Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California, in the United States. Its neighbor to the south is the city of Oakland, California. Its eastern border is formed by the Tilden Regional Park. Berkeley is located in Alameda County. Home to the University of California, Berkeley, the city is known for its leftist politics, eclectic mix of residents, nuclear research, and gourmet food.

Notable Berkeley Residents (Past and Present)

• Ben Affleck - (actor)
• Tim Armstrong - (member of punk rock bands Rancid and Operation Ivy)
• Michael Chabon - (author)
• Francis Ford Coppola - (filmmaker and vintner)
• Robert Crumb - (cartoonist)
• Daniel Ellsberg - (military analyst)
• John Fogerty - (singer/songwriter)
• Matt Freeman - (member of punk rock bands Rancid and Operation Ivy)
• Allen Ginsburg - (poet)
• Whoopi Goldberg (actress and comedian)
• Wavy Gravy - (activist and 1960s counterculture icon)
• Davey Havok - (singer for AFI)
• Patty Hearst - (Newspaper heiress and kidnap victim)
• Gregory Hoblit - (film and television director)
• David Horowitz - (1960s radical turned conservative activist)
• Theodore Kaczynski - (Unabomber)
• Phil Lesh - (former Grateful Dead bassist)
• George Lucas - (filmmaker)
• Huey P. Newton - (Black Panther Party)
• Robert Oppenheimer - (directed construction of nuclear bomb)
• Mario Savio - (1960s Free Speech Movement icon)
• Edward Teller - (nuclear physicist, thermonuclear weapons)
• Lars Ullrich - (Metallica drummer)
• Alice Waters -(restaurateur)
• Saul Zaentz - (film producer)

See also these lists of notable people associated with the University, most of whom probably didn't commute.

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• List of Nobel laureates associated with UC Berkeley
• List of UC Berkeley faculty
• List of UC Berkeley alumni