Either Stanford or Berkeley-I'll do Cal since I went there...LOL
University of California at Berkeley
Nobel Laureates
George A. Akerlof (1940- ) 2001, Economics Professor of Economics (1966-1978, 1980- )
Luis Alvarez (1911-1988) 1968, Physics Professor of Physics (1936-88)
Werner Arber (1929- ) 1978, Medicine Researcher (1963), Visiting Professor of Molecular Biology (1970-1971)
Felix Bloch (1905-1983) 1952, Physics Cyclotron researcher (1939)
Sydney Brenner (1927- ) 2002, Medicine Researcher (1953), Founder of the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley (1996)
Melvin Calvin (1911-1997) 1961, Chemistry Professor of Chemistry (1947-1997)
Thomas R. Cech (1947- ) 1989, Chemistry PhD 1975
Owen Chamberlain (1920-2006) 1959, Physics Professor of Physics (1958- )
Steven Chu (1948- ) 1997, Physics) PhD 1976, Berkeley Lab Director (2004- )
Robert F. Curl Jr. (1933- ) 1996, Chemistry PhD 1950
James Watson Cronin (1931-) 1980, Physics Reseacher at Berkeley Bevatron (1958)
Gerard Debreu (1921-2004) 1983, Economics Professor of Economics (1962-2004)
Joseph Erlanger (1895-1965) 1944, Medicine BS 1895
William F. Giauque (1895-1982) 1949, Chemistry BS 1920, PhD 1922, Professor of Chemistry (1922-1982)
Donald A. Glaser (1926- ) 1960, Physics Professor of Physics (1957- )
Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932- ) 1979, Physics Professor of Physics (1960-1966)
David Gross (1941- ) 2004, Physics PhD 1966
Pierre-Gilles de Genne (1932- ) 1991, Physics Postdoctoral 1959
John C. Harsanyi (1920-2000) 1994, Economics Professor of Economics (1964-2000)
Alan J. Heeger (1936- ) 2000, Chemistry PhD 1961
Dudley R. Herschbach (1932- ) 1986, Chemistry Professor of Chemistry (1959-63)
Daniel Kahneman (1934- ) 2002, Economics PhD 1961, Professor of Psychology (1986-1994)
Lawrence R. Klein (1920- ) 1980, Economics BA 1942
Arthur Kornberg (1918- ) 1959, Medicine Research investigator (1951)
Kurt Wüthrich (1938- ) 2002, Chemistry Research investigator (1965)
Willis E. Lamb Jr. (1913- ) 1955, Physics BS 1934, PhD 1938
Robert B. Laughlin (1950- ) 1998, Physics BS 1972
Ernest O. Lawrence (1901-1958) 1939, Physics Professor of Physics (1930-1958), Radiation Lab director (1936-1958)
Tsung-Dao Lee (1926-) 1957, Physics Research Associate and Instructor (1950-51)
Yuan T. Lee (1936- ) 1986, Chemistry PhD 1965, Professor of Chemistry (1974- )
Willard F. Libby (1908-1980) 1960, Chemistry BS 1931, PhD 1933, Lecturer (1933-41)
Daniel McFadden (1937-) 2000, Economics Professor of Economics (1963-1979, 1990- )
Edwin M. McMillan (1907-1991) 1951, Physics Professor of Chemistry (1946-1991)
Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004) 1980, Literature Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature (1961-2004)
Mario J. Molina (1943- ) 1995, Chemistry PhD 1972
Kary B. Mullis (1944- ) 1993, Chemistry PhD 1972
Douglass C. North (1920- ) 1993, Economics BA 1942, PhD 1952
John H. Northrop (1891-1987) 1946, Chemistry Professor of Chemistry (1949-1987)
Stanley B. Prusiner (1942- ) 1997, Medicine Professor of Virology in Residence (1984- )
Glenn T. Seaborg (1912-1999) 1951, Chemistry PhD 1937, Professor of Chemistry (1937-1999)
Thomas Schelling (1921- ) 2005, Economics BA 1944
Amartya Sen (1933- ) 1998, Economics Researcher (1964-1965)
Emilio Segrè (1905-1989) 1959, Physics Radiation Lab 1938-46, Professor of Physics (1946-1989)
Julian Schwinger (1918-1994) 1965, Physics Research fellow (1939-1941)
Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001) 1978, Economics Research Director (1939-1942)
Hamilton O. Smith (1931- ) 1978, Medicine BS 1952
Wendell M. Stanley (1904-1971) 1946, Chemistry Professor of Chemistry (1948-1971)
Jack Steinberger (1921- ) 1988, Physics Researcher (1949-1950)
Otto Stern (1888-1969) 1939, Physics LLD 1930
Henry Taube (1915- ) 1983, Chemistry PhD 1940, Instructor (1940-41)
Charles H. Townes (1915- ) 1964, Physics Professor of Physics (1967- )
Richard E. Taylor (1930- ) 1990, Physics Physicist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1961-62 )
Harold C. Urey (1893-1981) 1934, Chemistry PhD 1923
Selman Waksman (1918-1973) 1952, Medicine PhD 1918
Steven Weinberg (1933- ) 1979, Physics Researcher (1959-66)
Maurice Wilkins (1916- ) 1962, Medicine Manhattan Project (1941-1945)
Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921-1996) 1973, Chemistry Radiation Lab (1946-1949)
Ahmed H. Zewail (1946- ) 1999, Chemistry Researcher (1974-1976)
Architecture
Julia Morgan, B.S. 1894 - architect, designed the Hearst Castle for newspaper businessman William Randolph Hearst
Peter Walker, B.S. 1955 - landscape architect, commissions include the World Trade Center Memorial and the Sony Center in Berlin
Books
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.
David Brock, B.A. 1985 - political author (The Real Anita Hill [1993], Blinded by the Right [2002], The Republican Noise Machine [2004])
Beverly Cleary, B.A. 1938 - author
Sara Davidson, 1962 - author
Philip K. Dick (attended) - science fiction author whose stories inspired Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report
Joan Didion, B.A. 1956 - author
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
Jack London (attended 1896-1897) - novelist
Terry McMillan, B.A. 1986 - author (Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back)
Dhan Gopal Mukerji - first successful Indian man of letters in the United States of America
Mary Pipher, B.A. 1969 - author, expert on culture and mental health
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 (The Agony and the Ecstasy)
Robert Penn Warren, M.A. 1927 - author, poet
Mona Simpson, B.A. 1979 - novelist (Anywhere But Here), Guggenheim Fellow, professor at Bard College; biological sister of Steve Jobs (co-founder of Apple Computer)
Music
Suzanne Ciani, M.A. 1970 - composer
Henry Cowell (attended 1914) - composer
Adam Duritz (attended) - lead singer of Counting Crows
Susanna Hoffs, B.A. 1980 - lead singer of The Bangles
Andrew Imbrie, M.A. 1947 - composer
Stephan Jenkins, B.A. 1987, lead singer and songwriter of the band Third Eye Blind, was valedictorian of his class at UC Berkeley
Jonathan Kramer, Ph.D. 1969 - 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
Pauline Esther Friedman (attended) - 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
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
Tim McGirk, B.A. 1974 - investigative journalist for Time magazine, war correspondent and Al Qaeda expert,
Stephan Pastis, B.A. 1989 - creator of Pearls Before Swine
Jann Wenner (attended) - Founder of Rolling Stone magazine
Ed Wong, M.Jour./M.A. 1998 - reporter, The New York Times
Non-fictional broadcasting
Robert Bazell, B.A. 1967 - NBC News' Chief Science and Health Correspondent
Liz Claman, B.A. 1985 - anchor of CNBC's Wake Up Call
Troy Roberts, B.A. 1984 - CBS News correspondent
Michael Savage, Ph.D. 1978 - conservative radio talk show host, Savage Nation
Lisa Stark, B.A. 1978 - ABC News correspondent
Michele Tafoya, B.A. 1988 - sports television reporter for ABC Sports and ESPN, covering Monday Night Football and NBA games.
Film and television
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])
Bill Bixby - director, actor (The Incredible Hulk)
John Cheng, 1996 - producer, The Cleaner
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, director, author, playwright
Ralph Edwards, B.A. 1935 - national television star
Carl Franklin, B.A. 1971 - film director (One False Move [1992], Devil in a Blue Dress [1995], High Crimes [2002], Out of Time [2003])
Peter Gethers (attended 1970-72) - 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
William Hung (attended) - rejected singer from American Idol, acted in film My Crazy Mother (2004), cameo on Arrested Development
Oren Jacob, B.S. 1992, M.S. 1995 - Pixar Animation Studios technical director
Stacy Keach, B.A. 1963 - actor
Adam Lamberg (Class of 2006) - actor (Lizzie McGuire Movie)
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])
Jerry Mathers, B.A. 1974 - actor (Leave it to Beaver)
Errol Morris (attended philosophy graduate program) - documentary film director (The Thin Blue Line [1988], Fog of War [2003])
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
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 (Eat Drink Man Woman, The Wedding Banquet, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), professor at Columbia University
George Takei, 1959 (later transferred to UCLA) - actor (Star Trek)
Business
Tom Anderson, B.A. 1997 - creator and founding member of Myspace.com (sold to News Corporation for $580 million)
Bengt Baron, B.S. 1985, M.B.A. 1988 - CEO of V&S Group (Stockholm, Sweden)
Stephen D. Bechtel, 1954 (honorary) - Founder of Bechtel Corporation
Nicholas Benjamin, 2005 - Co-founder of TDink Magazine
Joan Blades, B.A. 1977 - Co-founder of After Dark "flying-toaster" screensaver company Berkeley Systems, co-founder of MoveOn.org
Richard C. Blum, B.S., M.B.A. 1959 - investment banker (Blum Capital Partners), founder of the American Himalayan Foundation, Regent of the University of California
Weili Dai, B.A. Computer Science 1984 - Co-founder of broadband firm Marvell Technology Group, a billion dollar company in the NASDAQ 100
Charles H. Ferguson, B.A. 1978 - Co-founder and CEO of Vermeer Technologies Incorporated (original creator of Microsoft FrontPage, sold to Microsoft for $133 million)
Donald Fisher, B.S. 1951 - Founder and Chair, The Gap
Jean Paul Getty (transferred to the University of Oxford)
Walter A. Haas, B.S. 1910 - Co-founder of Levi Strauss & Co.
William Randolph Hearst, Jr. (attended) - newspaper publisher
Paul E. Jacobs, B.S. 1984, M.S. 1986, Ph.D 1989 - CEO of Qualcomm
Edgar F. Kaiser, 1930 - Founder of Kaiser Permanente
Pradman Kaul, B.S. 1968, M.S. 1968 - Chairman and CEO of Hughes Network Systems, member of the National Academy of Engineering
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
David C. Lee, B.A. 2002 - Founder of TDink Magazine
Howard Lincoln, B.A. 1962, J.D. 1965 - former Chairman of Nintendo of America, Chairman and CEO of the Seattle Mariners
Hong Llang Lu, B.S. 1978 - Founder and CEO of billion-dollar Fortune 1000 company UTStarcom (named by the World Economic Forum to its Technology Pioneers list)
Brian Maxwell, B.A. 1975 - Founder of PowerBar
Teresa Meng, M.S. 1984, Ph.D. 1988 - Founder of Atheros Communications
Michael Olson, B.A. 1991, M.A. 1992 - CEO of Sleepycat Software (acquired in 2006 by Oracle Corporation), one of the original authors of BerkeleyDB
Paul Otellini, M.B.A. 1974 - CEO of Intel (2005-present)
Denny Parker, B.S. 1965, M.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1970 - Senior Vice-President, Brown and Caldwell; member of the National Academy of Engineering
Robert S. Pepper, B.S. 1957, M.S. 1959, Ph.D. 1961 - Founder and CEO of Level One Semiconductor, sold to Intel for $2.2 billion
Ryan Petersen - Co-founder, Faculty Imports
John Riccitiello, B.S. 1981 - 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 Vodafone (2003-present)
John Schaeffer, 1971 - Founder of ecologically-friendly Real Goods solar energy store and the Solar Living Center
John Scharffenberger, 1973 - namesake and co-founder of chocolate company "Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker" (acquired by the Hershey's)
Jim Simons Ph.D. 1972 - mathematician, philanthropist, founder of the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies
George Strompolos - Co-founder, Faculty Imports
Sehat Sutardja, M.S. 1983, Ph.D. 1988 EECS - Co-founder of broadband firm Marvell Technology Group, a billion dollar company in the NASDAQ 100
Pantas Sutardja, B.S. 1983, M.S. 1985, Ph.D. 1988 EECS - Co-founder of Marvell Technology Group
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.
Cher Wang - Chair of VIA Technologies
Ralph Warner (Law, ca. 1966) - pioneer in the legal self-help book industry, founder of Nolo Press
Dean Witter, 1909 - Co-founder and Partner, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
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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)
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ph.D. 1971 - President of Iran (1989-1997)
Sun Ke, B.A. 1916 - Premier of the Republic of China, President of National Chiao Tung University, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Soochow University
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
Jerry Brown, 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)
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 - 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
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Executive council members
The following served as cabinet-level officials.
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), Chair of Ford Motor Company
Norman Mineta, B.A. 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-present)
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)
Justices
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, 1964 - California State Senate Republican Leader
Ron Dellums, M.S.W. 1962 - Congressman
Barbara Lee, M.S.W. 1975 - Congresswoman (D-Oakland) 1998-present
Mohammad Javad Larijani - Iranian former Member of Parliament
Robert Matsui, B.A. 1963 - Congressman
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
Linda Sanchez, B.A. 1991 - Congresswoman (2002-present)
Directors
Horace Albright, 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
Nicolle Devenish, B.A. 1994 - White House Communications Director (2004-Present)
Newton Drury, 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)
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Mayors
Jerry Brown, B.A. 1961 - Mayor of Oakland (listed under Governors section)
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 (1998-2002)
Lionel Wilson, 1938 - first African American Mayor of Oakland
Diplomats
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
Sadako Ogata, Ph.D. 1963 - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1991-2001)
James D. Zellerbach, 1913 - United States Ambassador to Italy
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
Bill Lockyer, B.A. 1965 - California Attorney General (1999-present)
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)
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Activists
Richard Aoki, B.A. 1968, M.S.W. 1970 - co-founder Black Panther Party
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)
David Horowitz, M.A. 1961 - conservative political activist and commentator, founder of the right-wing Center for the Study of Popular Culture
Kasra Khatibi, B.S. 2006, Founder of Iranian Gay Rights Movement
James Robertson, 1923 - National Chair of the Spartacist League
R.J. Rushdoony, B.A. 1938, M.A. 1940 - prominent author of the Christian Right
Other
Rachelle Chong, B.A. 1981 - former Commissioner of the FCC
Adel Esfahani, Ph.D. 1987 - The Highest Recorded IQ - Iran
Jimmy Doolittle, 1922 - aviator, United States Army Lt. General
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
Richard Neustadt, B.A. 1939 - political historian and advisor to several U.S. Presidents
Oliver Smith, 1916 - Major General, United States Marine Corps
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
James van Hoften, B.S. 1966 - astronaut
Rex Walheim, B.S. 1984 - astronaut
Mary Weber, Ph.D. 1988 - astronaut
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Computer scientists and engineers
See also: Turing Award laureates
Allan Alcorn, 1971 - Atari employee #3, electronics designer behind Atari's seminal PONG video arcarde unit, and erstwhile boss of Steve Jobs at Atari
Richard Bolt B.A. 1933, M.A. 1937, PhD. 1939 - Professor at MIT and Internet pioneer and businessman, founder of the groundbreaking computer company Bolt, Beranek and ****** (BBN)
Gary Chevsky - Co-founder of Ask.com, where he served as the chief software architect of its natural language processing search engine
George Crow, B.S. EE 1966 - one of the original computer hardware designers of the Apple Macintosh
Kevin Donelly, B.S. EECS 1985 - Vice-President of Engineering at Rambus
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
Charles Giancarlo, M.S. EECS 1980 - Chief Development Officer of Cisco Systems [5]
Steve Gibson (attended) [6] - Founder of Gibson Research Corporation and co-host of Security Now!
Andrew Grove, Ph.D. 1963 - 4th employee of Intel, and eventually its President, CEO, and Chairman, and TIME magazine's Man of the Year in 1997
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
Bill Joy, M.S. 1982 - Co-founder of Sun Microsystems
Ozalp Babaoglu, Ph.D. 1981 - principal designer of BSD Unix - currently Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bologna, Italy
E. Floyd Kvamme, B.S. EECS 1959 - Co-founder of National Semiconductor
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
Peter Merholz, B.A. 1993 - coined the term "blog"
Jay Miner, 1959 - inventor of the Amiga personal computer
Gordon E. Moore, B.S. 1950 - Co-founder of Intel and the originator of Moore's Law
Eric E. Schmidt, M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1982 - CEO of Google (2001-present)
Charles Simonyi, 1972 - computer scientist. 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 (U.K.); 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
Steve Wozniak, Class of 1976, graduated B.S. 1986 - Co-founder of Apple Computer, member of the National Academy of Engineering
William Yeager, B.A. 1964 - author of the first multiple-protocol router software, which comprised the core of the first Cisco Systems IOS
Mathematicians and physicists
See also: Nobel laureates
John Bahcall, 1956 - physicist, co-winner of the Fermi award in 2003
George Dantzig, Ph.D. 1946 - Father of linear programming, created the simplex algorithm
Albert Ghiorso, B.S. EE 1937 - co-discoverer of twelve chemical elements such as Americium, Berkelium, and Californium
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
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Other
Michael J. Carey, B.S. 1983 - technical director at BEA Systems, member of the National Academy of Engineering
T. Y. Lin, M.S. 1933 - Professor of Civil Engineering, bridgebuilder, pioneering researcher and practioner of prestressed concrete, designed Moscone Center, recipient of the National Medal of Science
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
Baseball
Geoff Blum - professional baseball player with the Chicago White Sox
Jackie Jensen - professional baseball player
Jeff Kent - professional baseball player with the Los Angeles Dodgers
Xavier Nady - baseball player for the New York Mets (MLB)
Tyler Walker - professional baseball player for the San Francisco Giants
Basketball
Shareef Abdur-Rahim - National Basketball Association (NBA) player with the Sacramento Kings
Kevin Johnson, B.A. 1997 - professional basketball player
Jason Kidd - professional basketball player with the New Jersey Nets
Lamond Murray - NBA forward currently playing for the New Jersey Nets
Football
J.J. Arrington - National Football League (NFL) running back with the Arizona Cardinals
Nnamdi Asomugha - defensive back for the Oakland Raiders (NFL)
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
Kyle Boller - quarterback for Baltimore Ravens (NFL)
Doug Brien - 1994 National Football League kicker
Andre Carter - defensive end for the San Francisco 49ers.
Scott Fujita, B.A. 2001, M.A. 2002 - linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys.
Tarik Glenn, B.A. 1999 - offensive tackle for Indianapolis Colts
Tony Gonzalez - National Football League Tight End with the Kansas City Chiefs
Joe Kapp, 1960 [7] - professional football player
Ryan Longwell - National Football League kicker with the Green Bay Packers
Deltha O'Neal - National Football League cornerback with the Cincinnati Bengals
Jeremy Newberry - center for the San Francisco 49ers.
Hardy Nickerson,B.A. 1989 - All-Pro NFL linebacker
Aaron Rodgers - quarterback of the Green Bay Packers
Andrew L. Smith - Head Coach of the powerhouse Cal football teams of the 1920s.
Harry Vance "Chuck" Muncie - National Football League - Running back for the New Orleans Saints and the San Diego Chargers.
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
Pete Cipollone, 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 two gold medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, three-time NCAA Swimmer of the Year
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 Henderson (swimmer), 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 (currently enrolled) - Gold Medalist in 1998 Winter Olympics
Conie Carpenter Phinney, 1981 - cycling gold medalist in 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California
Staciana Stitts, 2003 - Olympic swimmer, gold medalist in 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia
Helen Wills, 1927 - 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 - sports agent
One of a kind
Timothy Leary, Ph.D. 1950 - psychologist and cult figure
Ed Roberts, B.A. 1964, M.A. 1966 - Founder of the Independent Living Movement
Alice Waters, B.A. 1967 - celebrity chef, founder of Chez Panisse, originator of the California cuisine style of gourmet cooking
Fictional
The classic American film The Graduate (1967) has several scenes of Berkeley, where the main character played by Dustin Hoffman goes to seek his lover's daughter.
Catherine Tramell, played by Sharon Stone, started her killing spree while a student at Berkeley in the film Basic Instinct.
In the film Mona Lisa Smile, Julia Roberts' character is an idealistic Berkeley graduate.
Both Sandy and Kirsten Cohen on The OC graduated from Boalt School of Law at Berkeley.
Dr. Christina Yang, played by Sandra Oh, on ABC's Grey's Anatomy got her Ph.D. from Berkeley.
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.
Berkeley is the setting for the film Boys and Girls starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Claire Forlani, who both play Berkeley students.
Catch Me If You Can told the true story of Frank Abagnale Jr. 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 Di Caprio.
The Hulk, directed by Ang Lee, largely took place at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and private research facilites nearby. Both Eric Bana and Jennifer Connelly played researchers.
In the 2005 film Bee Season, Richard Gere plays Saul Nauman, a Religious Studies professor at Berkeley.
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)[8]
In the hit film Field of Dreams, the lead character Ray Kinsella (played by Kevin Costner) is a Berkeley alum.
UC Berkeley is satirized in David Lodge's classic campus novel Changing Places (1975).
In Harry Mulisch's novel The Procedure (1998 [English transl. 2001]), Dutch biologist Victor Werker is a Regent's Lecturer for one semester at Berkeley.
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 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Kirk explains Spock's erratic behavior on a bus by claiming that the Vulcan was part of the 1960's Free Speech Movement at Berkeley.
