Wang, B.S. EECS 1983, M.S. 1988, Ph.D. 1994 - Co-founder (with Diane Greene MS CS 1988 and Mendel Rosenblum MS 1989 , PhD 1992) and Principal Engineer of NASDAQ-listed software company VMware
• Ralph Warner (Law, ca. 1966) - pioneer in the legal self-help book industry, founder of Nolo Press
• Alice Waters, B.A. 1967 - celebrity chef, founder of Chez Panisse, originator of the California cuisine style of gourmet cooking; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Dean Witter, 1909 - Co-founder and Partner, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
• Steve Wozniak, Class of 1976, graduated B.S. 1986 - Co-founder of NASDAQ-listed computer software and hardware manufacturer Apple Computer, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Johns Wu, B.A. 2007 - Founder & CEO of dot-com company Bankaholic (acquired by Bankrate for $14.9 million)
• Alisa Yaffa, B.A. 1986 - Co-founder of semiconductor company Synplicity (acquired by Synopsys for $227 million)
• Jim Young, BS 1994, MS 1997 - co-founder (with James Hong, BS 1995, MBS 1999) of Internet rating site Hot Or Not (acquired by Avid Life Media for $20 million )

Chairmen, Chairwomen, Presidents and CEOs

• Mitchell Baker, B.A. 1979, J.D. 1987 - President of the web browser company Mozilla Corporation, chair of the Mozilla Foundation
• Brian Barish, B.A. 1991 - President of the investment firm Cambiar Investors, LLC.
• Jeeri R. Reddy, Ph.D. 1995 - President and Scientific Director, JN-International Medical Corporation
• Bengt Baron, B.S. 1985, M.B.A. 1988 - CEO of V&S Group (Stockholm, Sweden); former CEO of Absolut Vodka; 1980 Summer Olympics Gold Medalist in 100m Men's Backstroke
• John Danne, B.S. EECS 1986 - President and CEO of semiconductor company Altera, former vice-president at semiconductor company LSI Logic
• Robert V. Dickinson, B.A. Physics 19?? - President and CEO of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company California Micro Devices
• Patricia Dunn, B.A. 1975 - former Chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard
• John East, B.S. 1966 - CEO of semiconductor company Actel
• Andrew Grove, Ph.D. 1963 - 4th employee of semiconductor company Intel, and eventually its President, CEO, and Chairman, and TIME magazine's Man of the Year in 1997
• Timothy Guertin, B.S. 1972 - President and Chief Executive Officer of medical technology company Varian Medical Systems
• Walter A. Haas, Sr., B.S. 1910 - Former President and CEO of clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss & Co.
• Walter A. Haas, Jr., B.S. 1937 - Former President and CEO of Levi Strauss & Co.
• Paul E. Jacobs, B.S. 1984, M.S. 1986, Ph. D 1989 - CEO of wireless telecommunications company Qualcomm
• Pradman Kaul, B.S. 1968, M.S. 1968 - Chairman and CEO of broadband satellite services company Hughes Network Systems, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Howard Lincoln, B.A. 1962, J.D. 1965 - former Chairman of video game company Nintendo of America, Chairman and CEO of the Seattle Mariners
• Lothar Maier, B.S. Chem. E. 1978 - CEO of NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Linear Technology
• Shantanu Narayen, M.B.A. 1993- President and CEO of software company Adobe Systems Inc.
• Paul Otellini, M.B.A. 1974 - CEO of semiconductor company Intel (2005-present)
• Rudolph A. Peterson, B.S. 1925, President and CEO of Bank of America
• Arvind Raghunathan, Ph.D. 1988 - CEO of Roc Hedge Fund, former Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage, Deutsche Bank, Fellow of the Institute for Combinatorics
• John Riccitiello, B.S. 1981 - CEO of video game company Electronic Arts (April 2007-present); managing director and co-founder of Elevation Partners; former president and chief operating officer (October 1997 to April 2004) of Electronic Arts (grew the company from $673 million to $3 billion, increased profits over 900%); former President and Chief Executive Officer, Bakery Division, at Sara Lee; former President and Chief Executive Officer of Wilson Sporting Goods
• Arun Sarin, M.S. 1978, M.B.A. 1978 - CEO of London-based wireless service provider company Vodafone (2003-present)
• Eric E. Schmidt, M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1982 - CEO of web search company Google (2001-present)
• Stephen A. Skaggs, B.S. 1984 - President and CEO of Lattice Semiconductor
• Cher Wang, M.A. 1981 - Chair of computer motherboard manufacturer VIA Technologies and portable electronics manufacturer HTC
• Hal Zarem, B.S. Physics 1980 - Chief Executive Officer, Silicon Light Machines division of Cypress Semiconductor

Vice-Presidents, CFO's, and CTO's

• Maury Austin, B.S. - CFO of semiconductor company MIPS Technologies
• Jeffrey C. Benzing, B.S. Mech. Eng. 19?? - Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer of semiconductor company Novellus Systems
• Anthony C. Bonora B.S. ME 1964, M.S. ME 1966 - Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company Asyst Technologies
• Arthur Chong, A.B. - Senior Vice President, General Counsel of broadband semiconductor company Broadcom
• Kevin Donelly, B.S. EECS 1985 - Senior Vice-President of Engineering at semiconductor RAM interface company Rambus
• Charles Giancarlo, M.S. EECS 1980 - Chief Development Officer of networking technology company Cisco Systems
• Michael C. Kavanaugh, B.S. 1961, M.S. 1974 - Vice-President of the environmental engineering firm of Malcolm Pirnie, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Paul Keswick, B.S. 1979 - Executive Vice President of Cypress Semiconductor
• Neil Y. Kim, BS EECS - Senior Vice President, Operations and Central Engineering of broadband semiconductor company Broadcom
• E. Floyd Kvamme, B.S. EECS 1959 - former vice-president and president at National Semiconductor, former vice-president at Apple Computer, venture capitalist Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
• Lin Lee, B.A. C.S. - Vice president of Global Communities at computer manufacturer Sun Microsystems, former Vice President of Product Development for W-Phone, co-founder of database software company CenterView (acquired by Informix)
• Bruce H. Leising, B.S. 1976- Vice President of the Technology and Manufacturing Group at semiconductor company Intel
• Judy Lin, dual B.A.'s in C.S. and European History 19?? - Former Executive Vice President of network infrastructure company VeriSign
• Byron Lok, B.S. CS 1976 - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of semiconductor company LSI Logic
• Craig London, B.S. Physics - Executive Vice President of electronics manufacturing services company Solectron
• Bob Lutz, B.S. 1961, M.B.A. 1962 - General Motors Vice Chairman, Product Development, and Chairman, General Motors North America, former Vice Chairman for Chrysler
• Ken Milnes, B.S. EECS 1977 - Senior Vice-President of television technology company Sportvision, winner of 4 Emmy Awards in broadcasting technology
• Stuart Nichols, B.A. 1983 - Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of semiconductor company MIPS Technologies
• David Nguyen, B.S. 19?? - Vice president of Engineering at semiconductor RAM interface company Rambus
• Denny Parker, B.S. 1965, M.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1970 - Senior Vice-President, Brown and Caldwell; member of the National Academy of Engineering
• George Palmer, B.S. EECS 19?? - Vice President of Operations at semiconductor company SiBEAM
• Mark Pittman, B.A. 1982 - Vice President of Sales, MIPS Processor Group, at semiconductor company MIPS Technologies
• Kate Rundle, B.A. 1978 - Executive Vice-President and General Counsel of optical semiconductor company Bookham, former Vice President and General Counsel of semiconductor company MIPS Technologies
• Steve Schumann] B.S. EECS 1982 - Vice president and general manager at semiconductor company Atmel
• Vincent Tong, B.S. EECS 19?? - Vice-president of Worldwide Quality and Reliability Engineering at semiconductor company Xilinx
• Vincent Win, B.S. EECS 19?? - former Vice President of ATI Technologies, Vice President at semiconductor company AMD
• Robert Yung, B.A. 1985, M.S. EECS 1988, Ph.D. EECS 1998 - Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of semiconductor company PMC-Sierra, former Chief Technology Officer for the Asia division of Sun Microsystems, named in 2000 as one of the "Top 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum

Other

• Stewart Blusson, Ph.D. 1964 - multimillionaire diamond magnate (Ekati Diamond Mine) and philanthropist
• Jean Paul Getty (transferred to the University of Oxford)
• William Randolph Hearst, Jr. (attended) - newspaper publisher
• Michael Milken, B.S. 1968 - Financier, Drexel Burnham Lambert, philanthropist

Wine

• William Harlan, B.A. 1963 - Harlan Estate, Bond, The Napa Valley Reserve, a cult wine Cabernet Sauvignon producer
• Meredith (Merry) Edwards, B.A. 1970 - Merry Edwards Wines, a premium Pinot Noir producer
• Jess S. Jackson, J.D. 1974 - Founder, Kendall Jackson Wine Estates
• Eugene E. Trefethen, Jr, B.A. 1930 - Trefethen Winery, Napa Valley
• Peter Wellington, B.A. 1978 - founder and winemaker at Wellington Vineyards, Sonoma Valley Cabernet and 100 year old Zinfindel
• Charles P. Karren, B.A. 1990 - grower & owner of Terra de Promissio, a Sonoma Coast vineyard for cult Pinot producers Kosta-Browne, Chasseur, Lynmar, Siduri, Patz & Hall
• Michaela Rodena, M.B.A. 1980 - CEO of St. Supery Winery
• Jamie Davies, B.A. 1956 - Leader of Schramsberg, a premium sparkling wine producer, Napa Valley
• Jim Bundschu, B.A. 1968 Gundlach Bundschu, Sonoma Valley winery

Politics and government

See also: Boalt Hall

Heads of state

• Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, B.A. 1950 - President of Pakistan (1971-1973), Prime Minister of Pakistan (1973-1977), father of Benazir Bhutto
• Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands (Laurentien Brinkhorst), M.Jour. 1991 - Princess of Orange-Nassau, Netherlands; wife of Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands and daughter of the Dutch minister of Economic Affairs, Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst and Jantien Brinkhorst-Heringa
• Prince Johan-Friso of Orange-Nassau (attended College of Engineering 1986-1988) - Prince of Orange-Nassau, Netherlands; second son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Prince Claus von Amsberg
• Sun Fo, B.A. 1916 - Premier of the Republic of China, President of National Chiao Tung University, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Soochow University
• Francisco I. Madero (attended 1892-1893) - President of Mexico (1911-1913)
• Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway, B.A. 1999 - heir to the throne of Norway
• Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1966 - President of Costa Rica (1998-2002)

Governors

• James H. Budd, 1873 - Governor of California
• Edmund G. Jerry Brown Jr., B.A. 1961 - Governor of California, Mayor of Oakland, California
• John Morton Eshleman, B.A. 1903, M.A. 1905 - Lieutenant Governor of California (1915-1916)
• John Garamendi, BA 1966 - Lieutenant Governor of California (2007-present)
• Walter A. Gordon, B.A. 1918, J.D. 1922 - Governor of the Virgin Islands, judge, member of National Football Foundation Hall of Fame
• Jennifer Granholm, B.A. 1984, J.D. - Governor of Michigan (2003-present), first female to hold this position in the state of Michigan
• James Soong, M.A. 1967 - Governor of Taiwan Province
• Marcelo Trivelli, M.B.A. 1980 - Governor (Intendente) of Santiago, Chile
• Earl Warren, B.A. 1912, J.D. 1914 - Attorney General of California, 1939–1943; Governor of California, 1943–1953; 14th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1953–1969
• Pete Wilson, J.D. 1962 - U.S. Senator, Governor of California

Executive council members

The following served as cabinet-level officials.

• Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn, B.S. 1964 - Life peer in the House of Lords (1990-present); Senior Unofficial Member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (1985-1988); Senior Unofficial Member of the Hong Kong Executive Council (1988-1995); non-executive Deputy Chairman of HSBC (1992-2008)
• Andrej Bajuk, M.S. 1972 - Minister of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia, Prime Minister of Slovenia (May-November 2000)
• W. Michael Blumenthal, B.S. 1951 - United States Secretary of the Treasury (1977-1979)
• Michael Boskin, B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1971 - Chair, Presidential Council of Economic Advisors, professor at Stanford University
• Mostafa Chamran, Ph.D. 1963 - former Iranian Minister of Defense
• Judith Heumann, M.P.H. 1975 - pioneer for disability rights and former Assistant United States Secretary of Education
• Franklin Lane, 1887 - United States Secretary of the Interior
• Robert McNamara, B.A. 1937 - President of World Bank (1968-1981), United States Secretary of Defense (1961-1968), President of Ford Motor Company (1960)
• Norman Mineta, B.S. 1953 - Congressman, United States Secretary of Transportation (2001-present), United States Secretary of Commerce (2000-2001)
• Rodrigo Rato, M.B.A. 1974 - Spain's former Minister of Economy, Managing Director of International Monetary Fund (IMF) (2004-2007)
• Dean Rusk (studied law, Class of 1940) - United States Secretary of State (1961-1969)
• Ann Veneman, M.P.P. 1971 - United States Secretary of Agriculture (2001-2005); Executive Director of UNICEF (2005-present)

Judges

See also: Boalt Hall

• Lance Ito, J.D. 1975 - judge, presided over O.J. Simpson trial
• Roger J. Traynor, B.A. 1923, Ph.D. 1926, J.D. 1927 - Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court (1964-1970)
• Earl Warren, B.A. 1912, J.D. 1914 - 14th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1953-1969) (also listed in Governors section and Attorneys section)

Legislators

• Dick Ackerman, B.A. 1964 - California State Senate Republican Leader
• Susan Davis, B.A. 1965 - Congresswoman (D-CA) (2001-present)
• Ron Dellums, M.S.W. 1962 - Congressman
• Vernon Ehlers, Ph.D. 1960 - Congressman (R-Michigan) (1993-present)
• William F. Knowland, B.A. 1929 - U.S. Senator
• Mohammad Javad Larijani, Ph.D. - former Member of Parliament, Iran
• Barbara Lee, M.S.W. 1975 - Congresswoman (D-Oakland) (1998-present)
• Doris Matsui, B.A. 1966 - Congresswoman (D-California) replacing her decreased husband, Robert Matsui
• Robert Matsui, B.A. 1963 - Congressman
• Cynthia McKinney, Ph.D. candidate - Congresswoman (D-Georgia)
• Dan K. Morhaim, B.A. 1970 - Maryland Legislator.
• Nicole Parra, B.A. 1992 - California state Assemblywoman (2002-present)
• Ira Ruskin, B.A. 1968 - Democratic California State Assemblyman (21 Assembly District) (2004-present)
• Linda Sanchez, B.A. 1991 - Congresswoman (2002-present)
• Peter F. Schabarum, B.S. 1951 - California state Assemlyman (1966-1972), Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (1972 - 1991)
• Dalip Singh Saund, M.A. 1922, Ph.D. 1924 - first Indian American Congressman (D-California) (1957-1963), mathematician
• Todd Spitzer, M.P.P. 1989 - California State Assemblyman

Directors

• Horace Albright, B.A. 1912 - conservationist, helped establish the National Park Service (with Stephen Mather, Class of 1887), second director of the National Park Service, awarded the Medal of Freedom
• Harvey Oren Banks, Ph.D. 1964 - State Engineer of California (1955), first Director of the California Department of Water Resources (1956-1961)
• G. Wayne Clough. Ph.D. 1969 - 12th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (2008-present); former President of Georgia Tech (see above)
• Nicolle Devenish, B.A. 1994 - White House Communications Director (2004-present)
• Newton B. Drury, B.A. 1912 - conservationist, fourth Director of the National Park Service
• Julie Gerberding, M.P.H. 1990 - Director of the Centers for Disease Control (2002-present)
• Stephen Mather, 1887 - conservationist, Founding Director of the National Park Service
• John McCone, B.S. 1922 - Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (1961-1965)
• Marc Pachter, B.A. 1964 - Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (2000-2007); Acting Director of the National Museum of American History, Washington, DC (2000-2003)

Mayors

• Jerry Brown, B.A. 1961 - Mayor of Oakland (listed under Governors section)
• Christopher Cabaldon, B.S. 1987- Mayor of West Sacramento, California
• Soon Cho, Ph.D. 1967 - Mayor of Seoul, South Korea, former Deputy Prime Minister of South Korea
• Shirley Dean, B.A. 1956 - Mayor of Berkeley, California (1994-2002)
• Lionel Wilson, B.A. 1938 - first African American Mayor of Oakland

Diplomats

• Martin Brennan, B.A. 1971 - Former United States Ambassador to Zambia and Uganda
• John Kenneth Galbraith, M.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1934 - Harvard Professor Emeritus of Economics; Ambassador to India
• March Fong Eu, B.S. 1943 - former California Secretary of State, former US Ambassador to Micronesia, mother of Matt Fong, another noted Chinese-American politician
• Philip Habib, Ph.D. 1952 - U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East
• John K. Menzies, Ph.D. - former U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina and current Dean of the Whitehead School of Diplomacy at Seton Hall University
• Sadako Ogata, Ph.D. 1963 - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1991-2001)
• James D. Zellerbach, 1913 - United States Ambassador to Italy
• Emeline U Tuita, MBA, 1962- Commercial Consul, Tonga Consulate General in San Francisco (1990-1992), Consul General at Tonga Consulate General in San Francisco (1996-1999), Ambassador of the Kingdom of Tonga to the People's Republic of China (2005-2008)

Attorneys

See also: Boalt Hall

• Zoe Baird, B.A. 1974, J.D. 1977 - attorney, President of Markle Foundation; nominated by President Clinton for United States Attorney General post
• Melvin Belli, J.D. 1929 - attorney
• Beth Brinkmann, B.A. 1980 - former Assistant to the Solicitor General of the U.S. (1993 to 2001) and a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Morrison & Foerster
• Jerry Brown - California Attorney General (2007 - present), (also listed under Governors section)
• Darek DeFreece, B.A. 1993 - Senior Counsel for Wells Fargo Bank and President of the California Alumni Association
• Bill Lockyer, B.A. 1965 - California Attorney General (1999-2006)
• Edwin Meese III, J.D. 1958 - United States Attorney General (1985-1988)
• Theodore Olson, J.D. 1965 - United States Solicitor General (2001-2004)
• Larry Sonsini, B.A. 1963, J.D. 1966 - Chair of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (Silicon Valley law firm)
• Michael Tigar, B.A. 1962, J.D. 1966 - prominent litigator whose clients have included the Chicago Seven and Oklahoma City bombing accomplice Terry Nichols; Research Professor of Law at Washington College of Law, American University
• Earl Warren, B.A. 1912, J.D. 1914 - Attorney General of California, 1939-1943; 1943-1953 (also listed under Governors section and Justices section)

Military

• Jimmy Doolittle, 1922 - aviator, United States Army Lt. General
• George Fedoroff, B.A. 1967 - Office of Naval Intelligence Senior Intelligence Officer - Russia
• Oliver Prince Smith, 1916 - Major General, United States Marine Corps

Activists

• Richard Aoki, B.A. 1968, M.S.W. 1970 - co-founder Black Panther Party
• Howard Adams, PhD 1966 - Canadian Metis political activist, author of Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native Point of View
• Joan Blades, B.A. 1977 - political activist, co-founder of MoveOn.org (also listed in Science and technology section)
• Betty Friedan (attended psychology graduate program) - feminist activist, author of The Feminine Mystique (1963)
• Nancy Herrman, B.A. 1965 Anti-Chicken De-beaking Activist
• Claire Greensfelder, B.A. 1975 - feminist activist, alternative political campaigner, international conservationist, director at the International Forum on Globalization, former director of the Greenpeace USA Nuclear Campaign
• David Horowitz, M.A. 1961 - conservative political activist and commentator, founder of the right-wing Center for the Study of Popular Culture
• Keith Kerr - Military general and Gay Rights activist
• James Robertson, 1923 - National Chair of the Spartacist League
• R.J. Rushdoony, B.A. 1938, M.A. 1940 - prominent author of the Christian Right
• Mario Savio (attended) - political activist, key member of Berkeley Free Speech Movement

Other

• Damir Arnaut, B.A. 1997, M.A. 1998, J.D. 2002 - Adviser for Legal & Constitutional Affairs to Haris Silajdzic Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Josh Brown, B.A. 2003 - Kitsap County Commissioner, Washington State
• Peter Brown, M.A. - At-Large Houston Houston City Council Member
• Mike Casey, B.A. 1980 - Trade union leader
• Prithviraj Chavan M.S. 1967, Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha or India's Upper house of Parliament and currently a Minister of State in the Prime Ministers Office, Government of India.
• Rachelle Chong, B.A. 1981 - former Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission and current Commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission
• Tarak Nath Das, M.A. 1914 - Indian revolutionary, Indian-American scholar and internationalist
• Tony Daysog, B.A. 1989, M.C.P. 1998 - Alameda City Councilmember (1996–2006) and Alameda Vice Mayor (1998–2000 and 2002–2004)
• Maria Echaveste, J.D. 1980 - White House Deputy Chief of Staff (1998–2001)
• Ida Louise Jackson, B.A. 1922, M.A. 1923 - education and public-health pioneer
• Ellis O. Knox, B.A. 1922 - Civil Rights and Education Activist, First African American PhD (USC) on West Coast, former Chairman of NAACP Education Division
• Bruno Mégret, M.S. 1974 - French far-right politician, member of the French National Assembly (1986–1988), member of the European Parliament (1989–1999) and candidate in the 2002 French presidential election
• Kenneth P. Moritsugu, M.P.H. 1975 - Acting Surgeon General of the United States (August 2006-September 2007)
• Jayaprakash Narayan (attended M.A. program) - Indian freedom fighter, social reformer, politician
• Richard Neustadt, B.A. 1939 - political historian and advisor to several U.S. Presidents
• Troy A. Paredes, B.A. 1992 - Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission
• Kevin Starr, M.L.S. 1974 - California State Librarian Emeritus
• Frederick C. Weyand, 1939 - Chief of Staff of the Army from 1974 to 1976

Science and technology

See also: Academia, Business, UC Berkeley College of Chemistry, Law

Astronauts

• Leroy Chiao, B.S. 1983 - first Chinese-American astronaut
• Tamara E. Jernigan, M.S. 1985 - astronaut
• Don L. Lind, Ph.D. 1964 - astronaut
• Brian T. O'Leary, Ph.D. 1967- astronaut
• Margaret Rhea Seddon, B.A. 1970 - astronaut
• Charles Simonyi, B.S. 1972 - fifth space tourist; also listed in section Computer scientists and engineers
• James van Hoften, B.S. 1966 - astronaut
• Rex Walheim, B.S. 1984 - astronaut
• Mary Weber, Ph.D. 1988 - astronaut

Astronomers and space explorers

• John N. Bahcall, B.S. 1956, astrophysicist, best known for his work on the Standard Solar Model and the Hubble Space Telescope, recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1998, recipient of the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in 1992, co-winner of the Fermi award in 2003
• William F. Ballhaus, Jr., B.S. 1967, M.S. 1968, Ph.D. 1971 - president and CEO of Aerospace Corporation, former director of NASA's Ames Research Center
• Michael C. Malin, B.A. (physics) 1967 - astronomer, principal investigator for the camera on Mars Global Surveyor, MacArthur Fellow, founder and CEO of Malin Space Science Systems, recipient of a NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 2002, recipient of the 2005 Carl Sagan Memorial Award
• Saul Perlmutter, Ph.D. 1986 - co-discoverer of Dark Energy as head of the Supernova Cosmology Project
• H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D. 1990 - SETI scientist
• Peter Smith, B.S. 1969 - Principal investigator and project leader for the $420 million NASA robotic explorer Phoenix, which physically confirmed the presence of water on the planet Mars for the first time
• Theodore Van Zelst, B.S. 1944 - Co-founder of Soiltest (testing company for soil, rock, concrete, and asphalt), recipient of the 1988 ASCE's "Chicago Engineer of the Year" award, developed the swing-wing design that allows supersonic aircraft to exceed the sound barrier, developed the first mobile baggage inspection unit, and developed lunar construction and soil testing for humankind's first steps on the moon

Computer scientists and engineers

See also: Turing Award laureates, Business

• Ginetto Addiego, B.S. EE 1981, Ph.D. EE 1990 - Executive Vice President of semiconductor company Novellus Systems
• Allan Alcorn, 1971 - Employee #3 at video game company Atari, electronics designer behind Atari's seminal Pong video arcarde unit, and erstwhile boss of Steve Jobs at Atari
• Eric Allman, B.S. EECS 1977, M.S. C.S. 1980 - Creator of Sendmail (mail transfer agent which delivers 70% of the email in the world)
• Ken Arnold, B.A. CS 1985 - Creator of the Curses software library, co-creator of Rogue
• George Crow, B.S. EE 1966 - one of the original computer hardware designers of the Apple Macintosh computer
• John Gage, B.S. 1975 - fifth employee of Sun Microsystems, former chief researcher and vice-president of the Science Office for Sun Microsystems, current partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins with Al Gore; credited with creating the phrase "the network is the computer"
• Eugene Jarvis, B.S. EECS 1976 - creator of the classic Defender video arcade game
• Lynne Greer Jolitz, B.A. 1989 - co-author, with husband William Jolitz, of 386BSD, which is the ancestor of FreeBSD, which in turn is an ancestor of Apple's Darwin operating system
• William Jolitz, B.A. 1997 - co-author, with wife Lynne Greer Jolitz, of 386BSD
• Spencer Kimball, B.A. CS 1996 - Creator of The GIMP software
• Phil Lapsley, B.S. EECS 1988, M.S. EECS 1991 - co-creator of the NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol used by Usenet newsgroups)
• Peter Mattis, B.S. CS 1997 - Creator of GTK software
• Peter Merholz, B.A. 1993 - coined the term "blog"
• Ralph Merkle, B.A. 1974, M.S. 1977 - pioneer in public-key cryptography computer algorithms
• Jay Miner, 1959 - inventor of the Amiga personal computer
• Hans Reiser, B.A. 1992 - Creator of the ReiserFS and Reiser4 computer filesystems
• Charles Simonyi, B.S. 1972 - computer scientist and fifth space tourist. At Xerox PARC, he created the first WYSIWYG word processor, Bravo, then joined Microsoft to spread the WYSIWYG and computer mouse gospel. Originally from Hungary, he is the "Hungarian" in Hungarian notation, which he created
• Lucy Suchman, B.A. 1972, M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1984 - Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University (UK); former research anthropologist at Xerox PARC and pioneer of human-computer interaction studies; author of Plans and Situated Actions (1987); awarded 2002 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science
• Andrew Tanenbaum, Ph.D. 1971 - computer scientist and creator of Minix, the precursor to Linux
• Charles P. Thacker, B.A. (physics) 1967 - chief designer of the Alto computer at Xerox PARC, co-inventor of Ethernet, Microsoft Technical Fellow, recipient of the IEEE John von Neumann Medal in 2007, recipient of the Draper Prize in 2004
• Wojciech Matusik, BS EECS 1997, senior research scientist at Adobe Systems, Technology Review Young Innovator Top 100 Innovators under the age of 35
• William Yeager, B.A. 1964 - software developer who created the first multiple-protocol router software, which comprised the core of the first Cisco Systems IOS

Mathematicians and physicists

See also: Nobel laureates

• John W. Cahn, Ph.D. 1953 - materials scientist, winner of the United States National Medal of Science in 1998
• George Dantzig, Ph.D. 1946 - Father of linear programming, created the simplex algorithm
• Andreas Floer, mathematician, inventor of Floer homology
• Albert Ghiorso, B.S. EE 1937 - co-discoverer of twelve chemical elements such as Americium, Berkelium, and Californium
• Edward Ginzton, B.S. 1936, M.S. 1937 - recipient of the 1969 IEEE Medal of Honor, namesake of the Ginzton Laboratory at Stanford University
• Michio Kaku, Ph.D. 1972 - theoretical physicist, co-creator of string field theory
• Joseph W. Kennedy, Ph.D. 1939 - codiscoverer of the element plutonium; later, professor and head of the department of chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis
• Arthur Scott King, Ph.D. 1903 - first ever Ph.D. in physics from this university
• John H. Schwarz, Ph.D. 1966 - theoretical physicist, one of the founders of superstring theory
• William Thurston, Ph.D. 1972 - mathematician, winner of the Fields Medal in 1982
• Shing-Tung Yau, Ph.D. 1971 - mathematician, winner of the Fields Medal in 1983, winner of the United States National Medal of Science in 1997
• Chien-Shiung Wu, Ph.D. 1940 - physicist

Other

• Michael J. Carey, B.S. 1983 - technical director at BEA Systems, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Mario R. Durán, M.Sc. 1985 - recipient of the Costa Rican Clodomiro Picado Twight National Award of Science and Technology 1989 (awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology -MICIT-),
• Glen Edwards, B.S. 1941 - U.S. Air Force test pilot, namesake of Edwards Air Force Base
• Henry Eyring, Ph.D. 1927 - Professor of Chemistry (Princeton University), dean of the University of Utah graduate school and recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1966. Also famous for the Eyring equation
• Lillian Moller Gilbreth, B.A. 1900, M.A. 1902 - industrial/organizational psychologist along with her husband Frank Bunker Gilbreth who researched industrial worker efficiency; first woman member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; she and her husband were the basis of the books Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their Toes, which were written by their children; commemorated on a United States Postal Service stamp in 1984; portrayed by Myrna Loy in the 1950 film Cheaper by the Dozen
• Maurice K. Goddard, M.S. 1938 - former secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, a driving force in the creation of 45 Pennsylvania state parks during his 24 years in office.
• Susan Hough, B.A. 1982 - seismologist and author
• Greg Kasavin, Video game developer and former editor of Gamespot.
• David N. Kennedy, B.S. 1959, M.S. 1962 - director of the California Department of Water Resources in Sacramento, California, elected member of the National Academy of Engineering
• John Augustus Larson, Ph.D. 1920 - inventor of the modern lie detector
• T. Y. Lin, M.S. 1933 - Professor of Civil Engineering, bridgebuilder, pioneering researcher and practitioner of prestressed concrete, designed Moscone Center, recipient of the National Medal of Science
• Jane McGonigal, M.A., 2003, Ph.D. 2006 in performance studies - noted game designer and games researcher; named one of the world's top innovators under the age of 35 by MIT's Technology Review in 2006
• Rosendo Pujol Mesalles, M.Sc. 1975, M.C.P. 1988, Ph.D. 1991 - recipient of the Costa Rican Clodomiro Picado Twight National Award of Science and Technology 1995 (awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology -MICIT-)
• Milicent Shinn, Ph.D. 1898 - Child psychologist and author, first woman to earn a doctorate at Berkeley.
• Tiffany Shlain, B.A. 1992 - founder of Webby Awards, filmmaker
• Susan Solomon, M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1981 - Senior Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Medal of Science (2000)
• Simon Schwartzman, Ph.D. 1973 - recipient of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit
• Gardner F. Williams, B.A. 1865, M.A. 1869 (first Master's degree conferred by 'College of California' aka UC/Berkeley) - 1st general manager of De Beers Consolidated Mines. Noted mining engineer who authored The Diamond Mines of South Africa; some account of their rise and development (NY, Macmillan, 1902;1903;1905). The Royal Academy of Science in Sweden awarded him its silver medal in 1905, and the University of California an honorary doctorate of laws in 1910. (b.1842–d.1922)

Athletics

Baseball

• Geoff Blum - professional baseball player with the San Diego Padres
• Mike Epstein - professional baseball player
• Brian Horwitz - professional baseball player
• Conor Jackson - professional baseball player with the Arizona Diamondbacks
• Jackie Jensen - professional baseball player 1958 AL MVP Boston Red Sox
• Jeff Kent - professional baseball player with the Los Angeles Dodgers 2000 NL MVP (SF Giants)
• Darren Lewis - OF for the San Francisco Giants and the Boston Red Sox
• Kevin Maas - 1B and DH for the New York Yankees
• Xavier Nady - baseball player for the New York Yankees (MLB)
• Tyler Walker - professional baseball player for the San Francisco Giants

Basketball

• Shareef Abdur-Rahim - retired professional (NBA) basketball player
• Randy Duck - Retired professional basketball player. 1993 Midnight Madness Slam Dunk Champion
• Francisco Elson - Professional basketball player currently playing for the San Antonio Spurs
• Kevin Johnson, B.A. 1997 - retired professional NBA basketball player. Current Mayor of Sacramento.
• Jason Kidd (attended) - professional basketball player with the Dallas Mavericks
• Sean Marks B.A. 1998 - currently playing for the New Orleans Hornets
• Lamond Murray - former NBA forward who most recently played for the New Jersey Nets
• Leon Powe - Drafted in 2006 by Denver Nuggets and then traded to Boston Celtics
• Jamal Sampson - professional basketball player currently playing for Denver Nuggets
• Ryan Anderson- 1st round (21st overall) of the 2008 NBA draft
• Rod Benson - D-league standout
• Geno Carlisle
• Roy Fisher
• Devon Hardin - 2nd round (50th overall) of the 2008 NBA draft
• Sean Lampley
• Joe Shipp
• Michael Stewart
• Ansley Truitt
• Mark McNamara- 1st round (22nd overall) of the 1982 NBA Draft
• Chuck Hanger - 2nd round (9th overall) of the 1948 BAA draft
• Larry Friend - 2nd round (13th overall) of the 1957 draft
• Darrall Imhoff - 1st round (3rd overall) of the 1960 draft (all-star)
• Ed Gray - 1st round (22nd overall) of the 1997 draft to Atlanta Hawks
• Ryan Jamison - PF/C in Campanelli-Bozeman era; famous for high-post screens and injuring Cherokee Parks in 1993 Duke game to get Cal into Sweet Sixteen

Football

• J.J. Arrington - NFL running back for the Arizona Cardinals
• Nnamdi Asomugha, B.A. 2003 - NFL All-Pro Cornerback for the Oakland Raiders
• Steve Bartkowski - NFL QB #1 overall NFL draft pick of 1975, NFL Rookie of the Year, 2-time Pro Bowler
• David Binn - 1995 National Football League longsnapper with the San Diego Chargers
• Desmond Bishop - NFL ILB Green Bay Packers #192 overall in 2007 Draft
• Kyle Boller - quarterback for Baltimore Ravens
• Doug Brien - National Football League kicker
• Tully Banta-Cain - linebacker for the New England Patriots and San Francisco 49ers
• Andre Carter - defensive end for the Washington Redskins.
• Herman Edwards - former head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs
• Zack Follett - linebacker for the Detroit Lions
• Scott Fujita, B.A. 2001, M.A. 2002 - linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys
• Tarik Glenn, B.A. 1999 - former offensive tackle for Indianapolis Colts
• Tony Gonzalez - National Football League Tight End with the Kansas City Chiefs
• Ken Harvey - linebacker for the Phoenix Cardinals and Washington Redskins
• Nick Harris - punter for the Detroit Lions
• Steve Hendrickson - LB and special teams player for the San Diego Chargers
• Daymeion Hughes - NFL CB Indianapolis Colts #95 overall in 2007 Draft
• DeSean Jackson - NFL wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles
• Joe Kapp, B.A. 1960 - QB in the CFL and for the Minnesota Vikings
• Ryan Longwell - B.A. 1997- NFL kicker with the Minnesota Vikings
• Marshawn Lynch - NFL RB Buffalo Bills #12 overall in 2007 Draft
• Brandon Mebane - NFL DT Seattle Seahawks #85 overall in 2007 Draft
• Aaron Merz, B.A. 2005 - National Football League guard for the Buffalo Bills
• Harry Vance "Chuck" Muncie - National Football League - Running back for the New Orleans Saints and the San Diego Chargers.
• Ryan O'Callaghan - National Football League guard with the New England Patriots
• Deltha O'Neal, B.A. 2000 - National Football League cornerback with the Cincinnati Bengals
• Jeremy Newberry - center for the Oakland Raiders.
• Hardy Nickerson,B.A. 1989 - All-Pro NFL linebacker
• Marvin Philip - National Football League lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers
• Roy Riegels - Member of the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame, famed for 1929 Rose Bowl where he was dubbed "Wrong Way"
• Ryan Riddle - NFL DE Oakland Raiders #212 overall in 2005 Draft, set single season sack record with 14.5 in the 2004 season.
• Aaron Rodgers - quarterback of the Green Bay Packers
• Andrew L. Smith - Head Coach of the powerhouse Cal football teams of the 1920s.
• Todd Steussie - offensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings, Carolina Panthers, and St. Louis Rams
• Iheanyi Uwaezuoke, former NFL wide receiver
• Wesley Walker, former NFL player
• Ed White, B.A. 1968 - Cal Hall of Fame, All-Pro NFL offensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings and San Diego Chargers
• Russell White, B.A. 1993 - Cal Hall of Fame running back for the Rams

Olympics

See also: California Golden Bears: Olympics

For a full list, see http://calbears.collegesports.com/trads/cal-olympians.html

• Matt Biondi, B.A. 1988 - three-time Olympian, winner of 8 gold medals
• Hubert A. Caldwell, 1929 - Olympic crew, 1928 gold medalist
• Peter Cipollone, B.A. 1994 - Coxswain for the gold medal winning rowing team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece
• Natalie Coughlin, B.A. 2005 - Olympic swimmer (winner of five medals, including two gold medals, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece; at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China , she became the first American female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympics); three-time NCAA Swimmer of the Year.
• Anthony Ervin - Olympic swimmer, gold medal in 50m freestyle, silver medal in 4x100m freestyle relay, first black male on the US Olympic swimming team
• Joy Fawcett, B.A. 1992 - member of the gold winning United States women's soccer team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
• Michele Granger, B.A. 1993 - softball pitcher and Olympic gold medalist
• Mark Genderson, 1991 - swimmer, gold medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics where he broke the world record in the 400 meter medley swimming relay
• Mary T. Meagher, B.A. 1987 - Olympic swimmer, winner of three gold medals; CNNSI.com's 100 Greatest Women Athletes (ranked 17th)
• Jonny Moseley B.A. 2007 - Gold Medalist in 1998 Winter Olympics
• Connie Carpenter-Phinney, B.A. 1981 - cycling gold medalist in 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California
• Alvin F. Rylander, 1928 - Olympic crew, 1928 gold medalist
• Staciana Stitts, B.A. 2004 - Olympic swimmer, gold medalist in 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia
• Helen Wills, B.A. 1925 - all time great tennis player; singles winner of eight Wimbledon titles, seven U.S. Open Championships, four French Opens, and two Olympic gold medals

Other

• Bill Lester, B.S. 1984 - NASCAR driver, became the sixth African-American to start a NEXTEL Cup race
• Leigh Steinberg, B.A. 1970, J.D. 1973 - innovative sports agent, whose life story was re-enacted in the film, "Jerry Maguire". Former UC student body president who wrangled with Ronald Reagan over the People's Park imbroglio.
• Derek Van Rheenen, B.A. 1986, M.A. 1993, PhD 1997 - Professional soccer player with San Francisco Bay Blackhawks, 1991 and 1993 All Star. On faculty.
• Peter Woodring - B.A. 1990, Professional soccer player in Europe and U.S., including Major League Soccer. Played three games for the U.S. national team. Currently Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Cephus Capital Management
• Leonard Krupnik - 2000, Professional soccer player for NY Red Bulls and Maccabi Haifa F.C..

Miscellaneous

• Pema Chodron, B.A. - spiritual teacher and author, interpreter of Tibetan Buddhism for Western audiences. Formerly known as Deirdre Blomfield-Brown
• Mayme Agnew Clayton, B.A. - librarian and founder of President & Spiritual Leader of the Western States Black Research and Education Center (WSBREC), the largest privately held collection of African-American historical materials in the world
• Madelyn Dunham, grandmother of Barack Obama (did not graduate)
• Thomas Kinkade, B.A. - American painter.
• Timothy Leary, Ph.D. 1950 - psychologist and counterculture figure
• David Lempert, Ph.D. anthropology 1992 - social entrepreneur, democratic education
• Ed Roberts, B.A. 1964, M.A. 1966, C.Phil. 1969 - Founder of the Independent Living Movement
• Heng Sure, Ph.D. 1974 - American Buddhist monk of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas; one of the first Americans ordained in the States
• Underground Japanese hip hop-artist Shing02 attended UC Berkeley in 1993, and achieved notoriety in the United States primarily for his contributions to the Shinichiro Watanabe anime-series Samurai Champloo (which aired on Cartoon Network's late-night segment Adultswim in U.S, and Animax as well as Fuji TV in Japan).
• Sapna Mithani, B.A.- Holds world record in eating the most cheese wheels in 10 minutes.

Fictional

• In the 2008 film High School Musical 3: Senior Year, Troy Bolton, played by Zac Efron, announces that he has chosen to attend UC Berkeley after graduation.
• In the 2008 film Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr.'s character asks a reporter if she is a Berkeley graduate
• In the 2003 film Mona Lisa Smile, Julia Roberts' character is an idealistic Berkeley graduate
• In the 1992 film Basic Instinct, Dr. Beth Garner, played by Jeanne Tripplehorn received her Ph.D. in Psychology at Berkeley and started her killing spree there. Catherine Tramell, played by Sharon Stone, also received her B.A. in Psychology at Berkeley
• From the Back tp the Futute trilogy, inventor of the De Lorean time machine, Dr. Emmett Brown, attended Berkeley, stated by trilogy director Robert Zemeckis
• Sandy Cohen from The O.C. graduated from Boalt School of Law at Berkeley. His wife, Kirsten Cohen has an Art History degree from Berkeley as well. Their adopted son Ryan Atwood then went on to complete a degree in architecture there.
• In the comic strip Doonesbury Joanie Caucus was accepted to and graduated from the Boalt School of Law in the 1970s
• Press Secretary and later Presidential Chief of Staff C.J. Cregg, played by Allison Janney on the long-running The West Wing, got her master's degree from Berkeley. She mentions this several times to get out of duties she finds demeaning
• In the television show Grey's Anatomy, Dr. Christina Yang often boasts of having a Ph.D. from Berkeley, along with a college degree from Smith and a medical degree from Stanford.
• In the sitcom Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Mark Cooper Mark Curry has a Cal Berkeley banner in his room
• Berkeley is the setting for the film Boys and Girls starring Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Claire Forlani, who both play Berkeley students
• The 2002 film Catch Me If You Can told the true story of Frank Abagnale who faked getting his law degree from Berkeley to impress his fiance's father and to get a job as a lawyer. The character was played by Leonardo DiCaprio
• The Hulk, directed by Ang Lee, largely took place at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and private research facilities nearby. Both Eric Bana and Jennifer Connelly played researchers
• Jack Bauer, the lead character played by Kiefer Sutherland in the hit drama 24, got his Masters of Science in "Criminology and Law" at Berkeley (no such degree is offered)
• In the hit film Field of Dreams, the lead character Ray Kinsella (played by Kevin Costner) is a Berkeley alum
• Rei Shimura, the protagonist in Sujata Massey's mystery novels, earned her master's degree in Japanese art history from Berkeley
• In the film Gotcha! (1985), Jonathan (played by Anthony Edwards) falls for Sasha (played by Linda Fiorentino), a beautiful and mysterious Berkeley graduate student in film
• Winona Ryder plays Finn Dodd, a Berkeley graduate student, in the 1995 film How to Make an American Quilt
• In the 2001 film The Wedding Planner, Matthew McConaughey's character and Bridgette Wilson's character were claimed to have met as students at UC Berkeley
• In USA Network's TV series Monk, the title character, Adrian Monk, played by Tony Shalhoub graduated from Berkeley (mentioned in the episode "Mr. Monk and the Other Detective", Season 4 & "Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion", Season 5)
• In the television show Third Rock From the Sun, Dick Solomon's (John Lithgow) love interest, Dr. Mary Albright (Jane Curtin), received her bachelor's degree from Berkeley
• In the 1988 film Die Hard (1988), Joseph Yashinobo Takagi (James Shigeta), President of Nakatomi Trading, is said to be a scholarship student at UC Berkeley, graduating in 1955
• In the film Legally Blonde (2001), Harvard law student Enid Wexler earned a Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in women's studies, "emphasis in the history of combat"
• In CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Sara Sidle received her master's degree from UC Berkeley
• The film Junior, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, was filmed on the Berkeley campus
• In the film Deep Impact starring Morgan Freeman and Tea Leoni, research on meteors were done on a Berkeley website
• In the film Peaceful Warrior (2006) starring Scott Mechlowicz and Nick Nolte, the main character is a member of the male gymnastics team at UC Berkeley. The semi-autobiographical movie is based on the book Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1981), which was authored by real-life UC Berkeley alumnus Dan Millman
• In the film Fathers' Day Dale Putley (Robin Williams), Jack Lawrence (Billy Crystal), and Collette Andrews (Nastassja Kinski) all were students at Berkeley. We could probably assume that Jack ended up getting his law degree there
• In Family Ties, Steve Keaton and Elyse Keaton were students at Berkeley after returning from Africa in the 1960s. It is assumed that Elyse got her degree in architecture there. Mallory Keaton was born in Berkeley while Steve was supposed to be taking a political science exam
• In Full House, D.J. Tanner accepts an admissions offer from Berkeley
• In The Graduate Elaine Robinson was a student at Berkeley
• In the Japanese manga series Hana-Kimi, Izumi Sano became a student at the college
• In the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Captain Kirk claims that Spock went to Berkeley in the '60's, where he "did too much LDS [sic]." However, Kirk merely invents this story to explain Spock's strange appearance and behavior. Spock actually went to Starfleet Academy, which is also located in the San Francisco Bay Area
• In the film The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, Princess Mia's friend Lilly Moscovitz (Heather Matarazzo) claims to be a Berkeley graduate student
• In the film Magnolia (1999), Tom Cruise's seduction-guru character claims to have attended psychology classes at Berkeley
• One of the central protagonists in Mischa Berlinski's novel Fieldwork (2007), Martiya van der Leun, is a Berkeley graduate student in anthropology
• Marissa Cooper and Ryan Atwood from The OC were supposed to attend UC Berkeley before the infamous fatal car crash that killed her. Kevin Volchok is the character that ran Ryan's car off the cliff and killed Marissa.
• Large portions of the feature film Who'll Stop the Rain, starring Nick Nolte and Tuesday Weld, were filmed in the south campus area.
• In the book Snow Crash, both Hiro Protagonist and Juanita Marquez attended Berkeley
• In Season 3 of the TV series Weeds, Nancy Botwin mentions spending two and half years at Berkeley.
• In the movie The Perfect Murder, Viggo Mortensen's character claims to have studied art at Berkeley

See also

• List of UC Berkeley faculty

References