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.

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Nobel laureates

Alumni of the University of California, Berkeley Steve Wozniak, BS 1986, co-founder of Apple Computer Gordon Moore, BS 1950, co-founder of semiconductor company Intel Thomas Schelling, BA 1944, Nobel laureate Hamilton O. Smith, BA 1952 ,Nobel laureate Dana Scott, BS 1954, recipient of the Turing Award Turing Award laureate Ken Thompson (left), BS 1965, MS 1966, with fellow laureate and colleague Dennis Ritchie (right); together, they created Unix Jay Miner, BS 1959, "father of the Amiga" computer Academy Award winning actor Gregory Peck, BA 1939 Emmy- and Golden Globe Award- award winning actress Kathy Baker, BA 1977 Scott Adams, MBA 1986, creator of the comic strip Dilbert The computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart, B. Eng. 1952 14th Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren, BA 1912, J.D. 1914 Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway (center), BA 1999 Sun Fo, BA 1916, Premier of the Republic of China Singer Stephan Jenkins, BA 1987, of Third Eye Blind Astronaut James van Hoften, BS 1966 Astronaut Margaret Rhea Seddon, BS 1970 First Chinese-American Astronaut Leroy Chiao, BS 1983 Astronaut Rex Walheim, BS 1984 Space tourist and Microsoft billionaire Charles Simonyi, BS 1972 Roxann Dawson, BA 1980, actress (B'Elanna Torres on the television series Star Trek: Voyager), director, author, and playwright Academy Award winning documentary directory Freida Lee Mock, BA 1961 Governor of Michigan Jennifer Granholm, BA 1984 Captain Glen Edwards, BS 1941, namesake of Edwards Air Force Base Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, BS 1953; namesake of the Mineta San Jose International Airport Lillian Moller Gilbreth,BA 1900, MA 1902, industrial/organizational psychologist and subject of the book (and film) Cheaper by the Dozen GTK was created by Peter Mattis, BS 1997

See also: List of Nobel laureates associated with UC Berkeley

• Thomas Cech, Ph.D. 1975 - Nobel laureate (1989, Chemistry),^[1] for the "discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"
• Steven Chu, Ph.D. 1976 - Nobel laureate (1997, Physics),^[2] for the "development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light"
• Robert Curl, Ph.D. 1957- Nobel laureate (1996, Chemistry),^[3] for the "discovery of fullerenes"
• Joseph Erlanger, B.S. 1895 - Nobel laureate (1944, Physiology or Medicine),^[4] for "discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibres"
• Andrew Fire, B.A. 1978 - Nobel laureate (2006, Physiology or Medicine),^[5] 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),^[6] "for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures"
• David Gross, Ph.D. 1966 - Nobel laureate (2004, Physics),^[7] "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"
• Alan Heeger, Ph.D. 1961 - Nobel laureate (2000, Chemistry),^[8] "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers"
• Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D. 1961 - Nobel laureate (2002, Economics),^[9] "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),^[10] "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)),^[11] "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum"
• Robert Laughlin, B.A. 1972 [1] - Nobel laureate (1998, Physics),^[12] for the "discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"
• Yuan T. Lee, Ph.D. 1962 - Nobel laureate (1986, Chemistry),^[13] 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),^[14] "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),^[15] for the "discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"
• Mario Molina, Ph.D. 1972- Nobel laureate (1995, Chemistry)),^[16] for "work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone"
• Kary Mullis, Ph.D. 1973 - Nobel laureate (1993, Chemistry),^[17] "for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method"
• Douglass North, B.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1952- Nobel laureate (1993, Economics),^[18] "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),^[19] "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),^[20] for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements"
• Hamilton Smith, B.A. 1952 - Nobel laureate (1978, Physiology or Medicine),^[21] "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),^[22] "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 ),^[23] "for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes"
• Harold Urey, Ph.D. 1923 - Nobel laureate (1934, Chemistry),^[24] "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen"
• Selman Waksman, Ph.D. 1918 - Nobel laureate (1952, Physiology or Medicine),^[25] "for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis"

Turing Award laureates

The Turing Award is considered to be the "Nobel Prize" of computer science.

• Leonard Adleman B.A. 1968 (mathematics), Ph.D. 1976, the "A" in the RSA encryption algorithm for computer security, co-recipient of the Turing Award in 2002.
• Douglas C. Engelbart, B.Eng. 1952,^[26] 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.
• Jim Gray, B.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1969 - Recipient of the 2001 Turing Award
• 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
• Dana Scott, B.S. 1954 - computer scientist, recipient of the 1976 Turing Award, Associate Professor of Math
• 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
• Niklaus Wirth, Ph.D. 1967 - computer scientist, creator of the Pascal programming language, recipient of the 1984 Turing Award

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
• 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^[27] - 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)
• Timothy P. White, Ph.D. 1977 - President of the University of Idaho (2004-2008); President-elect, University of California, Riverside (beginning September 1, 2008)

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)
• 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 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
• 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^[28] 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
• 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

• Özalp Babaoğlu, Ph.D. 1981 - Professor of Computer Science, University of Bologna (Italy)
• Shadi Bartsch, M.A. 1989, Ph.D. 1991 - Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor of Classics and the History of Culture, The University of Chicago
• Regina Bendix, B.A. 1982 - Professor of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Gottingen (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
• Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D. 1993 - T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
• Mario Biagioli, M.A. 1986, Ph.D. 1989 - Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
• Asad Abidi, M.S. 1978, Ph.D. 1981 - Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA, member of the National Academy of Engineering.
• João Biehl, Ph.D. 1999 - Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
• William B. Bridges, B.S. 1956, M.S. 1957, Ph.D. 1962 - Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, Caltech
• 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
• Stanley Cavell, B.A. 1947 - Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Harvard University
• 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
• Sunney I. Chan, B.S. 1957, Ph.D. 1961 - George Grant Hoag Professor of Biophysical Chemistry, Caltech
• 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 J. Clague, M.A. 1969 - Emeritus Scientist of the Geological Survey of Canada, Professor of Earth Sciences at Simon Fraser University
• John H. Cochrane, Ph.D. 1986 - Myron S. Scholes 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
• Dalton Conley, B.A. 1990 - University Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, New York University
• 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
• 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"
• 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
• Arturo Escobar (anthropologist), Ph.D. 1987 - Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Amitai Etzioni, Ph.D. 1958 - University Professor, George Washington University
• Paula Findlen, M.A. 1985, Ph.D. 1989 - Ubaldo Pierotti Professor in Italian History, Stanford University
• Ben Finney, B.A. 1955 - University of Hawaii professor of anthropology, co-founder of the Polynesian Voyaging Society
• 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
• 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
• Marcia Inhorn, M.A. 1985, M.P.H. 1988, Ph.D. 1991 - William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, Yale University
• Chalmers Johnson, B.A. 1953, M.A. 1957, Ph.D. 1961 - author, professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego, president, and co-founder of the Japan Policy Research Institute
• Alice Kaplan, B.A. 1975 - Gilbert, Louis and Edward Lehrman Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University
• 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)
• Joseph Koerner, Ph.D. 1986 - Professor of Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
• Stephen Kotkin, M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1988 - Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Princeton University
• Elizabeth Lloyd, B.A. 1991 - Senior Lecturer ICT in Education, Kingston University, London
• 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)
• Teresa H. Meng, Ph.D. 1988 - Member, National Academy of Engineering, Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, IEEE Fellow
• 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
• 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
• Nell Irvin Painter, B.A. 1964 - Edwards Professor Emerita of American History, Princeton University
• 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)
• Noreen Reist, B.A. 1982 - Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University
• Josiah Royce, B.A. 1875 - philosopher, professor at Harvard 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
• Deborah Tannen, M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1979 - Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University
• Sidney Tarrow, Ph.D. 1965 - Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Sociology, Cornell 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
• 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
• 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

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

Books

• Amir Aczel, B.A. 1975, M.S. 1976 - popular mathematics writer, author of the bestseller^[29][30] 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)
• Karen Joy Fowler, B.A. 1972 - writer, author of The Jane Austen Book Club (2004)
• Barbara Guest, B.A. 1943 - sole female member of the modernist New York School of poets; awarded the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Poetry Society of America (1999)
• Christopher Kasparek, 1966 - author, translator
• Maxine Hong Kingston, B.A. 1962 - author, Senior Lecturer, recipient of 1997 National Humanities Medal awarded by President of the United States Bill Clinton
• Jack London (attended 1896-1897) - novelist
• 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;^[31] author of the New York Times best seller^[32] The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families to Enrich Our Lives
• Anneli Rufus, B.A. 1981 - journalist and author of many books, including Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto
• 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 Charleton Heston as Michelangelo)
• 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)
• William T. Vollmann, (attended) - novelist
• Robert Penn Warren, M.A. 1927 - novelist, poet; author of All the King's Men (1946)
• Shawn Wong, B.A. 1971 - novelist, author of American Knees [1995] (made into the film, Americanese, released in 2008)

Fashion

• Edith Head, B.A. in French 1918,^[33] Academy Award winning designer
• Kate and Laura Mulleavy, B.A. 2001 - studied art history and English, respectively; founders of Rodarte.^[34]

Music

• Suzanne Ciani, M.A. 1970 - composer
• Les Claypool - bassist and singer of Primus
• Stewart Copeland, drummer of The Police^[35]
• Henry Cowell (attended 1914) - composer
• Adam Duritz (attended) - lead singer of Counting Crows
• Jewlia Eisenberg, B.A. 1998 - musician, cofounder of Charming Hostess
• Davey Havok (attended) - lead singer of AFI
• Susanna Hoffs, B.A. 1980 - lead singer of The Bangles
• Ivan Ilić, B.A. 2001 - American pianist of Serbian descent based in Paris
• Andrew Imbrie, M.A. 1947 - composer
• Stephan Jenkins, B.A. 1987 (Valedictorian) - lead singer and songwriter of the band Third Eye Blind
• Michael Kang - a multi-instrumentalist for the popular jam band The String Cheese Incident
• Jonathan Kramer, Ph.D. 1969 - composer
• Phil Lesh, (attended) - bass guitarist of the band Grateful Dead
• 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 and political activist
• 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
• John Battelle, B.A. 1987, M.Jour. 1992 - Co-founder of Wired magazine
• Susan Berman, M.B.A. 1969 - author (Easy Street, Lady Las Vegas), newspaper reporter, magazine writer (New York)
• Max Boot, B.A. 1992 - conservative columnist and author
• Glenn Dickey, B.A. 1958 - sports columnist and author – San Francisco Chronicle (1963-2004) and San Francisco Examiner (2004-present)
• Pauline Esther Friedman, (attended, class of 1938) - a.k.a Abigail Van Buren ("Dear Abby")
• Rube Goldberg, 1904 - cartoonist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1948
• Marguerite Higgins, 1941 - journalist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1951, honored on a commemorative postal stamp issued by the United States Post Office
• Pauline Kael, B.A. 1940 - film critic, The New Yorker
• Jean LemMon - editor of Better Homes and Gardens magazine
• Wendy Lesser, M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1982 - cultural critic; founding editor of The Threepenny Review
• Zuzana Licko, B.A. 1984 - co-founder of Emigre magazine and type foundry
• Jan McGirk, B.A. 1972 - foreign correspondent and cyberpundit for British press
• Tim McGirk, B.A. 1974 - investigative journalist for Time magazine, war correspondent and Al Qaeda expert
• Maureen Orth, B.A. 1964 - author and writer for Vanity Fair magazine
• Stephan Pastis, B.A. 1989 - creator of Pearls Before Swine
• Adrian Tomine, B.A. 1996 - comic artist, Optic Nerve; regular illustrator for The New Yorker and other magazines
• Deborah Treisman, B.A. 1992 - fiction editor, The New Yorker
• Rudy VanderLans, B.A. 1984 - co-founder of Emigre magazine and type foundry
• Jann Wenner (attended) - Founder of Rolling Stone magazine^[36]
• 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
• Robert Bazell, B.A. 1967 - NBC News' Chief Science and Health Correspondent
• Jeffrey Brown, B.A. 19?? - Senior Correspondent on the PBS news program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer^[37]
• Peter Chernin, B.A. 1974 - President of News Corporation and CEO of the Fox Group
• Lisa Gonzales, B.A. 1998- KOVR CBS 13 Morning/ Afternoon News Anchor^[38] in Sacramento, California
• Liz Claman, B.A. 1985 - CNBC Morning Call co-anchor
• Sumi Das, B.A. 1993 - CNN national correspondent based in Washington, D.C.
• Corey Flintoff, B.A. 1970 - NPR Foreign Desk Correspondent and former host of NPR's All Things Considered^[39]
• Greg Gutfeld, B.A. 1987 - blogger and host of the late night talk show, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld on the Fox News Channel.^[40]
• Brianna Keilar, B.A. 2001 - Graduated with Phi Beta Kappa in Mass Communication & Psychology, former MTV correspondent, and currently a CNN correspondent
• Renée Montagne, B.A. 1973 - co-host of NPR's Morning Edition
• Kent Ninomiya, B.A. 1988 - TV news anchor (KSTP-TV), reporter, executive.
• Suchin Pak, B.A. 1997 - MTV correspondent
• Troy Roberts, B.A. 1984 - CBS News correspondent
• Michael Savage, Ph.D. 1978 - conservative radio talk show host, Savage Nation
• Leroy Sievers, B.A.^[41] 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^[41][42]
• Steve Somers, B.A. 1965 - WFAN overnight host
• Kristen Sze, B.A.^[43] 1990 - TV news anchor for KGO-TV (in the San Francisco Bay area), former New York correspondent for Extra
• Lisa Stark, B.A. 1978 - ABC News correspondent
• Michele Tafoya, B.A. 1988 - sports television reporter for ABC Sports and ESPN
• 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, & 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])
• 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 and Kumar Go to White Castle [2004])
• Jeff Cohen, B.S. 1996 - former actor (Chunk in The Goonies), currently entertainment lawyer
• Roxann Dawson, B.A. 1980 - actress (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^[44]), 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
• 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])
• Joshua Marston, B.A. 1990 - film director (Maria Full of Grace [2004])
• Quinn Martin, B.A. 1949 - television producer (The Fugitive, Streets of San Francisco)
• Jerry Mathers, B.A. 1974 - actor (Leave it to Beaver)
• 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)
• 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
• Gregory Peck, B.A. 1939 - actor, won the