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The following is a list of individuals associated with Berkeley High School (California) through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.

Peter Apfelbaum
Raymond Burr
Timothy Hutton
Shelley Jackson
Ursula K. Le Guin
Phil Lesh
Billy Martin
Joshua Redman
Rebecca Romijn
Bobby Seale
Kyle Vincent
Thornton Wilder
Bill Woodcock

Notable alumni

Activists

Actors

Artists and photographers

Athletes

Authors, journalists, and poets

Educators

Entrepreneurs

Filmmakers

Mathematicians, scientists and inventors

  • Richard Bolt, 1928, physics professor at MIT with an interest in acoustics; created BBN ("modem" and "e-mail")
  • John Brillhart, 1948, mathematician, author of books on large-number factorization
  • Andrew Gleason (graduated elsewhere), mathematician
  • Albert Gjedde 1965, neuroscientist, co-inventor of Gjedde-Patlak plot; McGill University Montreal Canada, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Sam Ruben, 1931?, co-discoverer of C14, a radioactive isotope of carbon, in 1940; the isotope led to many advances in the fields of biochemistry and medicine as well as its use in carbon dating for archeology
  • Pei-Yuan Wei, 1986, (魏培源, pinyin: Wèi Péiyuán), created ViolaWWW, one of the first graphical web browsers
  • Bill Woodcock, 1989, developed anycast DNS, and built more than 100 Internet exchange points around the world

Media

Musicians

Politicians

Notable faculty

  • Pumpsie Green, first black player for the Boston Red Sox; coached baseball at Berkeley High for many years
  • Edgar Manske, member of the College Football Hall of Fame, former assistant football coach at Cal under Pappy Waldorf; taught biology at Berkeley High for 20 years (1955–1975)

Notes

  1. ^ "Seizing the Time with the Black Panther Founder". aalbc.com. Retrieved February 19, 2011.
  2. ^ Pereira, Alyssa (June 13, 2016). "'Hamilton' star Daveed Diggs says he 'throws up a W' for Oakland at every performance". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 5, 2018 – via sfgate.com.
  3. ^ "Cal's Brittany Boyd is a Naismith semifinalist". San Jose Mercury News. March 3, 2015. Archived from the original on June 14, 2015.
  4. ^ Zwikel, Toby (1977-06-09). "Basketball remains first love of Dodgers' Burke". The Valley News (Van Nuys). Retrieved 2007-01-29.[ dead link]
  5. ^ Smith, Jessie Carney; Phelps, Shirelle (1992). Notable Black American Women. Vol. 2. Gale Research. pp. 408–411. ISBN  978-0-8103-9177-2 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Ellen Lee, Special to The Chronicle (25 April 2010). "Monster toys are latest designer must-have". SFGate. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  7. ^ Jones, Carolyn (2012-01-11). "George Livingston, Richmond's 1st black elected mayor". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2012-01-20.
  8. ^ "Nick Sinai".

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