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

File:Stevewozniak.jpg

Steve Wozniak, BS 1986, co-founder of Apple Computer

File:Willis Lamb.jpg

Willis Lamb, BS 1934, PhD 1938, Nobel laureate

Robert Laughlin, BA 1972, Nobel laureate

Turing Award laureate Barbara Liskov, BA Math 1961

Turing Award laureate Charles P. Thacker, BA Physics 1967

Jay Miner, BS 1959, "father of the Amiga" computer

Emmy- and Golden Globe Award- award winning actress Kathy Baker, BA 1977

File:StephanJenkins-May06.jpg

Singer Stephan Jenkins, BA 1987, of Third Eye Blind

File:Jadepuget.jpg

AFI guitarist Jade Puget, BA 1996

Jonny Moseley, BA 2007, Olympic gold medalist

File:MargueriteHiggins.gif

Marguerite Higgins, BA 1941, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

GTK was created by Peter Mattis, BS 1997

Thomas Cech, Ph.D. 1975 - Nobel laureate (1989, Chemistry),^[2] for the "discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"
Steven Chu, Ph.D. 1976 - Nobel laureate (1997, Physics),^[3] 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),^[4] for the "discovery of fullerenes"
Joseph Erlanger, B.S. 1895 - Nobel laureate (1944, Physiology or Medicine),^[5] for "discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres"
Andrew Fire, B.A. 1978 - Nobel laureate (2006, Physiology or Medicine),^[6] 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),^[7] "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)^[8] "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),^[9] "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"
Alan Heeger, Ph.D. 1961 - Nobel laureate (2000, Chemistry),^[10] "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers"
Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D. 1961 - Nobel laureate (2002, Economics),^[11] "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),^[12] "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)),^[13] "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum"
Robert Laughlin, B.A. 1972 [2] - Nobel laureate (1998, Physics),^[14] for the "discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"
Yuan T. Lee, Ph.D. 1962 - Nobel laureate (1986, Chemistry),^[15] 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),^[16] "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),^[17] for the "discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"
Mario Molina, Ph.D. 1972- Nobel laureate (1995, Chemistry)),^[18] for "work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone"
Kary Mullis, Ph.D. 1973 - Nobel laureate (1993, Chemistry),^[19] "for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method"
Douglass North, B.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1952- Nobel laureate (1993, Economics),^[20] "for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change"
Thomas Schelling, B.A. 1944 - Nobel laureate (2005, Economics),^[21] "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis"
Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D. 1937 - Nobel laureate (1951, Chemistry), University Professor of Chemistry, Associate Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Chancellor, Berkeley campus (1958–1961),^[22] for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements"
Hamilton O. Smith, B.A. 1952 - Nobel laureate (1978, Physiology or Medicine),^[23] "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),^[24] "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 ),^[25] "for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes"
Harold Urey, Ph.D. 1923 - Nobel laureate (1934, Chemistry),^[26] "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen"
Selman Waksman, Ph.D. 1918 - Nobel laureate (1952, Physiology or Medicine),^[27] "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,^[28] 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,^[29] 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^[30] "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^[31] "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^[32]^[33] "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 ^[34] - 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 ^[35] "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 - winner of four Academy Awards for sound mixing and adjunct professor at UC Berkeley.^[36]
Edith Head, B.A. in French 1918^[37] - costume designer, winner of eight Academy Awards^[38] and nominated for 34 Academy Awards^[38]
Joe Letteri, B.A. 1981 ^[39] - winner 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).^[40]
Freida Lee Mock, B.A. 1961 - documentary filmmaker, winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1995 (for Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision)
Gregory Peck, B.A. 1939 - actor, won the Academy Award for portrayal of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), nominated for the Oscar four other times; served as president of the Screen Actors Guild

Pulitzer Prize

Alexandra Berzon, M.A. 2006- Pultizer Prize winning journalist in 2009^[41]
Rube Goldberg, 1904 - cartoonist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1948^[42]
Marguerite Higgins, 1941 - journalist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1951, honored on a commemorative postal stamp issued by the United States Post Office^[43]
Leon Litwack (BA.^[44] 1951, PhD 1958 ), professor emeritus of history at UC Berkeley,^[45] Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery.^[46]
Matt Richtel, B.A. 1989 - winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting,^[47] co-author of the comic strip Rudy Park under the pen name of "Theron Heir" ^[48]
Robert Penn Warren, M.A. 1927 - novelist and poet, who received the Pulitzer Prize three times;^[49] 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.

Academia

Chancellors and Presidents

Douglas J. Bennet, M.A. 1960 - President of Wesleyan University (1995–2007); former CEO of National Public Radio (1983–1993)
G. Wayne Clough, Ph.D. 1969 - President of Georgia Tech (1994–2008)
Robert E. Connick, Ph.D. 1942 - Professor of Chemistry, Dean of the College of Chemistry, Vice-Chancellor, UC Berkeley
Dale R. Corson, Ph.D. 1938 - President of Cornell University (1969–1977)
Dave Frohnmayer, J.D. 1967 - President of the University of Oregon (1994–present)
Michael J. Garanzini, S.J., Ph.D. 1986 (joint degree with GTU-Berkeley) - President of Loyola University of Chicago (2001–present)
David P. Gardner, M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1966 - 15th President of the University of California
Robert Kennedy, Ph.D. 1974 - President of the University of Maine (2005–present)
Clark Kerr, Ph.D. 1939 - Professor of Industrial Relations, Chancellor of UC Berkeley (1952–58), President of the University of California (1958–67)
Lawrence J. Lau, M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1969 - Vice-Chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) (2004–present)
Shirley A. R. Lewis, B.A. 1960 - first female President of Paine College
C. Daniel Mote, Jr., B.S. 1959, M.S. 1960, Ph.D. 1963 - President of the University of Maryland, College Park (1998–present)
Emil M. Mrak, B.S. 1926, M.S, Ph. D 1936 - former Chancellor of the University of California, Davis
David W. Oxtoby, Ph.D. 1975 - President of Pomona College (2003–present)
Kenneth Pitzer, Ph.D. 1937 - Dean of the College of Chemistry (1951–60), Professor of Chemistry; President of Rice University (1961–1968) and Stanford University (1969–1971)
William C. Powers, Jr., B.A. 1967 - President of the University of Texas, Austin (2006–present)
Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D. 1937 - Chancellor, Berkeley campus (1958–1961) (also listed in the section Nobel laureates)
Samuel H. Smith, B.S. 1961, Ph.D. 1965^[50] - 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 - )
George Gerbner, B.A. 1942 - former dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, the founder of cultivation theory
Connie J.Chang-Hasnain, Ph.D. 1987 - John R. Whinnery Chair Professor, electrical engineering and computer sciences department, Chair, nanoscale science and engineering graduate group, University of California, Berkeley. Fellow of the IEEE, OSA^{[disambiguation needed]} and IEE.
Michael J. Cima, B.S. 1982, Ph.D. 1986 - Director of the MIT Ceramics Processing Research Laboratory and Sumitomo Electric Industries Chair Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Persis Drell, Ph.D. 1983 - Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
Robert W. Dutton, B.S. 1966, M.S. 1967, and Ph. D 1970 - Director of Research in the Center for Integrated Systems at Stanford University, Guggenheim Fellow (1988), winner of the 1987 IEEE J. J. Ebers Award, winner in 1996 of the Jack A. Morton Award, recipient in 2000 of the C & C Prize from the Foundation for Communication and Computer Promotion in Japan
Deborah Estrin, B.S. 1980 - Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, Director of the UCLA Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), Fellow of the ACM, Fellow of the IEEE, and Fellow of the AAAS
Peter Fisher, B.S. 1983 - MIT Professor of Physics and Head of the Particle and Nuclear Experimental Physics Division at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Barbara J. Grosz, M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1977 - Dean, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study (2008–present); Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences, Harvard University; first tenured female professor at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; elected to National Academy of Engineering (2008)
Ivan M. Havel, Ph.D. 1971 - Director of the Center for Theoretical Study, Prague, Czech Republic; younger sibling of former dissident and Czech President Václav Havel
Giles Henderson, Fulbright Scholar 1966-67 - Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
Harry C. Katz, AB 1973, PhD 1977 - current Dean of Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
John P. Longwell, B.S. 1940 - Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Associate Director of its Center for Environmental Health Services, developed the well-stirred reactor, member of the National Academy of Engineering, President of The Combustion Institute^[51] and recipient of its Sir Alfred C. Egerton Medal in 1974
Richard Luthy, B.S. 1967, M.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1976 - Chairman of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Stanford University, member of the National Academy of Engineering
Abbas Milani, B.A. 1970 - Hamid and Christian Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University
Un-Chul Paek, B.S. 1965, Ph.D. 1969 - Dean of the Faculty at the Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Kwangju, Korea, member of the National Academy of Engineering
Daniel A. Rascher, Ph.D. 1997 - Dept. Head and Assoc. Professor of Sport Management, University of San Francisco
Charles Shank, B.S. 1965, M.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1969 - Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1990–2005)
Jane Shaw, Ph.D. 1994 - Dean of Divinity, New College, Oxford since 2001 and formerly Dean, Regent's Park College, Oxford
Bruce A. Wooley, B.S. 1966, M.S. 1968, Ph.D. 1970 - Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Fellow of the IEEE and the President of the IEEE Solid State Circuits Society, IEEE Fortescue Fellow

Professors with endowments or named chairs

Shadi Bartsch, M.A. 1989, Ph.D. 1991 - Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor of Classics, The University of Chicago
Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D. 1993 - T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
William B. Bridges, B.S. 1956, M.S. 1957, Ph.D. 1962 - Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, Caltech
Stanley Cavell, B.A. 1947 - Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Harvard University
Sunney I. Chan, B.S. 1957, Ph.D. 1961 - George Grant Hoag Professor of Biophysical Chemistry, Caltech
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
Susan Gal, M.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1976 - Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, The University of Chicago
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 - 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^[52] - Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University ^[53]
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

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)
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
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
George W. Chang, PhD. 1967 - Associate Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, UC Berkeley
John J. Clague, M.A. 1969 - Emeritus Scientist of the Geological Survey of Canada, Professor of Earth Sciences at Simon Fraser University
Dalton Conley, B.A. 1990 - University Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, New York University
David Tom Cooke, B.A. 1994 - Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, UC Davis Medical Center
Stephanie Coontz, B.A. 1966 - Professor of History and Family Studies at Evergreen State College, author of the award-winning books The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (1992) and Marriage, A Social History (2005)
Ernest G. Cravalho, B.S. 1961, M.S. 1962, Ph.D. 1967 - MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Van Buren N. Hansford Faculty Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Claudio Donoso, B.S. 1969 - Universidad austral de Chile Professor of forestry and forest ecology
Robert D. English, B.A. 1980 - Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California
Cynthia Enloe, M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1967 - Research Professor of International Development and Women's Studies, Clark University
Amitai Etzioni, Ph.D. 1958 - University Professor, George Washington University
Ben Finney, B.A. 1955 - University of Hawaii professor of anthropology, co-founder of the Polynesian Voyaging Society
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^[54]
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
Josiah Royce, B.A. 1875 - philosopher, professor at Harvard University
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

Arts and media

Architecture

Julia Morgan, B.S. 1894 - architect, designed the Hearst Castle for newspaper businessman William Randolph Hearst
Vladimir Ossipoff, B.A. 1931 - Russia-born "master of modern Hawaiian architecture"
Peter Walker, B.S. 1955 - landscape architect, commissions include the World Trade Center Memorial and the Sony Center in Berlin
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^[55]^[56] 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)
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;^[57] author of the New York Times best seller^[58] The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families to Enrich Our Lives
John V. Robinson, B.A. 1995 - photographer and folklorist, 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, Author of several books, including [http://www.amazon.com/Spanning-Strait-Building-Alfred-Memorial/dp/0974412414 Spanning the Strait: Building the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge (2004)
Anneli Rufus, B.A. 1981 - journalist and author of many books, including Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto
Louis Sachar, B.A. 1976 - author, Holes (1998), Sideways Stories From Wayside School series
Mona Simpson, B.A. 1979 - novelist (Anywhere But Here, later made into a film of the same name starring Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman), Guggenheim Fellow, professor at Bard College; biological sister of Steve Jobs (co-founder of Apple Computer)
Rebecca Solnit, M. Jour. 1984 - author, cultural historian, and activist; books include Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2000) and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (2003)
Irving Stone, B.A. 1923 - novelist, Lust for Life[1934] (later made into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh) and The Agony and the Ecstasy [1961] (later made into a film of the same name starring 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
Davey Havok (attended) - lead singer of AFI
Robert Hurwitz - C.E.O. of Nonesuch Records
Susanna Hoffs, B.A. 1980 - lead singer of The Bangles
Georgeann Honegger, B.A. 1951 - pianist
Ivan Ilić, B.A. 2001 - American pianist of Serbian descent based in Paris
Andrew Imbrie, M.A. 1947 - composer
Stephan Jenkins, B.A. 1987 - lead singer and songwriter of the band Third Eye Blind
Michael Kang - a multi-instrumentalist for the jam band The String Cheese Incident
Jonathan Kramer, Ph.D. 1969 - composer
Phil Lesh, (attended) - bass guitarist of the band Grateful Dead
Ed Masuga, B.A. 2002 – singer, musician, and songwriter
Jose-Luis Orozco, B.A. 1976 - singer-songwriter
Jade Puget, B.A. 1996 - guitarist of AFI
Belinda Reynolds, B.A. 1990 - classical composer
Malvina Reynolds, Ph.D. 1938 (also B.A., M.A.) - folk/blues singer-songwriter
Terry Riley, M.A. 1961 - composer

Newspapers and magazines

Joan Acocella, B.A. 1966 - dance critic, The New Yorker
Scott Adams, M.B.A. 1986 - creator of Dilbert^[59]
John Battelle, B.A. 1987, M.Jour. 1992 - Co-founder of Wired magazine^[60]
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^[61]
Joseph W. Knowland, B.A. 1953 - former publisher Oakland Tribune
Jean LemMon - editor of Better Homes and Gardens magazine
Wendy Lesser, M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1982 - cultural critic; founding editor of The Threepenny Review
Zuzana Licko, B.A. 1984 - co-founder of Emigre magazine and type foundry
Jan McGirk, B.A. 1972 - foreign correspondent and cyberpundit for British press
Tim McGirk, B.A. 1974 - investigative journalist for Time magazine, war correspondent and Al Qaeda expert
Maureen Orth, B.A. 1964 - author and writer for Vanity Fair magazine
Stephan Pastis, B.A. 1989 - creator of Pearls Before Swine^[62]
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^[63]
Ed Wong, M.Jour./M.A. 1998 - reporter, The New York Times

Non-fictional broadcasting

Margot Adler, B.A. 1968 - NPR correspondent, host of NPR's Justice Talking^[64]
Robert Bazell, B.A. 1967 - NBC News' Chief Science and Health Correspondent^[65]
Roxy Bernstein ?? 1996 - California Golden Bearssports announcer
Jeffrey Brown, B.A. 19?? - Senior Correspondent on the PBS news program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer^[66]
Peter Chernin, B.A. 1974 - President of News Corporation and CEO of the Fox Group^[67]
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 ^[68]); principal of marketing communications consulting company Chen Communications
Liz Claman, B.A. 1985 - CNBC Morning Call co-anchor^[69]
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^[70] in Sacramento, California
Corey Flintoff, B.A. 1970 - NPR Foreign Desk Correspondent and former host of NPR's All Things Considered^[71]
Greg Gutfeld, B.A. 1987 - blogger and host of the late night talk show, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld on the Fox News Channel.^[72]
Brianna Keilar, B.A. 2001 - Graduated with Phi Beta Kappa in Mass Communication & Psychology, former MTV correspondent, and currently a CNN correspondent^[73]
Renée Montagne, B.A. 1973 - co-host of NPR's Morning Edition^[74]
Kent Ninomiya, B.A. 1988 - TV news anchor (KSTP-TV), reporter, executive.^[75]
Suchin Pak, B.A. 1997 - MTV correspondent^[76]
Troy Roberts, B.A. 1984 - CBS News correspondent^[77]
Michael Savage, Ph.D. 1978 - conservative radio talk show host, Savage Nation^[78]
Linda Schacht, B.A. 1966, M.A. 1981 - journalist, winner of two Emmy Awards for broadcast journalism;^[79]^[80] lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Leroy Sievers, B.A.^[81] 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^[81]^[82]
Steve Somers, B.A. 1965 - WFAN overnight host
Lisa Stark, B.A. 1978 - ABC News correspondent
Kristen Sze, B.A.^[83] 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^[84]
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, Code Name: The Cleaner http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462229/
John Cho, B.A. 1996 - actor (American Pie [1999], Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle [2004])
Jeff Cohen, B.S. 1996 - former actor (Chunk in The Goonies), currently entertainment lawyer
Roxann Dawson, B.A. 1980 - actress (B'Elanna Torres on the television series Star Trek: Voyager), director, author, playwright
Ralph Edwards, B.A. 1935 - national television host and producer
Jon Else, B.A. 1968 - Prix Italia winner (The Day After Trinity), Emmy Award winner, nominated twice for the Academy Award, 1999 winner of the Sundance Film Festival Filmmaker's Trophy, MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow, cinematographer on the Academy Award winning Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, professor of journalism at UC Berkeley
Charles H. Ferguson, B.A. 1978 - director of documentary film on the American occupation in Iraq No End in Sight (2007), former fellow at the Brookings Institution, lifelong member of the Council on Foreign Relations, co-founder of Vermeer Technologies Incorporated (acquired by Microsoft for $133 million^[85]), founder and president of Representational Pictures
Carl Franklin, B.A. 1971 - film director (One False Move [1992], Devil in a Blue Dress [1995], High Crimes [2002], Out of Time [2003])
Takashi Fujimoto, B.A. 1962 - Cinematographer and director of photography; Boston Society of Film Critics Award in 1991 for work on Silence of the Lambs, National Society of Film Critics Award in 1996 for Devil in a Blue Dress
Peter Gethers (attended 1970-1972) - screenwriter and author of bestselling Norton the cat trilogy
Amos Gitai, Ph.D. (Architecture) 1986 - Israeli film director (Field Diary [1982], Eden [2001], Free Zone [2005])
Karen Grassle, B.A. 1965 - actress, best known for her role as Caroline Ingalls (the mother) on the Little House on the Prairie television series
Mark Goodson, B.A. 1937 - television producer who specialized in game shows
David Herrera, B.A. 2004 - Music Video Director for Rebus101 Films Inc (Andrew Bird, Mnemonic, Zap Mama, Michael Zapruder, Radiohead, Vagabond Opera), and co-writer of Security with Rob Nilsson. Current President of Cal Alumni in Arts & Entertainment Club
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
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
Chris Pine, B.A. 2002 - actor (Star Trek, The Princess Diaries 2, Smokin' Aces)
Walter Plunkett, B.A. 1923 - Academy Award winning costume designer
James Schamus, B.A. 1982, M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 2003 - screenwriter and movie producer known for his frequent collaborations with Ang Lee on movies (The Wedding Banquet [1993] and Eat Drink Man Woman [1994], and the Academy Award winning movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [2000] and Brokeback Mountain [2005]), professor at Columbia University
Andrew Schneider, B.A. 1973 - screenwriter and executive producer, co-winner of an Emmy Award in 1992 for Northern Exposure
Brett Simon, M.F.A. 2002, Ph.D. 2003 - director, Assassination of a High School President
Randi Mayem Singer, B.A. 1979 - writer and producer, Mrs. Doubtfire (starring Robin Williams and Sally Field), Jack and Jill
George Takei, 1959 (attended, later transferred to UCLA) - actor (Star Trek)
Nancy Tellem, B.A. 1975 - President of CBS Paramount Television Network Entertainment Group
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

Business and entrepreneurship

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^[86]), 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^[87]), director of Intel Labs Berkeley
Gary Chevsky - co-founder and chief architect of web search engine company Ask.com, Senior VP at Symantec and YouSendIt
Ed Crane, B.S. 1967 - founder of the Cato Institute
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 ^[88] on the UC Berkeley campus
James Dao, B.S. EECS 1960 - founder and former CEO of electron beam lithography company Etec Systems, Inc. ^[89] (acquired by Applied Materials for $1.78 billion ^[90]); founder and CEO of Genyous Biomed
Dennis DeAndre, B.A. Business - Founder of LoopNet, a NASDAQ-listed commercial real estate listing services company.
Stephanie DiMarco, B.S. Business 1979 - Co-founder (with Steve Strand, B.S. EECS 1979) and CEO of billion-dollar NASDAQ-listed financial software company Advent Software
Senh Duong, B.A. 1995 - originator and co-founder^[91] (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 ^[92])
Ben Elowitz, B.S., B.A., 1994 - co-founder of NASDAQ-listed online retailer Blue Nile Inc. and social network service provider Wetpaint
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.
Donald Fisher, B.S. 1951 - founder of The Gap and 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),^[93] Atari engineer, developed Missile Command^[94] and Night Driver
Coleman Fung, B.S. IE OR 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 ^[95]
Robert Gaskins, M.A. 1974 - creator^[96] of PowerPoint (acquired by Microsoft for $14 million as its "first significant software acquisition"^[97])
Steve Gibson (attended)^[50] - 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 ^[98] - Co-founder (with Mendel Rosenblum MS 1989, PhD 1992 and Edward Wang BS EECS 1983, MS 1988, PhD 1994) of NASDAQ-listed company VMWare
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^[99])
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 ^[100])
Charles Huang, BA 1992 - co-founder (with Kai Huang BA 1994) of video game company RedOctane^[101](publisher of Guitar Hero and acquired by Activision for $99.9 million^[102])
Kai Huang, B.A. 1994 - co-founder (with Charles Huang BA 1992) and president of video game company RedOctane^[101] (publisher of Guitar Hero and acquired by Activision for $99.9 million^[102])
Bill Joy, M.S. 1982 - co-founder of computer software and hardware manufacturer Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle Corporation for $7.4 billion ^[103])
Gene Kan, B.S. 1997 - founder of distributed search engine InfraSearch (acquired by Sun Microsystems for $12 million^[104])
Glenn Kelman, B.A. 1993 - co-founder of Plumtree Software (acquired by BEA Systems for $200 million ^[105])
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^[106])
James Lau, B.A. Math and C.S. 1981^[107] - 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^[107]
Patrick Lee, B.A. Cognitive Science 1992 - co-founder^[91] (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^[92])
Brian P.Y. Liu (BS Biochemistry) - Chairman and co-founder (along with attorney Robert Shapiro) of Internet-based self-help legal documents company LegalZoom ^[108]
Thomas J. Long, B.S. 1932 - Founder of pharmaceutical retailer Longs Drugs (acquired by CVS Caremark for $2.54 billion^[109])
Hong Llang 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^[110]) of energy bar food company PowerBar (acquired by Nestlé for $375 million^[111]); namesake of the Maxwell Family Field on the UC Berkeley campus^[110]
Brian Maxwell, B.A. 1975 - co-founder (with Jennifer Maxwell, BS 1988 ^[110]) of energy bar food company PowerBar (acquired by Nestlé for $375 million^[111]); namesake of the Maxwell Family Field on the UC Berkeley campus^[110]
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),^[112] co-founder and CTO of Riverbed Technology
Milo Medin, B.S. 1985 - founder of Internet broadband company @home Network,^[113] (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
Kate and Laura Mulleavy, B.A. (art history and English, respectively) 2001 - founders of clothing and fashion accessories brand Rodarte.^[114]
Michael Olson, B.A. 1991, M.A. 1992 - founder and CEO of commercial Apache Hadoop vendor Cloudera;^[115] former CEO of database software company Sleepycat Software (acquired in 2006 by Oracle Corporation), co-author of database software BerkeleyDB
Robert S. Pepper, B.S. 1957, M.S. 1959, Ph.D. 1961 - Founder and CEO of Level One Semiconductor (acquired by Intel for $2.11 billion)^[116]
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^[117])
Lars Rasmussen, Ph.D 1992 - co-founder of Where 2 Technologies (which was acquired by Google and renamed to Google Maps^[118]); co-founder of Google Wave
In Sik Rhee, B.S. EECS 1993 - co-founder (with Marc Andreessen) of software company LoudCloud^[119](which was renamed to Opsware^[120] and was acquired by HP for $1.6 billion^[121])
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^[122])
Mendel Rosenblum, MS 1989, PhD 1992 ^[123] - Co-founder (with Diane Greene MS CS 1988 and Edward Wang BS EECS 1983, MS 1988, PhD 1994) of NASDAQ-listed software company VMWare
John Schaeffer, 1971 - Founder of NASDAQ-listed solar energy retailer Real Goods Solar^[124] and the Solar Living Center
John Scharffenberger, 1973 - co-founder of the Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker company (acquired by Hershey's for $20 million ^[125])
Ronald V. Schmidt, B.S. EECS 1966, M.S. EECS 1968, Ph.D. EECS 1971- "the man who brought Ethernet to the masses"^[126] while a researcher at XEROX Parc, co-founder and CTO of semiconductor electronics firm SynOptics, Vice President at Bell Labs/Lucent^[127]
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
James Solomon, B.S. EE and M.S. EE 19?? - founder of electronic design automation company SDA Systems (became NASDAQ-listed Cadence Design Systems); recepient 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 ^[88] 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 ^[88] on the UC Berkeley campus
Ralph Ungermannn, B.S.E.E. 1964 - co-founder of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company Zilog (the company whose Z80 architecture was used in the CPU for the handheld video game units Nintendo Game Boy, Nintendo Game Boy Color, and Nintendo Game Boy Advance^[128]^[129])
Craig Walker, B.A. 1988, J.D. 1995 - co-founder and CEO of Internet software company GrandCentral (acquired by Google for $50 million^[130])
Robert Walker, B.S. EE 1958 - co-founder of NYSE-listed semiconductor ASIC company LSI Logic^[131]
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 ^[132])
Edward Wang, B.S. EECS 1983, M.S. 1988, Ph.D. 1994 - Co-founder (with Diane Greene MS CS 1988 and Mendel Rosenblum MS 1989, PhD 1992) and Principal Engineer of NASDAQ-listed software company VMware
Stephen Wang, B.A. C.S. 1997 - co-founder^[91] (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^[92])
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,^[133]^[134] co-founder of Wind River Systems (acquired by Intel for $884 million ^[135] )
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) ^[136]
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 ^[132])
Alisa Yaffa, B.A. 1986 - co-founder of semiconductor company Synplicity (acquired by Synopsys for $227 million^[137])
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 ^[100])

Chairmen, Chairwomen, Presidents and CEOs

Mitchell Baker, B.A. 1979, J.D. 1987 - President of the web browser company Mozilla Corporation, chair of the Mozilla Foundation
Brian Barish, B.A. 1991 - President of the investment firm Cambiar Investors, LLC.
Jeeri R. Reddy, Ph.D. 1995 - President and Scientific Director, JN-International Medical Corporation
Bengt Baron, B.S. 1985, M.B.A. 1988 - CEO of V&S Group (Stockholm, Sweden); former CEO of Absolut Vodka; 1980 Summer Olympics Gold Medalist in 100m Men's Backstroke
Philip M. Condit, B.S. 1963 - Chairman and CEO of the Boeing from 1996 to 2003
John Danne, B.S. EECS 1986 - President and CEO of semiconductor company Altera, former vice-president at semiconductor company LSI Logic
Robert V. Dickinson, B.A. Physics 19?? - President and CEO of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company California Micro Devices
Patricia Dunn, B.A. 1975 - former Chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard
John East, B.S. 1966 - CEO of semiconductor company Actel
Richard D. Fain - B.S. Economics - Chairman and CEO of cruise line commpany Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.^[138]
Andrew Grove, Ph.D. 1963 - 4th employee of semiconductor company Intel, and eventually its President, CEO, and Chairman, and TIME magazine's Man of the Year in 1997
Timothy Guertin, B.S. 1972 - President and Chief Executive Officer of medical technology company Varian Medical Systems
Walter A. Haas, Sr., B.S. 1910 - Former President and CEO of clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss & Co.
Walter A. Haas, Jr., B.S. 1937 - Former President and CEO of Levi Strauss & Co.
Paul E. Jacobs, B.S. 1984, M.S. 1986, Ph. D 1989 - CEO of wireless telecommunications giant Qualcomm
Pradman Kaul, B.S. 1968, M.S. 1968 - Chairman and CEO of broadband satellite services company Hughes Network Systems, member of the National Academy of Engineering
Glenn Kelman, B.A. 1993 - President and CEO of online real estate brokerage Redfin
Howard Lincoln, B.A. 1962, J.D. 1965 - former Chairman of video game company Nintendo of America, Chairman and CEO of the Seattle Mariners
Lothar Maier, B.S. Chem. E. 1978 - CEO of NASDAQ-100 semiconductor company Linear Technology
Shantanu Narayen, M.B.A. 1993- President and CEO of software company Adobe Systems Inc.
Paul Otellini, M.B.A. 1974 - CEO of semiconductor company Intel (2005–present)
Rudolph A. Peterson, B.S. 1925, President and CEO of Bank of America^[139]
Arvind Raghunathan, Ph.D. 1988 - CEO of Roc Hedge Fund, former Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage, Deutsche Bank, Fellow of the Institute for Combinatorics
John Riccitiello, B.S. 1981 - CEO of video game company Electronic Arts (April 2007–present); managing director and co-founder of Elevation Partners; former president and chief operating officer (October 1997 to April 2004) of Electronic Arts (grew the company from $673 million to $3 billion, increased profits over 900%); former President and Chief Executive Officer, Bakery Division, at Sara Lee; former President and Chief Executive Officer of Wilson Sporting Goods
Arun Sarin, M.S. 1978, M.B.A. 1978 - CEO of London-based wireless service provider company Vodafone (2003–present)
Eric E. Schmidt, M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1982 - CEO of Google (2001–present)
Stephen A. Skaggs, B.S. 1984 - President and CEO of Lattice Semiconductor
Cher Wang, M.A. 1981 - Chair of computer motherboard manufacturer VIA Technologies and portable electronics manufacturer HTC
Hal Zarem, B.S. Physics 1980 - Chief Executive Officer, Silicon Light Machines division of Cypress Semiconductor

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

Maury Austin, B.S.^[140]^[141] - CFO of semiconductor company MIPS Technologies
Jeffrey C. Benzing, B.S. Mech. Eng. 19?? - Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer of semiconductor company Novellus Systems
Anthony C. Bonora B.S. ME 1964, M.S. ME 1966 - Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company Asyst Technologies
Arthur Chong, A.B.^[142]- Senior Vice President, General Counsel of broadband semiconductor company Broadcom
Kevin Donelly, B.S. EECS 1985 - Senior Vice-President of Engineering at semiconductor RAM interface company Rambus
Ben Elowitz, B.S., B.A., 1994 - Vice-president and co-founder of online retailer Blue Nile Inc.
Charles Giancarlo, M.S. EECS 1980 - Chief Development Officer of networking technology company Cisco Systems^[143]
Bruce Jaffe, B.S. – Corporate Vice-President and head of Mergers & Acquisitions, Microsoft Corporation; CFO of Glam Media
Michael C. Kavanaugh, B.S. 1961, M.S. 1974 - Vice-President of the environmental engineering firm of Malcolm Pirnie, member of the National Academy of Engineering
Paul Keswick, B.S. 1979 - Executive Vice President of Cypress Semiconductor
Neil Y. Kim, BS EECS ^[144] - Senior Vice President, Operations and Central Engineering of broadband semiconductor company Broadcom
E. Floyd Kvamme, B.S. EECS 1959 - former vice-president and president at National Semiconductor, former vice-president at Apple Computer, venture capitalist Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers^[145]
Ernest Lam, B.S. EECS - former Vice President of Engineering^[146] at Teracent Corporation (when it was acquired by Google ^[147])
Lin Lee, B.A. C.S. - Vice president of Global Communities at computer manufacturer Sun Microsystems, former Vice President of Product Development for W-Phone, co-founder of database software company CenterView (acquired by Informix)
Bruce H. Leising, B.S. 1976- Vice President of the Technology and Manufacturing Group at semiconductor company Intel
Judy Lin, dual B.A.'s in C.S. and European History 19?? - Former Executive Vice President of network infrastructure company VeriSign
Byron Lok, B.S. CS 1976 - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of semiconductor company LSI Logic
Craig London, B.S. Physics - Executive Vice President of electronics manufacturing services company Solectron
Bob Lutz, B.S. 1961, M.B.A. 1962 - General Motors Vice Chairman, Product Development, and Chairman, General Motors North America, former Vice Chairman for Chrysler
Ken Milnes, B.S. EECS 1977 - Senior Vice-President of television technology company Sportvision, winner of 4 Emmy Awards in broadcasting technology^[148]
Stuart Nichols, B.A. 1983 - Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of semiconductor company MIPS Technologies^[149]
David Nguyen, B.S. 19?? - Vice president of Engineering at semiconductor RAM interface company Rambus
Denny Parker, B.S. 1965, M.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1970 - Senior Vice-President, Brown and Caldwell; member of the National Academy of Engineering
George Palmer, B.S. EECS 19?? - Vice President of Operations at semiconductor company SiBEAM
Mark Pittman, B.A. 1982 - Vice President of Sales, MIPS Processor Group, at semiconductor company MIPS Technologies
Kate Rundle, B.A. 1978 - Executive Vice-President and General Counsel of optical semiconductor company Bookham,^[150] former Vice President and General Counsel of semiconductor company MIPS Technologies
Steve Schumann] B.S. EECS 1982 - Vice president and general manager at semiconductor company Atmel^[151]
Vincent Tong, B.S. EECS 19?? - Vice-president of Worldwide Quality and Reliability Engineering at semiconductor company Xilinx
Vincent Win, B.S. EECS 19?? - former Vice President of ATI Technologies, Vice President at semiconductor company AMD
Robert Yung, B.A. 1985, M.S. EECS 1988, Ph.D. EECS 1998 - Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of semiconductor company PMC-Sierra, former Chief Technology Officer for the Asia division of Sun Microsystems, named in 2000 as one of the "Top 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum

Other

Stewart Blusson, Ph.D. 1964 - multimillionaire diamond magnate (Ekati Diamond Mine) and philanthropist
Jean Paul Getty (transferred to the University of Oxford) - 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

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

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

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,^[152] 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, J.D. 1914 - Attorney General of California, 1939–1943; Governor of California, 1943–1953; 14th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1953–1969
Pete Wilson, J.D. 1962 - U.S. Senator, Governor of California

Executive council members

The following served as cabinet-level officials.

Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn, B.S. 1964 - Life peer in the House of Lords (1990–present); Senior Unofficial Member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (1985–1988); Senior Unofficial Member of the Hong Kong Executive Council (1988–1995); non-executive Deputy Chairman of HSBC (1992–2008)
Andrej Bajuk, M.S. 1972 - Minister of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia, Prime Minister of Slovenia (May–November 2000)
W. Michael Blumenthal, B.S. 1951 - United States Secretary of the Treasury (1977–1979)
Michael Boskin, B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1971 - Chair, Presidential Council of Economic Advisors, professor at Stanford University
Mostafa Chamran, Ph.D. 1963 - former Iranian Minister of Defense
Judith Heumann, M.P.H. 1975 - pioneer for disability rights and former Assistant United States Secretary of Education
Franklin Lane, 1887 - United States Secretary of the Interior
Robert McNamara, B.A. 1937 - President of World Bank (1968–1981), United States Secretary of Defense (1961–1968), President of Ford Motor Company (1960)
Norman Mineta, B.S. 1953 - Congressman (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)

Judges

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
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 - U.S. Senator
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

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)
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^[153]
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 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

Zoe Baird, B.A. 1974, J.D. 1977 - attorney, President of Markle Foundation; nominated by President Clinton for United States Attorney General post
Melvin Belli, J.D. 1929 - attorney
Beth Brinkmann, B.A. 1980 - former Assistant to the Solicitor General of the U.S. (1993 to 2001) and a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Morrison & Foerster
Jerry Brown - California Attorney General (2007–present), (also listed under Governors section)
Darek DeFreece, B.A. 1993 - Senior Counsel for Wells Fargo Bank and President of the California Alumni Association
Bill Lockyer, B.A. 1965 - California Attorney General (1999–2006)
Edwin Meese III, J.D. 1958 - United States Attorney General (1985–1988)
Theodore Olson, J.D. 1965 - United States Solicitor General (2001–2004)
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 MoveOn.org (also listed in Science and technology section)
Harvey Dong, P.H.D. 19?? - political activist for the Asian American Community in the 1960s
Betty Friedan (attended psychology graduate program) - feminist activist, author of The Feminine Mystique (1963)
Nancy Herrman, B.A. 1965 Anti-Chicken De-beaking Activist
Claire Greensfelder, B.A. 1975 - feminist activist, alternative political campaigner, international conservationist, director at the International Forum on Globalization, former director of the Greenpeace USA Nuclear Campaign
David Horowitz, M.A. 1961 - conservative political activist and commentator, founder of the right-wing Center for the Study of Popular Culture
Keith Kerr - Military general and Gay Rights activist^[154]
James Robertson, 1923 - National Chair of the Spartacist League
R.J. Rushdoony, B.A. 1938, M.A. 1940 - prominent author of the Christian Right
Mario Savio (attended) - political activist, key member of Berkeley Free Speech Movement

Other

Damir Arnaut, B.A. 1997, M.A. 1998, J.D. 2002 - Adviser for Legal & Constitutional Affairs to Haris Silajdzic Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Josh Brown^{[disambiguation needed]}, B.A. 2003 - Kitsap County Commissioner, Washington State
Peter Brown, M.A. - At-Large Houston Houston City Council Member
Mike Casey, B.A. 1980 - Trade union leader
Prithviraj Chavan M.S. 1967, Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha or India's Upper house of Parliament and currently a Minister of State in the Prime Ministers Office, Government of India.
Rachelle Chong, B.A. 1981 - former Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission and current Commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission
Tarak Nath Das, M.A. 1914 - Indian revolutionary, Indian-American scholar and internationalist
Tony Daysog, B.A. 1989, M.C.P. 1998 - Alameda City Councilmember (1996–2006) and Alameda Vice Mayor (1998–2000 and 2002–2004)
Maria Echaveste, J.D. 1980 - White House Deputy Chief of Staff (1998–2001)
Ida Louise Jackson, B.A. 1922, M.A. 1923 - education and public-health pioneer
Ellis O. Knox, B.A. 1922 - Civil Rights and Education Activist, First African American PhD (USC) on West Coast, former Chairman of NAACP Education Division
Bruno Mégret, M.S. 1974 - French far-right politician, member of the French National Assembly (1986–1988), member of the European Parliament (1989–1999) and candidate in the 2002 French presidential election
Kenneth P. Moritsugu, M.P.H. 1975 - Acting Surgeon General of the United States (August 2006-September 2007)^[155]
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

Astronauts

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

Astronomers and space explorers

John N. Bahcall, B.S. 1956, astrophysicist, best known^[156] for his work on the Standard Solar Model and the Hubble Space Telescope, recipient of the National Medal of Science^[156] in 1998, recipient of the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal^[156] in 1992, co-winner of the Fermi award in 2003
William F. Ballhaus, Jr., B.S. 1967, M.S. 1968, Ph.D. 1971 - president and CEO of Aerospace Corporation, former director of NASA's Ames Research Center
Michael C. Malin, B.A. (physics) 1967 - astronomer, principal investigator for the camera on Mars Global Surveyor,^[157] MacArthur Fellow,^[158] founder and CEO of Malin Space Science Systems, recipient of a NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 2002,^[158] recipient of the 2005 Carl Sagan Memorial Award^[158]
Saul Perlmutter, Ph.D. 1986 - co-discoverer of Dark Energy as head of the Supernova Cosmology Project
H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D. 1990 - SETI scientist
Peter Smith, B.S. 1969 - Principal investigator and project leader for the $420 million NASA robotic explorer Phoenix,^[159] which physically confirmed the presence of water on the planet Mars for the first time^[160]
Theodore Van Zelst, B.S. 1944 - Co-founder of Soiltest (testing company for soil, rock, concrete, and asphalt), recipient of the 1988 ASCE's "Chicago Engineer of the Year" award, developed the swing-wing design that allows supersonic aircraft to exceed the sound barrier, developed the first mobile baggage inspection unit, and developed lunar construction and soil testing for humankind's first steps on the moon

Computer scientists and engineers

See also: Turing Award laureates, Business

Ginetto Addiego, B.S. EE 1981, Ph.D. EE 1990 - Executive Vice President of semiconductor company Novellus Systems
Allan Alcorn, 1971 - Employee #3 at video game company Atari, electronics designer behind Atari's seminal Pong video arcarde unit, and erstwhile boss of Steve Jobs at Atari
Eric Allman, B.S. EECS 1977, M.S. C.S. 1980 - Creator of Sendmail (mail transfer agent which delivers 70% of the email in the world^[161])
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 ^[162] for his 40 years of work and research development in its departments. Electronic engineering degree (1960) from the Brazilian ITA
Ken Arnold, B.A. CS 1985 - Creator of the Curses software library, co-creator of Rogue
George Crow, B.S. EE 1966 - one of the original computer hardware designers of the Apple Macintosh computer
Peter Engrav, BA (math) - Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft^[163]
John Gage, B.S. 1975 - fifth employee of Sun Microsystems,^[164] former chief researcher and vice-president of the Science Office for Sun Microsystems,^[165] current partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins with Al Gore;^[164] credited with creating the phrase "the network is the computer"^[164]
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
Wojciech Matusik, BS EECS 1997, senior research scientist at Adobe Systems, Technology Review Young Innovator Top 100 Innovators under the age of 35 ^[166]
William Yeager, B.A. 1964 - software developer who created the first multiple-protocol router software, which comprised the core of the first Cisco Systems IOS

Mathematicians and physicists

See also: Nobel laureates

John W. Cahn, Ph.D. 1953 - materials scientist, winner of the United States National Medal of Science in 1998
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,^[167] namesake of the Ginzton Laboratory at Stanford University^[168]
Michio Kaku, Ph.D. 1972 - theoretical physicist, co-creator of string field theory
Joseph W. Kennedy, Ph.D. 1939 - codiscoverer of the element plutonium; later, professor and head of the department of chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis
Arthur Scott King, Ph.D. 1903 - first ever Ph.D. in physics from this university
John H. Schwarz, Ph.D. 1966 - theoretical physicist, one of the founders of superstring theory
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-),^[169]
Glen Edwards, B.S. 1941 - U.S. Air Force test pilot, namesake of Edwards Air Force Base^[170]
Henry Eyring, Ph.D. 1927 - Professor of Chemistry (Princeton University), dean of the University of Utah graduate school and recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1966. Also famous for the Eyring equation
Lillian Moller Gilbreth, B.A. 1900, M.A. 1902 - industrial/organizational psychologist along with her husband Frank Bunker Gilbreth who researched industrial worker efficiency; first woman member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; she and her husband were the basis of the books Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their Toes, which were written by their children; commemorated on a United States Postal Service stamp in 1984; portrayed by Myrna Loy in the 1950 film Cheaper by the Dozen
Maurice K. Goddard, M.S. 1938 - former secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, a driving force in the creation of 45 Pennsylvania state parks during his 24 years in office.
Susan Hough, B.A. 1982 - seismologist and author
Greg Kasavin, Video game developer and former editor of Gamespot.
David N. Kennedy, B.S. 1959, M.S. 1962 - director of the California Department of Water Resources in Sacramento, California, elected member of the National Academy of Engineering
John Augustus Larson, Ph.D. 1920 - inventor of the modern lie detector
T. Y. Lin, M.S. 1933 - Professor of Civil Engineering, bridgebuilder, pioneering researcher and practitioner of prestressed concrete, designed Moscone Center, recipient of the National Medal of Science
Jane McGonigal, M.A., 2003, Ph.D. 2006 in performance studies - noted game designer and games researcher; named one of the world's top innovators under the age of 35 by MIT's Technology Review in 2006
Rosendo Pujol Mesalles, M.Sc. 1975, M.C.P. 1988, Ph.D. 1991 - recipient of the Costa Rican Clodomiro Picado Twight National Award of Science and Technology 1995 (awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology -MICIT-)^[171]
Milicent Shinn, Ph.D. 1898 - Child psychologist and author, first woman to earn a doctorate at Berkeley.
Tiffany Shlain, B.A. 1992 - founder of Webby Awards, filmmaker
Susan Solomon, M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1981 - Senior Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Medal of Science (2000)
Simon Schwartzman, Ph.D. 1973 - recipient of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit
Gardner F. Williams, B.A. 1865, M.A. 1869 (first Master's degree conferred by 'College of California' aka UC/Berkeley) - 1st general manager of De Beers Consolidated Mines. Noted mining engineer who authored The Diamond Mines of South Africa; some account of their rise and development (NY, Macmillan, 1902;1903;1905). The Royal Academy of Science in Sweden awarded him its silver medal in 1905, and the University of California an honorary doctorate of laws in 1910. (b.1842–d.1922)

Athletics

Baseball

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

Basketball

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

Football

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

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^[172] to win six medals in one Olympics); three-time NCAA Swimmer of the Year.
Anthony Ervin - Olympic swimmer, gold medal in 50m freestyle, silver medal in 4x100m freestyle relay, first black male on the US Olympic swimming team
Joy Fawcett, B.A. 1992 - member of the gold winning United States women's soccer team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
Michele Granger, B.A. 1993 - softball pitcher and Olympic gold medalist
Mark Genderson, 1991 - swimmer, gold medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics where he broke the world record in the 400 meter medley swimming relay
Mary T. Meagher, B.A. 1987 - Olympic swimmer, winner of three gold medals; CNNSI.com's 100 Greatest Women Athletes (ranked 17th)
Jonny Moseley B.A. 2007 - Gold Medalist in 1998 Winter Olympics
Connie Carpenter-Phinney, B.A. 1981 - cycling gold medalist in 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California
Alvin F. Rylander, 1928 - Olympic crew, 1928 gold medalist
Staciana Stitts, B.A. 2004 - Olympic swimmer, gold medalist in 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia
Helen Wills, B.A. 1925 - all time great tennis player; singles winner of eight Wimbledon titles, seven U.S. Open Championships, four French Opens, and two Olympic gold medals

Other

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

Miscellaneous

Pema Chodron, B.A. - spiritual teacher and author, interpreter of Tibetan Buddhism for Western audiences. Formerly known as Deirdre Blomfield-Brown
Mayme Agnew Clayton, B.A. - librarian and founder of President & Spiritual Leader of the Western States Black Research and Education Center (WSBREC), the largest privately held collection of African-American historical materials in the world
Madelyn Dunham, grandmother of Barack Obama (did not graduate)
Timothy Leary, Ph.D. 1950 - psychologist and counterculture figure
David Lempert, Ph.D. anthropology 1992 - social entrepreneur, democratic education
Ed Roberts, B.A. 1964, M.A. 1966, C.Phil. 1969 - Founder of the Independent Living Movement
Heng Sure, Ph.D. 1974 - American Buddhist monk of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas; one of the first Americans ordained in the States
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).

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 2008 film High School Musical 3: Senior Year, Troy Bolton, played by Zac Efron, announces that he has chosen to attend UC Berkeley after graduation.
In the 2008 film Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr.'s character asks a reporter if she is a Berkeley graduate
In the 2003 film Mona Lisa Smile, Julia Roberts' character is an idealistic Berkeley graduate
In the 1992 film Basic Instinct, Dr. Beth Garner, played by Jeanne Tripplehorn received her Ph.D. in Psychology at Berkeley and started her killing spree there. Catherine Tramell, played by Sharon Stone, also received her B.A. in Psychology at Berkeley
From the Back 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, Dr. Christina Yang often boasts of having a Ph.D. from Berkeley, along with a college degree from Smith and a medical degree from Stanford.
In the sitcom Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Mark Cooper Mark Curry has a Cal Berkeley banner in his room
Berkeley is the setting for the film Boys and Girls starring Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Claire Forlani, who both play Berkeley students
The 2002 film Catch Me If You Can told the true story of Frank Abagnale who faked getting his law degree from Berkeley to impress his fiance's father and to get a job as a lawyer. The character was played by Leonardo DiCaprio
The Hulk, directed by Ang Lee, largely took place at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and private research facilities nearby. Both Eric Bana and Jennifer Connelly played researchers
Jack Bauer, the lead character played by Kiefer Sutherland in the hit drama 24, got his Masters of Science in "Criminology and Law" at Berkeley (no such degree is offered)^[173]
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^[174]
In the film Fathers' Day Dale Putley (Robin Williams), Jack Lawrence (Billy Crystal), and Collette Andrews (Nastassja Kinski) all were students at Berkeley. We could probably assume that Jack ended up getting his law degree there
In Family Ties, Steve Keaton and Elyse Keaton were students at Berkeley after returning from Africa in the 1960s. It is assumed that Elyse got her degree in architecture there. Mallory Keaton was born in Berkeley while Steve was supposed to be taking a political science exam
In Full House, D.J. Tanner accepts an admissions offer from Berkeley
In The Graduate Elaine Robinson was a student at Berkeley
In the Japanese manga series Hana-Kimi, Izumi Sano became a student at the college
In the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Captain Kirk claims that Spock went to Berkeley in the '60's, where he "did too much LDS [sic]." However, Kirk merely invents this story to explain Spock's strange appearance and behavior. Spock actually went to Starfleet Academy, which is also located in the San Francisco Bay Area
In the film The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, Princess Mia's friend Lilly Moscovitz (Heather Matarazzo) claims to be a Berkeley graduate student
In the film Magnolia (1999), Tom Cruise's seduction-guru character claims to have attended psychology classes at Berkeley
One of the central protagonists in Mischa Berlinski's novel Fieldwork (2007), Martiya van der Leun, is a Berkeley graduate student in anthropology
Marissa Cooper and Ryan Atwood from The OC were supposed to attend UC Berkeley before the infamous fatal car crash that killed her. Kevin Volchok is the character that ran Ryan's car off the cliff and killed Marissa.
Large portions of the feature film Who'll Stop the Rain, starring Nick Nolte and Tuesday Weld, were filmed in the south campus area.
In the book Snow Crash, both Hiro Protagonist and Juanita Marquez attended Berkeley^[175]
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.

References

^ CNN, John Couwels, and Alan Duke (2009-05-24). "California landing ends shuttle's Hubble trip". CNN. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Thomas Cech (1989). "Autobiography". Nobel Foundation.
^ Steven Chu (1997). "Autobiography". Nobel Foundation.
^ Robert Curl (1996). "Autobiography". Nobel Foundation.
^ "Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1942-1962" (Document). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. 1964. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ Viet-Quoc Nguyen (2006-10-04). "UC Berkeley Alumnus and Stanford Professor Receives Nobel Prize for Gene Expression Research". The Daily Californian.
^ "Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1942-1962" (Document). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. 1964. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ "The Nobel Prize in Medicine 2009". Nobel PrizeFoundation.
^ David Gross (2004). "Autobiography". Nobel Foundation.
^ Tore Frängsmyr, editor (2001). "Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 2000" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ Tore Frängsmyr, editor (2003). "Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 2002" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ Assar Lindbec, editor (1992). "Nobel Lectures, Economics 1969-1980" (Document). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ "Nobel Lectures, Physics 1942-1962" (Document). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. 1964. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ "The Nobel Prizes 1998" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. 1999. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ Wilhelm Odelberg, editor (1987). "Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1986" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ "Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1942-1962" (Document). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. 1964. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ "John C. Mather". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2007-04-16.
^ Tore Frängsmyr, editor (1996). "Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1995" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ Tore Frängsmyr, editor (1994). "Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1993" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ Tore Frängsmyr, editor (1994). "Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1993" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ Karl Grandin, editor (2006). "Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 2005" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ "Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1942-1962" (Document). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. 1964. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ Wilhelm Odelberg, editor (1979). "Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1978" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ "Nobel Lectures, Physics 1942-1962" (Document). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. 1964. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ Wilhelm Odelberg, editor (1984). "Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1983" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ "Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1922-1941" (Document). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. 1966. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ "Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1942-1962" (Document). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. 1964. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
^ Gina Kolata (1994-12-13). "SCIENTIST AT WORK: Leonard Adleman; Hitting the High Spots Of Computer Theory". New York Times.
^ http://www.bootstrap.org/chronicle/cv.html
^ Michelle Quinn (2008-05-30). "Berkeley event to honor missing scientist Jim Gray". Los Angeles Times.
^ "Butler W. Lampson". IEEE.
^ Robert Weisman (2009-03-10). "Top prize in computing goes to MIT professor". The Boston Globe.
^ "Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award". MIT. 2009-03-10.
^ "Fellow Awards - Charles Thacker". Computer History Museum. 2007.
^ Elizabeth Weise (2010-03-15). "Charles Thacker wins Turing Award, computing's 'Nobel prize'". USA Today.
^ Jawad Qadir (March 31, 2010). "UC Berkeley Professor Mixes Sound for Award Winning Films". The Daily Californian.
^ http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/edith-head/
^ ^a ^b "EdithHead". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 2009-02-14.
^ "Talk of the Gown - Blues in the News". California Magazine. Cal Alumni Association. June 2003. "Talk of the Gown - Blues in the News". California Magazine and the Cal Alumni Association. June 2003.
^ Sandra Fischione Donovan (March 12, 2010). "Beaver County native wins fourth Oscar for visual effects". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
^ Shannon Lee (April 23, 2009). "Journalism School Alumna Part Of Pulitzer-Prize Winning Staff". The Daily Californian.
^ "1904: Rube Goldberg, engineer and cartoonist, graduates". UC Berkeley College of Engineering. 2007.
^ Katrina J. Lee (1999). "She wrote the war". The Daily Californian Alumni Association.
^ Cathy Cockrell (2005-09-14). "Leon Litwack Rocks". The Berkeleyan and the UC Berkeley NewsCenter.
^ Cathy Cockrell (2007-05-08). "Leon Litwack's last stand". UC Berkeley NewsCenter (University of California, Berkeley.
^ Pulitzer.org
^ "Matt Richtel". 2010.
^ Vance, Ashlee (2010-04-12). "Matt Richtel". The New York Times.
^ Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. (2008). "Robert Penn Warren". The Biography Channel.
^ ^a ^b http://cal.berkeley.edu
^ http://www.combustioninstitute.org/
^ UC Regents (2007). "Class Notes 1970s". UC Berkeley College of Engineering.
^ "Stephen G. Monismith". Stanford University.
^ The Sentencing Project. "John Irwin: Scholar, Activist, Convict Criminologist." January 5, 2010.
^ Dorothy Clark (2005-12-14). "A suspenseful tale of Descartes's secrets". Boston Globe.
^ "Bestsellers : from Washington". New Scientist. 1997-01-25. "Information supplied by Reiters, Washington, D.C. for science bestsellers first published in hardback or paperback in the US within the past 12 months."
^ Donna Greene (1998-03-01). "Q&A/Mary T. Alfinito; Early Treatment Can Aid a Troubled Child". New York Times.
^ "PAPERBACK BEST SELLERS: June 15, 1997". New York Times. 1997-06-15.
^ Babara Whitney. "Scott Adams". Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
^ Sam Zuckerman (2007-12-24). "True believer: John Battelle tries his third media enterprise". San Francisco Chronicle.
^ Ken Tucker (1999-02-09). "A gift for EFFRONTERY". Salon.com.
^ Peter Hartlaub (2005-09-16). "Cartoonist Stephan Pastis cast aside his career in law to put Pearls on the comics page". San Francisco Chronicle.
^ Stephanie M. Lee (2007-08-20). ""The Origins of Rolling Stone"". The Daily Californian.
^ "Margot Adler, NPR Biography - Correspondent, National Desk, New York". National Public Radio.
^ "Robert Bazell - Chief Science and Health Correspondent". MSNBC. 2008-10-29.
^ "Jeffrey Brown, Senior Correspondent". MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.
^ Dorothy Pomerantz (2008-05-19). "Leading Man". Forbes.
^ "Induction Ceremony". Asian Hall of Fame. 2007.
^ "Liz Claman". Fox Business.
^ "Lisa Gonzales". KOVR.
^ NPR Staff. "Corey Flintoff, NPR Biography". National Public Radio. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
^ George Gurley (2007-05-22). "Red Eye for the Straight Guy". New York Observer.
^ "Anchors & Reporters - Brianna Keilar". CNN.
^ "Renee Montagne, NPR Biography - Host, Morning Edition, Culver City, California". National Public Radio.
^ Sam Chu Lin (2003-05-30). "Anchor's Aweigh: Kent Ninomiya talks about his future in Minneapolis". Asian Week.
^ "SuChin Pak Biography - Reporter, Host and Interviewer - MTV News". MTV.
^ David Kohn. "Troy Roberts". CBS News.
^ David Gilson (2005-05-05). "Michael Savage's long, strange trip". Salon.com.
^ "Haas NewsWire, February 20, 2001". Haas School of Business and the University of California, Berkeley. 2001-02-20.
^ "Television Program Faculty and Lecturers". Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the Regents of the University of California.
^ ^a ^b "Colon Cancer Claims Veteran Journalist Leroy Sievers". ABC News. 2008-08-16.
^ Shomial Ahmad (2008-08-16). "Journalist, 'My Cancer' Blogger Leroy Sievers Dies". National Public Radio.
^ "Meet the Team - Kristen Sze". KGO-TV. Retrieved 2008-01-16.
^ "Michele Tafoya - ESPN's Monday Night Football Sideline Reporter; Play-By-Play and Sideline Commentator". ESPN.
^ Michelle Meyers (2007-08-10). "How filmmaking is like launching a start-up". ZD Net.
^ Tim Dickinson (2006-05). "Can these crashers save this party?". San Francisco Magazine. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ Tom Krazit. "Yahoo Boosts Search Service". PC World.
^ ^a ^b ^c Sarah Yang (2009-02-27). "Dedication of new CITRIS headquarters marks new stage of innovation to help fuel economic growth". University of California, Berkeley and the UC Regents.
^ Patti Meagher (2004-09-06). "Alumnus Dao works 24-7 in fight against cancer". UC Berkeley College of Engineering.
^ Mickey Meece (2000-01-16). "DATABANK: JANUARY 10-14; In a Whirlwind, Investors Hold On to Hats". The New York Times.
^ ^a ^b ^c David Lazarus (2000-04-26). "Fresh Look For Rotten Tomatoes / Help from college buddies elevates movie-rating Web site beyond hobby status". San Francisco Chronicle.
^ ^a ^b ^c Anne Thompson (2006-02-03). "World of film reviews changed by Internet". The Hollywood Reporter.
^ Rita Koselka (1996-12-02). "Save on dog food". Forbes Magazine: 237–238.
^ J.C. Herz (1999-08-26). "In a Time Warp With Pac-Man and Pong". New York Times.
^ Alexandra Wilcox (2008-09-26). "Fundraiser Counts on Affluent Donors".
^ PC Magazine Staff (2007-04-12). "The Top Innovators of the 1980's: 6. Robert Gaskins". PC Magazine.
^ "COMPANY NEWS; Microsoft Buys Software Unit". New York Times. 1987-07-31.
^ "The Wall Street Journal List - One of the Journal's 50". Vermont Quarterly, University of Vermont. 2008 (Summer). {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
^ Dawn Kawamoto (2006-03-16). "VeriSign to acquire Kontiki". Ziff Davis.
^ ^a ^b Elllen Lee (2008-02-12). "Founders sell HotOrNot". The San Francisco Chronicle.
^ ^a ^b Don Steinberg (2008-10-01). "Just Play -- Guitar Hero". Inc Magazine. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
^ ^a ^b Tor Thorsen (2006-08-10). "Guitar Hero headbangs out $100 million". GameSpot.
^ Ben Rooney (2009-05-20). "Oracle to buy Sun Microsystems in $7.4 billion deal". CNN.
^ Daffyd Roderick (2001-06-04). "File It Under Sharing". TIME magazine.
^ Bloomberg L.P. (2005-08-23). "BEA Systems to Buy Plumtree Software". Los Angeles Times.
^ Robert Mullins (2004-04-16). "Integrated Device Technology acquires startup ZettaCom". American City Business Journal.
^ ^a ^b "James Lau: Berkeley Engineering Innovation Award". University of California, Berkeley. 2008-02-26.
^ "Management Team". LegalZoom.
^ Reuters (2009-08-12). "CVS to Pay $2.54 Billion for West Coast Drug Chain". The New York Times. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Cal mourns passing of Brian Maxwell, former coach, runner, PowerBar founder, and philanthropist". UC Berkeley. 2004-03-242. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ ^a ^b Stacy Finz (2004-03-20). "PowerBar founder collapses, dies at 51". San Francisco Chronicle.
^ "TR35 Young Innovator 2002 - Steve McCanne, 33". Technology Review. 2002.
^ Lucien Rhodes (1996-01). "The Race for more Bandwidth". {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ Teri Agins (2009-03-05). "Rodarte's Soul Sisters". The Wall Street Journal.
^ Taylor Buley (2009-06-01). "Cloudera: Big Data, Big Money". Forbes.
^ "With Its Deal for Level One, Intel Seeks New Area of Growth". New York Times. 1999-03-05.
^ Benjamin Pimentel (2004-04-30). "BMC to purchase Marimba for $239 million". San Francisco Chronicle.
^ "Lars Rasmussen founder of Google Maps". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2009-06-24.
^ David Sheff (2000-08). "Crank It Up". Wired Magazine. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ Matt Richtel (2007-07-24). "H.P. Making 2 Purchases to Push Data". New York Times.
^ Reuters (2007-07-23). "HP buys Opsware for $1.6 billion". CNN. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)
^ Larry Dignan (1998-12-14). "Mattel/The Learning Co. in $3.8B merger". Ziff Davis.
^ VMWare. "VM Ware Leadership - VMWare co-founders". VMWare.
^ John Greenwald (1993-10-18). "Here Comes the Sun". TIME magazine.
^ Valerie J. Nelson (2008-09-28). "Robert Steinberg dies at 61; founded chocolatier Scharffen Berger". Los Angeles Times.
^ Lawrence M. Fisher (1994-02-27). "Sound Bytes; On Building a Better Highway". The New York Times.
^ "Two New VPs for Bell Labs". Bell Labs. 1998-07-13.
^ "Tech101;How Stuff Works; Nintendo GameBoy Advance". Los Angeles Times. 2001-06-07.
^ "Nintendo Game Boy Color". CNET. 2003-04-25.
^ Brian Caulfield (2007-06-25). "Google Calling". Forbes.
^ George Rostky. "ASICs: the business nobody wanted". EE Times.
^ ^a ^b Brroks Barnes and Clarie Cain Miller (2010-07-27). "Disney Buys Playdom in $763 Million Deal, Becoming Hollywood Leader in Social Games". The New York Times.
^ Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems of the IEEE (1997-11-11). "The 18th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium - December 2–5, 1997". Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems of the IEEE, via Boston University. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
^ David Diamond (1998-09). "Lord of the Toasters". Wired Magazine. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ Olga Kharif (2009-06-05). "Intel-WindRiver: What the Merger Means". BusinessWeek.
^ Bankrate Acquires Bankaholic For Up To $15 Million
^ Ann Steffora Mutschler (2008-03-20). "Synopsys buys Synplicity for $227M". EDN.
^ "Our Leadership - Richard D. Fain - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer". Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
^ Rudolph A. Peterson, 98; Extended Global Reach of Bank of America (Los Angeles Times. December 16, 2003) [1]
^ "Maury Austin". BusinessWeek.
^ March 2008+PRN20080318 "MIPS Technologies Appoints Maury Austin as Chief Financial Officer". Reuters. 2008-03-18. {{cite news}}: Check |url= value (help) ^{[dead link]}
^ "Arthur Chong". Forbes.
^ http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/tln/exec_team/giancarlo/index.html
^ "Neil Y. Kim". Forbes.
^ http://www.national.com/news/item/0,1735,291,00.html
^ "Teracent Corporation - Executive Profile - Ernest Lam". BusinessWeek.
^ Robert Hof (2009-11-23). "Google Buys Teracent to Boost Display Ad Push". BusinessWeek.
^ "Executive Profile: Ken Milnes". Businessweek.
^ November 2007+PRN20071126 "MIPS Technologies Appoints Stuart Nichols Vice President and General Counsel". Reuters. 2007-11-26. {{cite news}}: Check |url= value (help) ^{[dead link]}
^ November 2007+PRN20071128 "Bookham Appoints Silicon Valley Veteran Kate Rundle as Executive Vice President and General Counsel". Reuters. 2007-11-28. {{cite news}}: Check |url= value (help) ^{[dead link]}
^ "Steve Schumann". Forbes. Retrieved 2007-04-16.
^ Gordon, Walter (et al., Interviewees) (1976–1979). "An Interview With Walter Gordon". Athlete, Officer in Law Enforcement and Administration, Governor of the Virgin Islands: oral history transcript / Walter Gordon. Berkeley, California: Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office. pp. 621 p. (Vols. 1–2). Retrieved 14 April 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: date format (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ "Martin Brennan". U.S. Department of State. 2002-10-29.
^ SLDN Military Advisory Council - sldn.org - Retrieved November 30, 2007
^ "Biography of the Acting Surgeon General". United States Department of Health and Human Services.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Obituaries - Professor John Bahcall". The Times(United Kingdom). London. 2005-09-01.
^ "Mike Malin". University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Caltech: 2003 Distinguished Alumni Awards". Caltech. 2003.
^ University of Arizona University Communications (2008-03-18). "Peter Smith Named Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair in Integrative Science".
^ "NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended". NASA. 2008-07-31.
^ Moshe Bar (2000-10-30). "Sendmail Multi Switch 2.1 Gives Powerful Features a Simple Face". Network Computing.
^ "Jean Paul Jacob receives Research Leadership Award from UC-Berkeley". IBM Research - Almaden. 2010-05-09.
^ "Technical Leaders - Peter Engrav - Distinguished Engineer". Microsoft.
^ ^a ^b ^c Stefanie Olsen (2008-06-09). "Sun's John Gage joins Al Gore in clean-tech investing". CNET.
^ "The Technology Chronicles : John Gage Leaves Sun Microsystems To Become A Venture Capitalist". San Francisco Chronicle. 2008-06-09.
^ "Wojciech Matusik, 31". Technology Review. 2004.
^ IEEE (1969 (From the 1969 IEEE Annual Banquet Booklet)). "Edward L. Ginzton, 1915 - 1998". {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ "History of Ginzton Lab". Stanford University. 2003-05-07.
^ CONICIT. "Premio Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología "Clodomiro Picado Twight" 1989". Retrieved 2008-03-01.
^ Dr. Harry A. Butowsky (1984-04). "Man in Space - A National Historic Landmark Theme Study - Rogers Dry Lake". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help), which states in the footnote "The descriptive material for the general history of this section has been taken from Antelope Valley Salutes Edwards AFB (Riverside, California: Armed Forces Press, 1982), pp. 37-39"
^ CONICIT. "Premio Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología "Clodomiro Picado Twight" 1995". Retrieved 2008-03-01.
^ "The six medals she won are the most by an American woman in any sport, breaking the record she tied four years ago. Her career total matches the third-most by any U.S. athlete." Jaime Aron (2008-08-17). "Coughlin's 6 medals most by a US woman". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
^ http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/programs/#c
^ Jill Kramer (2006-05-26). "A 'Peace' of the Action". Pacific Sun.
^ Stephenson, Neal (2003) [1993]. "7". Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra trade paperback reissue ed.). New York, New York: Bantam Dell. p. 56. ISBN 0-553-38095-8. Her name is Juanita Marquez. Hiro has know her ever since they were freshmen together at Berkeley[...] {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |origmonth= ignored (help)

[1] CNN, John Couwels, and Alan Duke (2009-05-24). "California landing ends shuttle's Hubble trip". CNN. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[2] Thomas Cech (1989). "Autobiography". Nobel Foundation.

[3] Steven Chu (1997). "Autobiography". Nobel Foundation.

[4] Robert Curl (1996). "Autobiography". Nobel Foundation.

[5] "Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1942-1962" (Document). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. 1964. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[6] Viet-Quoc Nguyen (2006-10-04). "UC Berkeley Alumnus and Stanford Professor Receives Nobel Prize for Gene Expression Research". The Daily Californian.

[7] "Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1942-1962" (Document). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. 1964. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[8] "The Nobel Prize in Medicine 2009". Nobel PrizeFoundation.

[9] David Gross (2004). "Autobiography". Nobel Foundation.

[10] Tore Frängsmyr, editor (2001). "Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 2000" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[11] Tore Frängsmyr, editor (2003). "Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 2002" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[12] Assar Lindbec, editor (1992). "Nobel Lectures, Economics 1969-1980" (Document). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[13] "Nobel Lectures, Physics 1942-1962" (Document). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. 1964. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[14] "The Nobel Prizes 1998" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. 1999. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[15] Wilhelm Odelberg, editor (1987). "Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1986" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[16] "Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1942-1962" (Document). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. 1964. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[17] "John C. Mather". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2007-04-16.

[18] Tore Frängsmyr, editor (1996). "Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1995" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[19] Tore Frängsmyr, editor (1994). "Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1993" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[20] Tore Frängsmyr, editor (1994). "Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1993" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[21] Karl Grandin, editor (2006). "Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 2005" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[22] "Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1942-1962" (Document). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. 1964. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[23] Wilhelm Odelberg, editor (1979). "Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1978" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[24] "Nobel Lectures, Physics 1942-1962" (Document). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. 1964. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[25] Wilhelm Odelberg, editor (1984). "Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1983" (Document). Stockholm: Nobel Foundation. {{cite document}}: |author= has generic name (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[26] "Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1922-1941" (Document). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. 1966. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[27] "Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1942-1962" (Document). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company. 1964. {{cite document}}: Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)

[28] Gina Kolata (1994-12-13). "SCIENTIST AT WORK: Leonard Adleman; Hitting the High Spots Of Computer Theory". New York Times.

[29] ttp://www.bootstrap.org/chronicle/cv.html

[30] Michelle Quinn (2008-05-30). "Berkeley event to honor missing scientist Jim Gray". Los Angeles Times.

[31] "Butler W. Lampson". IEEE.

[32] Robert Weisman (2009-03-10). "Top prize in computing goes to MIT professor". The Boston Globe.

[33] "Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award". MIT. 2009-03-10.

[34] "Fellow Awards - Charles Thacker". Computer History Museum. 2007.

[35] Elizabeth Weise (2010-03-15). "Charles Thacker wins Turing Award, computing's 'Nobel prize'". USA Today.

[36] Jawad Qadir (March 31, 2010). "UC Berkeley Professor Mixes Sound for Award Winning Films". The Daily Californian.

[37] ttp://www.spiritus-temporis.com/edith-head/

[Britannica_EdithHead-38] "EdithHead". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 2009-02-14.

[39] "Talk of the Gown - Blues in the News". California Magazine. Cal Alumni Association. June 2003. "Talk of the Gown - Blues in the News". California Magazine and the Cal Alumni Association. June 2003.

[40] Sandra Fischione Donovan (March 12, 2010). "Beaver County native wins fourth Oscar for visual effects". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)

[41] Shannon Lee (April 23, 2009). "Journalism School Alumna Part Of Pulitzer-Prize Winning Staff". The Daily Californian.

[42] "1904: Rube Goldberg, engineer and cartoonist, graduates". UC Berkeley College of Engineering. 2007.

[43] Katrina J. Lee (1999). "She wrote the war". The Daily Californian Alumni Association.

[44] Cathy Cockrell (2005-09-14). "Leon Litwack Rocks". The Berkeleyan and the UC Berkeley NewsCenter.

[45] Cathy Cockrell (2007-05-08). "Leon Litwack's last stand". UC Berkeley NewsCenter (University of California, Berkeley.

[46] Pulitzer.org

[47] "Matt Richtel". 2010.

[48] Vance, Ashlee (2010-04-12). "Matt Richtel". The New York Times.

[RPWarrent_BiographyChannel-49] Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. (2008). "Robert Penn Warren". The Biography Channel.

[cal.berkeley.edu-50] ttp://cal.berkeley.edu

[51] ttp://www.combustioninstitute.org/

[52] UC Regents (2007). "Class Notes 1970s". UC Berkeley College of Engineering.

[53] "Stephen G. Monismith". Stanford University.

[sentencingproject.org-54] The Sentencing Project. "John Irwin: Scholar, Activist, Convict Criminologist." January 5, 2010.

[55] Dorothy Clark (2005-12-14). "A suspenseful tale of Descartes's secrets". Boston Globe.

[56] "Bestsellers : from Washington". New Scientist. 1997-01-25. "Information supplied by Reiters, Washington, D.C. for science bestsellers first published in hardback or paperback in the US within the past 12 months."

[57] Donna Greene (1998-03-01). "Q&A/Mary T. Alfinito; Early Treatment Can Aid a Troubled Child". New York Times.

[58] "PAPERBACK BEST SELLERS: June 15, 1997". New York Times. 1997-06-15.

[59] Babara Whitney. "Scott Adams". Encyclopædia Britannica Online.

[60] Sam Zuckerman (2007-12-24). "True believer: John Battelle tries his third media enterprise". San Francisco Chronicle.

[61] Ken Tucker (1999-02-09). "A gift for EFFRONTERY". Salon.com.

[62] Peter Hartlaub (2005-09-16). "Cartoonist Stephan Pastis cast aside his career in law to put Pearls on the comics page". San Francisco Chronicle.

[63] Stephanie M. Lee (2007-08-20). ""The Origins of Rolling Stone"". The Daily Californian.

[64] "Margot Adler, NPR Biography - Correspondent, National Desk, New York". National Public Radio.

[65] "Robert Bazell - Chief Science and Health Correspondent". MSNBC. 2008-10-29.

[66] "Jeffrey Brown, Senior Correspondent". MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.

[67] Dorothy Pomerantz (2008-05-19). "Leading Man". Forbes.

[68] "Induction Ceremony". Asian Hall of Fame. 2007.

[69] "Liz Claman". Fox Business.

[70] "Lisa Gonzales". KOVR.

[71] NPR Staff. "Corey Flintoff, NPR Biography". National Public Radio. Retrieved 2008-05-16.

[72] George Gurley (2007-05-22). "Red Eye for the Straight Guy". New York Observer.

[73] "Anchors & Reporters - Brianna Keilar". CNN.

[74] "Renee Montagne, NPR Biography - Host, Morning Edition, Culver City, California". National Public Radio.

[75] Sam Chu Lin (2003-05-30). "Anchor's Aweigh: Kent Ninomiya talks about his future in Minneapolis". Asian Week.

[76] "SuChin Pak Biography - Reporter, Host and Interviewer - MTV News". MTV.

[77] David Kohn. "Troy Roberts". CBS News.

[78] David Gilson (2005-05-05). "Michael Savage's long, strange trip". Salon.com.

[79] "Haas NewsWire, February 20, 2001". Haas School of Business and the University of California, Berkeley. 2001-02-20.

[80] "Television Program Faculty and Lecturers". Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the Regents of the University of California.

[ABCNews_Sievers_2008_08_16-81] "Colon Cancer Claims Veteran Journalist Leroy Sievers". ABC News. 2008-08-16.

[82] Shomial Ahmad (2008-08-16). "Journalist, 'My Cancer' Blogger Leroy Sievers Dies". National Public Radio.

[83] "Meet the Team - Kristen Sze". KGO-TV. Retrieved 2008-01-16.

[84] "Michele Tafoya - ESPN's Monday Night Football Sideline Reporter; Play-By-Play and Sideline Commentator". ESPN.

[85] Michelle Meyers (2007-08-10). "How filmmaking is like launching a start-up". ZD Net.

[86] Tim Dickinson (2006-05). "Can these crashers save this party?". San Francisco Magazine. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

[87] Tom Krazit. "Yahoo Boosts Search Service". PC World.

[Sutardja-Dai_Hall-88] Sarah Yang (2009-02-27). "Dedication of new CITRIS headquarters marks new stage of innovation to help fuel economic growth". University of California, Berkeley and the UC Regents.

[89] Patti Meagher (2004-09-06). "Alumnus Dao works 24-7 in fight against cancer". UC Berkeley College of Engineering.

[90] Mickey Meece (2000-01-16). "DATABANK: JANUARY 10-14; In a Whirlwind, Investors Hold On to Hats". The New York Times.

[David_Lazarus_20000426-91] David Lazarus (2000-04-26). "Fresh Look For Rotten Tomatoes / Help from college buddies elevates movie-rating Web site beyond hobby status". San Francisco Chronicle.

[Anne_Thompson_20060203-92] Anne Thompson (2006-02-03). "World of film reviews changed by Internet". The Hollywood Reporter.

[93] Rita Koselka (1996-12-02). "Save on dog food". Forbes Magazine: 237–238.

[94] J.C. Herz (1999-08-26). "In a Time Warp With Pac-Man and Pong". New York Times.

[95] Alexandra Wilcox (2008-09-26). "Fundraiser Counts on Affluent Donors".

[96] PC Magazine Staff (2007-04-12). "The Top Innovators of the 1980's: 6. Robert Gaskins". PC Magazine.

[97] "COMPANY NEWS; Microsoft Buys Software Unit". New York Times. 1987-07-31.

[98] "The Wall Street Journal List - One of the Journal's 50". Vermont Quarterly, University of Vermont. 2008 (Summer). {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)

[99] Dawn Kawamoto (2006-03-16). "VeriSign to acquire Kontiki". Ziff Davis.

[Elllen_Lee-100] Elllen Lee (2008-02-12). "Founders sell HotOrNot". The San Francisco Chronicle.

[RedOctane-101] Don Steinberg (2008-10-01). "Just Play -- Guitar Hero". Inc Magazine. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)

[RedOctaneAcquired-102] Tor Thorsen (2006-08-10). "Guitar Hero headbangs out $100 million". GameSpot.

[103] Ben Rooney (2009-05-20). "Oracle to buy Sun Microsystems in $7.4 billion deal". CNN.

[104] Daffyd Roderick (2001-06-04). "File It Under Sharing". TIME magazine.

[105] Bloomberg L.P. (2005-08-23). "BEA Systems to Buy Plumtree Software". Los Angeles Times.

[106] Robert Mullins (2004-04-16). "Integrated Device Technology acquires startup ZettaCom". American City Business Journal.

[UCB_James_Lau2008_02_26-107] "James Lau: Berkeley Engineering Innovation Award". University of California, Berkeley. 2008-02-26.

[108] "Management Team". LegalZoom.

[109] Reuters (2009-08-12). "CVS to Pay $2.54 Billion for West Coast Drug Chain". The New York Times. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)

[MaxwellNamesake-110] "Cal mourns passing of Brian Maxwell, former coach, runner, PowerBar founder, and philanthropist". UC Berkeley. 2004-03-242. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

[PowerBarAcquisition-111] Stacy Finz (2004-03-20). "PowerBar founder collapses, dies at 51". San Francisco Chronicle.

[112] "TR35 Young Innovator 2002 - Steve McCanne, 33". Technology Review. 2002.

[113] Lucien Rhodes (1996-01). "The Race for more Bandwidth". {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

[114] Teri Agins (2009-03-05). "Rodarte's Soul Sisters". The Wall Street Journal.

[115] Taylor Buley (2009-06-01). "Cloudera: Big Data, Big Money". Forbes.

[116] "With Its Deal for Level One, Intel Seeks New Area of Growth". New York Times. 1999-03-05.

[117] Benjamin Pimentel (2004-04-30). "BMC to purchase Marimba for $239 million". San Francisco Chronicle.

[118] "Lars Rasmussen founder of Google Maps". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2009-06-24.

[119] David Sheff (2000-08). "Crank It Up". Wired Magazine. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

[120] Matt Richtel (2007-07-24). "H.P. Making 2 Purchases to Push Data". New York Times.

[121] Reuters (2007-07-23). "HP buys Opsware for $1.6 billion". CNN. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)

[122] Larry Dignan (1998-12-14). "Mattel/The Learning Co. in $3.8B merger". Ziff Davis.

[VMWARE_CoFounders-123] VMWare. "VM Ware Leadership - VMWare co-founders". VMWare.

[124] John Greenwald (1993-10-18). "Here Comes the Sun". TIME magazine.

[125] Valerie J. Nelson (2008-09-28). "Robert Steinberg dies at 61; founded chocolatier Scharffen Berger". Los Angeles Times.

[126] Lawrence M. Fisher (1994-02-27). "Sound Bytes; On Building a Better Highway". The New York Times.

[127] "Two New VPs for Bell Labs". Bell Labs. 1998-07-13.

[128] "Tech101;How Stuff Works; Nintendo GameBoy Advance". Los Angeles Times. 2001-06-07.

[129] "Nintendo Game Boy Color". CNET. 2003-04-25.

[130] Brian Caulfield (2007-06-25). "Google Calling". Forbes.

[131] George Rostky. "ASICs: the business nobody wanted". EE Times.

[Playdom_Acquired-132] Brroks Barnes and Clarie Cain Miller (2010-07-27). "Disney Buys Playdom in $763 Million Deal, Becoming Hollywood Leader in Social Games". The New York Times.

[133] Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems of the IEEE (1997-11-11). "The 18th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium - December 2–5, 1997". Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems of the IEEE, via Boston University. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)

[134] David Diamond (1998-09). "Lord of the Toasters". Wired Magazine. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

[135] Olga Kharif (2009-06-05). "Intel-WindRiver: What the Merger Means". BusinessWeek.

[136] Bankrate Acquires Bankaholic For Up To $15 Million

[137] Ann Steffora Mutschler (2008-03-20). "Synopsys buys Synplicity for $227M". EDN.

[138] "Our Leadership - Richard D. Fain - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer". Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

[139] Rudolph A. Peterson, 98; Extended Global Reach of Bank of America (Los Angeles Times. December 16, 2003) [1]

[140] "Maury Austin". BusinessWeek.

[141] March 2008+PRN20080318 "MIPS Technologies Appoints Maury Austin as Chief Financial Officer". Reuters. 2008-03-18. {{cite news}}: Check |url= value (help) ^{[dead link]}

[142] "Arthur Chong". Forbes.

[143] ttp://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/tln/exec_team/giancarlo/index.html

[144] "Neil Y. Kim". Forbes.

[145] ttp://www.national.com/news/item/0,1735,291,00.html

[146] "Teracent Corporation - Executive Profile - Ernest Lam". BusinessWeek.

[147] Robert Hof (2009-11-23). "Google Buys Teracent to Boost Display Ad Push". BusinessWeek.

[148] "Executive Profile: Ken Milnes". Businessweek.

[149] November 2007+PRN20071126 "MIPS Technologies Appoints Stuart Nichols Vice President and General Counsel". Reuters. 2007-11-26. {{cite news}}: Check |url= value (help) ^{[dead link]}

[150] November 2007+PRN20071128 "Bookham Appoints Silicon Valley Veteran Kate Rundle as Executive Vice President and General Counsel". Reuters. 2007-11-28. {{cite news}}: Check |url= value (help) ^{[dead link]}

[151] "Steve Schumann". Forbes. Retrieved 2007-04-16.

[Oral-152] Gordon, Walter (et al., Interviewees) (1976–1979). "An Interview With Walter Gordon". Athlete, Officer in Law Enforcement and Administration, Governor of the Virgin Islands: oral history transcript / Walter Gordon. Berkeley, California: Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office. pp. 621 p. (Vols. 1–2). Retrieved 14 April 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: date format (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[153] "Martin Brennan". U.S. Department of State. 2002-10-29.

[154] SLDN Military Advisory Council - sldn.org - Retrieved November 30, 2007

[155] "Biography of the Acting Surgeon General". United States Department of Health and Human Services.

[Times2005_09_01-156] "Obituaries - Professor John Bahcall". The Times(United Kingdom). London. 2005-09-01.

[157] "Mike Malin". University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.

[CalTech2003_DistinguishedAlumniAwards-158] "Caltech: 2003 Distinguished Alumni Awards". Caltech. 2003.

[159] University of Arizona University Communications (2008-03-18). "Peter Smith Named Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair in Integrative Science".

[160] "NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended". NASA. 2008-07-31.

[161] Moshe Bar (2000-10-30). "Sendmail Multi Switch 2.1 Gives Powerful Features a Simple Face". Network Computing.

[162] "Jean Paul Jacob receives Research Leadership Award from UC-Berkeley". IBM Research - Almaden. 2010-05-09.

[163] "Technical Leaders - Peter Engrav - Distinguished Engineer". Microsoft.

[Olsen2008_06_09-164] Stefanie Olsen (2008-06-09). "Sun's John Gage joins Al Gore in clean-tech investing". CNET.

[165] "The Technology Chronicles : John Gage Leaves Sun Microsystems To Become A Venture Capitalist". San Francisco Chronicle. 2008-06-09.

[166] "Wojciech Matusik, 31". Technology Review. 2004.

[167] IEEE (1969 (From the 1969 IEEE Annual Banquet Booklet)). "Edward L. Ginzton, 1915 - 1998". {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

[168] "History of Ginzton Lab". Stanford University. 2003-05-07.

[169] CONICIT. "Premio Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología "Clodomiro Picado Twight" 1989". Retrieved 2008-03-01.

[170] Dr. Harry A. Butowsky (1984-04). "Man in Space - A National Historic Landmark Theme Study - Rogers Dry Lake". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help), which states in the footnote "The descriptive material for the general history of this section has been taken from Antelope Valley Salutes Edwards AFB (Riverside, California: Armed Forces Press, 1982), pp. 37-39"

[171] CONICIT. "Premio Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología "Clodomiro Picado Twight" 1995". Retrieved 2008-03-01.

[Aron2008_08_18-172] "The six medals she won are the most by an American woman in any sport, breaking the record she tied four years ago. Her career total matches the third-most by any U.S. athlete." Jaime Aron (2008-08-17). "Coughlin's 6 medals most by a US woman". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

[173] ttp://www.grad.berkeley.edu/programs/#c

[174] Jill Kramer (2006-05-26). "A 'Peace' of the Action". Pacific Sun.

[175] Stephenson, Neal (2003) [1993]. "7". Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra trade paperback reissue ed.). New York, New York: Bantam Dell. p. 56. ISBN 0-553-38095-8. Her name is Juanita Marquez. Hiro has know her ever since they were freshmen together at Berkeley[...] {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |origmonth= ignored (help)

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

[12]

[13]

[14]

[15]

[16]

[17]

[18]

[19]

[20]

[21]

[22]

[23]

[24]

[25]

[26]

[27]

[28]

[29]

[30]

[31]

[32]

[33]

[34]

[35]

[36]

[37]

[38]

[39]

[40]

[41]

[42]

[43]

[44]

[45]

[46]

[47]

[48]

[49]

[50]

[51]

[52]

[53]

[54]

[55]

[56]

[57]

[58]

[59]

[60]

[61]

[62]

[63]

[64]

[65]

[66]

[67]

[68]

[69]

[70]

[71]

[72]

[73]

[74]

[75]

[76]

[77]

[78]

[79]

[80]

[81]

[82]

[83]

[84]

[85]

[86]

[87]

[88]

[89]

[90]

[91]

[92]

[93]

[94]

[95]

[96]

[97]

[98]

[99]

[100]