List of Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) people
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The following is a list of individuals associated with Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.
Notable alumni
Activists
- Bob Avakian, 1960 - head of Revolutionary Communist Party
- David Brower, 1928 - President of Sierra Club; founder of Friends of the Earth
- John Froines, 1957 - Chicago Seven defendant, state track title team member, UCLA professor
- Bobby Seale, 1954 - co-founder of Black Panther Party[1]
Actors
- Raymond Burr, 1935 - actor
- Robert Culp, 1947 - actor
- Richard Gant, 1961 - television and film actor
- Nina Hartley, 1977 - adult film actress
- Timothy Hutton, 1978 - film and television actor
- Josh Kornbluth, 1975 - monologist, writer, actor, host of the The Josh Kornbluth Show
- Eli Marienthal, 2004 - actor
- Paul Mooney, 1959 - actor, comedian
- Rebecca Romijn, 1990 - actress
- Andy Samberg, 1996 - cast member of Saturday Night Live
- Akiva Schaffer, 1996 - comedy writer and director, Saturday Night Live writer and director
- Jorma Taccone - comedy writer-actor, Saturday Night Live writer
Artists and photographers
- Michael Heizer, 1962 - specializes in large-scale sculptures and earth art (or land art)
- Galen Rowell, 1958 - wilderness photographer; did much work for the Sierra Club
- Bruce Ryan, 1971 - production designer
- Ariel Schrag, 1998 - cartoonist/graphic novelist
Athletes
- Chidi Ahanotu, 1988 - football defensive end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL
- Shooty Babitt, 1977 - Major League Baseball player, Oakland A's
- Don Barksdale, 1941 - All-American basketball player at UCLA; first African American on U.S. Olympic basketball team (1948); first African American to play in NBA All-Star game (1953)
- Brittany Boyd, 2011 - basketball player[2]
- Glenn Burke - baseball player, 1970 Athlete of the Year[3]
- Phil Chenier - basketball player for the Washington Bullets in the 1970s
- Je'Rod Cherry - football player who won three Super Bowl rings with New England Patriots
- Chick Hafey, 1921 - baseball player who won two World Series with St. Louis Cardinals; had first hit in All-Star Game history
- Kamani Hill, 2002 - soccer player, forward for Colorado Rapids
- Ruppert Jones - 1973 Athlete of the Year - Major League Baseball player, 2-time All-Star
- Jack LaLanne, 1935 - fitness educator
- John Lambert - basketball player at USC and in NBA for multiple teams
- Billy Martin, 1946 - second baseman for five New York Yankees World Series teams in the 1950s, and manager of four playoff teams (Twins, Yankees, Detroit, A's), including one championship
- Lawrence McGrew, 1975 - football player, linebacker for New England Patriots, New York Giants 1980 - 1991
- Walter Murray, gridiron football player
- Hannibal Navies, 1995 - football player
- Steve Odom, football player, wide receiver for Green Bay Packers 1974 - 1977
- Claudell Washington - baseball outfielder
Authors, journalists, and poets
- Anastasia M. Ashman, 1982 - author
- David-Matthew Barnes, 1988 - novelist, playwright, poet and filmmaker
- Belva Davis, 1951 - journalist
- Philip K. Dick, 1947 - author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, on which the movie Blade Runner was based, and many other books
- David Gordon, 1961 - editor of Harvard Crimson, economist, syndicated columnist
- Sandra Gulland, 1962 - novelist
- Shelley Jackson - author of Patchwork Girl
- Ursula K. Le Guin, 1947 - science fiction author of the Earthsea series, The Left Hand of Darkness, and many other books
- Thomas Levenson, 1958 - science writer, author of Newton and the Counterfeiter, Einstein in Berlin and other books
- Leza Lowitz, 1980 - author, poet, editor, journalist
- Ariel Schrag, 1998, autobiographical graphic novelist
- Joel Selvin, 1967, rock music critic and author
- Frank Somerville, 1976, television news anchor, KTVU Oakland
- Ricardo Sternberg, 1967, poet
- Elizabeth Treadwell, 1985 - poet
- Charlotte Wilder, c. 1915 - poet, sister of Thornton Wilder
- Thornton Wilder, c. 1915 - novelist and playwright
- Mark London Williams, 1977 - author
- Catherine Yronwode, 1965 - author, editor, publisher, graphic designer
Entrepreneurs
- Ben Horowitz, 1984? Silicon Valley venture capitalist, partner in Andreessen Horowitz
Filmmakers
- Amir Bar-Lev, 1990 - documentary director/producer
- Gregory Hoblit, 1962 - television and film director
- Ian Inaba, 1989 - music video/film director
- Leah Meyerhoff, 1997 - Student Academy Award-nominated filmmaker
- Dave Meyers, 1990 - music video/film director
- Michael Ritchie, 1956 - film director
- Colin Tilley, 2006 - music video/film director (including music videos for Chris Brown and Justin Bieber)
Mathematicians and computer scientists
- Richard Bolt, 1928 - physics professor at MIT with an interest in acoustics; created BBN ("Modem" and "e-mail")
- John Brillhart, 1948 - mathematician, author of books on large-number factorization
- Andrew Gleason (graduated elsewhere) - mathematician
- Pei-Yuan Wei, 1986 - (魏培源, pinyin: Wèi Péiyuán), created ViolaWWW, one of the first graphical web browsers
- Bill Woodcock, 1989 - developed anycast DNS, and built more than 100 Internet exchange points around the world
Musicians
- Ambrose Akinmusire, 2000 - jazz trumpet player
- Peter Apfelbaum, 1978 - multi-instrumentalist/composer of Hieroglyphics Ensemble
- Steven Bernstein, 1979 - jazz trumpeter, slide trumpeter, arranger/composer and bandleader
- Stephen Bishop, 1958 - classical pianist known as Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich and Stephen Kovacevich
- Kevin Cadogan, 1988 - rock guitarist, formerly of Third Eye Blind
- The Cataracs - indie-pop duo
- Aaron Cometbus - drummer in punk bands Crimpshrine and Pinhead Gunpowder, author of Cometbus fanzine
- Gabriela Lena Frank, 1990 - classical composer and pianist
- G-Eazy, 1989 - rapper, songwriter
- Benny Green, 1980 - jazz pianist
- Charlie Hunter, 1985 - jazz guitarist
- David Immerglück, 1979 - multi-instrumentalist/guitarist for Counting Crows, Camper Van Beethoven and the Monks of Doom
- Joe and Eddie (Joe Gilbert and Eddie Brown), folk singers
- Greg 'Curly' Keranen, 1973 - bassist, The Rubinoos, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
- Stephen "Doc" Kupka, 1964 - founding member/baritone saxophone of Tower of Power
- Phil Lesh, 1957 - Grateful Dead bass player
- Jesse Michaels - son of writer Leonard Michaels, singer of the East Bay punk band Operation Ivy, Common Rider
- The Pack - some members attended Berkeley High School
- Lenny Pickett - Saturday Night Live saxophone player
- Julian Waterfall Pollack, 2006 - jazz pianist
- Thomas Pridgen - drummer for The Mars Volta
- Joshua Redman, 1986 - jazz musician
- Timex Social Club - contemporary R&B group
- Geoff Tyson - guitarist and record producer
- Kyle Vincent - contemporary pop recording artist/singer-songwriter, producer
- Shirley Dean, 1950 - Berkeley City Council member 1975-1982 and 1986–1994, and mayor 1994-2002
- Matthew Denn, 1984 - Lieutenant Governor of Delaware 2009-2014, Attorney General of Delaware 2015-
- Elihu Harris, 1965 - Mayor of Oakland, California, 1991–99
- George Livingston - first elected African American Mayor of Richmond 1985-1993[4]
- Aaron Peskin, 1982 - former president, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Scientists and inventors
- Sam Ruben, 1931? - co-discoverer of C14, a radioactive isotope of carbon, in 1940; the isotope led to many advances in the fields of biochemistry and medicine as well as its use in carbon dating for archeology
Theatre artists
- Dawn Monique Williams, 1996 - director
Notable faculty
- Edgar Manske - member of the College Football Hall of Fame, former assistant football coach at Cal under Pappy Waldorf; taught biology at Berkeley High for 20 years (1955–1975)
Notes
External links
Categories:
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- People from Berkeley, California
- High schools in Alameda County, California
- Lists of American people by school affiliation
- Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) alumni
- Berkeley, California-related lists
- Lists of people by educational affiliation in California
