List of Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) people

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.

Timothy Hutton

Shelley Jackson

Ursula K. Le Guin

Phil Lesh

Billy Martin

Joshua Redman

Rebecca Romijn

Bobby Seale

Thornton Wilder

Notable alumni

Activists

• Bob Avakian, 1960 - head of Revolutionary Communist Party
• David Brower, 1928 - President, Sierra Club. Founder, 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

Actors

• Robert Culp, 1947 - actor
• Paul Mooney, 1959 - actor, comedian
• Richard Gant, 1961 - television and film actor
• Nina Hartley, 1977 - 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
• Andy Samberg, 1996 - Cast member of Saturday Night Live
• Jorma Taccone - American comedy writer-actor, Saturday Night Live writer
• Rebecca Romijn, 1990 - actress
• Akiva Schaffer, 1996 - comedy writer and director, Saturday Night Live writer and director

Artists

• Ariel Schrag, 1998 - Cartoonist/graphic novelist
• Galen Rowell, 1958 - wilderness photographer and climber

Athletes

• Chidi Ahanotu, 1988 - was an American 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)
• Glenn Burke, 1970 - baseball player.
• Phil Chenier - basketball player for the Washington Bullets in the 1970s
• Je'Rod Cherry - American football player who won 3 Super Bowl rings with the New England Patriots.
• Ruppert Jones - 1973 - 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
• Claudell Washington - baseball outfielder
• Hannibal Navies, 1995 - American football player
• Steve Odom, American Football Player - Wide Receiver Green Bay Packers 1974 - 1977
• Lawrence McGrew, 1975 American Football Player - Linebacker New England Patriots, New York Giants 1980 - 1991

Authors, journalists, and poets

• Anastasia M. Ashman, 1982 - author
• David-Matthew Barnes, 1988 - novelist, playwright, poet and filmmaker
• Philip K. Dick - author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, on which the movie Blade Runner was based, and many other books
• David Gordon - editor of Harvard Crimson, economist, syndicated columnist
• Sandra Gulland, novelist
• Shelley Jackson - author of Patchwork Girl.
• Ursula K. Le Guin - science fiction author of the Earthsea series, The Left Hand of Darkness, and many other books
• R. Kent Rasmussen, 1961 - author of numerous books—most notably on Africa and Mark Twain—and editor of dozens of multivolume reference books
• Ariel Schrag, 1998, autobiographical graphic novelist
• Elizabeth Treadwell, 1985 - poet
• Thornton Wilder, c. 1915 - novelist and playwright
• Charlotte Wilder, c. 1915 -poet and sister of Thornton Wilder
• Mark London Williams, 1977 - author

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 (Music videos for Chris Brown and Justin Bieber and other notable artists)

Mathematicians and computer scientists

• Richard Bolt, 1928 - a physics professor at MIT with an interest in acoustics; Created BBN ("Modem" and "e-mail")
• Andrew Gleason - (graduated elsewhere) American mathematician
• Pei-Yuan Wei, 1986 - (魏培源, pinyin: Wèi Péiyuán), created ViolaWWW, one of the first graphical web browsers.
• John Brillhart, 1948 - mathematician, author of books on large-number factorization

Musicians

• Peter Apfelbaum, 1978 - multi-instrumentalist/composer of Hieroglyphics Ensemble
• Ambrose Akinmusire, 2000 - jazz trumpet player.
• Steven Bernstein, 1979 - trumpeter, slide trumpeter, arranger/composer and bandleader
• Gabriela Lena Frank, 1990 - classical composer and pianist
• Stephen Bishop, 1958 - classical pianist known as Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich and as Stephen Kovacevich
• Aaron Cometbus - drummer]] of punk bands Crimpshrine and Pinhead Gunpowder, author of Cometbus fanzine.
• Benny Green, 1980 - jazz pianist
• Charlie Hunter, 1985 - guitarist
• Joe and Eddie (Joe Gilbert and Eddie Brown), folk singers
• Greg 'Curly' Keranen, 1973 - bassist, The Rubinoos, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
• Phil Lesh, 1957 - Grateful Dead bass player
• Jesse Michaels - son of writer Leonard Michaels, most notably the singer of the East Bay punk band Operation Ivy, Common Rider
• Lenny Pickett - Saturday Night Live Saxophone player
• Thomas Pridgen - Current drummer for The Mars Volta
• Joshua Redman, 1986 - jazz musician
• David Ellis, 1985 - jazz musician
• Geoff Tyson - Acclaimed guitarist and record producer.
• The Pack - some members attended Berkeley High School
• Kyle Vincent - Contemporary pop recording artist/singer-songwriter, producer
• The Cataracs - indie-pop duo

Politicians

• Audie Bock, 1963/64?, California politician and film scholar
• Shirley Dean, Berkeley City Council member 1975-1982 and 1986–1994, and Mayor of Berkeley 1994-2002
• Elihu Harris, 1965 - Mayor of Oakland, California, 1991–99
• George Livingston - First elected African American Mayor of Richmond 1985-1993
• Aaron Peskin, 1982 - President, Board of San Francisco City Supervisors

Scientists and inventors

• David A. Smith, 1976, co-discoverer of a large number of gamma-ray pulsars.
• Lloyd M. Smith, 1972, inventor of fluorescence-based automated DNA sequencing, the technology used to sequence the human genome.
• Ronald A. Lesea, 1958 (d. 2004), inventor of Sylvania's low-wattage light bulbs, dimmable fluorescent lamps, and many other devices; also a concert violinist^{[citation needed]}
• Sam Ruben, 1931?, Co-discoverer of C14, a radioactive isotope of carbon in 1940. This isotope lead 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).
• Nancy Rubin - taught the class "Social Living" at Berkeley High from 1977 through 1996. She published a book titled Ask Me If I Care: Voices from an American High School by addresses teen social issues and is compiled entirely of journal entires by anonymous Berkeley High School students written during their Social Living classes (a mandatory course at the school).

External links

• Berkeley Alumni Association
• Class of 1977
• Class of 1978
• Class of 1984
• Class of 1998
• Home to Medicine Mountain