Berkeley High School, California

Berkeley High School, a member of the Berkeley Unified School District, is the only public high school in Berkeley, California. It is considered an important Berkeley Landmark.

Notable Alumni

By Last Name

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• Shelley Jackson - author of Patchwork Girl.
• Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead bass player
• Dennis Richmond - news anchor for station KTVU
• Michael Ritchie - film director
• Bobby Seale - co-founder of the Black Panther Party
• Norman Tien - Professor and Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering, U.C. Davis and son of Chang-Lin Tien, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.

By Class

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• Joshua Redman, 1986 - jazz musician
• Christine Tien, 1984 - Stockton, California's deputy city manager and daughter of Chang-Lin Tien, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.
• Yule Caise, 1982 - actor and writer http://www.berkeleydaily.org/article.cfm?archiveDate=01-07-05&storyID=20473.
• Phyllis Tien, 1982 - a physician with UCSF and daughter of Chang-Lin Tien, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.
• Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, 1982 - author of books on raising multilingual children
• Billy Martin, 1946 - second baseman for five Yankee World Series champs in the 1950s, and manager of four playoff teams, (Twins,Yankees, Detroit, A's) including one championship
• Jack LaLanne, 1935 - fitness educator
• Richard Bolt, 1928 - a physics professor at MIT with an interest in acoustics; Created BBN ("Modem" and "e-mail")
• Thornton Wilder, 1915 - playwright