List of University of California, Berkeley alumni

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

Alumni of the University of California, Berkeley Steve Wozniak, BS 1986, co-founder of Apple Computer Gordon Moore, BS 1950, co-founder of semiconductor company Intel Willis Lamb, BS 1934, PhD 1938, Nobel laureate Thomas Schelling, BA 1944, Nobel laureate Hamilton O. Smith, BA 1952 ,Nobel laureate Robert Laughlin, BA 1972, Nobel laureate Andrew Fire, BA 1978, Nobel laureate Dana Scott, BS 1954, recipient of the Turing Award Turing Award laureate Ken Thompson (left), BS 1965, MS 1966, with fellow laureate and colleague Dennis Ritchie (right); together, they created Unix The computer mouse was invented by Turing Award laureate Doug Engelbart, B. Eng. 1952, Ph.D. 1955 Turing Award laureate Barbara Liskov, BA Math 1961 Turing Award laureate Charles P. Thacker, BA Physics 1967 Turing Award laureate Leonard Adleman, BA Math 1969, PhD EECS 1976 Jay Miner, BS 1959, "father of the Amiga" computer Academy Award winning actor Gregory Peck, BA 1939 Emmy- and Golden Globe Award- award winning actress Kathy Baker, BA 1977 Academy Award winning documentary directory Freida Lee Mock, BA 1961 Scott Adams, MBA 1986, creator of the comic strip Dilbert 14th Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren, BA 1912, LL.B. 1914 Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway, BA 1999 Singer Susanna Hoffs, BA 1980, of The Bangles Guitarist Jade Puget, BA 1996, of AFI Natalie Coughlin, BA 2005, Olympic gold medalist Jonny Moseley, BA 2007, Olympic gold medalist Tom Anderson, BA 1998, Co-founder and president of MySpace Astronaut James van Hoften, BS 1966 Astronaut Margaret Rhea Seddon, BS 1970 Astronaut Leroy Chiao, BS 1983, "first Asian-American and ethnic Chinese to perform a spacewalk" Astronaut Rex Walheim, BS 1984, member of the "Final Four" astronauts who flew on the very last Space Shuttle flight of STS-135 Space tourist and Microsoft billionaire Charles Simonyi, BS 1972 Roxann Dawson, BA 1980, actress (B'Elanna Torres on the television series Star Trek: Voyager), director, author, and playwright Chris Pine, BA 2002, actor (Captain James T. Kirk in the 2009 Academy Award-winning film Star Trek) John Cho, BA 1996, actor (Hikaru Sulu in the 2009 Academy Award-winning film Star Trek) Governor of Michigan Jennifer Granholm, BA 1984 Captain Glen Edwards, BS 1941, namesake of Edwards Air Force Base (where the space shuttle has landed 53 times) Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, BS 1953; namesake of the Mineta San Jose International Airport Lillian Moller Gilbreth, BA 1900, MA 1902, industrial/organizational psychologist and subject of the book (and film) Cheaper by the Dozen GTK was created by Peter Mattis, BS 1997

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 [1] – 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"
• Saul Perlmutter, Ph.D. 1986 - Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley; co-discoverer of Dark Energy as head of the Supernova Cosmology Project; Nobel laureate (2011, Physics) "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"
• Thomas J. Sargent, BA 1964 - William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University, Nobel laureate (2011, Economics) for "empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy"
• 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 – University Professor of Chemistry; Associate Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; Chancellor, Berkeley campus (1958–1961); Nobel laureate (1951, Chemistry), for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements"
• Hamilton O. 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"; former Associate Professor of Math at UC Berkeley, professor emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University
• Charles P. Thacker, B.A. (physics) 1967 – Microsoft Technical Fellow, chief designer of the Alto computer at Xerox PARC, co-inventor of Ethernet, recipient of the IEEE John von Neumann Medal in 2007, recipient of the Draper Prize in 2004; recipient of the 2009 Turing Award "for his pioneering design and realization of the Alto, the first modern personal computer, and in addition for his contributions to the Ethernet and the Tablet PC."
• 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."

Academy Award

• Mark Berger, B.A. 1964 – recipient of four Academy Awards for sound mixing and adjunct professor at UC Berkeley.
• Tony DeRose, Ph.D. 1985 – Senior Scientist and leader of the Research Group at Pixar Animation Studios, recipient of a Scientific and Technical Academy Award in 2006 for work on surface representations
• Paul E. Debevec, Ph.D. 1996 – Associate Driector of Graphics Research at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies, recipient of a Scientific and Technical Academy Award in 2010 for work used on the James Cameron film Avatar, the Sam Raimi film Spider-Man 2, and the Peter Jackson film King Kong.
• Charles H. Ferguson, B.A. 1978 – recipient of an Academy Award for Best Documentary for Inside Job (2010), Academy Award nomination for the documentary film 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
• Edith Head, B.A. in French 1918 – costume designer, recipient of eight Academy Awards and nominated for 34 Academy Awards
• Chris Innis, B.A. (film studies) – recipient of the Academy Award for Best Film Editing (for The Hurt Locker (2010))
• Joe Letteri, B.A. 1981 – recipient of four Academy Awards for Best Visual Special Effects in films directed by James Cameron (Avatar) and Peter Jackson (King Kong, The Two Towers and The Return of the King).
• Freida Lee Mock, B.A. 1961 – documentary filmmaker, recipient of the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1995 (for Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision)
• Gregory Peck, B.A. 1939 – actor, recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actor 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
• Walter Plunkett, B.A. 1923 – costume designer, recipient of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design for the 1951 film An American in Paris starring Gene Kelly

Pulitzer Prize

• Alexandra Berzon, M.A. 2006– Pultizer Prize winning journalist in 2009
• Rube Goldberg, B.S. 1904 – cartoonist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1948
• Marguerite Higgins, B.A. 1941 – journalist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1951, honored on a commemorative postal stamp issued by the United States Post Office
• Leon Litwack, B.A. 1951, PhD 1958 – professor emeritus of history at UC Berkeley, Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery.
• Matt Richtel, B.A. 1989 – winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting, co-author of the comic strip Rudy Park under the pen name of "Theron Heir"
• Robert Penn Warren, M.A. 1927 – novelist and poet, who received the Pulitzer Prize three times; author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the King's Men (1946), later made into a movie of the same name which won three Academy Awards .

Fields Medal

• 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 1982, winner of the United States National Medal of Science in 1997
• Michael Freedman, mathematician, winner of the Fields Medal in 1986.

Wolf Prize

• George Feher, B.S. 1950, M.S. 1951, Ph.D. 1954 – inventor of electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR); professor at the University of California, San Diego; recipient of the Wolf Prize (Chemistry, 2006/2007) "for the ingenious structural discoveries of the ribosomal machinery of peptide-bond formation and the light-driven primary processes in photosynthesis"
• Bertrand Halperin Ph.D. 1965 – Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University; recipient of the Wolf Prize (Physics, 2002–2003) "for key insights into the broad range of condensed matter physics... on two- dimensional melting, disordered systems and strongly interacting electrons."
• George Pimentel, Ph.D. 1949 – professor at UC Berkeley (1949–1989); inventor of the chemical laser ; recipient of the Wolf Prize (Chemistry, 1982) for the "development of matrix isolation spectroscopy and for the discovery of photodissociation lasers and chemical lasers."
• Chien-Shiung Wu, Ph.D. 1940 – professor of physics at Columbia University (1940–1980) ;recipient of the Wolf Prize (Physics, 1978) "for her explorations of the weak interaction, helping establish the precise form and the non-conservation of parity for this natural force "; first female president of the American Physical Society
• Shing-Tung Yau, Ph.D. 1971 – (also listed in Fields Medal) professor of mathematics at Harvard University; Fields Medal laureate; recipient of the Wolf Prize (Mathematics, 2010) "for his work in geometric analysis that has had a profound and dramatic impact on many areas of geometry and physics"

National Medal of Science

• Berni Alder, BS 1947, MS 1948 - recipient of the 2009 National Medal of Science "for establishing powerful computer methods useful for molecular dynamics simulations, conceiving and executing experimental shock-wave simulations to obtain properties of fluids and solids at very high pressures, and developing Monte Carlo methods for calculating the properties of matter from first principles, all of which contributed to major achievements in the science of condensed matter."
• 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 "for his fundamental contributions to areas of modern astrophysics ranging from solar neutrino physics to the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy to cosmology, and for his leadership of the astronomical community, especially his tireless advocacy of the Hubble Space Telescope.", recipient of the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in 1992, co-winner of the Fermi award in 2003
• John W. Cahn, Ph.D. 1953 – materials scientist, recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1998 "for his pioneering work on thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transitions and diffusion, on interfacial phenomena, and for his contributions to the understanding of periodic and quasi-periodic structures."
• Brent Dalrymple, PhD 1963- recipient of the 2003 National Medal of Science "for his pioneering work in determining the geomagnetic polarity reversal timescale; a discovery that led to the theory of plate tectonics."
• Henry Eyring, Ph.D. 1927 – namesake of the Eyring equation ;Professor of Chemistry (Princeton University), dean of the University of Utah graduate school and recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1966 "for contributions to our understanding of the structure and properties of matter, especially for his creation of absolute rate theory, one of the sharpest tools in the study of rates of chemical reaction."
• T.Y. Lin, M.S. 1933 – Professor of Civil Engineering, bridge builder, pioneering researcher and practitioner of prestressed concrete, designed Moscone Center, recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1986 "for his work as an engineer, teacher and author whose scientific analyses, technological innovation, and visionary designs have spanned the gulf not only between science and art, but also between technology and society."
• Susan Solomon, M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1981 – Senior Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), recipient of the National Medal of Science in 2000 "for key scientific insights in explaining the cause of the Antarctic Ozone hole and for advancing the understanding of the global ozone layer; for changing the direction of ozone research through her findings; and for exemplary service to worldwide public policy decisions and to the American public."
• JoAnne Stubbe, PhD 1971 - recipient of the National Medal of Science in 2008 "for her ground-breaking experiments establishing the mechanisms of ribonucleotide reductases, polyester synthases, and natural product DNA cleavers compelling demonstrations of the power of chemical investigations to solve problems in biology."
• Shing-Tung Yau, Ph.D. 1971 – mathematician, recipient of the Fields Medal in 1982, recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1997 "for his fundamental contributions in mathematics and physics. Through his work, the understanding of basic geometric differential equations has been changed and he has expanded their role enormously within mathematics."

National Medal of Technology

• Glen Culler, BA Math 1951 – recipient of the National Medal of Technology in 1999 "for pioneering innovations in multiple branches of computing, including early efforts in digital speech processing, invention of the first on-line system for interactive graphical mathematics computing and pioneering work on the ARPAnet"
• Doug Engelbart, B. Eng. 1952, Ph.D. 1965 – recipient of the National Medal of Technology in 2000 "for creating the foundations of personal computing including continuous, real-time interaction based on cathode-ray tube displays and the mouse, hypertext linking, text editing, on-line journals, shared-screen teleconferencing, and remote collaborative work. More than any other person, he created the personal computing component of the computer revolution."
• Gordon Moore, B.S. 1950 – co-founder of NASDAQ-100 company Intel, namesake and originator of Moore's Law, co-founder of NASDAQ-100 semiconductor manufacturing company Intel, recipient of the National Medal of Technology in 1990 "for his seminal leadership in bringing American industry the two major postwar innovations in microelectronics - large-scale integrated memory and the microprocessor - that have fueled the information revolution."
• 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, co-recipient of the National Medal of Technology in 1998 for the "invention of the UNIX® operating system and the C programming language, which together have led to enormous growth of an entire industry, thereby enhancing American leadership in the Information Age." (also listed under Turing Award laureates section)
• Steve Wozniak, (class of 1976, BS EECS 1986)– co-founder of NASDAQ-100 computer manufacturing company Apple Inc., co-recipient (with Steve Jobs) of the National Medal of Technology in 1985 for the "development and introduction of the personal computer which has sparked the birth of a new industry extending the power of the computer to individual users." (also listed under "Founders and cofounders" section)

Gödel Prize

• Sanjeev Arora, Ph.D. 1994 – professor of computer science at Princeton University; recipient of two Gödel Prizes (2001 "for the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation" and 2010 for the "discovery of a polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) for the Euclidean Travelling Salesman Problem (ETSP)")
• Shafi Goldwasser, MS 1981, Ph.D. 1983 – RSA Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science; recipient of two Gödel Prizes (1993, "for the development of interactive proof systems" and 2001 "for the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation")
• Silvio Micali, Ph.D. 1982 – recipient of the Gödel Prize in 1993 "for the development of interactive proof systems'"
• Rajeev Motwani, Ph.D. 1988 – former professor of computer science at Stanford University; co-author of a research paper on the PageRank algorithm (with Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Terry Winograd) which became the basis of Google; 2001 Gödel Prize recipient "for the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation"
• Madhu Sudan, Ph.D. 1992 – professor of computer science at MIT; 2001 Gödel Prize recipient "for the PCP theorem and its applications to hardness of approximation"

Academia

Chancellors and Presidents

• Douglas J. Bennet, M.A. 1960 – President of Wesleyan University (1995–2007); former CEO of National Public Radio (1983–1993)
• Wen-Tsuen Chen, Ph.D. 1976 – President of National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (2006–2010), Distinguished Chair Professor of National Tsing Hua University, Lifelong National Chair of the Ministry of Education (Taiwan), Fellow of the IEEE, winner of the Taylor L. Booth Education Award
• 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
• Sam Karunaratne, 1967 – Vice-Chancellor of the University of Moratuwa (1995–1999), Chancellor of the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (1999–present)
• 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) (2004–2010)
• Timothy W. Tong, M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1980 – President of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Poly U) (2009–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)
• F. Jay Taylor, B.A. – President of Louisiana Tech University at Ruston (1962–1987)
• 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).
• Robert Calonico, BA 1976 – current Director of the University of California Marching Band (1996 – )
• Constance 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.
• Leonard K. Cheng, M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1980 – Dean of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology School of Business and Management (Dean, 2007 – )
• 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
• David Culler, B.A. 1980 – Chair of the Department of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, associate Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (UC Berkeley), and Associate CIO of the College of Engineering (UC Berkeley); co-founder of smart grid monitoring company Arch Rock (acquired by Cisco Systems), founding Director of Infel Research, UC Berkeley, Faculty Director of i4Energy (also listed in Founders and co-founders)
• 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
• George Gerbner, B.A. 1942 – former dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, the founder of cultivation theory
• 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 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
• Robert I. Sutton, B.A. 1977 – Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization at Stanford University, faculty member of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
• Christian Gout, 1996 - Director of the Math. Lab at the French Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA Rouen, France) since 2010.
• Frederick Wedge, 1928 - Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Pasadena College
• 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
• Y. Austin Chang, B.S., Ph.D. – Wisconsin Distinguished Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• 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 – AQR Capital Management 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 (Professor), 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 (anthropologist), 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
• Benny D. Freeman, Ph.D. 1988 - Kenneth A. Kobe and Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek & American Petrofina Foundation Centennial Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
• Susan Gal, M.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1976 – Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, The University of Chicago
• Kristen R. Ghodsee, M.A. 1997, Ph.D. 2002 – John S. Osterweis Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, Bowdoin College
• Mor Harchol-Balter, Ph.D. 1996 – McCandless Associate Professor of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University
• 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 – co-founder of NASDAQ-listed wireless networking semiconductor company Atheros Communications (acquired by Qualcomm for $3.2 billion); Member, National Academy of Engineering, Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, IEEE Fellow
• Stephen G. Monismith, BS 1977, MS 1979, PhD 1983, all in Civil Engineering – Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University
• 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

• Odd Aalen Ph.D. 1976 – Professor of Bioscience, University of Oslo
• Scott Aaronson Ph.D. 2004 – Assistant Professor of Computer Science, MIT
• Asad Abidi, M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1981 – Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Irma Adelman (1930-), Ph.D. 1955 – Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
• Özalp Babaoğlu, Ph.D. 1981 – Professor of Computer Science, University of Bologna (Italy)
• Richard Beeman, A.B. 1968 - John Walsh Centennial Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
• Regina Bendix, B.A. 1982 – Professor of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Göttingen (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
• Sherwin Carlquist, B.A. 1952, Ph.D. 1956 – Professor of Botany, Claremont Graduate University and Pomona College
• 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 (Traditional Chinese: 陳志輝), M.B.A. – Professor of Marketing and Director of EMBA Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK); Former Chairman, Consumer Council, Hong Kong
• Ching S. Chang, PhD. 1976 - Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• 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)
• LaWanda Cox, Ph.D. 1941 – Professor of History, Hunter College, noted historian of slavery and reconstruction
• 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
• Robert Corruccini, Ph.D. 1975 – anthropologist, work on the theory of malocclusion, author, distinguished professor, and Smithsonian Fellow.
• Michael Dietler, Ph.D. 1990 – Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago
• 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
• Rodrigo Fonseca, Ph.D. 2008 – Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Brown University
• 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
• John Keith Irwin, (1929–2010), Ph. D – Author and professor of sociology at San Francisco State University
• 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)
• Phillip Levis, Ph.D. 2005 – Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
• 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)
• Ethan L. Miller, Ph.D. 1995 – Professor of Computer Science University of California, Santa Cruz
• Michael Mitzenmacher, Ph.D. 1996 – Professor of Computer Science University
• Ethan V. Munson, Ph.D. 1994 – Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• 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)
• Dana Randall, Ph.D., Computer Science, 1994 – Professor of Computing and Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
• Noreen Reist, B.A. 1982 – Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University
• Richard T. Rodriguez, B.A. 1993 – Associate Professor of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Josiah Royce, B.A. 1875 – philosopher, professor at Harvard University
• Anant Sahai, B.S. EECS 1994 – Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley
• Klaus E. Schauser, Ph.D. 1994 – Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Srinivasan Seshan, B.S. 1990, Ph.D. 1995 – Associate Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon 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
• David Zuckerman, Ph.D. 1991 – Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin
• T. Pradeep, Ph.D. 1991 – Professor of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

Thelma Slezynger BA 1980- Associate Professor of Cell Biology, University Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela

Arts and media

Architecture

• Hans Hollein, M. Arch. 1960 – architect, awarded with the [Pritzker Architecture Prize] in 1985.
• Eric Owen Moss, M. Arch. 1968 – architect, famous for his contributions in theory and practice in contemporary 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
• Kofi Bonner, earned a Master of City Planning and a Master of Architecture. Went on to become known for the heading the redevelopment of the city of Emeryville, California. Bonner was also Director of Economic Development and Interim City Manager for the City of Oakland, California.

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) and The War Room (2011).
• Daniel Marcus, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering – Science Fiction author
• 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 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 Charlton Heston as Michelangelo)
• William T. Vollmann, (attended) – novelist
• Frank Warren, B.S. – founder of the PostSecret Project
• 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
• Thüring Bräm, M.A. – composer
• Suzanne Ciani, M.A. 1970 – composer
• Les Claypool – bassist and singer of Primus
• Stewart Copeland, drummer of The Police
• Henry Cowell (attended 1914) – composer
• Defari – hip-hop artist. Member of the Likwit Crew
• Marié Digby (attended) – singer-songwriter
• Adam Duritz (attended) – lead singer of Counting Crows
• Jewlia Eisenberg, B.A. 1998 – musician, cofounder of Charming Hostess
• John Fahey (attended, later transferred to UCLA) – guitarist, founder of Takoma Records
• Liz Harris (attended) – singer-songwriter, Grouper
• 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
• Richard E. Lander Jr B.A. 2002 – studio engineer, songwriter, musician
• 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
• Ralph Saenz, AKA Michael Starr, lead singer of Steel Panther

Newspapers and magazines

• Lincoln Steffens - one of the most famous practitioners of the journalistic style called muckraking
• 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")
• Pauline Kael, B.A. 1940 – film critic, The New Yorker
• Joseph W. Knowland, B.A. 1953 – former publisher Oakland Tribune (1974–1977)
• William F. Knowland, B.A. 1929 – Owner, Editor & Publisher Oakland Tribune (1966–1974)
• 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
• Paul Khlebnikov, B.A. 1984 - investigative journalist, first editor of Forbes in Russia and author of controversial book "Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia"

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
• Richard Lui, (BA Rhetoric), is an American journalist and news anchor for MSNBC. Previously a news anchor for five years at CNN Worldwide.
• 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
• Laura Unger, B.A. Rhetoric 1983 - former Acting Chairman and former Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, CNBC Regulatory Expert, Contributor to PBS business show Nightly Business Report
• Morgan Webb, B.A. 2000 – Co-host of X-Play on G4 (TV channel)
• 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, Video Games & 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)
• 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, Horrible Bosses, Code Name: The Cleaner
• John Cho, B.A. 1996 – actor (American Pie, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Star Trek)
• 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
• 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
• Amy Hennig – Video game director and writer
• William Hung (attended) – Contestant on American Idol
• Chris Innis, B.A. (Film) 1988 – film editor, American Gothic (TV series), The Hurt Locker, G.I. Jane (Associate Editor)
• Oren Jacob, B.S. 1992, M.S. 1995 – Pixar Animation Studios technical director
• Brad Johnson, transferred to the University of Southern California - actor, known for role of deputy Lofty Craig on the western series Annie Oakley
• Robbie Jones, (Class of 2000) - actor (One Tree Hill)
• 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])
• Young Jean Lee, B.A. 1996, Ph.D. Candidate 2000–2005 – OBIE Award-winning playwright and director of experimental theater, Artistic Director of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company
• 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)
• 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
• Dylan Sellers, B.A. 1979 - producer (Passenger 57, The Replacements, A Cinderella Story)
• Chris Pine, B.A. 2002 – actor (Star Trek, The Princess Diaries 2, Smokin' Aces)
• 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
• Scott Trimble, B.A. 1999 – Location scout and location manager (Transformers, Star Trek, Iron Man 2)
• 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
• Brenda Song

Business and entrepreneurship

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

Founders and co-founders

• Tom Anderson, B.A. 1998 – co-founder of social networking website MySpace (acquired by News Corporation for $580 million)
• Stephen D. Bechtel, 1954 (honorary) – founder of Bechtel Corporation and the largest engineering company in the United States
• Brian Behlendorf – co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation, Mozilla Foundation board member, co-founder and CTO of CollabNet
• Joan Blades, B.A. 1977 – co-founder of software 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 – founder of private equity firm Blum Capital and the American Himalayan Foundation, Regent of the University of California
• Richard Bolt B.A. 1933, M.A. 1937, Ph.D. 1939 – co-founder of ARPANET developer 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), director of Intel Labs Berkeley
• Gary Chevsky, attended for undergraduate degree 1990-1994 – co-founder and chief architect of web search engine company Ask Jeeves (known now as Ask.com, and acquired by InterActive Corp for $1.9 billion), Senior VP at Symantec and YouSendIt
• Ed Crane, B.S. 1967 – founder of the Cato Institute
• Frederick Gardner Cottrell, B.S. Chemistry, 1896 – founder of patent holding company Research Corporation (which held the rights to the patent for Ernest O. Lawrence's cyclotron); inventor of the electrostatic precipitator, which removes pollution from factory exhaust fumes; inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1992
• David Culler, B.A. 1980 – Chair of the Department of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, associate Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (UC Berkeley), and Associate CIO of the College of Engineering (UC Berkeley); co-founder of smart grid monitoring company Arch Rock (acquired by Cisco Systems)
• Weili Dai, B.A. Computer Science 1984 – Co-founder (with Sehat Sutardja MS 1983, PhD 1988 EECS and Pantas Sutardjai MS 1983, PhD 1988 ) of NASDAQ-100 broadband technology company Marvell Technology Group; namesake of Sutardja-Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus
• James Dao, B.S. EECS 1960 – founder and former CEO of electron beam lithography company Etec Systems, Inc. (acquired by Applied Materials for $1.78 billion); founder and CEO of Genyous Biomed
• Dennis DeAndre, B.A. Business – Founder of LoopNet, a NASDAQ-listed commercial real estate listing services company.
• Niket Desai, B.S. Industrial Engineering 2009 – co-founder of loyalty service program Punchd (acquired by Google for over $10 million)
• 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
• Joel Downs, B.S. Business 1979 – Founder of Answerbag
• Alan Miller, B.S. EECS 1973, co-founder of first independent video game publisher Activision and later Accolade (game company)
• Senh Duong, B.A. 1995 – originator and co-founder (with Patrick Lee BA Cognitive Science 1992 and Stephen Wang BA CS 1997) of film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes (acquired by IGN for $10 million)
• Ben Elowitz, B.S., B.A., 1994 – co-founder of NASDAQ-listed online retailer Blue Nile Inc. and social network service provider Wetpaint
• Jan Fandrianto, B.S. EECS 1982 – founder, President, and CEO of Sipura Technology Inc. (acquired by Cisco Systems for $68 million)
• Lee Felsenstein, B.S. EECS 1972 – founder of Community Memory, designer of Osborne 1 computer, mediator of Homebrew Computer Club, from which would emerge 23 companies, including Apple Inc.
• Robert Fanini, B.S. EECS 1981 – co-founder of application performance monitoring software company Foglight Software (acquired by Quest Software for $83.4 million);General Partner of venture capital investment company Inspiration Ventures LLC
• Charles H. Ferguson, B.A. 1978 –co-founder of Vermeer Technologies Incorporated (acquired by Microsoft for $133 million), founder and president of Representational Pictures, winner of an Academy Award for Best Documentary for Inside Job (2010), Academy Award nomination for the documentary film No End in Sight (2007), former fellow at the Brookings Institution, lifelong member of the Council on Foreign Relations (also listed in "Academy Awards" section)
• Donald Fisher, B.S. 1951 – founder and former CEO of NYSE-listed S&P 500 clothing retailer The Gap, which is the largest apparel retailer in the United States.
• Lyle Fong, B.A. 1996 – co-founder and CEO of social CRM solutions provider Lithium Technologies
• Rob Fulop, B.S. CS 1980 – co-founder of video game companies Imagic and PF Magic (creator of first virtual pets such as Dogz), Atari engineer, developed Missile Command and Night Driver
• Coleman Fung, B.S. IEOR 1987 – founder of financial trading and risk management software company OpenLink Financial, Inc., namesake of the Coleman Fung Risk Management Research Center at UC Berkeley
• Garrett Gruener, M.A. Political Science 1977 - co-founder of web search engine company Ask Jeeves (known now as Ask.com, and acquired by InterActive Corp for $1.9 billion)
• Robert Gaskins, M.A. 1974 – creator of PowerPoint (acquired by Microsoft for $14 million as its "first significant software acquisition")
• Steve Gibson (attended) – founder of 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 (acquired by Electronic Arts)
• Diane Greene, MS CS 1988 – Co-founder (with Mendel Rosenblum MS 1989, PhD 1992 and Edward Wang BS EECS 1983, MS 1988, PhD 1994) of NYSE-listed company VMWare
• Paul Gulick, BS EECS – "father of the digital projector", co-founder of DLP and LCD digital projector manufacturing company InFocus, founder and former CEO of digital display company Clarity Visual Systems (acquired by Planar Systems for $46 million )
• John Hanke, MBA 1996 – founder and CEO of Keyhole, Inc. (acquired by Google, renamed to Google Earth)
• F. Warren Hellman, BA 1955, founder of Hellman & Friedman and Matrix Partners, former chairman, head of Investment Banking Division at Lehman Brothers.
• Mike Homer, B.S. 1981 – co-founder and former CEO of networking company Kontiki (acquired by VeriSign for $62 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)
• Charles Huang, BA 1992 – co-founder (with Kai Huang BA 1994) of video game company RedOctane (publisher of Guitar Hero and acquired by Activision for $99.9 million)
• Kai Huang, B.A. 1994 – co-founder (with Charles Huang BA 1992) and president of video game company RedOctane (publisher of Guitar Hero and acquired by Activision for $99.9 million)
• Remo Jacuzzi, B.S. Business 1958 – Founder and President of hydrotherapy ( hot tub) company Jason International Company
• Bill Joy, M.S. 1982 – co-founder of computer software and hardware manufacturer Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle Corporation for $7.4 billion)
• Gene Kan, B.S. 1997 – founder of distributed search engine InfraSearch (acquired by Sun Microsystems for $12 million)
• Glenn Kelman, B.A. 1993 – co-founder of Plumtree Software (acquired by BEA Systems for $200 million)
• Mike Kwatinetz, M.S., Ph. D 1962 – founding general partner of venture capital firm Azure Capital Partners
• Daryn Lau, B.S. EE 1986 – Senior vice-president of 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 NASDAQ-100 computer network storage company NetApp ; recipient of a Lifetime Achievement award from the UC Berkeley School of Engineering
• Patrick Lee, B.A. Cognitive Science 1992 – co-founder (with Senh Duong BA 1995 and Stephen Wang BA CS 1997 ) and former CEO of film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes (acquired by IGN for $10 million)
• 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 Liang Lu, B.S. 1978 – founder and former CEO of NASDAQ-listed Fortune 1000 networking company UTStarcom (named by the World Economic Forum to its Technology Pioneers list)
• Jennifer Maxwell, BS 1988 – co-founder (with Brian Maxwell, BA 1975) of energy bar food company PowerBar (acquired by Nestlé for $375 million); namesake of the Maxwell Family Field on the UC Berkeley campus
• Brian Maxwell, B.A. 1975 – co-founder (with Jennifer Maxwell, BS 1988) of energy bar food company PowerBar (acquired by Nestlé for $375 million); namesake of the Maxwell Family Field on the UC Berkeley campus
• Steve McCanne, B.S. 1990, Ph.D. 1996 – Co-developer of MBone, co-founder of Internet broadband technology company FastForward Networks (acquired by Inktomi for $1.3 billion), co-founder and CTO of NASDAQ-listed networking hardware company Riverbed Technology
• Milo Medin, B.S. 1985 – founder of Internet broadband company @home Network, (acquired by AT&T for $307 million)
• Sanjay Mehrotra, B.S. 1978, M.S. EE 1980 – co-founder and president of NASDAQ-100 flash memory manufacturer SanDisk
• Gordon Moore, B.S. 1950 – co-founder of NASDAQ-100 company Intel, originator of Moore's Law
• Teresa H. Meng, Ph.D. 1988 – co-founder of NASDAQ-listed wireless networking semiconductor company Atheros Communications (acquired by Qualcomm for $3.2 billion); member, National Academy of Engineering, Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, IEEE Fellow
• Paul Merage, B.S. Business 1966, MBA 1968 – co-founder and former CEO of Hot Pockets frozen food company Chef America Inc. (acquired by Nestlé for $2.6 billion)
• Kate and Laura Mulleavy, B.A. (art history and English, respectively) 2001 – founders of clothing and fashion accessories brand Rodarte.
• Michael Olson, B.A. 1991, M.A. 1992 – founder and CEO of commercial Apache Hadoop vendor Cloudera; former CEO of database software company Sleepycat Software (acquired in 2006 by Oracle Corporation), co-author of database software BerkeleyDB
• Pierre Omidyar, attended to complete his undergraduate degree in computer science – Founder of NASDAQ-100 web auction site eBay
• 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; original product manager of the Java at Sun Microsystems; co-founder and former CEO of software company Marimba (acquired by BMC Software for $239 million)
• Rhea Posedel, B.S. EE 1965 – Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor testing company Aehr Test Systems
• Lars Rasmussen, Ph. D 1992 – co-founder of Where 2 Technologies (which was acquired by Google and renamed to Google Maps); co-founder of Google Wave
• 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 Diane Greene MS CS 1988 and Edward Wang BS EECS 1983, MS 1988, PhD 1994) of NYSE-listed software company VMWare
• John Schaeffer, 1971 – Founder of NASDAQ-listed solar energy retailer Real Goods Solar and the Solar Living Center
• John Scharffenberger, 1973 – co-founder of the Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker company (acquired by Hershey's for $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 CTO of semiconductor electronics firm SynOptics, Vice President at Bell Labs/Lucent
• Jim Simons, Ph.D. 1972 – founder of $20 billion hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, mathematician, philanthropist
• Charles Simonyi, B.S. 1972 – founder of Intentional Software, former head of Microsoft's flagship Office applications, 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
• Roger Sippl, B.A. CS 1977 – co-founder of software database company Informix (acquired by IBM for $1 billion)
• James Solomon, B.S. EE and M.S. EE 19?? – founder of electronic design automation company SDA Systems (became NASDAQ-listed Cadence Design Systems); recipient of the Phil Kaufman Award, the "Nobel Prize" of the electronic design industry"
• Masayoshi Son, B.A. 1980 – founder and CEO of Japanese telecommunications and media giant Softbank, venture capital firm Softbank Capital
• Cornelius Vander Starr (attended) – founder of AIG Corporation
• 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, BS Business 1979) of NASDAQ-listed financial software company Advent Software
• Sehat Sutardja, M.S. 1983, Ph.D. 1988 EECS – Co-founder (with Weili Dai BA Computer Science 1984 and Pantas Sutardjai MS 1983, PhD 1988) of NASDAQ 100 broadband technology company Marvell Technology Group, a; 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 Sehat Sutardjai MS 1983, PhD 1988 and Weili Dai BA Computer Science 1984) of NASDAQ-100 technology company Marvell Technology Group ; namesake of Sutardja-Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus
• Marc Tarpenning, B.S. EECS 1985 – co-founder of NASDAQ-listed electric car company Tesla Motors; co-founder of NuvoMedia (acquired by Gemstar-TV Guide for $187 million)
• 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 Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance; the company was later acquired by IXYS Corporation for $62.4 million)
• 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 S&P 500 semiconductor ASIC company LSI Logic
• Cher Wang, M.A. 1981 – founder and chairperson of TWSE-listed smartphone manufacturer HTC Corporation and TWSE-listed electronics manufacturer VIA Technologies
• Chris Wang, B.A. 2003 – co-founder (with Ling Xiao, BS 2004 ) of social online gaming developer Playdom (acquired by The Walt Disney Company for $763 million)
• 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 NYSE-listed software company VMware
• Stephen Wang, B.A. C.S. 1997 – co-founder (with Senh Duong BA 1995 and Patrick Lee BA Cognitive Science 1992) and former CTO of film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes (acquired by IGN for $10 million)
• Ralph Warner (Law, ca. 1966) – founder of Nolo Press, pioneer in the legal self-help book industry
• Alice Waters, B.A. 1967 – celebrity chef, founder of Chez Panisse, originator of the California cuisine; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• David Wilner, BS CS c. 1975, co-founder of Wind River Systems (acquired by Intel for $884 million)
• Dean Witter, 1909 – co-founder and Partner, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
• Steve Wozniak, Class of 1976, graduated B.S. 1986 – Co-founder of NASDAQ-100 computer software and hardware manufacturer Apple Inc, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Johns Wu, B.A. 2007 – founder & CEO of Bankaholic (acquired by Bankrate for $15 million)
• Ling Xiao, B.S. 2004 – co-founder (with Chris Wang, BA 2003) of social online gaming developer Playdom (acquired by The Walt Disney Company for $763 million)
• Alisa Yaffa, B.A. 1986 – co-founder of semiconductor company Synplicity (acquired by Synopsys for $227 million)
• Michael Yang, B.S. 1983, MBA 1995 –founder of Become.com; co-founder of MySimon.com ( acquired by CNET for $700 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

• Ginetto Addiego, B.S. EE 1981, Ph.D. EE 1990 - President and Chief Operating Officer of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor equipment supplier Ultra Clean Holdings, Former Executive Vice President of semiconductor company Novellus Systems
• Dick Costolo, M.S. Computer Science - CEO, Twitter
• Mitchell Baker, B.A. 1979, J.D. 1987 – current Chairperson and former CEO of the web browser company Mozilla Corporation, current Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, recipient of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award in 2008
• William F. Ballhaus, Jr., B.S. 1967, M.S. 1968, Ph.D. 1971 – director of NASDAQ company OSI Systems, former president and CEO of Aerospace Corporation, former director of NASA's Ames Research Center
• Brian Barish, B.A. 1991 – President of the investment firm Cambiar Investors, LLC.
• 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
• Philip M. Condit, B.S. 1963 – Chairman and CEO of NYSE-listed S&P 500 aerospace corporation The Boeing Company from 1996 to 2003
• Rick Cronk, B.S. Business 1965 – co-owner and former President (1977–2003) of NASDAQ-listed ice cream company Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream (acquired by Nestlé in a $2.8 billion deal in 2002) ; former national president of the Boy Scouts of America and the outgoing chairman of the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement
• John Danne, B.S. EECS 1986 – President and CEO of NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Altera, former vice-president at NYSE-listed S&P 500 semiconductor company LSI Logic
• Robert V. Dickinson, B.A. Physics – President and CEO of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company California Micro Devices
• Patricia Dunn, B.A. 1975 – former Chairwoman of NYSE-listed S&P 500 computer products company Hewlett-Packard
• John East, B.S. 1966 – CEO of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company Actel
• Richard D. Fain, B.S. Economics – Chairman and CEO of NYSE-listed cruise line commpany Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
• David Feinberg, B.A. 1984 Economics – CEO of the UCLA Hospital System
• Michael R. Gallagher, B.A. Business 1967, MBA 1968 - former CEO and Director of Playtex Products, Inc., from 1995 to 2004
• Clarence Granger, BS Industrial Engineering - Chairman and CEO of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor equipment supplier Ultra Clean Holdings
• Andrew Grove, Ph.D. 1963 – 4th employee of NASDAQ-100 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.
• Kirk S. Hachigian, B.S. Business 1982 – Chairman, President, and CEO of NYSE-listed electrical equipment and tool manufacturing company Cooper Industries
• Paul E. Jacobs, B.S. 1984, M.S. 1986, Ph. D 1989 – CEO of NASDAQ-100 wireless telecommunications semiconductor company Qualcomm
• Pradman Kaul, M.S. 1968 – Chairman and CEO of NASDAQ-listed broadband satellite services company Hughes Communications, member of the National Academy of Engineering
• Glenn Kelman, B.A. 1993 – President and CEO of online real estate brokerage Redfin
• Linda A. Lang, B.S. Business 1980 – Chairman of the Board and CEO of NASDAQ-listed restaurant franchise company Jack in the Box
• Howard Lincoln, B.A. 1962, J.D. 1965 – former Chairman of video game company Nintendo of America (the American branch of TYO-listed video game company Nintendo), 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 NASDAQ-100 software company Adobe Systems Inc.
• Paul Otellini, M.B.A. 1974 – CEO of NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Intel (2005–present)
• Rudolph A. Peterson, B.S. 1925, President and CEO of NYSE-listed S&P 500 financial services company 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
• Tom Reilly, B.S. ME – President and CEO of security software company ArcSight (acquired by Hewlett Packard for $1.5 billion)
• John Riccitiello, B.S. 1981 – CEO of NASDAQ-100 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 NASDAQ-100 wireless service provider company Vodafone (2003–present)
• Eric E. Schmidt, M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1982 – CEO of NASDAQ-100 Internet search company Google (2001–present)
• Willy Shih, Ph.D. - Chairman of the Board of NASDAQ-listed wireless networking semiconductor company Atheros Communications when it was acquired by Qualcomm for $3.2 billion; Professor of Management Practice at The Harvard Business School
• Stephen A. Skaggs, B.S. 1984 – President and CEO of NASDAQ-listed Lattice Semiconductor
• Cher Wang, M.A. 1981 – Chair of computer motherboard manufacturer TWSE-listed VIA Technologies and TWSE-listed portable electronics manufacturer HTC Corporation
• Hal Zarem, B.S. Physics 1980 – Chief Executive Officer, Silicon Light Machines division of NASDAQ-listed Cypress Semiconductor

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

• Maury Austin, B.S. – CFO of NASDAQ-listed microprocessor design company MIPS Technologies
• Jeffrey C. Benzing, B.S. Mech. Eng. 19?? – Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer of NASDAQ-listed 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 NASDAQ-100 broadband semiconductor company Broadcom
• Kevin Donelly, B.S. EECS 1985 – Senior Vice-President of Engineering at NASDAQ-listed semiconductor RAM interface company Rambus
• Ben Elowitz, B.S., B.A., 1994 – Vice-president and co-founder of NASDAQ-listed online retailer Blue Nile Inc.
• Craig Federighi, B.S. EECS, M.S. CS - Senior Vice President of Mac Software Engineering at NASDAQ-100 computer technology company Apple Inc.
• John Fogelin, B.A. CS – former Vice President of Engineering and CTO of Wind River Systems (acquired by Intel for $884 million ), current Vice President of Engineering for human robotic exoskeleton company Berkeley Bionics (developers of the Human Universal Load Carrier and eLegs, which allows paraplegics to walk upright)
• Charles Giancarlo, M.S. EECS 1980 – Chief Development Officer of NASDAQ-100 networking technology company Cisco Systems
• Bruce Jaffe, B.S. – Corporate Vice-President and head of Mergers & Acquisitions of NASDAQ-100 software company Microsoft Corporation; CFO of Glam Media
• Monica Johnson, B.A. Economics – Chief Financial Officer of CafePress
• 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 NASDAQ-listed Cypress Semiconductor
• Neil Y. Kim, BS EECS – Senior Vice President, Operations and Central Engineering of NASDAQ-100 broadband semiconductor company Broadcom
• E. Floyd Kvamme, B.S. EECS 1959 – former vice-president and president at NYSE-listed S&P 500 semiconductor manufacturer company National Semiconductor, former vice-president at Apple Computer, venture capitalist Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
• Ernest Lam, B.S. EECS – former Vice President of Engineering at Teracent Corporation (when it was acquired by Google)
• 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)
• Wayne Lee, B.S. Business - Chief Financial Officer of NASDAQ-listed Internet media tourism company Travelzoo
• Bruce H. Leising, B.S. 1976– Vice President of the Technology and Manufacturing Group at NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Intel
• Judy Lin, dual B.A.'s in C.S. and European History – Former Executive Vice President of NASDAQ-100 network infrastructure company VeriSign
• Byron Lok, B.S. CS 1976 – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of NYSE-listed S&P 500 semiconductor company LSI Logic
• Craig London, B.S. Physics – Executive Vice President of electronics manufacturing services company Solectron (acquired by Flextronics for $3.6 billion)
• 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
• Amy Maniatis, B.A. – Vice President of Marketing at CafePress
• 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 NASDAQ-listed microprocessor design company MIPS Technologies
• David Nguyen, B.S. 19?? – Vice president of Engineering at NASDAQ-listed semiconductor RAM interface company Rambus
• Tim O'Brien, B.S. Business 1996 - former Vice President of Business Development for Tapulous when it was acquired by The Walt Disney Company; current Vice President of Business Development for Disney Mobile
• Raffy J. Ohannesian, B.A. Legal Studies 1991 - Chief Financial Officer, Fox Rent-A-Car, Inc.
• 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 NASDAQ-listed microprocessor design 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 microprocessor design company MIPS Technologies
• Steve Schumann, B.S. EECS 1982 – Vice president and general manager at NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company Atmel
• Dave Singhal, B.S. EECS - Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at NASDAQ-listed microprocessor design company MIPS Technologies
• Adam Tachner, B.A.– Vice President and General Counsel of NASDAQ-listed wireless networking semiconductor company Atheros Communications when it was acquired by Qualcomm for $3.2 billion
• Vincent Tong, B.S. EECS – Vice-president of Worldwide Quality and Reliability Engineering at NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Xilinx
• David Torre, B.S. Business, MBA- Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of NASDAQ-listed wireless networking semiconductor company Atheros Communications when it was acquired by Qualcomm for $3.2 billion
• Vincent Win, B.S. EECS 19?? – former Vice President of video card manufacturer ATI Technologies when it was acquired by AMD for $5.4 billion, former Vice President at NYSE-listed S&P 500 semiconductor company AMD
• Robert Yung, B.A. 1985, M.S. EECS 1988, Ph.D. EECS 1998 – Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of NASDAQ-listed 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) – founder of the Getty Oil Company
• Don Graham – developer of the Ala Moana Center
• William Randolph Hearst, Jr. (attended) – newspaper publisher
• Michael Milken, B.S. 1968 – billionaire financier, Drexel Burnham Lambert, philanthropist
• Susan Samueli, B.A. 1972 – co-owner of the Anaheim Ducks

Visual artists

• Arthur Johnsen, B.A. 1974 – American painter, especially of hawaiiana
• Richard Keyes, M.A. Painting, 1958 – Professor Emeritus at Long Beach City College, after a 30 year career there teaching life drawing and painting.
• Thomas Kinkade, B.A. – American painter
• Jay DeFeo, B.A. 1950 – American painter

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: University of California, Berkeley School of Law

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 – first All-American at UC Berkeley, first African American graduate of Boalt Hall, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, Federal District 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
• Sione Manu'uli Luani – Governor of Vava'u, Tonga (2009–2010)
• 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, LL.B. 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
• Note: Governors of California George C. Pardee (1903–1907) and Hiram W. Johnson (1911–1917) and US Senator (1917–1945) attended the University and departed without a degree.

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 (D-California) (1975–1995), United States Secretary of Transportation (2001–2006), 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)
• Raffi Hovannisian, 1977 (attended, later transferred to UCLA) - former Foreign Minister of Armenia

Judges

See also: University of California, Berkeley School of Law

• Lance Ito, J.D. 1975 – judge, presided over O.J. Simpson trial
• Kiyo A. Matsumoto B.A 1976, Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• 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 – former California State Senate Republican Leader
• Sam Blakeslee, B.S., M.S. – California State Senator and former California State Assembly Republican Leader
• Stephen W. Cunningham—First UCLA graduate manager and Los Angeles City Council member, 1933–41
• 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)
• John A. Elston, 1897 – Congressman (P and R-California) (1915–1921)
• Craig Hosmer, B.A. 1937 – Congressman (D-California) (1953–1974)
• Tom Lantos, Ph. D 1953 – Congressman (D-California) (1981–2008)
• William F. Knowland, B.A. 1929 – US Senator (R-California) (1945–1959)
• John Garamendi, B.S. 1966 – Congressman (D-California) (2009–present)
• Mohammad Javad Larijani, Ph.D. – former Member of Parliament, Iran
• Barbara Lee, M.S.W. 1975 – Congresswoman (D-Oakland) (1998–present)
• Mel Levine, B.A. 1964 – Congressman (D-California) (1983–1993)
• Doris Matsui, B.A. 1966 – Congresswoman (D-California) replacing her decreased husband, Robert Matsui
• Robert Matsui, B.A. 1963 – Congressman (D-California) (1993–2005)
• Cynthia McKinney, Ph.D. candidate – Congresswoman (D-Georgia) (1997–2007)
• Norman Mineta, B.S. 1953 – Congressman (D-California) (1975–1995), United States Secretary of Transportation (2001–2006), United States Secretary of Commerce (2000–2001)
• 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 Sánchez, 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
• Crystal Brilliant Snow Jenne – first woman to run for House of Representatives in Alaska

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, D.C. (2000–2007); Acting Director of the National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. (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)
• Bob Holcomb, B.A. 1949 – Longest serving Mayor of San Bernardino, California (1971–1985, 1989–1993)
• Kevin Johnson, B.A. 1997 – Current Mayor of Sacramento, retired professional NBA basketball player.
• Lionel Wilson, B.A. 1938 – first African American Mayor of Oakland, California

Diplomats

• Julia Chang Bloch, B.A. 1964 – United States Ambassador to Nepal (1989–1993)
• Charles Richard Bowers, B.A. 1966, M.A. 1967 – United States Ambassador to Bolivia (1991–1994)
• Martin Brennan, B.A. 1971 – Former United States Ambassador to Zambia and Uganda
• Kenneth C. Brill, M.B.A. 1973 – United States Ambassador to Cyprus (1996–1999), Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (2001–04)
• Ruth A. Davis, M.S.W. 1968 – United States Ambassador to Benin (1992–1995)
• Milton Frank, B.A. 1941 – United States Ambassador to Nepal (1988–89)
• John Kenneth Galbraith, M.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1934 – Harvard Professor Emeritus of Economics; United States Ambassador to India
• March Fong Eu, B.S. 1943 – former California Secretary of State, former United States Ambassador to Micronesia, mother of Matt Fong, another noted Chinese-American politician
• Philip Habib, Ph.D. 1952 – United States Ambassador to South Korea (1971–74), U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East (1981–1983)
• Kathryn Walt Hall, B.A. – United States Ambassador to Austria (1997–2001)
• Michael G. Kozak, B.A. 1968, J.D. 1971 – United States Ambassador to Belarus (2000–2003)
• Joseph Limprecht, Ph.D. 1975 – United States Ambassador to Albania (1999–2002)
• John K. Menzies, Ph.D. – United States Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina (1996–1996), current dean of the Whitehead School of Diplomacy at Seton Hall University
• Richard Monroe Miles, B.A. 1962 – United States Ambassador to Bulgaria (1999–2002), United States Ambassador to Georgia (2002–2005)
• David Dunlop Newsom, B.A. 1938 – United States Ambassador to Indonesia (1974–1977), United States Ambassador to the Philippines (1977–1978), Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1978–1981)
• Sadako Ogata, Ph.D. 1963 – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1991–2001)
• Maurice S. Parker, B.A. 1972 – United States Ambassador to Swaziland ((2007–present)
• Gregory L. Schulte, B.A. 1980 – Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (2005–09)
• Emeline U. Tuita, M.B.A. 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)

• James David Zellerbach, 1913 – United States Ambassador to Italy

Attorneys

See also: University of California, Berkeley School of Law

• 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)
• 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)
• Mario Rosati, J.D. 1971 – Partner, leading Silicon Valley law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Adjunct Professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
• Larry Sonsini, B.A. 1963, J.D. 1966 – Chair, leading Silicon Valley law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
• 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 liberal political advocacy group MoveOn.org (also listed in Science and technology section)
• Harvey Dong, Ph.D. 1994. – political activist for the Asian American Community in the 1960s
• Betty Friedan (attended psychology graduate program) – feminist activist, author of The Feminine Mystique (1963), founder of the National Women's Political Caucus.
• Nancy Herrman, B.A. 1965 Anti-Chicken De-beaking Activist
• Claire Greensfelder, B.A. 1975 – feminist activist, alternative political campaigner^{[citation needed]}, 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 Center for the Study of Popular Culture
• Keith Kerr – Military general and Gay Rights activist
• James Robertson, 1923 – National Chair of the Trotskyist 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, newly appointed Chief Minister of the state of Maharashtra, 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)
• William Dudley, Ph.D. 1982 – President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2009–present)
• 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 – astronaut, "first Asian-American and ethnic Chinese to perform a spacewalk"
• 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 Business Founders and co-founders
• James van Hoften, B.S. 1966 – astronaut
• Rex Walheim, B.S. 1984 – astronaut, member of the "Final Four" astronauts who flew on the very last Space Shuttle flight of STS-135
• Mary Weber, Ph.D. 1988 – astronaut

Astronomers and space explorers

• William F. Ballhaus, Jr., B.S. 1967, M.S. 1968, Ph.D. 1971 – former director of NASA's Ames Research Center , president and CEO of Aerospace Corporation (also listed in "Business and entrepreneurship" section)
• 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
• 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
• Joel Stebbins, Ph.D. Physics 1903 – pioneered photoelectric photometry in astronomy, Royal Astronomical Society Gold Meal (1950), Hencry Draper Medal (1915), Rumford Prize (1913), namesake of asteroid 2300 Stebbins and the moon crater Stebbins
• 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
• Michael E. Brown, discovered the Eris (dwarf planet)

Computer scientists and engineers

See also: Turing Award laureates, Business

• 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
• Wen-Tsuen Chen, Ph.D. 1976 – (also listed in Chancellors and Presidents) helped establish the Taiwan Academic Network (TANet), the first Internet in Taiwan; winner of the 2011 Taylor L. Booth Education Award
• George Crow, B.S. EE 1966 – one of the original computer hardware designers of the Apple Macintosh computer
• Peter Engrav, BA (math) – Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft
• 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"
• Gary Grossman, BA CS – software engineer, the "inventor of ActionScript" (the programming language utilized by Web content authors using the Adobe Flash Player platform)
• Jean Paul Jacob, M.S. and PhD in Mathematics and Engineering (1966). Long research manager at the Almaden IBM Research Center, California. He was awarded the University of California Research Leadership Award in 2003 for his 40 years of work and research development in its departments. Electronic engineering degree (1960) from the Brazilian ITA
• 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
• 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
• Murray Turoff, B.A. Math and Physics 1958 – recipient of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's EFF Pioneer Award in 1994 for "significant and influential contributions to computer-based communications and to the empowerment of individuals in using computers"; distinguished professor emeritus at the New Jersey Institute of Technology
• 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

• Edward Condon, Ph.D. 1926 – pioneer in quantum physics, director of the National Bureau of Standards, president of the American Physical Society
• Marc Culler Ph.D. 1978 – mathematician working in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology
• Sir Samuel Curran, physicist, inventor of the scintillation counter in 1944, and proportional counter
• 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, author of the New York Times bestsellers Hyperspace and Physics of the Impossible, radio host of Science Fantastic
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• Dorothy M. Horstmann B.S. 1936, virologist who made important discoveries about polio.
• Susan Hough, B.A. 1982 – seismologist and author
• Edmund C. Jaeger, graduate student in 1918, became a renowned naturalist
• 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
• 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
• Simon Schwartzman, Ph.D. 1973 – recipient of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit
• Helen B. Taussig, B.A. 1921 – cardiologist, namesake of Blalock–Taussig shunt for blue baby syndrome; recipient of 1964 Medal of Freedom from President Lyndon Johnson; first female president of the American Heart Association; namesake of the "Helen B. Taussig Children's Pediatric Cardiac Center" at Johns Hopkins University; namesake of the Helen B. Taussig College at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• 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

Conor Jackson

Josh Satin

• Dixon Anderson – drafted in 2011 by the Washington Nationals
• Geoff Blum – professional baseball player with the Houston Astros
• Brennan Boesch – professional baseball player with the Detroit Tigers
• Austin Booker – drafted in 2011 by the Oakland Athletics
• Allen Craig - professional baseball player with the St. Louis Cardinals
• Mike Epstein – professional baseball player
• Matt Flemer – drafted in 2011 by the Kansas City Royals
• Brian Horwitz – professional baseball player
• Conor Jackson – professional baseball player with the Boston Red Sox
• Jackie Jensen – professional baseball player 1958 AL MVP Boston Red Sox
• Erik Johnson – drafted in 2011 by the Chicago White Sox
• Jeff Kent – professional baseball player with the Los Angeles Dodgers 2000 NL MVP (SF Giants)
• Chadd Krist – drafted in 2011 by the Chicago White Sox
• Darren Lewis – OF for the San Francisco Giants and the Boston Red Sox
• Kevin Maas – 1B and DH for the New York Yankees
• Kevin Miller – drafted in 2011 by the Houston Astros
• Brandon Morrow – professional pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays
• Xavier Nady – baseball player for the Arizona Diamondbacks (MLB)
• Tyson Ross – professional pitcher for the Oakland Athletics
• Josh Satin – professional baseball player with the New York Mets
• Marcus Semien – drafted in 2011 by the Chicago White Sox
• Tyler Walker – professional baseball player for the San Francisco Giants

Basketball

• Shareef Abdur-Rahim – retired professional (NBA) basketball player
• Ryan Anderson- 1st round (21st overall) of the 2008 NBA draft
• Rod Benson – D-league standout
• Geno Carlisle
• Francisco Elson – Professional basketball player currently playing for the San Antonio Spurs
• Larry Friend – 2nd round (13th overall) of the 1957 draft
• Ed Gray – 1st round (22nd overall) of the 1997 draft to Atlanta Hawks
• Devon Hardin – 2nd round (50th overall) of the 2008 NBA draft
• Chuck Hanger – 2nd round (9th overall) of the 1948 BAA draft
• Darrall Imhoff – 1st round (3rd overall) of the 1960 draft (all-star)
• 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 Lampley
• Sean Marks B.A. 1998 – currently playing for the New Orleans Hornets
• Mark McNamara- 1st round (22nd overall) of the 1982 NBA Draft
• 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
• Amit Tamir, pro basketball player (Hapoel Jerusalem)

Football

• J.J. Arrington – NFL running back for the Arizona Cardinals
• Tyson Alualu - defensive tackle for the Jacksonville Jaguars, #10 overall NFL draft pick in 2010
• Nnamdi Asomugha, B.A. 2003 – NFL All-Pro Cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles
• Steve Bartkowski – NFL QB #1 overall NFL draft pick of 1975, NFL Rookie of the Year, 2-time Pro Bowler
• Jahvid Best - running back for the Detroit Lions, #30 overall NFL draft pick in 2010
• 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 St. Louis Rams
• 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
• Chris Conte– 93rd overall NFL draft pick in 2011 for the Chicago Bears
• Thomas DeCoud – National Football League Safety with the Atlanta Falcons
• Herman Edwards – former head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs
• Jack Evans – quarterback for the Green Bay Packers
• Zack Follett – linebacker for the Detroit Lions
• Scott Fujita, B.A. 2001, M.A. 2002 – linebacker for the Cleveland Browns
• Tarik Glenn, B.A. 1999 – former offensive tackle for Indianapolis Colts, Super Bowl XLI champion
• Tony Gonzalez – National Football League Tight End with the Atlanta Falcons formally of the Kansas City Chiefs, also played basketball at Cal-Berkeley
• 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
• Darryl Ingram – former NFL player
• DeSean Jackson – NFL wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles
• Cameron Jordan – 24th overall of the 2nd round of the NFL draft pick in 2011 for the New Orleans Saints
• 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
• Alex Mack – NFL center for the Cleveland Browns #21 overall in 2009 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
• Mike Mohamed. B.A. 2010 – 189th overall NFL draft pick in 2011 for the Denver Broncos
• 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 when the Packers won the 2011 Super Bowl XLV, MVP of Super Bowl XLV
• Buck Saunders – blocking back for the Toledo Maroons
• 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
• John Sullivan – defensive back for the San Diego Chargers, Green Bay Packers, and San Francisco 49ers
• Syd'Quan Thompson - cornerback for the Denver Broncos, #225 overall NFL draft pick in 2010
• John Tuggle - running back for the New York Giants
• Miles Turpin – linebacker for the Green Bay Packers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• Iheanyi Uwaezuoke, former NFL wide receiver
• Shane Vereen, B.A. 2010 - 56th overall NFL draft pick in 2011 for the New England Patriots
• Wesley Walker, former NFL player
• Tim Washington - defensive back for the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs
• 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
• Justin Forsett – NFL running back for the Seattle Seahawks

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..
• Alex Morgan - Women's Professional Soccer and USWNT soccer player, became the youngest player on the USWNT in the 2011 World Cup

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)
• Timothy Leary, Ph.D. 1950 – psychologist and counterculture figure
• Ethan Lee, author of webcomic Single Asian Female
• Terence McKenna, B.Sc. 1969 – famous modern philosopher, author of the novelty theory and "stoned ape" hypothesis
• 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
• Shing02 – Underground Japanese Hip Hop artist who became immersed in Hip Hop when he attended Berkeley in 1993. Known in the hip hop community for his poetic work and his work with Nujabes, Achieved mainstream 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).
• Isaac Bonewits, B.A. Magic 1970 - Neopagan author, priest, speaker and founder of contemporary druidic group Ár nDraíocht Féin.

Fictional

• In the episode "The Return of Wonder Woman" (Wonder Woman Season 2 Pilot), Diana Prince pretends to be a UC Berkeley graduate.
• In the 2011 film Rise of the Planet of the Apes, James Franco's character, Will Rodman, is seen wearing a Berkeley t-shirt, implying that he attended the school in some capacity. There are also University of California diplomas on his wall.
• 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 1994 film Stargate, James Spader's character is revealed to have a University of California diploma when Dr. Catherine Langford is reviewing his credentials
• 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 to 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, Sandra Oh's character, Dr. Cristina 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, Steven Keaton and Elyse Keaton met at Berkeley as undergraduates. It can be assumed that Elyse got her architectural degree and Steve got his degree in political science, communications, or filmmaking. Mallory Keaton was born there on the day Steve was supposed to take a political science examination.
• In Full House, D.J. Tanner accepts an admissions offer from Berkeley
• In The Graduate Elaine Robinson was a student at Berkeley
• In Single Asian Female main character Jennie Low and several other characters are students at the school
• 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 1960s, 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
• In the series finale of Dollhouse, Mag, played by Felicia Day, said that prior to tech going wild that she studied Sociology at Berkeley.

See also

• List of UC Berkeley faculty